Recently visited Tokyo. City of 38 million people. I was there for 9 days. I saw a total of about 10 cig butts while there.

Litter is a cultural phenomenon.

Last week: Massive NYC black out.

This week: 2 new wind farms announced!

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lol it's like they're playing Sim City.

China would gladly commit genocide against the Taiwanese and then force migrate mainland Chinese civilians to the island to make a "legitimate" claim to the island.

The Taiwan Foundation for Democracy commissioned the survey from the Election Study Center at National Chengchi University. The annual poll about democratic values has been conducted since 2011, but for the first time it also included questions about fake news, the Central News Agency reported.

Turning to the willingness of people to defend democracy against the use of force by China, 36.3 percent of respondents said they were “very prepared” to fight in order to defend Taiwan, with 31.9 percent saying they were “prepared.” Only 10.2 percent said they were not willing and another 10.3 percent completely unwilling to fight.

After the bullshit they are pulling in HK. I really wouldn't want to be part of China or trust any reunification effort.

As long as I get a replacement unit and not a check for about $3.50 I'm on board.

The lawsuit is over the drift but it seems like it more under the grounds of Nintendo unwilling to admit that there is something wrong with the joycons and instead of taking action in trying to resolve this issue they are sliding it under the rug and than charging people for this faulty part that is a known issue when the warranties is up. It will be interesting to see how this pans out but I’d wouldn’t be surprised if this gets thrown out.

Edit: Since requested here is a link to the claim if you wish to join.

Link (Be gentle with the link don’t want to overload the server again xD)

Edit 2: Link to claim has been closed just leads to an error page. I will see if I can find something else from them for this case. (Link works again)

Edit 3: For people unfamiliar with the joycon problem on the Nintendo Switch. The joycon has a known problem called drifting it is basically where your character still moves even when you are not touching the controller. This is common over time but in the joycon’s case it happens within about a year or two depending on usage (basing off my personal experience and other people from this sub). The real problem lies that Nintendo won’t admit there is something wrong with the controller and won’t change it. I don’t even care if they don’t want to admit that there is a problem, just fix the problem and act like it never happen don’t just ignore the problem.

Edit 4: Looks like the link works again guess we overloaded the server, guess will have to take it in nice and slow this time.

Edit 5: The drifting is cause due to the flaw in the analog stick itself as unlike many previous models it uses a metal prong that is run on a graphite paper that causes dust to form which throws the sensor off. I leave you with a link explaining more about it if interested. Well I’m off have a nice rest of your reddit day, and I’m off to bed so I can see the new horizons tomorrow.

(Link to analog stick drift flaw)

If something comes from this that would be fantastic. Especially if they start allowing free repairs even past the end of warranty

Honestly, only recently the Joy-Con drift got to me. It's horrendous, and I would buy new Joy-Cons but they're so goddamn expensive I don't want to!

The guy that started this tried to post about it yesterday, but like all of his posts got deleted. /r/Nintendo in particular has basically scrubbed it from existence.

Surprised this one is sticking around.

Make that two. They got the Mesdar, another UK owned vessel about an hour ago.

Edit - the Mesdar was detained and released, not taken into custody.

Vessel specifications for the UK-flagged Stena Impero:

• Gross Tonnage ---> 29579
• Deadweight ---> 49683 t
• Length Overall x Breadth Extreme ---> 183m × 32m
• Year Constructed ---> 2018

This is a modern, state of the art vessel

ABC News confirms emergency meetings at the highest level are now convening in the United Kingdom after a British tanker was seized by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps in the Persian Gulf.

UK Minister of Defence now being briefed on the situation- Sky News

The firm says that their tanker was seized in international waters with 23 crew members on board at around 16:00 BST. They say that the tanker was approached by unidentified small craft (likely IRGC FAC) and a helicopter. They add that there are no injuries that they are aware of, that they haven't been able to establish contact with the tanker, and that they are in close contact with the British authorities

Iran's IRGC says it seized the tanker for "violating international regulations" - source

COBR meeting called - COBR is for coordinating the UK Government in "instances of national/regional crisis or for major international events"

U.S National Security Council spokesman Garrett Marquis says "We are aware of reports that Iranian boats seized a British oil tanker. This is the second time in just over a week the UK has been the target of escalatory violence by the Iranian regime. The U.S will continue to work with our allies and partners to defend our security and interests against Iran's escalatory actions"

There MAY be another incident underway. There's a tanker that is supposed to be travelling to Ras Tanura in Saudi Arabia. It has slowed to 3 knots and at 16:32 UTC turned sharply towards Iran, in the same way that the Stena Impero did. It is now in Iranian waters. The tanker, Mesdar, is a UK-owned tanker based out of Glawgow.

https://twitter.com/ELINTNews/status/1152286551138865152

Confirmed that Iran has seized a second ship, Al Arabiya doesn't name the ship - probably the Mesdar.

Vessel specifications of the Mesdar:

• Gross Tonnage ---> 160295
• Deadweight ---> 315802 t
• Year Built ---> 2007
• Registry ---> Liberia
• Vessel Type ---> Crude Oil Tanker
• Mesdar is owned and operated by UK-based Norbulk Shipping Ltd.

https://twitter.com/IntelCrab/status/1152292150467584001

US Defence Officials confirm to Barbara Starr, the CNN Pentagon Correspondent, that a second (British-linked) tanker, the Mesdar, has also been seized by Iranian forces today

https://twitter.com/ELINTNews/status/1152296450656821250

President Trump confirms that he’s asked Sen. Rand Paul to help with Iran situation - WSJ

A Government source tells the Telegraph that the crews on board the two ships - Stena Impero and Mesdar - are “a range of nationalities” but no Britons are among them

US military forces are monitoring the transit of US commercial cargo ship through the Strait of Hormuz using armed aircraft overhead- via CNN’s @HamdiAlkhshali

Military sources are saying that only Stena Impero has been siezed & no other tanker has been siezed, adding that the Liberian-flagged tanker Mesdar has only been notified on the environmental & maritime regulations & then has continued its path.

https://twitter.com/AbasAslani/status/1152309537271164929

Update: The second oil tanker has released by #Iran after a "warning" on "environmental regulations"

https://twitter.com/guyelster/status/1152320502792433670

UK Foreign Ministry stating there'll be consequences if Iran doesn't release Stena Impero - source

Well this is going to escalate things further...

Reports of another tanker being taken. This is not gong to end well possibly. Their are certainties in world politics. And Iran is about to test the one involving UK and United States relationship.

Bold move, let’s see how it works out for them.

The SBS bout to have a field day

Oh boy there bringing forward the top gun 2 release date

Damn, now a possible third ship, the LR2 Poseidon, has potentially been seized? She has definitely taken a sharp turn towards the Iranian coast in the past few hours. You can see the live maritime data here

When the page loads you can zoom straight in and the LR2 Poseidon is the large red arrow headed north towards the Iranian coast.

• The JCPOA was signed.

• Iran stopped enriching Uranium. The strait of Hormuz operated normally.

• Trump canceled the JCPOA and imposed new sanctions.

• After continuing to comply for over a year, Iran is now enriching Uranium, and disrupting operations in Hormuz to counter sanctions.

The Iranian regime is terrible, and you can assign blame wherever you want, but that is the sequence of events. Can we bring Iran back to the table with the threat of full scale war? Possibly, but it has to be a credible threat. No American who opposes Trump should feel the need to risk a drop of blood in such a war. This was all trivially easy to avoid.