The Taiwan Assurance Implementation Act, which Trump signed into law on Tuesday, says the U.S. State Department should carry out reviews of contacts with Taiwan no less than once every five years.

Excuse my reading comprehension, but aren’t these reviews a thing that can go in both positive and negative ways? Is Taiwan celebrating just because, “Hey, the US officially mentioned us!”?

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Cue The Rains of Castamere

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So I thought, hmm, for one-line roles in a 4 minute anime, these (bottom three) people did not sound unnatural at all. I looked them up and turns out they are 10+ years veterans and had appeared in this anime multiple times already in other roles. How we ended up in this situation might have been an interesting story of the anime / seiyuu industry but we’ll probably never know.

Nobody wanted XP without Space Cadet Pinball

We are actually nice people, don’t judge us by our looks.

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Hilarious Farmer Wedding Facts.

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I went to PCPartPicker and tried to assemble a similarly spec’d PC, not with the absolute cheapest components, but definitely from the lower end sorted by price, it came out close to $800.

I guess if Valve can price it at that and be smaller it might have a market, but if much more than that people are better off just buying a PC.

P.S. Since Valve is not buying retail I think there is room for lower than that, and it’d definitely be welcome, but I’m not sure Valve will make that decision.

TIL grass is worthy of stealing.

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Moms are strong.

He said Acer, not ASUS, customer service is great.

It might just have been one or two days in universe since last episode, but oh Mukohda still hadn’t remembered offerings for the Goddesses and Gods……

The possibilities of new tenants, especially possibilities of new and more expensive alcohol, sent the Gods scheming it seems.

The merchants’ guild scamming their mutual member right in front of the sub guild master of adventurers’ guild? Did they think they could get away with it?

Agree with the other 2 replies that hammering the dyndns server every minute is excessive and you should only send them updates when your IP address actually changes.

You should also check the TTL on the primary name server (the dyndns server) and the DNS server you use (likely your ISP’s DNS server).

https://johncireland.wordpress.com/2020/09/07/viewing-dns-record-ttl-on-windows/

The dyndns server probably has it configured right and it should have a low TTL like 5 minutes or below, but sometimes the DNS server you use can be a server that ignores TTL and caches the result for longer than expected. I don’t think this is the problem if multiple of your friends are having the same problem but it doesn’t hurt to check.

“Hoshikuzu loneliness” — unexpected Touch reference

“Et tu, Brute?” — unexpected Shakespeare

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But as the saying goes, there ain’t no such thing as a free lunch……

Sato wants to keep Futami all to herself but she is in charge of other mangakas as well, right? We know at least she is responsible for Nekonote-san.

I just learned from the other site that the mangaka of this show does have a series about a girl hard of hearing which is getting adopted into anime as well.

An AI “ingesting” content is no different from a person “consuming” it.

The abandoned fort was close by, large and much nicer than the village, the villagers should just live there and commute to work 😆

A new member joined the party! Puni-san was eager to let Takeru ride on her back but all Takeru was thinking of was the trouble that would accompany her.

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Loid and Yor still unaware Anya is in danger.

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Hurry up, Tasogare! Hurry up, Ibarahime!

So unlike some isekai stories the other religion is not fake and has a real goddess who gives real blessings. I am also surprised Diana’s blessing also came from Chronoa and not a different deity.

I wonder if there are other deities in that world. Sounds a bit lopsided to have only a god of time and a goddess of charm.

If there are rules for the deities, there must be some way to punish the goddess for meddling in the mortal realm.

Windows 7 Burger: has 7 patties

Mukohda: hold my beer

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The new tenant (think of it as a store-within-a-store) of Mukohda’s net supermarket is Fujiya, a real brand for cakes and sweets. I like the little detail that its boxes came decorated with the smile of its mascot peko-chan.

By the way, the official site has a page containing the product placements in each episode, and it seems to have more sponsors then last season which I guess is a good thing?

Cheating husband’s panic face:

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Both Toda and Setouchi gave a bad first impression of their personalities as described in the anime. If that’s the author’s way of making you cheer for Futami and Sato to make payback to them, I’d say she succeeded.

Yes, now I remember hearing this news, it is an incredibly shitty state of affairs that user functionality is sacrificed for some imaginary potential harm to the interests of big media companies.

If only some TV makers would break rank and add DisplayPort inputs to break HDMI’s monopoly in that space and make them more humble……