I’m going to give ph a benefit of the doubt. the missile system talked about is a mid range missile and afaik is incapable of delivering nuke payload or even effective if they added some nuke payload in it. they only have 16 of it installed, the rationale i think is that it may give them some ground to ask china to stop harassing fishing vessel without escalating and makes west taiwan looks bad without much compromise to its naval defences.

another angle to look at it is that maybe ph is trying to distance to the us influence and maybe its just a politic talk to get other source of defence system capabilities from other part of the world.

personally, i think south east asia and taiwan need its own harassing system developed and deployed to counter west taiwan harassment. nobody want escalation but they should be able to give same response if provoked.

i can. downvoting them gives me the satisfaction. their post always have less than 10 upvotes but after the ban i see their post gaining 10+ opvotes, im not the only one doing it.

lemmy is better but not that better.

i always downvote AI stuff on lemmy and i noticed i cant downvote on main AI instances anymore recently. i never say anything, never comment.

i do analog photography for a hobby, in the grand scheme professional analog photographers only account for like less than 1 percent and current film manufacturers are only able to exist because some high profile film directors insist on shooting film (think nolan) and film students. when theyre no longer around film will die soon.

there is almost no new film camera produced and the price of film keeps increasing to unreasonable prices.