If you look at a map of China and the Pacific you can see that the “first island chain” of US allies totally surrounds China. From their military and strategic point of view they are being contained.

Now if China were to control the island of Taiwan they would break that containment. It’s very likely they care more about the strategic position rather than whatever it is they say about wanting to reunite with the Taiwanese. They don’t give a shit about the Taiwanese, they just want the island.

It’s absolutely insanity that this feature was removed. I stopped using Nautilus because of this.

Kobo with KOreader is a great option. KOreader can connect to your WiFi and you can rsync your library to the device.

I think most people have given up and use subtitles on all the time.

I’m a millennial and I can’t really tell the difference between SD and HD. Do you mean like when YouTube switches to 360p instead of 1080?