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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Didn’t the original full body scanners used at airports use backscatter X-rays, which are ionizing radiation ?

    I believe these were mostly replaced by millimeter-wave scanners, and are not used anymore (even banned in some countries) but a lot of the initial pushback and debate surrounding the scanners when they were first introduced was about potential health risks of repeated X-ray exposure from those scanners, and so the idea of ionizing radiation exposure persists to this day in many people’s minds.



  • What is your source for this ? Recent polls show reunification support is still <2%, with about 6% open to reunification eventually but not now.

    In 2018, before the crackdown in HK, the reunification support was 3%, with 13% open to it eventually - the events in HK have definitely significantly eroded support for reunification in Taiwan.

    I have family in Taiwan and literally don’t know a single Taiwanese person that wants reunification with the PRC.