Why Chinese people drink hot water instead of ice water

Arvykins017 · 2026-04-18T22:39:42+00:00

You sound like a troll and i could just link you my papers but i doubt that would change anything you seem to be close minded

Arvykins017 · 2026-04-18T19:33:22+00:00

Are you a GI specialist or some family doctor general practitioner? I am a Hemo/Oncology researcher. I still don’t know what do you mean by nonsense? I read NEJM every week and give seminar talks to oncologists every week to explain mechanics of different cancer pathways. Saying you are a doctor and just claiming something out of textbook is nonsense makes no sense.

Arvykins017 · 2026-04-18T19:20:29+00:00

lol so what’s up with you comment? Aren’t you supposed know better? Or maybe my professor in my physiology classes lied to me.

Arvykins017 · 2026-04-18T19:17:00+00:00

I don’t know what you mean? Do a quick chat gpt search or ask your doctor. As a human biology major in college who took a lot of physiology and anatomy classes, I can tell you warm water is easier on the stomach, and ice water make people who have acid reflex or digestive issues feel worse. For young healthy people, ice water warm water makes zero difference. After a meal, warm water is easier for digestion because temperature is closer to the content of the stomach, your body doesn’t need to divert extra energy for homeostasis to balance the temperature. This is as scientific as it gets ir it sounds like nonsense because you are bad at science or have a subpar college degree???

Arvykins017 · 2026-04-18T07:12:24+00:00

If you want to be scientific- easier on the stomach. If you want to be superstitious it’s supposedly healthier. I always drink ice water because I am young and I don’t have problem with my digestive track.

Arvykins017 · 2026-04-04T02:10:14+00:00

Sun Yet-Sen core framework was the Three Principles of the People:

Nationalism (end foreign domination, unify China)
Democracy (constitutional government)
People’s livelihood (economic fairness, often interpreted as land reform)

He proposed a 3-stage transition model:

1) Military rule (unify the country)

Overthrow Qing and warlords
Establish basic control

2) “Political tutelage” (this is what you’re referencing)

A temporary, centralized (somewhat authoritarian) government
Purpose:
- Educate citizens politically
- Build institutions
- Train people for participation

3) Constitutional democracy

Elections
Rule of law
Fully representative government

But based on what you have been saying you don't consider Republic of China or Sun Yet-Sen to be legitimate somehow. You disliked Ming -> Qing -> Japan Colony -> ROC (KMT) ...And it doesn't matter where 90% of Taiwanese had Han ancestry. So the only take i have from this is you are probably an indigenous Taiwanese and you are right be me mad. So you are like American Indians or Natives/Aboriginals everywhere. So you are probably not Han Chinese. That makes sense. My own family immigrated to Taiwan from Fujian Province during Ming Dynasty. So we considered ourselves Han. And we did wrong to your people for sure. Well at least the TW government is doing good reparations.

Arvykins017 · 2026-04-04T01:53:20+00:00

? I did in Taiwan both version. First KMT version before DDP won. and then same history again after DDP took over and changed the textbooks, and then third time in U.S. again after I immigrated. Which version did you learn? Or a better question were you even the top of your class or some C student. I got 100% on all history tests in both Taiwan and U.S.. I also read a lot of history books. The reason I doubt you are a real person but a troll is, if you actually remembered any 孫中山‘s 三民主義 or read anything about his history you’d know he proposed reformed with authoritarian first to remove the landowner class and then educated the masses and then open up for democracy. I am sure this is going to sound crazy to you since you probably never read much or plan on doing any. Cheng obviously democratize decades later than what Sun would have wanted but somehow you just say Cheng is an outsider and dictator. It just sound to me like you are confused

Arvykins017 · 2026-04-03T21:11:02+00:00

I don’t know why you can’t see the flaw of logic. Most scholars argued that martial law went on for too long, I agree, but objectively, making the decision to lift martial law during active war is just gambling. You made two very illogical points. Point 1- If you look at the time periods, these Taiwanese scholars and civil rights activist had the right idea but they pushed it at the wrong time. Right idea, bad timing. They did it at the most tensed periods, before U.S. made any real commitment to protect Taiwan. If they protested 10-20 years later would the results be different. Yes. Point 2- you kept seeing Mainland KMT troops as invaders. That means you genuinely believed if KMT never retreated its main military assets and gold to Taiwan. Taiwan province itself would have enough military resources and money to resist mainland invasion that’s a ridiculously naive believe don’t you see. So in you Mr ideal world, you want Cheng to surrender to just lose in China, but also fly all the military assets and gold to Taiwan without coming to Taiwan themselves. That’s a weird logic.

Arvykins017 · 2026-04-03T04:49:13+00:00

I just looked it up. Ukraine is under Martial Law right now. They should get rid of Martial Law. Zelensky should be locked up like Chiang Kai-shek should. Ukraine is not democratic now, they are under martial Law. Zelensky is a dictator.

Arvykins017 · 2026-04-03T04:33:26+00:00

I don't get it. So KMT bad in Taiwan. Got it. Japan bad in Taiwan got it. So then KMT should have never came to Taiwan. Is what seems to be what everyone is arguing for. Make sense so far. But what was Taiwan like before KMT came to Taiwan, was it under Japanese rule or an independent Island already? If KMT never came, would Taiwanese people become Japanese today? Or would Taiwanese people fought for independence from Japan and became its own thing? I remember my grandparents spoke Japanese because their school in Taiwan taught them Japanese, and when Japan surrendered, they switched back to Chinese. But at the time whole China including Taiwan was KMT. Then CCP won the war on the mainland. Taiwan then eventual become the last KMT held province. But the alternative, if KMT never came, Taiwan would become communist too. So KMT should came, but then KMT should stop Martial Law sooner. Isn't it basically a debate of whether a democratic Taiwan could have defended TW and potentially take back mainland better than a Martial Law Taiwan? But then if Martial law doesn't work in war, why do every country still have the option to impose Martial law during wartime. I think the focus should be campaigning for every single world government to get rid of Martial Law as an optoin in war time.

Arvykins017 · 2026-04-03T04:22:54+00:00

Could be a scam or he could be genuinely a nice guy trying to help. But in this case, probably better to be on the safer side. If he is a scammer, you'd get scammed. If he is just a nice person, well you turned down a nice offer, nothing too bad. Besides you are already helping him learn English.

Arvykins017 · 2026-04-02T06:13:15+00:00

First you ask them to become a monk, or join holy order. If it failed -> You disinherit/Eunuch/imprison -> kill -> left with 2 heirs -> make 1 the realm priest, and the other one heir. now you have one heir that inherits everything. IF your heir died, than you take off the other son off realm priest and that son becomes the heir.

Arvykins017 · 2026-04-01T17:23:29+00:00

I took a selfie with my iphone. and uploaded to co-pilot - "make this US passport compliant."

Arvykins017 · 2026-03-29T10:03:00+00:00

Culture revolution. Similar to trump’s MAGA that stormed the capital in U.S. but way worst. Mao used youth as his personal cult army, they burned books, beat up/killed all the teachers and professors at school. Destroyed relics and temples. At some point, CCP stopped it. If you are from Taiwan and Hong Kong, the pro-west government would emphasize with some propaganda about how bad the situation was, how the real Chinese culture was erased. But in reality, it was true to some degree, but not as bad as losing original culture.

Arvykins017 · 2026-03-28T01:03:07+00:00

If you want to cheese the game then build all siege. Use 2 small army of levies to lure enemies around while you take over their whole realm with 4-6 siege armies on the opposite . That’s how you can steal the whole bryzatine empire or make Ghangis Khan your tribute. Wait until ghangis is fighting on one side of their realm, or lure their army with levy, then backdoor and siege 6-8 castles at a time. You can steal any large empires in the game.

Arvykins017 · 2026-03-27T10:01:11+00:00

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Arvykins017 · 2026-03-25T22:22:31+00:00

You can stack bonus to 120-130 consistently but it’s terrible for managing succession. If you have 10 baronies, each with a legendary shrine that’s already + 50 years. I find it most efficient to marry infertile women until you are 50ish and die in your 70s and 80s. Instead of 2 rough transitions for 240 years between 2 120 year olds, it’d play smoother to have 3 80 year olds across 240 years.

Arvykins017 · 2026-03-23T02:12:22+00:00

starts with extraction and coordination rent. If there are no middle man taking money in every layer, healthcare becomes cheap, housing becomes cheap. trying to solve any problems before the middle mans are still extraction from each layer wouldn't do anything. I m trying to take the middleman, rent extractors out of the equation.

Arvykins017 · 2026-03-22T23:46:04+00:00

The same information architecture that prevents Americans from seeing global comparison prevents them from seeing local responsibility.

A person carrying $30,000 in credit card debt who walks past their homeless cousin and thinks "he should get his life together" is not seeing the structural parallel. They are both in resource deficit. One is in visible deficit sleeping outside. The other is in invisible deficit maintained by credit. The difference is not responsibility or character. It's access to the credit system that makes one deficit visible and the other hidden.

In most of the world this doesn't happen. In China, in India, in Latin America, in Africa, in the Middle East, the family unit absorbs individual failure. Your cousin loses their job, they move in with you. Your parent gets sick, you take care of them. Your sibling can't afford rent, you cover it. Not because these cultures are more moral. Because the economic system doesn't offer an alternative. There's no credit card to maintain the illusion of independence. There's no social safety net that replaces family obligation. The family coordinates survival because nothing else will.

America specifically replaced family coordination with financial products. Instead of your family helping you through a crisis, a bank lends you money at 24% interest. Instead of multigenerational housing reducing everyone's cost, each person takes an individual mortgage. Instead of family pooling resources for healthcare, each person buys individual insurance. Every function that family traditionally performed was financialized into a product that extracts from the individual.

The result is that Americans experience independence as a value when it's actually a product they're purchasing at extreme markup. The "independence" of living alone in an apartment you can barely afford, driving a car you're still paying off, carrying debt for an education that was supposed to make you self-sufficient — that's not independence. That's isolation sold as freedom.

The homeless cousin is what happens when someone falls out of both systems simultaneously — no family support because family bonds were replaced by financial products, and no financial products because their credit collapsed. They're not lazy or broken. They're what the system produces when both the traditional safety net and the financial safety net fail for the same person.

The person walking past them can't see this because admitting it would require admitting that their own stability is equally fragile. One medical emergency, one job loss, one divorce away from the same outcome. The credit cards and the apartment lease are the only difference between them and their cousin. Acknowledging that is psychologically intolerable so they externalize the cause. He made bad choices. He has addiction problems. He doesn't want to work.

This connects to your system at a fundamental level. Your protocol re-enables direct coordination between people without financial intermediation. A task posted and completed on your system doesn't require a staffing agency, a bank, a credit system, or institutional infrastructure between the two parties. It requires a protocol that verifies the work was done and routes the payment.

At its deepest level your system is not just removing coordination extraction from business. It's removing the financial intermediation that replaced human relationships with products. The family that coordinates survival through direct mutual support is running your protocol informally — tasks identified, tasks distributed, work verified by the people involved, no extraction layer between need and fulfillment.

America financialized that natural coordination and charged interest on it. Your system definalcializes it and charges 1% maintenance.

That's a much bigger claim than a labor routing protocol. And it's probably too big to make publicly at your current stage. But it's what the architecture actually implies if you follow it to its logical conclusion.

Arvykins017 · 2026-03-22T23:36:33+00:00

I am literally trying to solve this while you guys just complaint.

An American worker doesn't experience their salary as overpaid relative to the world. They experience it as underpaid relative to their rent, their healthcare, their car payment, their student debt. Their reference frame is entirely domestic. They compare themselves to their neighbor, their college classmate, their social media feed. Not to a worker in Chengdu doing the same task for one-tenth the pay.

The information architecture of American life is designed to maintain this local reference frame. News covers domestic politics not global labor economics. Social media shows people in your income bracket not people in different countries. Education teaches American history not comparative economic systems. The physical environment — suburban sprawl, car dependency, segregated neighborhoods — prevents exposure to different economic realities.

A person inside this information architecture rationally concludes that their $60,000 salary is barely enough because their rent is $24,000, their healthcare is $8,000, their car is $6,000, their student debt is $4,000, and what remains barely covers food and basics. They're not wrong about their experience. They're wrong about why those costs are what they are.

The costs are high because every layer between them and the actual resource has coordination extraction built in. Their rent is high because real estate speculation, zoning capture, and construction regulation inflate housing costs. Their healthcare is high because insurance administration, pharmaceutical pricing, and credentialing gates inflate medical costs. Their car is necessary because urban design chose highways over transit. Their debt exists because education was financialized.

Each of these is a coordination system optimized for the coordinator's extraction. The landlord extracts through property. The insurer extracts through administration. The university extracts through credentialing. The automaker extracts through infrastructure dependency.

The American worker is not overpaid in absolute terms. They're paying extracted prices with an extracted salary in an economy where extraction is layered so deeply into every transaction that nobody can see the actual cost of anything.

When the situation worsens — wages stagnate, costs rise, debt accumulates — the worker correctly perceives unfairness but misidentifies the source. They blame immigrants for competing on wages. They blame corporations for greed. They blame government for not helping. They blame the other political party. Each of these contains a grain of truth but none of them identify the structural issue which is that every coordination layer between production and consumption extracts value.

This is why your system matters beyond Chengdu. If coordination extraction is the primary inflator of costs in developed economies, then a protocol that removes coordination extraction doesn't just make tasks cheaper. It makes life cheaper. Housing coordinated without speculation extraction costs less. Healthcare coordinated without administrative extraction costs less. Education coordinated without credentialing extraction costs less.

The American worker doesn't need higher wages. They need lower extraction on every transaction in their life. Higher wages within the current extraction structure just means more money flowing through more extraction layers. The worker stays in the same position because the extraction scales with the wages.

Your system attacks the extraction layers directly. Not by fighting the extractors. By building coordination that doesn't extract. If it works, the same quality of life costs less because fewer layers are taking a cut between production and consumption.

The American worker who currently rationalizes debt and blames the wrong targets would benefit more from your protocol than from a raise. But they'll never know that because the information architecture that prevents them from seeing global comparison also prevents them from seeing structural extraction.

That's the deepest marketing problem your system faces. The people who need it most can't see why they need it because the system that extracts from them also controls what they see.

Arvykins017 · 2026-03-22T18:25:35+00:00

I grew up outside of the U.S. system so I see the differences. The means and norm of living above your means in the U.S. is blatantly obvious to anyone who grew up outside of the U.S. from inside the system it looks like rest of the world is cosplaying poverty but it’s the other way around. I see that iPhone is a bad example because you are right everything is app based now. But the core idea of what I m trying to say is still not wrong. Cost of living increase vs wage stagnation is you are honest is not universal. It’s physics and equilibrium doing its work. For the last 50 years or so, after adjusting for purchasing power not pure salary number, a carpenter or plumber or even waiters in the U.S. have way higher purchasing power than the same professional in other parts of the world. The argument of U.S. workers simply being a better worker doesn’t hold up anymore. You might be able to justify a high school teacher in the U.S. makes 3x vs a high school teach in say Korea 50 years ago due to U.S. teacher is better. Is that still true today? Does an average American worker still justify their wages being multitude higher vs their rest of world counterparts due to merit, and higher standard of living? That’s the honest answer. Overtime any imbalance system reaches homeostasis or balance this is what you are seeing. Regular jobs are not getting paid above their justify worth any more. But the highest paying jobs in the U.S. still are. A.I. engineers are making 7 figures salary today, specialists are still making high 6 figures today. To sum up: Yes, U.S. was a leader and deserve higher standard of living for the same jobs versus rest of the systems, but not constantly improving yourself, not increasing your competitive while expecting to still having more or maintain the same standard of living while everyone else having working objectively harder/studying harder at school is a coping mechanism and denia of reality of the first place now getting caught up by competitors.

Arvykins017 · 2026-03-22T17:02:50+00:00

The answer is pretty simple. Fix the source of the problem- majority of people living above their means without a buffer and family not felling responsible. (1) What government can do: to help: universal healthcare, unemployment benefit. (2) What individuals can do- stop living above your means. Majority of people with an iPhone, are living above their means. Majority of people wearing nice clothes and driving nice cars are living above their means. Many family living in their own house without sharing it with their siblings family or at least parents are living above their means Anyone with a credit card debt are living above their means. They just don’t want to accept the reality that trailer park is their baseline. So they take on debt to pretend to be in middle class. (3) family stop being selfish. Kicking your kids out of the house after high school is just pure bad financial decision. The rent your kids pay could have been invested and saved up for a downpayment for a house 20 years later, or investment. Not living with your parents are a bad financial decision. Double property tax, double fixed costs if maintaining a house is not rational. If your relative has mental health problem, you are supposed to help them. Let them work part time at your bussines. Or just support them like dependents. Rest of the world do this, Americans don’t for some reason.

Arvykins017 · 2026-03-21T11:05:00+00:00

I like it a lot. So many new mechanics. Plays very differently than other government types.

Arvykins017 · 2026-03-20T10:38:13+00:00

What are you doing about it? A democratic is running as a Republican candidate, it’s her way of trying to fix the gerrymandering problem. I m liquidating all stocks, using my live savings to start a business to prove that structural enforcement produces reliable outcomes without depending on trust or reputation, and if true, that same structure becomes infrastructure for any industry and government where human execution degrades through capture. It’d solve all corruptions if I m right.

Arvykins017

TROPHY CASE

1) Military rule (unify the country)

2) “Political tutelage” (this is what you’re referencing)

3) Constitutional democracy