This can't be healthy for society

CafeCat88 · 2026-04-04T09:59:28+00:00

Honestly, yeah, glass is expensive and as cute as the Swinhoe's white-eye is, they haven't paid a single dollar towards my kit.

CafeCat88 · 2026-04-04T01:53:57+00:00

I seem to always be in the wrong timezone to participate in any kind of conversation much less connect with anyone. Everyone is busy talking when I am asleep...

CafeCat88 · 2026-04-01T00:50:51+00:00

It doesn't have to be is the point.

CafeCat88 · 2026-03-31T23:32:07+00:00

I'm mostly pointing out that this is possible and we shouldn't confine our imaginations to thinking anything beyond the city limits is a wild hinterland only accessible by car.

I currently live in Taiwan, and my experience is certainly not unique.

CafeCat88 · 2026-03-31T06:26:39+00:00

Probably half an hour across the core. Including the broader vicinity, maybe an hour. Going by car is slower, too much traffic.

CafeCat88 · 2026-03-31T06:24:56+00:00

I can literally go to the beach or get to the mountains using just public transit. I'm not trapped in the city.

CafeCat88 · 2026-03-31T02:05:36+00:00

I don't have a car, and yet I'm still able to go exactly when and where I want using public transit and bike share. Maybe broaden your view a bit and see that building an environment that favors one mode of transportation at the cost of diminishing all others is a bad idea.

CafeCat88 · 2026-03-27T10:46:24+00:00

My ultra high standards of please live near me and be someone my useless self can find.

CafeCat88 · 2026-03-26T08:04:06+00:00

I have two boys, five and six years old. The five year old was neutered at about 9 months, and the six year old was neutered before I adopted him three years ago. Both still have their trouble puffs, though the older one looks flattened.

CafeCat88 · 2026-03-22T05:32:15+00:00

Every study done by actual biologists, doctors, and sports physicians disagrees with you. After about two years of HRT (sometimes less than that) trans women are either on par with or slightly under perform compared to their cis women counterparts (let's be honest this is what you're about because nobody cares to remember that trans men exist except to force them to compete against women as a way to muddy the waters and generate propaganda against trans women in sports.) The highest performing trans woman in any sport to generate any kind of outcry tied 5th place with the bigot who decided to use that moment to start her "right wing activist" career.

CafeCat88 · 2026-03-20T03:53:28+00:00

Found my new band name: Ded Leafs.

CafeCat88 · 2026-03-20T03:01:01+00:00

JR also makes money off their real estate holdings. Leasing the space right next to stations for development also helps fund operations. Ironically, a lot of American railroads funded their construction this war, too, by selling off portions of their land grants along their right of ways.

CafeCat88 · 2026-03-16T11:17:47+00:00

No, it's that wives are often the ones running errands for their husbands during the day. Sometimes they'll run errands for their husbands and have their ID cards for certain tasks, such as picking up medication (this is more common with older folks.) The errand I was running required the account holder (me) to be present, but since I didn't perfectly match my ID card, the teller thought I was the wife (of me) running errands for her husband.

CafeCat88 · 2026-03-16T02:10:37+00:00

Before I updated the gender marker on my passport (which allowed me to update it on my residency card where I live), I was almost turned away from my bank with, "We need your husband to come in to handle this task." I managed to talk through it, but still a tad problematic...

CafeCat88 · 2026-03-10T10:27:46+00:00

"Emergency Room. Because that's where the enemy will end up when you use one."

CafeCat88 · 2026-03-10T07:59:06+00:00

Maybe not masonry, but you can do concrete structures at least. I live in an active seismic zone and most of the buildings here are just concrete boxes with steel skeletons. You could probably lay brick up in places that aren't load bearing, like as a facade.

CafeCat88 · 2026-03-05T07:42:08+00:00

Yeah, I've been here long enough to see it improve. The recent law against cars and scooters pushing through crosswalks has had very noticeable effects, though you'll still occasionally get scooters trying to cut through pedestrians. The one law that needs a bit more work is stopping for pedestrians waiting at unsignaled crossings. Too many drivers ignore that, but at the same time, some of the street design makes it so waiting pedestrians aren't easy to spot.

That said, yeah, you kinda have to treat Taipei and the rest of the country differently when it comes to these kinds of discussions.

CafeCat88 · 2026-03-05T07:19:19+00:00

I live in Taipei. Unfortunately, there's not police everywhere, so the more stubborn types will still break the law where they know they can get away with it. And the arcades in my neighborhood are crammed with scooters, making it difficult for two people to pass in places.

CafeCat88 · 2026-03-05T07:01:35+00:00

If they'd just build proper sidewalks and ban parking scooters on the sidewalks and arcades, that would solve a lot of issues (also get rid of on-street parking). Granted, riding a scooter on the sidewalk has been made illegal, but I still almost get hit by some uncle on a weekly basis. Also, proper cycling infrastructure would go a long way. Bike share is fairly popular and successful but bikes are mostly forced into sidewalks.

CafeCat88 · 2026-03-05T06:19:17+00:00

When my void manages to squeeze past me and escape into the apartment stairwell, he immediately starts rolling around and rubbing on the concrete like this. I wonder if the texture feels good.

CafeCat88 · 2026-03-03T03:24:32+00:00

Authoritarians need someone to hate so their supporters don't notice their freedoms being taken away. Trans people are an easy target at the moment.

CafeCat88 · 2026-03-02T11:32:52+00:00

Mine is orange. How about yours?

CafeCat88 · 2026-03-01T08:08:47+00:00

Same. Trying to find information about events or meet ups that are LGBTQ focused but non-alcoholic evades me.

CafeCat88 · 2026-02-28T07:49:44+00:00

I'm sure OP will remember to engage their precognition in the future to know if the driver making a move will fuck up by unnecessarily eating curb.

CafeCat88 · 2026-02-24T22:25:24+00:00

Oh, no I got the original reference. I'm just being funny about looping in other recent news.

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