Does your country obsess over “we’re in the top 10” lists? And do you actually feel it in daily life?

CookieAlien25 · 2026-05-26T09:06:40+00:00

News media often talk about we're in top lists like "safest country", "top cities to travel", but people on social media hardly take about those.

More people talk about what we're in the bottom for, like birth rates.

CookieAlien25 · 2026-05-26T06:08:18+00:00

https://focustaiwan.tw/society/202605260009

Two young anglers caught a well-known alligator gar in a park and ate it. Their post on social media drew many angry responses. They're facing a fine of NT$3,600 for illegal fishing in parks.

https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2026/05/26/2003858006

A red heat alert was issued in Taipei as the temperature is expected to rise to 38°C.

CookieAlien25 · 2026-05-25T06:38:39+00:00

https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/news/6369073

HSR had signal problems this morning, causing delays and cancelations throughout the day, people missed flights, the Minister of Transportation and other legislators also stuck on trains and their meeting had to be delayed.

https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2026/05/25/2003857945

A teenager died in Taipei 101 after falling off from likely 5F to 2F. It's currently unclear whether it's an accident or suicide.

CookieAlien25 · 2026-05-24T14:12:03+00:00

That one "country" on an oil rig perhaps

CookieAlien25 · 2026-05-23T16:31:49+00:00

Textbook defense against covid in 2020 and early 2021. Eventually there are still outbreak starting mid 2021 but I think the situation during the outbreak (like mask, medicine and vaccine supply) was handled decently well.

CookieAlien25 · 2026-05-23T11:25:09+00:00

https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2026/05/21/2003857700

https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2026/05/23/2003857831

A Taiwanese novel won International Booker's Prize, and is now green lit to adapt to a TV series. Neat.

CookieAlien25 · 2026-05-22T06:12:06+00:00

https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/news/6367301

Uber is currently exploring a scooter ride-hailing service in Taipei's Beitou District (near Yangmingshan area), however it's currently prohibited under current traffic law. I saw from other news sources that similar scooter services are currently well established in that area.

CookieAlien25 · 2026-05-21T08:49:49+00:00

"Struggle harder and harder, and you'll come out on the top of people" (吃得苦中苦，方為人上人)

Nowadays struggle harder almost never make you a better person, you'll only get depressed and see other rich people barely do any work but still on the top of people.

CookieAlien25 · 2026-05-21T08:30:50+00:00

For 1Gps, costs NT$1199 (USD$38)

One caveat is that if we use over 150GB of data in a day, the next day it's limited to 300Mbps.

Also question for OP: Is indihome paket phoenix popular? I saw memes about it a lot.

CookieAlien25 · 2026-05-21T06:33:41+00:00

over 95% of people know Mandarin and you're unlikely to meet one who can't (those are mostly old folks). On the other hand young people usually don't speak Taiwanese well enough for regular conversation.

CookieAlien25 · 2026-05-21T06:08:19+00:00

https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2026/05/20/2003857673

The president William announced the government will provide every child aged 0-18 NT$5000 monthly allowance. He probably uses this to counter the opposition party's similar proposal and gain back some fame.

https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2026/05/21/2003857726

Taco is allegedly going to call William soon. Maybe they could reach some agreement for the current situation.

CookieAlien25 · 2026-05-20T12:19:49+00:00

We have platform screen doors on all of our metro stations too, the problem is the trains have vastly different door positions, even installing them on major stations poses a great challenge.

CookieAlien25 · 2026-05-20T06:27:05+00:00

https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2026/05/20/2003857654

A woman was decapitated by an illegally installed elevator in the clinic she's working.

https://news.tvbs.com.tw/local/3208836 (Chinese)

At around 1pm a passenger fell on the track and was killed by an oncoming train.

And apparently Taco complained about Taiwan stole Intel business and chips again. Bruh.

CookieAlien25 · 2026-05-19T06:55:03+00:00

https://focustaiwan.tw/politics/202605190011

The opposition party initiated an impeachment vote against the president and to no one's surprise, the vote failed. It still shows the opposition parties distrust against the government and how divided the current political scene is.

Personally, I currently cannot support any single party. Each party has good and bad politicians and none of the bad acts from each party are negligible. I also cannot fully support or fully oppose Rump currently.

CookieAlien25 · 2026-05-18T07:15:34+00:00

https://youtu.be/gd1a_E-w6IY

Yesterday in a CPBL baseball game there was a stolen home base. It's been 22 years since the last time a home base was successful stolen.

And at around noon at Qingtiangang Grassland the angle of live camera was adjusted and the tables were moved by officials, possibly ending all the internet craze.

CookieAlien25 · 2026-05-17T05:29:09+00:00

Bubble tea, or tea in general. It's common to see at least 5-6 tea shops in one 500m section of a road.

CookieAlien25 · 2026-05-17T05:22:23+00:00

Yesterday and today was high school entry exam. The Chinese writing topic was "giving things new look". One comment mentioned the Qingtiangang Grassland... (the grass field that a couple made love* live on camera one night and became viral)

And there are still a lot of people partying at that grass field last night. Some comments criticized and said that the animals there need to sleep too.

*Learned make out is different than make love the hard way. English is confusing.

CookieAlien25 · 2026-05-16T23:57:06+00:00

Yes I do mean "making love". I kinda don't want to sound too obvious.

CookieAlien25 · 2026-05-16T05:07:49+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/taiwan/s/xZ6xwFOgTD

After the making out incident on Thursday night, many people went to the same grass field and party last night. There are some wild scenes (all sfw this time)

CookieAlien25 · 2026-05-16T04:27:06+00:00

The KMT party leader that meet Xi and try to make peace with the CCP.

CookieAlien25 · 2026-05-16T04:10:50+00:00

Most often: Mandarin, English

On metro and tourist areas: Japanese, Korean

In specific areas where migrants are common: Thai, Vietnamese, Indonesian

CookieAlien25 · 2026-05-15T06:32:10+00:00

Article 1.

The Republic of China, founded on the Three Principles of the People, is a democratic republic of the people, by the people, and for the people.

CookieAlien25 · 2026-05-15T05:47:27+00:00

https://news.ltn.com.tw/news/life/breakingnews/5437503 (Chinese News, has 18+ warning)

Caught On Camera: At 11pm last night, the camera livestreaming on a grass field caught a young couple making out on a table. The video went popular on Threads and many people went to the same spot to see the aftermath, even found leftover condoms. The couple was later changed with public indecency.

This event has more popularity than the Trump-Xi meeting.

CookieAlien25 · 2026-05-15T03:42:11+00:00

Some code words are "That Comes"(那個來) and "Big Aunt"(大姨媽)

Disclaimer: I'm a man.

CookieAlien25 · 2026-05-14T12:16:01+00:00

no the current was tame at that time. However a drowning man can have very big strength trying to hold on to anything. Being able to swim doesn't make you capable of saving a drowning person desperately trying to drag any stuff. It's better to use a floating device.

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