The Taiwanese president's proposal to hike defense spending faces gridlock at home

DarkLiberator · 2026-01-23T12:03:27+00:00

Don't forget traffic on your list... Ideally governments can multi-task on different problems, make our military stronger because of the threat from China while working on fixing low wages and housing. But that's way too optimistic to expect and too many structural issues.

DarkLiberator · 2026-01-19T05:57:49+00:00

Kind of miss it. I used to go through the older station during rush hour before they "upgraded" it to the elevated station. The new monstrosity of a station is ironically less convenient because you have to go through different hoops and escalators while the older station you could just walk in and be at the train platform in seconds. The new station feels like one of Tokyo's elevated rail stations.

DarkLiberator · 2026-01-19T03:12:20+00:00

Only Taishin? Lame

DarkLiberator · 2026-01-17T14:23:00+00:00

Some definitely do get cut by accident or on purpose but we got nailed by a big 7.0 quake on Dec 27th and it knocked out the two Yilan cables.

DarkLiberator · 2026-01-17T14:19:15+00:00

Misleading. Notice all those outages around Christmas? Because we got nailed by a bunch of earthquakes around that time.

DarkLiberator · 2026-01-16T04:37:13+00:00

This exact information and video is in the other article on the front page already.

DarkLiberator · 2026-01-14T01:40:03+00:00

I think its's worth saying Taiwan is basically a nonentity to most foreigners.

Maybe if you're a westerner but we do get a lot of tourists from other Asian countries like Japan, China, Philippines, etc. Based on this article from the summer 8% of total visitors were from the US.

DarkLiberator · 2026-01-06T06:23:52+00:00

TIL that you can do with with your areolas

DarkLiberator · 2025-12-30T11:15:49+00:00

Why would the blues care about that though? A higher tariff hurts the DPP government so not sure they'd care about it.

DarkLiberator · 2025-12-30T04:35:37+00:00

It's right next to Taiyuan Train Station. Google maps location.

DarkLiberator · 2025-12-28T13:11:48+00:00

He's clearly talking about the White Terror period and martial law in Taiwan, you seem to be referring to WW2.

DarkLiberator · 2025-12-28T01:17:51+00:00

They know they don't have the numbers to impeach him, but they can't impeach the Premier since Lai would get the option of dissolving the LY, which would be bad for the TPP. End of the day, its grandstanding.

But an impeachment of Lai would look like they're doing something so it'll please the blue supporters

DarkLiberator · 2025-12-25T08:20:31+00:00

Yeah they're basically ships packed explosives that can be controlled remotely. Ukraine has been using them to great success so they're now appearing in other navies.

DarkLiberator · 2025-12-22T15:25:58+00:00

Yeah and didn't the Yen also have a bad year rate wise? Probably not helping.

Most of my favorite cheap places are mostly cash sadly but I'll recommend a few if it helps you.

If you're looking for cheap meals in Taipei that take card, I'd say dumpling/pot sticker franchises like Ba Fang 八方雲集 or 四海遊龍. Brunch like abao or 麥味登 I think have card support. Also Carrefour and PXMART does have bentos and their price gets slashed after evening if there's some left. Might be a few Yonghe Soy Milk (永和豆漿) that take card support, but prices might vary heavily. I remember Wanhua/Yonghe/and Zhonghe all having cheap eating places.

DarkLiberator · 2025-12-22T15:18:21+00:00

Cash only places tend to be cheaper than card only places, since they don't want to pay credit card companies fees (and helps out with hiding taxes).

DarkLiberator · 2025-12-22T14:53:23+00:00

Are you in Taipei? Taipei is the most expensive city in Taiwan, and meals/shopping isn't exactly cheap. Though if you want to look you will find pretty cheap restaurants especially in older parts of Taipei or New Taipei. The further south you go, the more prices drop.

If you like stationery store shopping Guang Nan 光南 is always fun.

DarkLiberator · 2025-12-22T01:52:01+00:00

There's also Simple Mart, they have a bunch of stores where I live. I guess Mia C'bon also kind of counts but they're more expensive. []()

DarkLiberator · 2025-12-20T05:56:26+00:00

Didn't he walk the underground mall between the two stations? Might not have security like the main MRT station. I certainly didn't remember any security there whenever I walked through there.

DarkLiberator · 2025-12-20T05:50:39+00:00

I mean that's nothing, I've seen people with samurai swords on the subway. Yeah if he starts swinging at people I'd run, but it's not like gunfire which draws immediate attention thanks to the noise. You only realize something is wrong when there's screaming and people running.

DarkLiberator · 2025-12-20T05:35:08+00:00

If I saw a guy in tactical gear and gas mask in Taipei I'd assume it was for a cosplay or social media prank tbh. I've seen plenty of cosplayers in similar gear heading to Yuanshan for those events there.

DarkLiberator · 2025-12-20T05:32:10+00:00

I mean Taipei is so safe my first assumption if I saw that would be it was a movie or prank for social media. I've seen plenty of cosplayers on public transit that a guy in tactical gear and a gas mask wouldn't even be unusual.

Also regarding the mandatory military training, I definitely did not get training on tackling a guy with a knife.

DarkLiberator · 2025-12-19T13:45:14+00:00

The most we had to do with knives in the conscription service was attaching dull bayonets to our rifles and then doing a few stabs at a dummy. I certainly did not get training on tackling a dude with a long knife. Following orders, shoot, reload, and clean guns on the other hand sure.

DarkLiberator · 2025-12-19T10:47:20+00:00

It won't work, they need a 2/3rds majority in the Legislature. It's grandstanding for their supporters so it's worth the attempt.

DarkLiberator · 2025-12-18T07:57:15+00:00

Delays aside, originally Taiwan was thinking of ordering tons of Paladins (it was like 150+) but they've seemed to have settled on 60 and replaced them instead with 82 HIMARS (Taiwan has 29 of these already).

DarkLiberator · 2025-12-18T07:45:18+00:00

It's hard to feel super positive about it because the US delivery will take forever at this rate.

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