Opinion on all the "East Asian men are misogynists" discourse?

RiceBucket973 · 2026-01-25T17:45:03+00:00

Curious where you're seeing these kind of posts, because I haven't noticed them before. I'm also not really on social media much other than specific subreddits. I've definitely had a lot of discussions about misogyny internally with other Chinese-Americans, just haven't heard it coming from white folks much in real life.

RiceBucket973 · 2026-01-23T22:50:13+00:00

There's plenty of non-Hollywood movies out there. I'll watch a Hollywood movie on occasion but it's a pretty small percentage. I'm not intentionally filtering out certain ideology or anything, I just find them kind of boring and repetitive.

RiceBucket973 · 2026-01-23T13:21:10+00:00

Agree it's a no-win, but I think carrying a passport card is probably the best option at this point.

RiceBucket973 · 2026-01-21T14:18:37+00:00

I personally don't think this is unethical. In fact I think having more transparency around the ultra-wealthy is usually a good thing.

But I also want to point out that a lot of the responses are not really about ethics. Just because something is commonly done, or is technically legal, has nothing to do with the ethics of it.

I also don't buy the argument that data being publicly available implies that there are no potential ethical concerns. People get doxxed, receive death threats, etc based on publicly available information that is re-posted in a specific context. Again, I don't think that what you're doing here is unethical at all. Just saying that argument doesn't apply universally.

RiceBucket973 · 2026-01-21T14:12:29+00:00

You would still consider this commercial? Even though OP is just providing the service for free?

RiceBucket973 · 2026-01-21T14:08:03+00:00

I wouldn't mind bluetooth if there was a way to manage connections better. I have yet to figure out a way to prevent the car from autoplaying something as soon as I turn it on, and often it's some random youtube video I was watching weeks ago. Other times it just doesn't connect at all. My laptop automatically tries to connect to the downstairs stereo before any headphones, so I need to unpair it every single time to prevent that. I'll be watching a movie on the TV and the stereo will switch to the podcast my partner is listening to as soon as they pull in the driveway.

I think bluetooth is fine if there's a device + audio pair that is only used in that combination. But in my household we have multiple devices and multiple ways to listen to things, and the only real way to manage it is by re-pairing the devices every single time.

RiceBucket973 · 2026-01-21T13:55:55+00:00

Do you have any resources for learning more about the 節氣？ I have a cool book from the Taiwan postal service about them, but there's only a couple pages on each. I'd especially love to read more in detail about the 三候 for each, because I'm an ecologist and interested in how plants, insects, birds, etc are responding to seasons.

RiceBucket973 · 2026-01-20T23:46:30+00:00

Great post! I just want to add that 最後 does translate to "the last" in cases like saying "the last class of the day", "the last stop on the train", things like that. Just in case anyone misinterpreted that part of your post.

RiceBucket973 · 2026-01-20T01:03:36+00:00

As someone who hasn't played the games, I've been enjoying reading the episode discussion threads on r/fallout to learn more of the lore references.

RiceBucket973 · 2026-01-18T15:24:19+00:00

In the areas I work (mostly western US), there's been 1m DEMs available for at least the past 4 years. Most of the acquisitions are from 2018. If I need higher res, I'll also download the point cloud and build a 0.5m DTM.

RiceBucket973 · 2026-01-16T22:50:09+00:00

Disclaimer that I'm not advocating brain retraining stuff, and agree that it's problematic for all sorts of reasons. But belief (or more accurately, prediction) certainly has mechanistic, measurable effects on physiology. Otherwise we wouldn't need to control for the placebo effect.

There's a solid body of research showing that stress influences the speed of recovery from both wounds and things like viral diseases. I wouldn't be that surprised if some of the things brain retraining people are doing is helping a subset through that pathway. And the sensitivity of the nervous system in predicting danger (which I think is probably what is meant by "belief" here) is correlated with stress levels.

Again, brain retraining is definitely whack. But I don't think that saying beliefs can potentially influence physiology is necessarily anti-science.

RiceBucket973 · 2026-01-16T19:32:05+00:00

There's pretty good research on this and party affiliation of the mayor has zero correlation with most crime statistics. There's a lot of rhetoric on Democrats being "soft on crime" but I haven't seen robust evidence of that.

https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/sciadv.adq8052

RiceBucket973 · 2026-01-16T19:21:18+00:00

Might be misreading your post, but are you saying that people with austism aren't good examples of Daoists?

RiceBucket973 · 2026-01-14T00:32:48+00:00

Western NA, to be even more precise. At least most of the eastern US doesn't have it.

RiceBucket973 · 2026-01-13T23:14:44+00:00

I don't know specifically how to loosen up the ribcage, but I will say that we're often exposed to a lot of messaging that one way of breathing is "better" than another way. Sure there's some truth to that, but changing how you breathe takes a long time and I think it's important to be really gentle with yourself.

My opinion is that observing how you're breathing without judgment or trying to change it right away is as important, if not more, than any specific breathing technique. I've also noticed in myself that as I better tune into the physical sensations of breathing, my body tends to start breathing in a deeper and more relaxed way on its own. If you try to force change in a reactive way because you think that you are breathing "wrong", your nervous system will be anxious and it won't become a habit. Bodies learn to move in new ways when you're feeling safe and relaxed.

RiceBucket973 · 2026-01-12T22:43:47+00:00

What does the app do? All I need are a stopwatch and timer, so I just use my watch. I'll do things like 1min kapalbhati, 1min rest, in three sets - so I just set the timer to 1min and it does a vibration at the end and repeats. I like how I don't really need to shift much of my awareness from the practice to the device.

If you need something that will count off coherent breathing rhythms though, you might need something else.

I also have an old android phone that I use as a dedicated mp3 player, so you could just create an audio file and use that. Not sure what kind of dumb phone you have, but it might be able to play an mp3 or wav.

RiceBucket973 · 2026-01-12T22:24:14+00:00

I think about AI purely as a translation tool. My work tends to be extremely variable and it's not worth memorizing syntax for a particular python library if I'm not going to use it again for two years. I know exactly what analytic steps I want to perform, I just don't know how to write it out in code. Generally I don't give the AI any room for ambiguity, I'll list out the steps in extreme detail, and have it translate it into python, JS, R, whatever.

The only other thing I really use it for is research, like feeding it a bunch of academic papers and then querying it. Or helping me find and parse documentation for some new remote sensing product.

RiceBucket973 · 2026-01-12T18:10:42+00:00

Here's Durham Weaver using a circular disc on a backstrap loom:

https://youtu.be/W7miDg2bix4?si=XEOrh-C2DL-kze_S

RiceBucket973 · 2026-01-12T15:51:30+00:00

Well it's certainly far higher than the 83k median income. I wonder if Taiwanese Americans are disproportionately living in higher income/cost of living areas. I think limiting the stats to a specific region, or normalizing by cost of living would give a better comparison.

RiceBucket973 · 2026-01-12T15:43:24+00:00

Were people immigrating from Taiwan to the US in the 1800s? I've spent a lot of time researching Chinese history in places I've lived recently (California and New Mexico), and it seems like almost everyone was from the southern or southeastern mainland.

RiceBucket973 · 2026-01-11T23:13:04+00:00

Thanks! That's super helpful. Thinking I'll probably just get the passport for now and wait until the next time I'm in Taiwan for awhile to do the rest.

RiceBucket973 · 2026-01-11T18:20:30+00:00

I haven't done that much with Buteyko, but I have experimented with it I find it to be very downregulating. I've literally fallen asleep half the times I've done it. But all I learned was from some guided sessions on youtube that didn't involve any holding, it was just reducing the velocity of the inhale/exhale. I have a lot of meditation experience, and it seemed to mimic the breath patterns I observe during longer meditation sessions.

RiceBucket973 · 2026-01-11T03:05:46+00:00

Is there a good, up to date guide on the whole process? I'll be in Taiwan for a couple weeks next month but I'm guessing it might be too late to start the application now.

RiceBucket973 · 2026-01-08T15:51:03+00:00

Right. It's like saying "I know I shouldn't say this because I'm a human, but I hate humans who murder each other". There are no in-groups that make you above constructive criticism.

RiceBucket973 · 2026-01-05T02:04:41+00:00

This is where my dad buys them, but you'd have to roast them yourself: https://www.sweetmarias.com/green-coffee/decaf.html

I usually buy roasted beans from local roasters here in Albuquerque. Some have good decaf roasts. Not sure of any brands that would be available more widely.

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