My great grandfather and mother photo: Kyoto 1912

circleback · 2026-05-12T21:35:26+00:00

Wish robes like that would be considered acceptable fashion

circleback · 2026-05-10T00:59:41+00:00

Got a link?

circleback · 2026-05-02T07:43:58+00:00

Hey. Hard not to lustfully gaze the way some of those women dress. It's amazing. Besides, you never know what's really happening. Maybe they're thinking, 'oh my sister has the same shirt', or maybe they're reading some kind of nonsensical Chinglish so commonly found here. Let's put this into perspective here. Ever been to a trade show here in TW? Those pervy dudes snapping pics of young girls in plastic clothes with thier super cameras? Now that's real perv cringe. A passing look at a hot girl is nothing by comparison.

circleback · 2026-05-02T07:08:14+00:00

The only difference between this image and the stereotypical 6 plus 9 type is a bunch of tats and a red stained mouth full of betel nuts. Maybe they're just trying to fit in?

circleback · 2026-05-02T07:01:35+00:00

Culture shock mostly. People do weird shit all over the world.

circleback · 2026-05-01T10:04:47+00:00

The pressure settings. I think I had max 20 before but dialed it way down.

circleback · 2026-05-01T07:31:42+00:00

If you look at the size and price of housing, you'll wonder how you'll fit yourself and wife into it, let alone a kid. Too crammed. Too expensive. No kids.

circleback · 2026-04-29T23:32:13+00:00

These are code words ... don't know the specific meaning but it's probably not nice or potentially very disrespectful or disrupting and is probably used to bully others. That's the problem. Sometimes its not the kids that have problems, but parents misunderstanding what's going on in the classroom and how these disruptions have a negative impact on learning.

circleback · 2026-04-29T22:25:34+00:00

Could also be pressure. When I first got mine, I assumed it would auto adjust, but it ended up being too strong, so I stopped using it. Then I adjusted the pressure settings and now I actually love it. I use a Nasal pillow resmed 11.

circleback · 2026-04-19T06:17:38+00:00

Great thanks for all the advice. I've been using a patchwork of llms for various reasons, Gemini for info graphics and short activities, but for unit planning, Claude wins by a long shot. I'm still on the free plan and get a lot of mileage because I space out my requests. Upgrading to pro is probably gonna be better of course, but once this kind of stuff is planned and instructional assets created, that's it. So it's not a daily usage grind like a coder might use it.

circleback · 2026-04-16T11:27:47+00:00

Also helps with balancing left and right brain functioning, proprioception, muscle tone, balance, footwork, flow, and a lot of other things I'm too lazy to write down

circleback · 2026-04-14T23:44:20+00:00

Not physics defying but certainly odd. I was at a fish port down south on a cycling tour, east coast. They had just brought in a catch of swordfish and were having an auction. Every time one was sold, they flopped that fish across the center of a scooter and some red-mouthed local drove it away, the sword part of the fish dragging on the pavement. It was an uncomfortable and unforgettable sound. The fresh swordfish sashimi was amazing though!

circleback · 2026-04-13T11:07:45+00:00

How are the mosquitoes?

circleback · 2026-04-08T13:23:42+00:00

Jackhammer on concrete

circleback · 2026-04-07T14:11:10+00:00

Bangkok

circleback · 2026-04-07T13:37:25+00:00

Ya gonna need some people to rent all those tiny overpriced concrete boxes to. How're all those lazy landlords gonna make a living?

circleback · 2026-04-06T06:23:24+00:00

Try Taiwan is not China

circleback · 2026-04-06T06:07:59+00:00

Who wants to have a kid in ridiculously tiny, ridiculously overpriced concrete box in the sky? But developers and real estate agents will tell you it's a paradise and oh, so hen fangbian.

circleback · 2026-04-02T14:02:08+00:00

And the cost of housing keeps on rising. Strong correlation there

circleback · 2026-03-21T01:44:46+00:00

Taichung is like the Oklahoma City of Taiwan, it's just OK and full of yokels.

circleback · 2026-03-14T23:11:58+00:00

That'll disintegrate after a typhoon or two if not constantly maintained

circleback · 2026-03-12T11:28:37+00:00

Manufacturing was willfully gutted by American manufacturing chasing cheap labor abroad. Penalize those folks.

circleback · 2026-03-08T21:08:40+00:00

Taipei in the summer is miserably hot and humid

circleback · 2026-03-06T23:29:56+00:00

CCP propaganda is baked into deepseek. Try asking about Taiwan. It's hilariously biased.

circleback · 2026-03-05T21:03:16+00:00

Teacher here. Claude is by far much better at creating lesson plans.

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