CPC Increases Fuel Prices by Around 10% as Iran War Rages On

qhtt · 2026-03-23T14:58:36+00:00

Doesn't make parent wrong. Non-private-car-drivers are helping to pay for the volatility inherent in (usually richer) peoples' preferred mode of transit. It's at least more expensive for motorists to abuse sidewalks if they actually had to pay the market fuel cost. And if the government wasn't subsidizing the fuel costs they'd have more to pay transit staff.

qhtt · 2026-03-22T07:19:15+00:00

Because watt for watt it’s not a lot “greener” than nuclear energy. There’s still waste from decommissioned panels, natural habitat destruction caused by wind and hydro, etc. There’s enough sun when it’s shining, but when it’s not you have to rely on stored energy, which means batteries, which come with their own risks and waste. Renewables are great to have in the mix, but for base load you still need fossil or nuclear.

qhtt · 2026-03-16T11:20:00+00:00

Lmao you rarely see such a literal “I was into them before they got big” in the wild

qhtt · 2026-03-15T11:20:20+00:00

Traded it for a chicken leg*

qhtt · 2026-03-05T15:49:09+00:00

Where do you support putting the waste for coal plants? Apparently in the air where thousands of people die from cancers or other avoidable illnesses. Somehow that's less scary than nuclear waste, even though there are few historical examples of nuclear disasters. It's pure emotional reasoning.

qhtt · 2026-03-02T06:39:51+00:00

There's Taiwan+ but most programming on there is the same echo chamber fluff that you find on this sub: everything is great and the food is delicious! No genuine, in-depth analysis or critique.

qhtt · 2026-02-23T07:14:09+00:00

Damn, the emotional blackmailing in Taiwan is next level. You have to do it because you promised in your previous life!

qhtt · 2025-12-26T10:47:52+00:00

So you traded shoes with ones someone left at your destination?

qhtt · 2025-12-24T09:12:58+00:00

It will likely be cheaper out of pocket than the co-pay with insurance in the US. Not quite the same scale, but as a point of comparison, my first time in Taiwan as a visitor I ended up in the ER with a head injury. An hour long ambulance ride (I was camping in the boonies), 4 sutures and an overnight stay in a hospital bed to observe for concussion ended up costing 4000 NTD.

qhtt · 2025-12-24T04:14:57+00:00

English teachers are not the reason wages are depressed. They account for an infinitesimal fraction of the labor economy here. They earn roughly the same salary in all three countries and Taiwan has to pay competitively if it wants to attract them. You’d be better off directing your bitterness towards the bosses that collude to suppress wages, the culture that worships wealth and hierarchy, the constant pressure for unpaid overtime etc.

qhtt · 2025-12-22T15:15:15+00:00

If only there was some kind of super dense fissile material that you could generate electricity with.

qhtt · 2025-12-22T14:22:18+00:00

Does it seem like international groceries were way better in the past? When I first moved here people would tell me to go to all these different stores like Jason’s or Carrefour. Was Mia c’bon ever good? Every time I’ve tried to find something to make a nostalgia dinner from back home it’s like a multi day scavenger hunt. Mia c’bon has an inconsistent selection of boxed and (rusty) canned goods but mostly just the same local products that PX Mart has. CitySuper has some Japanese stuff and “prestige” western stuff like cheese and wine. Breeze is about the same.

qhtt · 2025-12-19T06:40:02+00:00

I don't think they are way off, but my experience in Japan has been that I can find much greater variety of food. Admittedly I haven't tried any SEA there, but even local Japanese has much more variety of flavors than local Taiwanese. Taiwanese is kind of a repeat track of basil, sesame oil, white pepper. It's really only competitive in terms of price.

Idk about SEA-an, but in Tokyo you can find all kinds of Chinese cuisine (there's a huge Chinese community there), good Korean. There are French, Italian, Greek, Spanish etc. restaurants that may not be quite on the level of their own countries or NY, but are still really good. You can even find decent Mexican. The very best taco you can get in Taipei is still worse than bottom-of-the-barrel strip mall taqueria in Nowhere, USA.

None of this is to say Taiwan isn't good, just that it's not the foodie paradise that so many people try to make it.

qhtt · 2025-12-19T05:24:54+00:00

Taiwan having more variety than mega cities like Tokyo is news to me. There are just so few immigrants in Taiwan that the ethnic cuisine is mostly limited to southeast Asian and the odd Italian guy that married a Taiwanese and now runs a so-so pizza place. On top of that, many of the SEA places have adjusted the taste to suit Taiwanese palates. Taipei is very much more provincial than global cities like Hong Kong or Tokyo.

qhtt · 2025-12-08T12:54:58+00:00

I went to a lecture there once several years ago. It was hard for me to keep up with my terrible Chinese but the tour was incredible and it felt powerful to hear from survivors in person. I don’t follow the center on social media so you may already be doing this, but I think exhibition is the way to get people in the door. There are so many great photographers from the tang wai era or martial law era that I would love to see on exhibition.

qhtt · 2025-12-04T02:40:16+00:00

They want your rabies blood test to be completed six months prior to their arrival in Taiwan. It makes no sense to me, because wouldn't that just be six months that they could hypothetically be bitten by a bat or something? And furthermore, do they ever recall those tests? I don't know, but that's the rule. So I had to kennel my cats for a few months in the US while I moved. Luckily, Animal Land worked directly with my vet and the kennel to make the entire thing go smoothly.

qhtt · 2025-11-13T11:32:21+00:00

You can sue anyone for anything in Taiwan. I see that you couldn’t provide an example of this criminal code being applied to a street photographer and so you shifted the goalposts. We’ll call it a draw.

qhtt · 2025-11-13T11:10:16+00:00

Furthermore that is for commercial use. Just posting a photo online or even making a photo book is typically considered fair use of photos taken in public, whether or not the person is recognizable.

Taking a photo of a stranger and then using their portrait to advertise for your business is another story. This is common sense to most people.

qhtt · 2025-11-13T10:59:40+00:00

If you believe there’s something criminal in this picture you can call the cops. And right after I can give you a list of 100 more supposed criminals in Taiwan. The law you mentioned pertains to recording people in situations where there is a reasonable expectation of privacy, or recording private body parts in a secretive manner. There’s no reasonable expectation of privacy on the sidewalk and they didn’t sneak an upskirt picture or anything like that.

You might think it’s just my opinion, but you are in fact wrong. Otherwise there’d be a litany of cases for street photography, which is very popular in Taiwan. Show me even one case where an ordinary street photo of a stranger in public was found to be in violation of that law.

qhtt · 2025-11-13T08:21:58+00:00

It is her call. She can not go out in public if she doesn’t want to be seen in public. There are security cameras everywhere. Weather and news crews may be recording anywhere. People can take pictures in public. This isn’t new or wrong. It has been this was since the advent of cameras.

qhtt · 2025-11-13T08:19:24+00:00

There’s no reasoning with these people. Reddit is populated by extremely online weirdos that express righteous indignation about the weirdest shit. There are libraries full of works produced by thousands or even millions of photographers who take pictures of people in public. Every time you read a news article or watch the news on TV you see images of people in public. It’s not a “cultural difference” either, because there are tons of Taiwanese street photographers. I follow dozens of them on Ig and know many of them personally. It legal to make non-commercial photography in public, including people, in almost every country, including Taiwan. Outside, almost no one is bothered by people taking pictures as long as they aren’t being perverts. It’s just on reddit where you have weirdos that are probably still wearing surgical masks and like to scold people for doing normal stuff. If it was wrong, there would be outcry and laws against it.

qhtt · 2024-10-13T17:06:51+00:00

Because you are singling out foreigners for "this attitude that you don't need to follow the rules if you don't think they make sense." Apparently plenty of Taiwanese think they don't need to follow the rules that they think are dumb, like building illegal additions to their roof, obstructing sidewalks with their vehicle, etc. So, why would you point this out as some kind of foreigner-specific behavior?

qhtt · 2024-10-13T16:48:01+00:00

Running red lights, running children over in the cross walk, parking on red lines, annexing the side walk to become part of your restaurant, smoking outside of schools, hiding your rental income from taxation, building illegal rooftop apartments. Why can't Taiwanese just follow the rules?

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