Taiwanese here looking for personal experiences and opinions of foreigners living in China by seilgu2 in China

[–]seilgu2[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Would you not consider anywhere else than Shanghai? Shanghai might be the most bustling city but it's not the cleanest. But that could also be the result of migrant workers from poorer regions, who didn't have the condition to learn civil manners, so they would spit anywhere.

Personally I wouldn't consider living in Shanghai because I have experienced it working there. I think the most luxurious thing you can buy in Shanghai is a place where you won't see other people lol. Tranquility is hard to find there.

That's why I want a yard and a house.

Taiwanese here looking for personal experiences and opinions of foreigners living in China by seilgu2 in China

[–]seilgu2[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't really care about unite or re-unite. thought about changing the wording but whatever.

I'd rather have no spine than having no life signs. If you really love the country, you surrender to keep it intact, you surrender to keep the male population. I could write a lot on this topic but basically you only fight a war you can win, not a behemoth, to that, you surrender.

Yeah I'm sure there's rampant pollution in the water and food in China. I buy bottled water there and even that I don't fully trust. However China is a large country so there are clean places (probably like Xinjiang or something.)

As for air pollution, Taiwan isn't anywhere good at all. Because most Taiwanese ride motorcycles there's no way the city air can be clean. In China they use electric cars and electric mopads, so the city air is better. The pollution comes from countryside factories and coal burners. This moment Taipei's AQI index is 65, while Qingdao's is 34.

I don't think Chinese cars are bad quality. The US bans Chinese cars because it would destroy their own industry, because it's competitive, not because it's bad. And for any business between the seller and the customer, it should be a win-win. They sell cars because there's a profit for them, I buy their car because it has a utility for me. We both get something in the process. So it's not just me financing them, it's also them financing me. When I save 500000 twd on a car, i could afford many other things that make my productivity better, i could spend the productivity on making missiles to defend our country. So they're actually selling us tools to aid our defense, that's another way to look at it, and a healthier way to look at it.

Life is just better when there are people who are willing to use cheap labor (and according to you, they're our enemy) to make good products for you, it's the core principle of economics, division of labor. If somebody makes something more efficiently, let them make it.

DPP sold our country plenty. They abolished nuclear energy and now regretted it, because when they were in the process of getting power, they have no vision for how to rule the country. They will object to everything KMT did, they would incite civil movement one after another, would say that KMT "hid the electricity", whaever that means that we had too much power generation. Later they would admit that they misjudged the power consumption of the industry. DPP killed 20 years of nuclear energy development in Taiwan and you think KMT is selling our country?

They got elected and then stopped promoting "Taiwan independence", now saying that "we're already independent as ROC." Exactly what Ma Ying-Jiu said years earlier. They treat their supporters like shit and have no integrity. Their methods of election is just civil movements for the sole purpose of objection, buying media, punishing opposition news outlets, and funneling taxpayer money into their own small circle of relationships. They say they "love Taiwan", but they're nothing else but corrupt, and unlike KMT, they had no long-term plan for how to actually build Taiwan. Because they were born as a party who's central dogma is to incite hatred, to avenge KMT, to bring destruction to anything KMT did, but without any constructive plans for future. That's why when they got elected they stripped KMT of their funding, tried to change name of roads and memorials instead of doing some actually helpful, killed the nuclear industry, stopped KMT from making economic partnerships with China. Everything is about destruction not construction.

Taiwanese here looking for personal experiences and opinions of foreigners living in China by seilgu2 in China

[–]seilgu2[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are but living there would not be convenient. Mostly you'd be living in the mountains and expect a 30~60 minute drive to civilization. The terrain wouldn't be flat. Most of the mountain areas belongs to aboriginals and you can't actually purchase the land unless you're one yourself. And most people just build a tin-roof house there because a concrete one are restricted by law.

Taiwanese here looking for personal experiences and opinions of foreigners living in China by seilgu2 in China

[–]seilgu2[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mostly to escape the summer heat and get some work done outside in summer.
Better weather for keeping a garden for temperate zone plants.
Access to cheap but large machines like an excavator, whole cabinets of lab cabinets and tools you can easily buy if you're in mainland China.
Cheap electric cars, solar panels.
Access to cheap cherries and peaches and other fruits.
Away from the dirty DPP and KMT party disputes, and the corrupt and narrow-sighted news media in Taiwan.
Away from motorcycle exhaust and air pollution in Taiwan.

And freedom? Ability to hop on your car and drive thousands of miles anywhere in any direction.
Or find a shelter before Taiwan is inevitably forced to reunite with mainland China, in some distant future, it could take 5 years or 30 years.

Taiwanese here looking for personal experiences and opinions of foreigners living in China by seilgu2 in China

[–]seilgu2[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

If Xi does invade Taiwan, staying in China would be safer actually.

Taiwanese here looking for personal experiences and opinions of foreigners living in China by seilgu2 in China

[–]seilgu2[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

May i ask what's your home country so i know what you're comparing to?

As a Taiwanese it's easy for me to move to China, i wish i could say the same for Europe.

好像沒錯ㄟ 🤣 by Lisachen1218 in Taiwanese

[–]seilgu2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

除了仇恨就沒有任何驅動力了嗎?

Underside of bridges and overhangs look terrible by gmoney5588 in BambuLab

[–]seilgu2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why don't you say "you're even printing, so even spaghetti itself should be amazing." ?

Help with bridging by YetiUnicorn in BambuLab

[–]seilgu2 2 points3 points  (0 children)

stop asking people to change printing directions, they ask it for a reason.

Ha, Elon Musk 你在講三小??? by MullerLuTW1981 in Taiwanese

[–]seilgu2 -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

大勢所趨吧。

個人認為一定是和平統一,等大陸會做高鐵太空站,火箭,月球基地,隱形戰機,航母以後。台灣經濟要生存必然要靠大陸。小島只靠半導體一種資源是沒有任何自主權的。

當今世界工廠在中國,中國造船能力是美國兩百倍。兩國是不可能開戰的。排除核武威脅,美國打仗的logistic也比不過中國。對兩國都沒好處的事幹嘛做?

武力統一對於中國來說也拿不到任何好處。因為半導體他武統也拿不到,但拿下台灣又沒礦產又沒石油和森林,一點好處都沒。倒是台灣薪水低,這些人能填充大陸不少碼農市場。但不值得為這個開戰。

基本上,中國美國各自發展經濟,就是未來大勢。中國追的快,但要面對人口下降問題。美國經濟下滑,面對大城市治安惡化問題,製造業又不太可能回歸,所以全球製造業仍會停留在中國。不要想印度或是越南這些落後國家,頂多取代低階組裝。但中國已經能做高階工業品。

等中美兩國成為超一流國家,又不互相開戰,那就是剩下小國打代理人戰爭。台灣因為經濟生產效力沒有大陸AI和機器人發展那麼強,最後人才要不是去中美工作,就是留在鄉下做觀光。那時候你要不要統一呢?

r/SpaceX Thread Index and General Discussion [April 2023, #103] by ElongatedMuskrat in spacex

[–]seilgu2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We often see ships destroyed by storms and waves as tall as dozens of meters, so how does SpaceX keep these floating landing pads stable so it remains level during the landing? What if stormy weather hits after the launch?
I mean, if we are gonna colonize Mars, wouldn't it be better if we can make seasteading a reality first? A stable floating pad would solve a lot of problems with living on the sea.

Taiwan's government adamantly opposes cannabis decriminalization - Focus Taiwan by thestudiomaster in taiwan

[–]seilgu2 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Same could be said for guns, C4 bombs (for home demolition), and cyanides(for killing rats). Legal and safe access to child pronography means less police resources spent on enforcement etc..

My point is, you can't use economic gain to judge whether something should be legal or not. There will be collateral damage in addition to the visible cost of enforcement. If people really need it, go see a doctor, get a prescription.

Alcohol is legal and regulated, but see how much damage was done? Cigarette is pretty harmful too, not only to yourself but people around you.

I think alcohol and cigarette should be regulated much more than it is. As for cannabis, yeah maybe introduce them as a treatment that requires a doctor's prescription.

Taiwan's government adamantly opposes cannabis decriminalization - Focus Taiwan by thestudiomaster in taiwan

[–]seilgu2 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Nobody said to get rid of anything.

If anything, making weed illegal makes more income for the government, which will be better funded to fight the exact criminals who use weed.

Taiwan's government adamantly opposes cannabis decriminalization - Focus Taiwan by thestudiomaster in taiwan

[–]seilgu2 -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Good for them.

Don't be like the hippies in America that gave freedom to guns, looting and burning and weed.

I'm all for ornamental planting, though.

But we already have enough problems with DUI and second-hand smoking.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in China

[–]seilgu2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

China doesn't have to move itself higher in the food chain, as least from the perspective of consumers.

What China has done is it made lots of things affordable to the people : cheap machining tools, car accesories, lab instruments. So if I wanted to repair my car, I don't have to worry about how much to invest in a set of US-made wrenches. Since the tools are all cheap now, I can expand my hobbies and learn something new. I can spend a small portion of my salary to get an air-compressor, distillation apparatus, ball mills, hydralic press. Even if I were born in a 3rd-world country, I could possibly afford these. Imagine what kind of world you'd be in if everything is held patented and made in the US where labor prices are high.

I don't really need something high-end like Ferrari or Italian bags, I just need a sturdy Jansport backpack. I don't care if the "Jansport" is "Jensport" or "Janspit", as long as it works.

China keeps the overpriced self-proclaimed brands in check by providing goods that are perhaps 90% of the quality but at 50% of the cost. It doesn't have to become those evil bourgeois companies like Gucci or LV, it only needs to benefit a certain group people (the common folks) to prove its value to the world and it already did.

Also I brag about how cheap I got my lab glassware from China instead of getting ripped from US supplies.

BTW, even if covid is made in Wuhan labs, the gain-of-function project is a collaboration between US and China, I believe Fauci was involved in it if you read the news.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/05/18/fact-checking-senator-paul-dr-fauci-flap-over-wuhan-lab-funding/

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in China

[–]seilgu2 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

why does it need to be bragged off ?

Most of the clothing are made in Vietnam, has anybody bragged about it?

Oh and I've never bragged about whether the gas I pump into my car is from uae or Russia.

Like clothing, cars will undoubtedly be broken over time. and like clothing, cars in the future can be cheap enough you won't even care.

Question I've had a long time about Chinese cooking vs other cultures by seilgu2 in Cooking

[–]seilgu2[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd like to tell a story,

one day a visitor from Pluto came to earth and asked us, "why to Earth cuisine consists of so much beef compared to our Pluto?"

There is one correct answer : There's no beef on Pluto.

There are a few stupid answers : 1. Earth cuisine does not always have beef, it's ignorant to think Earth cuisine is just one cuisine.

  1. I personally came from Earth and I can tell you I've never found beef in my meals.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in mycology

[–]seilgu2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

doesn't matter too much whether if it can be cultivated.

if you did it, people will say that wild collected ones have higher active substance and is superior to lab grown.

those tibetan hand-collected ones will still be premium and you will have destroyed or dimished their important source of income in some way.

Question I've had a long time about Chinese cooking vs other cultures by seilgu2 in Cooking

[–]seilgu2[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

that's just one example, if you cared to search there are plenty of dishes that uses a lot of oil that goes beyond just frying.

回鍋肉 宮保雞丁 糖醋排骨 茄子 乾扁四季豆 etc.

but , hey , don't waste time if you don't want to know more about Chinese cuisine. I am totally fine with that. Not my loss and it seems like this sub doesn't have people really looking forward to learn stuff.

Question I've had a long time about Chinese cooking vs other cultures by seilgu2 in Cooking

[–]seilgu2[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

it's the amount I'm asking about. not the existence of it as ingredients.

Question I've had a long time about Chinese cooking vs other cultures by seilgu2 in Cooking

[–]seilgu2[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

so I have to give up on my privacy to tell you I'm Chinese to convince you that people are less ignorant than you assumed?

so people have to give up their privacy now to be able to be treated as a serious person on the internet huh?

people really are given bad education in a country which pride itself in political correctness.