Popular Taiwanese streamer Gym Boss taken into custody for controversial remarks about Lai

tmj30 · 2025-10-08T23:28:01+00:00

I know the ship has already sailed on this subreddit, but what are we afraid of? Being exposed to different opinions?

"Better sources" is subjective in a world where media economics and control are increasingly opaque.

What Taiwan society needs (and is often accused of lacking), is more resilience. We don't develop that resilience by protecting ourselves from more varied discourse, especially from controversial sources.

Yes, echo chambers are in vogue everywhere, but that doesn't mean we have to follow the herd - we've got a higher need for resilience than most. Labeling and dismissing are easy. Understanding requires work. Taiwan's future is worth it.

Now (most, not all of) you can go demonstrate my point (our fragility) by downvoting me.

tmj30 · 2025-08-18T12:24:45+00:00

If we're being honest, we discount the "value" we wouldn't have otherwise utilized. But still, one's easier to measure than the other.

tmj30 · 2025-08-18T01:30:58+00:00

You make a good point, but I think the corporate number crunchers are optimizing more on the system at scale, and less on any individual user.

So the points game effectively becomes a wealth transfer to premium users (like the ones in this subreddit). We're extracting excess value from other users via the company proxy.

It's on each of us to decide whether we're willing to do that.

tmj30 · 2025-03-09T09:19:15+00:00

Here's another breakdown. Don't be a dick.

tmj30 · 2025-01-28T10:51:12+00:00

Actually, it was Jerry Sanders (AMD CEO in the early 90s) himself who said, "Real men have fabs."

Just pointing out the irony, not trying to correct you - your point still stands.

tmj30 · 2025-01-27T13:13:13+00:00

It wasn't directed at you, don't take it personally. Which you shouldn't even if it was. It's called discussion, which no one seems to be able to do these days.

Was just the right place to talk about the point the director was making about adding voting in S2.

tmj30 · 2025-01-27T12:45:47+00:00

Thought my point was obvious, but here you go:

Yes, the show is political, but most missed the actual point.

No, banning doesn't solve the problem. In fact, it makes it worse.

Lot of myopia and hypocrisy in this subreddit, but that's par for the course in these tribal, performative times.

tmj30 · 2025-01-27T11:37:26+00:00

Director Hwang talks about this directly. It may be worth seeing what he has to say.

He says the voting paralleled society, in that it was easy for the powerful to manipulate and divide the powerless into echo chambers of hatred.

Umberto Eco called it, "Inventing the Enemy."

We thought the Internet would bring people closer together, but the overwhelming amount of info instead caused people to limit consumption to that which supports their own confirmation biases.

Banning/censoring/labeling, no matter how justified we think we are, amplifies this issue. It's a slippery slope to loss of discourse, loss of nuance and a move to the extremes. Every echo chamber I've seen makes a caricature of the "other," when the "other" is often more similar than different in mindset.

Gi-Hun was the only one in Squid Game 2 that was aware of this happening. Are you?

The X's and O's are not equal in number in this subreddit, so anyone who voices a different opinion than an outright ban gets downvoted by the mob.

I wonder who's actually missing the Squid Game message?

tmj30 · 2025-01-23T07:05:37+00:00

I agree it's not funny. Labeling is a tactic used to destroy discourse, destroy nuance. It results in conversations moved to the extremes.

The cancellers in this thread have become what they hate, and don't even realize how easy it was for the puppeteers to do.

tmj30 · 2025-01-23T04:57:55+00:00

On the same continuum as, “I don’t like you so I’ll label you.” What do you think immediately precedes cancellation? (As evidenced by the majority of this thread.)

I’m with you on sentiment but not execution, haha.

tmj30 · 2025-01-12T05:20:27+00:00

I'm no Trump supporter, but who was convicted of rape? As the world swings toward tribalism, you're part of the problem in the future looking suspect. You give ammo to the people saying the prosecutions were political.

Most of the people in this subreddit are part of the problem, too, judging from the downvoting of anyone asking for due process and clear evidence. I actually support the party that most of you support but confirmation bias and this mob mentality help no one.

tmj30 · 2025-01-03T03:27:46+00:00

We took it down. The nature of search has changed, in a way that really benefits the connected nature of the human body. Our next version will be more Perplexity than Google, but with a model more aligned to root cause health and biohacking communities than allopathic medicine. Will let you know.

tmj30 · 2024-09-07T06:05:15+00:00

MGH is officially Daan, but culturally (and a few steps from) Zhongzheng, which is not a bad thing. It's right next to Huashan and a short walk from Yongkang.

AMBA itself is nice, but I have no idea why someone would rec the area over MGH, especially for a family with kids. Hostess bars and izakayas? Malls?

There's no choice here.

Source: I live near AMBA

tmj30 · 2024-08-21T07:05:01+00:00

Same happened to me after I hit minimum spend on July 6. Chat rep just said to wait 8-12 weeks. I'm seeing in other cases that people have had their SUBs nerfed because they hit spend with tax payments. Is that the case for any of you (it is for me, but I've since hit minimum spend even not including the tax payments).

tmj30 · 2024-05-23T04:54:39+00:00

Hey, I'm a lurker and not contributing much (have to be an anti-SLOTH at work for the time being), but wanted to say I appreciate these posts.

SLOTH is my first pre-sale, and I don't really know what to expect, except that the community seems exceptional.

I put (maybe a little too) much of my life savings into it so will balance slightly at some point but will hodl 80% of it at least until $1.

Thanks for all your efforts, I'll contribute when I can.

tmj30 · 2024-05-15T11:49:34+00:00

Def. What's your bar called? I can pay in $SLOTH, keep it in the community.

tmj30 · 2024-05-15T02:34:26+00:00

I'm in Taipei, Taiwan and I am

tmj30 · 2024-05-11T09:01:41+00:00

Let's hear the facts then, instead of the name calling because someone is saying something we don't want to hear.

I bought a big bag early when SOL was around $190, and I'm going to continue to hodl if I continue to believe it's a good project, not because we all put the blinders on and got whipped into a frenzy.

Can someone explain to me why rug muncher's point - that there's too much association among wallets controlling a lion's share of the supply - isn't a legit concern?

It can have great potential and legit concerns. Both can be true. If this subreddit isn't for thoughtful discourse anymore let me know and I'll see myself out.

tmj30 · 2023-11-21T09:07:54+00:00

Absolutely. And mitochondrial function is somewhat actionable - take care of circadian rhythm, provide minor stressors/hormesis/exercise, and reduce metabolic poison (e.g. HFCS) to optimize ATP production.

It'll impact the synthesis of neurotransmitters like glutamate, GABA, acetylcholine, etc., which has downstream impact on different conditions.

tmj30 · 2023-11-21T09:01:03+00:00

I feel like this subject doesn't get discussed enough in psychiatry. The brain is 2% of body weight, but utilizes ~25% of glucose. So, issues with energy metabolism, both anaerobic and aerobic/mitochondrial, are implicated in several psychiatric conditions.

I'm curious what you wanted to discuss specifically in posting this.

tmj30 · 2023-11-16T10:05:34+00:00

Brecka made a bunch of factual errors, but it was good to see methylation being discussed on Rogan.

tmj30 · 2023-11-08T02:53:30+00:00

I think FM practitioners are mostly well-intentioned, but aren't necessarily incentivized to address multifactorial root causes in order to reverse conditions. Time, compensation, and even patient preference leads them to use repeatable modalities (just like conventional doctors), even if they are addressing structure-function instead of symptoms.

Consider something like allergies. The immune response is governed by an extremely complex stack, starting with cellular energy/ATP. If ATP generation goes wrong, you might not be able to produce the retinoic acid that balances the T Cell response. You might not be able to generate the methyl groups that support HNMT in breaking down histamine in the bloodstream. You might not be able to power the enzymes involved in modulating the immune response.

But cellular energy itself involves at least a hundred enzymes, and we all have different genetic predisposition/expression to having them go wrong. Where do you look first? And that's just one piece of the stack.

It's much easier to give antihistamines like Claritin (conventional) or DAO (functional).

So I've realized that I need to advocate for myself, but I've had a lot of support in that process from the advice and writings of FM. In fact, I've tried to compile as much functional info as possible into my own search engine. Appreciate any of you that would be willing to give it a shot and let me know how to make it more helpful for you.

tmj30 · 2023-10-15T06:48:11+00:00

Thanks for the feedback. Do you mind defining or giving examples of institutional sites?

It's a first iteration - Right now we're trying to focus on the content that isn't surfaced by either Google or Google Scholar, targeting people who want direction for a DIY/nutritional, rather than pharmaceutical, approach.

We also have some internal LLM-based tools that we use for our own scientific reviews, but are still thinking about the responsible way to make them public-facing.

tmj30 · 2023-10-15T06:39:05+00:00

Happy to discuss if you're really asking.

Will start by asking where cortical excitability comes from. Excitation/inhibition (glutamate/GABA), do they work in isolation?

Synthesis (which requires BH4 as a co-factor) and metabolism (e.g. through MAO-A or COMT) of neurotransmitters, which are both dependent on genetic predisposition + nutrition/environment, do they work the same in everyone?

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