I live in Taiwan....good luck for all of us

Ikr... I don't even own a car, I walk to work, take the MRT everywhere etc. and the Americans are electing a president who says "Drill baby, drill". I'm not an American, but it will affect us all... I live in Taiwan now and I'm fucking afraid of what his presidency will do to the geopolitical balance with China.

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Hi folks,

I've been living in Taiwan for years so I have the NIH. Recently my knee is acting up and will get super painful during runs. As much as I want to deny it, I suspect that I have a meniscus tear 😢.

If that is the case, I don't know if I have the financial means to support the treatment, so I want to ask if there's anyone here with an experience with knee meniscus repair or ACL reconstruction surgery in Taiwan?

Any recommendations for a hospital or doctor? How much did it cost or did you get quoted?

Thank you very much!

[-] pepperonisalami@sh.itjust.works 68 points 3 months ago

It's super sad to see. We used to complain about kids being fed digital "contents" as pacifiers, but now I constantly see older people super fixated with their phone watching tiktok videos. 😔

[-] pepperonisalami@sh.itjust.works 17 points 5 months ago

I live in TW, can confirm this happened in Taiwan, not in China.

[-] pepperonisalami@sh.itjust.works 23 points 5 months ago

We should rename it to the South East Asian Sea, SEAS for short.

[-] pepperonisalami@sh.itjust.works 29 points 5 months ago

This is why we need more public transport everywhere in the world. Get idiots off the street, but enable them to go to the doctor, school, work, and everything else, so we have less idiots in the future.

[-] pepperonisalami@sh.itjust.works 22 points 5 months ago

They asked you if you're not racist, as if it's normal to be racist??

It's sad to see how people get manipulated to the point that they can't understand that even a natural population growth without immigration can cause a housing crisis, if we don't build and maintain the houses. And immigrants come to work anyway, which provides a disproportionately high value to the economy compared to what most of them are paid.

[-] pepperonisalami@sh.itjust.works 53 points 5 months ago

I don't know much about this guy but it sounds like he's a piece of shit

[-] pepperonisalami@sh.itjust.works 20 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

It boils down to political will to efficiently fund the transition. We can let planes fly - no simple solution to that. Put subsidies for green steel - currently costlier, not many companies will adopt too soon Build more public transport - fuck dem cars Enable remote work Invest in farmers to make the transition to electric tractors, then cut out gas subsidies

These are doable today, the funds should come easily if we don't let billionaires get away without paying taxes. Side note: 1 billion is a tremendous amount of money, but the top billionaires are worth 200 billions!!!

They're playing the long game, at this rate they'll soon have no winter to worry about, it will be 25°C in the winter and there's no heating needed so no more energy demand spikes! /S

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