Why is learning Chinese so hard? For one, it's tens of thousands of words made up from thousands of characters. A few other struggles from learning the language in Taiwan.

outerventions.substack.com/p/why-is-lea...

"A sense of quality," reads my friend's dating profile. I love it. My opinion on how that relates to us in Taiwan, and why wish lists and praying to the Chinese love god is less important than understanding who we are. After all, a list of traits can't predict compatibility (Finkel et al, 2012).

"Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do." www.carnegie.org/our-work/art...

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Taiwan's CDC is publishing a huge retrospective study of vaccine effectiveness with their American counterparts. The homegrown protein subunit vaccine from Medigen proved to be just as effective as the high-tech mRNA imports. Taiwan truly could have helped!
wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/...

tried to google trauma dumping but autocorrect changed it to trauma dumpling, the results however did not disappoint

"Picking breakfast is not like picking a husband. Don't think too much about it." 選早餐不是選老公 不用想太久.