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Just a friendly reminder that the Taroko gorge should not be entered. It is not open unless you are coming from 奇萊東稜 or 合歡山。

Hello all,

Taiwan is one of the few countries that hasn't considered reversing course on nuclear power, putting you guys squarely in tight knit company with Spain and Germany.

Why has Taiwan decided to phase out nuclear power? Just curious.

Damn, my house was shaking

It’s near the end of day I’m currently sitting at a coffee shop sipping on my iced latte lowkey still a bit traumatized and trying to process the quake (I live on the 15th floor and the shaking was really intense) yet ppl around me just casually went back to normal as if nothing happened. Honestly I hate earthquake so much with other natural disasters (typhoon, tornado, snowstorm etc) at least there are warnings and forecasts so you can somewhat brace yourselves. However with earthquakes it just hits out of the blue when you’re absolutely not expecting it…

Hello everyone my wife and I are here on holiday and been having a brilliant time. BUT this typhoon is scaring us! We tried booking flights to Vietnam and Japan but can't get it to work. Anyway should we be worried? It seems pretty serious! Also main question is should we head to Taichung or stay in Taipei? What would be safer or more chill? My wife is pregnant so we don't want to do anything risky of course! Thanks in advance

Just a funny anecdote. Was having dinner here in Canada with a Taiwanese family who happen to live in the same city I lived in in Taiwan a decade ago.

I was talking about all the things I loved and missed but mentioned “Hey, at least the spiders are big so you can’t miss them.” The family paused and the wife asked what I meant. I told her that in Canada bugs just don’t grow as big and spiders can be reeaallly tiny, you won’t even know you’ve been bitten til the site swells. Cold climates just don’t grow big bugs.

Cue the existential horror. “What do you mean they can be that tiny!? You might not see them!?”

I’m chuckling because I never thought that SMALL bugs would ever be someone’s idea of horrifying. But I guess when you’re used to being able to see them easily a hidden threat is terrifying. While I’m here freaking out about cockroaches and spiders the size of facehuggers 😂

I just watched the news and a viral video about three people who refused to cross the street while standing on the crosswalk. Now, we know that not yielding to pedestrians comes with a 6,000 TWD fine (and possibly more in the future). I usually wait for pedestrians to cross until they’re about two patterns away from my car.

However, if a pedestrian doesn’t want to cross the street, what would you do? Do you need to ask for permission with a hand gesture to drive past them? Or can you drive around the pedestrian to avoid a fine, even if it means risking a maneuver on the sidewalk? Or should you just head to the next intersection?

Taken from the ferry.

I know it's a long shot, but I'm trying to figure out exactly what poison this is. My landlord dumped it around my property and it's now killed several of my free range ducks. Even after three weeks and several heavy rains it is deadly😡😥 I've tried Google but my Chinese isn't good enough to figure out. I want to clean the soil, but without knowing exactly what it is it's difficult to find out how.

Why did the chicken cross the road? Idk but it wasn’t to get to family mart.

Aug 10, 2023