@AngelicaOung Notice how they're meeting at the KMT venue, meanwhile DPP politicians just meet inside the AiT
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Andrew Wang
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Andrew Wang
@apigeonenjoyer
Xi Jinping Thought Enjoyer. Multipolar world. Interests: Classical music, tennis
Melbourne, Victoria Katılım Ocak 2019
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DAILY CHENG-POSTING: Today, AIT Director Raymond F. Greene met with KMT Chair Cheng Li-wun at KMT Headquarters. During the meeting, Director Greene and Chair Cheng stated that cross-Strait differences should be resolved by peaceful means, free from coercion, in a manner acceptable to the people on both sides of the Strait.
Commentary by Dr. Albert Tzeng: « Her outspoken, daring style is sometimes described as having the "gene of DPP." She departed from the camp's conventional strategy of balancing between the US, Japan, and China. Instead, she has a stronger sense of agency and a clear sequence of steps. She chose to talk to Beijing first to alleviate the tension and then, according to her plan, she will try to persuade the United States of a peace and stability.
In her speech, we also noticed that she stepped outside of the KMT’s ideological tradition and demonstrated more understanding of those with left-wing perspectives. I think she created an opportunity to enhance and further the communication for both sides. »
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@wujia___ @JoshRainerGold Also small cell lung cancer and other neuroendocrine tumours
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@JoshRainerGold Not true lol. Everyday stress doesn’t cause true cushing’s syndrome or even its subclinical form. It occurs due to adrenal / pituitary pathology
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Basically everyone has subclinical Cushing’s Syndrome now
annie 👁❌🦋🪞@AnniePosting
so what is the explanation for this? cortisol? is he using an absurdly old photo?
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@rhematt @Mon4Kooyong It's a fake illness that's overdiagnosed
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@Mon4Kooyong Bullshit. It's under diagnosed and the medication is highly regulated and not manufactured enough.
Stop scapegoating the disabled and go after the NDIS providers and rehab centres committing fraud
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The number of adults being diagnosed with ADHD has risen six-fold since 2017, and it has increased by almost a third in the last year alone.
This is largely because of the rise of ADHD-specific telehealth clinics providing quick diagnoses, sometimes based on online questionnaires alone. Where those clinics are also dispensing medication, there are obvious concerns regarding clinical decision-making and commercial incentives.
We need better regulation of telehealth services—it's an under-regulated part of our health system.
Image: @abcnews
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@joequant ehhh Sanae Takaichi is an idiot who wanted to send warships to the Hormuz to help Trump but ended up getting shouted down by her Natsec advisor who worked for Abe.
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One other point is that the politician that Cheng more resembles is either Sanae Takachi or Meloni. It turns out that what people want is a hard core nationalist that makes flag waving cool.
New Bloom Magazine@newbloommag
"No, Cheng's Trip to China Does Not Break New Ground" by @brianhioe newbloommag.net/2026/04/09/che…
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I made a public complaint on Chinese Social Media (小红书) about how i hate how bad smoking is in public places in Xinjiang, literally every cafe or restaurant people smoke, yet in big cities they already have bans.
My post went really viral and the government have just made a new law banning smoking in indoor public places from May 1!! I received lots of messages from women today thanking me for it saying i was the one to change it🤣🤣
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And this is what consistency over 2+ years can get you.
Two years ago in April, a 9:30-10:00 pace put me at 150 heart rate (top of Z2).
Today, that same pace would put me at ~115 heart rate, and to get my heart rate to 150, I need to run at about 6:45 pace.
The first screenshot is from today on a fairly hilly trail run, where I was about 30 beats a minute lower heart rate at a bit faster pace.
In the second screenshot, you can see my pace versus heart rate from the run two years ago, where I still have pretty significant heart rate drift even with my pace slowing down.
The 3rd screenshot is from 2.5 years ago, right when I started running. As you can see, I had to steadily slow from ~9:30 to 10:30 pace to keep my HR under 150.
The 4th screenshot is a run from about two weeks ago, which shows that to hit 145-150 heart rate, I now need to run at about a 6:40-6:50 pace, nearly 4 mins faster than when I started.
And this post is not to brag.
It's to show you that consistency matters more than anything and to show how much you can improve, even on relatively low volume, as long as you are consistent.
Around the time of the run, 2 years ago, I was running 1-2 times and 5-10 miles a week and biking 1-2 hours a week, for 2-3 hours total.
In the 2 years since, I have (probably too) slowly ramped up my volume.
Most of last year I ran 15 to 20 miles a week and biked 3-5 hours per week, for 5-7 hours total.
For the past 6 months, I've averaged 20mpw and biked 4-6 hours a week, for 8-10 total hours.
I have yet to run more than 30 miles in a week, or run more than 4 days (usually 3) per week.
And 80%+ of my running and biking over the past 2 years has been below 75% of my max heart rate.
With at least 50% of that even being under 70% MHR.
In other words, EASY.
So even now, I don't do crazy high-volume training, at least nothing like a lot of guys you see on social media doing 15-20+ hours a week, but I've been very consistent.
I've had no serious injuries and haven't had to take more than a few unscheduled days off here and there.
The whole point of this post is this:
You probably don't need a new program, you probably don't need to work harder, you probably don't need much more volume (at least not for a while), and you almost certainly don’t need more intensity.
You probably just need more consistency.
And slowing down probably wouldn’t hurt either.
Alan Couzens@Alan_Couzens
If you don't have consistency, nothing else matters.
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@przidnt1 Strangers in Beijing praised my Chinese language skills--so good for a Vietnamese...
Errr....
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@birdrefuge4745 @teortaxesTex Actually Hatoyama was originally an LDP politician for many years. He was an LDP vice-minister for Okinawa at one point. His grandfather was Prime Minister and literally the founder of the LDP.
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@teortaxesTex Interestingly what both Hatoyama and Murayama had in common was that they were both outsiders not part of Japan's LDP party who were the rehabilitated order post imperial Japan. Hatoyama came from a party with explicit left leaning and Murayama was a social democrat.
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«Breaking the language barrier with Japan has made it abundantly clear that Americans aren't beholden to a Europe that constantly stabs us in the back.»
> meanwhile in Japan
G-d willing, Americans will realize they have no ironclad vassals, only nations that thought them friends
BLACK DUMPLING™@BlackDumpling
It's a truth Americans ignored. We told ourselves hatred from Europe wasn't anything special because everyone hated us. Because there was something about us that deserved it. Deserved contempt, vitriol. But no, truth is Europe hates us because there's something wrong with them. Breaking the language barrier with Japan has made it abundantly clear that Americans aren't beholden to a Europe that constantly stabs us in the back. Counts every single favor as some outsized gift that we should count our blessings to have, considers every debt to us as a matter of just what we owe them for being what we are. Consider every interaction you've had with a European, or even Canadian, where they've treated American-ness like it was some sort of disease, a malady, a "thing" that made you inferior. That you owed them some otherwise unspoken apology for. Don't act like you don't know what I'm talking about. You do. We've all encountered it, sometimes daily. None of it was true of course, but that didn't matter to them. Piggish Americans. Stupid Americans. Buffoonish Americans. For the longest time we've treated Europe like that angry friend who constantly says mean spirited cruel things, but really loves you in the end and will always have your back. When, no, Europe just hates us. Europe plays at being our friend because it needs us but then promptly knifes us in the back and twists it just to hear the sucking sound every chance they get. It's time to be honest with ourselves. It's not us, it's them, and they've been telling us how much they hate us for decades. It's time we believed them. It's time we acted accordingly. None of this applies to Poland. You're cool. Also we like Italy's Prime Minister. She's cool. Żadna z tych rzeczy nie dotyczy Polski. Polska jest spoko. Inoltre, ci piace la Prima Ministra dell’Italia. È cool.
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@gonglei89 @W_T_Han The Chosun Ilbo were literally Japanese collaborators during the occupation lol
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Homepage of Chosun Ilbo right now. Notice anything?
Lei Gong@gonglei89
Why not just renovate the whole architecture into some other style if you’re going to be this sinophobic.
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@HeywoodFloyd10 @AngelicaOung @dipperid The status quo can't continue forever when the power differential between the two sides increases with every year.
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@AngelicaOung @dipperid What part of "only 2.4% support unification" do you not understand? There is no reason that the status quo can't continue forever.
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Truly fighting for the 2%, revolutionary
hasanabi@hasanthehun
the us doesn’t want peaceful reunification. but they’re maybe too busy rn.
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@zhu_jingyang @gamertime58 I didn't have to translate this to feel the energy
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Soy embajador de China, no de EEUU.
Gracias.
Jean Le Noir@JeanLeNoir16
@zhu_jingyang Ante todo los negocio$$$$ no?, ilustre embajador?????
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Sun Zhongshan is like cute and earnest. Chiang pretty chad, Mao is zfg gigachad tier
William Han@W_T_Han
Sinologist Simon Leys pointed out that Chinese calligraphy is a unique art form w no equivalent in Western culture. Calling it "calligraphy" makes a "false analogy with a merely decorative craft." Handwritings of major figures come to be copied & even become standard fonts. Poor Huizong was a great artist but terrible ruler, so his style, beautiful as it is, didn't catch on. But Mao's style is ubiquitous in PRC, & Sun Yat-sen's style is still seen on many signs in Taiwan & in Chinatowns around the world. Examples of calligraphy by Emperor Kangxi, Sun Yat-sen. Chiang Kai-shek, and Mao
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Lol you’re right. I’m glad that I didn’t set myself up for this.
Andrew Wang@apigeonenjoyer
@Tianxiashunv (everyone will forgive her when she wins gold again in Milan and makes the yanks seethe)
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Team China wraps up the 2026 Olympics with 15 medals 5 gold, 4 silver and 6 bonze.
This is China's the best away winter Olympics so far, second only to the home Winter Olympic game in Beijing in 2022.
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@YNWYungWerther @moghilemear13 Yea well now they only number 10 million, 7 million of which live in China. I'd say that's total victory
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@moghilemear13 The mongols literally ruled China for a century after they were kicked out of Europe lol
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two out of three already crushed and the third one is mostly just pervert anime now
total sinic victory
Bronze Age Pervert@bronzeagemantis
Mongolian and Tibetan culture and also Japanese are fundamentally opposed and hostile to Sinic culture despite mutual borrowings. It’s not the narcissism of small differences or merely nationalist sentiment these are mutually exclusive character types and visions of life
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@SecondRingSZN @YanzhongHuang They should make more of an effort to incorporate southern culture
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@YanzhongHuang Show me when the rating for the gala has ever been high in the south
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This is nothing new and has been an ongoing joke for years. The gala is very northern, if you are from the south you can't even understand half of the skits in northern Mandarin dialects (used to be worse) nevermind understand very regional jokes.
Yanzhong Huang@YanzhongHuang
2026 provincial viewership of CCTV Spring Festival Gala (春晚), once the world's most-watched TV event, shows sharp divide: Northern provinces dominate — generally 70%+; South lags — Guangdong ~3–4%, Guangxi 0.9% (bottom), Hainan ~1%. Pattern (consistent for 15+ years): highest ratings in colder, more traditional, less developed northern regions. Lowest in warmer, open, prosperous coastal/southern provinces.
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@MadnessWatcher dumb panderer that bends whichever way the wind blows
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@GMomurder We don’t have funeral strippers I don’t get the joke
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Beyond this being stupid conservative nationalism, surely you have seen the incredible progress mainlanders have made in the field of funeral strippers (another example of 跨跃式发展)
Zhao DaShuai 东北进修🇨🇳 Commentary@zhao_dashuai
Taiwan's Chinese New Year gala vs mainland China's.
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2026 House of Representatives Speaker Election
🟩 (LDP) Eisuke Mori - 463 votes
🟦 (CRA) Keiichi Ishii - 1 vote
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