03/25/25 - My boss is requiring everyone take out loans for the company to use.
China News Network writes that, “According to Russian News, on the 25th, all four suspects who were involved in the terroristic attack on the music hall has been arrested and charged. They have confessed to their crimes in interrogation and in court, and provided the details of their crimes, and made statements about who hired them and assisted them in preparing for this attack.
Comments say, “Looks like Russia’s kept up practice with its Memory Restoration Spell.”
“Now let’s see how Russia retaliates.”
“They’d probably admit to doing it on behalf of space aliens if they had to lol [doge]”
“Lately, this illegal immigrant’s gone viral in America. He’s from Venezuela and has 500,000 fans on his tiktok.
He’s kind of similar to the Expert Lecturer [Chinese influencer], they’re both young men, both illegal immigrants, look kind of similar, and mostly make content about how to make use of American loopholes to be a happy homeless person.
The difference is, Expert Lecturer shows you how to properly beg for food in America.
And this guy shows you how to properly rob food in America.
He’ll teach homeless people how to observe which houses aren’t being lived in, and then move in, because some states have laws that state if you’ve been living in a house for more than 30 days, you can’t be evicted easily. There’s some really complicated legal procedure you have to follow.
Even if the homeowner gets all the way through those complicated legal procedures and evicted these people, the government still has to find them a place to live.
It’s basically free rent.
This guy’s video’s made a huge splash, and America has been seeing a lot of cases of house squatting, and it’s drawn a lot of discussion.
Some homeowners get so mad that they change their locks before the legal procedures are done, and get arrested for it.
So it’s created a new industry: tenant remover.
The method is pretty simple too: an eye for an eye.
Your house got squatted?
Then a super buff guy will sign a rental contract with the homeowner, then take advantage of when the squatters briefly go out to run an errand to quickly move in.
When the squatters return, the guy will take out his rental contract and say he’s a legal tenant and he’s been living here for over 30 days.
And then this buff guy will just live with these people, and harass them all day long, and livestream them, until they have enough and move out.
Back in the day, when Expert Lecturer first started begging in America, a lot of people were saying he’s bringing shame to China.
You guys don’t understand America at all.
Expert Lecturer went to America, and go to specific charities to take donations and put up tents in legal tent areas all according to the rules.
In the eyes of Americans, this just reinforces the stereotype that Asians are “the good minorities”—look at those Asians—even their homeless people obey the law!
As for how this squatting wave is gonna go, let’s wait and see.”
Comments say, “I think Spain has similar laws. I’m kind of curious. If this stuff was legal in China, all of our ghost cities would be filled with people.”
“It’s ridiculous, but it’s so funny XD”
“Every country is ridiculous in its own way.”
“I feel like a low desire society like Japan is really good at curing anxiety. When I was staying in Japan, I feel like I could spend my life just looking at scenery, learning a language or two a year, and just work as a cashier in a supermarket for 1200 yen per hour. That’s enough for me to live on.
And just spend my life ordinarily, read some books when I’m free, take a job, ride my bike, it seems nice. People don’t need a lot of things to live.
But as soon as I get back to China, I feel like I’m a different person. I feel like it’s unbearable how normal people have almost no dignity, how much suffering there is. I feel like everyone looks down on me. Even if I have to put up with all matter of stress and hard work and sacrifice myself, I have to get to a point where I can live like a normal human being.
Apparently, Japanese people are the same. They’re very nice when they’re at home, but as soon as they get sent to South East Asia for work, they become super strict and cold. Their reason is that people over there can’t speak Japanese, so in order to manage them, they have to speak in a simplistic, straightforward, imperative way, and you can’t use the sort of subtle, suggestive Japanese you use at home.”
Comments say, “So why is Japan’s suicide rate so high then?”
“Low desire? You’re talking about the glamour of Gina? Or the salaryman playing pachinko machines in Akihabara? Or geisha hanging around with their boobs out to attract customers?”
“So why does Japan keep getting the desire to invade everyone around them then?”
“So Steam is running a discount lately, so I asked my boyfriend if there are any games he wanted. Then I offered to buy him Baldur’s Gate 3 as his White Day gift.
I registered my Steam account just to play girl games, and I hardly ever log onto it, and I wasn’t very familiar with how to go about buying games yet. I just bought it straight, and found that I’d actually bought it for my account and couldn’t gift it. So I opened up family sharing with him, so he could play it either way, figuring it wouldn’t be that big a deal. Then I told him I got him the game and he can play it whenever.
And he said to me, “You don’t think I know what you’re trying? If you don’t know how to buy a game, then just give me the money directly and I can buy it for myself.”
What am I trying? I honestly no idea what he thinks I’m trying. We’ve known each other for 4-5 years, and I honestly don’t know what he’s talking about, what kind of person I am in his eyes. I’m asking him what he means, and he’s refusing to reply to me.
Can anyone help me analyse? Is there a big difference in how I gifted him the game? Why is he acting like I’m scheming against him or something?
I’m honestly so hurt. We get along so well. We’ve almost never fought. And we’ve promised that if either of us had a problem, we’d sit down and talk it out. I don’t understand what he thinks I’m trying.”
Comments say, “Yeah, what he said was pretty hurtful, I think.”
“This guy is giving you the cold shoulder, totally. What the hell is up with his attitude? Why can’t he talk like a normal person?”
“Just split up. You can play Baldur’s Gate by yourself. It’s a pretty cool game.”
“Hot take from a commenter: A guy pays five-figures in bride price, and the whole of society feels bad for him. There’s headlines every day promoting low or no bride price. Even if you marry him and then get a divorce, you have to return his bride price to him based on how many years you were together. If the man didn’t take all the advantage, then he lost out. If women didn’t lose everything, then she’s taking advantage.
Cool fact: That bride price is just enough to hire a maid for a single year, but they feel entitled to having you serve them for free for the rest of your life.”
Comments say, “Food made with the suffering of other people is particularly delicious. Anyone who’s tasted it never wants to give what they plundered back. They feel cheated just having to pull off some of the crust to share. Of course they feel taken advantage of.”
“And they want their free maid to be their free whore too.”
“You can see how civilised a society is by how they treat their women. Most of our societal resources are leaning towards men. If they can’t control women through money, then they’ll put even more effort into propaganda and brainwashing.”
“If you had 10 RMB, what would you buy?
Your parents become younger by 10 years (2 RMB)
5 million RMB in savings (6 RMB)
All the skins in Kings of Honour (1 RMB)
Get into the school of your choice (3 RMB)
A house in Beijing (4 RMB)
Get together with your crush (1 RMB)”
Comments say, “Can I buy 1 five times?”
“1, 2, and 6 twice.”
“Surely, a house in Beijing is worth more than 5 million?”
“What a crazy world we live in! My boss is requiring everyone take out loans for the company to use, and then work for him to pay back our loan payments. I literally don’t understand.”
OP attaches screenshots of the text from their boss: “Next Monday, we’ll be having a representative from the bank stop by to process everyone’s loan applications. The interest rate is about 3.15%-5%. Let’s get a list of everyone participating. Once you borrow the money, you can lend it to the company, and get 14% a year in returns. The company will pay back interest every month. You need to provide a receipt to the amount of the interest—you can make the receipts food receipts, mail receipts, shopping receipts, anything legal goes.” [That is, help forge documents to make it look like instead of paying you interest for your loan, the company is paying you money every month to buy food/packages/whatever from you.]
Comments say, “Is this not literally a scam. It’s a scam where you also work for the scammer.”
“That way, even if the company goes into bankruptcy proceedings, you’ve still lost all your money. You can’t get a single cent of it back.”
“RUN. RUN RIGHT NOW, OKAY? GET IN A CAR AND START DRIVING! If your company needs employees to loan money to keep operating, what the hell are you waiting for!? If you’re just into gambling, you should just throw your money into the stock market!”
“I secretly took the money that was in my boyfriend’s red pocket. We just got back together, and hang our occasionally on the weekends, clean his place up a bit, cook some food. He had a red pocket in his bedside drawer that I saw last time, and I opened it up and saw there was 120 RMB inside. After I was done cleaning, I put it back. When I came over this time, I saw it was still there, so I wondered if he’d forgotten about it, so I took it to buy a pot to cook with. Then later on, he said he wasn’t coming home to eat, so I didn’t buy the pot, and just shopped for myself while I was out. But then I just ended up paying for stuff out of my wechat account anyways, since nobody takes cash these days.
I didn’t tell him I took his red pocket money, since I figured we knew each other for so long, that this amount of money isn’t a big deal. It’s not like I don’t buy him gifts often, but….”
OP attaches screenshots of texts with her boyfriend.
OP: “Remember to hang your clothes up to dry. And there’s watermelon in your fridge.”
Boyfriend: “K. You took the money in my bedside drawer?”
OP: “Yeah, I bought some snacks :D”
Boyfriend: “Wow.”
OP: “I was gonna buy a pot, but you said you weren’t coming home to eat, so I didn’t. Sorry, I didn’t mean to. I should’ve put it back if I wasn’t gonna buy a pot. I just forgot.”
Boyfriend: “Why would you take my money?”
OP: “[Sends 120 RMB]”
Boyfriend: “Just tell me you need money and I’d give it to you. [Refuses to accept 120 RMB] It’s not a matter of how much money. That red pocket is sentimental to me, okay?”
OP: “Don’t worry, I’ve still got the money. I can return it to you exactly like how it was.”
Boyfriend: “Never mind. You’ve taken it already. Just don’t touch my stuff without permission.”
Comments say, “You can’t touch other people’s stuff without permission even if you’re dating them, okay? <3”
“Before my grandpa passed away, he’d fall into unconsciousness for a bit and gain lucidity for a bit. He couldn’t speak anymore. I was hanging out with him 4-5 days before he died, and he fished under his pillow and took out three 100 RMB bills, and gestured at me with three fingers. And I understood that it was for me and my two sisters. I knew that my mom had given him that cash, but what does that matter? I would never touch that bill for the rest of my life. Maybe this has nothing to do with OP’s post, but that’s what it reminded me of.”
“My dad split up the cash my mom had on her when she passed away between my brother and I. At the time, I was 11 years old and my brother was 7. We’ve held onto that money for well over a decade now. It’s not a matter of money. This is a token of memory for us. No matter how close to someone you are, you can’t take stuff without asking, or it’s stealing.”
“After the old lady on the 16th floor passed away, the elevator’s become really empty.
It’s been a week now, and everyone still feels weirded out by the elevator. Even the old man upstairs has changed his habits and is relying on takeout now.
I live in a really densely populated development, and get to my unit and back every day using the elevator. Last Friday, an old lady on the 16th floor passed away, and her family posted a notice in the elevator asking the other residents to avoid the elevator the next day, when they’d be using to transport her body downstairs. They’ve sprayed and cleaned the whole elevator over with disinfectant. But aside from the old lady’s family and takeout delivery drivers, no one else has used the elevator since.”
Comments say, “I don’t get it. Both living and dying is just a normal part of being human. I would never be bothered by stuff like this. I don’t think that kind of stuff has any power over us.”
“But if you’re relying on takeout, doesn’t the takeout have to ride on the elevator up to you anyways? If you really think it’s unlucky, then just don’t eat, you loon.”
“Why are you such a wuss? If someone in your family died, are you gonna toss them out the window, or carry them all the way down the staircase?”
A tiktok video of the newest ramen flavour by Bai Xiang [White Elephant]. OP’s family has eaten it for three days straight and hasn’t gotten sick of it. It’s cilantro noodles in spicy beef broth with extra cilantro on top.
CCTV News reports that the former Chinese Field and Track Chairman is being sentenced for his corruption case today. Defendant Yu Hongchen is being sentenced to 13 years for accepting bribes, with a fine of 2 million RMB, as well as confiscation of all illegal earnings.
The court has found that from 2010 to 2023, defendant Yu Hongchen has worked as deputy director of the State Ministry of Sports, Football Department; Chairmain of the Chinese Super League, vice chairman of the Chinese Footbal Association, secretary of the party committee, and Chinese Field and Track Chairman. He has used his position, power, and status to create favourable situations for himself both in running his company, participating in competition, and getting job promotions. He has received illegal bribes totalling 22.54 million RMB, of which he has yet to obtain 3.5 million.
Huangshi City’s Mid-Level Court believes that due to the large amounts involved, and the frequency of obtaining inappropriate profits in multiple football clubs, competitions, referee penalties, transferring of athletes, etc, he has severely impacted the fairness of football, causing severe damage to the football environment in China. He qualifies for many criteria for harsh sentencing. But at the same time, due to him not yet receiving 3.5 million RMB in bribes, admitting freely to his crimes, volunteering large amounts of information on other corruption cases to the police, and a sincere attitude of remorse, we should sentence him lightly in accordance with the law.”
Comments say, “20 million in 13 years…”
“”No wonder he told Taishan [Football club in Shandong], “If you can’t afford to play, then drop out of the game.” Guess everyone was giving him gifts.”
“I was really hoping for a life sentence.”