04/25/25 - On the internet, you can even see people accusing ants of being lazy.
“After my friend lost her job, she was worried her mom would nag at her for lying around all day not doing anything, so she spent 50RMB on Temu to buy a tent.
She originally planned to take it out to a park and lie around for 8 hours before going home, but one day, a father and son who were flying a kite asked if they could borrow her tent for a while to rest. The sun was so hot that they were getting dizzy.
So she was inspired and immediately spent another 100RMB on another two tents and started her tent-renting business. She charges 8RMB an hour.
And she rides to her location every day on her scooter, with her three tents, sets them up, and writes out the prices on her little blackboard.
And you gotta say, she makes money. She makes enough money off of the tents to cover her drinks and takeout for the day.
She said, “I’ve found freedom.”
And I agreed, “You’ve found freedom!”
Life finds a way.”
Comments say, “It’s the same price as a parking spot, but you park people in it.”
“8RMB an hour! That’s really cheap!”
“The park is gonna start charting her. Land is expensive and there’s no way they’ll let her make money for free. If you set up a stall in the plaza around me for 3 hours a night, they’ll charge you 10RMB.”
#Cat throws up after eating imported cat food and owner calls police. “A pet owner in Shenzhen bought a bag of a certain international cat food brand on an online shopping platform. But shortly after his cat ate it, it began retching and gagging. He immediately called the police. Shenzhen police investigated to find that the main culprit, Luo, and his accomplice had built a production line in 2023, and hired multiple workers to put cheap, wholesale cat food and expired cat food into knockoff packaging with a small amount of real brand name cat food, and put on official logos and sell them on online platforms as the “real deal”.”
Comments say, “People like this should go to jail. It’s poisoning. Whichever brand it is, you should sue them for violating copyright.”
“But which brand was it!? Which cat food?”
“Everything on Temu is fake. I could smell the difference as soon as I opened the bag. It’s over 10RMB cheaper than the real deal.”
A discussion on ants:
“Today I learned that over half the ants in an ant colony are just pretending to work and looking busy so they’re not assigned real work. This makes me respect ants more.”
“They are scouting routes with their life, and you’re saying they’re pretending to work? Is this what bosses are like?”
“From now on, every ant has to write a work summary every week, outlining what they did this week, what they could’ve done better, and how they can improve. How much food did they move? Did they save the receipts?”
“On the internet, you can even see people accusing ants of being lazy.”
“You only use a small area of toilet paper to actually clean your butt, but if all you had was that tiny scrap of paper, then you’re gonna have to think about the potential consequences.”
“Trying to educate people on Tiktok is like trying to teach in Africa.”
“Why are bosses so obsessed with people slacking off? Because he slacks off all day, so he thinks everyone else is slacking off too no matter what they’re actually doing.”
“In the second half of the video, it literally says, “These ants will analyse and find the best route of retreat when the other ants run into trouble, so they’re not really slacking off, they’re observing the environment. They’re like emergency response teams.””
“These are the busiest ants, because they’re doing a carpet sweep of unfamiliar territory. They just look like they’re running around aimlessly.”
“The commonality between worker ants, worker bees, and worker humans is that they work the hardest, make the least, and die the earliest.”
“I only step on ants not doing any work.”
“Worker bees and ants can only work. They don’t get to reproduce.”
“Why are they…smarter than me?”
“Oh my god, you’re just going to casually dismiss everything the ants are doing? You’re just like my boss. I work really hard on a project and he’s like, “You could’ve done that in an hour.””
“They work their ass off to make a map with pheromones, starve all day because they didn’t find any food, finally make it home and pull up Tiktok to find this shitty video. Imagine how they feel.”
“Ant colonies have not evolved to the point that they have ant welfare.”
“Normal work is trading your labour for pay. You’re only making a profit if you slack off at work.”
“All teamwork projects has members that don’t contribute anything since the start of time.”
“If even ants are slacking off, then people have to too!”
“You’re not an ant. You don’t know what the ants are doing.”
[A former lawyer who’s currently in prison was subjected to a humiliating strip search and cavity check, and his lawyer posted about this online to try to advocate for him.]
“I honestly don’t know how I’m supposed to maintain emotional stability when I’m stripped naked and have my ass pried apart. When I heard about what happened to lawyer Xie Yang, I was furious. I asked myself many times, do I have to keep putting up with this? How long do I have to deal with this? How long do I have to bear it?
It’s only been a few short years, but a lot of people already don’t remember Xie Yang anymore. Actually, we’re all the same. In a few years, all traces of our existence can be wiped away too. But when the currently jailed Xie Yang went to see his defense lawyer, everyone knows he was stripped down and cavity checked. That’s full on humiliation. Everyone knows it’s just humiliation. But they still publicly humiliated him.
All my lawyer friends out there, are you emotionally stable right now?”
Comments say, “I can only sigh…”
“I can only feel this world is real on Weibo. Your persistence makes people see a little shred of hope.”
“I can’t even imagine! What did he even do, to get searched like this? What’s the point of searching like this?”
A compilation of people sharing their family heirlooms:
“It’s about 200 years old. All natural-grown pearls.”
“I got you.”
“This is from the American Revolutionary War.”
“A jade ring from a hundred years ago. I want to get it refitted, but I don’t really trust anyone to do it.”
“Jade hairpin.”
“I don’t have anything from 50 years ago, but I have these from 100 years ago. My great-grandma gave these to my grandma as her dowry. They used to be landlords. I’m going to take good care of them.”
“My grandpa’s mom’s bracelet, at least 100 years old. I’m the only one allowed to wear it. I’m going to treasure this.”
A discussion on bank account balances:
“I thought I might have had maybe 1000 left in my account, so I deliberately guessed low and figured I had maybe 600. Then I checked my balance: 25.7RMB.”
“After checking the transactions: Oh ho, it really does add up.”
“I wanted to check my balance the other day, and guessed that I had maybe 900-1500. I had my boyfriend take a look for me and he said it started with a 9, and I was like, “Yes, I’m good!” Then I looked, and the balance was 92.5RMB.”
“I figured I only owed maybe 1000 on Huabei [a loan service as a part of Alipay] but it was well over 2000 hahahahahaha”
“What’s amazing is that if you never check your balance, all your transactions will go through no problem, giving you the illusion that you’re pretty rich. But if you give in and take a look, you’ll find you only have a couple bucks left.”
“It’s just like me trying to guess low for my grade, but it was even lower than I expected XD”
“It’s real. I saved up 50,000 and put it in the bank as emergency funds, and one day I opened up the account to take another look and I only had 2300 left.”
“When you think you only owe a couple hundred on Huabei, but what do you know?” [Screenshot owing 11,038.03RMB on Huabei.]
“50RMB got automatically deducted from my account this morning for Weibo and Xingtu [photo editing app] and I almost couldn’t afford lunch.”
“If someone dies and nobody knew about his savings at the bank, how does the bank deal with this money?
I work on the floor at a bank, and I have to tell you a regrettable fact: if a client passes away, no matter how much money he has at the bank, the bank won’t proactively contact his family.
A lot of people think that banks do this on purpose, so they can take the client’s money as their own.
If you think this way, you’re totally wrong. Banks don’t deliberately hide it from the family to take it for themselves.
First of all, when someone dies, no one informs the bank, so the bank can’t possibly know. A lot of customers who have accounts with the bank change their phone numbers frequently. It’s common for the bank to not be able to contact their own customers.
Secondly, if someone passes away and none of his family members show up to take his money, it still doesn’t belong to the bank. The money will just sit there in his account until one day, the client’s descendant comes with all the paperwork ready to withdraw the money.
But what if no one ever comes?
Then that money will just sit there forever, until one day, the bank goes under, and the money goes to the treasury and become the property of the state.
If you the family does know about his savings at the bank, can they easily withdraw that money?
The answer is also no.
In some circumstances, not only can you not withdraw this money, but you have to spend thousands in feeds.
How hard is it to withdraw money of a dead relative?
If it’s an ordinary savings account, then his family members are lucky! The process for withdrawal is very easy. You just need the bank card for the relevant account (or a ledger book) plus the PIN.
All you need is those two pieces of ID to withdraw savings. You don’t even need a National ID card.
If you have the National ID, no matter what the account, family members can withdraw the money in one go.
If you don’t have a National ID, and you’re withdrawing more than 50K, you’re restricted to only 50K a day in withdrawals, and you’ll have to come back multiple times to get the rest.
So what do you do if you don’t know the PIN or you don’t have the bank account card?”
Comments say, “I saved some money at the bank before 2000 and never touched it. Then later, I brought my ledger book and card to withdraw my money and got told that with no activity on my account for 5 years, they closed the account and the money is now the bank’s.”
“Hahahaha, a lot of banks don’t even give you a physical card anymore. It’s all in your phone. There’s no way for anyone but God and the Bank to know. Your family wouldn’t know.”
“They’ll rob living people of their money, but they won’t rob dead people?”
The blue pins (turquoise?) are quite nice.