05/14/23 - That is a nice pot. Bet you could make a lot of ribs in it.
“A lot of the promotions about cats and dogs lately have really blurred people’s idea of rabies. A lot of people even think that stray cats and dogs are cute, so therefore they must be healthy, and think that it’s no big deal to get bitten by them. They think that if the animal is psychologically stable when it bit you, they don’t have rabies.
Let me do a little PSA here.
Dogs and cats are the primary spreaders of rabies in China. Among them, strays are the most dangerous. You need to protect yourself before coming into contact with stray cats and dogs. Rabies has an incubation period in stray cats and dogs. During the incubation period, it has very low infectivity, but in the initial stages of rabies, symptoms aren’t obvious and the animal will behave like normal, but they’ll be highly infectious.
If you’re bitten or scratched by dogs and cats you don’t know, you need to get a rabies vaccine. If you have a particularly deep bite by a dog, you need the immunoglobin shot too. There’s usually five shots you need to get, or four. The four shot version is effective faster. You start getting immunity about a week after you get the vaccines, so you need to disinfect and clean the wound right away.
Normally, getting a round of rabies vaccines makes you immune for three months. The second time you get a round of vaccines, you’ll be immune for six months. And no matter how many times you get the shot from then on, the immune period is six months.
If you’re scratched by pet cats and dogs, see if they’ve gotten two or more shots of the rabies vaccines. If yes, you don’t need the immunoglobin shot. Of course, go with your doctor says just to be safe.
If the cat or dog that bite you isn’t dead in two weeks, they don’t have rabies.”
Comments say, “I got bitten in the hand back in middle school in the middle of my birthday party. I didn’t even get to have any cake before I got rushed off to the hospital to get shots. Thankfully, nothing happened, but we all need to stay alert.”
A doctor writes, “Let’s talk about a couple types of diseases with 100% fatality rate. Some will kill you faster than you can reach the ER!
Rabies. Don’t need to say too much about this one. Once you’re symptomatic, there’s nothing you can do, almost 100% fatality rate. Don’t count on luck if you’er bitten by your pet. The vaccine can 100% avoid rabies. Don’t wait until you’re symptomatic. You’ll regret it.
Tetanus. It’s a pretty rare disease nowadays, but back in ancient times, when umbilical cords are cut with scissors, good doctors will know to heat the scissors over fire first. But lazy ones will just pick up some dirty old scissors and cut it off, and 20-30% will die of tetanus. Even with modern medicine, once it’s symptomatic, there’s not much to be done.
Paraquat poisoning. Paraquat isn’t like other weedkillers. Even if you just dab a tiny bit on your tongue and immediately spit it out and rinse your mouth, 90% of the time, you’ll still die of pulmonary fibrosis. Lately, there’s been a few cases of survival with a lung transplant, but that’s hoping for godlike luck. Other than lung damage, it can cause kidney failure too. If both your lungs and kidneys fail to function, there’s not much hope for you.
Aortic dissection. There’s only 5L of blood in the whole human body, and at least 1L of it is going to be circulating in your aortic artery. There are several layers to the walls of the aorta, and the innermost layer can be very susceptible to cholesterol causing small tears. Add in high blood pressure, and it can cause those tears to widen and for blood to leak out. If the outer layer stays intact, there’s a chance for you to survive, but if the outer layer tears too, you’ll die in 10 seconds. You won’t even get to the ER.
Temporal Artery burst. This is something most people are unfamiliar with, but everyone knows the temples. There is a lot of moves targeting the temples in Chinese martial arts, and they’re all considered fatal blows. This is because of the temporal artery that runs beneath the skin there, right above the bone structure. Once you strike the area, it can cause the bones there to shatter, and cut open the artery. This will cause a bleed into the brain, which will cause a brain herniation and rapid death.”
A blogger posts screenshots of someone’s comments on tiktok, “I don’t understand. Isn’t marriage about cooperation? If the man has a car, then the girl should have a house. If they’re already married, they can save up for a car or a down payment together. Why does one side always have to pay for everything? Everyone is their parents’ little baby. Honestly, I asked for 70K in bride price, and this year, my boyfriend wanted a new car for 400K. I gave him 120K plus my bride price of 70K. He has a bit of money himself, now he’s got a car, and I’ve got a house, and we’re perfect for each other. My parents are super supportive of my views, and even my cousin says that I’m good at taking care of people.”
The blogger says, “Yeah, a happy family requires both parties to be giving and hard working, right?”
Comments say, “When we got married, he was super poor. He borrowed money for the down payment. My dad didn’t say anything and paid for all the furnishings and got a car and electronics. No bride price. No jewellery. Not even a red pocket from his mom of a couple hundred bucks. And then? His mom decided that I must be cheap and worthless because they didn’t have to spend any money on marrying me, and spent years treating me like shit.”
“If you did this and your boyfriend understands that you’re being nice, then bless you, you lucked out. But some times, people don’t think this is kindness. They think you’re desperate, you’re not worth it, their son is the best man in the world, and you’re happy to pay him to marry him. Don’t ask how I know.”
“Before we married, he promised that I don’t have to worry about a house or electronics or anything. My family came up with a dowry of a car. He said it was okay. After marriage, his parents took away all our household electronics because theirs were broken. He called my mom, and my mom had to get a whole new set. He never mentioned that his house still had a mortgage on it, and he was unemployed. I paid off the car and the house and all our daily bills. Last year, when I got locked down at work due to covid, he video-called me in front of all eight of my coworkers to accuse me of sleeping with people at work.”
In the discussion for HBO’s new Harry Potter Show, people are discussing how excited they are that Tom Felton is going on to play Lucius Malfoy.
Comments say, “I won’t watch it if they don’t get Shen Teng to play Snape.”
“They got the old actor for Flash to play Flash’s dad in the TV Show too, didn’t they?”
“Am I the only one worrying that if he bleaches his hair anymore, he won’t have any of it left?”
“He’s not as hot as the original actor for Lucius though.”
“Holy shit, if this is real, I’ll watch this show even if Harry is played by a black guy.”
A tiktok video of a Harry Potter-themed gender reveal party.
Comments say, “But there are like a dozen genders. How do they know which one is pink?”
“How do they know beforehand what the baby’s going to be?”
“That is a nice pot. Bet you could make a lot of ribs in it.”
“I’ve seen a lot of news lately about conflicts over crying children on long-distance transportation. The discussion is pretty much entirely one-sided in condemning these parents. It’s a type of political correctness to criticise the brats involved.
In what few childhood memories I have, I used to be a brat too. All my peers used to be brats. When people are smaller than three or four years old, their nervous system isn’t fully grown yet. They’re close to an entirely irrational little animal, and most of their behaviour is driven by instinct. You can’t talk reason to too small of a child. Preschool children is different from school age children. Or, rather, it is a lot harder to teach preschool children and requires a hell of a lot more patience.
But you have to put up with your own child’s fussing, because nobody else has that responsibility. That’s also an indisputable fact that’s very easy to understand. But in a country with high population density like China, everyone is going to be subject to being bothered by other people’s fussy kids. This is unavoidable. And people with kids are always going to have a need to go use public spaces and public transportation with their kids. You can’t say that people with kids don’t have a right to go outside.
Back in agricultural society, this wasn’t a problem, because you knew everyone in town, and there’s no need to frequently make long journeys. Everyone can put up with it. But as urbanisation continues, it becomes harder and harder to raise a child. And the biggest problem is that you don’t know your neighbours, and they feel no need to put up with your child.
Why are birth rates falling? Because society is increasingly less and less friendly to those who have children. Once you have a child, you’re rejected and hated by all of society. It’s not just in daily life, it’s in professional life too. And people are already tired enough at work. How can they spare time to pick up all the secret techniques to raising the perfect child?
But in modern society, the actual relationship between people is so tangled and inseparable. The kid you despise for crying in the same train car—when he grows up, he’ll be a salaryman exactly like you, making wages, paying social security. And by that time, you’ll be too old to work, supporting yourself on those brats’ social security. And as for those kids’ actual parents, they might not really get much out of having a child at all.
Basically, let’s get to communally raising children already.”
Comments say, “The important part is, if the kid is fussy, are the parents comforting them? If they’re doing their best, but the kid is still fussy, I can understand. But if you just letting a child scream and tantrum, then don’t blame others for getting mad at you.”
“The problem is still that you don’t need a license to be a parents. They don’t actually know what babies need or how to comfort them. And they make up excuses for their incompetence, like, “Oh, you’ll know once you have kids”. I don’t know how many people are actually mad at the brats themselves, or if they’re mad at the parents.”
“I’ve rode on the train lots, and I’ve seen conflicts arise because of kids half a dozen times. Never once has it been over a two or three year old toddler. People actually have a lot of tolerance for kids that small. The source of conflict is always six, seven year olds who are running all over the car, screaming and shrieking with laughter. And every time someone suggests the parents keep a handle on them, the parents jump up and start screaming back.
“Parents these days just aren’t as good. When I was little and got too loud, my parents just beat the shit out of me. Parents didn’t use to have much parenting experience, but they knew that if their kids are annoying, then they need to discipline them. Nowadays, parents think their kids are the centre of the world. “He’s just a baby!” “Why are you so mad about a baby!” They’re just pampering their kids with no principles. That’s why people’s tolerance for brats went down.”
A woman posted a tiktok video saying that her son bought her a big bag of flowers for Mother’s Day. She felt like it was super impractical, since it’ll all need to be throw out in a couple of days. So she made him go return it. Now he’s super upset and crying when he got home again. She films this while saying that, “If the receiver is happy and the gifter is happy, only then is it a true gift. If I need anything, I’ll tell you myself.”
Comments say, “You should praise and encourage your child, not beat him down.”
“I think his heart is in the right place. Unless you’re in severe poverty, don’t refuse to his face, and certainly don’t make him return it. You’ll hurt him. He’s almost an adult, you can accept his gift and tell him what you want him to do next time.”
“Poor child. Save your romance for people who appreciate it, not the mother who hurts you and then films your heartbreak for views online. She doesn’t deserve your consideration.”
A magazine puts out a poll asking if people are for concert tickets being tied to their IDs. Lately, a lot of concerts have been putting out notices that they’ll be giving free refunds on tickets that are cancelled within 12 or 24 hours. In their notices, they say that their concert has been tying people’s tickets to their IDs, and banning any form of gifting or transferring tickets. But because most audiences are participating in this system for the first time, they don’t understand the rules well enough.
Comments say, “Just copy the system for getting train tickets. You have to buy tickets with your ID, you can cancel before hand within a certain time period, or else you don’t get refunds. That way, we can avoid ticket scalpers.”
“There needs to be universal regulation on all the ticket selling platforms too, to prevent underhand sales.”
“Something had to be done about scalpers a long time ago, but there also needs to be preventative measures to make sure platforms don’t use people’s private info.”
“Buy tickets with your ID, gotta scan your ID to get in, along with facial recognition. Problem solved.”