05/18/23 - Now I can work while taking care of my baby!
Jiupai News does a short summary of Wu Xieyu’s matricide case, which is in appeals court currently. In the beginning of 2015, Wu Xieyu first thought about murdering his mother Xie Tianqin, and bought relevant tools online. In July of 2015, Wu Xieyu took advantage of when his mother was changing shoes as she arrived home to strike her in the head repeatedly with a dumbbell, killing her. He placed the body on top of bedsheets and 75 layers of plastic wrap, activated carbon packs, and fridge deodoriser. 31st of July 2015, Wu Xieyu left Fuzhou. August 2015, while on the run, Wu Xieyu imitated his mother’s handwriting to forge a resignation letter and mail it to the school his mother worked at. Between July 2015 and December 2015, Wu Xieyu created the illusion of Xie Tianqin having went to America with him to accompany him for his studies, even scamming 1.44 million RMB out of relatives and friends under the guise of needing living expenses, tuition, and proof of finances. On the 14th of February 2016, police find Xie Tianqin’s body in the dorms of the middle school she worked at, and decided on her 22 year old son as the primary suspect. Police place a 10K bounty on him. 20th of April, 2019, Wu Xieyu is arrested at Chongqing Jiangbei Airport. 2021, Wu Xieyu is sentenced to death for the crime of premeditated murder using especially cruel methods. After this sentencing, Wu Xieyu appealed.
Comments say, “Oh, I thought he’d been shot a long time ago.”
“How can there be no results yet when he was arrested all the way back in 2019?”
“I don’t know why, but I totally understand him.”
“This type of murderer is actually the safest kind for society, because he’s only ever wanted to kill one person, the person who’d hurt him growing up. He never wanted to hurt anyone else.”
Someone posts, “Mice in the north are so freaking cute, I really want to keep one. But no one seems to be selling them?” They append a photo, as well as other people’s photos of the mice they’ve caught in the north.
Comments say, “Mice in the south are so beefy, I’m afraid to even look at them, for fear that they’ll jump up, grab me by the collar, and demand if I’m asking for a fight.”
“Why are northern mice so round? Our mice are long and bigger than the average cat.”
“This is about the size of our cockroaches.”
Another blogger posts a cute tiktok video where a mouse is stuck across a gutter, unable to reach his home, because the gutter was starting to flood.
Comments say, “I knew a guy who never killed rats, saying that all they want is just a little bit of left over food. That’s not a crime worthy of death. He’s a true living buddha.”
“Why the fuck is there so much promotion of one of the Four Great Vermins? The hell are people after?”
“Rat lives are lives too. As for Four Great Vermin, humans are the biggest vermins on Earth. The only reason we want rats dead is just because they happen to harm our profits.”
An adorable tiktok video of a toddler performing a perfect omelette flip.
Comments joke, “Hahahaha resume: 25 years old, been flipping food 23 years.”
Askreddit question, “If low pay makes young people unmotivated, why not make wages higher?”
The top voted reply is, “You haven’t noticed? The whole country, all of society, is switching the focus of the argument. Everyone is telling you that young people are unmotivated not because wages are low, but because they are just like that. They have no ambition. They have no sense of responsibility.
And then they start lecturing you on how important hard work is, how you need to sacrifice yourself. But no one ever brings up that employees and employers have an equal relationship. Everyone’s maintaining an illusion that this is just like landlords and serfs. When your landlord gives you a bowl of food, why are you hurrying to fall over yourself with gratitude? What’s with all this attitude?”
Comments say, “Lack of motivation isn’t because wages are low. It’s that people aren’t skilled or competent enough to apply for high wages jobs, but feel like they’re too good for low wage jobs.”
“I don’t know about huge companies, but I’ve ran small businesses. Don’t feel like it’s easy to be the boss of a small business. There’s a lot of people in China. There’s not just a lot of employees, there’s a lot of employers. There’s way too much competition. Just the wages for my workers alone for the first year was several hundred thousands. I only had 30K left over after my first year. That’s way less that what I would’ve made working a normal job. The next year, I was forced to fire the truck driver and a machine operator and just do both jobs myself.”
“Let’s just all forego marriage and babies and live as simply as possible, get through this obstacle, and we’ll all get the future we want.”
A blogger writes, “Really? Daily disposable contact lenses are the worst kind? Are there any professionals who know anything about this? I kept buying daily disposable lenses because I heard they were the best!”
She posts a screenshot of someone saying, “I’m majoring in optometry, and our professor said that daily disposable lenses are always going to be worse than year-long lenses. It’s the same idea as single-use chopsticks. It’s gonna be low in quality. I have no idea why disposable lenses are so expensive these days. Our professor suggested getting yearly lenses or 6-month lenses and throw them away after 2-3 months.”
Comments say, “What a bunch of horseshit. What’s important to contact lenses is oxygen permeation. Disposable lenses have higher oxygen permeation rates than monthly lenses or yearly lenses. That’s why they’re expensive. There’s no such thing as disposable lenses being lower in quality. If that was the case, there’s no reason they’d be more expensive. Especially when you consider how monthly and yearly lenses have more of a tendency to pick up bacteria, and you have to pay more attention when using them.”
“Well, yeah, why would people put effort into making something that’s only gonna be used once?”
“I mean, just think about why you have to throw those lenses away every day.”
Tiktok video of a sippy cup shaped like a wine glass.
Comments joke, “I’m glad she’s got a tummy too, and I’m not the only one with a fat tummy.”
“Post the link! I need to buy it for my daughter right away!”
“Why the hell is she just lounging around? Send her to preschool.”
“Why the hell is she just lounging around? Remind her how long she’s got until college entrance exams.”
A video of “How 90’s young people are raising babies” saying, “After a year of having a baby, I’ve completely given up on “scientific childrearing”. Letting them feed to sleep is bad? Rocking them to sleep is bad? It’s all good so long as they sleep. Once they’re older, they’ll learn how to go to sleep on their own naturally. If they don’t want rice paste, that’s okay. When they’re hungry, they’ll eat on their own. They’re just little, not stupid. There’s no need to get all fancy with making baby food, carving it into cute shapes or baking bread animals. My baby is perfectly happy eating store bought baby food. There’s no need to stress about childhood education or developing their left or right brains. Let them play however they want. High quality mommy time is more important than any education. If grandparents want to take the baby, let them, perfect for date nights with the husband. And I used to be very stressed about breastfeeding. Everyone says how great breast milk is, but it’s so hard for all the mommies with not enough milk. I’ve tried everything when it comes to producing more. It was my husband who talked it through with me, that breastfeeding is just a personal choice, it’s not a shackle. Sure, it’s important the child grows up healthy, but it’s just as important that the mother is happy. Nobody has the perfect childhood. Growth happens because of imperfections. Every child has their own rhythm, every mother is doing just fine. Everyone, relax, and learn more from your useless husbands.”
Comments say, “Hahahaha, this is exactly me.”
“I also feel like there’s no need to stress over how you raise your child, just be a normal human being about it.”
“90’s kids slowly returning to free-ranging their children. It’s not bad. There’s no need to exhaust yourself.”
“You’ll find out how big of a height difference there is between kids that have been fed whatever, and kids who were fed nutritionally balanced, planned out meals.”
“How do I refuse my coworker bringing me food every morning? I live in the same area as a coworker of mine. We are about a 30 minute commute away from work. If you take public transportation, it takes about 50 minutes if there’s no traffic jam. Every morning, I let her ride with me to work, and take her home in the evenings after work. And then, she started bringing food for me. She’ll make all kinds of juice in the morning, like corn juice, red bean paste, soy milk, pumpkin porridge. She sometimes uses a thermos glass, sometimes uses a mason jar, and she reassures me she uses a new jar every time. Sometimes, she’ll make pancakes in the morning the size of my entire face. Also, bread twists and duck eggs and corn and noodles. (Her duck eggs are actually super tasty.) She’ll bring me fruit too, like oranges, or super huge mangos. The kind I can’t even finish in one sitting. Plus, we sit really close at work, so she’ll bring me all kinds of snacks throughout the day. I told her lots of times that she doesn’t need to, I have to drive in the same direction either way, and I charge my electric car at work for free, but she still insists on bringing me food. Sometimes, even when I’m busy and I can’t let her ride with me (like when I’m heading somewhere else), she’ll still bring me food and leave it at my work desk. Every day, it’s like this, and I’m starting to feel guilty about it, because it really is just trivial for me to drive her home. But she won’t listen when I tell her not to. Of course, I sometimes buy boba tea for her, and sometimes I’ll bring her food, but it’s not nearly as much as she brings me food.”
Comments say, “You’re excellent. You deserve her love. She’s a great person too, who can actually cook breakfast every day. It’s true that great people end up friends with each other.”
“Just accept it, or else she’ll feel like she owes you. My coworkers used to drive me home a lot, and I’d bring her snacks too, or else it feels like I’m just taking advantage of her.”
“But this is a great cycle. You drive her home, she knows to show gratitude by bringing you food, you won’t feel like it’s annoying to drive her as time goes on, and she feels better accepting free rides from you.”
A blogger writes, “In a world where pregnancy is a total end to your career, I never thought there are angelic bosses like this!” She posts screenshots of someone’s post, saying, “I went to ask for time off and told my boss it was for childcare reasons, and he told me, “Just bring your baby to work. If stuff comes up and you can’t find a sitter, it’s okay to occasionally bring your baby to work.” I can’t believe how lucky I am to meet a boss like this. Luckily, one of my coworkers is travelling for work, so I use her fold up bed for my baby. Now I can work while taking care of my baby!”
There’s a follow up post saying, “Wow, the last post went viral. All the commenters are praising my angelic boss, and he saw it, and now he’s super proud of himself and showing off to the whole office. Today, he had me bring my baby in again, and personally brought over an office chair for the baby to sit in. He even said outright today, “If you need to, feel free to bring your kid to work, just make sure it doesn’t affect your productivity.” Working moms have it hard. I hope everyone else can meet a great boss like this.”
Comments say, “It’s impossible for it to not affect your productivity though, cause you have to change diapers every 2-3 hours, and prepare baby food, or breastfeed, and if he cries, you have to comfort him…”
“I worked at an internet company before, and HR was going around investigating which female employees had a risk of becoming pregnant. I hear they’re going under this year.”
“God, women have it hard.”