05/23/24 -

“There’s a reason behind every regulation at the hospital. Sharing a story I heard from a nurse while I was hospitalised: As I was getting processed to leave, the nurse told me to take the bracelets off my baby’s hands and feet and put it at the nurse’s station. Since this was my second baby, and this wasn’t something I had to do with my first, I asked the nurse if I could keep them. The nurse told me, “I’m just reminding you that you can take it off. We’ve had a dad call in after over a month, asking if he could get a bigger bracelet for his baby since it was getting too small…””

Comments say, “If you think a rule is ridiculous, that means something even more ridiculous must’ve happened.”

“There’s free toilet paper in the bathrooms in our hospital, but you have to go get it from the nurse’s station. I asked if that wasn’t a hassle, since they were busy enough already. Was it because people would take too much? The nurse said that it’d be one thing if people were just stealing toilet paper, but they had a case where the last person who used it left some peppermint oil residue on the paper, and the next guy to use it had haemorrhoids and ended up in the ER as a result.”

“Had my babies at the same Women and Children’s Hospital, and when I went to get medicine for my second baby, the doctor needed to stamp my prescription with a stamp that said “already filled”. That wasn’t a thing with my first baby…”

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“Tan Zhu acted very “maturely” in this whole case (I don’t want to use any derogatory words towards anyone in a public event, so I’m choosing the word “mature”). The fact that she’s 28-years-old is a big of an advantage. But there’s quite a lot to learn from the choices she made in this event:

While public discourse was raising up a storm, she only made a small attempt before choosing to withdraw. Even if someone exposed her personal information, there’s only so much that her true actual information could be dug up. Most of the information that was circulating was fake and made up. From the point of view of protecting personal privacy, she was successful. She didn’t choose to fight anyone over the internet, but instead reported the case to the police before Fat Cat’s sister could. This was a very smart choice.

The police report she made was for “invasion of privacy”, not “slander” or “defamation” or whatever. This was a very professional choice, because “privacy” is the easiest to define out of all the ways someone could infringe upon your rights. So long as your personal information or your chat records were exposed, that’s an invasion of your privacy. And it’s explicitly written in “Public Safety Management and Punishment Laws” as something the police are responsible for. Compared to “slander” or “defamation”, “invasion of privacy” is much more objective and supported by the law, making it harder for the police to avoid dealing with it. Choosing the charge that’s the easiest to evaluate and legally must be punished is very professional.

She didn’t fight too much on returning the money. Returning the money is a civil affair. The police can’t do much about it except mediate the conflict. But in this situation, she still didn’t fight it too hard. If she’d refused to return the money, and this civil dispute went to court, based on the facts the police have reported on, even if she didn’t cause Fat Cat’s death in any legal sense, the court might still sentence her to pay Fat Cat’s parents reimbursements out of a sense of “fairness” or to balance the two party’s losses and profits. Key note here, it’s a reimbursement not damages. Damages are what you pay when you’re at fault. Reimbursements are what you pay when you’re not at fault at all, and they’re just ruling this way out of fairness. Reimbursements are to make up for someone’s losses. Although the amount wouldn’t be too high, it might still get up to 200K. She returned the money and got rid of the last risk in her case.

At this point, the case is in her hands. Society will make its judgement on Tan Zhu and Fat Cat’s relationship, but the way she’s dealt with this whole case has a lot for us to learn from. Compared to Fat Cat’s impulsive and childish suicide out of love, it makes her look even more mature.

After thoughts: We shouldn’t learn from her. Our simple societal values have always taught us that it’s not appropriate to receive large gifts from someone you’re dating, and when you break up, you should return everything so you don’t owe each other. But she is very excellent at dealing with public opinion, and she’s been very successful.”

Comments say, “While Fat Cat and Tan Zhu were dating, her family got into at least a million RMB of debt. In 2021, 2022, her and his family were all sued, and she paid 270K towards those debts. Most likely, it was with Fat Cat’s money. But even by the end of 2022, there was still overdue balances of 840K. So why do you think Fat Cat gave Tan Zhu money? Why would he add a note that it was a voluntary gift? Why did he live frugally and only eat cheap takeout?”

“People are calling her a gold digger, but she’s been giving him money too. Do men just love taking advantage of people and never putting anything in?”

“Don’t overestimate her. She might’ve just been scared of being arrested for fraud, and she got intimidated into returning the money by Fat Cat’s dad, who probably claimed he was going to the cops. It might just be that simple. Might not be any strategy at all.”

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“Saw someone on the front pages going through Fat Cat and his girlfriend’s expenses, as though so long as he gave her more money, then they can keep cyberbullying this girl. Who told you that’s how it works?

Why did the police announce that Fat Cat’s sister was being dishonest? Because she was hiding the facts and even making up complete bullshit.

Fat Cat’s sister told everyone that Fat Cat was meeting an internet date. Even if he went to Chongqing later, they’d only met up a couple of times. She never mentioned that these two had met each other’s parents, and the girl openly acknowledged their relationship, and they were absolutely dating in reality.

Fat Cat’s sister says that the girl was always taking Fat Cat’s money, but hid the fact that she was also giving him money. She even gave Fat Cat’s sister 30K. What kind of conman gives you money back? Fat Cat even made more withdrawals out of their joint account. However you look at it, it seems like the sort of financial entanglement that happens in any normal dating relationship.

This is probably why the police couldn’t rule this case as fraud.

I know a lot of people keep emphasising that Fat Cat did put a lot of money in, but did he complain about it? Honestly, even Fat Cat’s sister can’t provide a single shred of proof that Fat Cat actually lost hope in the world because his girlfriend wanted too much money, right?

Before Fat Cat died, he transferred 10K to his younger sister, 60K to his girlfriend, and not a single cent to his dad or his older sister [the one who’s active in all of this]. There’s surely a reason behind that.

And before Fat Cat died, he texted, “Let’s break up.” Not, “Please don’t leave me.”

That is to say, he’s ending his relationships, not trying to preserve anything.

As for the amount, it was whatever he wanted to give. He didn’t complain. What’s it got to do with you bastards? Careful he comes knocking on your door at night.”

Comments say, “Fat Cat’s sister loaned that 30K frmo Fat Cat, Tan Zhu was just the person to make the transfer, and she paid it back in 2 months. Fat Cat gave all his money to Tan Zhu, and Tan Zhu just gave him some spare change back, and you call that proof she’s not a conman? Forget everything else, even when Fat Cat died, he still gave her 400K more than she ever gave him. You call that an equal relationship? If I give you 10 bucks, and you return me 2 bucks, are we even? And as for the money pulled out of their mutual account, there’s no proof Fat Cat spent any of it, instead of giving it back to Tan Zhu.”

“Based on all the facts we have, Tan Zhu is definitely a gold digger, and she was probably the reason Fat Cat committed suicide too. This is what we should be focusing on. Everything else is just dressing. We need more investigation, to give everyone a clear look at the situation. First of all, how were their finances divided? What were their incomes? Was there any fraud or PUA behaviour? Next, we need to look into how Fat Cat died. What caused it? As for his sister or family, nobody really cares.”

“Sure, sure, sure, let’s hope you find a husband who saves up all his money and just spends yours.”

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A Nanjing auntie has went viral lately for making “handmade coffee” for 10 RMB a cup from her stall. The uploader interviews the auntie while she waits, and finds out that the auntie works from 8AM to 10PM, and has been selling coffee here for over 20 years, and she’s always used Nestle. With the newfound fame, she’s selling 400-500 cups of coffee a day. The uploader had to stand in line for 40 minutes for her turn. The coffees are a mix of boiled water and cold water so it’s not too hot, but you’re not allowed to request any ice.

Comments say, “See? All the people fleecing you never look like villains. People are literally fighting for the chance to get their turn.”

“How trashy. What ever-present cheap sentimentality and self revelry.”

“Do young people not work these days or what? I feel like there are way more people at cinemas on weekdays than weekends.”

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“A single iron chain in China, and weibo acts like the whole country is ending. Nobody died as a result of “contaminated formula”, but we act like the sky’s fallen. Meanwhile, in England, “American contaminated blood” caused 30,000 people to get sick, 3000 people to die, and they hid it for 30 years. Nobody cares. Nobody’s discussing. Everything’s normal.”

OP shows a screenshot from a video, where the captions say, “Imported blood products from America cause 30,000 people to become infected with AIDS. British prime minister publicly apologises for the contaminated blood scandal.”

And also a Zhihu post of someone’s take on this event: “This thing only got exposed because they couldn’t keep it hidden anymore. A couple of details.

First, the British government always knew that the blood from America was problematic, but British healthcare spent 31 years faking records to cover up the scandal.

Second, this contaminated blood comes from America prisons and rehab centres, and all kinds of demographics you can never imagine. The very source of the blood was incredibly risky.

Third, America is the biggest supplier of paid blood products in the world. America supplies over 94% of paid blood products. This thing is going to affect most countries in the world.

Fourth, France, Italy, Japan, etc are all victims, but none of these countries have responded to this event yet. Everyone’s still trying to sweep it under the rug.

Since the British healthcare system has been altering records to cover this up for 31 years, t he actual number of people who were infected or died from contaminated American blood is probably far over what the British government is admitting to.

And this event has exposed that there is a very mature industry in the west for selling human blood. And the first link in that industry is American private prisons and drug rehab centres.

You gotta know, that America has tons of prisons and rehab centres, and they’re all private, for-profit institutions. America is also has the highest incarcerated population ratio in the world.

A couple of years ago, it was exposed that American courts, police, and prisons would work together to send minors to jail in order to con the government out of funding. And everyone knows about the gang and drugs problems inside American prisons.

And now, it seems that American prisons are the source of underground human blood sales in the west.

And at the same time, American healthcare institutions have become an important member and protection for this industry. And Britain is just the wholesaler and retailer in this production line. And throughout the whole chain of production, the government and hospitals are actively involved in altering records. If this happened in China, weibo would blow up.

Tens of thousands of people must be involved in this industry. The number of victims has already broken 5 figures, and it’s tied to so many countries, but they still managed to keep it covered up for decades. It looks like we’ve still underestimated western countries’ ability to fake news, control public discourse, and cover up the truth.

No wonder every time the west tries to slander China, they come up with such ridiculous bullshit. It’s all stuff they’re doing themselves!

It’s true that humans can’t imagine what they haven’t experienced.

Every time we find western conspiracies too ridiculous, they’ll prove with actual facts that we’re still too naive. Their moral limits are beyond our imagination.

All kinds of events have been exposed in the west lately, from contaminated blood, to Epstein Island, to Antisemitism laws, to the truth behind the Hawaii fires, to toxic fluids being leaked in Ohio…All kinds of national leaders are getting assassinated one after the other. Whistle blowers from Boeing keep dying like flies.

All of these events expose the west’s fakeness and cruelty. They lie and cheap and control public discourse and use their spies to create fear to maintain their own rule.

We can say with every confidence that western civilisation has no basis of trust at all. Any one attempting to whitewash them are ignoring the truth and are highly suspicious.

It’s not about whether we believe them or not. It’s that the west has no bottom line.”

Comments say, “What business is it of yours?”

“I don’t see anyone claiming the country is ending. We just shoved it into a corner. If this happened in China, just you watch and see.”

“Why are you whitewashing contaminated formula?”

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“The news might lie, but the front lines won’t.”

OP attaches screenshots of two pieces of news. The first is, “This year’s 20th of May [“520” sounds like “I love you” in Chinese and is considered China’s Valentine’s Day.], 14,771 couples got married in Sichuan, a 13.4% increase from last year!”

The second is a post from the 22nd of May, 2023, reading, “According to Sichuan’s Civil Affairs Office, less than 17,000 people got married on the 20th of May. Back in 2022, we had 25,000 marriages on the same date. Aside from Sichuan, Guizhou, Guangdong, and Jiangsu are all seeing declining marriage numbers.”

The caption beneath this post clarifies that a little over 16,000 couples got married in 2023.

Comments say, “They’re just using Chen Ping’s comparative method. 14,000 in 2024 is bigger than 16,000 in 2023. Anything wrong with that?”

“The year before last year, 25K couples got married. Last year, 16K couples got married. That’s a 9K decrease, or -36% growth. This year, 14.7K couples got married, a 1.3K decrease, or a -8% growth. (-8%) - (-36%) = 24% growth. I majored in statistics.”

“17,000 x (1-13.4%) = 14705. The numbers check out, they just wiped out the negative symbol.”

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“Why do all babies look the same?

I saw this set of photos, and I thought they were photos from when my daughter was first born. I actually dug out her newborn photos just to compare, and she looks exactly like all these babies! Every single one of them! I showed this to my husband and asked him, “Wasn’t our daughter cute when she was first born?” And he was like, “Yes!” And I was like, “Lol, these are other people’s babies.” And he was like, “Wow. Why do they all look like our daughter?”

Any of these look like your baby?”