The 10 year old murdered boy’s coroner’s report is out—he has multiple broken ribs, probably caused by being stomped on by somebody. Multiple teeth had been knocked out, and his ear drums were bleeding due to strikes as well. After he was murdered, his body was wrapped in plastic bags, tied up in tape, and buried in a graveyard. It is now significantly decomposed due to the hot weather.
Comments are calling for the suspects to get the death sentence now.
A horoscope blogger writes, “Why do so many firstborns throw tantrums about parents having a second child? Even to the point of threatening to harm themselves or their brothers and sisters? Why didn’t this used to happen when each family had five or six kids? This has to do with people’s childrearing philosophies.
A lot of people refer to themselves as daughter-slaves. Well, not just daughters, you see this phenomenon with boys too. Children are elevated to the position of a master by their parents, being served on hand and feet. If you were a master, would you want two of your slaves to birth another master? Of course not. This is the root of the conflict. If children weren’t the centre of a household, the parents were in charge, and children obeyed, then they’d want siblings to keep them company.
It’s just like work. If the higher ups are assigning a new manager to a department, only the original manager would be upset. Why would employees care? If you want a second child, and your firstborn is upset, that means your child is in a leadership position in your household. You’ve got everything upside down.
There’s a lot of people saying that you need to get the firstborn’s permission to have a second kid. That’s fucking ridiculous. A kid who’s five, eight years old can barely figure out times tables, what the fuck does he know about whether or not to have a second child? He’s not at all responsible legally, but you’re making him make the decision? Only retarded parents would do this. Sure, I’m not saying be a dictator in your house. But people get involved in various decisions in various stages of their life. A five year old child can decide if he wants to play on the swings or the sand pit, but he can’t decide whether your family is buying a house or having a second kid.”
Comments say, “You’ve got a lot of kids. Maybe that’s why you tend to post things encouraging having lots of kids. This is all up to people’s choice, isn’t it? No one can say you absolutely should or shouldn’t. You gotta look at the situation.”
“We had a second kid because our firstborn demanded one. She said she wanted a brother. I asked her how she knows it’ll be a brother. She said, “cause it will”. The new baby adores her. He insists on waiting until she gets home to eat. And she protects him if anyone even looks at him wrong.”
“That’s exactly right. So many parents are so foolish. Respecting your child isn’t becoming a huge baby yourself, and making your child the parent. You’ve got to maintain order in your house, or you’re gonna get huge problems.”
A compilation of instagram posts showing off what it’s like to live off of 40K a month as a college student.
What it’s like to live off of 40K a month as a college student. Got sushi for 256 RMB—their matcha is great. I usually use three scoops per cup. I’ve bought a whole can for home too. Boba tea, 20 RMB. Take out for my friend, 318 RMB. For her Thai fried rice. Well, it was actually because of her dormmate. Because her poor, black dormmate is always being a bitch to her, I suggested she be a bitch back and get tasty takeout for all her dormmates except the bitch. Profit ties people together. So long as you provide more value to people, the scales will move in your favour.
30K a month or less challenge as a college student.
Sorta well off college student in Suzhou, 50K a month.
Daily life of a little miss millionaire, 100K a month.
Middle class couple controlling their spending to under 150K a month.
Controlling my spending to 20K USD a month or less.
Failing to control my spending to under 20K USD a month.
40K a month for college student.
Comments joke, “This old servant is so glad to see the young lady life such a good life.”
“Alright, fine. Spend my yearly salary in a month.”
“What is there to say about this? There’s nothing ridiculous here. This is just their normal daily life.”
A tiktok video of a mother riding the subway with two small children, where she stood for many stops with no one giving up their seat for her. Internet commenters say, “Sure, it’s nice if someone gives up their seat. But it’s normal for them to not to. This is just reality.”
An askreddit question, “Experts say there’s not going to be a huge wave of covid reinfections. Are we gonna see a big wave of second round covid?”
The top reply is, “I’m a middle school teacher. You can tell how covid is going based on how many people are taking time off school. We’ve got 14 classes in a grade, and right now, the only class with no positive cases in it is Class 13. All the rest has confirmed positive cases and are in lockdown. There are plenty more students who are staying home because of fevers, who just haven’t gone to the hospital to actually get tested. It’s a very high ratio.
I used to see questions on here about whether second round covid is coming all the time, and now they’re all gone. I tested positive on Mother’s Day and went to the hospital the next day to get medicine. I got my prescription, but on my hospital records, they still didn’t write covid. It’s just “upper respiratory infection.”
So, yeah, the second wave is definitely here, but for various reasons, no one’s allowed to talk about it or mention it or confirm it. Let’s see how long this question and answer manage to stay around. But it’ll probably get harmonised.”
Comments say, “I feel like over 50% of people probably want to go back to lockdowns.”
“Lots of people around me are getting reinfected, my family, my coworkers, my neighbours, but no one is taking time to rest. They’re continuing to go to work and school and take walks around the neighbourhood—all without wearing masks.”
“There are still schools in lockdowns? No way. I thought all schools have given up.”
A tiktok video of how some babies have already won at the start of life, by being adorable as shit.
“The first day after being born, huge double-lidded eyes, high nose, textbook round head. Almost a month old, he already looks gorgeous. At his 42-day checkup, everyone thought he was mixed race. Never paid attention to the shape of his head, but while it’s still a bit pointy now, as soon as he learned how to roll over, it became super round. Around four months old, the height of his cuteness. Even I thought he might be mixed race, and I’m his mother. He started out a little dark-skinned, but after 5 months, he started getting fairer and fairer. When we took him in for vaccines at 7 months, the nurse kept going on and on about how adorable he was. He was picked up by a talent scout for his cuteness, and did papa (a brand) commercials as his first gig. We never shaved his hair. As his hair got long, it all stood up on end like a sea urchin or porcupine. His first TVC commercial—he even made it onto CCTV. Around eight months, he did moony diaper commercials, and the whole film crew fell in love with him. His first shoot with other kids his age—his hairstyle at this stage is an utter disaster. Taking some photos for a photo studio—he passes perfectly dressed up as a girl. He might be a son, but I feel like I’ve got a daughter too. Around 11 months, feel like he’s really changed in appearance, like he grew up overnight. A little over a year old, his hair is really coming in. My only concern is that he still very thin—he was 2.5kg when he was born, and now he’s 17 months old and only 9.5kg. His height isn’t doing too bad though—48 cm at birth, and now 80cm—around about 50th percentile. His teeth are growing in great too, never had an awkward ugly period with those. Because of covid lockdowns, he hasn’t had a haircut in two months, and since we have photoshoots later on, we could only put it up into little buns. Otherwise, his fringe is just a mess. As his mommy, I feel like he’s got great features, whether it’s his eyes, brow, nose, face shape, or head shape. What do you think? Has he gotten less cute with age? Or if he getting more adorable every day?”
Comments are filled with praise for how goddamn adorable that baby is.
A blogger posts, “If your work bag looks like this, you’ve got at least ten years of experience.”
Comments agree, “Yup, don’t have to worry about being late to work, and don’t have to worry about anyone noticing you’ve left work.”
“I use the thermal bag they give you when you get boba tea.”
“I just use takeout bags from restaurants.”
A school counsellor posts, “We have a Mental Health Week at school, where we watch psychological movies. On the weekend, I recommended Coco to some younger kids. I didn’t assign any homework like writing out anyone’s thoughts on it, or even say that people have to watch it. But some parents reported me to the higher ups, saying that I’m recommending foreign movies, and depictions of death in the movie is bad for the kids. I’m so upset having to deal with this first thing on a Monday.”
Comments say, “Teaching your kid is like playing minesweeper, never know what you’re going to blow up over. Ridiculous.”
“This is such a great movie though. I watched it with my son. We’re gonna watch Chinese Monster Movies and Coraline and Nightmare Before Christmas too. They’re all fun movies, and I hope he can learn love and courage and growth from them.”
“These kids are way too frail. Maybe you should take them home and raise them in a glass jar.”
Someone posts a photo of a price chart at the hospital for psychological counselling, going for 1000 RMB per 45 minutes with the deputy department head or above, 800 RMB per 45 minutes with a psychologist, or 500 RMB per 45 minutes with a counsellor. He writes, “If young people saw this, they wouldn’t dare to get depressed. I just happened to glance over and see this.”
He adds later on, “Oh wow, there’s a lot of attention on this post. Guess everyone has troubles in their lives huh? I went with a family member to a top hospital’s psych department. We got in line for the deputy head. If you’re just going in for a consult, it wouldn’t be this expensive, but the drugs are certainly crazy expensive. I just happened to see this price chart.
Because my family member is up there in age and is illiterate, I had to go into her appointment with her. We scanned a QR code for 6 questionnares to complete and spent 260 RMB on the consult, and they gave us a report on the spot. Because she’s illiterate and doesn’t understand most of the questions, I completed most of the questionnaires using what I know about her as a family member, so I feel like this isn’t a very accurate method of assessment. At least, I don’t know how accurate I am in evaluate how she feels. The doctor didn’t say anything when he saw our report, and just wrote us prescriptions (800 RMB).
I saw a lot of young people in the waiting room, mostly students, and a couple of middle aged or older people. I feel like it’s mostly young people who are going to counselling and getting psych help. I feel like there’s not much point in it for old people. Although depression is happening in younger and younger age groups, a lot of older people are depressed too.
I see in the comment section a lot of people who are super young and depressed. I hope you don’t get scared of doctors, and you’ll keep communicating with your family and friends, especially about any negative thoughts. And if venting isn’t enough, take yourself to a hospital and pick a treatment plan that works for you.
And keep an eye out on the mental state of the old people in your family, because they accumulate a lot more negative feelings.
I hope everyone stays healthy and has a great 2023!”
Comments say, “Maybe spending this much money gives people a strong placebo effect of “this has to be working!””
“Seeing this just made me more depressed.”
“When I went, it was 600 RMB for 10 minutes. They literally had a stopwatch going.”
A tiktok video of a goddamn adorable Xinjiang girl, the poster saying, “Oh my god, I came across this four and a half year old Xinjiang Girl, and not even exaggerating, she was so pretty I’ve binged like twenty of her videos now. Are all Xinjiang people born knowing how to dance?”
Comments say, “As a Han ethnicity person living in Xinjiang, I can confidently tell you, no, no way.”
“Xinjiang native here—the ethnic minorities all know how to sing and dance and are super good looking. As a Han ethnicity myself, I’m super jealous. I can’t dance to save my life.”
“Xinjiang native here—yeah, this is pretty standard.”
An illustration of Mister Yang Jiang:
And a compilation of comments on the illustration: “A lot of people think Yang Jiang is a man for exactly this reason. She should be Miss Yang Jiang.”
“When any man can be called a “Mister”, this word shouldn’t be used to describe an accomplished woman.”
“You praise my works, but won’t acknowledge my gender.”
“I was always weirded out that when my teachers talked about Yang Jiang and Bing Xin, they referred to them as “Misters”, saying that that was the highest honour to a woman, the highest title they could achieve.”
“I feel like this is a deliberate attempt at theft. When years have passed and historical records are lost and not so clear, people will think she really was a guy. And that’ll be another page of men’s accomplishments. How great do women have to be before they can leave their name in history? They have to be irreplaceable like Hua Mulan, Mu Guiying, and Wu Zetian.”
“A lot of movies tell real stories where a woman is the protagonist, and yet the finished work features a man, just like this illustration.”
“If our teacher hadn’t shown us a picture of Rosalind Franklin, I would’ve thought she was a man. If they’d used 琳 instead of 林 in the transliteration, it’d be so much clearer.”
“Missus Curie.”
“Yang Jiang said herself that she didn’t like to be referred to as Mister.”
Under the trending topic #how do you feel about people working with second round covid? and #experts suggest not working if you’ve reinfected with covid, a magazine writes, “Experts say, this will not only delay your recovery, but cause the virus to spread and infect high-risk populations. This advice But this suggestion has gained much controversy on the internet, where people express that it’s a great idea, but people have no choice but to work while sick. What do people think?”
Comments say, “Who would go to work if it was possible to rest at home?”
“Why don’t you give these suggestions to business owners?”
A Choose Your Own Adventure where you get to pick three options out of seven. Which three would you want?
Never marrying.
80 million in cash.
Get taller by 10 cm.
A manor in central Beijing.
Return to 10 years ago.
Marry your true love.
Your parents become perfectly healthy.
In the comments, almost everyone picked 2, 4, and 7.
What do people bring in those "work bags"? Lunch or something? It doesn't look like work materials.