06/15/24 -
“Who brings stuff home after they get drunk? Once I sobered up, I found there was a cat in my house. A complete stranger to me. I was so confused. It’s sitting in my mom’s lap now. I have no idea where we even met. It’s not afraid of my dog at all, it walks right over the dog’s head.”
Comments say, “Based on his expression, I’m pretty sure he carried you home.”
“Not scared of dogs? Clearly, he’s fated to be a part of your family. Cat: I’m here to join you!”
“Looking at this cat, I’d guess he drinks quite a lot too.”
Another news report about how students in Hainan didn’t get a bar code for their Chinese exam in the Gaokao. Reporters learned from Hainan Exam Office that they’re going to collect all the exams and, in a secure location, put new bar codes on them under security cameras. The reporter asked how long this is going to take, and whether it’ll affect teachers marking the exams and publishing the scores. The worker explained that they’ve already held a special meeting regarding this issue, and will be making further announcements if anything comes up. The reporter points out that based on the “Warm Reminders for Students Taking Gaokao in Hainan 2023” that, “The students will be responsible for failing to fill out their ID number, writing down the wrong number, or illegible writing.”
Comments say, “So just what step of printing went wrong? We have to investigate this to the end and punish whoever’s responsible.”
“They misprinted all the bar codes? This is a Gaokao disaster, isn’t it?”
#Woman finds protected species outside her window. A woman finds a nest of baby birds outside of her window, all staring at her with wide, alarmed eyes. Bird: “You better not move! My mom’s coming back soon!”
Comments say, “Hey, don’t we look like court summons?”
“Feed them some chicken breasts.”
“They’re so cute! You’re so lucky!”
“She owns an empty house in Beijing…”
15th of June, in Guangdong, rumours are circulating that students at the Huizhou Economics Technical School needs to scan a QR code and pay in order to turn on the AC, costing about 24 RMB per lesson. Students complain that it’s way too expensive. Students claim that when the heat rises, even the teachers are drenched in sweat while they’re teaching, and no one knows where all the money ends up. No one wants to waste money like this.
Comments say, “That’s pretty normal. You have to pay extra to ride the bus in the summer because of the AC.”
“Is that true? I’m taking my exams next year and there’s no way I’m applying.”
“Don’t AC only cost a couple of cents anyways?”
“My mom blocked me on wechat because I didn’t want to date the guy she introduced. My family introduced a guy to me over the holidays who was all right all around. I just don’t really like engineers, and I especially hate being pressured by parents on both sides to move along in the relationship, so I turned him down. My mom tried to persuade me to stop being so picky, that this guy was great and was willing to buy a house near where I live and move to work in my city. I just replied that I didn’t like him and told her to stop introducing guys to me. I could just not get married.
For Mother’s Day, I got ready to send a red pocket to my mom, and that’s when I discovered she’d blocked me. I don’t know what to do now that so much time has passed. We just have different views. I’m not gonna date some guy just to make my mom happy. And it’s true that I’m scared of marriage. I just talked to my coworker about this today, and I’m getting upset just writing this up. Whatever. I’ll just go to bed.”
Comments say, “So many bots in this comment section.”
“An actually all around great guy wouldn’t be on the dating market.”
“I just don’t understand why the older generation is so obsessed with making you marry when their marriages suck.”
#What’s the difference between different milk packaging? #Why is cold milker tastier? Milk packaging is closely associated with preservation method, best-by date, and taste.
Glass bottle
Glass bottles are a solid barrier, resistant to heat and pressure, easy to clean, and has anti-corrosive properties, so it can preserve the milk’s original taste to the greatest extent. The main downsides are that it’s too heavy, easy to break, and inconvenient to transport and carry around. It’s mostly used in subscription milk services, but some milk in the supermarket is packaged this way too.
2. Boxed milk
Also known as milk huts, it’s a type of paper packaging that looks like a little house with a tented roof. The packaging is usually made with multiple layers, where the outer most layer is a layer of plastic membrane, the middle is fibre, and the inside is aluminium foil. Boxed milk generally has pretty patterns printed on it, but it’s relatively costly and is usually only used by middle to high-end milk.
3. Plastic bag
The most commonly seen packaging among middle to low-end milk. Some products have a layer of black colouring on the inside to keep out light. Lately, brands have been using clear bags to store milk, so consumers can see the colour of the milk. This has been very popular, but plastic bags really aren’t suitable if you want to keep your milk for longer. Most of the nutrition in milk, like fat, protein, minerals, vitamins, and other biological components are affected by light, and it can affect the milk’s quality.
4. Prepack bags
It looks like an opaque soft bag in appearance. It might look like plastic bags, but it’s actually 300 times more impermeable to oxygen than normal plastic bags. Prepack bags are a lot of bang for your buck, and is often used in middle to low-end room temperature milk. It can keep milk fresh for 30 to 180 days.
5. Tetra Pak cartons
Milk is injected into Tetra Pak cartons in a sealed environment. That is, they pour the milk into the carton and then cut it and close it. With this technology, there is no air inside a Tetra Pak, and the layered material makes sure that the milk is safely protected from the air, bacteria, and light. Tetra Pak is usually used for middle to high-end room temperature milk, and they can be shaped like a pillow or like a brick. They can preserve milk for 45 days (for pillows) or 6-9 months or even a year (for bricks).”
Comments say, “What about plastic bottles?”
#200,000 cats sign up for the King of Cat Competition on the first day. On the 11th of June, Taobao announced that they are looking for a mascot cat for 1.02 million RMB, officially starting the King of Cats competition. Within just a day, 200,000 cats have been signed up for the competition. The contestants are very varied, from influencer cats, pretty cats, talented cats, ugly cats, social cats…and everything you can imagine. There are even some “cat-related animals” and entirely unrelated contestants, to people’s amusement. Has your cat entered the competition?”
Comments say, “Sign your cats up, people. Can’t miss this opportunity.”
“What a cool competition. My cat’s gotta be in this.”
“To be fair, this has introduced me to a lot of shockingly talented cats.”
“In the middle of the night, I suddenly started feeling bad for my feet. They carry the heaviest weight, put up with the worst smells, work the hardest jobs, get the most problems, and never even get as many new clothes as the body, or as many jewellery as the hands. I only buy clothes for it once a year (socks), and I wear them all year round, and it’s all just been plain white for the last 20 years. But they never get upset or jealous and just keep working even when there’s no rewards. They’re so sweet and obedience and never throw a tantrum. I feel really bad for them (T_T)
They’re not like left hands at all, who never do anything but still want rings and shit. What an awful hand.”
Comments say, “When I was little, I’d feel like my right hand has to work and write all day, and my left hand was really lazy and bad, so I’d always use my left hand to carry heavy stuff to punish it XD”
“You’re right. I should walk on my hands for a couple of days and give my feet a rest.”
“There are people cyberbullying their own hands? Why not cyberbully your mouth too? Why don’t you feel bad for your butt? It’s never eaten anything tasty, but has to deal with shit every day.”
From a blogger who’s a math PhD from Oxford University: “A lot of fans have been wanting me to talk about whether the story of the “17-year-old technical school girl coming 12th place in global math competition” is real or not.
Let me first do a bit of public education. Just how prestigious is the Alibaba math competition?
The famous God of Maths at Beijing University, Mr. Wei, was the winner of the very first competition. And this girl came in 12th. We can take a look at 13th and 14th place, and they were number 1 in a Chinese national math competition in 2018, and came in second and third place in the Qiu Chengtong Uni Student Math Competition, and hold PhDs from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, etc. You can see how prestigious these contestants are.
Jiang Ping was entirely self taught. Entering a global math competition as a technical school student, placing 12th, being the only woman in the first 30 places, means she’s a one in a million genius!! If I didn’t prepare and went to this competition, I wouldn’t even get on the leaderboards.
I’ve seen a lot of ridiculous comments doubting the truth of this story.
Their jealousy is so obvious XD
There are a lot of monsters hiding in the deep, dark forests of the math field, who never show their swords for years on end only to shock the entire world.
I can talk about my own experience, just to give you an idea. I was expelled in primary school and homeschooled, and finished 6 years of courses in 2 years. The next time I entered the education system, I jumped straight to high school, and I’ve always come in first in my grade. Got an interview with Oxford at 15 and got admitted after doing some questions with a professor. And my experience in the math field in generation is really small, small, small fish.
I can tell you guys about the sort of madmen who spent years looking like a janitor, only to shock the entire world once they showed their sword.
The Russian winner of the Fermi Award proved one of the 7 mysteries in the maths world, the Poincaré conjecture. He won the award while unemployed, and never took the money, never accepted the reward, and never wrote a paper.
Any uni students here studied the epsilon-delta proof? [I’m doing my best, but I have no idea what she’s talking about at all.] The founder of this proof, Weierstrass, was a rural teacher who couldn’t even afford postage. When he created this proof, he didn’t even have money to submit it to a paper. Thankfully, his letters were seen by other legends in the math field and got their approval.
Why are there such legends in maths? Are they geniuses? Were they reborn? Is it talent?
First of all, I don’t like the word “genius”. A simple line of, “You must be a genius” completely dismisses years of hard work. If there really is such a thing as talent, then my talent in maths is that I never give up (lol). I’ve worked on a proof for 3 months straight, only to discover I got it wrong from the start, and I didn’t get upset at all. I’ve written 10 different thesis to try to solve a problem during my doctorate years, and my advisors thought all of them sucked, but I was still cheerful.
If you ask, “How did this girl keep going under those circumstances?”
You’ve got it all wrong. She’s not keeping herself going. She really loves doing maths. I majored in maths in undergrad. After studying maths for years, I worked in the finance field for a while. While I was at JP Morgan or Goldman Sachs, I was under a ton of pressure every day. And whenever I feel like I couldn’t keep going anymore, I’d get out a maths problem and solve it.
While I was dealing with the problem, I would get into a deeper sort of mindset. My emotions would flow away, and I’d stop crying and being all emo.
Until the moment I fall asleep, that question would be all I thought about, and it would be all that was in my dreams. And it’s the first thought in my head when I wake up the next day. It’s a very magical feeling.
Finally, I really love this little girl. However she does in the competition in the end, and whatever her accomplishments in maths are afterwards, don’t put too much pressure on her. Let her grow on her own and she’ll become a great mathmatician.
If this girl happens upon my writing, I really hope we can meet each other and maybe work together in maths.
Comments say, “I always suspected that Jiang Ping got Wang Runqiu [her technical school maths teacher] to do her math problems for her, because this is just unbelievable. At least Wang Runqiu has a Master’s Degree in maths from Zhejiang University.”
“A lot of people don’t know about the Alibaba competition at all and think it’s just some kiddie competition. This little girl is really amazing!”
“I’ve seen a lot of news about this girl. Rather than talent, I think what this girl has is passion. She loves maths, so she loves studying maths. She’s obsessed with maths the same way other people are obsessed with their games. She’s “addicted”, she can’t walk away. For this kind of people, maths is something that’s relaxing and fun. Most people never get this, because they just don’t understand it.”
“People who don’t cook, what does your fridge look like? I’ve only got drinks and pre-cooked food in mine hahahahaha.”
“Just air.”
“So how much do you spend on food if you never cook yourself? I get takeout three times a day + coffee and boba tea, adds up to 1500 RMB a month.”
“Prepackaged food, like frozen dumplings, frozen fruit, frozen spaghetti, some shrimp I can toss in the pot when I want to make soup, and fish that I just have to simply grill.”
“Usually leftovers or prepackaged food that I throw away after a few days. I always think I’ll finish it later, but I always end up throwing everything out.”
“I don’t have my own fridge yet, but in the future, I’d like to pack it with drinks, cake, frozen dumplings and rice balls and noodles. (I don’t cook, but I can still put in some eggs to steam or boil). And ice cream.”
“Oh, I know! I’ve got a friend who never cooks. Only her mom cooks whenever she’s visiting. She mostly just puts oyster sauce and salad dressing in her fridge, maybe some fruit and leftover takeout. In the freezer is ice cream and ice cubes and her mom’s dumplings. And meat for her cat.”
“Water, face masks, some salad stuff, and various sauces.”
“Good luck with your Gaokao. Remember, you can only be gay in big cities. If you stay in a small town, you’ll just get eletroshocked in mental hospitals. Sichuan, Chongqing, Shanghai, and Hangzhou should be your first picks when it comes to applications.”
Comments say, “When I went to Shanghai, I didn’t see any.”
“Guangzhou and Shenzhen can’t bad either.”
“Lol, you can see the gayness oozing off of Shanghai.”
As a Canadian, I was happy to see bagged milk exists outside of Canada! However, I am a little weirded out by the implication that it is not kept refrigerated. It’s only normal pasteurized, not UHT pasteurized, so of course it won’t keep very long outside of the fridge!