07/10/25 - Especially in America, showing a lot of sports talent from a young age can draw a lot of negative attention.

[Lately, a daycare in Tianshui got in trouble when all the kids there collectively came down with lead poisoning. An investigation revealed that it was due to kitchen staff using lead-based paint to make colourful bread rolls.]

“I pay so much every year in tuition, why would you feed that shit to my baby? How do you lie with yourself? No human being could watch such little kids eat that stuff day in and day out. My kid’s graduated for a year now and their blood lead level is still so high. And my kid’s been metabolising it for a whole year. And it’s still so high. How are we supposed to face our kids as parents? How are we supposed to deal with the rest of their lives? Who’s gonna take care of graduated kids like mine? What has their bodies gone through? How can such small bodies deal with it? Can anyone please speak up for graduated kids?”

[OP attached a screenshot of the tuition for the daycare which comes out to 6523RMB per semester (100 school days), and a screenshot of the blood lead level of some kids in the daycare, which range from 32-114.]

Comments say, “All the trending hashtags are gone. The government’s already concluded this investigation. Asking any more questions is going to be taken as malice. Just stop. You can’t win.”

“Reasonable judgement: death penalty to the person responsible, 1.5 million in damages to each child.”

“It just feels so weird to me. Is that really the cause? Are we not gonna test the daycare’s water source?”

“So long as there are special supplies [a system in China where government officials eat food from specific farms held to specific higher standards and it’s not available to the common citizen], there’ll never be true food safety. Anyone who can speak up about this doesn’t have to worry about their kids eating this.”

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“Why is it that foreign athletes who come from the slums will pay for their whole community, pay everything for hundreds of people, once they make it big?

Because American has a lot of school bullying.

And as a student athlete, no matter how fit you are, you’re not going to win against a crowd. So you have to form cliques.

Either you join a clique, or you start your own clique.

Each clique needs at least three people, because you need at least three people to project enough force that people will stop bullying you.

Especially in America, showing a lot of sports talent from a young age can draw a lot of negative attention.

If someone gets you right in your tendons, your life is basically over.

And a lot of school hooligans really will do this, and they’ll get away with it, because they’re minors.

So for a lot of celebrity athletes, their bros literally saved their lives. They couldn’t have made it into the NFL/NBA without those friends.

So they’re not going to abandon their bros once they make it big.

If you don’t abandon your bros, at most, you’re paying for 3-5 people. That’s not too bad.

But just because they saved your life, doesn’t mean they’re a good person.

You can pay the way for 3-5 people, but what if these 3-5 people invite their family?

Black people have lots of kids. Each family is gonna have at least 10 kids. 3-5 families means 50, 100 people.

This has a lot to do with American urbanisation too.

China is only about 40% urbanised. Most people live in small towns and villages.

When you come from a small town, you’re not going to understand or get used to a big metropolis. You’re gonna drop out. Even if you saved someone’s life, you’re not going to adapt.

America is highly urbanised, and every city is more or less the same. A hooligan from the slums of New York can still adapt just fine on Billionaire’s Row.

So long as one guy makes it big, it’s going to spread, and everyone is going to flock to him.

Entourage shows this phenomenon, mostly about poor white bros.

This was also a plot point in Ballers. The protagonist signs a new rising star black athlete into the NFL, not even a celebrity yet, making only 3 million USD a year.

And hundreds of people show up to his house, partying every day, insisting on expensive wine and seafood and beef. And he can’t refuse them, because then he’ll lose all his reputation in the black community. His parents won’t let him refuse.

A lot of black parents are like this. They don’t give a shit about their kids growing up, but they’ll immediately take advantage of their kids if they make it big.

The rising star had no options, and had to come to the protagonist’s agency and make a list, and just keep a few friends and his family. He had to ask his agency to talk to each and every one of his black bros into leaving, or else he would be bankrupt before he even started playing.

In the end, the impression he left on people was that he’s been completely controlled by evil capitalists and became their puppet, and been forced to leave the black community and live a numb life.

That’s the only way he could get away.

Even O’Neal had to support several families—his own, his mother’s, his step-father’s. He even has to pay for his step-father’s sister’s kid.

At least O’Neal is smart enough to make family rules and not allow these parasites to live completely off of him.

He can’t do anything about adults, but he can set rules for kids. If kids don’t go to school, then they don’t get any money. If the kid makes it to college, they get a scholarship. So long as they can make it into the program, Uncle O’Neal will pay for everything and you can study as much as you want.

If you make it into post-grad, then aside from tuition and living expenses, O’Neal will even give you extra cash prizes.

If you can’t study, then sorry, no money for you.

He forcefully announced this rule in his family, and everyone accepted it. No problems came up.

O’Neal’s own kids all have very high diplomas. They all have a Master’s Degree. His sister’s and aunt’s kid are the same. The grandkids are the same too. Everyone works really hard to go to college and get a doctorate.”

Comments say, “O’Neal really is smart.”

“They actually came through on their promsie of “through thick and thin”.”

“Even if they completely cut your tendon, you can get that fixed with surgery. All the culprit has to do is pay medical bills. They probably won’t even go to jail. But your professional career will be ruined.”

“American school cultures sounds terrifying. I think China is the best culture for nerds to thrive in.”

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“My chicken hatched a peacock baby!

My parents bought two peacocks, thinking it would draw people to come eat at my place, but literally nobody cared. But that mommy peacock lays eggs like crazy. She must’ve laid a dozen eggs. But she won’t hatch it herself! We had no idea what to do. Asked around, and someone said we need to buy a small incubator. My aunt bought one off of the internet, and the egg literally rotted in there and never hatched anything (I want a refund). Then, one of our chickens must’ve got to the age where she wanted to be a mommy. She started sitting on the eggs. And we were wondering if a chicken could hatch that egg. Waited 28 days, and the egg really hatched! It’s so amazing! The baby peacock thinks the chicken is her mom and keeps trying to cuddle up to her. It’s so cuuuuute! Mommy chicken, you’re awesome!”

Comments say, “Chickens are the best. They’re so good with kids. So full of motherly love. I’ve seen a lot of posts before about a chicken that hatched a bunch of ducks and raised them like her own. She’ll take them to the river and let the ducks swim in it, and she’ll wait by the riverbank. There was one post about how the ducklings got into the water, and the chicken followed them in the water and walked around in the shallows just to be closer to her babies.”

“My mom said that when she was little, all her family’s ducks and geese and whatever were all hatched and raised by chickens. And all the chicken eggs were only ever hatched and raised by the same poor chicken.”

“Later on, the mommy chicken is gonna be like, “Look, I don’t really get it either but this is my son…” And then a giant, colourful peacock with a huge fan walks out from behind her all like, “Mommy! Mommy!””

“Chickens work so hard. All our goose eggs were hatched by a chicken.”

“You’re not gonna kill that chicken, right?”

[From OP] “Don’t worry, she’s eating three-course meals now hahahaha”

“Please don’t kill this chicken. She doesn’t have much meat on her. Give her more time with her kids T_T”

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“I don’t know if my mom has gone bad or if I have.

I love piercings, to the point where I’ll buy the equipment myself and give myself piercings. But I’ll only wear my studs for a while before taking them out, because my mom is super against it, so I’m trying to keep it hidden from her.

Lately, I’ve finally gotten a tongue stud, and when my mom found out, she went, “I don’t care what you do, but I have a right to comment on it.” And, “Are you not going to be happy until I die and you have no mom anymore?”

When I was in school, I got one ear pierced (did it myself), and when my mom saw, she started breaking down in tears while berating me, like I’ve ruined my whole life.

I don’t think I have any mental illnesses. And my mom doesn’t normally act crazy at all.

I just want to know why she reacts this way, because I’ve really had it. I think I’m an adult and I have a right to decide what happens to my body. But my mom always wants me to listen to her (and if she doesn’t like something, she’ll stop at nothing to prevent me from doing it, or else she’ll threaten suicide).

Now I’m wondering if I actually do have some kind of mental illness, and I want to go see a psychiatrist and check it out. Am I just being too sensitive?”

Comments say, “I think “gone bad” is a strong term over just a difference in values.”

“I think you really should get checked out to eliminate any concerns in this area…after all, if you don’t keep your studs in, then the hole will grow closed quickly, and then you have to get it re-pierced. I feel like you don’t even like wearing the studs. You just like piercing yourself.”

“My niece in college is getting all kinds of piercings too, a whole row on her ears, lips, tongue, everywhere. People who hate it are gonna hate it. So long as the damage is tolerable, then whatever. I won’t support it or denounce it. All I can do is control my urge to roll my eyes. I’m never gonna applaud her.”