07/18/23 - It is highly likely the object is the lens from a duck eyeball.
Huashike, an IT company, has been discovered to have strange unidentified objects in the food in their cafeteria. Guangdong Market Control is taking the situation very seriously, and has asked the police to seal off the cafeteria, package up a sample of the unidentified object, and send it to Guangzhou Food and Safety Bureau and Guangzhou Market Quality Control Agency for testing.
After rounds of morphology testing, nucleic acid testing, protein testing, and infrared testing, the result is as below:
Experts were invited to a third party lab to dissect the eyeball of a cooked duck head and extract its lens. After soaking in water, the lens highly resembles the unidentified object. They’re both 1.5cm across, and resemble each other in shape, colour, construction, and texture.
Nucleic acid testing has detected duck particles.
Protein testing has detected protein, meaning that the sample is organic animal tissue.
Infrared testing reveals that the sample and the lens extracted from a cooked duck head has the same infrared readings. It has different readings from rubber and polyethylene.
Combining the results from the testing, the possibility that the sample is a rubber product or a disposable glove is eliminated. It is highly likely the object is the lens from a duck eyeball.
We thank news agencies and other media groups for the care they show towards our work. Next, we are going to expand our food safety work, ensuring that the people can eat their food with confidence. We encourage internet commenters to believe in official government sources of news, do not believe in rumours, do not spread rumours, do not make up rumours. Let us protect our harmonious online environment together.”
Comments say, “You gave really good proof, but any trust people have in you have been destroyed by your colleagues in Jiangxi.” [Referring to a famous event where the Jiangxi Food Safety Agency claimed a rat was a duck neck.]
“Yeah, there was no way it was a condom. Condoms aren’t that small and thick.”
“I don’t know why, but I don’t believe anything I read anymore.”
An author writes, “Maybe it’s hard to believe, but I’ve been super busy today, dealing with all kinds of insults from my relatives. It started when a relative of mine took her ten year son to my house to play. I never really liked the kid. He’s always been rude. I was hanging out in my room when the kid came barging in. He flipped me off and thrust his hips at me, and was swearing up and down the whole time. I really hate this type of rude as fuck kids. I lost control of myself, and ended up slamming him to the ground and beating the shit out of him…
His mom saw me beating on her son, and immediately started freaking out and screaming, threatening to call the cops on me. All the relatives are persuading me to let it go, that he’s just a little kid, he doesn’t know what he’s doing. I told them that if adults don’t discipline their kids, then I’ll discipline those kids for them. Either call the cops and tell them I beat up your son, or shut the fuck up and go home with your son.
Ahhhhhh! She felt like she lost face, and left with her kid, even though she immediately started calling everyone to badmouth me. This kid will probably never come over to my place again. That is fucking amazing. Now, no kids in my family are gonna fuck with me anymore.
Oh my god, that is fucking amazing!!!”
She shows screenshots with a relative of hers.
Relative: “I’m on your side.”
OP: “I didn’t do anything wrong. He deserved what was coming.”
Relative: “I’m not saying you did. They said that it’s fine for you to beat him, but you can’t strangle him. They said you should’ve hit his hand. You can’t touch his neck.”
OP: “When did I strangle him?”
Relative: “I said that he really was spewing insults.”
OP: “I just pushed his head down.”
Comments say, “When I was about ten years old, I threw my six-year-old cousin to the ground and beat the shit out of him too. I can’t stand naughty kids. After this, all my uncles’ kids don’t dare to breathe loudly around me. I really will beat them. It’s to the point that this news has spread to their kids. Now my cousin’s spoiled little shits are all well-behaved around me.”
“Well done! I’m an INFP too, and I ran into some brats in highschool. He scratched me all over the face and neck, and I just sat in my room and cried. When my mom found out, she even blamed me for being antisocial. Now, if anyone comes at me, I’ll beat them up.”
“Give me your address. I’ll send my son over and you can beat him up too. He tried fucking with me while I was chopping veggies today, and I almost stabbed him.”
A blogger posted a screenshot from a tiktok video, where the captions reads, “A museum simulates the weight of an apple on different planets. Visitors cannot lift an apple under the sun’s gravity with one hand. Internet commenters say, “Thank goodness Newton wasn’t hit on the head with an apple on Jupiter.” The sun has 27.9 times Earth’s gravity.”
This blogger compiles comments underneath this video full of Chinese conspiracies.
“Cool Fact: Newton was never hit in the head by an apple. He learned about gravity from the Yongle Encyclopaedia.”
“Why don’t you learn it from the Yongle Encyclopaedia?”
“It’s been lost for years.”
“It’s been censored by the Qing government. They just skimmed the surface of the Yongle Encyclopaedia, and plagiarised it into their own version of The Complete Literary Works, and that’s considered a classic now too.”
“The Earth is actually flat. We were never upside down. Gravity doesn’t even exist.”
“Oh my god, go write a paper right now! Prove the Earth is flat! Prove that the earth being round is just a lie that’s been spread for hundreds of years!”
“I’ve been considering writing it for a long time. Most continents on Earth face up, even if the Earth is rotating. The ground always floats above the sea too. It’s just the position of the sun that causes the transition from day to night. We see the Earth as round, because something small can never see the totality of something big. Of course things will become hidden behind a curve. It’s just like looking at a huge stadium through a camera lens. Either way, I’m never gonna believe the claim that I’m actually upside down at night.”
“I just want to know, how do they calculate how heavy something would be on the sun?”
“…From physics equations?”
“I mean, nobody’s been to the sun, right? So how they prove those equations?”
“They just make it up. I mean, no one’s been, right?”
“Newton didn’t discover the principles of gravity. Gravity chose Newton.”
“What the fuck are you even talking about.”
“I’m just debating how we view how an event happens.”
“That’s not how you calculate anything. That apple would be melted on the sun. Haven’t they considered this point?”
“See? Look how slowly it falls in the moon simulation. Then look at the dirt picked up by the wheels of the American rover, how quickly it falls. You can tell that the American rover was filmed on Earth. They’ve never been to the moon at all.”
“They’re acting like they’ve actually been to these planets XD How do you even calculate this stuff? And all the stuff about how many light years it takes to get anywhere from Earth—how do they calculate that?”
“Why are we studying other planets when we haven’t even figured out Earth? What a waste of resources.”
A tiktok video of a grandma dying the fingernails of her granddaughter using rose balsam.
Comments say, “We call it “fingernail grass” here.”
“We call it dagger red. I would wrap my fingers up this way too when I was little. You do it before bed, and the next day, it’s all ready, and the colour doesn’t rub off on anything at all.”
“You can’t dye your pointer finger, or you’ll get chased by dogs.”
“I’m a mother seeking help. My daughter was born on the 6th of September, 2018. She was tiny, just 2.5kg. The doctors say all her numbers are normal. In the first week she was out of the hospital, she dropped to 2.3kg. Her jaundice levels were 18, we never had to do blue light therapy. She eats very little, only 30ml of milk. When she was a month old, she was only 3kg, and she grows very, very slowly. From her third month, she stopped growing at all. She hadn’t grown at all up until she was 6 months old. We went to the Nanjing Children’s Hospital for a check up, and she was low on calcium, so we added calcium supplements and changed her formula. When we checked again at 9 months, she had normal levels of calcium, but she was short, low on body weight, and low on head size. We checked her genes and her pee, and we would go back for check ups every 2 weeks. The doctor advised that we just feed her well, and treat illnesses as they come up.
She started getting her teeth at 9 months old, and as soon as her baby teeth came in, they started getting cavities. She eats very little, and likes to hold her food and her milk and her saliva in her mouth. We did our best to clean her mouth, but all of her teeth are rotten now. We’ve had to put her under and do a root canal treatment, but inside of a year, they were all rotten again. She couldn’t crawl at one years old, and only learned how to inch forward at 13 months old. She walked at 15 months with assistance. She couldn’t walk by herself until 18 months. Her weight has always been 6.5kg. She grows 1-2 cm a year.
At two years old, we went to Shanghai for a checkup, and the paediatrics department wouldn’t take her, saying they can’t detect anything wrong. They sent us to internal medicine, and after that, we went to the nutrition department, and finally to hormone and genetics department. All her stats are normal. We sequenced her genes, and her pee test was all normal too. The doctors suggested we have a second baby.
Now she’s 6-years-old, and she’s 6kg. Yes, that’s right. Six kilograms. She’s 80cm tall. She looks like a 2 year old. Because of her height and weight, she can’t exercise at all and isn’t nearly as active as other kiddos. Her kindergarten teacher was worried about her having problems at school, so she’s never actually gone. My family members are all very stressed out. My MIL is starting to get desperate and believing in all kinds of folk treatments. She’s fed my kid a ton of Chinese medicine, and probiotics from health supplement companies (without any government certificates). Now, my kid’s even more thin. She used to be able to run around a little before, but she has no muscle now.
So long as she’s willing to eat, she’ll grow. But because she won’t eat, my MIL has tried every folk treatment there is. Now she’s skin-on-bones, and I have no idea what to do. I’ve had a ton of fights, but nothing works. I need to work, and I don’t want to waste my time either. Our family isn’t well-off. I don’t know where to go to found out the actual problem.
I’m posting this in case there are any experts in this area. I’ve asked many doctors, and they all say they’ve never seen anything like this. I’ve spent a ton of money on tests for her. A lot of people suggest I go to Beijing’s Xiehe Hospital, but I really don’t want to just blindly throw myself at every solution anymore. Can people repost this. I’m honestly out of ideas. Thanks, everyone.”
She shows pictures of her daughter, but uh…I’m not gonna post it, because uh. It makes me uncomfortable. You’ve seen starving children in Africa. Just imagine that, but Asian.
Comments say, “If you can’t make it to Xiehe Hospital, they offer online consultations.”
“Try Shenzhen’s Children’s Hospital?”
“Dude, take your kid to a proper hospital and stop with the Chinese medicine bullshit.”
“Wild hogs can’t stomach fine cuisine—silk bedsheets edition. When I got married, my in-laws bought me a set of silk bedsheets. I checked the brand, and it was about 600 USD. I only spend about 40 USD on my own bedsheets, so I decided to try them out.
How do I put this. It is, indeed, super smooth. But it’s also kind of uncomfortable. I want to stand my pillow up, and it just instantly slips down again. My pillows and blanket slides onto the ground all the time. I only like to barely put my head on my pillow, so my head keeps slipping off of my pillow too. I wore some silk pyjamas one day, and felt like I was trying to fall asleep on a slide.
My husband said on the first night that it was too hot, and he couldn’t sleep. Like the sheets were sticking to him. I didn’t feel the same. But if I have any water or skincare products on my hands, it leaves a mark right away, and it’s a pain to wash. I feel like it’s not even as good as my cheap bedsheets. I guess we just don’t appreciate luxuries like this. XD”
Comments say, “Me too. I hate 600 RMB silk pyjamas. It’s too slippery and sticks to my skin as soon as I sweat. 60 RMB mixed-fabric pyjamas are super comfy. Guess I just don’t deserve the good things in life.”
“I’m a wild hog too. My skin is so dry, I’m scared I’ll scratch the sheets.”
“Is 600+ even real silk? Mine stays pretty cool all night.”
A blogger reposts a Chinese instagram post by an auntie taking care of 9 of her nephews and nieces at once, which says, “As of 2pm right now, I have resolved 28 conflicts. This is my second day of taking care of nine kids. The work never ends. It never ends. In the morning, six out of nine children have thrown a tantrum. They’ve had 28 fights between them. I don’t even dare to take a nap, in case there’s no one to mediate if another fight breaks out.”
The blogger writes, “I’m an auntie too, and just imagining this scenario makes me want to surrender unconditionally. A newbie like me, I only dare to babysit three kids at most, not a single one more. Right now, my husband’s side of the family has seven little kids. During the holidays, everyone comes over to my in-laws to eat. Holy shit, from the moment I enter the door, I never have peace. My head is ringing like it’s got tinnitus. Either this kid is crying, or that kid is screaming, and in between is every kid chatting at the top of their lungs. Every time, my FIL can’t take it and hides in his study. Thank god my MIL can make these kids behave. I truly am impressed!”
Comments say, “My husband has 9 siblings. I’m an auntie too. I’ve got a whole army at my house during the holidays.”
“Every time summer break came up when I was little, we’d travel to my uncle’s place in the countryside. Our little horde of 7-8 kids would climb around everywhere. Every summer, my uncle has to buy 50 kilos of watermelon wholesale. After nap time every day, we’d get half a watermelon each to ourselves. Now that I’m remembering this, our auntie was so nice to us. She gave us all a happy childhood.”
“I’ve got tons of siblings too. Every time we gather together, the dishes pile up so high I’d cry while washing them.”
Local District workers respond to the event of a meat stall owner using his meat cleaver to scrape dirty skin off of his feet: “It really is disgusting. We’ll deal with it right away.”
Comments say, “He can change professions now, at least in this community.”
“When I went to the farmer’s market with my siblings and my mom, and we saw a stall owner pick his nose, we all collectively went “Eeeeee”.”
“I bought a burrito before, and the owner let go of his son’s foot to pick up my burrito with his bare hands, and I…I was all like…”
“A friend just told me, “What do I do? I can’t motivate my kid anymore. He’s only five years old!”
I looked back on my chat log with her, and felt endless amazement.
She added me when her kid was just over two years old, and often shares her daily life with her child. Even back then, the kid was learning a lot of stuff, English, Logic, Literacy, Art, Dance, and later on, she added in Rollerskating, TV Announcer, and Modelling.
Her kid’s daily schedule is so full, and most of the content she’s learning is above her age range. For example, at barely over three years old, she’s learning addition and subtraction under 20. By four years old, she could write a lot of characters.
I’ve tried to talk her down, but it’s no use. She’s always saying, “I haven’t forced her to learn anything! She likes it! She’s super happy to go to her tutoring classes!”
After Chinese New Years this year, she suddenly found that her child has changed. No matter what lesson it is, her child is very unmotivated. Even for classes like dance or modelling that requires a lot of movement, her child reacts very slowly and doesn’t like to move.
She zones out a lot, goes blank, and doesn’t talk to her mom anymore.
She used to complete a maths quiz book every day. Now, she zones out as soon as she picks up a book.
My friend asks, “What do I do? She’s not even in primary school yet, and she’s already sick of learning?”
I can only sigh.”
Comments say, “My daughter is four, and she’s learning rollerskating too. She’s figuring rollerskating all on her own, in fact. She has dance lessons once a week, which she asked for herself. She wants to learn painting too, but I refused. I want her to have tons of time to play with other kids and explore the outside.”
“She just squeezed in too much stuff. Her kid’s probably said something before about how it’s too much, and she ignored it. Stop all the extracurriculars, and let the kid play freely, rebuild your relationship with her, and it’ll get better after a while.”
“She’s not far from childhood depression.”
A blogger posts a compilation of historical figures:
“Only after learning history do I know that Wu Zetian had three thousand male consorts in her harem. In order to collect more handsome men, she established Konghe Jian, to search for good-looking men in the whole nation.
Only after learning history do I know that after Wang Shaojun married off to barbarian tribes, she was married to three generations of the same family, and died of humiliation at 33 years old.
Only after learning history do I know that Lv Zhi went from a sophisticated noble lady to a woman who turns others into human pigs. She became a villain out of disappointment. She was just protecting herself after completely losing faith in her husband.
Only after learning history do I know that when Ci Xi was buried, she wore imperial robes on the outside, sewn with the twelve totems that only an Emperor can wear.”
Comments say, “You learned all this from tiktok influencers, didn’t you?”
“What the fuck kind of book have you been reading? A book of bullshit?”
“Oh good, I feel better after looking at comments. Ignoring everything else, just the suggestion that Lv Zhi, one of the most powerful women in Chinese history, a thorough politician, would ever act out of disappointment in her husband is fucking ridiculous.”
A tiktok video of someone showing off visible grains of salt in her baby formula. OP claims that the formula tasted “extremely salty”. Customer Service from the formula company has responded that it’s just ordinary mineral nutrition, which tends to sparkle under the light, and crystallise. There has been nothing extra added to the formula. During manufacturing, all their formula undergoes infrared testing, and any impurities are sifted out.”
Comments say, “This brand of formula is pretty expensive too.”
“I don’t care whether it’s minerals. Do kids that small even need it? Keep the evidence, run some tests yourself.”
“First of all, infant formula doesn’t need to be “flavoured”. If the video is true, and even adults find that it tastes salty, then an infant would definitely overdose on salt if they ate this formula. Overdosing on salt could at best delay development, and at worst cause death.”
“My ex-girlfriend called me again this afternoon, and started crying as she talked. She said she was tired. Her mother is demanding that she turn in a fifth of her salary, as her parents’ living expenses. But her parents are leaving the family house and their valuable calligraphy and art collection all to her brother. She has nothing.
From what I know of her brother, I don’t believe he gives his parents any living expenses at all. Her brother is a horrible person. He was raised by his grandma, and spent all his time hanging out with gangs. He’s got nothing but bad habits. Honestly, he’s not even a human being. He’s closer to an ape.
But just because he’s a son, no matter how terrible he is, he’s still their biological son. And no matter how good a daughter is, she’s never going to be as close to them as a son.
That’s how unfair it is.
But girls from this kind of families have no concept of rebellion. They only know to obey their parents. She knows that her parents are unfair too. But she still feels like they’re her parents, she has to obey them unconditionally.
This reminds me of when I travelled in Laos and Cambodia. Most of the prostitutes there are Vietnamese girls. They’re all very young. Vietnamese girls are very pale, and better looking than girls in their surrounding countries. Vietnam is, well, you know how it is. It’s too high risk to work this profession domestically, so they all went to their neighbouring countries.
The main reason they work this job is not for themselves, but for their family. They usually have a, or several, younger brothers at home. They shoulder the cost of sending their brothers to school, finding a wife for him, and taking care of their parents in old age. Their parents are the ones who persuaded them to go into sex work, for the sake of their sons. And all these girls have no concept of fairness in their heads. They think this is just the way things work.
They sell their daughters’ bodies, so they can treasure their sons. That’s their culture.
Some cultures aren’t filled with optimistic, helpful messages. They’re filled with the worst side of humanity.
You can observe the quality of a culture, by looking at whether it brings out the good or the evil in people. Whether it’s holding people’s goodness in check, or holding people’s evil in check. Whether it promotes human value, or reduces human value.
Or, the simplest method, is to look at how many words are banned in a culture. How much surveillance there is in a culture.
Culture is always reflected on people.
If people are brought low, so is their children.
If people are kept prisoner, their culture will lose any liveliness too.”
Comments say, “Culture is like an insult in our language now, even though it’s really a neutral word.”
“Some cultures really are objectively better than others.”
“There’s a fundamental difference. Culture is like…all the different ways of eating shit. And civilisation is just knowing that you’re not supposed to eat shit.”
The kid might have Russell Silver Syndrome? It causes very low birth weight, failure to grow, and feeding problems. It can have a genetic component but it looks like not all cases are detected in genetic tests, so the cause is partly unknown. Not sure if you still have the post or if it's worth commenting on it to let the mom know.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver%E2%80%93Russell_syndrome