07/19/25 - Workers sleep in order to work better, so sleep is just another form of oppression.
“My mom be like: What are you gonna do after marriage if you’re too lazy to wash dishes?
Me be like:”
Comments say, “That’s too expensive. All you need is two hundred plastic bags and a bowl.”
“Doesn’t plastic have microplastics though?”
“So what? You don’t have to wash it, do you?”
“How many years are you planning to live anyway?”
“I’m at the point where I’m too lazy to eat.”
“It’s a lot cheaper to buy all these disposable dishes than the water and electricity it takes to wash real dishes.”
“If you’re even lazier, you can use this.” [picture of bowl and spoon made from rice, so you can just eat your bowl and utensils.]
“That’s too luxurious. I just eat right out of the pan.”
“Are you even going to cook? Why buy these?”
“I don’t want to wash pans out either. Who’s gonna invent a disposable pan?”
“I have to do the whole family’s dishes even without getting married.”
“Went downstairs to a restaurant to eat noodles, and came back with 30 pairs of chopsticks. That’s so weird.”
“Just eat out of the pan. When you’re done, splash some hot water in there and wipe with a paper towel and you’re done.”
“If I’m too lazy to wash dishes, what makes you think I’m ever getting married?”
“I hear if you do this for long enough, you’ll get sick from the plastic fibres.”
“I was just thinking this was a great idea when I realised I wasn’t ever going to get married.”
“And here’s a pan for you.” [picture of a disposable pan.]
“The future Four Big Things: [popular items to include in every bride price back in the day, 三转一响 means literally “three which turns and one which is loud”, and used to refer to a watch, a bicycle, a sewing machine, and a radio] dishwasher, roomba, drying machine, and projector.”
“Mom: If you don’t get married, what’s gonna happen when you’re old? Me: Someone will give up their seat for me on the bus.”
[More talk about the Wahaha drama]
“Back in the day, old man Zong was fighting with Danone, and just as the conflict got white hot, the tax agency received a report from a supposed “tax enthusiast” which listed all the large sums of money that Zong had gotten from overseas and never reported between 1996 and 2006.
Zong indignantly insisted that it was a Danone plot against him. Danone denied everything.
And then Zong forked over 200 million RMB in back taxes before the State Tax Administration could investigate.
You gotta understand, back in the day, it was still called “tax theft”, not “tax evasion”. And there’s no rule that there’s no charges pressed for the first two offenses. Strictly speaking, if the amount is large enough, there could’ve been a criminal prosecution.
But you also didn’t have a duty to report your taxes aside from your personal taxes. It’s all taken care of by your employer. It wasn’t until Personal Tax Law was edited in 2005 that high income individuals making more than 120K a year had to report their taxes after the New Year.
And the most important point, at the time, between “moving state assets” and “tax theft”, the former is a much bigger crime.
And Zong had a good lawyer team. He caught on that Danone upper management also wasn’t reporting their personal taxes to China and a whole bunch of “tax enthusiasts” all around the country started reporting them.
And in the end, the case went nowhere.
And in less than a year, the Seventh Penal Code Edit came out, and “tax evasion” officially started the era of “paying ransom to avoid punishment.””
Comments say, “We used to call him Master Zong, and now we call him old man Zong.”
“Sigh, billionaires that stand up to scrutiny are even rarer than rare diseases.”
“I’m curious, you’re pretty young yourself, but you know so many secrets from years ago…how did you find out?”
“My mom said that coffee is the drink of poor people, because if rich people get sleepy, they can just take a nap.”
“Yeah, there’s a drink in Hong Kong called Mandarin Duck, and it’s a mix of strong tea + coffee, and it was a necessity for port workers in the last century to stay alert, and that’s how it got fashionable.”
“Goddammit, when I was little, everyone’s going on about how elites all drink coffee, and now that I’m grown up, you tell me it’s a poor people drink?”
“Coffee is what keeps me going as a salaryman.”
“It’s more of a middle-class thing. Poor people can’t afford it, rich people don’t need it, but it’s an absolute necessity for middle-class people who have decent income but work day and night.”
“Maybe it’s just that poor people use bad beans, and rich people have beans from high altitudes.”
“But I don’t drink coffee to wake up. And I bet rich people have even less time to sleep.”
“I can sleep even if I have coffee or tea. I was destined for sleeping.”
“It can’t stop me from sleeping. I can still sleep after I drink it. I drink it to ignore hunger and poop.”
“In WWII, the Soviet Union gave their soldiers liquor to make them better fighters. And nowadays, we give workhorses coffee to make them more alert. It’s just like taking performance-enhancing drugs.”
“Yeah, it sounds about right for me. We used to give coffee to workhorses to make them work, and it’s still workhorses that drink it today. The difference is, workhorses back then got it for free, and workhorses today have to pay for it out of their own pocket.”
“It depends on what kind of rich person. The boss of my former company only slept 4 hours a day and stayed up until 3-4AM every day and had all kinds of health problems. He said he couldn’t help it. The company was big enough that there’s always problems for him to deal with.”
“Only poor people with nothing to do sleep. Rich people want to go out and have fun and don’t want to go to bed.”
“Your mom studied Marxism well. Das Kapital said that workers sleep in order to work better, so sleep is just another form of oppression.”
“Villagers started using paper to wipe their butts, and city folk started using paper to wipe their mouths.”
“Your mom is right. If this is a poor people drink, I suggest all coffee start involuting like Luckin’ with coupons.”
#Girl rings bell to pass and man tries to sideswipe her for 1km in revenge. “On the 15th of July, in Beijing, according to a report by Rule of Law, a 14-year-old girl was riding her scooter in the bike lane and rang her bell to notify a scooter that she was passing. The man riding the scooter verbally abused her and continued to chase her and try to sideswipe her for approximately 1km. The man tried to stop the girl’s motorcycle with his wheel multiple times, and even tried forcing her into the motor vehicles lane, causing the girl to almost get ran over by a car. Just after that, a delivery driver interfered and stopped the man. The delivery driver said, “I don’t know exactly what happened, but I saw him trying to sideswipe her scooter, and it was super dangerous, so I immediately stopped there. He’d pushed her into the motor vehicles lane. I was like you need to leave immediately or I’m going to call the polite.”
Reporters learned from Xicheng police that after taking video footage, visiting witnesses, and assessing injuries, they have put the culprit, Mr. Li (male, 42-years-old) in an administrative hold for 14 days and praised the delivery driver for helping.”
Comments say, “Tea pots are fragile like that.”
“Serves him right…it’s about time we lock up these Bosozoku. I’ll pay for their food.”
“The reporter should interview the culprit here, let people know what kind of man he is.”
“I was changing dressings on a patient.
Her husband was like, “Look at how small that incision is! Technology sure has come a long way.”
I was like, “Oh, are you a doctor too?”
And he was like, “I used to work as a doctor. Quit after two or three years.”
And the patient was like, “I only married him because he was a doctor. I didn’t realise he was gonna quit. Now he’s working in construction. He’s done that for 20-30 years now.”
And I was like, “He must’ve made a lot of money then.”
And the husband was like, “Well, some, but being a doctor is better. It’s such a noble profession.”
And I just laughed.
And in my heart, I was like, “If it’s so noble, why didn’t you keep doing it?””
Comments say, “Nobody in this comment section cares about the expecting mother’s age? The husband was a doctor first and then worked 20-30 years in construction, just how old is his wife to be having a kid?”
“To be honest, he said “noble”, but he didn’t deny that it’s very hard work too. Plus everything else.”
“Lol, Doctor Yang, you should’ve said what you were thinking out loud.”
“The AC has been continuously working for 15 hours. Should I turn it off so it can rest for a bit?”
Comments say, “Fridge: Wait, what? You don’t get plugged in and then work until you die?”
“When you put it that way, I really do feel bad for fridges. Most people use their fridges for over 10 years and they never get to rest unless the power is out.”
“Why does it need to rest? It’s already been resting for 10 months. Why does it need to rest when it only works 2 months a year?”
“Router: But if I stop working for a single second, you want to swap me for a new one.”
”How much electricity or air does a router even use? ACs burn through too much money, and keeping them on makes the air bad.”
“AC: Do you feel bad for me or for your wallet?”
“The importance of job positions:
Fridges and routers are the entry-level work horses. They work the hardest but nobody ever notices. And if they ever screw up, they’ll get blamed immediately.
Washing machines and TVs are administrative positions. There’s nothing for them to do most of the time, they just gotta sit up whenever there is work. And if they screw up a little, it’s alright. There’s always something you can do instead.
ACs are the core technical team. Most of the year, there’s nothing to do, but if you don’t have them at the key moment, you’re completely done.
Phones are pure nepo babies. You get to hang around the boss all day, and not only does the boss not dare to get mad at you, but they have to come up with all kinds of ways to help you (heat sink, protective case, screen protector). And if something goes wrong, the boss immediately think that he must’ve done it, and he’ll put up with it so long as you even vaguely work. And if he can’t put up with it, he’ll try to help you out (change batteries, screen maintenance). And even if there’s nothing to be done, you’ll just get transferred to a branch company (give it to their kids or parents).”