10/09/23 - Most 90’s kids didn’t have computers in 2001, right?
From a blogger with an American IP: “Just went to school. It’s pretty interesting. I’ve met some Americans who are pro-Palestine, some Americans who are sympathetic to Palestine but neutral, and even some Israelis who are pro-Palestine! (My sample size is small, but so far, I haven’t met anyone pro-Israel.)
But! All the Jews in my community has organised to express support for Israel. My classmate says they’re organising around school too, we just happened to not run into any.
Basically, my summary is that 1. people who are pro-Palestine never say they’re pro-Hamas. 2. This is a lot more controversial than the Russia-Ukraine War. With the Russia-Ukraine War, I couldn’t find a single person who was pro-Russia.”
Comments say, “Sigh. The international community’s been sympathetic to Palestine for decades, but they’re the ones screwing themselves over. Palestine has too many internal problems, and that’s how Hamas formed to begin with. But aside from Palestinian Independence, there’s no other slogan that really unites the common Palestinian problem. I feel like this is a problem with no solutions.”
“My Israeli coworker/friend has been a long-time supporter of Palestine, and really actively speaks for Palestinians on his social media.”
“My coworkers showed me letters from a Jewish organisation asking for donations, and the wording they used was super threatening. Ever since then, I can’t have any sympathy for Israel.”
Earlier this year (around February), a internet commenter named Antarctic Catfish posted comments online in the line of, “Some people are making fun of me, but I spend in a day what they make in a year.” “Of course I love China. All the money in my family comes from you sheep. How could I not love you guys?” “When my grandpa was running the Bureau of Transportation, your grandpa was still giving people pedicures on the streets.” “I can go to whatever country I want, eat king crab and Boston lobsters every day. Pigs like you only deserve gruel for New Years.” And she was reported, resulting in Shenzhen opening an investigation into your family.
Last month, Shenzhen Bureau of Transportation came out with an official announcement that, “After investigation, the information that’s been requested is not information obtained during the course of this Bureau’s work, and thus is not information that we are legally allowed to reveal. Therefore, we have decided to not publicise this information. We will resolve this case after 15 business days.”
Today, the results of the investigation finally came out, that Antarctic Catfish’s grandpa, “has been disloyal, dishonest, impeded this committee’s investigative efforts repeatedly, embezzled official funds, engaged in illegal business activity, engaged in part-time work without permission, accepted bribes, and abused the authority of his station to give others profit. He has severely violated the CCP’s laws and regulations, and thus will have his CCP membership removed, and will only receive pension as a second-rank officer.”
Comments say, “Who is the plaintiff who accuses this judge?” [famous line from a satirical comedy movie about judges being allowed to rule on lawsuits filed against them due to corruption.]
“I mean, although the way she put it is absolutely awful, nothing she said was untrue. The only way for sheep to fight back is to not marry and not have kids, so their descendants don’t have to keep being sheep.”
“Keep dreaming. They’ll never announce the results. [Doge]”
“Why haven’t you guys forgotten about this yet? XD [Doge]”
A tiktok video from the west about what it’s like if you woke up in 2001 and whiled away your day:
Comments say, “If you actually went back though, you’d just feel like damn, this computer is so laggy…”
“Back then, I really did think that Red Alert was the world’s best video game…”
“Most 90’s kids didn’t have computers in 2001, right?”
From a blogger with an American IP: “Before I came to America, I knew that the Jews were massacred by the Nazis once, but I still didn’t really grasp that “Jews were historically prosecuted”, especially now how far or widespread it was in European history. Mostly, it’s because Jews are seemingly super successful in America. So I always felt like how do rich and powerful people face prejudice? I mean, even if it happened, it’s only a problem ages back, right?
Then one time, an Israeli professor told us a story. He’s got a friend who’s an Australian, and this friend married an Eastern European wife. One day, the professor went to his friend’s house, and the wife dropped some dishes while doing housework, and the curse that flew out of her mouth was, “Fucking Jews!” (This story happened ages ago, my memory isn’t exactly accurate, but it was something like that). This story really left a deep impression on me.
Basically, anti-semitism has a deep and long history in the west. There was a guy yelling anti-semitic stuff at our school once, and the principle panicked and sent out an email to everyone.
I’m not saying this in response to the latest Israeli-Palestinian conflict or anything. I just want to say that the world is really, really big, and there’s a lot of stuff I don’t understand. Everyone’s got their difficulties. We’re all good people hurting each other.”
Comments say, “Isn’t this exactly like a poor northerner married a Jiangnan wife, and her instinctive swear was “fucking yankees!” XD”
“Yeah, it’s really hard to grasp if you don’t live in that kind of culture. Spielberg’s movie last year used a lot of time to talk about the bullying he faced in school as a Jew, and even after watching all of it, I still didn’t get it. It was like, ‘Oh my god, that’s terrible, but…why??” I don’t get this out-of-nowhere completely baseless prejudice and hate.”
“I don’t know if it’s just me, but I feel like Chinese people are actually pretty friendly towards Jews (except politically speaking). Overall, everyone thinks they’re smart, educated, cunning businessmen, rich, successful, etc. I don’t know if anyone else gets the same impression.”
A tiktok video shared by a South-African daycare teacher exposing a Shanghai daycare’s male HR manager for beating people up (this event happened in August). Based on information in the tiktok’s comment section, she is now in Germany.)
Comments say, “Wow, so typical. It has literally every trope. The man who hits women. The women who help capture other women who escape. The dispassionate onlookers. The disappearing security camera footage. And the cops who muddy the waters.”
“She’s outside of China anyways, she should be brave and tell us the name of the kindergarten and the manager. Make a big deal out of this. Force China to do something to save face.”
“Humming while he chased after her?? Is this seriously not from a horror movie?”
“The hardest job to slack off at in all of China: The Sanxingdui Museum’s historical relic restoration lab. It uses floor to ceiling glass on all sides so that visitors can watch the professionals restore historical relics at every stage. This poor lady’s desk is the worst, surrounded by people on all three sides. It’s even worse than pandas at the zoo…if she’s an introvert, how’s she supposed to live?”
Comments say, “That’s terrifying. It’s a panopticon.”
“Everyone takes turns to work here for a day. The punishment for arriving at work late is having to sit at this desk.”
“Oh my god, most people who choose to work in relic restoration are deeply introverted people. They went out of their way to choose this industry, and they still have to get watched by hordes of people. That’s fucking awful. One less job suitable for introverts.”
An askreddit question, “If you can add a zero to any statistic, what would you use it for?”
The top-voted answer is, “In 2021, 34 million people died in America. In 22, 33 million people died in America. In 2025, America will welcome its 470th President.
Japan has 15000 earthquakes per year on average. Japan gets 17000mm of rainfall per year on average.
China’s territory spans 96 million square kilometres.
I earn 35,000 RMB per month.”
Comments say, “His philosophy fits his salary.”
“It’s so stupid that I suspect it’s some sort of high-level satire.”
“So he only wants to make more money himself, and he doesn’t care about all the other Chinese people?”
“The confirmed deaths in Israel are looking to be over 1000 this time. In a country with only 10 million population to begin with, it’d be like if 140,000 people died in India. The Gaza strip will probably be completely occupied. The extremist forces are going to be wiped out.
Anyone with sound reasoning, who are true to their hearts, would use their actions to support what is obviously just. In the future, I’m going to do tourism in Israel, Ukraine, and Korea. I believe in the people there, their culture, and their atmosphere. I hope the people on the other side will put their actions where their words are and go to the countries they support too.”
Comments say, “I support sending anyone who sympathises Hamas or the Taliban over to their territory. They would surely like to visit their good friends right? I’m just curious how many days they’ll last.”
“Be a little more objective. After so many years of the Israeli-Palestine conflict, after so many generations of people, neither side have clean hands. Israel is more open and more civilised than Palestine, but that’s because they’ve had the support of the West to keep limiting and trapping the Arabs who lived on that land.”
“Wouldn’t there be peace if Israelis just went back to Europe?”
A compilations of tricks to getting up early:
“Getting up in the morning is super hard, but if you can truly commit to it, then it’s super simple. I had a roommate once who really wanted to get up early every morning to study for her Master’s Degree, so she recorded a alarm tone, and put her phone on her table every night. It was a recording of every secret she had from childhood to adulthood, starting with, “Everyone, come listen to my secrets~” This method not only ensured that every morning, she’d instantly startle awake and jump out of bed, but used curiosity to ensure that all of us picked up the habit of getting up early too.”
“I had a roommate in high school who put her phone in one of her shoe boxes under her bed. She loved buying shoes, so there were always a ton of shoe boxes under her bed. It’s a panic every morning to find her phone.”
“I used to play Liu Haoran’s “Sunrise, Sunset” song, and my roommate would crawl over to my bed to shut off my phone XD”
“I’ve set “Wedding Carriage” as my alarm tone. As soon as I hear the trumpets start playing, I instantly turn off the alarm.”
“Oh my god, my classmate’s done this too. It shocked me awake with a cold sweat in the first day.”
“Hahahaha I used to do this too. I clipped out a section of the porny bits of a Japanese Boy’s Love audio show as my alarm. There’s about 15 seconds at the start that’s just the door opening and them talking. Our dorm was beds on the top bunk, with tables underneath, and I’d set my volume to the loudest and put it on my desk. As soon as I hear the sound of the door opening, I would spring out of bed to close my phone. It’s super thrilling whenever I’m sleeping at home too.”