10/25/24 - Don’t trust anyone. Including your best friend.
10/25/24 - Don’t trust anyone. Including your best friend.
A compilation of smart advice [literally, to overthink things, but with a positive connotation]:
“1. Even if he died, it wouldn’t be any of your business. Once you enter society, the first thing you need to learn is preservation. 2. You can help if it’s something you were going to do anyways. If it brings the least amount of hassle to yourself, you should refuse. 3. Whether it’s your friends or strangers asking about something, just make shit up.”
“It took me until 28 to learn these, and I’m practicing them every day. 1. Never join your coworkers in complaining about your boss. If you really can’t take it anymore, complain to your friends from outside of work. 2. Coworkers are just people you work with. They’re not your friends. 3. Don’t talk about your family matters with people from work, especially not any bad gossip. This is just going to provide your boss with leverage to manipulate you with. He knows your life is rocky right now so you’re too afraid to quit, and you’re not skilled enough to find a better job, so he’ll push all the shittiest work onto you. 4. No matter how much you hate a certain coworker, you still have to act friendly. Like if you’re handing out snacks to everyone, or you need to talk to them about work. You don’t have to bother with them at all outside of that, though. 5. Praise people more. Having a sweet mouth is very useful.”
“Don’t talk about your private matters to anyone, especially if it’s not something good. Even if you’re close enough to someone to share pants with them. I’ve been screwed by this before, so just keep everything to yourselves, guys.”
“Be wary of people who are super friendly right off the bat, they’re usually super bitchy behind your back.”
“Another piece of advice: if anyone is gossiping about someone else behind their back to you, remember this person, they’ll gossip about you in front of other people too. If someone is trying to pick apart your relationships, the easiest reply is just to chuckle and change the topic. The that person continues, then find an excuse and leave quickly. Get as far away from these people as possible.”
“Never, ever work with paranoid people. Especially don’t become friends with them. Paranoid people are paranoid about everything in this world, like everyone is out to get them.”
“The British workplace has already turned me into a silent, emotionless autist.”
“Girl, never delete this post. I want to come back here all the time to learn how to be smarter. I’ve learned so much already.”
“Money is your bottom line. Never talk about it.”
“This is true. I don’t want to talk about anything now, because if it’s something good, people won’t necessarily be happy on your behalf, but they’ll certainly be jealous of you, especially if they’re sensitive and insecure. So it’s really important to learn self-preservation.”
“Never have any money dealings with your coworkers, never take advantage of your coworkers. Stay far away with coworkers with low moral bottom lines or people who gamble!”
“Don’t trust anyone. Including your best friend. Don’t tell people everything! Serious warning!”
“Don’t get involved in things that aren’t your business. Don’t do work that isn’t yours.”
“I can’t even talk about my travel plans or vacation plans?”
“Never believe in a friendship consisting of three people. Someone is bound to get excluded.”
“Separate work and real life. If you run into problems at work, you can complain to your parents, but never share it with your supposed friends or boyfriend.”
“Don’t think of someone you’ve known for less than a year as a close friend.”
“If you talk about what you’re about to do at all, it won’t go smoothly.”
“Nanjing’s North Station got changed after all, hahahaha. I guess public opinion finally got to them! I wonder if people like this new design?”
Comments say, “Why does it look like a chrysanthemum now?”
“The first version looks like a menstrual pad XD”
“It would look better if they turned it into a four-leaf clover instead.”
“Why do people say that he just wants special privileges?”
[Picture shoes a man with a homemade badge on his car that reads, “I’ll answer the call anytime—retired SWAT.”]
Comments say, “I don’t see the problem. Vets get special license plates in Canada and they get all kinds of privileges.”
“Serve the draft for two years and you think you’re a soldier for life. [doge]”
“I just follow traffic laws. Doesn’t matter if you’re retired international police. I’ll still decide whether to let you in based on my mood.”
[Cropped passages from a news article about scalpers reselling tickets to the Nanjing Massacre Museum at a high price.] “Nanjing police immediately went to Jiangxi to arrest Mr. Zhang. They discovered a specialised software for snatching tickets for the Nanjing Museum and the Nanjing Massacre Museum on his computer.”
“Mr. Zhang admitted that this software was developed by his former coworker, Mr. Cai. Before the summer holidays, Mr. Cai contacted him and brought up partnering up to establish a “Scalping Studio”, and they would split the profits. In just a month, Mr. Zhang made almost 300K RMB. “At first, I was very hesitant. I know it’s illegal to be a scalper. But Cai don’t me to relax, that it doesn’t matter, that it’s only a fine if we get caught, so I agreed to it. Now that I’ve actually been arrested, I’ve learned that I’ll be facing criminal punishments and end up with a record, but it’s too late to change my mind.””
“Following the lead, the police arrested the software developer, Mr. Cai, and according to him, he has been working with a certain company in Shanghai for the past few years. Last year, said company’s head honcho, Mr. Yao, asked him to develop software for snatching prices to popular tourist spots around Nanjing on behalf of a Vacation Planning business owner, Mr. Jin. Mr. Jin owned three large travel companies, providing tourists with resources, and promised that he would provide Mr. Yao and Mr. Cai 3 RMB each in dividends with every ticket sold.
This software was first used at the end of 2023, and can finish the entire process of purchasing a ticket within tenths of a second. This year, as the “museum craze” is sweeping again, scalpers have raised Nanjing Museum ticket prices to new heights, and Mr. Cai saw the immense opportunity in that too. He has requested a raise multiple times, and after being refused by Mr. Jin, he decided to start his own business with his former coworker, Mr. Zhang.”
Comments say, “I’m really curious how software like this is made. Like, the systems we write have a lot of verification systems and defense systems. I don’t get how you can get tickets with software alone.”
“Absolute evil! 300K RMB? More like 300K lives lost!”
“They should be executed. Isn’t this making profit off of a national tragedy?”
A compilation of discussion around China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Mao Ning’s claims that, “America has been indiscriminately monitoring Chinese phone users for years, illegally stealing text information and position data.”
Comments say, “Go ahead and look. Write me a summary of what all is in there.” [screenshot shows 2022 unread wechat messages.]
“No wonder it takes forever for me to get texts on wechat. I guess the Americans have to read it first.”
“If you’re reading this, go get my package from the delivery station. You know the tracking number.”
“Can he analyse from an American POV whether we have a change of getting back together?”
“No wonder my SO found out in no time when I secretly bought Black Myth Wukong. I guess America was telling on me.”
“Please give me a summary by 6PM today.” [screenshot showing 4184 unread wechat messages.]
“Do you think they laugh at me for only making 3K a month?”
“What do you mean, Apple users are devastated? It’ll take them decades to decode my dialect.”
“Fuck, if America knows I’m getting debt-collection calls every day, would they help me pay it back?”
“You can listen to me all you want, but please do not hack my camera, because I like to play with my phone while showering.”
“Fuck. Now America knows I’m a perv.”
“At a certain university in Shanghai…” [Texts showing an investigation into whether any Apple phones had ever been connected to one of their classified computers.]
“Let them listen. It’s not like I do anything that matters.”
“Go ahead and look.” [screenshot of a whole bunch of scam texts.]
“Looks like everyone is talking about, “Has there ever been a moment where you tried to give someone a way out, only for them to tread all over you?”
I feel like this happens to me all the time. I just have too much empathy and I’m scared of embarrassment, so I offer people a way out all the time, and I end up being humiliated.”
OP shows a compilation of posts that read, “The grossest thing in the world is when you try to give someone a way out by saying everything is your fault, only to find out they actually think so.”
“Them: I’m so thirsty, but I forgot my water. I’m dying of thirst.
Me: I brought some water. Do you want some?
Them: No, thanks. I don’t like you.”
“People are already telling their stories in the comment section. I suggest you don’t offer someone a way out, don’t try to be nice, because they don’t need it to begin with.”
“I recall a friend complaining about her dry hair, and I tried telling her that long, straight hair might look nice, but it gets greasy super easily so that’s annoying too. It’s nice that her hair almost never gets greasy. And she went, “I guess you’re right. Not like your straight hair looks good or anything, and it gets greasy all the time? No, thanks.” That’s when I knew that this is all she would ever be.”
“Lol, my lower bunk was like this too. I comforted her that she can try to get protein treatment, and said something about how my smooth hair lays super close to the scalp. And she was like, “If my hair was as flat as yours, I’d kill myself.” And he said he’d rather have dry hair than hair like mine.”
“She’s always complaining about how hard it is to take care of two kids, and I tried to say, “Lots of kids is lots of luck. They’re a handful because they’re small, but think about how nice it is to have two kids taking care of you once they’re older.” And she went, “That’s true. I can definitely rely on at least one of them. Not like you. You only had one kid. If they turned out to be a shithead, you’d have nowhere to go.” I just…hahahaha.”
“Yu Huaying has been sentenced to death. #What punishment do you face if you traffic your own children? On the 25th of October, Guizhou’s Guiyang Middle Court has announced Yu Huaying’s sentence—she is going to be sentenced to death and have her political rights stripped permanently. Before this, Guiyang’s Middle Court concluded that between 1993 and 2003, Yu Huaying has been trafficking children between Guizhou, Yunnan, and Chongqing with multiple accomplices in order to gain illegal profits. She has trafficked a total of 17 children.
Society has been paying a lot of attention to Yu Huaying’s hearing. In reality, the peak of child trafficking was the 80s and 90s, and most of Yu Huaying’s crimes were committed between 1993-1996, but her hearing recently has still raised very strong society emotions. Details of Yu Huaying, her victims, and their families have made it onto the trending tags multiple times throughout the course of this trial, and the cry for Yu Huaying to be sentenced to death has been rising higher and higher. I suppose this is a form of closure for the amount of harm and anger this sort of crime has caused society.
In reality, all the way back in 1983, the People’s Representative Committee has published ”Decision to Strictly Punish Criminals That Severely Harm Public Safety”, which raised the sentence for human trafficking to be death. But the death sentence has not stopped this type of crime entirely. Trafficking using violence or fraud did not noticeably decrease until after 2013. But a different kind of child trafficking is still going on—just lately, a news story exposed that hospital workers have become middle men in selling babies, claiming to be able to connect the buyer and selling to get birth certificates and vaccines logs from the hospital too. Some middle men claim to have went through 20 kids in a year. Compared to trafficking children with violence, this sort of “non-violent abductions” maybe much harder to end. This has to do with how society views women and children too.
What characteristics does child trafficking take on in different decades? How does our laws and institutions stop this behaviour? Does the death sentence work? Why is it illegal to sell your own child? Why does child trafficking still exist? We’ve interviewed Law University of Beijing’s Director of the Institute of Foreign Criminal Law and Comparative Criminal Law. In 2013, he conducted the vital research of, “Research on Difficult Issues in the Trail of Case of Trafficking in Women and Children” in the Supreme Court.”
[The interview is attached along with the post, but it’s extremely long, and this professor mostly says a whole lot of nothing. The only new information he says that hasn’t already been covered is that the main reason we saw a decrease of human trafficking in 2013 is because that’s when the government worked with NGOs to institute preventative measures, plans for rescue, rehabilitation, and shelters for victims. And this was when the police officially established a database of missing persons and DNA. And also that more boys are trafficked than girls, statistically speaking.]
Comments say, “People were just saying a couple of days ago that it shouldn’t be illegal to give up your own daughter for adoption if you don’t want her.”
“The guy selling babies in Wuxi a couple of days ago?”
“It would be too merciful to sentence them to lingchi!” [death by a thousand cuts, basically.]