2/20/23 - There's no way AI can replace human artists.
A mother spent 2800RMB on train tickets and never sat down. Her 16 month old baby insisted on walking back and forth from train car 10 to train car 16 the whole time.
Under the trending topic #study shows male testosterone declines 30% in 20 years, blogger claims that this is because men are doing too much heavy physical labour. People who work in mining, construction, or other physically demanding jobs will have their skeletal structure permanently changed by exertion and this will affect their sexual abilities too. This is why men have a declining sperm count. Sperm survives best at around 30 degrees, and die at around 40 degrees, and male truck drivers often spend hours sitting under direct sunlight, so this kills their sperm. Blogger recommends that men should consider taking on more jobs in the service industry, or working in IT, or being internet influencers.
Blogger responds to anxiety that AI is replacing artists in video game companies by reassuring people that artist’s greatest contribution is design and creativity. A lot goes into character design for a game, there’s a lot of back and forth discussion about every single little detail, and most of that communication is incredibly unclear and vague. Though they’ve seen how advanced AI will become, but there’s no way AI can replace human artists. Although gaming companies are laying off lots of people, this has nothing to do with AI, and has to do with how gaming companies are making less money. But saying that AI is going to replace humans is just engineering anxiety for clicks. AI will at most just be a more deft tool in the toolbox of a human artist—it’ll be humans that determine the upper limit of what AI can accomplish.
An internet journalist documents two old people in their 80s or 90s whose house had been torn down forcibly by the government under eminent domain, who are living in a straw shack they built in the snow, with no where to even cook.
Remember the blogger who complained about her parents giving 600,000RMB to her brother and only 60,000RMB to her? A different blogger comments on her posts that some people truly do feel like everything they have, they earned. Their parents favour them, because they’re pretty and smart. Their parents don’t like their brother, because he’s stupid and ugly and shouldn’t have been born. They’re supposed to love me, and not love him. People who grow up like that end up feeling like their parents owe them, their teachers owe them, their friends owe them, society owes them. A lot of people are supporting the original blogger because, “Well, she has her own room and her brother doesn’t because she does better at school. She got to study overseas and her brother didn’t because she got higher marks. She spends a lot of money on herself and her brother has to work to support the family because she makes more money.” They believe they’re entitled to all their privileges. These people shouldn’t be loved, because no matter how much you love them, they just think they deserved it because they’re smart and pretty. The more you give to them, the more awesome they think they are. They’ll never give the same back to you.
A husband gets diagnosed with late-stage liver cancer at 28, and his wife immediately aborts her 5 month old foetus and asks for a divorce. Blogger says that this situation really can’t be helped and everyone involved is getting screwed, but what can you do? It’s cancer. This is why he recommends that if you’re wealthy, have lots of kids, and if you’re not wealthy, freeze lots of sperm. This way, you’ll never be in a situation where all your eggs are in one basket.
On Chinese reddit, someone complains that their mother-in-law offered to come by and clean up their house for them. When they returned home, holy crap, it was like a showroom. All the surfaces were clean of everything except decoration. And then, of course, “Hey, did you see my razor? It used to be right here in the bathroom.” “Where’s my package? I left it right here on the shelf.” “Where’s the can opener?” “Where’s the tissues?” And they discovered that apparently, her MIL’s logic for storing things is to shove everything into a giant cardboard box or trash bag, and then stuff the whole thing into a corner. No sorting at all. Months afterwards, she was finding mouldy bread stuffed into old Amazon packages, shampoo from under her travel suitcases. Her children have medicine that need to be refrigerated that her MIL had taken out of the fridge. All the white shirts that her MIL had washed had become dyed, because her MIL thought colour absorbers were too wasteful. All her husband’s clothing had been crammed into a giant ball of clothes in his closet and they had all become wrinkly. She has demanded that her MIL never come over and clean again, but nevertheless, she carries on coming by every couple of months to hide all of their stuff.
A blogger living in Germany says that her husband has expressed envy once that Chinese people retire so early! 55 for women, and 60 for men. She says that yeah, her in-laws retire late, 65 for her MIL and 70 for her FIL, but they actually like their work. For one thing, the work day is so much more chill in Europe. Her FIL worked at a hospital 4 days a week and got off of work by 3pm every day, and had plenty of holidays year round. Her uncle also worked at a hospital, and was so stressed that at 40, he already looked 60. By the time he made it to 60, he had a heart attack in the middle of work and had to be carried off to the ER. When he was retirement age, he couldn’t keep working if he wanted to. You can’t make people work that hard and retire late.
Someone asks blogger for help that he had went on a camping trip with a whole bunch of his friends, one of which was his crush. They happened to stop by a real estate office where they were showing a bunch of mansions for sale. He had no idea what came over him, but he said that if his crush would agree to date him, he’ll buy her a mansion. She asked if he could even afford it, and he lied that his parents own a business, they probably have 3 million in cash. If they sell their spare house (it’s not a spare), they can get another 4 million out of it and that should be enough. And ever since then, his crush has been so eager to hang out with him, and peel oranges for him, and even saying that she’s had a crush on him for a while and just hadn’t said anything. He knows that it’s just because of his lies and isn’t sure what to do now. The blogger recommends to think about that later and just sleep with her for now.
A series of various people on the internet complaining about the unrealisticness of agriculture novels, for example like making money by making fried kebabs. You can’t fry anything without a shitton of oil, and people have literally been beaten to death for stealing a spoonful of oil. Or finding edible plants that no one knew about in poor areas—if people are poor, they’ve already eaten everything including the bark off of trees. What is there left for you to discover? Or finding super old and valuable ginseng just by taking a short walk up a hill. Teaching people how to eat locusts when locust swarms come, even though the locusts that swarm are poisonous. Cleaning pork intestine with flour, when flour is pretty expensive back in the day. Going to cook when your family is poor, and the kitchen is stocked as though you’re in the modern day, with soy sauce and spices and vinegar.
Blogger says that she came upon a mother and daughter pair in the snacks section of her supermarket. She heard the mother say in a serious voice, “Are you sure you want all of it?” She thought the mother would try to talk the kid into only choosing one, or say that they already had these at home. But when the little girl said, “Yeah, I want them all.” The mother smiled and said, “Okay, then we’ll buy alllll of it.” and drew a big circle with her arms and picked her daughter up, and they giggled at each other. All at once, the blogger felt like all the stress of her day had drained away and she says she is so jealous of chill families like this.