It already broke even in the first week, so idk if it counts as eating shit

I think it’s more so that people who care about MCU slop went and saw it week one, and general theatre goers aren’t choosing to watch a Fantastic Four film. What few people are going to see it are probably like “oh I like Pedro Pascal, I guess I’ll go see this”

I mean, that’s why I went to see it. It was ok

You’re friends with Dave Franco?

Nah, China has a lot of stores where they take a brand that exists in the west to use it to sell something that may or may not relate to the brand whatsoever.

In 2017, I went to a shop in a new-ish mall that was called “Porsche”, the logo was the Porsche logo, the walls had pictures of different Porsche from throughout the years, the counter had a model of some model of Porsche 911 (looked 90’s, not quite modern).

They sold handbags, wallets, gloves, scarves, sunglasses, belts, jackets and also co-incidentally perfumes.

Or:

>Meet one (1) redditor

>Decide that person and their ilk are in desperate need of perfume

They just haven’t updated it since like 2017

It’s the reddit mascot with a fedora, which is official artwork since the new reddit UI was implemented.

You encounter it if you try and view Reddit on a VPN, I saw it quite often when I click a link to here while I was in China

Fun fact, if you try and view reddit on a VPN, that’s the image that comes with the message blocking your access.

Despite being heavily distorted and looking more like the aforementioned RubberFruit’s most iconic GMod monstrosity than an actual human being

I thought so too, but it turns out Anglos just look like that.

“Good gravy!”

“Oh thank you, it’s just brown and water”

are they all plain crackers or

Are the cumskins known for properly seasoning their food?

Nintendo of America: We can’t air the episode where James from Team Rocket has huge knockers. That’s completely unacceptable in a children’s show in a Christian nation.

Nintendo of Japan: Well, it is a children’s franchise… Got it, no more adding unnecessary breasts to things

NoA: Woah slow down there partner

It’s people who got FOMO from their neighbours winning the lottery. So now they’re never not buying lottery tickets ever again.

Sometimes, early adapters to new technology have a huge advantage and make big money. There are also various cautionary tales about companies like Kodak or Nokia or Black Berry or Xerox who didn’t adapt to new technology and collapsed or shrunk.

So, to them, adapting early = potentially lots of money! And not adapting = potentially being eaten by the competition! Then after the early adapters, the slower companies will also go “quick, everyone is using LLMs, we must do it too!”.

Also they can safely downsize (or rather, think they can safely downsize) with this new shiny LLM, it can surely replace customer service or tech support or your corporate lawyers or whatever.

>Crossing the Amazon basin

>Gets slapped

>“That’s it! Back to Winnipeg”

I nominate myself for Minister of Humility, for I am the most humble person on the site. Nay, the world.

Oh, there’s no Minister of Humility? That’s cool, I’m humble enough to wait while you make a position and build an office. I humbly request the largest office. Larger than General Secretary.

Gooner game makers rapidly switching back to making 18+ Flash games on Newgrounds for ad revenue (the ads are all for Evony or Snorg Tees)

Saw a screenshot of “proof” that they were leftists:

One of the Collective Shout members posting years ago in support the Liberal Party.

…which is the major right wing party of Australia.

They’re anti abortion and have support from anti-LGBT church leaders, Swerfs and Terfs.

Progress is slow in certain areas, and people do get frustrated. Learning “oh things like this are actually not progressing at all or even regressing in the West” is cold comfort at best for most people. China has come a long way in terms of childbirth/injuries/infectious disease, and ofc infrastructure to increase access to healthcare for those ailments. And yet chronic illness, disability care and cancer are often left to Traditional Chinese Medicine or possibly be quite expensive (not by US standards, by a regular country’s standards).

The article is actually really correct here:

Chinese healthcare coverage for reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health and infectious diseases is comparable to those in high-income countries, according to a 2023 paper published in the Lancet medical journal.

The whole system is geared towards addressing what was killing the most people at the time the system was set up. Then life expectancy grew. A lot. What was responsible for mortality shifted. And then ofc the market privatisations.

What was killing the most people before were preventable and curable diseases, infant mortality, death during childbirth, things like that. Which means treatment for chronic illness, cancer, things like that are lagging behind for a lot of people.

They wouldn’t be close to the flames? Look the white spray coming from the drone isn’t a cloud, it’s shooting water the whole length of a fire truck in front of it

I spent a lot of time in the oncology ward of a hospital in Wuhan last year. Sharing a room with the person I was visiting daily was a little girl and her mother. The little girl was undergoing chemotherapy, and was basically in bed alternating between cartoons, homework and WeChat calls to family.

They’re from… I guess the Hubei equivalent of a “panhandle” in the US? South west corner of the province, actually closer to Chongqing than Wuhan. They had to take a green skin slow train to get to a larger city for a high(er) speed train to Wuhan. They were scraping by, since it’s only a single income while the mother had taken months off, staying in the city paying city prices and obviously half the medical bills not covered by insurance. She was a couple years younger than me, but was saying this wouldn’t have been possible when she was a kid, her family simply weren’t covered. Whatever wasn’t treatable by the local clinic the Party built in the 70’s would require paying out of pocket travelling to Enshi (tiny little city, 800k population in western Hubei), often requiring borrowing money from other families in the village if it’s major.

It tracks with the line in the article,

About 95 per cent of its 1.4bn people are now covered by some medical insurance, up from around 13 per cent in 2003.

Things are improving every single year, but many people fall through the cracks. I hope the next Five Year Plan has overhauls for the healthcare system.

A friend and I were scrolling through options on the TV, she played the trailer and we both agreed that the joke would get old after 10 mins so we decided against watching it.