major streaming platforms have threatened food bloggers with potential bans for overeating online
i 100% support a ban on those mukbang(?) channels or whatever they're called
Online food bloggers who binge eat for their viewers’ enjoyment have also been heavily criticized by state-run media. Major video platforms such as Douyin – China’s version of TikTok – have pledged to monitor food-related livestreams and shut down accounts that broadcast binge eating.
Langweixian, a binge-eating vlogger on Douyin with 40 million followers, had all but six of his 300-plus videos deleted from the platform. Langweixian once ate 10 packets of instant noodles in under nine minutes, according to state media.
i'll never understand how anyone can watch this stuff
What the fuck lmao
That is deeply fucked up. Good job on them for cracking down on it. Everyone in burgerland would be screaming "but muh freeeeeedom".
My partner really likes watching a mukbanger as like random mindless background videos. I'll never get it, watching anyone eat is gross as hell and mukbangers especially so.
I understand and accept it existing, I just don't understand its popularity...
Good. I enjoy food/cooking/eating content, I love to cook and I am totally down for someone to cook/eat a reasonable meal and provide feedback on it on a stream.
I do not want to see people eating 600 chicken wings in ten minutes or something though. It's not nutritious, you can't even possibly enjoy the taste at that point anymore and it just encourages really unhealthy habits.
Plus having people be voyeurs to plainly pathological behavior is just not helping anyone
傻逼 I understand that they want to go to war with us, but when that day comes, they will not face the fake China they imagined.
Lol it happened with the nazis. The diaries of their leaders at the start of the invasion of the ussr were like "this is the biggest movilization ever! Our victory is inevitable and glorious", 3 weeks later goebbels was like "our intel was completely wrong".
I've got this special interest with regard to the amazingly-wide gulf between the perception of how effective the Amerikan military is, and how incompetent they actually are. tl;dr, practically all of our wargame simulations are heavily scripted-- when they don't script how OPFOR "is supposed to act"(direct quote from one of the overseers of MC'02), OPFORs rungs lower on the tech ladder absolutely TPK our shit with low-tech methods. Millennium Challenge '02 is a prime example of the kind of fuckery the Joint Chiefs get up to fudging how effective our troops are.
Not to mention the problem with being a global hegemon is that you have to be the best at everything from jungle warfare, force projection across the ocean, European land wars with near-peer capabilities to 'counter insurgency' in the Middle East.
Every other military has to deal with like four or five regionally based scenarios at most.
Part of me thinks they know as well and they are looking for other ways to either destabilize China or avoid war by turning shit inwards.
I imagine they have moments of clarity/more realistic factions, but that's constantly undermined by "USA #1" rah rah bullshit and "those people can't possibly beat us" racism.
"Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance" - Sun Tzu
Meanwhile in Freedomland, school lunches have a shame cheese sandwich for kids that don't pay up or nothing at all.
May I ask what constitutes this shame cheese?
I must be the most authoritarian person in the world. At the school where I work I was part of overruling a vote by the junior student council (aged 6-9) to serve sushi as a school lunch simply because it was:
- Expensive (Requires unique ingredients that are not offered in bulk by any of the contractors delivering to the school)
- Impossible (Requires an impossible amount of work from each kitchen staff member for a single serving for each student)
- Poisonous (The fish we can get is decidedly not sushi grade and downright dangerous to eat raw)
- Illegal (Related to point 3, serving fish that is not thoroughly cooked would be an actual crime) and
- Insane (If you like sushi, can you imagine the disgusting mockery that would be a school lunch version made by three people for 800 students in 2 hours?)
Still, if a toothless but well meaning food waste campaign is the hallmark of authoritarianism, I was actually part of a small group of people with authority (in this case teachers) that straight up invalidated a democratic vote. I am authoritarian China, but even worse.
i'd vote for you
You with the single ballot:
Denying children the freedom to get intestinal parasites is just such a typical red fash tankie move.
Poisonous (The fish we can get is decidedly not sushi grade and downright dangerous to eat raw)
only some types of sushi is raw mostly it's cooked fish the rest are all valid poits
Does sushi even have all the required nutrients to be served as a lunch for children? I’m not against sushi at all, I just don’t really see it as a full lunch/meal…
Most likely not. To be honest the potential poisoning of all the children and us being criminally liable for that was kind of a deal breaker for us, so we did not really get into the nutrients.
Definitely not; we don't eat it that often even in Japan. While yes we have fast food variants of sushi that are readily available; it's overall more of a special dinner/occasion type food. I probably eat sushi once every couple months.
The only thing I could see being included in a lunch is something like inari-zushi, my office serves that as a side dish lunch a lot (which would get around the food safety concerns). We have chiraishi zushi at the office specifically on Girl's Day, because it is a holiday thing.
An elementary school might have something similar on holidays, but generally the school menus are planned by a nutritionist on staff that does a pretty good job. It gets tricky for kids with special diets, which are often not well accomodated, and there is a weird obsession with milk despite the prevalance of lactose intoelrance.
EDIT: We have a massive food waste problem too, so we are no better in that regard, but at least our school lunches are pretty good.
Never before has any state, much less the state of the Chinese Communist Party, been so bold as to control the agricultural sector.
didn't Mao make horrible changes that caused the worst famine ever
No, it wasn’t the worst famine in history, and Mao didn’t personally cause it. China had horrible famines every few years for Millennia, the fact that it happened once under socialism can’t be attributed to socialism. China hasn’t had any famine since, so historically Socialism has done a lot to end famine.
Isn't it funny how yankees will accuse anyone they've got an existential enmity with of "causing" a "genocidal" drought like these OPFOR are like-- mystical 9th level shamans that can just point at the land and say "wither"? While we're on the subject, if the droughts of Mao's time were a genocide, then shouldn't you really ought to consider the Dust Bowl one too?
Idk how much of that was Big Evil Mao telling people to kill the Four Pests and how much of that was the lingering consequences of a 40 year long Japanese genocidal occupation, brutal civil war, and attendant refugee crises. But if you're really interested in what farm life during the era of Chinese Revolution looked like, there's an excellent historical documentary called "Fanshen" that details the day-to-day life in Long Bow Village from '45 to '48 during the land-reform campaign.
relative to Mao's famine (if we blame every action to Mao) then India was having frequent famines and droughts which caused millions of deaths , misery and poverty .
China is simultaneously starving and overeating
So projection again.
That picture represents the feds unlawfully surveilling Chinese academics.
This is Not a 'The China Bad Times' Post, This is real. 😐
This genuinely feels like something that would be posted there lol
That's what !notthechinabadtimes@lemmygrad.ml is for
I thought this was satire, but here’s the real link: https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/28/asia/china-xi-jinping-clean-plate-campaign-dst-intl-hnk/index.html
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At the very end:
“The truth is, the implementation won’t be very strict,” said Wu, of the National University of Singapore.
This sounds like a goddamn parody, holy shit. How lacking in self awareness must someone be to read an article like this and not have a "are we the baddies?" moment?
Even a Guiness Record book refuse to enter new records about eating.
Does anyone unironically share this? Really grasping at straws on the anti China front
I sometimes wonder how some people are so stupid or naïve they fall for this blatant propaganda. It just doesn't get into my head.
Communism is when there's too much food
I generally dissuade judging from the provocative headlines but it's just as bad as you think. It's boringly bad.
The government made some comments about wasting food. Some laminated papers saying "Consider moderating consumption. Put an end to food waste" somehow becomes AUTHORITARIAN CHINA WILL PUT YOU IN JAIL FOR EATING TOO MANY TREAT
Paradoxically, they also basically say it's a non issue. They end the article with the assessment that nothing will happen:
“The truth is, the implementation won’t be very strict,” said Wu, of the National University of Singapore. Changing how nearly 1.4 billion people eat is a tall order.
In authoritarian China, eating freely is a cherished activity.
Nice way to spin "the Communist Party ended the millennia-long cycle of famine and has provided food security for 1.4 billion people" as something sinister.
eating freely is…bad apparently?
