What was the principal thinking? [image] Chinese kindergarten welcomes kids to school with a pole dancer After videos garnered lots of unwanted attention on the internet, the Bao’an educational bureau said the pole dance was ‘inappropriate’

What’s with the simplified characters? Is this from the PRC? Guy

I was thrown off by the “Taiwans” part in the post. But yes I get it now. Guy

Yes Taiwans culture of not admitting fault to save face comes from China. Seems they are a notch higher on the crazy scale but still, same bullshit. Quite funny how simplified characters get get such an irrational response of dislike though. They are just that ugly!

Delivery driver puts his kid into the delivery container when picking them up from school. Teacher looks a bit concerned. https://x.com/bxieus/status/1835862415390523662

[image] SuperS54: Somebody knew! That journal looks to be pretty much entirely staffed by Chinese academics and I’m not sure how much English editing gets done, but I would have expected that to be removed nonetheless. It was kind of unavoidable if using an abbreviation though, and “CNTs” (f…

[image] Andrew: It was kind of unavoidable An early inconsistency in the 2007 paper I posted — maybe they started to change it to “Cu NTs”, which is probably the best possible alternative, then decided not to bother: [copper nanotubes 1] [image] Andrew: the editors were in the end fine …

We were blessed with this reply from a citizen of the glorious motherland, explaining the situation for us. 中国人和所有外国人生活在同一个星球，中国不是天堂，更不是地狱。在中国城市里接送小学低年级的孩子上学放学是普遍现象，跟治安无关，主要原因有两个：①因为有流量有关注度，所有媒体长期针对孩子的刑事案件大肆报道增加了家长的焦虑。②孩子承载希望，每个孩子对家庭来说都是最宝贵的财富。 Chinese people and all foreigners live on the sam…

[image] Chinese Zoo Admits Pandas Are Painted Dogs After Outrage Chinese zoogoers are barking mad after learning the alleged pandas they visited at the Shanwei Zoo were just dogs painted to look like the at-risk bears.

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Somebody knew!

An unfortunate naming mistake by scientists in China