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
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.
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.
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 just imagine an Arrested Development voiceover “his victory was NOT inevitable and he was found dead less than a month later”
Hitler was malding too, like depressed and pissed off that his generals underestimated the soviet resistance.
Not to mention the nightmarish logistical issues that made invasion and occupation of such a large territory extremely arduous.
It wasn’t his generals, Mein Kampf is just hundreds of pages of incoherent racism/anti-semitism + declaring the destiny of Germany to be conquering the weak commie lands and plundering/enslaving them. I believe the paraphrased translation of a quote was that the USSR was a rotten door that would crumble when kicked in. He made the exact same error.
Oh god oh fuck they have railroad logistical networks and new villages in places we hadn’t even mapped!
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.
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.
Meanwhile in Freedomland, school lunches have a shame cheese sandwich for kids that don’t pay up or nothing at all.
School officials decided to crack down on parents with unpaid tabs by cutting off kids from the hot lunch line and giving them an alternative lunch – a cheese sandwich, a fruit or vegetable and milk.
The school board said the policy has been effective in getting delinquent parents to pay, but many parents are outraged, saying it stigmatizes their kids.
While I agree this is problematic, it also highlights another problem. A cheese sandwich, banana, and a glass of milk is quite nutritional. If it’s anything like my school, where the hot dinner line meant pizza, burgers, and chips, forcing kids to have the option that isn’t deep fried isn’t terrible. The penal aspect of it is fucked up. Not only does it target poor kids and stigmatise them, it’s also going to contribute to eating disorders.
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’m gonna stand by my authoritarian communist Chinese decision because it helps with specifically the first 5 words of what you said.
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
In Japan the cooked variety is called 炙り寿司. While it’s pretty common, I’d still say that raw fish and shellfish is still much more common. As far as I know aburizushi in Japan is made from the same fish that the restaurant would serve raw and its a taste preference rather than a safety issue.
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…
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.
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?
When it happens in the US, its a natural disaster.
When it happens elsewhere, its caused by a person.
The genocidal Dust Bowl was the personal fault of H. Hoover and FDR. They waved their wands of dryness and directly caused the droughts.
Nobody died during the Dust Bowl. John Steinbeck is a fucking liar. Actually, if anything, the population boomed and everything was even more awesome. FDR was the one that killed everybody. Things under Coolidge and Hoover were going great. You’ve just been fooled by all those insidious college Marxists who never took a simple Econ 101 class in their lives.
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.
I believe that was Stalin and his comically-large spoon.
FR though, read into these famines a bit closer. It sounds like your sources may have passed over some of the context surrounding these famines.
