Ready to get knocked up and then knocked about? That’s the Chav-life.

What’s your problem now?

I’m guessing the Chinese diet doesn’t have as much corn syrup in it.

It’s mocking Trump and MAGA’s fantasy. For the workers it’s providing them with work that is unpleasant, poorly paid and painful. For the factory owners it is ending up with staff that just aren’t going to be productive.

As for toiling for a pittance: Trump is trying to devalue the dollar and erode workers rights in a race to the bottom. Apart from the fact that, as others here have pointed out, the endgame would be automation the intermediary stage is pushing those in precarity and poverty into jobs that don’t benefit them in any meaningful way.

But the Chinese, being somewhat keener students of human nature, have distilled those arguments into thirty seconds of comedy gold.

Gotta link to that?

https://xcancel.com/timeforainews/status/1910626825371365660#m <— another one. Check out the size of the CPU’s.

Precisely. 🙂

Whoever owns the fountains owns the money.

If someone throws money into a fountain and then wishes then that in itself is a complete transaction with whichever supernatural entity is being bargained with.

I am assuming that any entity which is powerful enough to grant wishes is also powerful enough to hang onto the money if that should be its wish.

Alternatively it’s a quaint custom that people engage in as a form of custom and the pleasure comes with a link to the tradition.

The periodic clearing out of the fountains is both necessary maintenance and a form of income that pays for said maintenance. No one is really harmed by this.

Talking of meta: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhemao_hoaxes

And it’s not even the fifth weirdest thing you’ll see on the internet today.

I know, impressive effort.

Turns out this is false, the actual story is much better: https://www.vice.com/en/article/chinese-woman-fake-russian-history-wikipedia/

But only if you really mean it.

Good, for everyone involved. I do wish people would stop with the performative jealousy because Hollywood has taught them to think that way.

The police have, however, claimed that the woman was having an affair with another person and was beaten up by him and his family members.

That’s the same fucking crime you uniformed dunces!

Some decade and change ago I used to sell people Drupal installs at £200 a pop. They’d get a pretty secure codebase, the ability to add content through a gui and if necessary have customer accounts.

Pretty much what killed it as a business was everyone expected to be on the first page of Google because business advisers were telling them that sitebuilders should do SEO as standard.

The landlord’s here to visit
They’re blasting disco down below…

Your Car Is Tracking You. Abusive Partners May Be, Too.

I feel like this should have been the end credits to the Game of Thrones finale. Actually it should also have been the end credits of the Battlestar Galactica finale as well.

It’s ducks all the way down.