[Wired] 23 Ways You’re Already Living in the Chinese Century : slop

[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 35 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Is Ne Zha the ugliest main character in the history of animated cinema? The Hunchback of Notre Dame might have him beat, but Quasimodo’s ugliness is ennobling; Ne Zha’s is corrupting. Not only does he have sunken eyes, bad teeth, and the world’s worst haircut, he’s also a complete shit. He throws tantrums. He breaks things. He drops trou and pisses wherever he pleases. The Americans I know who’ve tried to watch either of his two movies shut them off within moments, disgusted.

This reads like Jerry Falwell criticizing The Simspons

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 24 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Zero Taste

This is Ne Zha (and his dragon boyfriend)

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Grown up, sure. As a child he looks like a little shit.

I should watch the second one tonight. Still haven't seen it yet. Admittedly, the first one's English dubs were kinda eh, and I couldn't stand it till I found some subs.

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

It's good watch it subbed.

Also the "his ugliness is corrupting" thing is a completely ass backwards reading of the film, probably because the goofball who wrote it only watched a few minutes

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Heard. I was waiting for subs for so long I kinda forgot about it. Also, at 2 and a half hours it's one of those flicks I gotta make time for. Not so for Bikini Hackers, which is waiting for me on my jellyfin and clocks in at only an hour, of what I am sure is a high quality kino. hahaha

[–] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 1 points 3 months ago

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[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 6 points 3 months ago

Yeah, that was pretty good. stalin-approval

[–] SerLava@hexbear.net 7 points 3 months ago

I turned off Ne Zha, I thought it would be great but when I finally watched it, the beginning of the movie was just a lot of bazinga Pixar gags really jarringly inserted every 30 seconds. It was like someone wrote the plot and then someone else came in and wrote the jokes

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 31 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Incredibly heavy "but at what cost" vibes running throughout this whole article

[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 34 points 3 months ago (2 children)

You can use Big Brother to help find your birth family.

Every year, more Chinese adoptees send off DNA kits, upload photographs, or submit their DNA to the National Reunion Database. As databases grow and social networks interconnect, the chance of reunion grows. Chinese police now use not only DNA analysis but also face recognition to help families reunite.

oh no

[–] invo_rt@hexbear.net 36 points 3 months ago

As a USian child, I distinctly recall being in elementary school and having someone from the local police department come as a "fun" event and talk about public safety while also fingerprinting every kid (myself included) for "fun". We put each of our fingers into that transfer medium and pressed it onto cards. It's kind of like finger painting, really, if you don't think about it. This was done without parental consent as well.

[–] BanMeFromPosting@hexbear.net 28 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

wojak-nooo don't you see? We have to only let the government access our DNA databases and they have to be housed in Israel!! Nooo you can't make them accessible to the public so they know what's being tracked and maybe they can use it for fun stuff too!! It's different when people in China voluntarily enter their DNA into a database than when we either scam them with a "private" company or just force people to do it

[–] Runcible@hexbear.net 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

don't you see? We have to only let the government access our DNA databases

Possibly better than what is/was actually happening. IIRC 23andme "owned" the genetic data from their customer and sold it off as part of a merger or bankruptcy or something?

[–] BanMeFromPosting@hexbear.net 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I thought they just sold the data to the government or something

[–] Runcible@hexbear.net 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I think they were sharing it with police without warrants but no, scanning headlines and grabbing a snippet from a random one (Fortune) gives me this "A U.S. bankruptcy judge ruled DNA-testing company 23andMe, which filed for bankruptcy Sunday, has the right to sell customers’ medical and ancestry data to potential bidders. Offers will be due on May 7, and a final hearing will be held in June."

[–] BanMeFromPosting@hexbear.net 14 points 3 months ago

That reminds me of all those "cryogenic" facilities that thaw the bodies of their clients when they go bankrupt

[–] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It's digital data, copies can and were/are sold to multiple entities including governments and other companies. The US state and it's LEOs have it, and I don't have a source for this but I assume companies like Palantir in the panopticon game have it too

[–] deforestgump@hexbear.net 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They are doing their best to paint China with the Cyberpunk 2077 brush and it ain't working!

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 19 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I've played Cyberpunk 2077 and Night City honestly compares pretty favorably to, say, modern day Los Angeles. The rent and medical care are pretty cheap and the public transit is very robust.

[–] WokePalpatine@hexbear.net 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

If the studio had any courage they would have nickle-and-dimed the player for every single interaction. Constant surveillance that requires either bribing people or expensive hardware to bypass. Constantly hassled by privatized police force and gangs of the homeless who need to steal whatever they can to survive. Shit constantly breaking, both your own stuff and infrastructure.

[–] WokePalpatine@hexbear.net 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That's right. I'm asking for another Far Cry 2. Far Cry 2077.

[–] WokePalpatine@hexbear.net 3 points 3 months ago

Far Cryberpunk

[–] shath@hexbear.net 10 points 3 months ago

robit penor

[+] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 30 points 3 months ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

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[–] Dessa@hexbear.net 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Fuck yeah. Collective storytelling is so cool

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 14 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I'm gonna be honest I thought alarmingly large internet fiction works were a western occurance

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 15 points 3 months ago

First approximation: for every type of weirdo that exists, assume China has about 4x as many of 'em as amerikkka

[–] AernaLingus@hexbear.net 8 points 3 months ago

I wonder what the Chinese equivalent of My Immortal is

[–] yunqihao@hexbear.net 6 points 3 months ago

You should look into wuxia and xianxia webnovels. Plenty of 1000-3000+ chapter works.

[–] ComradeChairmanKGB@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 3 months ago

They're destroying us by not letting us read peak

[–] RION@hexbear.net 26 points 3 months ago

And I'm lovin every minute of it jerry

[–] segfault11@hexbear.net 26 points 3 months ago (2 children)

YOUR GENOME IS AT THE MERCY OF A CAPRICIOUS CHINESE EX-CON.

the tone of this section feels confusing. is china bad because they jailed this smol bean innovator, or because he’s back out continuing whatever it is he was doing but now he’s a big bad criminal, and china is bad for allowing that?

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 18 points 3 months ago

parenti-hands both

[–] LaughingLion@hexbear.net 10 points 3 months ago

Lol he's the guy who is on Twitter and had to reply to people with a tweet that read something like:

"I'm not going to make catgirls I'm trying to cure diseases."

Still silent on whether or not he'll make horsegirls.

[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 22 points 3 months ago (4 children)

NASA’s leaders settled on a plan of baffling complexity: a single trip to the lunar surface could require 40-plus rocket launches

Wat? Didn't we do it in a single launch in the 1960s?

[–] BanMeFromPosting@hexbear.net 29 points 3 months ago

Yeah but how much money did that make 7000 different middlemanagers who we've hired through a public-private partnership to avoid government graft? And how did that launch aid local small businessowners? Now we've put the contract on the heatshielding up for bidding so that Lockheed Martin can charge $2000 per screw-part

[–] ExotiqueMatter@lemmygrad.ml 23 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Unlike the Apollo program which had a purpose built launcher with every aspect of it made with the moon in mind, the current American manned lunar program will have to make do with at best the Frankenstein's monster made out of recycled space shuttle parts known as the SLS, and at worst the napo-baby hubris meets engineering reality joke known as the Starship.

Edit: Actually, Blue origin's heavy launcher could potentially save this clown-show when and if it comes out. Though even if that's the case I would still bet on China winning this second space race by a wide margin. The 21st century US just doesn't have what it takes to establish a productive semi-permanent presence on the Moon.

[–] puppygirlpets@hexbear.net 22 points 3 months ago (1 children)

they ran out of nazi rocket scientists

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 3 months ago

Nah, just decided no one needed to preserve or actually document the rocket plans/designs

[–] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 11 points 3 months ago

Yes, but we kinda forgot how to build rockets like the Saturn V. Not to mention it was eye-wateringly expensive to build, something NASA could never do without some Cold War clout chasing kind of budget.

[–] Blep@hexbear.net 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Mark carney put chinese bullet trains from toronto to montreal and my life is yours

[–] varmint@hexbear.net 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I long for the bullet train line between Vancouver and Toronto

[–] Blep@hexbear.net 5 points 3 months ago

Coast to coast sleeper cars

[–] DasRav@hexbear.net 13 points 3 months ago

Those stupid counters pretending to count up to a number are such a western thing to put in the article. "We can't put numbers in unless they move so the smooth brained idiots who will click to stare at our slop will stare for one extra second"!

[–] Kanda@reddthat.com 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

https://youtu.be/RDrfE9I8_hs

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Slop.

You can use Big Brother to help find your birth family.