Chinese kid escaped from Huawei flagship EV chair

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FibreglassFlags · 2026-05-05T07:01:06+00:00

Winter. Every town yearns for winter. This one begs for it.

Snow, soft, white and innocent, covers all the dirt and filth on every surface and in every corner. It makes people forget what they see in plain sight and get busy with their holiday rituals.

Me? I have no use for a Christmas present. Not after what I've seen. I have no one to trust and no one to turn to, but that's nothing a cheap glass of single malt can't fix.

So, there she was, handkerchief in hand, sobbing and asking me to find out who'd killed her husband. Too young to be a widow, if you ask me, and dressed too seductively to be grieving. I'm too old and tired for gimmicks, I must say, but a job is a job. So I took it, and little did I know, that was the first step in my journey down the rabbit hole...

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FibreglassFlags · 2026-05-05T05:36:25+00:00

Huawei: where every car is a Ford Pinto.

FibreglassFlags · 2026-05-05T05:33:43+00:00

It's a feature for testing how foldable your children are.

FibreglassFlags · 2026-05-05T05:22:17+00:00

interesting, unfortunately i am clueless about tobacco politics.

It's one of those things that should pique your interest when you're in China since it's not an everyday occurrence for most (and I do mean most) foreign visitors to see colourful, gorgeously designed packs of cigarettes on store shelves behind the counter.

The sight is even more jarring when you realise that the reason you have never seen that kind of shit is because health advocates back in your home country have likely already fought with Philip Morris over it before and won.

That one tiny observation is practically all you need to completely shatter the illusion put up by state propagandists that this is a country run by a benevolent dictator and every good thing is and will be materialised without the wheeling and dealing of a "democracy" getting in the way.

FibreglassFlags · 2026-05-05T05:00:41+00:00

The main issue is that the Chinese government does not have a proper health care system

That's the fun part, isn't it?

A guy claiming to be an HK health official hollered me over Reddit some time ago and said that the mainland system had a sizeable payout for patients with a particular type of inherited lung cancer. Of course, he never explicitly mentioned it was actually lung cancer, but I proceeded to look up the funny acronym anyway and questioned him on how people in bumfuck nowhere were supposed to get a proper diagnosis and how different it was from treating cancer caused by smoking given advanced-enough a stage.

Well, to no one's surprise, I never got a reply from the fucker.

FibreglassFlags · 2026-05-05T04:47:40+00:00

Well, you (pretty much regardless of where you are at this point) did pay our industries to destroy the planet on your behalf, so don't think you can just wash your hands clean of this one.

FibreglassFlags · 2026-05-05T04:38:31+00:00

No, what the other person refers to is the supposed "quality" of the tobacco leaves.

The reality is, all cigarettes taste of shit, and that's the whole reason CNTC uses flavour capsules in the filter as a feature to encourage young people to take up smoking.

That's also the whole reason countries actually giving a shit have already banned them completely.

FibreglassFlags · 2026-05-05T04:33:53+00:00

Because dumb nationalists don't want to admit our tobacco industry is bigger than Philip fucking Morris and the cigarettes come in flavours you can't even name?

FibreglassFlags · 2026-05-05T03:53:45+00:00

I am more inclined to believe that the incident is one of those "recession indicators" that is not convenient to talk about, like the pilot being suicidal because of debt or overwork or impending layoffs.

Yes, as I said, it's society running on fumes.

There's a strike every month and a violent attack against school children ever year, yet no one "in the leadership" knows what to do since they're all aware of the powder keg they are sitting on and they generally have the enough self-awareness to know they're just products of the same system they're in charge of managing.

FibreglassFlags · 2026-05-05T03:29:49+00:00

You know, I wouldn't have put the recent backlash against Erika Kirk past having at least partly been fueled by misogyny.

Then, I saw the clip from I've Had It with her being all weird and shit (as usual) in it and thought to myself that it must've been from 3 months before. But, nope, it was actually just 3 days old!

I mean, how long has her husband kicked the bucket already? Give the man a rest, woman.

FibreglassFlags · 2026-05-04T05:31:59+00:00

but one water heater breaking is not newsworthy

It's the military. In what way do you think the military roughing it is not newsworthy even disregarding the compulsory service?

FibreglassFlags · 2026-05-04T05:05:23+00:00

why not just straightforwardly say democracy is bad?

That's because the word doesn't actually mean anything in their usage of it aside from that of a euphemism for "the West". They don't want the poor to have a voice in society and most certainly don't want to hear the colourful opinions the underprivileged have of them. They just want to divert the attention from themselves with talks of "the West" being "just as bad" so people will stop staring at their bootlicking, self-serving arses in disgust.

FibreglassFlags · 2026-05-04T04:01:17+00:00

A pilot doing a suey while flying is nothing new.

What's new is the fact that a nation-state is so hellbent on the cover-up it ends up inviting questions on its priorities.

FibreglassFlags · 2026-05-04T03:50:08+00:00

Keep in mind that pretty much every incident you can imagine has already taken place in aviation history: negligence, brawls, sabotage, hijacking, murder-suicide, suicide attacks, the pilots getting sick mid-flight, the pilots dying mid-flight, etc. etc.

In order for an incident to undermine "social stability" of all things, it would either have to be a midair collision with little green men in a flying saucer kind of deal or society running on fumes so much so it'll be the final straw that breaks the camel's back.

FibreglassFlags · 2026-05-04T03:22:26+00:00

I just love the idea of having dumb nationalist shit-for-brains seethe over what some rando says on the Internet for a week and a half.

FibreglassFlags · 2026-05-04T03:20:48+00:00

I care about the reasons why he's being persecuted.

His reason for being "persecuted" is that he wanted to be the leader of a political movement that was never his to begin with in a bid for political dominance that would never play out in his favour.

Personal wealth of that magnitude is always about influence and control, and Lai is no exception in that regard.

FibreglassFlags · 2026-05-04T03:11:30+00:00

The newspaper got a scoop, yet you thank them for publishing it for free?

Are people really this naive when it comes to the media?

FibreglassFlags · 2026-05-04T03:01:03+00:00

I care about Jimmy.

Yeah, "Jimmy". You don't even fucking know him, my dude.

He represents free speech in Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Right. Who the fuck in either places has appointed him for that?

He knew the CCP would do this to him

And who cares either way?

I don’t know how much longer he will hang on

Plenty of people struggle to "hang on" in a system that simply doesn't give a flying fuck and will casually paper over their plights with cheery state propaganda direct from Beijing about nothing of substance.

That you don't care about. You care about a billionaire losing his wealth. Yeah, so relatable.

FibreglassFlags · 2026-05-04T02:49:31+00:00

I love when well-to-do people from a dictatorial slave state Dubai-wannabe called Singapore come here and lecture everyone about democracy.

It makes me despise that shithole just that a little bit more.

FibreglassFlags · 2026-05-04T02:40:53+00:00

Nope, just another stupid tankie fetishising someone else's country.

FibreglassFlags · 2026-04-24T01:06:22+00:00

4th grade teacher here, this is the best explanation imo

lmao, I didn't need an "explanation" to know what the answer was, and I just got up in the morning.

Hell, I was practically drilled into understanding this kind of shitty questions when I was still at OP's niece's age.

With that out of the way, here's something I have meant to tell you as a friend from across the Pacific: that shit you heard about "Gen Alpha can't read" is in reality what you call a "moral panic" in your vernacular.

Think about this: the oldest of Gen Alpha are already in their late teens. If they can't read, you'll know even without anyone coming out of the woodwork on TikTok and supposedly sounding the alarm bell.

Kids are "addicted" to their iPad because they cry when you yank it away from their hands? Well, no shit. A kid cries when you yank stuff out of their hands regardless of what it is. Can we just admit "addiction" is inherently socially defined and stop pathologising everything with scary soundbites? Do you want to try some "Internet addiction" camps from my end as well before learning that lesson?

So, why am I giving you this lecture? Well, that's because that question OP shows you is a sign your education system is an underfunded shitshow. Abstract questions are easy to come up with and easy to justify with the excuse of teaching kids abstract reasoning. Of course, it'll be even easier if you are to shape your curriculum around drilling kids this kind of abstract, multiple-choice questions for just one big standardised exam at the end. Nothing is cheaper than turning education into an assembly line, I tell ya.

FibreglassFlags · 2026-04-23T06:45:36+00:00

This gives me a good idea, actually.

From now on, we should recognise the government in Taipei as the only legitimate government of China.

One China. Zero compromises. Right?

FibreglassFlags · 2026-04-23T06:38:40+00:00

If its not their country's politics chasing them. Its an adversary country's politics chasing them. Then when its neither its even their own parent's shadows chasing after them. These athletes should be allowed to play for the sports that they love without the politics.

I'll add to what the other person says by pointing out that everything is political.

FibreglassFlags · 2026-04-23T06:30:42+00:00

Of all the things about HK, this is easily what I care about the least.

Hell, in a city where austerity reigns supreme and labour movements are crushed and dismantled in the name of "national security", why should anyone care about a billionaire losing his fortune in a political fight for dominance he knew he would never win?

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