Comments by "Gorilla Disco" (@gorilladisco9108) on "China Observer" channel.

  1. Was she the same one as Lesbian Karen the other day?
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  2. It's girlboss power :elbowcough:
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  3. I'm from Indonesia, and I can tell you that 2 yuan bread (idr 4500 in Indonesian currency) is a decent price for bread. You can't compare with price in developed countries, where the main part of the price is services ($15 an hour there compared with $10 a day here).
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  4. Wall Street : Hold our beers.
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  5. If you believe in marxism, you will believe in anything ridiculous. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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  6.  @imfromheII88  Maybe CCP got a hint from news of Japanese companies that are still using craftsmen to produce precision components. NHK even made some documentaries of it, one of it was to pit craftsmen against engineers using state of the art grinding machine to produce top with longest spin time. And they amusingly won. But they are working in mechanical industries, which only need precision in micrometers. CCP then exaggerates it into nanometers realm, which is not doable with human nerve system.
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  7. What do you want for him to do instead? Starved while in China? (☉_☉) You can't get cancer because you eat some cheap food some time. It had to be a prolong and sustained consumption, years for cancer to develop.
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  8.  @heyjo3417  No, it's earlier this month. The protest was about the transportation vehicles requirement. Before March 1, the worker contractors can use trucks (no roof, no seat, just plain trucks) to transport their workers to the factory sites. Since it is unsafe for the workers, IMIP demanded that worker contractors to use bus after March 1. However, the worker contractors decided to throw tantrum and stopped transporting their workers, hence the riot, which for some reasons, IMIP became the target. The channel however, conflated it with the protest a year ago about Chinese workers.
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  9. Sarcasm alert! Sarcasm alert! Sarcasm alert! 🤣
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  10.  @johnhenderson1222  China can make engines. They had to, because their economic disconnect with the west (and USSR after Khrushchev) in Cold War era. But mostly, they copied the engine from USSR. That's why their cheap cars perform so bad, those cars were built with Soviet's 1950 technology. Only recently they managed to steal car making technologies (especially from Japan) to make their more modern cars. Even then, how to make some of car components are still a mystery for them. And Germany has a big business in exporting those components to China. Electric car is another matter. It's still in infancy, so a lot of improvement can be invented. And with China entering the competition early on, China can have their own share of inventions.
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  11. You are on point. My experience with China made vehicles confirm it. If you put other countries car outside under rain and sun light, it will start to rust within a year. If you keep China car inside garage, it will rust all over within a month.
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  12. Have you tried to bake bread yourself? When I bake one, I only need about 50 cents for ingredients, and I ended up with 5-6 pieces. You don't have to use gutter oil to match their price, especially if you are in developing country, with large unemployment that make employee hiring cost so cheap.
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  13.  @peterpan4038  That's communism thinking, a Karl Marx theory that had been debunked by history. What's wrong with you? Capitalism assures us that when the market is saturated with cheap bread, the only bread business who can survive will be the one who can assure their buyers of the quality of their breads.
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  14. Announcement to travelers. Don't bring food to Australia (and USA). That's the rule for every visitor from every country. They are skittish about the entry of farm pest/disease into their country.
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  15. Can anybody tell, what is the price comparison of cooking oil vs gutter oil? For all I know, Indonesia also did that around 50 years ago when we were far far poorer than we are today. as of today, we do not do that anymore, with government's food quality control is more established and also simply because the cost of filtering gutter oil is actually more expensive than brand new cooking oil. (note: earlier this year there was a nationwide shortage of cooking oil and with price shot up, people started to talk about the return of gutter oils, however it's only a month or two before the supply was restored).
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  16. Actually, it didn't happen to everyone. The airport will be clogged of they do that. Custom official usually let luggage through x-ray scanner. They only pick the ones they suspect on something, either by profiling or body language or if they saw something odd in their x-ray scanner. So yes, if only China passport holders were asked to open their luggage, there must be something about China passport holder that made them the target of profiling. People hate prejudice, but prejudice is a result from experience.
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  17. Tell that to Bob Iger. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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  18. The same complaint when we first used printing press machine. "What a sad state of affairs when you have to make pamphlet to have justice instead of go to your lord's court." Internet is the printing press machine of our time.
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  19. They don't have access to internet.
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  20.  @sp-tw8ij  Olive oil is overrated. 😒
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  21. I'm pretty sure never heard of skyscrapers built in the US and then exported to China. I wonder why ..
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  22.  @pathat8869  "smart artillery" will have the same problem as American JDAM, it only good for a stationary target.
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  23. The thing is, the channel conflated the protest about Chinese workers, which happened a year ago, with the most recent protest, which had nothing to do with Chinese workers. The protest was about the transportation vehicles requirement. Before March 1, the worker contractors can use trucks (no roof, no seat, just plain trucks) to transport their workers to the factory sites. Since it is unsafe for the workers, IMIP demanded that worker contractors to use bus after March 1. However, the worker contractors decided to throw tantrum and stopped transporting their workers, hence the riot, which for some reasons, IMIP became the target. Kind of ironic, isn't it. If they demand safety, but then when the company establish safety rule, they are mad?
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  24.  @jasonrhodes9726  They are ready to stretch it into geostationary orbit! And build the first space elevator with it!
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  25. The opposite reaction is waaaaay bigger.
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  26. CCP : We chart that as a win.
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  27. The video is about departure, as in go out of a country.
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  28.  @ak47modwarfare  You can deny it all you want, but history of North America and West Europe had proved beyond reasonable doubt that Karl Marx theory about race to the bottom was wrong. When the market is saturated, some will start to sell more expensive bread, some will insist on cheap bread, some other will innovate to get even lower price, some will close shop, some will open other trade. And the buyers are not stupid either, contrary to Karl Marx belief. They will choose what bread they will buy. Some will buy better bread, some will insist to buy crappy bread, some will opt to noodle, some will start to bake for themselves. That's how North America and West Europe achieved prosperity and the rest of the world who infatuated with Karl Marx theory were languished. btw, in fact I baked my own bread, and it only cost me 50 cents for 6-8 pieces of bread. Yes, it's doable. As I said, some will bake for themselves. Just search youtube for recipes. Developed world bread price is mostly come from service, not ingredients.
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  29. They are citizen of West Taiwan 🤣
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  30.  @happycook6737  As a thirdworlder, I don't have bottled water at home, but I have a 1500 liters water reserve in my house. Is that counted?
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  31. And Jack Ma was a homeschooling tutor who become the richest man in China. C'mon maaaan.
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  32. Disinformed. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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  33.  @resonanceofambition  It's still hundreds on a single wafer, even with 10% yield, that count for dozens of it.
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  34.  @astralclub5964  Mechanical components will have tolerance in micrometer. It's still achievable by human. Some Japanese companies use craftsmen to produce their precision components. NHK made some documentaries about that. I think whoever wrote that script of propaganda, got their idea from those documentaries, and push it into ridiculous realm. Nanometer is in a far higher class. Human nerve system can't perceive the difference in nanometer.
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  35.  @ditsygirl5409  The last time (*cough 10 years ago *cough) I went to Malaysia, I didn't pay anything except the airplane ticket, in and out. Maybe things already change now.
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  36. It actually quite easy for China to force Taiwan to surrender. All it took is less than a week without a single bullet fired. day 1 : send 1 million people with boats, rafts, plastic floaters across the strait and let Taiwan takes them as POW. day 2 : send another 1 million people with boats, rafts, plastic floaters across the strait and let Taiwan takes them as POW. day 3 : send yet another 1 million people with boats, rafts, plastic floaters across the strait and let Taiwan takes them as POW. day 4 : send a message, "Surrender or we will send more."
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  37.  @oneviwatara9384  Not really. But they are gullible enough to fall into some scams every once in a while.
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  38.  @ced1106  Mutual funds is how you and me can access into stock markets wealth. If you don't have big money or skill in stock trading, mutual funds is the solution. Some are sucks, but most are decent enough to give better passive income than bank interest.
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  39. Hey! Tofu is healthy and delicious, you know? The word you are looking for is "tofu dreg", the leftover pulp from soy after its juice is extracted to become tofu ingredient. In Japanese, it's known as okara. Look it up at wikipedia.
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  40.  @michaelbizon444  $8 for 25 lbs of flour is about the same price as in my country (Indonesia). That means, you can make bread with as low cost as I do. The reason the price of bread is far more expensive in the US is because of service component of the price. If you have to pay $15 an hour for your employees, then of course the price of bread in shop will be far higher than the bread you make yourself at home. The cost of bread itself is so low that shops would rather give away or throw leftovers into dumpster at the end of day. For comparison, wage is about $10 a day in my country, and from what I read, China is not far higher than that level of wage. So the service price component is way lower. If you exchange US service price component with China service price component, then a 30 cents a piece for bread is reasonable without fulfilling your suspicion.
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  41. SJWs : "We want socialism!"
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  42.  @harimakenji7608  Unless they eat raw food, it's the spices that cause diarrhea.
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  43. I'm from Indonesia, and 2 yuan (idr 4500) bread is not cheap by Indonesian standard. It's what we call lower middle class price. You can't compare it vis a vis with developed countries price, where the majority of its component is for service instead of for ingredients. China is still a developing country, after all.
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  44. It's real, but fake, but real, but also fake. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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  45. Communist logic is on another level. Way waaaay down.
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  46. If anything, IBM-PC was a "me too" product after the success of Apple computer. The haphazardly designed PC was a tell that IBM wanted something, everything, to get into the market a.s.a.p. Others, like Commodore, ZX Spectrum, etc. also a "me too" that fail to survive. The Silicon Valley is chock full with "me too" companies. It's what creates competition, and in the process, it accelerates technological development. Envy is okay, as long as it's used to push your effort to better yourself. It's detrimental if it's used as an excuse to create problems.
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  47.  @pa5287  As the saying goes, you can take someone out from shithole country but you can't take out shithole country from someone. It's their habit, but if assimilation process works without disruption (e.g. by enabling wokes), their second generation may not see it as acceptable, and third generation surely won't.
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  48.  @SirReptitious  They are small business. It's usually big businesses who use sawdust in their food products. The reasons are that small businesses have difficulties to find sawdust to use, and when people find out about what they do, small businesses lack the fortitude to withstand bad rumors.
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  49. No. He wants to be Li Shen Gou.
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  50.  @mantapdjiwa9768  Not that one, though.
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  51.  OPEN DEFECATION  How old was that building?
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  52. Why bayonet? Just send those millions stark naked, and overwhelm Taiwan detention facilities. 😅 I mean, the weakness of a country who said to upheld human rights is that they can't just mow down those millions of naked people and shouting "Moar!'. They have to set aside manpower, location, and accommodation for those millions.
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  53.  @williamwalker8107  It's a cold war era joke, playing on China's population size against small countries. Of course the caveat is the targeted country must uphold human rights (setup POW camp, with adequate accommodation, etc. which will overwhelm their resources). If targeted country does not uphold human rights, then they will just mow down those million of unarmed invaders.
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  54.  @oneviwatara9384  Zero interest? Like in banks? That's just a small part of what Wall Street is. Someone once said that money business is a business of confidence. And Wall Street is able to maintain their customers' confidence that their money is safe in the care of Wall Street's numerous institutions. Confidence is a very precious thing. It's expensive. And Wall Street have it in abundance. That's where those trillion dollars come from. You want to tear down Wall Street? Easy. Make people lose their confidence on Wall Street.
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  55. "..she may have some opinions but it cannot be called authoritative or scientific .." It was a thesis, ffs. A. THESIS.
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  56.  @mycojanetyson  And how many Californians watched those movies?
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  57.  @EB-jf5oi  India will not acknowledge that claim. 😄
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  58. From the video, we can conclude that Huawei are too cheap to buy its own Mercedes. The question is, which other things they cheapened on.
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  59. Stagnant wages is why the price can't be decreased much. The price of bread in developed countries is mostly for service instead of ingredients. Buy bulk flour and start to learn how to bake. Youtube has a lot of tutorials about it.
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  60.  @jonmccormick8683  Bread was created by inflating it ... with yeast 🤪
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  61. Heaven is angry! Xi hasn't returned his mandate!
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  62. A cold war joke goes like this .. day 1 : send 1 million people with boats, rafts, plastic floaters across the strait and let Taiwan takes them as POW. day 2 : send another 1 million people with boats, rafts, plastic floaters across the strait and let Taiwan takes them as POW. day 3 : send yet another 1 million people with boats, rafts, plastic floaters across the strait and let Taiwan takes them as POW. day 4 : send a message, "Surrender or we will send more." day 5 : Taiwan surrenders. 🤣
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  63. DIsgusting. Where?
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  64.  @Mr371312  I think China finally managed to steal the technology to make ballpoint head around that time. Maybe your refills were still made with their failed production method.
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  65. @ portland3974 Dude, I'm local. Ok? What I said is what our press reported about the protest. IMIP is not entirely Chinese. Indonesian government has their ownership share too (iirc, the law requires the government to own 51% of shares). The demand to use buses instead of trucks was most likely came from them. The problem is the worker contractors (the outsourcing firms), who want to have it cheap. They refused to buy (or rent) buses and instead stopped transporting their workers.
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  66. I'm from Indonesia, and I agree. Cheap bread can go as low as 5 cents here. 30 cents is lower middle class bread.
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  67.  @jonmccormick8683  Ackhchualliy ... I googled it, and the result is ... China is THE biggest wheat producer in the world, with Russia only about half of China production and US only a third of China. The problem with China is .. there are so many mouth to feed.
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  68. @ It's usually taken from the contract payment.
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  69. Reminds me of Frasier in tv series Cheers when he gave tip of 100,000 liras to a bellboy. "Lira is very cheap", he claimed, but that sum converted to around USD 100. No wonder he soon found himself surrounded by excited bellboys.
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  70. The mandate from heaven has been revoked!
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  71. Citing Opium War, China? Is China ready to take the role of British Empire now? Well? We're waiting.
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  72. 13 years old? Look, we already experienced the cringe named Greta Thunberg. Not another one, please.
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  73.  @danielch6662  Define "us"
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  74.  @88Xlmk  If you read "The Marching Morons", the evil government in the story did what China does with their consumer products.
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  75.  @ak47modwarfare  In my country (Indonesia), wheat or to be precise, flour, is imported by government sanctioned cartel. Won't the cartel build big industry for derivative products from flour? Sure thing. They built the biggest instant ramen factory in the world out of it (google "indomie" for reference). But their greed wouldn't let them keep their flour for themselves. There are a lot of money to be made by selling flour to general public, so they sell their flour. They even sell it to unaffiliated instant ramen factories (I don't know why, maybe because they can make money easier that way?). That's how I can get 1 kilogram of flour for less than 1 dollar. And baking 6-8 piece of bread will only need about 2 cups or 250 grams of it. Add sugar, cheese, sesame (or other condiments to your fancy), electricity ... I figure the total to be less than 50 cents a batch or less than 10 cents a piece. You can't judge something is terrible just because it's cheap. You should examine the price level of the locality, and you can see if the price they put is reasonable or not. Also, all this talk about food quality in China can be traced to ignorance and confirmation bias. Just because one of them "mining" gutter oil, do not mean that all of them use gutter oil. My country also has history with gutter oil. It was rampant around 50 years ago when we were far far poorer. But today we are more prosperous, and nobody in their right mind will use gutter oil because it's just not worth the risk of losing one's business just to be able to squeeze a few more cents. No, not because government (well, they will prosecute, of course, but they can be bought🤫), but people talk, consumers talk, everybody talk, and before long nobody will buy your products. And today's easy smartphone access will spread it even faster. Edit, addition: "Today, the US seems to be overreliant on china and other countries for manufacturing." Do you know why Argentina became a poor country? Youtube channel VisualEconomik (or is it its sister channel VisualPolitik? sorry, I forget which one) has a video a few weeks ago that basically said that it all began with Argentina's political elites wanted to make sure Argentina would not have to rely on other country's manufacturing. All went downhill after that. For me, US problem with China is that China used its manufacturing capability to steal US technology. If it's just to have them manufacture stuffs, then it won't be any problem.
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  76.  @michaelbizon444  Sure, there's a subsidy for flour import, that's why I can get flour in comparable price as you even when my country have to import practically all flour I can find in the marketplace. But we do not compare flour prices. What matter is, both you and I can make bread as cheap as 10 cents a piece with the flour price that we get. And I'm sure that shop in China can make their bread that cheap too, without the need to fulfill your suspicion. What made bread so expensive in developed world is not the price of its ingredients, but the service price (bakers and waiters won't accept $10 a day wage there). If you exchange the service price of developed world with the service price of China, you can get relatively same price as that shop in the video. So, no need to fulfill your suspicion. btw, bread is not novelty in China. They have made buns for thousands of years (steamed, not baked). It is a novelty in Indonesia, since as you said, we don't grow wheat here. Bread was introduced by our colonial masters (Dutch's VOC) several centuries ago and only recently it's available at affordable price to general public.
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  77.  @michaelbizon444  It's a case of confirmation bias. Just because some people do that, doesn't mean everybody there do that. Out of 1.3 billion people in China, you are guaranteed 100% that you can find 1000 people do stupid cringey thing there. And when they happened to be filmed, your confirmation bias made you believe they all doing that stupid cringey thing. Then, if you release the video of their stupid cringey action one by one every day, you get three years of youtube channel material of Chinese people do stupid cringey things. And after three years, there will be huge followers of your channel who believe that most of Chinese people are stupid and cringey. For comparison US also has ... Florida Man in action😅And it's just from some 20 million people.
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  78. I wonder if he knows the great scientist Li Shen Gou?
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  79. If you don't pay, the seat would not stop vibrating. "Joke on you! That's my fetish!" 🤣😂😅
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  80. Do you know who will believe them? in the 1960s, it was the intellectuals (yes, they are the ones who reign in US universities today). And you wonder why college students today so enamored with socialism.
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  81. Alternative water heater brand to Xiaomi is ... Haier 😅 C'mon man, I know this channel is to trash Made in China products, but at least be honest. People will appreciate your channel more if you are honest with them.
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  82.  @happycook6737  Of course I can drink it after I boil it. I do that every day. It's underground but the outlet is about 1 meters up. So, the only thing that could make it undrinkable is 1 meter flood .. and nuclear bomb.
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  83.  @oreooreo481  CCP wants to know why you are hoarding?
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  84.  @breakingthewall2112  How to deliver it when the door is barred shut?
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  85. It's the same everywhere .. remember Solyndra in the US? Whenever government involved, taxpayer get screwed.
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  86.  @froschreiniger2639  Aaaand they confiscate those in the airport. 😶
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  87.  @harimakenji7608  If it's cooked, all microbes would be dead. 🤔 Okay, putting leftovers back into the pot is disgusting. But that aside, if it's cooked afterwards then all microbes would be dead.
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  88.  @froschreiniger2639  After all the money he spent on airplane tickets? Why didn't you tell him not to go there instead of not eating anything there? That's cruel, man.
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  89.  @jconrad38  LOL
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  90.  @jaames  James. Dude. He's joking. That was sarcasm. Calm down.
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  91.  @jaames  I understand that you saw them doing that. The thing is, he clearly mocking those people. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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  92. Does the CCP read The Marching Morons (*) as their manual? Because the thinking process of those little pinks are very similar to what described in the novel. (*) The Marching Morons has a premise similar to Idiocracy (i.e. each succeeding generation are more stupid than prior generation), and it's written several decades earlier. It told the story of hidden government who successfully dumbing down the people, enabled them to convince the masses that the new products were of higher quality simply by slapping sticker that listing better specifications, while the stuff itself was actually of lower quality with worse specifications.
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  93. I don't think Japan (along with USA and South Korea) stops making semiconductors. For whatever reasons, it's the customers who prefer to buy chips from TSMC.
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  94. Mr. Incredible : "A bread is a bread!"
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  95. According to local news, the latest protest didn't have anything to do with Chinese workers. The protest was about the transportation vehicles requirement. Before March 1, the worker contractors can use trucks (no roof, no seat, just plain trucks) to transport their workers to the factory sites. Since it is unsafe for the workers, IMIP demanded that worker contractors to use bus after March 1. However, the worker contractors decided to throw tantrum and stopped transporting their workers, hence the riot, which for some reasons, IMIP became the target.
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  96. Taiwan : "Delta variant? What delta variant?"
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  97. In 1st world country, sure. You can go out of work for months and government will give you unemployed welfare. You can even sue your company for your salary. Not in 2nd world country. If the government think you are a bore, they will disappear you. No welfare, no salary for you. On the flip of coin, if the government think the company is a bore, they will disappear the company owner. Still no welfare, no salary for you, though. Yay for socialism!
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  98. @@sangyong734 Bread is mainly flour and water. Is that a new concept for you? 🤪
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  99.  @creative-name5279  You must get out more. There are tones of third world millionaires who cannot read.
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  100. They can force business to open there. They can force employees to work there. But they can't force customers to come there.
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  101. It actually quite easy for China to force Taiwan to surrender. All it took is less than a week without a single bullet fired. day 1 : send 1 million people with boats, rafts, plastic floaters across the strait and let Taiwan takes them as POW. day 2 : send another 1 million people with boats, rafts, plastic floaters across the strait and let Taiwan takes them as POW. day 3 : send yet another 1 million people with boats, rafts, plastic floaters across the strait and let Taiwan takes them as POW. day 4 : send a message, "Surrender or we will send more." day 5 : Taiwan surrenders. 🤣 disclaimer : China will risk that those millions of people may just defect to Taiwan🤪
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  102. If you have to pinch pennies, a $2 bread is extravagance when you can bake one yourself for 50 cents.
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  103. What is pizza bao? 🤔
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  104.  @katamine11  The last time I checked, bao is not in English dictionary.
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  105.  @tsijr915  Umm .. yeah. And laws and government structures are different because they are ... communist. *shocking
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  106. But .. but ... they have billions of people ... (｡•́︿•̀｡)
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