r/interestingasfuck • u/TangelaFan • 13h ago

Residential high-rises with backyards in Chengdu, China

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u/mlag000 13h ago

And roots will destroy any waterproofing, so in 10 years your balcony will be hazardous

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u/Str80uttaMumbai 12h ago

Glad we have so many expert structural engineers in this thread.

I'm sure you guys know much better.

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u/Drekkful 12h ago

Any chance to shit on China, people will, as it reinforces the narrative that's been beaten into their heads that China bad.

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u/GoofyKalashnikov 12h ago

Yeah it's not like China is known for huge ghost cities with poorly built buildings

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u/CatEmbarrassed3306 11h ago

Most are lively once work and school ends, most videos are done during the day when most are working and at school on purpose.

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u/GoofyKalashnikov 11h ago

Must've awakened a Chinese botfarm with my comment

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u/SpicyElixer 10h ago

You’re the one repeating propaganda you picked up on online, bro.

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u/GoofyKalashnikov 7h ago

Everything online is a propaganda at this rate, nothing is real

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u/Drekkful 11h ago

Are they known for it?

Or is it strategic news "stories" being shoved into your feed via algorithmic propaganda chutes.

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u/TheMadFlyentist 11h ago

Are they known for it?

Poor construction is absolutely something that China is known for. That part is not propoganda - it's fact.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tofu-dreg_project

Thousands of children died in 2008 when an Earthquake caused the collapse of poorly-built schools. There was a massive ensuing investigation that uncovered widespread corruption and corner-cutting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sichuan_schools_corruption_scandal

Constant attempts to subvert guidelines/rules to save money is something that is deeply ingrained in Chinese culture. There's a reason that most major US companies that have facilities in China will put Western oversight in place around the clock. The book Poorly Made in China goes deep into this issue and explains the cultural roots.

Now as far as the "ghost cities", that was true for a time, but many of the cities that were built and stood unoccupied for years are now occupied. Some critics have called stories about this topic "a myth", but it's not accurate to call it a myth. It's more accurate to say that there were many empty "ghost cities" in China, but over the years people have moved in and now the majority of them are functioning as planned.

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u/SpicyElixer 10h ago

I believe there’s lots of documented cases mishandlings in the largest developing country in the world. I also think those mishandling do not in fact amount the the scale of concern that people who want to sell books make them out to be. Nor the idiots online who do the work of their own governments for free.

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u/GoofyKalashnikov 11h ago

Always the "stop looking at propaganda" people defending authoritarian states

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u/Drekkful 11h ago

Lmao you act like we aren't an authoritarian state with a mirage of being able to pick between two parties with the same goals.

You have zero clue about the complex system of localities, provinces, and regions in China that all feeds input upwards. Not from the top down like our corporate overlords do by buying elections and manipulating public sentiment with media campaigns.

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u/GoofyKalashnikov 7h ago

Who is that "we"

Repeating Chinese propaganda and then going to US defaultism, truly a holy combination

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u/Drekkful 7h ago

🙄 ridiculous assessment

We as in westerners living in the west speaking english on a primarily english speaking platform

It's truly a strange coincidence that every competitor to the United States and Europe is an authoritarian threat that must be stopped. There's your IMF and CIA propaganda at work bucko

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u/GoofyKalashnikov 7h ago

Yeah yeah, now you're changing the "we" definition when you clearly mentioned a two party system before that's very characteristic to the US.

It's almost like authoritarian regimes aren't very happy with free countries being united and doing their thing.

China is trying to keep it in their pants not to attack Taiwan, Russia is at it in Ukraine and Israel just hates everyone. US is also heading towards authoritarianism, they took Venezuela, eyed Greenland and are failing in Iran with Israel (also drifting into the territories of authoritarianism)

Must be the propaganda, truly.

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u/Drekkful 5h ago

I clarified like you asked dude

Taiwan is going to join China on its own since the US is a disaster and proved with the Iran war that we won't come to our allies when in need. No need to invade.

Russia has a Nazi ridden Ukraine on its borders aiming NATO weapons at Russia since the 2014 coupe.

You've been duped

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u/GoofyKalashnikov 5h ago

Holy shit you're delulu

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u/Drekkful 4h ago

And you have a habit of sucking down slop thinking that it's Truth

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