Is Anything in China Real? The Counterfeit Kingdom: Scam Brides, Fake Pearls & Overcharging Meters
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- Live streaming and short video platforms, perhaps the only avenues left that promise overnight wealth, are unfortunately riddled with counterfeit goods and deceptive practices.
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The pearl issue is one I actually have experience in. I am a lapidarist and gemologist (I cut gemstones, and know too much about them, my family limits me to 15min a day talking about them{I can relate almost anything to gems, talking for hours about them}). Several years back there were many sellers that would offer pearls at extremely low prices usually right before mother's day. The issue was that they were not grown long enough and the layers would rub off the seeds within a few days of wearing them. Antoinette Matlins has some amazing lectures available online and an amazing book with everything you want to learn on pearls...
As a rock hound and pearl lover I thank you for the information!
i would love to listen to you. and then you'll have to sit through me geeking out on all things fermented (bread, beer/wine/spirits, cheese, cured meats, cigars, lacto pickles, etc) i can make everything but cigars (never tried, dont want to)
I have a triple strand of vintage fake pearls from Japan. They knotted the thread between pearls! It's absolutely incredible. Who knots fake pearls? Only the Japanese. I paid less $20 for it lol
It is the most lux piece of costume jewelry I've ever owned.
@@Someone-kg8qf curious, did you get it for a cosplay or something then? very cool!
A country that has mentality of "cheat if you can cheat" is hurting because of cheating? OH NO, anyways.
Just have to not buy anything from China until the format/mentality changes. People need to learn to stop paying for cheap crap quality items that just turn into trash
But but but cheating is OK for me!!! It's only bad when someone cheats me!!!! How could they????
@TheCrazierz Emotionally immature, toxic confucian rote memorization produces essentially a country ran by giant infantile adults and equally adult babies of the working class in that nazbol country
Someone hasn't experienced famine or the pressure of an impoverished aging people that was closed off to the world and brutalized. Imagine your hopium is sanctimonious judgment relishing in other's suffering. Imagine thinking cheating others isn't competition and natural selection, that other people and countries don't cheat themselves and others. Anyways. You sound like a valley girl late for a nail appointment. 😂🤡💅Anyways. 😂
The shock of their mentality backfiring on them is hilarious.
"I have proof the meters are overcharging."
"You're under arrest."
only the CCP would make faulty meters to waste electricity and charge more instead of just straight up increasing the cost of it.
The meters can't be 'wasting' electricity - they would get incredibly hot. The meters are simply overstating the true amount of electricity consumed.
@@donerskine7935 point is, whatever the meters are doing, it's ridiculously unnecessary over a tariff increase people would have to pay anyway
@@donerskine7935 No, the meters are not wasting. If you are unaware, in China half the population is stealing electric. Some areas at certain times crack down on this, so they took measures. One of these measures is having meters simply "use" the amount stolen, spread over all the meters made for a specific area. But they ship these all over the place, so if an "adjusted" Beijing meter is used somewhere in rural with little electricity used, oh well.
SerpentZA has a fun vid about this, he tried to get his illegally hooked up electric in his rental unit in China hooked up correctly and properly so he could pay up. Nobody would help him, so he went to the company instead. Lady there told him: we do not go after property owners or companies that own the property, the renter is held accountable, it is much easier, I _can_ do this for you, but you are 100% responsible, this is fines but could mean prison time. Or, you cann just use it illegally like everyone, and be fine.
@@D0NU75Its invisible money for ccp.
@@naopak6750 No. It is the oposite. It is very visible money for the ccp. They do not need to hide from where this revenue came. And on top of that, they can use these numbers as proof how quality of life is improving since people are spending more electricity. They can also use these numbers to pretend as if the economy is growing.
Because ripping each other off leads to a prosperous country and a healthy community.
Isn't China's national slogan "If you can cheat, cheat!"?
😂😂😂
not even luck is allowed to be genuine in china
What a miserable country.
Not even ashamed. I don't like China
I work in the submetering business. Line loss has nothing to do with the wiring in your home. (PSA, line loss is an amount of power that was lost while delivering electricity to deliver electricity to your home/location)
They pretty much said that you lost 35% of the electricity being delivered to you, but only after being delivered to you and within your own home. They are robbing their own people.
If you assume nothing gets checked, and everything is wrong... then the worst case is where you start.
I don't rule out tampered meters, but if it's 30% difference in kW vs kVA, it seems like there's going to be widespread faults, you'd also assume there's grid problems.
Or, additionally, a lack of regulators, along with lots of 'vampire' loads, i.e. people bypassing the meter or using illegal hacks like jumper cables to slow/reduce the metering. Even despite the risk of fire, it's Money in the end.
It would be more difficult to tamper with the meters, so the problem would be the grid itself. i.e. I have to assume if it's Widespread tampering, you'd see people invested in making the problem go away, as intelligent people hide their tracks, while others scramble to make it worse. So there's infighting to who can profit more from the fraud.
Incompetence, is reliable. Intelligence, is rare and often tied to opportunity / negligence, changes, risk.
I'd say it's bad/insufficient power delivery/PF of 0.7 or lower, along with assumed calibration of kVA/kVAR, i.e. transformers needing maintenance might get skipped in preference for easier work elsewhere.
If it's the grid "dying" ... I have to assume appliances would break down regularly, i.e. lots of Pump/Fans, not much HVAC, all kinds of PF problems, brownouts and surges, especially when solar farms kick in and make the problems worse.
Malicious Compliance would mean that the meters are accurate. In the City areas where there's clean power / inspectors. In the rural areas where the transformers, substations, and wiring might be breaking down, the power factor or voltage levels might be wildly out of spec for 220v 50hz.
And that dirty power cost gets pushed onto consumers.
The problem of systemic corruption is you can't validate or calibrate results. You also can't rely on work being done to fix these problems, or regulators actually fining, repairing, or maintaining equipment or powerlines. If they were set up in the 80s or 90s, they might also be breaking down, causing wide-scale EMF/heat loss in the system.
My landlords boss owner scams all the time. He is a slumlord and known in our city, he is worth 5 million. He drove a Ferrari, owns twenty plus properties. Redirects suite meters to benefit those he favors. I have researched methods and it is very relevant and common place. Sorry. I know hardwired homes can redirect flow and arcing plugs, consumption tripling us real. I have proof yes. Crooks are everywhere. That is reality. If a single person has triple the consumption but all devices are unplugged, no large appliances, and nothing runs is unplugged, it is being siphoned via wall rewiring, redirecting etc. I am not stupid. Hydro can back me too. I take pics and test things. To boot, my Uncle is an electrician. Consumers are not idiots.No disrespect to you. There are ways people use it is not unconceiceable.
Funny how oysters get blurred since the censors think they look like ladies funbox
😮 I was wondering why it was censored!
It’s probably an animal abuse thing tbh. Oysters are animals
@@minimini550correct it's against terms of service to show the killing of an animal you can't show mice and mouse traps for instance so they're probably just being safe making sure the video doesn't get taken down
@minimini550 and @odeaonlee.... Ty so much for the explanation. 😊
The west and its big tech overlords getting their own brand of crazy. Not full china levels yet but it getting wacky here.
These country men also buy women that have been captured coming in from N. Korea and they sell them. Many of these women run away after being treated horribly.
That's what I was thinking. Screw them, if they treated these women like humans they would stay.
What a horrible place to live in. What can one do when the concept of cheating/scamming each other is practically baked into the culture of the society?
Yankees have enough cheating/scamming culture of their society. Look at their politicians and you will feel sick immediately.
Scams happen everywhere, even in your country.
@@TimeQ-o9plow iq response
@@TimeQ-o9p Yes, but china is only cheating themselves. That being said china has been destroyed by the CCP, And the corruption that plagues their society. Not just the government but the people as well. They scam each other. Truly saddening. That's what he is saying you big dummy dum dum😂
@@TimeQ-o9pthey do but even India doesn't have this bad of a problem. China is poor, and even the rich are far poor in China. Compared to any other 1st world country with a government that isn't a communist party. It is sad you didn't have the IQ to acknowledge this.hehehehehej
This is the result of a culture where appearances are more important than honesty. Where "face" is all that matters.
What a sad miserable world.
sad miserable china
Always has been, always will be.
even babies get miserable life there, they have to go to school in early age with constant surveillance
@@Terrinist it's a dystopian nightmare mate, I thank lucky stars I'm English, but then my country is looking more like Africa every day
@@FrostFire1987 I think we can all safely thank the stars that we're not stuck under the CCP like 1.4bn others
I grew up in soviet union. This is sooooo familiar before the collapse.
Most Chinese products sold online claimed that they are Japanese products.
Artificial pearls have been around for many decades. Natural pearls are extremely rare these days as it would require blind opening wild oysters for < 1/1000 chance of getting anything
Let us all be grateful for the people's forceful donation to the Corrupt Cowards Party (CCP).
Corrupt coward party lmaoooooo
i am happy biden is moving things back to america. i moved my companies manufacturing back to the states 3 years ago. my profits took a small hit but i sleep better.
@@stormtrooper88 it sure is good with a strong, prosperous and independent core of the economy.
@@stormtrooper88he making the country poor, literally destroying america 🤦
Like how are you people this blind?,
it's no wonder why america is losing very badly 🙄
NO JESUS >>>> china is all corruption at every level, from government to people
Excellent coverage 👏🏻 👍🏻 👌🏻...The Chinese people shall be free from the corrupt CCP in our lifetime. 😊
if you are alive within the next 100 years, yes
@@D0NU75 ...I give it 10
It’s up to their citizens
@@sweetla4750 indeed
People get the government they deserve.
Escaping China was the best decision I ever made.
Question...is there ANY Chinese endeavor where honesty is routinely practiced?
you know, i can't think of a single thing i can answer with.
Well, if the answer is another question - What about Australian, American, Japanese, Britons, Europeans etc.? The answer is the same.
John tang… sure, but it’s to a whole different level. In western europe and north america you have food safety standards and you recall fake products. Then, toxic levels of heavy metals are regulated effectively, and not only aren’t allowed, but government crackdowns work better. Bribery is definitely possible. The world at large isn’t so moral, but the law works a bit better in some places over others.
@@johntang4108 ......Sorry, my question was China specific, I didn't mention Austrailia.
Saying so and so stole candy, so I did it too, means two are guilty.
In the U.S. ther's a couple of old sayings:
"Would you jump off the bridge if all your friends jumped off the bridge too?"
AND
"Two wrongs don't make a right."
@johntang4108 PROJECTION WE ARE TALKING CCP NOTHING ELSE THE WEST IS NOT THE TOPIC. But we try to have a free society and try to expose the BS. CORRUPTION IS THE CCP MOTTO. You don't know what is.
Not only known as the land of short cuts and facades, but also suckers.
I remember an old TV show, in the early 2000's, in France, which, in one of its videos, asked a Chinese industrialist (at that time, China was already eating us alive), "which year is it, in the chinese calendar ?" The industrialist answered "The goat" meaning, in french slang, that you are a stupid, clumsy and naïve person. Today, I realize they also "goat" their own people.
What a dystopian society..
We have a lot of states here investing peoples pensions in Chinese investment funds and I think this is going to be disastrous if it’s all fake numbers and there’s no accountability then all that money is going to go poof at some point… This is really bad for everyone !
"If it's all fake" it all is fake, thats the problem.
Long term investments into china are as save as gambling your pension in a casino, almost guaranteed to lose you money
It is called a smart meter for a reason (smart in making money for CCP)
COUNTERFIET CAPITAL OF THE WORLD
Country.
3:52 The bride's name on the paper "Lam Thi Da" is very likely to be Vietnamese. The money showed on top of the block of money at 3:46 is the 200K Vietnam Dong.
Pretty sure many chinese marry other asian women if they can, and bring them to live in china, because they have a shortage of women.
Calculating electrical usage is a very simple and precise procedure. For there to be a 30% difference between two meters means one of them is lying.
It can also mean the meter is calibrated for clean power delivery, for countries and grids where you have lots of supply and substations, transformers and so on to regulate efficient power.
(Also regulators who maintain, validate and fine providers who don't comply.... which might be a luxury item in China)
In rural areas where the voltage can sway wildly, or there's problems with brownouts, you can have Power Factor problems causing that 30% to 40% loss i.e. Dirty Power. This is probably why the old disc/wheel meter is showing the power use being 2/3, as it can be common to see Power Factors of 0.6 when it should be more like 0.8 to 0.9.
That's assuming the meters haven't been tampered with. Both are easy to check if you have the tools... But ..
I LOVE how the gas station attendant knows that much about gas station pump calibration systems. Your one-liter measuring cup is just a measuring cup! It's not a CALIBRATION TOOL! Clearly one liter isn't one liter.
To be fair, that was a slick response. She'd obviously heard the "how come the pump display doesn't match the measuring cup" line before.
@@jimmyjakes1823 I'm less sure it was slick than it was rehearsed. Like the management told her, look, people are gonna come in here, acting like we're cheating them. Some of them will bring their OWN FUCKING MEASURING CUPS. When that happens, tell them those cups aren't "official calibration tools," imply that their social credit score might get dinged for even asking, then ring up the purchase.
@@vsgfilmgroupYou seen the picture of the 3 Chinese tape measures, and they don't line up meaning a centimeter is different on each one? 🤣 They could just say your one litre cup could be anything if it's made in China
@@mikesully110Good point. But then you ask where the calibration tools were made.
Remember all. People can be horrible regardless of nationality. It is much more prevalent in China because of desperation. Its not an excuse for it, just a reason. I just want people to remember that the Chinese people are victims but of course just like anywhere there are people who take advantage of suffering.
Their kids are raised in a cut-throat environment where every classmate is a competitor, brainwashed into thinking the CCP are good and that foreigners are bad. These are the underlying reasons but the end result is just the fact that the Chinese population are inherently more evil towards others. Their suffering has always been dealt by their own countrymen, it has always been like this even during their economic boom.
This is exactly the reason why freedom is more important than life itself. People too afraid to lose their lives fighting for freedom will inevitably get slavedom. Thomas Jefferson knew this too well, as for the reason the Tree of Liberty be of the color red. Hint: not because it is communist!
I dislike this argument because it quite literally removes the concepts of consequence and responsibility.
The majority of chinese people are adults, they can make an informed choice. They could try to be honest or try to support honest businesses.
They don't.
Counterpoint:
These are bug people and they shouldn't be trusted.
A tree rots from its roots. Wow, that hits hard!
The tears, the pain and the suffering is real.
I also saw stories from europe about new smart meters vastly overcharging some people and there were reports of the meter still running even when no power was being used.
The list of things that actually aren't some sort of scam is very short
Line losses would mean that you would have to produce MORE than you sell, not the other way around!
*Today I learned;* that I’m not smart enough to be a scammer!
Seriously, how do people even _COME UP_ with this stuff?!
I guess if you’re moderately intelligent and don’t have any morals or ethics, your brain just automatically starts looking for flaws and ways to game the system/exploit people?🤷♀️
I have no desire to ever go to china.
Oyster pearl farming is common. The pearls might be real but they are artificially created by inserting a piece of silica or even a clay bead into a live pearl
At least they are consistent in doing this, it is not new.
dont pity them, like other stated "cheating is OK for me!!! It's only bad when someone cheats me"
I mean, all they'd have to do to wave away the claims of the smart meters stealing power is to claim that it's miscalibrated or defective.
Easier to assume the grid is defective as well. This can be checked in most Smart Interval meters as they report back when the grid is overloaded or there's brownouts due to defects or maintenance problems.
When you have brownouts in these areas, it's a sign of supply/grid problems which gets passed onto the customers with breaking appliances, costing more money to run appliances, and being a general nuisance with flickering lights and humming/overheating appliances.
Dirty Power, creates problems in the grid which causes appliances to need more power to operate properly, also called Power Factor. That would also explain the colossal "gap" between supply and consumption, i.e. powerline losses and lack of maintenance, even though it's a staggeringly high number.
I can't rule out tampering, but I assume it's all defective. Easier/safer assumption.
Chinese 'government': Smart Meters: nothing to see here.
Someone like Sun Tzu stature said " deception runs deep in the Han bloodstream "
Ayo, which chapter did Sun Tzu specifically state this in the Art of War? I can't seem to find this quote.
Its not a Sun Tzu quote, its just BS made up in the mind of @StevenKilner
@@derekhayter4879 The Expanded Works of the Systemic Thought of Sun Tzu. An unpublished work, but very famous.
Han defeated takes
Dude Hans defeated Caucasian
And MAO is to blame!
What? China lying? I am so shocked.
0:25 - 0:28 Pay attention closely to the hand movements....you can tell it was fake cause if the pearl really came from the shell itself it was supposed not to lift the hand like the clip video above.
oysters are massacred for entertainment and not food, so sad
For them it's laugh now cry later. They use ways to make money fast but it's backfiring.
One of China's strategies toward global governance is an accelerated push in taking over international standards bodies, and it is successfully manipulating those standards as part of its quest for global tech domination. The Chinese government has a track record of trying to manipulate international organizations, and Chinese participation at international standards bodies is increasing. Technical standards are the detailed specifications for how pieces of technology should be built so that they meet performance thresholds and can connect to other products.
Yet this video shows the technical standards they are implementing and employing to their own netizens. These various metering/measuring devices are indeed "smart" - Smart at deceiving, taking advantage, and ripping-off, the already over burdened Chinese people. This is nothing more than downright fraud and robbery at an unprecedented level.
Lack of jobs, rampant unemployment, decreasing wages, pay cuts for the 'fortunate' that still have a job, mortgage payments, car loans, deflationary economy, crashing stock markets, unprecedented debt at all levels.....Just how much more of this are the Chinese people willing to stand and endure?
Mainland China saying: I can make anything fake but my mother.
In regard to pearls, ones that look like that - beautiful, high quality, nice color and luster, perfect round - costs THOUSANDS and are RARE! Absolutely, NO WAY will you EVER get that many perfect ones out of one mussel or in a live show. Know what you’re buying, people!
Line loss would be picked up on the old meters too though. What was their argument to have smart meters account for extra losses like that?
Explaining this away by declaring it is due to 'line losses' is laughable. My answer back to this fool would have been - "So it's line losses? Then how is it possible for electrical consumption to exceed electrical production? Wouldn't this mean there were actually line "gains"?" What a joke.
Power prices jump between 1 to 10x in this video,
Incressed usage of 0.3% to 35%
also power consumed and power produced diffrence means that power was imported.
if one can get hold on like 5 spare power meters why dont the open them ?
This explains the constant shifty facail expression of the whole country
The struggle might be real
those pearls look like bath bombs
Now the truth prevails. Salute to the sincere citizens of China.
7:42 "The power supply department insist that the meters are functioning properly."
Well they do. The cheating is by design and accepted by the state.
11:30 Law of Physics with Chinese Characteristics 😂
Man, even the livestreamers are fake too
just pay with fake money
Hard to understand AI when you have little I.
It isn't stealing electricity, it's stealing money....but some one has to pay for the meters, the construction, installation, corrupt electrical company stagf and ccp officials.
Hey...a US wood board called a 2"x4"...is neither 2 inches nor 4 inches. Still wonder why they are still 8 ft long
I just can't feel bad for someone who thinks they can just drop ship a bride to their life lol
Exactly. They can't get a woman without paying for a reason.
The fake culture is crumbling 😂😂 Who would have guessed
"Smart meter" = "A smart way for us to cheat people"
On electricity meter, I have a possible answer: power factor. Old mechanical meter measures active power or average power, which matters for consumer. But Chinese "smart" meter may measure reactive power, which may be larger than active power for reactive load like refrigerator motor or fan or computer. The ratio is called power factor. There is a device that can corrects the power factor. This is only viable explanation for such huge discrepancy unless the smart mater is defective.
i live in Australia and when they started to roll out smart meters here we had similar issues, higher bills for the same if not lower consumption, people getting stupid high bills, was a big issue and people refused to have them installed on their houses.
By its fruits you can tell the quality of the tree!!
It sounds like the Grid operator is avoiding penalties for operating at Power Factor rates of 0.6 to 0.7. i.e. not supplying enough power to rural areas, causes the appliances to surge/brown-out, and use more power.
This 30-35% gap, is due to a difference between the real power, and the apparent power, but also unstable voltage and current. A Grid Regulator would prevent this, but given it's China ... you just move the problems around, not solve them. A Regulator is still going to be corrupt, it's just going to lack enforcement because they'll be wined and dined to solve problems as it's cheaper than adding infrastructure that breaks down and costs money/staff to maintain.
It's not a quick fix problem in rural areas, because generally, its a combo of problems. It's especially noticeable with motors or fans, as they will 'drift' or hum when there's brownouts in the grid. Lights, as a resistive load, will flicker or brown out, hence the term brownout.
That cost gets pushed onto the consumer and causes appliances to break down as well. It can be fixed with PFC or "Power conditioners", but in rural areas where power is unregulated, you would save a lot of money in putting most of the house behind a battery backup, or a series of small battery backups. Not just for surge, but because the power grid can damage your appliances.
A Diesel/Gas generator, "Big Battery" UPS like a powerwall, or a series of 2kw/2kva UPS devices around the house for each appliance would save a lot over 2-4 years, especially for computers, fans or fridges, things that cost a lot to replace. It sounds stupid, as it is stupid. But it saves repairing an AC or washing machine every few years. Especially in a rural area where half your power is going to Fridge/Cooling or Room fans. Not computers, TVs or Dishwashers, sic.
And, because the UPS will kick in when the grid is bad, it will save money just running a fridge or washing machine, instead of replacing a Fridge/Washing machine.
Digital meters require that the grid is operating at 0.8 to 0.9 PF, because the meters may not correct for PF. Newer smart meter models report Voltage/PF problems so grid operators can see where problems or 'vampire' loads are located, i.e. people tapping in illegally will affect the stability of the grid supply.
Of course, without a regulator... you rely on the company deciding where the money is best spent in maintaining the grid. It's not about "clean coal", it's about transformers and powerlines being damaged or insufficient. The new meters will be 'accurate', as long as the power being delivered is clean/efficient, because the old disc/wheel meters measure work, or wattage, which is more tolerant of faulty power delivery.
Incorrect/invalid power will cause appliances to use more power than they are supplied with, they'll hum or flicker, as the supplied power is unstable. It's akin to flushing the toilet while having a shower, which takes the cold water away from the shower. If there's a lack of steady supply of voltage or current, the normal 50hz AC starts to 'bleed' into 49/48hz, while the voltage or peak starts to surge or drop, leading to appliances dying or breaking prematurely, aka Brownouts or motors/fans or pumps stalling.
If the Power Factor is somewhere around 0.6, instead of 0.8 to 0.9, this means that any kind of appliance will use 20-40% more power to reach the same effort/work level. If there's also voltage drops and current drops causing instability, this is a sign that the grid is unstable. Think of it like a tap that surges and drips, because there's a lack of pressure/current in the whole system.
It's what's called Power Factor, or how efficient/clean the voltage and current is. A 35% discrepancy can be explained by faulty transformers and a lack of monitoring equipment, because the new meters will pick up the uncorrected or "dirty power", and charge money for power you're not able to use.
The meters measure what the load is being asked to provide, so if you turn on a 1000w motor, it's not actually using 1000w, it needs an initial kick, which is 'fed' by the alternating current to accelerate, pause, accelerate, pause, accelerate the spindle. When the Power factor or average power being sent is dirty or below specifications, the appliance is receiving 550w to 750w in lower voltage, lower current or abnormal current, instead of 1000w. So, the appliance will either draw more from the grid, or attempt to compensate or surge/slow as the motor is not working as hard as it should be.
I live in japan,I shut off my breaker and lived off my generator.I was still billed .
Real Pearls made of White Tungsten Balls? 😂😂
8:15 yeah we're suffering from the same thing here in the UK as soon as my smart meter was fitted for gas & electricity bills jumped to around 3 fold in cost
According to this program and the people comment it has to be the CCP's work😂😂😂
@@SueC2558One is a directly government-run institution in it's homeland. The other is an international privately run corporation with only flimsy government oversight. Neither are confused here by anyone but yourself. Perhaps consider things are worse in your home than you realize. I pray the mandate of heaven saves you from yourself.
@@KiraSlith I'm being sarcastic here can't u tell by my emoji? This so called smart meters ripping people off everywhere in the world not just in China. It's happened in Australia too.
We live abroad in S. Korea but still have our place in Hammersmith. When they came around bleating about prepaid meters for gas and lecky everyone knew we we're gonna get fleeced. BG and Centrica are screwing Briton's over royally with the deregulation. Parliament isn't interesting any doing anything but lip service. Hard times are only starting friend. Stay strong
@@SueC2558 Yet it's a perfect match for the Wumao Dang (AKA 50 cent army) style of posting down to the emoji count. My apologies, but please use the more universally recognized "/s" in the future.
I don’t understand how a brilliant and intelligent people would rather take that incredible talent and use it for bad. Shame!
That gas station emplyoee is in on the scam. Why would she comment on this? She isn't the owner of the gas station, you'd think she would have no comment because it's not her business from either side looking at it.
This type of culture will be their downfall.
How do you save a entire culture and people when the moral decay goes all the way down to the root ?
How do you save an entire culture where scamming is its foundation?
Because right now there is no saving them from their own horrible corruption
"A measuring cup is a measuring tool, not a calibration tool"
"It's not appropriate to use just any random object for measurement"
What about a measuring tool?
Great report
NOOOOOO🇺🇲💪
They do that in America upstate New York.They've been doing it for years.They average out your consumption and then send you the bill.And then later on.They will give you a Rebate a credit.They call it it's all a scam!
Things we Americans already knew about China.
This is like the last grap of a failing government
A cut and paste country
Good. If you think cut and paste can make your country great, do it. However, I think you are wrong.
Here in American you're just charged a crazy electricity "delivery" fee if you don't live close to a supply company; and it could easily equal half your bill where you end up paying $100+ when you've only used $42 of electricity (and this isn't even the 'scamming' companies 🙄)
I live 9 blocks from a generating station in Manhattan. That's less than a half mile. I pay a delivery fee here, too. It might be less than yours, or not, but we pay the highest rates in the country.
New chinese measuring standard, 800mL IS 1 litter. So simple, why can't normal citizens understand? Smh
this one knows it's not her fault, but did that lady really just say 'You can't use a measuring tool to measure things'? like, isn't that the point of a measuring device? And a measurement system? So that things are uniform? Like, a liter is a liter, no matter where you go. Even in countries like america that still generally use imperial measurements, a liter is still a liter.
The extra charges are the people’s republic revolutionary tax
Neutrality is best.
Same problems here.
Metaphorically, its like santa ran out of toys so he just started to make snow toys. Literary same problems. In time santa and other fictional characters will rely on each other to curve the supply and demand.
Like celebrating news years on your birthday. Makes sense.
I wonder, who is having a good life in China?
OK,the party members,but how many are these?what about the rest of the population.
It's pretty telling, if the average gas station employee, already knows how to deal with 'difficult' customers.
'Your one liter measuring cup only measures, it doesn't calibrate so therefore you will pay a one liter price for 0.8 liter'.
The entire system is rotten to the core but it's leader is surprised when some of their ballistic missiles are found to contain only water instead of missile propellant? So the secretary of Defence gets booted out?
Hilarious stuff if it wasn't for the suffering of ordinary folks who get scammed by their compatriots and then fucked over by their government.
Not that it's surprising, president Poo Bear has announced that during his third term, a stronger army is the one and only priority.
The population are just leeks/the emperor's slaves, useful for harvesting.
No matter what happening China always right. Even is wrong. So no such thing is wrong.
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You got it. It’s not the only one but definitely one of the biggest
the woman on the thumbnail is not Chinese... that is a Vietnamese traditional dress, i don't want people to confuse Chinese traditional clothes and Vietnamese traditional clothes... do you guys have any idea how the CCP and the Chinese trying to claimed other Asian traditional dress as their own ?
Chinese people go to other countries and buy branded goods in other countriess because they cant even trust the offical store because while the company will not sell a fake, the employees could sell 2 fakes and disappear with more money they could make in a few years.
I have a theory, I'm an electrical engineer.
there is no actual control over the design of anything that passes or consumes electricity, so every poorly designed appliance with a switching supply or capacitive dropper, or rectifying the mains is screwing with power factor so badly that it gets pushed down on the whole grid.
the smart meters can be set up to measure power factor, and increase the tarrif accordingly.
the electromagnetic meters of old only measure current. not power factor or reactive loads.
so, the poorly designed loads connected to the mains lower power factor, the meter, starts "over reading" as it is reflecting consumption based on a lagging power factor, which would explain the difference.
or, it's just China being China.
but I like to give benefit of doubt.
the gas station thing, they're selling quarts of gasoline. not litres.
I'd bet that the software for the pumps was stolen from the u.s.a, and the conversion between a 1/4 gallon and litre was "close enough" for the coder/programmer so it made the cut.
I mean really a gallon is close enough to 4 litres right?
I'm just saying these things as I've had 10 years observing Chinese people at home and working with me. the very DNA of China is the real problem. every one of them thinks they are smarter than everybody else, and everybody thinks it's OK to short people because they really think that every business just charges too much. and that everybody is over charging.
it's kind of heartbreaking to live in a free western country, and have a Chinese girl that's lived here for 3 years get a speeding ticket on Christmas day, (as I did also, I was 2kmh over)
she complained that someone must not like her, and they told the police to stop and ticket her.
the paranoia and fear is unreasonable to me, as I have 25+years of new Zealand experience and I can't entertain my friends theory, China must be pretty bad to live in.
China has its own version of Eskom & what Eskom provides is long hours of Loadshedding lol
A joke i had for the disproportionate amount of men who dont find women to marry is: why not try being non-heterosexual sometimes? 😅😅
West Taiwan is such a mess! We need to move on and only deal with Taiwan!
Smart meters steal your money 😢. It’s the reason they were made 😢.