I have a YouTube account that I use only for Spanish language videos (to help learn Spanish), and saw this. Translates to: “China is already living in 2050 but, at what cost? This is Shenzhen, the city of the future.”
I really need to get started learning Mandarin and hope to god “at what cost” isn’t a thing there too
The argument that China is always watching you with cameras loses impact when western social media collects and shares peoples biometric data every chance it can.
As a proud American I want to pay a Ring subscription for the police to spy on me, my neighbors and anyone passing by! No government handouts!
You’ll give your jizz sample to the private market and you’ll like it!
And you’ll bet on Kalshi about its sperm cell/microplastic ratio
At what cost?
How are we going to pay for it?Club ‘No one gives a shit.’
Isn’t UK the place with the most cameras deployed by the government? And in the US it’s done by private companies like Flock and Ring. Not even to speak about the giant privacy invasion done by social media
In my experience the right-wing anti-china people in lat-am are so focused on crime that they are, if anything, pro surveillance. It is the achilles heel of the ambient US worship engineered by the jakarta method as applied to our hemisphere.
“At what cost?” is the English version of ですね (desu ne). It’s a sentence stopper with a little Chinese-accusatory inflection at the end. It’s a tense in American English. You have the cop violence tense which is ascended passive tense. Then you have Chinese-accusatory tense which is jealous present tense.
The US has like a military and private panopticon by the way. They use one to see if you’d make a good mass shooter and the other to sell you things the moment it looks like you’re sad.
“在什么价格？”
I’ve learned Spanish on my own I really want to do Mandarin next but man is that a daunting one
It’s a good way to avoid doomscrolling, like any other hobby. I still manage to do both tho
(My comment is a word by word translation which is most likely unnatural/incorrect but that’s the joke)
Yeah for sure. For a while I did nothing but watch Spanish videos during all my free time. I’m gonna take an exam in the next year or two hoping for C1 level and if I get that I will really start looking at Mandarin.
I’d definitely be doomscrolling 小红书 and calling it language study though lmao
Spanish and English are only kinda-sorta ‘different languages’
Not really. English is a Germanic language whereas Spanish is a Romance language. They borrow some words from each other but overall they’re quite different both in translation and structure.
English is weird because even though it is a Germanic language it has such a huge lexicon borrowed from Romance languages which can definitely help when learning one from the other. But yeah beyond that they are very different.
English is a bastardized language. It has everything. Just like the British Museum.
I mean, compared to Mandarin for sure. But they’re still quite different and it takes years for a speaker of one to learn the other.
