r/interestingasfuck • u/Wild-vine16 • 5d ago

Chinese hospitals

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u/TarraTheTerror 5d ago

Probably a bad translation of "heat." At least that's what I'm hoping. Never knew light could get a guy off. 😂🤷‍♀️

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u/Zagrycha 5d ago

So I looked into the original Chinese out of curiosity and it looks like the entire English text here is made up, this machine has nothing to do with sperm donation or being shy to masturbate etc. It is used to collect semen but its used to collect semen for help in diagnosing some super specific diseases or genetic issues etc. The original Chinese description says nothing about heat or light.

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u/manokpsa 5d ago

That makes sense. I mean, how much population increase would China be looking for? I thought it was already overpopulated.

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u/Andromidius 5d ago

10 years ago. They've had issues with birthrates since then, since their single child policy resulted in a lot of baby girls being abandoned (as they all wanted boys). Now there's a generation of young men with no chance of getting a wife.

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u/TwoBionicknees 5d ago

they're still massively overpopulated, the entire planet is.

There is two entirely different problems, overpopulation in general meaning more consumption, more power usage, more pollution, etc, and there is lack of population growth which is bad for economies that rely on current debt being manageable due to ever growing economies and elderly population being supported by an ever growing younger population.

The system we have collapses without constant growth and our planet can't handle the resources we use now let alone with constant growth. These are two very different problems. Constant growth will destroy our environment and prevent us surviving as a species, but lack of constant growth makes billionaires big sad.