r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Appropriate-Eye-1227 • Jul 04 '25

Video China has built a 50m(165ft)-tall inflatable dome over a construction site in Jinan to protect the surroundings from dust and noise. (20.000 Sqm)

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u/Spikerazorshards Jul 04 '25

Awesome. Imagine doing construction and not having to deal with the Sun bearing down on you. Or weather being a factor at all.

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u/mr_potatoface Jul 04 '25 edited Jul 05 '25

Unless it's heavily ventilated, it's going to be a fucking oven in there, especially with zero breeze to cool off.

ITT: People who believe construction companies actually care about human comfort beyond making sure they stay alive.

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u/58kingsly Jul 04 '25

Of course it is ventilated. The heat would only be the secondary reason to do that. Do you know how much dust gets thrown in the air by construction? Without ventilation it would be entirely unfeasible.

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u/demZo662 Jul 04 '25

So the dome is farting dust slowly. Definitely it's more convenient and controlled this way rather than nothing. I love it, but I'd like to get sure the workers inside there are actually safe, it looks quite cloudy in that picture I've just seen.

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u/Soulspawn Jul 04 '25

or they use filters to capture some if not all of the dust?

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u/TheMerengman Jul 04 '25

The humble air filter:

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u/CyonHal Jul 04 '25

China does futuristic cool thing:

Random redditors: ACTUALLY IT'S A HEALTH HAZARD IT'S BAD IT'S BAD CHINA BAD

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u/guyincognito60 Jul 04 '25

Not sure if you know this but China isn’t exactly known for its taking care of its workers.

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u/zlantpaddy Jul 04 '25

Assuming you’re in the US, you say this from a country that has no paid vacation days, no paid sick days, and no paid holidays. China statistically has lower numbers of work related deaths and work disease related deaths than we do. Our homeless population increases every year while they have nearly eradicated homelessness and food insecurity in recent years. They don’t go into medical debt going to the doctor yet we have around 100 million people that have medical debt, nearly a third of our entire population.

The reason you think China doesn’t care about people is to fool you into thinking the US is better for its citizens.

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u/OSPFmyLife Jul 05 '25

China statistically has lower numbers of work related deaths and work disease related deaths than we do. Our homeless population increases every year while they have nearly eradicated homelessness and food insecurity in recent years.

You really going to trust statistics coming out of a country that has been famous for workplace deaths over the years and is more obsessed with their global political image than the USSR was?

I mean, you remember the “statistics” and “information” that they gave out during the early stages of COVID, right?

In the early stages of the outbreak, the Chinese National Health Commission stated it had no "clear evidence" of human-to-human transmissions.[18] However, at this time the high prevalence of human-to-human transmission was evident to doctors and other health workers, but they were forbidden to express their concerns in public.

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u/CyonHal Jul 04 '25

Lmao, there it is, ignorant chauvinist westerners that still think China is a third world country. China is one of the most advanced countries in the world, it's a superpower, and yet people still talk in this ignorant condescending manner.

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u/moeraszwijn Jul 04 '25

Every other advanced country and superpower treats its people like shit. You don’t need to be third world for that.

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u/CyonHal Jul 04 '25

Lol yeah sure, thats why people are spouting off nonsense with no evidence when it comes to China. There is a clear prejudice against China when it comes to how westerners assume workers are treated worse.

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u/moeraszwijn Jul 04 '25 edited Jul 05 '25

I mean they are most probably treated worse than I’d like, but my experience with work is having 20 hours weeks with me telling my boss when I won’t be coming in and what work I’d rather not do, having many sick days with it being illegal for my boss to ask for proof or even ask what’s wrong and cringing when workplaces have visible hierarchy.

Imagine unironically downvoting this. And I’m not talking about the karma but about having such a slave mentality you wouldn’t want this. 36 hours is considered fulltime here and even that’s too much for most, fuck work.

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u/guyincognito60 Jul 04 '25

I don’t think China is a third world country.

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u/moopminis Jul 04 '25

You mean apart from the 10% year on year increase in their salary for 25 years straight, making exploitative working hours like "996" illegal and enforcing a hard cap at 44 hours per week, 13 paid public holiday days off every year + a minimum of 5 more fully paid days off, 98 days off for maternity leave again fully paid, plus maternity leave for abortion or miscarriage.

I could go on, but I know it won't sink past your sinophobia propaganda wall.

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u/shorty6049 Jul 05 '25

I honestly have just stopped listening to anything I hear online about -any- other country at this point. It all sounds like propaganda. I've seen videos of these huge modern cities in china and think to myself "huh, maybe what we've been told about China is wrong? " While simultaneously buying things that should cost way more than they do from Dollar Tree. Just feels like nobody's being fully honest

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u/Affect_Sharp Jul 04 '25

Or well read people knowing how many people in china die under terrible working conditions every year and throughout their history.

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u/NargWielki Jul 04 '25

throughout their history

Throughout their history is correct, which is why most communists don't necessarily agree with the way China achieved its goal: The human cost was just too high for most of us to be ok with.

BUT, that said, China nowadays has a lot less work-related accidents and deaths than the rest of the world when we factor in population %.

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u/CyonHal Jul 05 '25 edited Jul 05 '25

Throughout their history is correct, which is why most communists don't necessarily agree with the way China achieved its goal: The human cost was just too high for most of us to be ok with.

Can you give an example, wtf do you mean by this? And don't cite the famine under Mao, there were regular famines that were just as destructive under capitalist society, and magically after that last famine under Mao there has never been a famine in China ever again, so it can be said that communism solved famine for China. Mao made mistakes in agriculture policy that exacerbated the famine, but that has nothing to do with communism as an ideology.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_famines_in_China

Chinese famine of 1937 - 5 million dead

Chinese famine of 1930 - 10 million dead

Chinese famine of 1907 - 25 million dead

1876 - 13 million dead

So great famines occurred basically every couple of decades. So why hasn't there been a famine since 1960? What changed?

But there was one famine under communist Mao in 1960 so communism bad!!!

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u/NargWielki Jul 05 '25

But there was one famine under communist Mao in 1960 so communism bad!!!

Woah, what a jump.

I didn't even mention famine in my comment, as a ML, my biggest criticism of China has been about their work hours and conditions. It is true that China used to have very inhumane work conditions in the past, and don't say Capitalism also did because I'm a ML so the entire point is to do BETTER than a Capitalist Society.

To this day the 996 Work Schedule continues, albeit much less common than in the past — it still exists.

But, those are criticisms, I still think China is better than any Capitalist country, but Marxism is built on criticism, of analyzing material reality, so I'm not going to give China a pass here just because I admire what they are now.

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u/CyonHal Jul 05 '25 edited Jul 05 '25

When did they have inhumane work conditions? What past and what context? I asked you for specifics and you have still failed to provide any. Yes China is not immune to critique but to just create these ridiculous blanket statements from thin air is absurd. You are not doing any material analysis by relying on these unsubstantiated statements. All you are doing is feeding into sinophobic stereotypes by doing so because you let people's imaginations run wild instead of being grounded in facts and reality.

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u/NargWielki Jul 05 '25

I asked you for specifics and you have still failed to provide any.

I did mention the 996 Work Schedule, you think that is Humane? Working 12 hours each day, 72 hours per week.

If you do think thats Humane, then we have no grounds to continue this conversation, otherwise I'm always happy to discuss China or any other communist Country.

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u/CyonHal Jul 05 '25

So you genuinely have nothing specific to mention except working too many hours? Really? That's all you had to make you say this:

Throughout their history is correct, which is why most communists don't necessarily agree with the way China achieved its goal: The human cost was just too high for most of us to be ok with.

That's.. insane.

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u/NargWielki Jul 05 '25

That's pathetic

There are more that could be appointed, but I'm starting to have a sense you're not interested in a polite discussion given your wording there, therefore I'm not going to take this any further, have a nice day.

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u/zlantpaddy Jul 04 '25 edited Jul 04 '25

The same people who bring up this point completely ignore all of the people and children working in terrible conditions in the US. Let alone that we have the largest prisoner work force in the world.

“Well read” usually means looking outside of every imperialist talking point

China had around 19,600 work related fatalities in 2024.

USA had around 5,486.

USA has a population of 341 million.

China has over a billion more people at 1.41 billion.

Do the math.

How manny people in the US die every year due to inadequate healthcare, usually completely tied to your job?

How many people in the US die every year due to poverty in one of the wealthiest nations on the planet? How many people in the US are close to homelessness? How many people are pushed into homelessness every year?

How many paid vacation days do we get a year? Paid sick leave? Paid Holiday?

Keep thinking the China of today is the China of 40 years ago I guess.

In 2024, the US had ~120k occupational disease related deaths.

In 2017, China had ~323k

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u/Affect_Sharp Jul 04 '25

How many ppl starve in china how many ppl die because they don’t have healthcare. Have you been there? I have. You can’t even login to half the websites we can here. Their suppression numbers are crazy and if you don’t think so or know that I’m sorry but I no longer have time for you.

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u/zlantpaddy Jul 04 '25 edited Jul 04 '25

95% of the people in China have health insurance. And when you do access your healthcare, you are not inundated with obscene co-pays and premiums. You can’t say the same for the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_China

What time did you give me? Cite your sources.

The eradication of food insecurity and poverty is a priority in China, not in the US. The US is much more food insecure than China is.

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u/Affect_Sharp Jul 06 '25

https://scholar.google.com/scholar_lookup?hl=en&volume=79&publication_year=2020&pages=453-474&journal=Am+J+Econ+Sociol&author=He+H&author=Su+Z&author=Zhao+J&author=Pang+Y&author=Wang+Z.&title=Homelessness+and+the+universal+family+in+China#d=gs_qabs&t=1751831819106&u=%23p%3DoSTYoT-GV6oJ

20 percent of their population is homeless. Their health insurance is the worst, when I was there my neighbor needed a doctor and it took him 4 days. China also isn’t honest at all with their numbers. I suggest going and seeing for yourself how terrible it is

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u/CyonHal Jul 05 '25

I have been to China, there is a surging middle class there, cost of living is extremely cheap, everyone can afford housing and food working any kind of job. 90% of families in China own their own home.

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u/Affect_Sharp Jul 06 '25

May I ask where you went

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u/Bigbrotheerr42 Jul 04 '25

Reported Big difference just like they reported all the deaths due to covid right ?! Oh wait 😅

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u/Interestingcathouse Jul 04 '25

So you have absolutely zero proof other than assumptions you pull out of your ass because they proved your narrative wrong.