“Sign Your Name, and You Get $5,000N.T.s”, Using the Small Pay-Off Trick, Conned the Students Effectively

And, the victims are (drum roll please!)???  NOBODY, it’s still an ABUSER/ENABLER interaction, as these, tiny fish started, getting BAITED!  Off of the Front Page Sections, translated…

“No Card, No Installment”, Purchasing the High-Tech Devices, Close to a Hundred Fell Victim, the Two Communications Store that Were Involved in These Schemes Immediately Stopped Services, to Prevent More from Falling Victim

There were, the many college students who were enticed, to purchase the high-tech devices using “no credit card, no installment payments”, claiming that no need to pay, and the victims were told they can make $5,000N.T.s too, but in the end, none of the victims received what they’d ordered, and had the debts of anywhere from $10,000N.T. to $100,000N.T. on their, backs.  The Fengjia University confirmed, that they’d received over a hundred calls from students who fell victim to this, that the school had sent the memos to the students of the university, warning them NOT to fall for it, and the Fengjia University is the school with the most number of victims.  While the Donghai Catholic University had one student reporting getting scammed; the Lingguo Technical University, with three; and Hongguan Technical University with one.

The female student from Fengjia University told, that in a former coworker’s connection, she’d met an agent, and the agent had, enticed her to purchase the high-tech devices with “no credit cards necessary, no installment payments”, that she didn’t have to pay anything, and she gets to have the commissions of $5,000N.T.s.  She’d first purchased an iPad at $17,000N.T., then a cellphone at $40,000N.T.s, and for the first three months, she’d not received any payment notices, but, soon as the bill came, she’d had to pay close to $8,000N.T. per month, that was when she’d realized, that she’d been, scammed, and she couldn’t get in touch with the agent who’d sold her the items, and now, she not only didn’t receive the cell phone, and the iPad she’d ordered, she still had $110,000N.T. debts on her back.

unfortunately, this “warning label” wasn’t plastered on it…image from online

The female student from Jingyi University in March was introduced by a friend from Fengjia using the “no credit installment plan”, purchased an iPad, and that she only needed to turn her own laptop into the shop, then she was promised $5,000N.T.s, without using a credit card, she’d signed the contract immediately, and used the installment payment plans.  The female student told, that she’d received the payment notices from the agent the first few months, then, nothing, and now, she’s, carrying a debt of $70,000N.T. on her back.

There was also a student from Hongguan Tech that got scammed, the male college student was in the neighborhood of Fengjia University, and was called by a cell phone merchant agent to purchase a cell phone, but he’s now, carrying the debts of $100,000N.T.s, and soon as he’d found that he’d been, scammed, he’d, immediately, notified, the police.

The Fengjia University in the letters, reminded the students, that there’d been recent cases of students purchasing items and getting scammed, that the scam artists tapped into the mindset of “getting something cheaper” of the victims’ mindsets, offering the high amounts of cash or high end items as the rewards, that the key to not getting scammed, is not to be greedy.

There are a total of four claims from the Taichung Law Offices, later, one of the victims retracted, currently, there are, a total of fifteen cases under investigations.  The consumer safety agents told, that they’d already asked the related agencies to have the two communication shops stop operating, to prevent the new cases of being signed up for, to prevent even more victims.

The consumer safety agents yesterday inquired the store that was responsible, and the cashier told, that there were the groups of students that came in to purchase the cell phones, that the store did NOT take the cell phones from them, that the students took the cell phones they’d bought with them away.  The agents stated, that the whereabouts of the cellphones are unknown, and now, it’s left to the investigators to find them, that they can track the cell phones based off of the serial numbers in the contracts that the students had signed upon purchase to find out where the cell phones had actually, gone.

So, this is a total, SCAM, because this IS, too good to be, true, and the scam artists took advantage of the human natures of wanting to pay less to get more, to scam, and, the scammed are, those who are, younger, still in school, because they’re, EASY targets!

Americans are Too Turned Off by Washington to Even Complain

See how the things are, going, with the economics still not, bouncing back up, because the countries still hadn’t, hit that, ROCK bottom yet, and, combined with the bad politics, no wonder we the people, are becoming, too tired of it all…

Whitney Smith’s phone buzzed with a text from her mother, alerting her to the latest can-you-believe-it mess in Washington: “Far right ousted the House speaker.  Total chaos now.”

Smith, thirty-five, a bookkeeper and registered independent in suburban Phoenix, wanted no part of it.  she tries to stay engaged in civic life by voting, volunteering in local campaigns and going to city meetings.  But over the past week, the pandemonium of a narrowly averted government shutdown and leadership coup in the Republican-controlled House confirmed many Americans’ most cynical feelings about the federal government.

“It was just like, Oh God, what now?” she said.

Griping about politics is a time-honored American pastime—but lately, the country’s political mood has plunged to some of the worst levels on record.

After weathering the tumult of the Trump presidency, a pandemic, the Capitol insurrection, inflation, multiple presidential impeachments and far-right Republicans’ pervasive lies about fraud in the 2020 election, voters say they feel tired and angry.

In dozens of recent interviews across the country, voters young and old expressed a broad pessimism about the next presidential election that transcends party lines, as well as a teetering faith in political institutions.

The White House and Congress have pumped out billions of dollars to fix and improve the nation’s roads, ports, pipelines and internet.  They have approved hundreds of billions to combat climate change and lower the cost of prescription drugs.  President Joe Biden has canceled billions more in student debts.  Yet those accomplishments have not fully registered with voters.

as the governments all over the world, malfunctions, this is, what’s, running these, countries of, ours now…

the BAD band of, brothers, making the countries an even, BIGGER, M-E-S-S! Comic from online

Voters said that Washington infighting and the Republicans’ flirtation with debt default and government shutdowns recklessly put people’s paychecks, health care and benefits at risk at a moment when they are preoccupied with how to pay rising health care and grocery bills, or to cope with a fast-warming climate unleashing natural disasters in nearly every corner of the nation.

“Disgust isn’t a strong enough word”, said Bianca Vara, a Democrat and grandmother of five in the Atlanta area who runs a stall at a flea market that crackles with discussions of politics.

And so, this is, what it looks like, we the people, are falling lower, and lower, and lower, with our incomes getting, lesser and lesser, and lesser still, and the costs of, healthcare, housing, blah-blah-blah, hiking up, too quickly, and too high up, and, because this is how inflation works, and, the world still hadn’t quite hit, that ROCK bottom YET, to bounce back up, and we’re all, feeling the strains, of the costs of things we are in dire need of, and it’s going to be, a very long AND difficult, winter for everybody in the world to come, as the countries are, in recession now, and, countries everywhere are still, going down this, slippery slope, and we ain’t hit that, ROCK bottom Y-E-T, so there’s now, bouncing back, UP, not anytime soon!

How to Fold a Lotus

Still grieving, for the loss of our, mother, as we’re, preparing the, offerings for her…translated…

When my mother passed at the age of a hundred, everybody in the family, old and young, we’d all, busied about, folding up the lotuses, the gold nuggets as offerings.  The rest of my families folded the items agilely and beautifully, only I, soon as I picked up those, printed sheets of gold, tears would, blur everything out.

I’d recalled my mother’s life, how she’d, been through everything, with her strengths, and her taking it all in upon herself, she’d finally, overcome the poverty stricken life.  And, even though as we’d grown up, she’d started, living her life with more ease, and she was without any, major illnesses when she’d passed, I’d still, felt, very, sad.

Or maybe, I was, filled with too much sorrow and sadness, that I keep on, folding the items wrong, my younger brother’s grandchildren of six and seven, saw how I was folding the items, and wiping the tears away, they’d misunderstood, thought that I was crying, because I didn’t know how to fold those, items, “great aunt, don’t you worry, this is quite easy, just fold the sheet in half, then half…like this, and, you’re, done.”

what the lotus looked like, photo from online

Their words made me realized, how my heart wasn’t in what I was doing, and reminded me, that I needed to, let go.  I’d, wiped away the tears, walked to mom’s garden, saw how her favorite, garden dahlia were in full bloom, I’d, stood still, patted them, then, looked up, to the skies, told my mother: thank you, for raising me, and teaching me all the lessons I needed, I hope, we will, meet up someday again.

And so, losing a parents, it’s not only the sadness that will, overflow us, the grief, the losses too, after all, you’d lost someone who’d, raised you, who’d been there, to help you lift your spirits when you felt down, and now, she’s, gone, of COURSE you’re going to, feel the loss, but, with the passing of the days, you will find, that you missed your loved ones, a little less, until one day, when you think of the person, there will be, that light smile that slowly, curled up, your lips.

The Younger Generations Smelled the Rottenness of Being in Power Too Long of the DDP Now

Are the people, WAKE yet???  Off of the Front Page Sections, translated…

For the past two presidential elections, the DDP gained widespread support from the younger generation voters, but this election, the younger generations are, upset over the party in power, still quite doubtful toward the K.M.T., and Ke rode on the waves, both the K.M.T, and the D.D.P. wanted to win the younger generations, over.

In 2020, the president, Tsai won the all-time-high votes of 8.17 million, with the widespread supports of the, younger, generations, and yet, the younger generation supporters of the DDP had been, dropping down now, upset over how the conditions of society aren’t favorable to them, disappointed toward the party in power, can’t see the futures, these are, all, primary, reasons, Lai, as a key member of the DDP government, and now, he’s, nominated as the next presidential, candidate, the debts all, accumulated, and naturally, it’d, shown, on the losing of support for the younger generations.

The younger generations are, displeased at the current situations, the housing costs at an all-time high, the lengthening of the army service terms.  Social complexes is one of the vital promises of the president, Tsai, and now, it can’t even, provide for the living needs of those in the lower socioeconomic statuses, the DDP signed the budgets of thirty billion dollars N.T. to this, with no execution whatsoever.  And the service terms returned back to a whole year too, there’s no explanations of why by the government, and, no claims of reforms in the training means, with the mottos of “preparing for war, to stop it from happening!”

The DDP prided itself on advancement, but since it’d taken control of the country for close to eight whole years, all the party gave to the younger generations was its “being in power too long, becoming, corrupt”, the female college student from Zhongshan University questioned Lai on how he would handle the matters of bribes and corruption in the government, everybody who sat in the audience, and her words, gained the loud applause in the, audience.  And, here’s, another example, even the city of Tainan, fully supporting the DDP, Lai’s birthplace, with the green energy plants, all over the places, causing the local younger generation to SCREAM out in anger, that they won’t vote DDP this time.

The upsets of the younger generations are now, being, voiced, and yet, there’s, no room for the differences of, opinions, online.  Under the dictatorship of the DDP, the freedom of speech got tightened, causing the chilling effect, another reason why the younger generations are now, upset.  A few days ago, as Lai spoke in the Yang-Jiao University, the news media interview groups interviewed the students who were present, the students worried, “I’d spoken so many words against the DDP, if you print my name on the papers, will there be, an issue for me?”, the students’ concerns, showed how they’re, too afraid of being gone-after by the net armies of the DDP from online.

The fears of the chilling effect spread from the ordinary citizens, to the bigshots in politics, the legislator of the DDP, Chen sighed, that when the “three-million case” was on, he’d posted something on FB, and, the armies of DDP supporters online, maxed out his, message board.  Even the DDP’s own legislators couldn’t stand the cyberbullying, and the bullying, let alone, the younger generations, and us, ordinary, citizens.

The DDP had, waved the flags of freedom of speech high for long, and now, the chilling effect set it, which became, what defined the DDP’s reign of terror, for the, younger, generations.

And so, the hypocrisies of this, governing political party that’s, too corrupt to, beyond anybody’s, imagination is finally now, biting them back on the asses, and, chances are, they’re going to, lose BIG, in the elections that’s coming up at the beginning of, next year, because, we the people are now, “woke”.

We’d come to see, that this political party that’s preached about freedom, equal rights, whatever, using whatever means possible to, SILENCE we the people, and we won’t, have that!

The KMT Questioned Ke’s Ingenuity of the Merging of the KMT & the TPP

What MORE, do you want?  I mean, Hou already compromised, settled for, the running mate, and now, Ke became, indecisive…and, if Ke can’t bring himself to work with Hou on the elections, then, he will be, the one to BLAME, for the DDP, taking control over us all, again!  Off of the Front Page Sections, translated…

The Talks of Forced “Merger”, of “Emotional Blackmail”, and of the “Fruit of a Poisonous Tree”

The mergers of the KMT and the TPP is now, in the negotiation phase, leaving the room for cooperation.  But, as the supporters saw that Hou had compromised again, and again, he’d gotten insulted, maybe, it, angered all the, supporters of the KMT, and the chair, Chu must steady the emotions that are about to go haywire within the party, while Ke must, show more faith, to NOT break the expectations of sixty-percent of all the voters.

The negotiations had gone on for weeks, Hou had shown his final hand in, friendship, no longer insisted on being on the ticket as, president anymore, and, whether it be, “Ke as president, Hou as vice president”, or “Hou as president, Ke as vice president”, he’d accepted it, but, they both need to be on the, same ticket.  But Ke failed to catch the balls, and continued, to serve his own, and tossed out the claims of him “being forced into a merge”, “the poisonous combo”, and told, that he’d been, emotionally blackmailed by the day, mocked how the KMT had proposed the preliminary votes first, with fifty-fifty supporters, that a whole bottle of arsenic will kill you, but, so would, half a bottle, this angered, a lot of the supporters of the KMT.

from before, Ke, shaking hand with the chairman of the KMT, Chu…photo from online

The key to political cooperation is on ingenuity, with the ingenuity in place, then, the trust can be, established, then the, compromises of give and, take.  The candidate of both parties may not know, that Hou’s hand in friendship had long been, extended toward Ke, and mentioned to Ke in person too, to the point of the TPP’s rumors of finding the former mayor of Kaohsiung, Han as his vice president, and now, the KMT would wonder, if Ke’s intentions were to divide the votes of the KMT, to attempt to borderline Hou, that he’d shown, NO faith in working together.

The KMT still hadn’t given up on the possibility of working together with the TPP to this very day, but, to the end of working to compromise, it’d ended with Ke’s, turning around, and leave, but, Ke may not be like the writer, Hsu, because, if the K.M.T. and T.P.P. don’t come together, then, it would, break the sixty-percent of voters’ hopes of, taking DDP out of, the office, and if Ke didn’t show more faith, then, he and his party will end up, with the blames of the people’s, opinions.

And so, either that, Ke, was getting, too greedy in this, or, that he wanted to become, the president too much, and Hou already let him have the spot, and yet, he’d become, too stuck in his own head, and if no consensus is reached soon, then, the DDP will win, yet another, four years, and this country will totally get, FUCKED up, for another, four more, years, and, what can we the people do?  Nothing, because, it’s not like we can, MAKE Ke accept Hou’s hand in, friendship…

The Sounds Underneath the Landmines, a Poem

How everything looked okay on top, with the unexploded landmines, still, buried deep down, ready to blow at any day now…the aftermath of war, as peace finally, takes, over the country’s land…translated…

From Afar, I’d Heard, the Sounds that Sounded like Birds, Running Water, or Rain

Or Maybe, it’s the Bullets, Hitting Against the Walls of the Monuments

The Sound of Music for the Weddings or, the Funerals from, Back, Home

Emitting that Scent of Strong Sorrow in the Mild Joys, the Depth of Sound

By the Forest, there was, a Shadow of, Black Matter

landmines, buried in a field, in these, regions where war once, happened…photos of old, found online

The Soldiers, who’d Come back from the Warzones, or Hell

They, the Victims of the Mines, with Faces in Smile that Looked Like Crying

Faces Deformed, Blind in the Eyes, Muted, Arms Severed, Limping

The Guitars, the Zither, the Reed-Pipe, the Drums, the Sorna

With the Synchrony of the Angels, the Music Started to Play, But Became, Atonal

The Man with the Slanted Face, the Blind Singer, the Hoarse Acrobat, the Elderly Woman with the Broken Arms, the Limping Monk, the Prayers, the Psalms

The Imageries and the Notes all Carved onto the Red Brick Walls of the Site

With the Hollowed-Out Empty Glares, the Eyes that Rolled

The Smiles of Khmer, Printed onto the Faces of Men and Women

The UNESCO site, with the Towers Extending Out to Hundreds of, Miles Around

The Wars of Ancient Times, Far, Far Away, with the Modern Wars, at Hand

The Colonists, the Raiders, Walked Down the Path of Tours Leisurely

In the Depth of the Forests, the Mines they’d Buried Deep Down

Waiting, for the, Unsuspecting Feet to Step on, to Bloom out the Flowers of, Blood

the hard part’s done now, and now, all they have to do, is to, disarm these, mines! Photo from online

The Songs Came from Far and Near, the Scent of Dynamite in the Air

Mixed with the Scent of the Reeds Flowering, the Rice

The Children Running Bareback and Barefoot, Selling the Bananas, the Coconuts

The Aging Victims of the Mines, Sung those Songs High to Perform

With the Passersby, Tossing Down the Bills, the Coins, and They’d, Smiled that Smile of Khmer

So, this is what it looks like after one country, takes another country, over, and the people living in the land are still, the hardest hit, because life will, NEVER be the same again, and there were, the still buried deep in the field mines, not yet stepped on, and you don’t know when one day, an innocent kid, running through these fields, just, chasing them, butterflies will go, KA-BOOM!

But hey, that’s what is, left over of the, wars of the world, and there’s nothing that anybody CAN do, about it.

A Man of His Own, Free, Will

Yeah, just keep on, telling your selves, that, why don’t you???

A man of his own, free, will, you THINK you actually have, the free will of your own lives?  Think again, you MORONS, all those, supposed “choices” you’d made in life, fate had, mandated it (dummies!!!), and you think you can, have a hand, in changing the outcomes of things happening all around?  You don’t.

But, you get, stuck in that, mirage of, “I can change something in this world, I can, change the outcomes of my own life!”,  because, you don’t want to feel like that ANT, that runs through those mounds, collecting the foods, working your, lives, away.

A man of his own, free, will, if you had free will, will you be, where you, currently are right now?  Time for that walkthrough again, I’m afraid, back over the years, so, stuck your fingers, into that god damn book of deeds, and can you say, that you did, everything right, that you’d, done what a, good man would do, in EVERY “decision” you’d, ever, made?

coming, FACE-to-FACE with your, fates…

illustration from online

Note: those “decisions” you thought you had the choices of making, they’re NOT yours to make, fate already, decided FOR, you.

And yeah, that makes you feel like, you are, completely, POWERLESS, like you got, ZERO control over your, lives, right?

Well, that’s, the COLD, HARD, TRUTH (kinda like that, hard concrete???), and, I already knew all of this, started at the TENDER age of, TWENTY-SIX here.  And I am, way, way, WAY over, age twenty-six already, so…

When Robots Can, Think…

“The robots are coming, the ROBOTS are, C-O-M-I-N-G!!!”, instead of the, Redcoats from during the, American, Revolution???  Yep, that, is what’s coming, ALL our, ways…

And, this is not some, Sci-Fi 22^nd Century SHIT either, it’s happening, RIGHT, N-O-W!  Remember that thing, ChatGPT?  Exactly, or, how about, that very first thinking bot that played those, chess games against, a human being?

like in that movie??? Photo from online

When robots can, think, this is the beginning of the end, for us, humans, because, even though, these “bots” had been, devised (programmed, maybe???) not, to harm humans, but who’s to say, there won’t be, that one, BAD seed that starts  up an anti-man war?

When robots can, think, yeah, that’ll be the day, the beginning of the END, of all of us, as a, SPECIES, and, we, humans in the flesh, will one day, become, EXTINCT, and the origin of this is???  Oh yeah, because we don’t want to do these, nitty-gritty tasks that are, too annoying for us all, to handle, so, we’d, “outsourced” these, busywork, to machines.

With the advancements in technology, we humans are, getting, dumber and dumber, and dumber by the, generations, and, if you’re, way too god damn, @#$%ING (maxed out!) retarded, then, you do NOT, deserve to, live here, on this, god damn, P-L-A-N-E-T!

The Purpose of an, Apology…

Trust me, this is, C-R-A-P, shit out of, that ass-hole!  Because, an apology doesn’t change a thing, does it???  Of course, N-O-T!

The purpose of an, apology, is so, I can, ABUSE again, and you still don’t got a single, C-L-U-E (boy, you ARE, D-U-M-B!)!  It’s just, a manipulative way I have, of, SCREWING everybody else (but me!) over.

The purpose of an, apology, is not out of, remorse, or anything like that, or even, how you may feel, that you’d, done something wrong toward, someone, but for the sole purpose of your, continuing to, get away, with, ABUSE, simple as that.

And yet, how many of you say “I’m sorry”, in frequencies of……once every, three, NANOSECONDS (maybe???), EXACTLY!  And, how many of those, “I’m sorry’s” you’d blurted out to that certain someone you’d, wronged, that you actually, meant it?  Exactly!

wow, you’re, bringing out, the, pouted lips too, aye???

and no, it still won’t WORK, no matter how “cute” this kid looks! Photo from online

So, STOP apologizing, and, really, take that DEEP look, into your own, selves, to SEE WHAT, you need to, improve in your, many, bad behaviors, and do NOT, ever come, crawling back, on all-fours, like that, “good doggy”, ‘cuz I will, NEVER take you B-A-C-K.

And, don’t EVER forget, WHAT my ABUSIVE father told me (this is still, a DIRECT QUOTE!): do NOT say you’re sorry, because YOU N-E-V-E-R, mean it!

Well, I meant it every time I said that I’m sorry, but because, you kept on, going back to before, that’s why, I’d, “faulted” too, and, you DO see, how that was, a RE-action, instead of, an ACTION, right???

Yeah, uh-huh, uh-huh, session’s over, DO pay your “charges” on your ways, O-U-T of this one too…

The Famed Japanese Youtuber Fought for the Attention, Using Vigilante Justice

You think taking matters into your own hands is justice, it isn’t!  But this is, trending right now, in Japan, because, the LAW doesn’t do SHIT to protect the welfare, the rights of the, people, because the government FAILED to function, that’s why, more and more, are deciding to take matters into their own, hands…off of the Front Page Sections, translated…

There’s the YouTuber’s videos of vigilante justice that’s gained attention here in Taiwan, and in Japan, there were, the famed YouTubers’ stopping the sex predators, the voyeurs, and the scouts for the tickets and many other videos that are going viral on YouTube of late.  Recently, there was even the act of someone, attempted to subdue a drug trafficker live, the appetite of the members of the online community grew hungrier and hungrier.  The Japanese scholars analyzed, that the filmmakers wanted the increases in hits to make them more money, and the online community longed for the footages that stimulate their senses, both are using the claims of fighting for justice and correcting the wrongs of society, to mask up their own, true, motives.

The videos of ordinary citizens going after the unlawful, and the muckrakers in Japan currently, there was the Youtuber, Mr. So who’d, had a stand-off with a person who’d, wrongfully parked in the handicapped space; TAKUMA had used a more humorous method, having someone dressed up as a female spirit, to scare off the members of the younger generations, gathering in a parking lot at a super convenience mart, that’s, become, a nuisance to the local residents, their first video gained more than 15 million hits.

here’s a video of that, off of YouTube…

Mr. So told, that his principle was that he doesn’t do anything that’s unlawful; TAKUMA told, that he’d, blurred out the individuals’ faces that he’d caught on camera, to keep them from being, zoomed in by the viewers online.

The professor of Shibaura Institute of Technology, the marketing analyst, Harada made the example, that based off of how there were the total number of 3.7 million hits of the video of on the streets of Shibuya, someone lecturing someone else for smoking”, it fitted to Generation Z’s needs to “watching the videos, and actively watching many videos”.

Sawada stated, that karma had been a belief of Japanese culture since ancient times, but of late, the “serving justice”, the “karma”, type videos, comics, and novels, that it may be related to social media, to rationalize what’s illegal, and more easy to, accept, the wrong behaviors.

And the root of all of this is???  Oh yeah, social MEDIA, and, because we all want that spotlight, we do NOT give a flying FUCK (so???), what we do, so long as we get our, three-seconds-of-fame, and yeah, these bad things needed to get noted, and those who did these bad things deserved to be, punished, NOT by the ordinary citizens, BUT by the law enforcement officials, and, can you, imagine a world, where EVERYBODY is a police, zooming in on you, waiting for you, to take one wrong move, and you get, busted?

It would be, dystopic, and we’d, drifted, far from the visions of, an utopian world based off of this means of, vigilante, justice!