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304 Young People Who Built a Fake Nutrition Number for ‘Grandma’
A group of young people made a fake health marketing number to try to ‘defeat magic with magic’ and spread proper nutritional knowledge to middle-aged and elderly people by imitating the writing style of health marketing numbers.
Not mentioned in the article, this public number is called “All Things Dormant”, and it currently has 15 tweets, with a readership of about hundreds, thousands, and up to 10,000 or so. But the writing style of the articles is still too youthful, and still not quite like some of the health marketing numbers I’ve read.
When it comes to health maintenance marketing numbers and related products with health maintenance as a gimmick, the penetration rate is really amazing. Let me list a few: my grandfather wanted to buy “Danshen Baoxin Tea” after seeing an advertisement on “Guangdong Radio and Television Station”; my mother often shares articles on health maintenance from some so-called “public numbers”, which are even just high-fashion WeChat public numbers (with no vetting mechanism for their contents); my grandmother has been helping some offline “health stores” for many years, and the other party even organizes trips and tours to purchase a lot of so-called “health products” or “medicines”. My grandmother has been helping some offline “health stores” for many years, and they even organize trips and visits to buy a lot of so-called “health products” or “medicines.
There are several factors for the success of these health care products: Firstly, health care and health are the core needs of the middle-aged and the elderly, which is indisputable; secondly, the middle-aged and the elderly don’t have much ability to differentiate information, and they are very trustful of the “experts” and the “TV stations”; thirdly, as long as these products are harmless and not illegal, as long as the conscience can pass through, whoever can do it, and they can even rent a very big store in the market to do it openly and honestly; lastly, the consumption power of the middle-aged and the elderly is actually very high. Finally, the spending power of the middle-aged and the elderly is actually very strong, with more wealth and less consumption, so they can spend thousands and thousands of dollars on the so-called “high-tech” products, or let their offspring buy them.
In fact, the way to deal with these “fake health care products” is to cut off their dissemination, but some heartless things want to help them spread. Guangdong Radio and Television Drama Channel, a station whose audience is the elderly, inserts 10-minute-long advertisements for health products between programs, with episodes such as “expert speeches” in the middle of the program, pretending to be a real program to disseminate the health products to the elderly, and then writes in small, almost invisible letters that “health products are not substitutes for medicines” in order to satisfy the need for compliance. Some of the advertisements are in Mandarin with Cantonese dubbing, so not only are these products wooed on various local stations nationwide, they are also ‘localized’ for the Pearl River Delta region to scam money.
At the end of the day, “as long as it is harmless and not illegal, anyone can do it as long as their conscience is clear”, so this kind of fake health care will not disappear. As a younger generation, it is better to care more about your family members, instill them with the right knowledge and buy them more useful things.
Talk about the recent herbal compounding studies published in the Lancet.
Lancet published a multicenter randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial on the treatment of acute cerebral hemorrhage with traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). The results showed that there was no statistically significant difference between the drug group and the placebo group, and that Zhongfeng Wake Up Brain Formula (Chinese herbal formula FYTF-919) had no improvement in the functional prognosis, survival rate, and quality of life of patients with moderate-to-severe cerebral hemorrhage.
The controversy over Chinese medicine and Western medicine, and Chinese medicine and Western medicine, has always been heated, and this is really a matter of opinion. What I am glad to see is that Chinese medicine is beginning to move towards “modern medicine” or “evidence-based medicine”. If a certain Chinese medicine treatment is proven to be effective through modern scientific methods, it is indeed worth trying.
Again, in some previous discussions, I have seen views that when visiting a doctor, one simply refuses to allow the doctor to prescribe proprietary Chinese medicines or does not pay for or take proprietary Chinese medicines. In fact, some health supplements or medicines produced abroad have similar ingredients, for example, “Liver Tablet” is actually Milk Thistle Extract, and “Scar Repair Cream” is actually American Cockroach Extract, which are the same as the herbs or insects, etc. in our Chinese medicine. I think as long as they can be certified (health supplements or medicines) to be marketed and prescribed by a doctor, they are generally not harmful (or as harmful as they are currently known to be), and whether they are beneficial or not is another story, but at least they can be trusted.
sports event
pensieve
Sort of like Rewind or Windows Recall, but the data is kept completely local and any LLM (Ollama, etc.) can be used.
tssh
Having recently tossed around the ssh tools again, this one stood out, mainly because it fulfills the following needs:
- Nice interface (can be used directly in tabby, which is what I currently use locally)
- Support for login scripts, can complete the OTP automatic login (termius does not support, openssh need to write their own shell scripts with expect to realize)
- zmodem support (rz/sz) (not supported by termius, tabby has its own plugin to support it, but it’s not fully rz/sz compatible)
Also, it has a Fortress-like login page, which is kinda handy when there are a lot of machines:
I’ll probably write an article about how to configure it (the documentation is too cryptic).
ultimate
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