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[-] towerful@programming.dev 166 points 6 days ago
[-] dhork@lemmy.world 13 points 6 days ago

I regret that I have only one upvote to give for that awesome comment

[-] dumbass@leminal.space 10 points 6 days ago

Ahhh, now that's a fine pun you got there.

[-] burgersc12@mander.xyz 5 points 5 days ago
[-] KittenBiscuits@lemm.ee 4 points 5 days ago

a little whooshYes but it's also a pun for "shit zoo"

[-] Skanky@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

Goddamn you...

[-] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 26 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

You know this led to huge fights and maybe a mental break or two.

"I'm TELLING you, those were fucking dogs!"

"Yeah, okay, bro, I'm sure you know better than the literal ZOO."

[-] Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 102 points 6 days ago

China: Why does everyone question our discoveries?

Also China:

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 25 points 5 days ago

But aren’t pandas from China? I was expecting this to be some other country that, you know, doesnt have pandas.

[-] fsxylo@sh.itjust.works 15 points 5 days ago

Pandas are owned by the government. Not everyone in China can get a panda.

[-] Graphy@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago

See also Panda diplomacy

In the late 2010s and early 2020s, with China–United States relations straining, China began declining to renew panda leases for U.S. zoos.[27][28] The San Diego Zoo pandas returned to China in 2019, followed by pandas at the Memphis Zoo and National Zoo in Washington, D.C. in 2023.[29]The Memphis pandas, Ya Ya and Le Le, became a rallying point for Chinese calls to repatriate the bears after accusations of poor living conditions circulated on Chinese social media sites and the sudden death of Le Le in February 2023.

[-] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago

This story resurfaces every couple of months. Last time it turned out they had specifically advertised that they'd be having an event where they had the dogs groomed to look like pandas. Like, they never claimed they were actually pandas.

[-] Deceptichum@quokk.au 3 points 4 days ago

It’s a different incident from a different zoo.

Never heard your excuse before any of the many previous times this exact same thing has happened in China.

[-] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

I wouldn't say it's my excuse, exactly, but I will say it's funny we think this could possibly convince any Chinese person they were seeing a panda.

[-] Deceptichum@quokk.au 28 points 5 days ago
[-] Kintarian@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago

Wow, that's nuts

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 36 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Did they order their panda from Wish?

Cute doggo, but maybe don’t paint them?

[-] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

They recalled them from the world famous San Diego zoo.....and the kids broke them the next day.

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

Ooh that would be a nice scam. Accuse the US of returning painted dogs.

[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

We should just get some hair samples the next time a Panda is on loan and clone us some. Every company that's ever had their products cloned after outsourcing to China would get a kick out of that.

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

I’m sure they’d throw a big fit over it. It’s ok if they do it, but not us.

[-] Jomega@lemmy.world 24 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)
[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago

“I came here to see the painted dogs. What the hell are these pandas?”

[-] Kintarian@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

Boy, nature just threw all the paints it.

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

those are gorgeous.

also probably severely misunderstood.

[-] Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Is Lets Build a Zoo prophecy or just a historically accurate simulation?

[-] Kintarian@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

A glitch in The matrix?

[-] ajoebyanyothername@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago
[-] unreachable@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago

poor vs rich zoo

[-] bizzle@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

That's the cutest dog I've ever seen lmfao

[-] TheGingerNut@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 6 days ago

Well at least they don't need to pay rent to china

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago
[-] TheGingerNut@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 day ago

The Chinese government owns all pandas. You cannot buy a panda, only rent it, and some of that rent goes to the CCP

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

How progressive.

[-] JustZ@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

Several pandas are in the US, on loan from China, and I think we may be paying rent on some.

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago
[-] JustZ@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Hence not needing to pay rent.

[-] aidan@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

No that's more importantly because these are dogs not pandas

[-] JustZ@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)
[-] JustZ@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

Is it really a zoo or just some side show act charging $5 to see pandas in their back yard?

[-] x00za@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 days ago

Why is this news? This was already known 2 months ago. The news should be that they kept lying for so long.

[-] foggy@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago
this post was submitted on 21 Sep 2024
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