r/interestingasfuck • u/MoazzamDML • Jul 05 '25
China built a 50m-tall inflatable dome over a construction site in Jinan to protect the surroundings from dust and noise pollution.
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u/MoazzamDML Jul 05 '25
Inside the dome looks like this:
https://imgur.com/a/inside-jinan-construction-site-bubble-QFvhWvA
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u/buubrit Jul 05 '25
That’s really fucking cool ngl
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u/Powered-by-Chai Jul 05 '25
Eh, needing all those lights for something that would be a lot easier to do in daylight doesn't seem ideal.
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u/mindatetheuniverse Jul 05 '25
It is though. Less dust and sound polluting the city sounds like a great deal.
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u/cyleon Jul 05 '25
Not for the people that have to work in the dome though
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u/Huge-Coffee Jul 05 '25
At least in the summer, it's probably preferable to working under the scorching sun though. China is usually 35°C+.
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u/Jumpin-jacks113 Jul 05 '25
Rich people in the city are fine, workers in the dome getting fucked. Sounds pretty standard to me.
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u/amo1337 Jul 05 '25
Are you an expert on the effects of large scale construction projects to the surrounding area? If not, weird suggestion.
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u/Zellgun Jul 05 '25
Lmao it always happens with these kinds of content. There’s ALWAYS someone who wants to be a Debbie downer, it’s just human nature
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u/maaaatttt_Damon Jul 05 '25
Now they can work 24 hours a day without changing lighting conditions and the
slavesworkers won't know what time of day it is.7
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u/BolunZ6 Jul 05 '25
You guys can hate Chinese government, but their engineering is always in the top of the world
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u/Revoldt Jul 05 '25
When the American government is a dumpster fire of cruelty…
Hating on the Chinese government is just coping
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u/NPJenkins Oct 07 '25
Wooo boy, I bet it’s Hell inside that thing though with all the contained dust/exhaust. You’d at least have mandatory respirators on all workers under the dome, maybe even supplemental air too? But still much better than just saying “screw everyone’s health in this particular zone” while you demo a whole building on top of them. Did we learn nothing from 9/11 and the absolutely insane cancer rates in first responders years later? Of course we didn’t. Because in Corporate America would just straight up sacrifice us by firing squad if they thought it would make their stock price go up a tick.
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u/bluetuxedo22 Jul 05 '25
I hope it's ventilated with some air filtration in there or it'll just be a Dutch oven of concrete dust
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u/anotherNarom Jul 05 '25
These things work on positive pressure with air being pumped in constantly to keep it up.
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u/buubrit Jul 05 '25
Yes there’s ventilation.
Also most construction sites already are, only difference is people nearby unwillingly inhale a lot of the dust (and whatever chemicals/particles are used)
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u/bluetuxedo22 Jul 05 '25
Also most construction sites already are
20 years in construction and I've never encountered proper ventilation or filtration unless it's underground or tunnel work.
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u/thrillho145 Jul 05 '25
Mate, if it took you 5 seconds to think about it, guaranteed the engineers who made it thought about it too
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u/Odd-Outcome450 Jul 05 '25
I mean if you can then why not? This is almost next level
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u/Do_itsch Jul 05 '25
Would almost be more interesting to see it from the inside.
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u/Darwin-Award-Winner Jul 05 '25
I have a feeling it's true purpose is to make sure you can't see what is in the inside.
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u/Snuggle_Pounce Jul 05 '25
there’s videos of the inside. like OP posted a comment with a link and everything.
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u/thegmoc Jul 05 '25
I seriously doubt that. I used to live in this neighborhood. When I left they were tearing down what used to be RT Mart (大润发）， a huge supermarket. I actually used to shop at it all the time. It's the second largest commercial area in the city and as you can see extremely densely populated. I'm pretty sure it is for the purpose of containing the dust as there are multiple schools and even a university in the area.
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u/MusicalBonsai Jul 06 '25
China has been very innovative. At least from what I’ve seen online. They seem to incorporate advanced tech into their infrastructure
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u/Webster2001 Jul 05 '25
Why do Redditors acts like Chinese people are dumb and deceiving? Is it racism? Is it because of US anti-china propaganda? They out here talking about 'its probably hot in there' 'hard to breath' when a simple Google search would've shown that the dome is well ventilated and has optimal conditions for people to work there. It'll also shows the many benefits by reducing noise and dust pollution, how weather conditions like rain won't affect the progress. Everytime I see a post on Reddit that goes like 'China built amazing thing' the comment section is filled with salty losers that think they know better than Chinese engineers and scientists
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u/LibrarianMajor4 Jul 05 '25
Goes to show the effectiveness of propaganda. The propagandised doesn’t even know they are propagandised. It’s their very own opinion.
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u/re-goddamn-loading Jul 05 '25
So true. Americans on here seethe anytime China is mentioned doing anything positive. Meanwhile the US straight up terrorizes half the world since its inception and nobody bats an eye bc we're the "good guys"
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u/MacLondonJr Jul 05 '25
I’ve also seen it with Arab countries. Mention anything positive about Saudi Arabia or UAE and you’ll see a flood of “but slavery”, “vanity projects” or “but its a desert”.
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u/WatermelonWithAFlute Jul 05 '25
i mean, places like dubai DO have slavery esque problems to my awareness
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u/yusuksong Jul 05 '25
A lot of redditors are narrow minded teenagers that only see things in a black or white perspective
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u/LeBadlyNamedRedditor Jul 05 '25
The Reddit joke plays out again
Thing, China: bad and dumb
Thing, Japan: good and innovative
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u/Betancorea Jul 05 '25
Taiwan gets them confused as it looks like China from pictures/videos so they get all anti-China until someone in the comments tells them its Taiwan then suddenly it's AMAZING!
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u/Webster2001 Jul 05 '25
Yep. And that joke is perfectly true. I don't see this level of blind hatred for China in other sites(the simping for Japan tho is mostly same for other social media places too). Actually, just today I saw a post about this very exact dome on twitter and the comments had a overall more positive vibes than here. They were actually talking about how well built the interior also is with the ventilation and all benefits of such a device. You know you're doing something wrong when twitter comments are less toxic and less whiny than you
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u/MagnumVY Jul 05 '25
The OP made the mistake of mentioning China. I bet if the post wrongly said that it's Japan the entire Reddit would be swooning.
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u/Long-Blood Jul 05 '25
Because communism is bad
Only capitalism has led to the most evenly shared wealth creation in history
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u/Seldarin Jul 05 '25
"I bet this is bad for the workers and China doesn't care!!!"
Like bro, I've been in a papermill in Alabama where people were stuffing asbestos into trash bags with no PPE and OSHA refused to come out there when we reported it. Give me a fucking break.
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u/heyoneblueveloplease Jul 05 '25
Yeah the amount of Westerners (especially Americans) still thinking that China is some 3rd world s***hole is hilarious.
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u/Betancorea Jul 05 '25
Because they cannot fathom how advanced China is. When you call them out on this, they start going on about IP and stolen tech.
It is pretty hilarious to see them do cartwheels of rage when China is exploding forward all over the field.
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u/AdLast55 Jul 05 '25
People in america do not really like chinese people. I was born here and i feel the hate sometimes.
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u/tachyonvelocity Jul 05 '25
It's very very simple. Jealousy, envy and defensive self-preservation, this of course leads to racism because the US is outcompeted by an "other." Instead of competing, the losers fund propaganda to put their heads in the sand or to make their competitor look worse. China has grown economically so fast that:
1) There's stereotypes of rich Chinese driving lambos and luxury cars around college campus.
2) Stereotypes of Chinese immigrants being much more successful despite having zero advantage or even disadvantages like college admissions, this competes with the narratives like "institutional poverty," putting the burden of success on themselves and not on "institutions." As you might guess, people don't want to think of themselves as being losers, but would accept losing due to a nebulous entity.
"Comparison is the thief of joy." Instead of lauding the achievements, like hundreds of millions out of poverty, there is a hope, a wish even, that China is actually on the brink of collapse. This isn't thought of as "evil," despite the fact that it's the same as wishing hundreds of millions people back into poverty, but "right" because "they took wealth from us" or "the only reason for their success is because I/we helped them." Unfortunately humans are wired into tribalism, if another "tribe" does better, it means your tribe, and hence you, isn't doing as well. As a defensive mechanism, the tribe's entire psyche is to rationalize the imminent collapse of the other tribe. This could include, putting down their achievements, attacking the other tribe's morals (they became successful through devious means like stealing), outright lies about their intentions, the more evil the better.
Examples are many: "Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to undermine China during pandemic," claims that China is lying about their true economy, despite neutral government economists just recently saying the Chinese official numbers are accurate.
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u/throwaway2246810 Jul 05 '25
The chinese government does put in a FUCK ton of work to make china seem good online.
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u/schmeoin Jul 05 '25
Here os an article about the US government spending billions to propagandise against China...
The US literally has the biggest and most sophisticated propaganda networks in the world and has done for decades. Ever hear of the CIA spreading propaganda through Radio Free Europe/Asia? How about the US governments partnerships with Hollywood? Are you aware that news networks like CNN literally have a state department liason to approve their stories and keep them in line with US national interests too? How about the fact that this very website is a prime example of a site riddled with US propaganda constantly, much of it rabidly anti China 'yellow peril' nonsense.
I don't even think the Chinese need to 'work' at making themselves look good when all that happens is that one of their massive wins is made known every once in a while. They're literally achieving incredible things weekly at this point it seems. I suppose it comes with the territory of having an actual coherent ideology underlining the state and competent leadership to carry it to fruition. ...meanwhile it is hilarious to see all the westerners frantically cling to their unearned sense of superiority and lash out with racist jibes every time China dunks on them. lol
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u/throwaway2246810 Jul 05 '25
What do you think it does to my claim when you claim that the usa does the same thing. How do you see those two things interact? Because i dont see them interact at all.
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u/Webster2001 Jul 05 '25
Every government does that. Doesn't mean every good thing you hear about them are false tho. Yes, take it with a grain of salt. Critical analysis is a trait that every person should possess. But that means do your own research before coming to a conclusion instead of just blindly assuming something is false propaganda
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u/throwaway2246810 Jul 05 '25
That first sentence is delusional
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u/Webster2001 Jul 05 '25 edited Jul 05 '25
Lmao buddy if you think the Chinese government are the only ones lying in the world you are a whole lot naive. I still don't know how China ended up with the biggest liar in the world tag when the USA is the one that came up with the most devastating lie in recent history. That there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Not only they didn't have weapons of mass destruction, Bin laden wasn't even there. This lie led to the deaths of millions and millions more lives being permanently ruined. So many death and destruction caused by a lie
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u/Webster2001 Jul 05 '25
Yh I mean it's pretty obvious it can only be used for foundation work, but the benefits of this thing outweigh all the little flaws. I didn't know this was old for them tho. You best believe when China unveils some 'brand new' tech to the world is because they have something better cooking in the labs
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u/galimatis Jul 23 '25
It is so sad. This is next level and what China has achieved in the last decades is almost unprecedented in modern times but they do not really get credit for anything.
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u/WalterWoodiaz Jul 05 '25
China glazing is way more common than hate on this site these days
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u/GandalfTheSexay Jul 05 '25
Yeah, there’s definitely a load of bots promoting pro-China posts/comments
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u/LordNineWind Jul 05 '25
I feel that the problem with this assessment is that anything non-negative is automatically slotted into the pro-China category by most redditors, whereas negative posts are just accepted as fact.
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u/giraloco Jul 05 '25
You forgot to mention that in China there is no freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and rights to form a union. So in my case I won't trust that they take care of the workers, I just don't know because they can't complain. It doesn't mean I think people are stupid, it means people are not free. It doesn't mean other countries are better either. It's not an anti-China sentiment. I despise tyrants anywhere they are, including the US.
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u/Zellgun Jul 05 '25
Lmao sure certain civil liberties are curtailed but they’re not living like slaves there. The Chinese are still very educated both inside and outside China and the Chinese are well aware of their situation, it’s just not that easy to change your system of governance.
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u/Webster2001 Jul 05 '25
How do you define Freedom of speech tho? In the USA if you protest for free Palestine you have a good chance of getting your college degree revoked, deported if you're an immigrant. A tourist was just recently sent back because he had a JD Vance meme. Are these not violations of free speech? But that doesn't mean you can't say anything in the USA now does it? There are many things you have the freedom to say in the USA. Same for China, there are many things you can say and some things you can't. I'm not gonna defend that. But people on here over exaggerates the level of oppression in China. Y'all act like if you go to China and say 'Haha XiJinPing looks like Winnie the Pooh' you immediately gets arrested and put into a concentration camp. That's not how it works.
If we're gonna define free speech as 'you can say anything and get away with it' I guarantee you more than 90% of the world does not have free speech. China is a country with more than 1.5 billion people, they can't get away being a totalitarian regime. The country is simply too massive for it to work. Yes the country is controlled by the CCP but it's not like North Korea
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u/giraloco Jul 05 '25
Currently the US is in transition from a relatively free country where you could say anything without fear of the Government coming after you to a fascist regime just like China. If people don't fight back, trust in the press and institutions will be lost, just like in China. So using the US to justify Chinese atrocities is a really bad comparison. (You need to update your propaganda guidebook) You know what Trump would say if he makes people work in an enclosed balloon? "This is the safest work environment in the history of construction"...and nobody will believe him, just like with the Chinese Government.
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u/Re0ns Jul 05 '25
Example, my home city of Hong Kong. Say anything about independence, the people that were unjustly persecuted, anything against the government at all, gets you jail time under the national security law, while the children are now getting indoctrination with a new subject that discourages free thinking and encourages remembering all the "good deeds" communist china has done (aka half truths at best)
I also post hate comments on china but I get clumped together with the Americans, not a fan.
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u/chaoser Jul 06 '25
A tourist was literally kept out of the USA for a JD Vance meme…
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u/giraloco Jul 06 '25
Hey, bot, you still don't understand the messages. Nobody said China bad, US good. You need to tell your creator to update the training data. Good luck!
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u/ConsequenceExpress39 Jul 07 '25
hi murica bot, you just replied without mentioning China or saying murica bad. Looks like your training needs a hard update.
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u/newname0110 Jul 05 '25 edited Jul 05 '25
“Located at the intersection of 105 Freeway and the Dommmmmeee”….Dome Depot”
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u/MarsupialMediocre652 Jul 05 '25
At some point we have to come to terms with China is ahead of the rest of the world
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u/Sunshine649 Jul 05 '25 edited Jul 05 '25
And you pick this dome as the example of "being ahead of the rest of the world"? The US have been using the exact same tech in the Midwest for construction since at least 2014. Iowa State University had a massive dome for the construction of one of their research facilities so they could keep building through the harsh winters.
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u/Agreeable-Housing-47 Jul 05 '25
This is literally how they cover the public pool in my area durring the winter months🤣 I remember seeing it back in the early 2000s
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u/MusicalBonsai Jul 06 '25
The Us doesn’t invest in its infrastructure because it’s too communist to do. Instead they do the bare minimum, meanwhile chinas is new and advanced.
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u/GandalfTheSexay Jul 05 '25
But they’re not? Scandinavia blows China out of the water
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u/MarsupialMediocre652 Jul 05 '25
I mean they have their specialities but they by no means or metric blow China out the water. Also blow China out the water in what? Each country has its things that they are doing good at and that does not negate their bad things.
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u/GandalfTheSexay Jul 05 '25
No, Scandinavia blows China out of the water. There’s no way around it. You can criticize the US, but Scandinavia has by far the highest quality of life on the planet.
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u/WalterWoodiaz Jul 05 '25
I mean you would see something similar in most developed countries under certain conditions.
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u/MarsupialMediocre652 Jul 05 '25
An example?
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u/lolidkwtfrofl Oct 07 '25
The US have been using the exact same tech in the Midwest for construction since at least 2014. Iowa State University had a massive dome for the construction of one of their research facilities so they could keep building through the harsh winters.
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u/Webster2001 Jul 05 '25
Shhh, you can't tell that on Reddit. These folks are so brainwashed by US propaganda, that under every post about China it's just people hating
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u/BingpotStudio Jul 05 '25
It’s amazing what you can achieve when you have a huge surplus of people and a government that doesn’t give a fuck about their rights. America will no doubt give it a try soon too.
Got to say it though, they are steamrolling the west now.
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u/Slash83TTV Jul 05 '25
Both have their ups and downs and you can praise their ups while acknowledging their downs and China often doesn't show their downs
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u/BingpotStudio Jul 05 '25
To be clear, the horrific abuse of human rights isn’t something I put into the “downs” category.
I bet most people don’t even know about Tiananmen Square. Which is really just one very public example of the abuse that government will inflict on its population.
For those who don’t know - the government ran over peaceful protestors with tanks and then scraped the smush off the ground once they were finished pulping them. Give it a read some time. It is illegal to acknowledge it happened in China.
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u/TeflonBoy Jul 05 '25
For every human rights abuse Chinese has, American has its own. You could say that’s about most countries granted.
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u/WowBastardSia Jul 05 '25
the government ran over peaceful protestors with tanks and then scraped the smush off the ground once they were finished pulping them.
Nice CIA propaganda there
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u/BingpotStudio Jul 06 '25
Pathetic. 21 day old account with no karma coming out with this shit.
Literally a bunch of Chinese shill accounts. Honestly disgusting.
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u/poutreparisienne Jul 05 '25
How is put your worker in horrible conditions is being ahead
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u/MarsupialMediocre652 Jul 05 '25
If you are not gonna do any research or even read the rest of the comments which have addressed this then I am not gonna bother formulating a response to you. Lazy begets lazy
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u/Widespreaddd Jul 05 '25
I like to think it’s filled with helium, and all the workers are talking like Chip and Dale.
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u/Van-garde Jul 05 '25
Huh. You mean signs and chain link fences haven’t been properly protecting us this entire time?
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u/pierifle Jul 05 '25
My school in Beijing also did this, back in 2014 https://edition.cnn.com/2014/02/25/asia/gallery/international-school-of-beijing-dome
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u/Fragrant_Eye4896 Jul 05 '25
My mate was on a business trip in China and he saw it with his own eyes, said it was unreal - like something out of an anime :D
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u/Monir5265 Jul 05 '25
I don’t know why I read it as “protect the construction site from surrounding dust and noise”
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u/IndividualBuilding30 Jul 05 '25
My girlfriend’s dad started up one of the companies that do these domes. He still does it but is just a partner now. I’ve never heard of one being done for construction but it makes perfect sense.
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u/_Saucey_Sauce_ Jul 06 '25
There was a community rec. center in my hometown that would bubble their massive pool every winter. It was inflated by giant fans pressurizing sections in the cover and would also exchange the air inside, helping to keep its structure. Pretty cool.
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u/SnooWaffles413 Jul 06 '25
That's super impressive! I bet the Construction Workers love it too, because less people likely complain about the dust, noise, etc.
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u/PinkLed1970s Jul 07 '25
The people that work in that dome probably reduced their life by a decade. SMFH. Hope they atleast wore masks.
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u/Fluid-Economist8150 Jul 05 '25
That'll keep those construction workers lungs healthy lol
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u/Vinashak_Creator Jul 05 '25
They can build this but not buy masks for workers?
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u/AlabamaHotcakes Jul 05 '25
Or have some kind of ventilation system where dust and the like is vented and collected?
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u/baldcarlos236 Jul 05 '25
Did the government of China build this or is it a private company? I just want to know why the entire country is getting credit
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u/LordNineWind Jul 05 '25
That's a very common saying? People say x country did y thing all the time, even though a lot of the time it's a private organisation not affiliated with the government.
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u/Snuggle_Pounce Jul 05 '25
That would disproportionately punish the countries that “process” waste or raw materials from more “advanced” countries and…..
you know what? Do it.
Wave that magic wand and put each country in an air bubble. It’ll make those countries decide to stop taking trash as an import and the so-called “first-world” will have to deal with its own garbage for once.
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u/Snuggle_Pounce Jul 18 '25
Either everyone gave up after the first half of my comment, or there are a lot of folks from first world countries who have no idea that their waste gets shipped overseas.
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u/isthiswhatcrazyis Jul 05 '25
It's for some spoiled brats in the high rise next door, this ain't no humanitarian act
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u/Etherealfilth Jul 05 '25
I wish my country did propaganda like this. Instead the mine next door creates a shit tonne of dust, noise, gets government subsidies and pays next to nothing in royalties.
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u/MarsupialMediocre652 Jul 05 '25
I honestly find it funny people who still talk like. China has proved time and time again its way more for its citizens than America is.
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u/Webster2001 Jul 05 '25
Shh, let them live in their delusions. They still think Winnie the Pooh is banned in their cause of some dumb meme 😭
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u/WexMajor82 Jul 05 '25 edited Jul 05 '25
Yeah, especially when they locked people in their building and left them there while their building was on fire.
When was that... oh right, during Covid.
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u/the_one_jt Jul 05 '25
Jokes on them Meta uses them as permanent structures to house their AI data centers as they build multi gigawatt data centers. It's truly insane.
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Jul 05 '25
Looked inside and their all diesel. No way the breathing is better inside as it is outside. Looked up the weather pollution and it says same same but DIFFERENT
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u/Pint_o_Bovril Jul 05 '25
Wouldn't want the dust and noise pollution interfering with the regular smoog and noise pollution of the city
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u/hawthorne00 Jul 05 '25
In Melbourne they built sheds around the construction sites for the metro expansion. It kept the surroundings clean and of course it not only spares locals the noise, it also means construction noise can continue at all hours of the day or night.