Also swimsuit based. Although he wasn’t using any PEDs he was (mostly) using a type of swimsuit which is not allowed in more traditional competitions.

Depending on where you’re at this can be more or less common - college being a key exception. My wife and I met first day of college, started dating at 18. Neither of us expected the relationship to last particularly long but we fell in love and it stayed that way for the duration of school. Neither of us wanted to end a relationship that clearly worked well despite having never experienced any other relationship before. The interesting part to me is that there were several other couples on the same floor of our dorm with the exact same situation, and more than a decade on they like us are still together.

Truly a horrible song, it’s more like a 20 second loop. It plays nonstop all day at every location. Given that it’s already annoying to customers I can’t imagine how tortuous it must be for Mixue employees. It’s certainly an interesting branding tactic, and I’m surprised it’s effective.

To be fair China has their equivalent of the NHTSA with more or less comparable tests. US crash tests are particularly bad and still assume a sedan when everyone drives SUVs/light trucks now. Even mini vans in China are smaller than the majority of American SUVs.

The government subsidy is the bigger reason for why the West generally blocks or heavily tariffs the import of Chinese cars. It’s just not fair competition (though there’s also an argument of it being a good thing for us to let them subsidize our imports of lithium)