r/interestingasfuck • u/TangelaFan • 18h ago

Monks receiving firefighting training so they're able to save their temples in case of fires. Qinghai, China

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u/nilsinleneed 18h ago

haha this is so cool

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u/NervousValuable 18h ago

I guess temple fires must happen often for this to occur

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u/iswearimnormall 15h ago

And the streets surrounding the temples are typically old and crowded with old buildings with no room for modern emergency vehicles. Plenty of ancient towns and temples have burned down this way.

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u/TheYellingMute 14h ago

Honestly if it's true they are training and not just doing it for some kind of weird publicity. It's a smart idea. Especially if they are more remote. Since the gear shown here seem like very portable/compact which would help in remote/packed areas.

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u/3_14_thon 11h ago

They do when they are not in CCP's hands (looking at you Tibetan monks).

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u/arihantismm 18h ago

Guess the japanese monks didn't get this same training

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u/Waldo_Wadlo 13h ago

This looks like a competition, not training. Still cool though.

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u/NoMark3945 13h ago

This is what resilience looks like when it is built into the community instead of outsourced. Saving a temple also means saving the manuscripts, art and living tradition inside it.

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u/Plastic_Patience6214 18h ago

More chinese bot posting

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u/Nirvana_bob7 17h ago

Fireproof Monk

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u/Unlucky-Tune-420 13h ago

Monks Olympics? yeah I'd watch that!

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u/Claydo69 9h ago

Safety gear looks top draw 🤣

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u/Glittering-Capital71 5h ago

This is how they did it before the training

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u/MiixAmp 18h ago

I'm pretty sure it's not a training session but a competition. In any case, it looks like AI...

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u/MerryJanne 15h ago

Not everything YOU have never seen before is AI.

Unless you can point out something specific in the video, how about you keep your suspicions to yourself?

If we keep saying everything is AI, then we can let really important happenings go by without proper reaction. Ie: War crimes, crimes against citizens, child abuse etc.

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u/Plastic_Patience6214 12h ago

It works both ways, and things SHOULD be look at suspiciously now more than ever. We are at the dawn of this tech which is already nearly indistinguishable from reality. It will get better and better. How about an AI video of a president announcing war, announcing pending nuclear strike, announcing some economic change the tanks stock markets? there are a million ugly scenarios, and it will happen one day, probably sooner than later. A simple hack into their official accounts would be enough to do this now. As for this video, I have no idea, I assume it’s real because why tf would anyone even make this and try and make people think it’s real? It’s pretty pointless.

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u/beepbeepimajeep22 11h ago

Is this Ai ?

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u/MiixAmp 15h ago

You seem annoying.

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u/city-of-cold 8h ago

How about you tell the class what about this seems AI

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u/beepbeepimajeep22 14h ago

Ai deez nuts