throwawayacc0430 @ throwawayacc0430 @sh.itjust.works Posts 5Comments 33Joined 2 days ago
How are people supposed to have secure/private communications in the digital era? (With Therapists/Psychaistrists, Lawyers, etc)
Oh I really want to see them go busting into a home of a 2A gun nut hillbilly. I don't say this often, but I'd root for the hillbilly.
LMAO why do people always say this.
If it were that easy, the entire population of every authoritarian country would have already moved out.
Would you rather live the life of an average person in the current era, or live as an absolute monarch 500 years ago? Why?
Mods don't like Super Mario Bros? 🤔
The US Congress is about to join this list:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_stamp_(politics)#Legislatures
👀
I mean, literally tho. I'm on the list of registered voters and formerly registered as a Democrat. 👀
(I changed it to independent after the 2024 primaries to avoid shenanigans, but its too late, they already have the records)
China is communist
Not really.
Communist would mean the workers own the means of production. If they truely did, then they wages wouldn't be so low while the west get to benefit from cheap labor.
Rental properties still exist, landlords still exist. Usually the tenants are migrant workers from rural areas and the landlords are people who happened to have money to buy up few apartments in the city. ("Buy" is really a misnomer tbh, you're buying the remainder of a 70-year lease term)
When the tenants don't pay, the landlord will keep calling you or put up a notice on your front door and keep nagging for you to pay. But if it last for a few months, the lanlord usually engages in self-help eviction. Waiting for the tenant to be not at home, then go in and change the locks.
Sometimes, the public security bureau (police) will help the landlord if they have leases and can clearly show the tenant be in the wrong.
Sometimes, they would also help the tenant retrive their belongings if the landlord didn't give them the opportunity to get their stuff and just locked everything inside.
Often times, the tenants would just leave before the landlord starts doing self-help evictions to "save face".
Court hearings for residential evictions are rare. Even most criminal issues (things like petty theft, simple assault) are settled outside of court. Things like fighting is just mediated by the public security bureau.
This is assuming residential leases. Commercial leases would probably end in a lawsuit.
As for what happens after evictions, I'm not sure about that. In China, most migrant workers would have an "ancestral home" that's passed down each generation. its usually given to the eldest son, but if everyone already went to the cities to look for work, then it'd be empty and they'd just tell the elders who you were, hope someone recognize you and confirm your identity, and you then ask for the keys. If a family member is already home, then I guess you just knock on the doors and say hi. (Although, I'm not sure what happens if someone has multiple decendants and they all simultanesly got kicked out of the cities.)
For those with Urban Hukou, I think they just have to go to a homeless shelter since they likely don't have "ancestral homes". Its a homeless shelter just like in the US, overcrowded and not fun to be in.
This is anecdotes from people I know, I can't find much news sources reporting on this. So take it with a grain of salt.
For actual answers, internet searches isn't gonna reveal a lot. Maybe go visit a Chinatown in the west and try to talk to a first-generation immigrant? (and bring a translator with you)
A large portion of Chinese housed don’t have internet
They do. Most people, even some in rural areas, have access to the internet. But due to both censorship issues, and most importantly, the language barrier, its really rare for someone to seek out the western internet. Even first generation Chinese immigrants to the US still mostly use Wechat, even when they have unrestricted access to western-based media (because of the language barrier).
"We're the party of Lincoln"
also
"Lincoln was a woke radical feminist abolitionist"
🤔
Where does the US get the oil from? 🤔
He brought defeat to the Canadian conservatives from the jaws of victory.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Canadian_federal_election#Opinion_polls
Look at that comeback 🤣
Multiply 14023 by 3
Lol sure, I don't mind companies blaming trump. But what about the decreasing sales before 2025?
Does the effects of tariffs travel backwards through time? 🤔
(Mcdonalds is so bad, you might as well just get food from your local Chinese restaurant, which cost about the same and is much healthier)
They can't fire you, because it would mean they have to fire hegseth with his "flawless opsec"
I'm surprised they didn't just put every democrat and people they deem as "RINO"s into a no-fly list.
Hmm I wonder why someone would use a throwaway account? Maybe something to do with the US becoming fascist?
When your antidepressants stops working 🙃
Friend and Bank safes would be in the US, subject to the US's ICE/Gestspo "civil asset forfeiture". Only foreign cloud storage is safe.
I don't see why "other people's computers" is a problem. Encrypt, then upload.
Olympus Has Fallen
London Has Fallen
The plot is so ridiculous, its actually comedic.
What are some of the impacts of a power outage that isn't that obvious / isn't talked about a lot? And What happens to restaurant bills? Do Buses still work? (since card payments wouldn't work)