I’m trying to find shows like the Expanse, which I initially passed over, but then upon the second watch, I understood what was happening. It’s one of my favorite shows. I would’ve been missing out if I didn’t give it anotber try. I’ve read over like hundreds of TV show plots and I’m so picky that if it looks boring, I skip it. I’m trying to see if there was something that I’ve judge too harshly like the famous phrase "don’t judge a book by its cover.

Or another way to phrase it is: “What show’s synopsis or first season seems boring/confusing at first, but is actually a good show overall?”

When I read the premise, I was instantly hooked, on the plot not characters, but eventually characters too. Never even turned it away. I was dealing with an existential crisis at the time and that why I loved it.

BORTLES 🍾🔥

Oh maybe I’ll try again. I was kinda turned off and stopped before the end of season one.

United Provinces of Canada?

Sire, how does this “Smartphone” fuction? The Royal Scientists are unable to replicate this technology.

Stab them with the pointy tip.

Murphy’s Law: the best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it’s to post the wrong answer

A modern spin on it would be like:

The son is accused of drug trafficking

The father: “I can’t access the cloud drive account on [Site Name]”

The son: “If you ever remember the password and get in, delete the account. That’s where my (drug trade) ledger is”

Overnight, the FBI filed subpoena to the cloud company requesting a copy of any files on any of [the father]'s accounts. Within days, the company compiled and send the info to the FBI.

[The son]'s defence attorney got a copy of the files due to the discovery process, and passed it on to the father.

The father: “Son, I don’t know how, but your lawyer just sent me an email this afternoon with all the family photos”

Wish granted, you live in a bunker somewhere deep underground and is witnessing mutated lovecraftian creatures that can’t even be explained using today’s words.

!askmeanything@lemmy.ca

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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).

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

When your antidepressants stops working 🙃

Olympus Has Fallen

London Has Fallen

The plot is so ridiculous, its actually comedic.

According to the subreddit’s moderators, the AI took on numerous different identities in comments during the course of the experiment, including a sexual assault survivor, a trauma counselor “specializing in abuse,” and a “Black man opposed to Black Lives Matter.”

You don’t need an LLM for that, you got Dean Browning with his xitter alts

I use Lemmy be-
cause I want to shove this com-
ment up Uranus

😉