from fashion, to technology etc

i cant see a world where people outside of china would enjoy chinese television, movies, or music

because its all bad

Like the whole population without papers must be sizable and insane given they dont exist

I mean subcultures like underground stuff.

ah i see, yeah well most of those people live in the rural parts

Tho chinese historical docudramas are pretty neat if you takw it as largely fiction

so the no ID kids will stay with the grandparents in the country

and the parents go to the cities to work

Oh, thats just depressing, was expecting something more cyberpunk

nah china is pretty depressing

it isnt as "cyberpunk" as everyone thinks

neon lights + skyscrapers dont make cyberpunk

the government hates the rural parts so they never go there, not even police

so itd be pretty easy to hide in plain sight there

i heard stories of some people commiting crimes on purpose

cause to go to jail you have to have a chinese ID

so if you dont have one, they will give you one

so they will go to jail for a year or something and get an ID on the way out

also, the funeral plots in shanghai are insanely expensive, think like $10,000 just for the land to bury your grandpa

actually, it might be $100,000. i cant remember

but people are going outside the city in the rural spots and buying apartments

and then they leave their grandparents there

(the dead)

cause its cheaper

so sometimes youll see apartments and maybe like half are just full of dead bodies and the other half people live in

What?

Like festering corpses?

Or ashes

they dont like to cremate usually

but both

You'll have to provide source for that because that sounds amazing.

my wife told me it it was in chinese, let me see if i can find english source

I mean, its terrible that it happens and its probably a plauge waiting to explode but at the same time it has been a dream of mine to live in a crypt.

this isnt it, but just as crazy: https://www.upi.com/Illegal-trade-in-corpse-brides-surges-in-China/3211491397845/

i cant find it in english yet, just chinese. it might take a bit for english publication to run it

Its weord how chinese is almost impossible to google translate to english since apparently every character is a self contained word or idea. Unless I'm misunderstanding chinese again.

you can google translate it, it just comes out weird sometimes

Huh, must just be the camera mode of google them.

yeah that thing definitely sucks

Chinese must be unsually hard to get machines to learn given variances of handwriting and fonts.