LaughingLion [any, any]

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Cake day: September 14th, 2020

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  • Unfortunately, yeah. I could be wrong, however. Here is a bit of a challenge: find someone who is a normal working-class person who was not a Chinese citizen and who was able to go through the process and get permanent residency or citizenship. As a far as I know nobody has done it unless they were rich or famous. I think you could probably find somebody but I'm pretty sure it'll be some kind of extenuating circumstance. Definitely no westerners. It's a big complaint among expats who married a Chinese spouse. The process to being a permanent resident there is basically impossible. At some point in the process it will completely and indefinitely stall out.




  • still laugh when i see people like "theres nothing in these units in this high-rise its not even finished". yeah. thats chinese culture. you buy the condo or whatever and you are literally expected to do the drywall, fixtures, and all that yourself for those new constructions. its also normal to buy one someone else owned and rip everything out to the studs and redo it. its based in some traditional mysticism or something






  • Most importantly, you can't go become a citizen or even permanent resident there. Oh, sure you can go on their embassy website and it has a process. You won't ever get through that process, though. Only a few super rich or famous westerns are able to get through that process. Not average people like us. If you marry a Chinese citizen you won't even get it. You will have to get temporary visas every few years even if you have a kid. Your kid will be a Chinese citizen. You will never be or even a permanent resident. You will not be able to open a bank account, fully use WeChat for easy stuff like payments, have trouble getting housing, and so much more. You will perpetually be a legal outsider there.


  • You need an IRC client that supports DCC transfers. There are a number but AdiIRC is good for windows and free. I use mIRC which is paid. In mine I need to add epubs to my allow list otherwise it prompts me. Also might want to check the settings in your IRC client to make sure you are putting the DCC files somewhere convenient.

    Then you connect to a server that hosts books. IRCHighway.net has an #ebooks channel.

    Once connected to this server and channel you will use the search command to find your book such as "@search morning glory". It will send you a zip containing a text file with the results.

    You can copy and paste the result for the book you like in the channel such as "!Firebound %DD3069756FAF% C.M. Nascosta - [Cambric Creek_ Sweet & Steamy Monster Romance 01] - Morning Glory Milking Farm.epub" This will download the epub file.

    This is an optional step but I import that into calibre library (another free app) and run a few tools on it before I export it to my e-ink reader in the kepub format (I have a plugin that converts it to the kobo format so my device counts pages properly).

    Then you can enjoy your stolen book about a woman who gets a job jacking off minotaurs for a living and falls in love with one who's cock is just right! Hope this helps.

    bean

    In all seriousness if you want some dope fantasy adventure books I have a few recommendations for instance The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi is like an arabic version of The Odyssey who follows a woman who is a pirate off the Arabian Peninsula and goes on a wild adventure involving epic sea creatures, gods, dark wizards, and of course, piracy. It's really strange and wonderfully written. Or if you want a sweet fairy tale that turns into a scifi novel then Strange the Dreamer which gets really surreal as at least a third of the book happens in a shared dream.