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Hi, I thought'd i'd make a separate post on hexbear for HSR/CRT. The main china summary post is on lemmygrad if yall wanna check it out.

I rode the HSR 3 times total, and I've said this a couple times, but the biggest compliment I can give is my lack of complaints.

The experience was super smooth, very quick security check and quick ticket check into a very smooth train ride. I will say I really do not like how loudly people speak on calls but that is more of an old person thing and noise canceling headphones do the trick.

As for the Chongqing Rail Transit, the CRT was probably the cleanest metro i've ridden on before(I've only been on the NY subway and the Toronto TTC before).

Pricing was from 1-7 yuan(0.15-0.95 dollar)

There was communist imagery(only on line 5 though)

images aren't uploading so i'll try and edit with them or add them to the comments

There were different AC settings on different cars(a lot of older chinese don't like too much AC), and overall very good experience. Not too notable either except cleanliness which I think is a plus.

Hi. Sorry for promising a HSR post but never making one. The images are too big for lemmygrad and i’m going to wait until this (chinese government sponsored tour on their dime for chinese diaspora) summer camp is done and have access to my computer to post(might be a week or two tho).

Anyways we had some students join us from a local college on the summer camp and i ended up talking for a hour or two with someone about chinese and american politics(albeit my chinese needs some work LOL) and later found out they’re a member of the youth communist party(asked him right before he left). Very interesting to hear much of the concepts i’ve read about in conversation and hearing the chinese names of such.

I did in fact ask about the great leap forward, great proletarian cultural revolution, tiananmen square, hong kong protests and taiwan independence just out of curiosity. got pretty satisfactory answers.

Anyways just wanted to share and thought you guys might want update on my china trip.

oh this is kinda rambly but my god has it changed since like even 2018, the last time i went back. i know we definitely visited the nicer parts as the government def wants to put themselves in a good light but the parks all were a part of some 社会主义(socialism) effort and they were rlly rly nice. anyways ill make a post at end of trip w pictures.

sorry for unstructured rant LOL

Back in china for the first time since pre-covid. Shanghai pudong airport people mover, connected terminal 1 to a satellite boarding area(which apparently is the largest in the world, opened in 2019 and very nice i liked it). The people mover rolling stock consists of crrc class A with full ass platform doors.

i did see the sign for the maglev but did not end up riding it, didn’t have a need to.

Anyways riding HSR tomorrow so expect pictures of that tomorrow.

i’m not sure what community to post this on so i’ll post it here for now. if there is a better community for this lmk!

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Kinda what the title says. When like outside in public I know I like to wear my airpods w/ noise canceling and avoid loud spaces. What do you guys usually do when you notice you're like "it's all too much."

Also what do you guys do when you're at home to relax and kinda reset after too much sensory stuff?

I didn't see anyone post this yet so i just wanted to make a post for it.

I think most of the stuff is pretty standard here. Still going for a 5% growth rate in spite of all the headwinds, more jobs(yay), and a push for 高质量(high quality) growth.