Spike [none/use name]

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Cake day: September 11th, 2020

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  • For the getting in to Russia thing I did a quick Google (so don’t take this as a full answer) and it seems like there’s no way from Europe to get in without flights which includes a detour to Dubai or similar. Seems fucking stupid

    For the China leg - The high speed rail from Peking/Beijing to Shanghai is 4-6 hours, so that part is much easier to sort out. The high speed rail goes all the way inland to Chengdu at the moment, and all the way down the coast to Guangzhou, so you can really take on most of the country just by train if you have time. I am hoping to do a high speed rail trip around China myself in the coming years. The biggest issue with visiting China, outside of language barrier, is making sure you get Visa approved early, they’re quite strict with it

    Another option is going in to DPRK from Beijing juche








  • I don’t know the context for this, but I think with the status quo of the internet being that everyone shits on homeless people, drug addicts, etc. I can understand wanting to remove comments that are being critical of the decisions someone has made that led to them asking for help here. There is a time and place for offering advice, and most of the time people here are not looking for it nor are they even in a position to hear it, and they are definitely not going to take much in from strangers. In healthcare settings it takes hours of building rapport to broach these topics, so unless you know the user well its pretty much pointless to be critical of someone unless you want to make them feel like shit. At best you could link people to resources that could help, or invest the hours to get to know them, then start trying to give advice.

    I do think if this comm is going to be called mutual aid then there should be more than just posts requesting donations… though it can’t be as bad as the languagelearning comm not having stickied resources for learning languages