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So the big news piece coming out of Shanghai this week was that Shanghai Disneyland locked everyone in and gave them all covid tests as soon as it got word that a visitor from the previous day had tested positive for covid once she had returned home.

We're here in Wuhan filming a bunch of ice hockey enthusiasts who somehow managed to get set up here in the South, in a place where summertime temperatures can reach 40C.

Basically, after a year or so of vacation vlogs and musings about ethical existence, I got monetized on Youtube off of a video I did on going on a 14-day fast...

I took a trip to China's wine country, Ningxia. Here's what I found out about this new wine region upstart.

When animals have tried multiple times to avoid bad outcomes without succeeding, they stop trying.

On the mysterious origins of the quote "Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice."

On one of my very many recent Youtube rabbit holes, I came across the term "rejection sensitivity" or RSD aka "rejection sensitive dysphoria" as one of the frequent symptoms of ADHD and I had one of those wtf mind is blown moments.

This is actually a reminder to myself in the middle of a non-stop week that has lasted from... well, tbh I don't know when this "busy period" exactly began or how long it's been around.

A lot has been written on this war, which America has been fighting my entire adult life; way more than I can even begin summarizing, or would even think I should begin summarizing since I, like most Americans, didn't really pay attention to what was going on there all this time.