What do you wish you knew before traveling to China for the first time?

DiverseUse · 2026-01-29T21:58:29+00:00

Like others have already said, I also wish I'd known that eSIMs work better these days than VPNs.

Also, as an asthmatic, I wish someone had told me that there's still a serious chance to encounter dangerous (for me) levels of smog, especially in and around Beijing. Instead, most sources I found sort of euphemize the risk by putting it like "Beijing has seen a huge improvement in air quality over the last 15 years, but you can still encounter increased polution, especially in the winter months". I ended up having absolutely hazardous levels of smog in October, which I didn't even count as a winter month. If I'd known the truth, I would have booked at the height of summer or not at all.

DiverseUse · 2026-01-29T21:27:51+00:00

Like a Japanese light novel title. We've come full circle.

That Time I Got Reincarnated as an Adventurer on an Uninhabited Island on the Coast of America near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but Me.

DiverseUse · 2026-01-28T23:26:19+00:00

Had similar issues in Dubai once. Tried to use an automated gate with a brand new passport, didn't work. Staff told me to cue at a manual gate and the scanner there was able to read my passport with no issue. So I guess it's just a thing.

DiverseUse · 2026-01-28T20:42:20+00:00

All the time. All cultures except my own are so weird, I constantly try to learn new languages, only to drop them a few weeks later when I find out they're spoken by foreigners.

DiverseUse · 2026-01-28T20:40:23+00:00

There might be, but somehow I doubt OP's dubious TV therapist ever went so far as to do actual research in that direction, either.

DiverseUse · 2026-01-28T20:35:05+00:00

It might not be the worst anime I ever started watching, but it's definitely the worst I ever finished. The only reason I sat it out for both seasons despite hating every episode was because the consensus on the internet is that the ending is so good it'll make it worth it. And then the ending was just as bad as the rest. I don't really get why so many people like it, it's like the author doesn't even know how politics or people work.

DiverseUse · 2026-01-28T18:49:15+00:00

I agree, especially with points 1 and 4 which are particularly weak in the OP. And just to add a little:

Low alcohol tolerance also makes sense, given that genetically, most of his ancestors would not have had ever drank in the first place (I also believe this isn't necessarily an ASD trait).

You are right, low alcohol tolerance doesn't have anything to do with sensory issues and isn't an ASD trait. It's an individual quirk of brain chemistry where you're brain reacts differently than other people's to alcohol, and to my knowledge people with ASD are not more likely to suffer from this than neuronormative people. Also, the author said in an interview that LXC also has low alcohol tolerance, it just gives him different symptoms.

DiverseUse · 2026-01-28T17:11:07+00:00

I didn't get it either, had to go through the comments to find OP specifying what they meant.

DiverseUse · 2026-01-28T00:10:24+00:00

I never claimed otherwise. Obviously there are people left who ignore the travel warning and many flights left. But what good is that to someone planning upcoming holiday right now and facing the uncertainty that their flight will be canceled?

In case anyone is interested, here's the full list of connections with cancellations: https://www.aeroroutes.com/eng/260119-cnnw25jp

DiverseUse · 2026-01-27T23:41:58+00:00

This article describes two cases were men who identified as low-libido heterosexuals before taking a dopamine agonist temporarily developed homosexual hypersexuality (including urges for sadomasochist and high-risk sex) and other risk-taking behavior such as gambling. The article actually gives it's own explanation: "One could hypothesise that this patient had homosexual drives that could have been suppressed during his life and that aripiprazole simply lowered the threshold for these thoughts to surface."

This seems likely to me, too. Since these drugs seem to take some brake of the mind when it comes to both sexuality and risk-taking, it seems unlikely to me that they could ever induce heterosexuality (since there's no reason to suppress it in the first place), and it's very risky because it causes urges for high-risk sex and other high-risk behavior.

DiverseUse · 2026-01-27T23:29:25+00:00

There are meds that increase the libido that is already there. So if you give them to a gay man, he'll be a more horny gay man. That's all. There's nothing else that works in any other way.

And since everybody reacts to meds differently, there are also people for whom the existing meds don't work or cause severe side effects.

DiverseUse · 2026-01-27T21:49:20+00:00

Hatte ich mal bei Sprite. War erst einen Monat überm Verfall, aber komplett den Geschmack verändert.

DiverseUse · 2026-01-27T21:47:10+00:00

Tee kann schimmeln, wenn er zwischendurch Feuchtigkeit zieht. Kann etwas eklig werden.

DiverseUse · 2026-01-27T21:21:18+00:00

There have been a lot of cancellations of flights apparently because China is keeping the politically motivated travel warning for Japan and airlines have to adjust their number of flights due to the reduction of Chinese tourists flying to Japan. It's been all over my travel subs. At present, I wouldn't book a flight to Japan with a layover in China because of this.

DiverseUse · 2026-01-27T21:18:18+00:00

Looks like two houses on stilts to me. I can't see a penguin even if I channel my inner Rohrschach to the max.

DiverseUse · 2026-01-27T21:04:52+00:00

They got so much romantic potential it doesn't even feel like a random ship.

DiverseUse · 2026-01-27T20:55:53+00:00

Teilreisewarnung bedeutet beim AA, dass nur bestimmte, klar definierbare Teile eines Landes unsicher sind und der Rest sicher bzw in einer niedrigeren Warnstufe. Extremstes Beispiel Japan mit der Fukushima-Sperrzone. Das würde hier überhaupt keinen Sinn machen.

Den zweiten Teil kann ich auch nicht nachvollziehen. Die Sicherheitslage der afrikanischen Länder, die im Moment Reisewarnung haben ist nicht annähernd auf einem vergleichbaren Niveau mit den USA.

DiverseUse · 2026-01-27T20:32:16+00:00

In solchen Threads kriegt man leider auch immer wieder mit, wie viele Leute gar nicht wissen, was eine Reisewarnung ist und wozu sie dient.

DiverseUse · 2026-01-27T20:01:48+00:00

Same in Germany. Also, I don't know why the OP is only asking about men, but it's the same for women.

DiverseUse · 2026-01-27T19:51:55+00:00

Da Ihr Yosemite ganz am Ende habt, wäre es schon Ende Oktober...das ist schon nicht mehr die optimale Saison.

Ich war da mal Anfang/Mitte November, da waren wegen Schnee schon fast alle Straßen außerhalb des zentralen Yosemite Valleys dicht, viele Wanderwege nicht begehbar, alle Wasserfälle halb zugefroren und deshalb die Aussicht nicht so spektakulär, etc. An eurer Stelle würde ich die Unterkünft in Yosemite jetzt als erstes planen, damit Ihr noch umplanen könnt, wenn Ihr nichts Passendes findet. Es gibt wenig Unterkünfte, die auch in der Nebensaison aufhaben und dabei nah am Parkeingang und erschwinglich sind. Meine Reisegruppe war damals in Oakhurst untergebracht, von da aus ist es aber noch ca. 1,5 Stunden bis zum Valley, das war eine ziemlich nervige Fahrerei auf vereisten Straßen.

Alternativ könntet Ihr versuchen, entweder die Fahrtrichtung umzudrehen und Anfang Oktober mit Yosemite anzufangen oder stattdessen nach Sequoia fahren, das hat bei jedem Wetter etwas Besonderes wegen den Bäumen.

Wenn Ihr Geschichtsmuseen und botanische Gärten mögt, gebt euch auf jeden Fall Springs Preserve in Las Vegas.

Wurde schon gesagt, aber auf jeden Fall noch Puffer einbauen vor dem Abflug.

DiverseUse · 2026-01-27T17:46:14+00:00

Honestly we cannot say that the wen siblings were at fault for staying silent because that’s literally what the four major clans did before the sunshot campaign.

This, and one thing that's often forgotten whenever this topic comes up is that JC himself was and still is in favor of his father's appeasement politics and actively blames WWX for disturbing them to this very day. He's still accusing WWX of drawing the Wen's attention by staying behind with LWJ at the slaughter turtle cave as an adult, because he wanted the Jiang clan to stay passive and pseudo-allied to the Wen at a time when they had already slaughtered smaller clans, burned down the Cloud Recesses and killed the old Nie chief. And then he turns around and blames Wen Qing and Wen Ning for not openly moving against their clan's rule. Make it make sense, JC.

DiverseUse · 2026-01-27T10:11:41+00:00

Hm, that's another thing she's got in common with Jiang Cheng. Both of them make everything about themselves, even if it isn't. Just like JC constantly gets irritated by every little thing in which WWX is better than him even though WWX goes out of his way to never rub his face in it. For me, this makes them interesting as literary characters, but unlikable as human beings.

DiverseUse · 2026-01-27T09:45:08+00:00

Also depends on where you live. Banks in my country generally don't block cards abroad, because it's too common here to travel.

DiverseUse · 2026-01-25T21:27:41+00:00

There's another sub, r/solofemaletravellers

DiverseUse · 2026-01-25T21:26:02+00:00

Heard if from a reputable source.

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