My two cents on not giving trolls the time of day:

When you focus your attention on negativity via reading & writing in the form of thoughts, you are in essence physically rewiring your brain. New synaptic connections are created for this unhealthy neural path led by said trolls. Such neuroplasticity has been proven in forefront neuroscience studies.

So don't let unhappy folks mess around with your brain plasticity. This goes for not just on GoK, but everything online, and also in real life. Be more selective in the interactions for your own well-being.

Here's an intelligible HuffPo article on this subject:

www.huffingtonpost.com/[...]

Apologies for crying wolf. It's that Chinese social media frenzy that @AlPage48's wife et al. know all too well.

Nothing but a faint echo... a dissipated remnant of a CAT 5 that killed so many.

Glad we live behind a curtain of mountain ranges as @herenow alluded to. It's why we love KM.

"Super Typhoon Mangkhut" which battered the Philippines and Hong Kong is en route to our Spring City tonight, albeit much weaker in intensity. A typhoon needs ocean water to maintain or build up its strength. Fortunately we're far inland, yet it's coming. Nearly a direct path:

google.org/crisismap/google.com/2018-mangkhut

Thank you @tigertiger, procured a metro card for my friend per your suggestion.

In addition, the 20rmb deposit for the metro card can be refunded at Dongfeng Square (东风广场站) KRT metro station. Supposedly only this station will refund. So keep your receipt.

Only drawback with a metro card is the discount for transferring from KRT to bus within allotted time is slightly less than would a bus transport card.

@alienew

You're right. We're far from a finished product. But enough to thrive, albeit inflicting heavy collateral damages to our habitat. Yet the most egregious turmoil reserved for our fellow human species, particularly ourselves.

We embody a mind that does not cease its mental chattering. From day to night, we're our own judge, jury, and torturers. Executioner if you count suicide. The side-effect for evolving higher brain functions in the cortex hub network. The culprit complicit in triggering in neural tandem with aforementioned primal brain lobes in the manifestation of the self.

"They" don't try to evolve us, but attempt to recondition our behaviors. Evolution is a gradual, millennia climb up mount improbable, not a quick fix like comic book superheroes. Profit-seeking businesses merely piggyback off what evolution has already manifested. Like skilled salesmen or politicians hijacking our amygdala to elicit our emotional responses. The game has changed, but the players remain relatively the same. Our incessant mind, literally and figuratively jacked up on steroids.

When we share photos of our forced pouty lips, our pretend Michelin dinner, or our Venetian holiday (in Macau)... we addictively showcase the best versions of us, to the envy or annoyance of our social clique. Some with digitally enhanced alterations. There's an app for that. Disingenuous representation ensues.

It's our instinctive nature to broadcast to the tribe our perceived individuality. To make ourselves the more appealing catch relative to competing damsels or suitors. Our ancestors have always successfully vied for potential mates. You wouldn't be here had they failed. No different today than it was 200,000 years ago.

This hardwired proclivity echos past our primes. Moms and grandmas are now jumping off tour buses with their selfie sticks. Predisposed to promote their family wealth and attributes. Hoping to impress upon friends who may offer their daughters to hitch their 36-year old bachelor son who plays Xbox all day.

In some cases, app makers and users could mutually benefit in the sharing of personal information in cyberspace. Matchmaking platforms for instance. There may be 5,000 misses, but all you need is one hit. The opportunity to hook-up with that elusive life-long partner. Some call it fate, or soulmate. Others may call it increasing probability with perseverance, assisted by the connectivity of technology. Personal cost-benefit analysis may determine the ultimate worth of compromising privacy.