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Review of the "Chinese Social Credit System" group work

 The topic of this group work is quite interesting and peaked my interest. I have heard that China has an influential system of social credit that affects every citizen in a lot of areas but never took time to thoroughly read about it. Now I took this opportunity and dived right into the paper. The amount of text felt just right to me. Not overly detailed but with enough information to cover most of the aspects. The wiki-based format contributed a lot to ease of following the paper since it is quite clear and logical - much easier than reading a PDF, for example. However, I think that authors of the paper could have worked a bit to make it look more homogeneous. Right now chapters somewhat differ in style - some have a lot of subchapters and are easier to follow and navigate through (correct wiki style) and some are just too big and are just marked with paragraphs instead of subchapters. That makes a person who is interested not in the whole topic but rather some specific sub-topic spe

A disabled gamer who beats opponents with his mouth (week 14)

 In 2006 Rocky Stoutenburgh wrestled with his friends at the party and got severely injured after landing on his head. He tore his spinal cord and became a tetraplegic - meaning he lost use of all four limbs and a torso. Before that Rocky was a pretty active guy and he became so depressed that he was forced to eat through a feeding tube. One day his younger brother who was into video games brought home an interesting device called QuadStick - it's an analog stick with 3 holes and a lip trigger that one can sip or puff into and it can be programmed to emulate any button of keyboard or game controller. Rocky got so good at playing games with his mouth that he started moving up ranks and winning rounds of quick-paced competitive games against people who played with their hands. He started going by the name "Rocky No Hands" and started streaming as well. He plays pretty competitive games like PUBG and Fortnite and now he is quite an established streamer and Guiness record hol