Can you give some examples?

I heard someone talking about all the Chinese people coming across the Mexico boarder and how they were actually spies for China

chinese people what? when did this happen?

are you aware that a lot of the world wasn’t stable even without western countries intervening? have you read any history book from any part of the world outside of the EU and North America?

the fact that there’s so much illegal migration to the west is partly the responsibility of our own countries and policies

This is revolting.

Also, his life was heartbreaking too.

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because tiktok replaced yotube in that regard

For example, the earth only has so much of the precious metals needed for electric car batteries.

They’re largely found in China too

They are focusing on the next generation, you can see in the museum they rewrote the history and they bring all the school children there

Cantonese is already difficult to learn without being immersed so they are just so happy about the loss of language

Many people have left HK, so far the only people I know who are left there are people who have to stay because they work in business, everyone else emigrated to the UK or North America

racist and fascist shit going on in Italy

This, frankly, is a consequence of the illegal immigration/migration (whatever you want to call it) from the last decade into europe and the impact its had on society

You can read about china and the belt road initiative and its influence around the world, you can read about China and what it’s doing around the South China Sea (tangentially the impacts on south east asia)

You can read about Chinese business principles such as guanxi and something called the bamboo network which is the term for overseas Chinese network

You can also read about china and their investment in mexico to surpass us tariffs

Netanyahu looks to deport Eritreans after hundreds of refugees, police officers injured in Tel Aviv riot

imagine if other countries deported people of all one ethnicity after a group of them rioted

Hongkonger here: Although Cantonese is pretty alive and well in Hong Kong, it’s pretty clear that the Government is being pressured by the mainland to promote Mandarin. It is commonly taught in schools and the Government promotes “trilingualism and biliteracy”. Cantonese and Mandarin are both written in the same script (Hanzi), and the third language/second script is English. It’s pretty clear that not all three languages get equal treatment though. English is not that heavily emphasized but most schoolchildren will learn it anyway because they want to watch American movies and enjoy American meme culture (this is not a joke). Parents also want their children to be trilingual and biliterate for economic reasons. Hong Kong is a city that revolves around money and it’s very common for business to be conducted internationally in English. That doesn’t mean that Mandarin is doing well in HK though. Hongkongers have a very negative perception of mainlanders for being “uneducated” and Mandarin is associated with mainlanders. I can’t describe it as “racism” since everyone involved is the same race, but Hongkongers think mainlanders spit in the street, smoke in lavatories and don’t know how to sort recycling from rubbish. Doesn’t help that most of these stereotypes are to some extent, true.

all of this, 100%>

The difference in Cantonese usage couldn’t be more stark. I’m currently in Hong Kong. Everyone speaks Cantonese, and if you speak Mandarin, that says to people “This person is a Mainland tourist, let’s overcharge them.”, and if you speak English, that says “This person is a rich foreigner/white person, let’s overcharge them.”. This is despite English and “Chinese” (both variants) being official language in Hong Kong. All Government services are provided in all three languages but if you use anything but Cantonese, you’re going to see significantly more friction and encounter many more difficulties that Cantonese speakers don’t.

to be fair it’s like this in almost all regions where the locals speak a minority language and they try to preserve it. In Canada they have english and french as an official language but if you try to speak english in quebec they will not be happy because of their history with the language/anglophones. you are seen as a form of colonizer if you speak a non-native language (both in quebec and in hk)

Tb0n3 English 4 • 29 minutes ago In written language at least I believe the CCP forced the development and adoption of Simplified Chinese in writing,

it’s bad enough we don’t have written cantonese, they also simplified the traditional characters for our writing? damn

I’m out of the loop here. I thought Cantonese is popularly spoken in China (and other parts of the world with Chinese immigrants/descendants). So even in China (like Guangdong), is Cantonese used very limitedly?

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in the last few years the CCP has been trying to erase HK culture and language and replace it with theirs, it’s all to create “cohesiveness”

it is a language spoken in southern china (guangdong province, hong kong, macau). Most of china (mainland china) speaks mandarin, it’s the largest of the chinese dialect groups. it’s ‘standard’ chinese.

According to a Tennessee Bureau of Investigation arrest warrant obtained by HuffPost, Runions told police that she had taken a 9 mm handgun out of its case, removed the magazine and called Evangaline over to “show her firearm safety.” Runions pressed the barrel of the gun against the child’s chest and pulled the trigger, police said she told them. Daniels told police that she saw Runions take out the gun, remove its magazine and put it to Evangaline’s chest, but she turned away and didn’t see her pull the trigger, according to the warrant. The 7-year-old girl told authorities that she saw Runions shoot Evangaline and said the bullet struck a glass bottle, sending shards her way, according to the warrant.

wtf

We’re all a combination of 1280 individuals !?

Someone’s upset their PM made them start using JIRA tickets

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what do people use if not JIRA?

I don’t know about now but back when i worked in STEM, almost everyone in tech used some atlassian software

the company has an IPO so the net worth is largely equity value, i’m sure the net worth would have increased substantially during COVID/wfh periods.

from his wikipedia page “Farquhar often carries the epithet of accidental billionaire after he and his business partner Mike Cannon-Brookes founded Atlassian with the aim to replicate the A$48,500 graduate starting salary typical at corporations without having to work for someone else”

Reverse opium wars

Is it actually 150,000,000,000