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  • "Aborigine" is not "comes from away". I don't know where you're getting your etymology from, but it comes from the Latin "ab origine" which means "from the source" or, in context, you know, THE ORIGINALS. (First used, incidentally, to refer to the people living in what is now Italy before the Romans took it all over.)

  • How can the Métis be "first" anything? They're the product of intermarriage between native Canadians and European traders (mostly the French).

  • Best form of blocking available: don't use enshittified tools.

  • Not HK and Hong Kong.

    Also some people in Hainan will refer to the "mainland" as opposed to Hainan island.

    It turns out words can be used in multiple ways. It's not all about Taiwan.

  • Lemmygrad hasn't been spotted yet. When it is spotted, it will be blocked as well, like literally every social media site that reaches the authoritarians' awareness.

  • "China" isn't "embarrassed" by lemmy.ml or hexbear.net. "China" just shuts down access to non-Chinese social media sites as they are discovered. Any social media site that isn't currently blocked in China is on numbered days until they are blocked, whether "pro-China" or "anti-China".

  • Mainland China refers to China sans Hong Kong and Macao, yes. Because you have to distinguish and "Mainland China" is a whole lot less typing than "China but without Hong Kong and, oh yeah, Macao too".

  • Dude, you understand, right, that no matter how much you e-suck E-lon's e-dick he won't be giving you any of his billions? You get this, right? Right!?

  • It is correctly spoken as "couldn't care less" but dumbasses who don't think about what words mean changed it to "could care less" to the point that this is basically the idiom, as idiotic and nonsensical as it is.

  • It is definitely blocked.

    Source: I'm in Mainland China.

  • Oh, sorry, did any of your pearls fall? Thanks for your precious “engagement”.

    I guess it’s scary for some people to participate in even a conversation about something new with an open mind without being condescending.

    Irony, thy name is ... well, just check the user name. It's all you need.

  • He understands the userbase he wants: boot-licking sycophants and Nazis (though I repeat myself).

  • There should be a rule that advertisers should openly identify themselves on any and all social media sites with penalties that are existential threats when they don't.

  • The indictments charge a web of chemical factories across China, from Wuhan to Anhui and Hubei and Jiangsu, and reveal how the traffickers running these companies have sold fentanyl precursors to undercover D.E.A. agents requesting shipments into Mexican drug labs.

    Say "I can't read a map" without saying you can't read a map.

  • Yes. It's always disconcerting when former client states flip the script, isn't it?

  • They're embarrassed at how easily they were caught in crime.

  • Musk, however, is not noted for checking anything before doing it.

  • Yes. It's stupid and petty to react to foreign agents coming to our nation and kill our citizens and residents.

    Were you dropped on your head as a child? Or are you just still a child?