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doesn't Chinese have pronouns though?

她 she 他 he 它 it

or am I missing something ?

It's going to freak you out to learn there are actually pro-unification people in Taiwan of the "one country two systems" ilk. A lot less than there used to be, and I doubt it will ever be more than it is now.

This guy has been mega successful on the mainland he had reason to believe it would be a good thing for Taiwan.

If you ask people on the street most of them just want peace. Even if that means the Taiwan question never gets answered in their lifetime. When some thirsty westerner grand stands about Taiwan they cringe in fear knowing it will be their families who has to pay the bill.

Alot of people on either side of the strait feel nothing will happen and are tied of politicians amping it up and tempting fate.

For me it's like this, I have a useful point to add to the conversation but when I interject the lag is juuuuust long enough that it ends up I'm talking over the next person.

So when I lead a meeting with zoom participants I either force dead air to allow the remote people to jump in, or I eat as much dead air as possible to lock them out of the conversation. depending on my own agenda.

incidentally this problem doesn't exist in asynchronous collaboration methods. but zoom and it's like win out on shear informwtion bandwidth.

The current video conferencing and remote working systems are indeed amazing feats of technology and social acceptance, but we still need to work on it. a lot.

when measuring centuries a bit of give and take is fine.

It was after all a protracted team effort of subjugation and well, by today's standards, genocide.

Most nations would be a bit butt hurt about it or at the very least work to prevent it from happening again.

China opened up long before the soviet union collapsed. that's just wrong.

like 20 years wrong. You really need to do some reading chief.

it's a thing and kind of rough

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_of_humiliation

Common sense would dictate that we look into the cause of the pandemic. But I totally get the fear of the pointless propaganda war that would have probably come out of it.

It's beyond belief at this point how much the western press will bend any story about China into China bad.

maybe 40 years ago. but 20 years ago was 2003. China was not like India or Africa is now.

If you can train is less than say 6 hours. Trains are hands down better.

They are much more reliably on time.

The station is usually much closer than to the ultimate destination than an airport.

There's little or no waiting in queues or what not, in a lot places you can roll up the platform 10-20 mins before departure.

The seats are better for pretty much every class of ticket. sans a standing ticket but Planes don't have those.

Once you factor getting to and from the airport, messing about with check in, security, and boarding at around 6 hours a train is better than a 2 hour flight.

I didn't like infinity because of a big pile of little things. half of which could be described as just habit.

probably I wouldn't have been okay to stick with it but Sync came to lemmy. sync > infinity hands down. try it.

lemmy is crowded with the FOSS and privacy crowd. it's what makes lemmy so much better than reddit.

ita reasonable that a paid app, with ads and telemetry isn't their traditional jam.

which app does the same thing?

The dev, who I think is awesome so grain of salt, put ads in it.

or you could pay 20$ to make then go away.

or you could pay some number, I forget, but it was a subscription and a bit high for a reddit client style app. according to lemmy people at least.

sync for reddit was exactly the same but cheaper.

this angered some people but delighted the many reditfugees. including myself, who has been jonesing for a reasonable social media experience since apps got kicked off reddit. The various clients out there are admirable to some degree but Sync is an ABSOLUTE DELIGHT to use. and this is just a beta. I am a rabbitd fan...since sync for reddit was a beta.

I feel like I'm back. and Lemmy people operate on a different level compared to reddit people. the Dev can have a whole big pile of money from me as far as I'm concerned.

but I always understand to some people in particular the traditional lemmy crowed - whom I've quickly come to respect and greatly since joining - think this should be ad free and payment free. or at least cheaper. and fair enough.

but for me, a lowly reddfugee. I'm feel like I'm back baby. woohoo!!!

So... after paying sync the ad go away money I donated to lemmy the same 20$, and I will surely buy the subscription to sync when it is out of beta and match the amount as donation to this instance. take my money you impressive bastards.