gastlygem

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by gastlygem 2y ago
> his name is literally Mao The guy didn't pick the name. "Mao" is the family name he inherited from his father. In the case of Mao Zedong and Mao Wenchao, they have the same family name, but that's about it. The two
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by gastlygem 2y ago
As a native Chinese I can assure you 小红书 and 红宝书 are as close semantically to each other as the words constipation and constitution. Few would relate those two. Even the most leftist Chinese entrepreneurs avoid having their brand names asso
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by gastlygem 2y ago
Just here to confirm. I have facetime setup at 5am in the morning with my family across the pacific. I've also started to exercise regularly. It's been 2 months and my sleep pattern is exactly like yours, and I feel exactly like y
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by gastlygem 2y ago
In Chinese there is 树(tree)大(big)招(attract)风(wind) but it is used in a way that implies the tree is innocent and the wind is at fault.
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by gastlygem 2y ago
Indeed, I have a feeling that I kinda understand the material I'm listening, but the vocabulary I hear doesn't automatically become my own...
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by gastlygem 3y ago
According to some estimations China spends about $12B annually on space programs. Almost on par with that of NASA. [1] $3B is a good start, and I believe India will eventually catch up, but probably not very soon. [1]: https://pa
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by gastlygem 3y ago
Or you could put the plate on the floor and bend your upper body down from the bed. Should achieve the same result.
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by gastlygem 3y ago
You can write the most sloppy cursive Chinese character and your phone would recognize them just fine. Together with text prediction it's quite easy to get 40 characters per minute (probably equivalent of 80wpm in English), much faster
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by gastlygem 4y ago
X11 has been doing fine in the past few years. I have both my home and office computer running it with dual 4k displays and all appear to be swell. I use Cinnamon as desktop because it happens to be the easiest to configure for 150% scaling
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by gastlygem 4y ago
None of the top Chinese tech companies are state-owned. Also 2010 was before Xi Jinping. Things have changed a lot now. Now they get striked left and right by regulations. Just look at their stock price.
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by gastlygem 4y ago
Have you tried listening to songs in another language? I can't listen to English and Chinese songs, but Spanish songs mostly just fly over my head.
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by gastlygem 6y ago
After a few failed attempts in the start I discovered Xterminator's series[1]. Now I just roll a similar map and try to imitate what he does. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fimGkeVVASA&list=PLwehwVVQir...
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by gastlygem 6y ago
In Shanghai I pay $11 per month for 16GB mobile data plus a 50M broadband at home. I pay a bit more than that for the cloud VMs on which I install VPN services.
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by gastlygem 6y ago
Yeah the international version of TikTok is already restricted here in China. Last time I tried to use it with VPN but it didn't work.
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by gastlygem 6y ago
If it's reciprocity, then perhaps the government should state so, lest people think the US is becoming China.
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by gastlygem 6y ago
Also "national security purposes" is exactly what the Chinese government said when they banned Facebook, Twitter, etc.
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by gastlygem 7y ago
> Can you find me what the 8 people arrested for actually wrote? One of the doctors saw the initial cases before they were officially confirmed. He told the news in WeChat groups to their friends who were also doctors about a SARS-like v
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by gastlygem 7y ago
There was a time when I used a South Asian VPN service for YouTube, and I saw a lot of "single woman in your neighborhood" ads. I guess either that was the norm in South Asia, or that's what VPNs are for...
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by gastlygem 7y ago
We drink boiled water just because we like it warm. It's part of the culture. It's also one of the reasons why there are few epidemics when natural disaster strikes. The tap water quality varies from place to place, but it's
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by gastlygem 7y ago
Took me a few seconds to realize what you are talking about..
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by gastlygem 7y ago
The 2018 movie Christopher Robin didn't premiere in China. Moreover, there is no way to legally download or view the said movie in any Chinese online movie providers. I'd like to be proven wrong. So wise throwtt78oo65, tell me abo
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by gastlygem 8y ago
Many Chinese people will respond with positive results knowing the survey is held by a foreign agency, not because they are being oppressed, but because they get suspicious and defensive when being asked, and they don't like to see the
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by gastlygem 15y ago
I believe it's called Wu dialect. Native Chinese here, been living near Shanghai for 6 years, but never really understand the dialect.
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by gastlygem 16y ago
Does she have issues with, say, pork?
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by gastlygem 16y ago
哈,我一定在tom論壇見過你!
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by gastlygem 16y ago
Chapter 10.2 -- "False or True" should be "True" I think..
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by gastlygem 16y ago
China.