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		jjpones 88 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Waymo exec reveals company uses remote workers in ... As a (somewhat younger) Filipino, I didn't even know there was any basis in calling my country "The PI". Well now I know.

exidy 88 days ago [–]

It's a direct translation of Las Islas Filipinas which dates it back to the Spanish colonial era.

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