Mandarin has 4 (technically 5) tones so “ma” could be any one of those 4 different pronunciations. Furthermore, there are many completely different words that have the same tone/pronunciation. You just learn through context (same way as you do with English homophones)

Mom in mandarin is 媽 (mā) whereas weed is 麻 (má). Colloquially you can also say 大麻 (dàmá) for weed.

There are many blue voters who live in areas affected by the Palisades fire

What? She in Chinese is 她. It might not be used often but it definitely is gendered…

Isn’t that only if wages increase alongside inflation

I think it’s a Fallout:New Vegas reference

Pretty sure Amazon gets kickbacks from the city of Seattle to keep the offices filled with ppl