TheWoozy

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Why would someone want to add gendered pronouns to a language

For adding specificity to lamguage. If you are talking about several people, the disambiguation can be handy.

We could have add pronouns that distinguish by size, or age, etc.

The really stupid feature of most indo-european is the arbitrary gendering of most nouns.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Sheet music carved in stone

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

I'm a govt. contractor. I will retire the day before he's swarn in. I'm not sure what I'll do beyond that. A lot of Americans already retire to Costa Rica or Panama. I'll have to decide whether to run away or stay & resist.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 months ago (10 children)

Biden's going hard on diplomacy, most of which we don't see. We do see some of the carrot and stick approach he's using. The stick is the canceled shipment. The promise of future arms is the carrot he's dangling in front of isreal.

Biden reeeeealy wants to see Netanyahu gone

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Spook = ghost (aka a soul unhoused a living body)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Sounds like you are looking for a mentor, "life coach", or even a therapist. Life coaches are unregulated and ill defined. The kind you would want are not likely to be looking for such a young client. Is there an older family member you can talk to (not parent or sibling)?

Talking through things can bring clarity, even if the person you are talking to has no advice.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Google is an advertising company. Their goal is to maximize profit from advertising. Avoiding government regulation is part of that goal. By imposing "good enough" self-regulation they hope keep governments from stepping in. Their solution is definitely better than the currently dying 3rd party cookie free-for-all.

Mozilla is right to question whether "targeted" ads are a good idea at all. I personally find it easier to ignore non-targeted ads, myself. But, if Mozilla decides not to cooperate & holds out for the Platonic ideal tech, they may cause ad dependent web sites to block Firefox completely. That would not be good for any of us.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Chitown for Chicago.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I've aways assumed "normie" was an insult. But I might be over sensitive to such things, becaise "cis" also sounds like an insult to me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

In other news... I lost the game.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

I am paid to perform other duties as assigned.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

What is failure-to-deliver? A woman who stays pregnant fo the rest of her life?

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