In the tech industry, when a system doesn’t work and can’t be fixed we throw it out and start over.

I plan to, which pisses off Doctor Evil’s Democrats.

Good, get it all offline so the LLM Assholes can’t use it.

Lol, worst autocorrect ever. XD

Dunno! I haven’t been to Twitter since Elon bought it and activated our scorched-earth protocols. Twitter hasn’t been accessible on any device in our network since then.

Queer folks have a bad habit of falling in love with people on the other side of the country.

If it’s the user’s responsibility to secure the operating systems they use then isn’t it both illogical and immoral for Microsoft to keep the source code secret?

It was a Saturday, but I was on-call when Networking shit the bed. One of the main trunk lines degraded and they took almost five minutes to switchover to backup 'cuz their automated degredation monitoring was on a five-minute interval. XD

Crypto is just as insecure as credit cards. The whole point of the blockchain is that everyone can see all transactions.

I work in this industry and I can confirm that there’s fucking nothing ensuring the privacy of these transactions. Tens of thousands of people have full access to everyone’s credit card history, and that’s not counting unauthorized access and card skimmers.

As long as you want, assuming that you’re fine with the security risks and everything that’s rendered incompatible in the future.

Actually, a recent study contradicts that:

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2024/02/men-women-brain-organization-patterns.html

The differences aren’t in terms of gross anatomy, but activity levels in the default mode, striatum, and limbic networks.

Oh! Well that is interesting!

It’d take me a while to get the hang of that. 😺

The singular “they” is actually a couple hundred years older than using “you” instead of “thou” as a second person pronoun.

I’m sorry to say that your English teachers were pulling a fast one on you when they told you “they/them/their” couldn’t be singular.

That’d be a “neopronoun”, typically used by folks who feel like none of the standard pronouns fit them.

They’re rather uncommon for the reasons you’ve described, even I have trouble remembering to always use xie/xir or fae/faer for my queer friends that identify as such.

Fortunately, the folks that do use neopronouns are aware of this and most are quite patient about it. So long as you show your friend and their husband that you’re making an effort to recognize thier unusual gender, such as by quickly correcting yourself and moving on if you catch yourself using the wrong pronoun, then they won’t think any less of you for it. 😄

We’re not sure about the neurological mechanism behind the innate sense of gender as of yet, but we have been able to confirm that there are structural differences between masculine and feminine brains that are more consistent with people’s reported gender identity than their genitalia.

And that’s the fundamental difference between tomboys and trans men, the former are gender-nonconforming women and the latter are men’s brains in female bodies.

It’s difficult to explain what gender dysphoria feels like to someone whose gender identity is consistent with their sex. There’s a sense of “wrongness” that can suffuse through everything from one’s interactions with other people in society to one’s own thought processes under the influence of the wrong set of sex hormones.

Lets see if I can explain this clearly enough on the first try.

So your question is, “If we take gender as being an expression of your persona, a set of traits that define one as male, female, or some combination of both then what function does a title/pronoun serve?”

Well, this is both weirdly complicated and absurdly simple. Gender isn’t just a set of personal traits, but also a social concept. In that framing, titles and pronouns are a signal that one gets from other people in society that tells them how their visible presentation is being perceived and interpreted.

One can relate this to the social distinction between the nobles and commoners of yore. Even though the only visible differences between the two groups are their attire, for a person that sees themselves as a member of the aristocracy to be spoken to as if they were a commoner can be a grave insult.

Likewise, most people find it discomforting when their innate sense of their own gender is contradicted by the people around them. Specifying our pronouns/titles when we introduce ourselves can provide context for folks who might have otherwise assumed someone’s gender incorrectly.

Florisboard on f-droid is pretty ok.

Ooh-de-lolly~

Quit ruining the joke. XD