I always found this argument funny because how would you use pronouns for someone whose gender you do not know? They. It’s they. E.g. you are given the sentence: Jordan went to the store to buy apples. And you want to ask a followup question regarding how many, you reply: How many apples did they buy?

And that’s not how English was taught to me or 99℅ of the population (including English as a second or third language) 20+ years ago. Singular they was only used for situations where the gender (read as superficially visible sex) was factually unknown. You see a forgotten umbrella and never saw who forgot it: “Somebody forgot their umbrella.” As soon as you only got a glimpse on the person forgetting it you would make a guess about he/she.

You’re contradicting yourself here. You’re saying you were taught to use singular they when gender is unknown, yet claim that “How may apples did they buy” is wrong based on how you were taught English.

Does it matter whether gender is unknown or just unresolved? Not really, singular they is clearly intended to be a gender neutral pronoun and works in any situation where gender is ambiguous. It’s not wrong for people to adopt it as a pronoun to refer to themselves any more than it is for a trans man to adopt “he/his” or a trans woman to adopt “she/hers.”

At best your refusal to use it makes you sound like one of those people who gets offended at the word “literally” gaining a colloquial meaning that differs from its original definition. At worst, it presents as transphobia to claim “language purity” as the reason to be so adamantly against something that the trans community has largely adopted.

Only when viewed from the north.

I’m not sorry. We had it coming. A surge of white-hot atonement will be our wake up call. Hope for our future is now a stillborn dream.

I’m happy to see ARM gaining enough traction these days to be a solid alternative to x64. I’m happy to run it for server workloads but I’m skeptical it’s ready to replace my AMD PC desktop.

Granted, I haven’t been paying super close attention to the state of the art for the past few years, but from what I gather Apple was a major catalyst in the uptake of ARM for the desktop. Ironically, we have Intel’s abysmal Skylake QC to thank for that 😅

How is Linux ARM support these days? Any particularly outstanding distro that shines on ARM?

You understand it fine.

Intel thought they could get away with their usual MO of “make a leap forward in technology and slowly meter it out over time” forever. Now that we’re running into physics limitations, AMD has fully caught up and even sprinted past Intel for certain workloads.

I used to prefer Intel+nvidia for pc builds, but when the last generation of the Core lineup fell a bit flat I built a Ryzen+Radeon setup that’s been kicking ass for years.

I’m content to just let Intel hang themselves with their own rope.

Switching to Hannah Montana Linux made me hear The Best of Both Worlds again.

I think this is my favorite GOP quote of all time.

I may not have voted, but I know for a fact I would never vote for the diaper.

By not voting at all, you cemented Trump’s victory.

You don’t get to say “well I wanted it to be different” now.

Do better next time. Do something next time.

So… no coffee then?

Aside: I’m still annoyed with Mark Nottingham for trying to assassinate 418.

You’re blocking where they go with your hand. There are two slots right next to the sticker with the model number. Next to the fan on the left side.

Not all advocates of the 2nd amendment are Republican, or even conservative. The world isn’t black and white.

onn 4k googletv box is amazing. $20 and a launcher swap and it’s like ads don’t exist any more

This is from last year.

I don’t have to, I watched Planet of the Apes

This is neat but the selling point for me with the Pebble is the e-ink display. If repebble fails though, my next watch will be a Pine. Hopefully my Versa 2 holds on for a bit longer 🤞

…but you have to get whatever it is you’re transporting to the moon first

Probably useful for these kinda people

That’s not how golf works but I like where your head is at.

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