I literally said “some people”, because there are certainly some who don’t care if people call them “they”. Like I straight up acknowledged that in my first sentence. My point was that it isn’t going to jive with everyone, and that maybe people should reconsider that safety blanket of “non gendering”.

How is “just using they/them for everyone” not “misgendering because it’s easier”? Because asking someone what their preferred pronouns are is too hard for many

I’m one of those people that prefers to have my name used instead of she/her or they/them, and it works quite well once people shake the cobwebs off their brains.

However, living your life as “he” while knowing you are “she” is full of moments that hurt. The English language may not require the distinction, but in practice it is how we define people. Why would you continue to hurt someone by using a pronoun that isn’t what they’ve described themselves as? It’s like someone who has gotten your name wrong, and no matter how often you correct them, they continue to call you the wrong name. Except it isn’t just one person, it’s a class of people that is filled with both those that hate your existence and those who refuse to understand it.

They/them feels just as wrong to some people with gendered identities as some people with non-binary identities feel with gendered pronouns. Especially if they are trans and binary, because it takes a lot to get to the point that people will correctly gender you.

What I’m saying is, you might feel like you’re not misgendering, but if someone is binary and you use a non-binary pronoun, you are misgendering.

Zhu founded Sperm Racing with Nick Small, 16, head of the business management consulting firm Stealth; Shane Fan, chief executive of the NFT pricing platform Waterfall; and Garrett Niconienko, former content strategist for the YouTuber Mr Beast.

Well, that explains a lot

Can you point me towards a source on the false flag theatrics? I assume you meant Trump, but all I can find is about a congressional campaign

Pickled fish is pungent enough to ruin the breakroom for the whole shift, and for some reason Terri insists on eating it every fucking night. Ron tried to cover the smell with his tropical smoothie vape, but now Jacklyn’s asthma is acting up so she went home. And it’s inventory tonight, we really needed everyone here

The families that had TV shows, podcasts, wrote books, and otherwise tried to monetize their Christianity are who are most snarked on. Sometimes they call someone a “minor fundie” if they just use IG or whatever to spread their views. The Bairds that I mentioned are Girl Defined. They wrote some books and guides on being a pure Christian teen or young adult woman, with some marriage advice sprinkled in. Now they’re married with kids and still trying to cling to what made them “famous”.

It started mostly with Quiverful families like the Duggars, and others that couldn’t get shows despite a ton of kids like the Rodriguez family. Most of these people do not take good care of their many children, the Collins kids have a lot of hospitalizations and injuries from neglect. But there’s also people with awful misogynistic views like The Transformed Wife who are snarked on.

I mostly was there for the wild admissions, like Bethany (Baird) Beal talking about using her husband’s toothbrush without his consent

The Bairds must be seething at this, spice was their (new) thing!

I’m a terrible human, but I deeply miss the Fundie snark sub reddit lol

He also said things about Trump that make me wonder why Trump thinks he’d be loyal.

I know someone who is the target demographic for Trump (white, evangelical, 50+ yo man), and refused to vote for him. However, he “couldn’t bring” himself to vote for Kamala.

It’s so stupid

In the space of about 300 years the captital was moved four times. The last capital, Harran, was only the captital for the last three or so years of Assyria, after the larger cities were burned to the ground by the Neo-Babylonians and the Medes.

It’s kind of amazing how fast Assyria declined from its peak

My 15yo cat has never learned how to use scratching posts or anything, despite having an assortment and a whole other cat to show her how. If I don’t trim them she gets stuck in things, and they grow really thick because the outer layers aren’t being shed. I’m assuming that’s more painful to walk/jump on than extending her claws to trim them.

It’s really not the same as declawing, which is like removing a joint from their fingers.

Cory Booker is doing a great job with his protest speech. I started watching while he was talking about social security, and I’m so glad someone is talking about our fears in congress.

This pains me to say this, because I am on disability, but I imagine the will be a lot of angry people when Musk destroys social security. I honestly wonder how the media will spin payment diaruptions to keep the populace complacent

This isn’t even an issue of legality in Trump’s world. Trump is upset that Waltz has the number of a journalist that Trump doesn’t like, which apparently is an indication of disloyalty. So it’s still weird that he hasn’t just fired the man

What’s weird is that it didn’t seem like he put any thought into firing people during his first term

Oh, that’s fantastic! Thank you, I will give it a try!

Does anyone know how to get endnote or a similar citation manager to work in Libre Office?

Someone get this commenter a Snickers, stat!

He made himself redundant, if the executive order folding the justicial branch into the executive is any indication