FauxPseudo @ FauxPseudo @lemmy.world

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The Amish are not self-sufficient. They are self-reliant. And it takes a minimum of 50 families for them to have a functioning community. What you're describing is more of a frontiersman.

How many of those orders are Americans trying to get around import restrictions and tariffs?

I did.

Thank you. I've had some serious sleep issues lately and haven't been on as diligent. I fixed them all.

many trans spaces in Lemmy require listed pronouns,

That's great, for people in that ecosystem. I'm not there. I help when asked, I get in the way if there is a problem just like I do during domestic abuse extractions, but I don't go into trans spaces for the same reasons I don't go into black ones. I'm not wanted there unless I'm bringing a donation. And I'm too poor for that.

If you're using gendered pronouns for most cis people

That would be a problem. If it was something I did. Fortunately by being consistent that isn't an issue.

McDonald's quality control is actually pretty tight. Other than the onion issue recently it's been some time since their last outbreak. They are one of the few companies that could afford cti test every single product coming in if the FDA stopped all testing and the hit to profits of an outbreak is big enough to justify the testing.

It's your mom and pops that are the real risk. And Trump doesn't eat at those.

And figuring out their preferred pronouns isn't always easy. Can you trust the news source to have gotten it right? You end up getting stalkerish and seeing if they have made a public statement on their pronouns and you have to make sure it's current because gender can be fluid and maybe it changed since the story broke. And do you need to go revise your previous posts and comments to update the current status? Or do you go with evergreen and neutral because you definitely don't want someone digging through your history and seeing something different from whatever is current and then jumping on the cancel wagon without checking the calendar to see if it was appropriate at the time.

This isn't as simple as a lot of people want it to be. Going neutral isn't a slight. It's not misgendering. It's a way to avoid accidentally making an error even with the best of intentions.

My old roommate was trans. They went through multiple gender identities before settling on that. And every post I made mentioning them is still clean because I went with the gender neutral before they had ever made their first change.

For the better part of 30 years I have used a non-gendered language when possible. I was elated to find that "they" was originally, 13th century, a single pronoun instead of plural. I have probably used "one" way more times than is healthy.

~30 years ago I was living in/near Hillcrest, San Diego. Gay, trans, drag and everything else. I was online and people's genders were frequently unknown. In 1993 we already had the issues that On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.. Now we have AI which has no gender pronoun, I'm voting for "hal".

Point is that avoiding gendering text has been and will continue to be the safer option for general purpose writing. Some people will get bent out of shape that you didn't use gender specific language because the Narcissism of Small Differences means they must see you as the enemy even if you agree with them on 99% of things. Trying to have a generally non-discriminatory pronoun policy? That's a paddling. Your good intentions must be stopped because they aren't pure enough.

It sucks. Instead of focusing on the slander used by hate speech and the remediation sought by the one who was wronged we are totally lost in the weeds and focused on if we used the right three letters because avoiding the wrong three wasn't enough. It's thought police with the best of intentions but it's still thought police.

It's a Cow Tools reference from The Far Side.

That's a pretty healthy outlook. A little bit more therapy and you might even stop wanting revenge.

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Is this a secondary account for Duke Atreides or Dr Yueh?

Corporate sponsorship of luxury foods for people that can already afford to buy them.

Note for those reading this years from now. Eggs were the reproductive cells of birds. They would be eaten as a source of cheap protein and used in baked goods.

There are more kinds of bad margaritas in the Americas than are drempt of in hell. Everyone wants theirs to be unique and that is the path to ruin.

If they had come back and not had something resembling visual proof then it would have been conspiracy central. "Sure you did, we believe you."

He was dressed in brand new clothes. We didn't need the drinks to know the photo was staged.

Remember when Trump wanted Europe to pay for more of its own defense? Now they are fed up with them paying for more of their own defense.

Anonymous is anyone claiming to be Anonymous. It's kids, professors, CIA, FBI, FSB and anyone else that wants to put out something under that name.

What matters is if the information can be verified.

Probably going to be the first episode where they will need to beep out a swear word

This has a CVE score of 10. The next Security Now podcast episode is going to be lit.