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Post by throwntoday »

Arnavion wrote: post #123
throwntoday wrote: post #86

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I was split between で or は, forgot all about が. Funnily enough I think omitting the particle altogether would have made more sense. Edit: After further reading は seems to work fine. In this case I think both work but が places greater emphasis on the german language being the thing not understood. で however was totally incorrect :P. But due to the tacit nature of informal Japanese I think the context already informed…

Yes, people will understand what you meant if you used wa.

I don't think it's a matter of people simply understanding what I meant to say, it's grammatically correct from what I have gathered.

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Post by wl »

dragonwriter wrote: post #105
TazeTSchnitzel wrote: post #100

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I once saw someone who goes by “it” explain that it liked “it” because it has a sort of ungendered quality to it, whereas “they” is instead gender- neutral . It explained that we use “they” to refer to humans because we assume humans are gendered, and the implied gender is the quality that makes “they” (or for that matter “he” or “she”) implicitly refer to a human. But it rejects the notion humans must be gendered, o…

Grammatically, “they” and “it” are the same gender, they differ in number. Semantically, the difference in their singular use (prior to very recent evolutions) is that they was rarely used for specific known humams, and it was never uses for humans (but frequently for living things with sex and to whom grammatical gender corresponding to sex could also be used, in cases where the sex was unknown or unimportant, simil…

"They" is animate common. "It" is inanimate. To the extent that English has grammatical gender, they're different.

Re: How to own an airline in 3 easy steps and grab the TSA nofly list along the way

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Post by atlasunshrugged »

personjerry wrote: post #3

> with pretty much no skill required Seriously? I know like none of the tools or terms they used, like wtf is shodan? In general the author doesn't seem to follow the white hat guidelines, and I'd be worried what they've done is quite illegal (possibly on a federal level if the nofly list is so secret)

As a nontechnical person who enjoys this stuff, also wasn't familiar. Anyone have a good rec for a starter guide for a nontechnical person to be able to do similar research (albeit in ideally more of a white hat approach)?

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Post by landemva »

jeffchien wrote: post #38
calvinmorrison wrote: post #13

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Top secret stazi lists should absolutely be shared. It's why we have 'we have right to know' laws, so the government can't just lock people up in a jail and disappear them.

I think you may not be reading the parent comment correctly. They're saying that those on the list have a right to privacy, therefore outright leaking the list is wrong. Being able to find out whether or not you are on the list is not incompatible with maintaining others' right to privacy.

> those on the list have a right to privacy, therefore outright leaking

Those Americans on list have a right to question their accuser in court before a right (to travel) is restricted. When did we agree to suspend due process, 14th amendment?

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Post by astrange »

Arnavion wrote: post #126
astrange wrote: post #81

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No, it's fine as is. I think you have は and が backwards but neither of them imply ドイツ語 is "doing something" even though it's the subject of the sentence. It's a pro-drop language so meanings that don't make sense are just excluded.

>I think you have は and が backwards I do not.

は is not the "subject", it's the "topic", which is different.

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Post by burnished »

recursive wrote: post #60
eli wrote: post #56

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I wish everyone was just named James. I had a good friend named James and it’s much easier to call everyone that than to learn a bunch of individual names.

It makes sense to me that individuals should have names. Pronouns tend to be much less information dense, and are used as shorthand. It doesn't make sense to me that pronouns should capture gender, as opposed to hair color, height, or age.

Well, it certainly is a much stronger disambiguater than those other signals. Dividing a population in half is a pretty powerful technique.

Though now that I think about it age is also potent - you get the same rough division w.r.t relative age (younger vs older than the speaker), and you can divide the population roughly into quarters with ease and accuracy. Do miss and ma'am count as pronouns here? They code for age as well as gender

Hair color and height dont really have the same sort of dividing power broadly speaking.

Still, your line of thought there about what a pronoun should capture is intriguing.

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Post by subroutine »

anigbrowl wrote: post #120
subroutine wrote: post #37

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If someone was on a no fly list and they wanted the general public to know, they could just put it out there themselves. No? This seems more likely to be used as a form of public shaming than a way to expose injustice.

It's not like the federal government sends you a letter to tell you about it and what to do if you have an issue with it. While you raise a valid concern, I think it's a lot more likely to function as the basis of a class action suit - a sufficiently plausible and timely piece of evidence that would move a court to compel proper discovery.

That's actually exactly what they do.

If you are a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident, and the TSC determines that you are on the No Fly List, DHS TRIP will send you a letter informing you of your status on the No Fly List and providing the option to submit and receive additional information.

https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/what-do-if-you-think-y...

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Post by girvo »

rqtwteye wrote: post #42
googlryas wrote: post #11

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I wish we just used “they” always. I am fine with people not wanting certain pronouns but I find it very tedious to track different pronouns in my head. Especially in a professional setting gender shouldn’t matter at all.

I basically _always_ use "they". Doesn't even feel that awkward with the right sentence structures.

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dangerlibrary wrote: post #74
javajosh wrote: post #69

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I don't disagree with you in principle, but this take ignores the boots-on-the-ground reality for trans and nonbinary people. Trans and nonbinary people are using this as a shibboleth to determine whether they can feel safe around you. You are not someone who wishes nonbinary or trans people harm, but unfortunately, there is a large segment of the population that does. The act of using someone's preferred pronouns is…

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