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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 0x44 »

zeveb wrote: post #183
culi wrote: post #106

> Suspected members of the IRA, the Irish paramilitary organization, were also on the list. Oof the international politics always come out in things like this. Twitter also publicizes all of its suspensions and bans. There's a Wikipedia article with a list of all the notable suspensions since 2010. It's interesting to see that, contrary to popular narratives, many of the international groups banned were actually far-…

> The last notable ban was Paul Graham for simply sharing their Mastodon handle. Paul Graham is a man, not a plural entity.

Singular they predates singular you in the English language by about three hundred years.

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Post by pvg »

userbinator wrote: post #164
s5300 wrote: post #144

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gives LGBTQ individuals a bad name

You are way out of line here, you don't get to decide how other people present themselves online and tying their persona to their gender or sexual identity is an outright stereotype/slur.

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 WrtCdEvrydy »

l0b0 wrote: post #143
mananaysiempre wrote: post #32

From the accompanying (and linked) Daily Dot article[1]: > On the list were several notable figures, including the recently freed Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, alongside over 16 potential aliases for him. > [...] > Numerous names included aliases that were common misspellings or slightly altered versions of their names. For non-natively-Latin names, the US government is thorough to the point of hilarity in includi…

Shouldn't take much for this to overflow beyond 2**whatever names, which is probably going to be all sorts of fun for the 1970s software probably involved in processing this data.

... nah, it has error catching, it just won't process beyond that much.

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Post by SoftTalker »

eropple wrote: post #150
SoftTalker wrote: post #97

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No, and it’s frustrating for people who had it hammered into their reading and writing habits all through school. I can’t read a singular “they” without mentally tripping on it.

Singular-they constructions have been in English for literally hundreds of years.

Tell it to my English teachers from grades 3-12

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Post by CSSer »

tekla wrote: post #172
a_t48 wrote: post #18

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No - please do not use "it" as a catch-all pronoun for an unknown person. "It" is generally a dehumanizing term for a transgender person - though a minority use it as a pronoun (in those cases, go for it).

Bullshit. Why is a word that explicitly removes all identity connotations randomly dehumanization? Its one of the most neutral ways of indicating another, In the same way that "comrade" is.

I sympathize with questioning but this is pretty harsh. The explanation is fairly simple. “It” is how we refer to most inanimate objects and “subhuman” creatures in the English language. Debates on how appropriate it is to be addressed in this way or desire to be addressed in this way aside, it’s certainly not random or a stretch to imagine why some might be uneasy with the idea if they feel it somehow associates the person with the aforementioned categories.

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Post by jimmywetnips »

alwayslikethis wrote: post #168
rqtwteye wrote: post #42

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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.

My pet peeve about using "they" is it seems to imply an undue politeness or superiority. Plurality is an ancient metaphor for power, and many languages today have the same form for a plural "you" and a polite "you". Another example is the royal "we".

Did you know you is actually the plural and the singular is thou?

My problem with any of this switching around is that since it's used by a very small minority in a very forced way, until it becomes mainstream in the way 'you' has become mainstream, it's confusing af.

I've had multiple instances when a they was mentioned in a decision and I had to ask, " wait I thought we only had one designer on this ticket who else got added... Oh you're using singular they.. got it"

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Post by s1artibartfast »

ben_w wrote: post #31
throwntoday wrote: post #25

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I can't even remember people's names after they introduce themselves how am I meant to remember their pronouns as well.

Same way you learn nouns in German. (Die/der/das are genders).

What if someone wants something else?

If they demand dixyzx?

What if they demand custom declensions on verbs that involve them?

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Post by jhanschoo »

tekla wrote: post #172
a_t48 wrote: post #18

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No - please do not use "it" as a catch-all pronoun for an unknown person. "It" is generally a dehumanizing term for a transgender person - though a minority use it as a pronoun (in those cases, go for it).

Bullshit. Why is a word that explicitly removes all identity connotations randomly dehumanization? Its one of the most neutral ways of indicating another, In the same way that "comrade" is.

> explicitly removes all identity connotations randomly dehumanization

It's not randomly dehumanization, the neuter gender that the pronoun system preserves has always communicated inanimacy (read: nonhuman-ness) against the masc/fem animate genders. Etymologically, this distinction has been more primitive than the masc/fem distinction. One feature of the neuter gender is the use of the object form in languages that distinguish it from the subject form, hence he/him, she/her, but it/it.

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Post by tastysandwich »

As a software engineer even I sometimes can't help romanticising hacking in my imagination. But so many times it turns out to be just like some company left the front gate wide open and the "hacker" walked in and took a look around.

Eg when an airline had a public API where you could get someone's passport number and details just from their boarding pass https://mango.pdf.zone/finding-former-australian-prime-minis...

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