cygnus

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[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

Not really. Mandarin for example has different characters for "he" and "she", but they are homophones ("ta", or "tamen" plural) so you can't tell who's who in spoken language. Hungarian doesn't use gendered pronouns and Finnish doesn't either (actually, now that I think of it, that may be where you borrowed yours - isn't it "hen" too?)

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 6 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Thanks for the context - I still intensely dislike the "political" reaction, but people can learn and change. I also don't like that Canadian arch-jackass Tobi Lutke is a major supporter of the project; he's a bit like Brendan Eich. I'll reserve judgment until the browser launches. I'll definitely be keeping an eye on it.

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

Interesting, thanks for the correction! I thought it was a medieval form that stuck around.

Masculine being the default was the case for English (and French) too, but not anymore, and certainly not by implying anything other than the masculine is "political".

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca -2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (5 children)

I’m hoping it’s a cultural misunderstanding due to his Swedish background.

Jag pratar inte Svenska but I know enough that it has gendered pronouns just like English. Actually, it's better than English in that it preserved the neuter singular pronoun (which used to be "thou" in English) so there's even less excuse in terms of linguistic background.

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 6 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

You don't consider it rather exclusionary to imply that only men use computers?

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 hours ago (6 children)

There was a pull request to change "he" to "they" somewhere in the code and the dev refused, saying people should leave "their politics" out of it. I wouldn't say it's transphobic specifically - it may also be misogynistic. Either way, it doesn't look good.

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 2 points 13 hours ago

Yeah, but it's cheaper than therapy.

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 1 points 18 hours ago

"Your honour, I can't be convicted of murder, because the victim was only dead after I killed her - she was perfectly fine before"

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I'm really torn about this comment - on one hand it's environment-destroying AI, but it also saves the need to watch a pointlessly long video that should have been an article and probably consumes as much compute as the AI summary.

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 63 points 1 day ago

First hands, then feet.

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

Well, I wouldn't say that with any certainty - there's certainly a chance the pulling off of the hijab was motivated by xenophobia, but even if it was, that only puts it a distant third behind the violent assault and the robbery. It shouldn't be the first thing mentioned in the headline because it implies having her hijab removed is worse than getting her store robbed and her head kicked in.

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Use of force makes this robbery by definition. Theft is done without coercion, usually without the victim's knowledge (pickpocketing for example).

 

The CPC's shocking inability to read the room continues. Everyone is trying to distance themselves from the US, and they come up with this?

 

Leopards will enjoy a well-deserved meal. A few choice morsels:

In the 2008 presidential election, more than 75% of Madawaska voters cast their ballots for Barack Obama, a Democrat. Last November, Donald Trump received just over 50% of Madawaska’s vote, becoming the first Republican presidential candidate to carry the town in decades.

“My father had 13 kids. We all lived and worked on the farm. We were born and raised Democrats because back then, in the ’40s and ’50s, the Democrats were the working man’s party,” Morneault said. “When I told my dad I’d turned Republican, he called me a turncoat. A traitor.”

Both Morneault and Campagna say their politics are informed by their religion. The bulk of their support for Trump comes from his opposition to abortion, and much of their disdain for Democrats comes from their support for LGBTQ+ rights.

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