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Re: Trans "ally" creep knows developer is a male, refers to him as "they" anyway

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On 2025-02-07 1:11 p.m., RonB wrote:
> On 2025-02-07, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
>> On 2025-02-07 3:06 a.m., RonB wrote:
>>> On 2025-02-06, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
>>>> On 2025-02-06 11:47 a.m., DFS wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> https://news.itsfoss.com/running-linux-in-pdf/
>>>>>
>>>>> Early in the article and later notes the software developer is named
>>>>> Allen, but never once says he or him.  Instead says 'they' several times.
>>>>>
>>>>> Believe you me, I blasted this creep.
>>>>
>>>> And you've just gotten an answer as to why I went back to Windows. The
>>>> experience is extremely disheartening. I don't want to use Linux if it
>>>> gives these child predators the impression that I approve of them in any
>>>> way.
>>>
>>> You don't have to go to Open Source sites to find this pronoun stupidity. I
>>> wonder if DuFuS will be as "forthcoming" when he finds the same garbage on
>>> pro Microsoft or Apple sites? Something tells me that the silence will be
>>> deafening.
>>>
>>> At least Microsoft's 365 "Woke checker" is still optional (it appears)...
>>>
>>> https://blogs.illinois.edu/view/25/520413787
>>>
>>> Microsoft Word's Wokeness checker is asleep on the job
>>>
>>>      Microsoft has added a diversity checker to its Office 365 spelling and
>>>      grammar tool (h/t Tony Thorne (@tonythorne007). You can find it by going
>>>      to Word’s Preferences menu. Click the Spelling and Grammar option, then
>>>      Grammar & Refinements. If you check the appropriate boxes in the
>>>      drop-down menu, Word will scan your writing for age and cultural bias,
>>>      ethnic slurs, gender bias, gender-neutral pronouns, gender-specific
>>>      language, racial bias, sexual orientation bias, and socioeconomic bias.
>>>      The goal is to replace the sensitivity readers that some publishers use
>>>      to vet manuscripts for conscious or unconscious bias and anything else
>>>      that might offend an audience.
>>>
>>>      I unleashed Microsoft Woke, as its right-wing critics might call it, on
>>>      some passages about gendered and genderless pronouns to see whether it
>>>      could read for inclusivity better than a human can.
>>> ...
>>>
>>> Follow the link (above) if you have any real interest in this crap — it
>>> might help to also have a strong stomach.
>>
>> Since Microsoft serves the legal and financial communities, it doesn't
>> have a choice but to keep such idiocy optional. While businesses and
>> academia can afford to subscribe to this woke stupidity, the other are
>> number-based and don't care whether you would prefer to be addressed as
>> "ma'am" when they refuse to give you a mortgage because your credit
>> score is complete shit. They also don't care if you think you're a woman
>> after you've raped a dozen of them.
> 
> Actually the financial companies are dropping this Woke DEI crap. They're
> finding out it's getting in their way of hiring competent people. I wonder
> how long it will take for Microsoft and Apple to figure that out?

I'm wondering the same thing. However, it seems that they will only drop 
it once they stop getting government kickbacks for subscribing to that 
garbage. I imagine that will change soon now that a normal human being 
is in office again. He's also just removed Pedo Joe's security 
clearance, so you know he's not going to take it easy on the child 
molesters this time around.

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Trans "ally" creep knows developer is a male, refers to him as "they" anyway DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> - 2025-02-06 11:47 -0500
  Re: Trans "ally" creep knows developer is a male, refers to him as "they" anyway Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-02-06 11:54 -0500
    Re: Trans "ally" creep knows developer is a male, refers to him as "they" anyway DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> - 2025-02-06 18:41 -0500
      Re: Trans "ally" creep knows developer is a male, refers to him as "they" anyway CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-02-06 19:30 -0500
        Re: Trans "ally" creep knows developer is a male, refers to him as "they" anyway RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-02-07 08:18 +0000
          Re: Trans "ally" creep knows developer is a male, refers to him as "they" anyway CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-02-07 09:22 -0500
            Re: Trans "ally" creep knows developer is a male, refers to him as "they" anyway RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-02-07 18:20 +0000
              Re: Trans "ally" creep knows developer is a male, refers to him as "they" anyway CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-02-07 20:27 -0500
                Re: Trans "ally" creep knows developer is a male, refers to him as "they" anyway RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-02-08 07:46 +0000
  Re: Trans "ally" creep knows developer is a male, refers to him as "they" anyway CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-02-06 12:14 -0500
    Re: Trans "ally" creep knows developer is a male, refers to him as "they" anyway Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-02-06 12:30 -0500
      Re: Trans "ally" creep knows developer is a male, refers to him as "they" anyway CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-02-06 13:00 -0500
        Re: Trans "ally" creep knows developer is a male, refers to him as "they" anyway Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-02-06 13:25 -0500
          Re: Trans "ally" creep knows developer is a male, refers to him as "they" anyway rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-02-06 20:58 +0000
          Re: Trans "ally" creep knows developer is a male, refers to him as "they" anyway CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-02-06 18:09 -0500
            Re: Trans "ally" creep knows developer is a male, refers to him as "they" anyway RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-02-07 08:16 +0000
              Re: Trans "ally" creep knows developer is a male, refers to him as "they" anyway CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-02-07 09:19 -0500
                Re: Trans "ally" creep knows developer is a male, refers to him as "they" anyway RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-02-07 18:14 +0000
                Re: Trans "ally" creep knows developer is a male, refers to him as "they" anyway CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-02-07 20:24 -0500
                Re: Trans "ally" creep knows developer is a male, refers to him as "they" anyway RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-02-08 07:43 +0000
    Re: Trans "ally" creep knows developer is a male, refers to him as "they" anyway RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-02-07 08:06 +0000
      Re: Trans "ally" creep knows developer is a male, refers to him as "they" anyway CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-02-07 09:18 -0500
        Re: Trans "ally" creep knows developer is a male, refers to him as "they" anyway RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-02-07 18:11 +0000
          Re: Trans "ally" creep knows developer is a male, refers to him as "they" anyway CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-02-07 20:18 -0500
            Re: Trans "ally" creep knows developer is a male, refers to him as "they" anyway RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-02-08 07:40 +0000

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