It depends. Local politics can be pretty touchy depending on the place. I feel like I have to be pretty careful and use the right incantations to stay safe in p

It depends. Local politics can be pretty touchy depending on the place. I feel like I have to be pretty careful and use the right incantations to stay safe in public (“hi I’m name, he/him pronouns, dialing in from unceded lands). I can’t advocate for LGBT people, have to advocate for LGBTQIA2S+ people, which isn’t a big deal but turns into quite the mouthful when you have to use it repeatedly and can’t be caught slipping. I can’t be caught calling an idea crazy or unhinged because that perpetuates stigma against people living with mental illness. The real issue is it turns some spaces into a bit of a knife fight situation, and it is very tempting to call others out for slip ups when you need to press an advantage or discredit a politically inconvenient perspective. But then there’s a whole prostration/apology dance that maybe neutralizes things? If you’re good at bullshit it doesn’t matter, but it can really grate on some people. Separately, at work, I had to add code to maintain a relationship between an owning context and child nodes. I’ve been stressed about it because I worry that “owner” might be one of the racist programming words, so tomorrow I’m probably going to do a commit to change to “originatingContext”. Not a big deal but add that up a few tens of thousands of times and you’re talking real dead weight loss for the economy. See GitHub changing from master to main. Not really problematic but also a cost without benefit.