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by zzzkkk 2y ago
Is this intended as sarcasm? Markdown renders to html, it's an authoring syntax that happens to be readable in it's "code" state. How would it solve email? The real issue is bespoke rendering engines instead of just usin
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11 points by zzzkkk 3y ago|3 comments
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by zzzkkk 4y ago
Empathy is pretty important to me and as I understand it's the primary motivation of folks looking to shift communication in public code repositories towards more inclusive language, actually. It's remarkable that asking for th
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by zzzkkk 4y ago
A very small % of the population identifies outside of the conventional gender bounds. If anyone is getting fired, it's for not respecting the preferences and wishes of their coworkers, which seems quite reasonable. If someone refused
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by zzzkkk 4y ago
Forgive my ignorance, why would that be a good FAQ item?
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by zzzkkk 4y ago
Where does it say this is language is inherently bad? I'm not sure it does. As members of a software-focused community, can't we look at existing solutions that work okay and strive to make them even better? We all do this quite
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by zzzkkk 4y ago
> But how far is too far? This could be an interesting question that I think is okay to ask? How far is too far when it comes to existing gendered language? Is it okay to ask that question too? Your examples/jokes are odd, you&#x2
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by zzzkkk 4y ago
> Does there become a point where the inclusive language rules starts to exclude a group of people who feel it's too much? If it does, is that perhaps okay? Would this not just be a pendulum swing in the opposite direction from the
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by zzzkkk 6y ago
> Even the most hardcore anti-capitalists have to give respect to how the combination of capitalism and technology has worked to lift most of the world out poverty and provided us with the security and comfort only kings enjoyed just a f