To the best of my knowledge, the convention is based on history. In previous decades, neo-pronouns like xe were proposed to serve as gender-neutral alternatives to he and she, and since they were new coinages, they didn't have commonly known objective and possessive forms, so all three forms where listed.
The pattern was so established that it carried over to he, she and they even though their declined forms are commonly known.
I gave Jami a very extensive go with family, and sadly it didn't deliver a usable experience if your device is a mobile one or the network is not a fixed, high-speed connection.
I don't find automatic reposts ideal when I subscribe to communities, especially since there's an RSS feed so people can rely on that to receive updates.
I find it more worthwhile if another user shares a post intentionally, because they believe that particular post is relevant.
I'm going to take "favourite" at face value, i.e. that I actually like, not just that I am forced to use because the alternative doesn't exist (e.g. my bank's app or the post-office's app) or isn't viable (PDF editors on Android).
Libby, the lending library app. I could avoid it and stick to physical media and piracy, but it's a well-designed app with a decent catalogue and given that it's a library and not me purchasing DRMed files, I found the ethical proposition there tolerable.
Very much on point, and this is where the age-old tension between "a duty to come out" versus "a right to choose if and when" remains still relevant.
I do not want to take the position that there is such a duty, but I have to admit that I'm uneasy that our 2010s-present queer media does not even acknowledge the tension.
The article reads so generically, as if it's soul it isn't there and it's only forced to talk about this issue but it rather it didn't.
But the issue is existentially important. Seems like I'm not ready to write in which ways, but definitely it's not so clinical and buzzword-heavy like the article presents it.
Did I miss the line in the linked article where it says that one or more of the affected families actually previously supported the extreme-right government, or is your meme simply totally misplaced?
The text ends with an appeal to donate to KDE's fund-raiser, so they are asking for money.
Whether that makes it an advertisement and/or whether all advertisements are undesirable on a link-sharing board are independent questions. Personally, even if this is an advertisement by some reasonable definition, I did find it helpful enough and KDE got one conversion out of me because I downloaded one of their apps.
The KDE Itinerary's platform layout maps are a good sell. I'll try it next to DB Navigator on my next trip. KDE Apps on Android are a bit unstable, at least on my phone, but at least now they load. Last time I tried I could barely get them to even do that.
Homophobia was so widespread in the ambient environment for my entire life, so it's not easy to say. The earliest incident that I specifically remember which fits the textbook definition was during a high-school Physics class, were a teacher known to go on about her personal views on anything all the time once, and one day homophobia was on the menu.
The reason it didn't stink as much as other incidents was that a group of kids that recently found out I was gay immediately started challenging her (with very naive arguments, but their heart was in the right place).
Thanks, that's indeed a very good example of a meaningful contribution.
My employer did donate to a local NGO too last year (but not this year? not sure), but it wasn't visible externally. I think it would have been fine it it was publicised. Instead, what was publicised was a blogpost that honestly didn't say anything specific at all except for hitting a few keywords for good SEO.
For clarity, I refer to an emphasised line in OP where I very clearly write that it occurred to me that it doesn't have to be meaningless and that I'm looking for examples where the better-case scenario happened.
Why not just hop on twitter and search #seattlepride ? There’s probably (maybe?) tons of businesses who partook in that circus and hashtagged all about it…
I didn't have any reason to think that that city's pride month is particularly relevant to my question to go search it in advance.
Besides making people feel recognized and accepted, what do you think corporations should be spending their money on that would make potential customers feel better about themselves?
Before I asked my question, I was thinking if two things:
Companies, where relevant, can let us know what policies they enacted that make them stand out. E.g. maybe they are an employer that will give parental leave even to families not recognised by the law in that jurisdiction, or that they just finished an internal project that saw or their internal and external documents to stop collecting gender information where it's not justified and where it is justified, that they do it in an inclusive way.
They do something to mitigate anti-queer hatred in their area of operations that has an action plan backing it up. For example, where I live, there's this Emergency Entrance programme where companies can enrol and display a sticker identifying them as refuges for people targeted by right-wing extremists. It looks like just marketing too, but it actually comes with an action plan that those participating are supposed to implement which adds a more tangible layer to the display of symbols to show support. (EDIT: The idea is, if you are being harassed or attacked, participating venues will offer you shelter, they will jump in to de-escalate, and contact emergency services and the right-wing violence registry to handle the incident)
I basically take the position "you need a different, non-confusing term". Open Code is not such a term.
My view is shaped from the cultural realm more so than the software side, but I think the concern at the centre of it is transferable: it becomes extremely messy to capture the desired acceptable uses in the legal wording of an enforceable license. The outcome is that every use will have to be individually authorised.
I was helping run and occasionally held the editor role of a leftist magazine which we decided to make Free Culture under CC-BY-SA. Content using the Non Commercial clause gave us such headache, while even though we did not charge for the magazine nor we ran adverts, we accepted and strongly encouraged donations from our readers. That money went to pay off the printing costs (the NC clause already has a problem with that, but we assumed that would still be defensible), but the rest was also invested in other endeavours like public events, or eventually helping fund a community centre.
At that point, it didn't matter if creators with NC works released them under a supposedly free license. Our -in our opinion- non-for-profit use was still so tainted with money changing hands, that we still needed to seek their consent and get a written permission on top of the original license. At the end of the day, it was the same as working with All Rights Reserved works, where we get a special license from a sympathetic creator. The NC clause solved nothing for us.
That part is, I believe, the same with software licenses. We will end up having to get 1:1 license agreements for so many things because the new anti-commercial licenses will not be able to predict all the scenarios which are "false positives" for the anti-capitalist software developer (as in, some desirable re-uses will be blocked by the license, and individual licensing agreements will be needed often).
My focus would be to fix the loopholes that go counter to the copyleft spirit in AGPL, if such loopholes are identified, and perhaps get a more reliable organisation handle the AGPL definition in the future.
It's quite shitty that despite all the heart-warming stories and potential to make folks feel less alone, my first thought was how this self-disclosure on a map can endanger said people.
EDIT: I already found a pin in the city near where I grew up that I'm pretty confident I know who wrote.
EDIT2: If I was creating this website, I would try to think of ways to use coarser locations or maybe display local stories in a way that is disconnected from the dropped pins.
Our new CDU-led government is much worse than I expected; analysts earlier where saying that CDU basically conceded almost everything to SPD but Senate actions refuted this. This is definitely a conservative government implementing a regressive political programme.
So yes, I'm upset, but will I uproot myself because of a three-year setback? No, it can't work like that. In the previous place I lived I was politically active for 12 years before I conceded and left. And I was a younger person with less to give up than now.
It's not on the cards for me to be a nomad, giving up on my life every time an election doesn't go my way. It has to get much worse than three years of CDU rule.
To the best of my knowledge, the convention is based on history. In previous decades, neo-pronouns like
xewere proposed to serve as gender-neutral alternatives toheandshe, and since they were new coinages, they didn't have commonly known objective and possessive forms, so all three forms where listed.The pattern was so established that it carried over to
he,sheandtheyeven though their declined forms are commonly known.