Andrew

It’s only gender neutral when used as a direct address, as an alternative to “y’all” when you’re actually talking TO people:
“Hey guys!” or “Later, guys!”.

When you’re talking ABOUT people - “I saw some guys at the store” - it’s not neutral. In that case you’re essentially saying “I saw some dudes at the store.”

It’s basically the difference between using it as a greeting or direct address versus using it to DESCRIBE people. As a direct address in most of the US it is absolutely considered gender neutral. I’ve come around to “y’all” though :)

Edit: more precisely&concisely–
Vocative case = gender-neutral
Regular plural noun = masculine

Wait, you’d prefer a rando barrel plug to a standard USB-C PD?? Why?

Long ago, pre-internet I read this sci-fi book “Star Chase” by Brian Royal that I found at the library. (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1520203)

I later looked it up and found out it was a blatant plagiarism of “Escape Across The Cosmos” by Gardner F Fox.
(https://bookwyrm.social/book/1370737/s/escape-across-the-cosmos)

Even the authors name was faked!

🤔 it’s unclear if your comment is serious, or satire poking fun at those who claim everything is antisemitic. And if it’s serious then it seems to be equating money-hungry zombies with Jews, an antiseptic trope in itself. Or maybe this is just some next level trolling that went over my head??

Not a medical procedure, but take the time to reevaluate your medical plan before open enrollment! Look at the cheaper plans and see how much you’d save in premiums. It might be greater than the difference in max out of pocket. And if you get a qualified “high deductible” plan you can even contribute the savings to an HSA that you get to rollover and keep forever into retirement, without ever paying taxes on it.

There are always people claiming Organic Maps or other OSM apps are perfect replacements for GMaps and I’m just curious what other tool these people were using for location based searches. Because it apparently wasn’t GMaps?

Full article: https://archive.ph/2024.08.23-021803/https://www.newscientist.com/article/2444394-part-of-the-atlantic-is-cooling-at-record-speed-and-nobody-knows-why/

Key points:

Temperatures in that part of the Atlantic cooled off more rapidly than at any time in records extending back to 1982. This sudden shift is perplexing because the strong trade winds that normally drive such cooling have not developed.

“We’ve gone through the list of possible mechanisms, and nothing checks the box so far.”

“It’s the latest episode in a string of events for a climate system that’s gone off the rails for a number of years,”

I have this but it’s no good for consent-or-pay, unfortunately.

I think Geometric weather is abandoned but Breezy Weather is a newer fork that’s maintained. I recommend it!

Makes so much more sense than a Cybertruck or Ford Lightning!

No paywall:
http://archive.today/2023.12.09-105020/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/09/business/energy-environment/two-three-wheel-electric-vehicles.html

@derivator wow it would be amazing if Infinity and Apollo could just plug into Lemmy using this proxy. Right now Jerboa is alright, but I’d immediately switch to Infinity.
#lemmy #Reddit