@freemo that must be the most beautiful thing I have seen in a long, long time. Fills me with hope to see that some parents are willing to change their attitude out of love for their child's well-being. Just wish that was much more common.
This was a beautiful exhange seeing a mother go from angry to accepting their child's gender expression. I love it.
@freemo All the parts needed to build this keyboard, in one page. Some options regarding case desired.
Kinda cool, Awesome version of Skeletor:
And then, this comes across my eyeballs.
Goodness, it's pretty. I am posting a resized, smaller version here.
Full size original: https://hackers.town/system/media_attachments/files/001/490/157/original/c6809fe2a6d6e103.png?1575300731
Interesting fact of the day: Webster's Dictionary in 1828 defined gender in much the same way as modern liberals define it, that being, ones expression of pronouns and does not strictly adhere to any sense of sex. In fact the dictionary definition at the time goes into some detail on that point.
So strictly speaking assigning ones gender based on preferred pronouns or expression of femininity/masculinity is in fact the traditional and historic usage of the word.
Here is a word-for-word copy of the text of the definition for gender in Webster's 1828 dictionary:
In grammar, a difference in words to express distinction of sex; usually a difference of termination in nouns, adjectives and participles, to express the distinction of male and female. But although this was the original design of different terminations, yet in the progress of language, other words having no relation to one sex or the other, came to have genders assigned them by custom. Words expressing males are said to be of the masculine gender; those expressing females, of the feminine gender; and in some languages, words expressing things having no sex, are of the neuter or neither gender
@Vamp898@social.tchncs.de Thats a common fallacy, you absolutely can.
If it is not known whether some assertion is a fact or not to a group of people, then people hold opinions as to what is the fact and what is not.
So in short determining what is or is not a fact is an opinion.
In this case we are dealing with something a bit unique though. In 2000 pluto absolutely was a planet, because the definition of planet was choosen in such a way to be inclusive of pluto. Some group decided to redefine that word, which is fine, but it doesnt change anything in the physical world.
@pschwede Claiming Pluto is not a planet is just body shaming for planets!
Yee, we are rocking it man!
#QOTO just recently surpassed the 5,000 user mark! WOOT!
I want to extend a warm welcome to all the new STEM professionals and STEM hobbyists to our ranks!
🎉 🎉 🎉 🎉 🎉
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Jeffrey Phillips Freeman
Innovator & Entrepreneur in Machine Learning, Evolutionary Computing & Big Data. Avid SCUBA diver, Open-source developer, HAM radio operator, astrophotographer, and anything nerdy.
Born and raised in Philadelphia, PA, USA, currently living in Utrecht, Netherlands, USA, and Thailand. Was also living in Israel, but left.
Pronouns: Sir / Mister
(Above pronouns are not intended to mock, i will respect any persons pronouns and only wish pronouns to show respect be used with me as well. These are called neopronouns, see an example of the word "frog" used as a neopronoun here: http://tinyurl.com/44hhej89 )
A proud member of the Penobscot Native American tribe, as well as a Mayflower passenger descendant. I sometimes post about my genealogical history.
My stance on various issues:
Education: Free to PhD, tax paid
Abortion: Protected, tax paid, limited time-frame
Welfare: Yes, no one should starve
UBI: No, use welfare
Racism: is real
Guns: Shall not be infringed
LGBT+/minorities: Support
Pronouns: Will respect
Trump: Moron, evil
Biden: Senile, racist
Police: ACAB
Drugs: Fully legal, no prescriptions needed
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