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floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Holy shit… You can have domains that end in .dog?

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  • pieland@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    and .pizza, .gay

    there are lots of fun ones

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  • borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    You can have domains that end in even more stuff if you switch to an alternative dns root like opennic.org.

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    • pieland@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      this is so interesting. thanks for sharing!

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• stray@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  “It” is personally my favorite neutral pronoun, but it has so much cultural baggage attached to it that it doesn’t feel like a viable option. Why does a squirrel or a ficus or a robot get to be called “it” by default, but not a person? It isn’t fair.

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  • Venat0r@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    it’s generally used to describe non-sentient things…

    Also, using only it gets confusing when trying to determine what “it” refers to in a given sentence…

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    • stray@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      What’s not sentient about a squirrel?

      Can you give an example of how “it” is confusing? Like “It met its friend for coffee,” sounds fine to me. “It put on a warm jacket since it was cold out,” uses multiple senses of the word, but it still reads fine to me.

      “They” is mildly confusing in narratives because it can be hard to distinguish whether one or multiple characters are being described, but it’s not an insurmountable problem.

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      • Venat0r@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I think it might be most confusing when someone talks about someone who uses “it/its” pronouns: my initial assumption would be that they’re trying to dehumanise it unless I was already previously aware of it’s pronown preference.

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      • Venat0r@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Can you give an example of how “it” is confusing?

        aria.dog/barks/on-being-a-thing/

        😅

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      • Venat0r@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        that’s a good point, I think it depends on the person, but some people tend to just assume the squirrels gender in most instances rather than saying “it”.

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    • JesusChristLover420@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      You should have answered with more empathy for its feelings. Jesus Christ told us to love our neighbours.

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  • JesusChristLover420@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It’s your choice. Do what you want. Damn the haters to sheol.

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    • stray@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The haters are the root of the problem, but it’s not like I’m not using it/its because I’m afraid of being scolded or made fun of. It’s unfortunately tied to dehumanization in the sense that not being human is a bad thing, and that makes it fun for bigots to say and uncomfortable for good people to say. I lament the situation, but I also accept the way it is.

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• JesusChristLover420@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Based based based based based

  …Waow

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• yogurtwrong@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  What a tasteful website design

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