Hope

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[–] Hope 4 points 4 months ago

I live not too far from my inlaws. They have PG&E, we have our city's public utility. Despite using about a third the power we do, their electric bill is over double ours. (On top of that, their water bill is 5x ours, but that's not PG&E's fault. It still shows how much better public utilities are than private ones, though.)

[–] Hope 22 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

One could be a annoying and insist that until John Quincy Adams no president had any non-foreign-born parents.

But more seriously, both of Andrew Jackson's parents were born in Northern Ireland.

Edit: and Van Buren's parents were Dutch.

[–] Hope 12 points 4 months ago

Each level looks like something I'd expect an undergrad to have at least seen before to be honest.

[–] Hope 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] Hope 26 points 5 months ago (2 children)

As to not having neopronouns "back in my day", a lot of neopronouns are surprisingly old. Ze is from the 1860s, hir from the 1920s. Even relatively new ones like xe have been around since the early 70s.

And they may be pointless for you, but they're valuable to some people so why be rude about it?

[–] Hope 2 points 5 months ago

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[–] Hope 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Swamp water? Like my pool? A pool completely overrun with green algae.

[–] Hope 2 points 5 months ago

That page looks to only show polls and has the actual model paywalled?

[–] Hope 48 points 5 months ago

He also LARPs as his own son complaining about his mother, which is definitely also weird.

[–] Hope 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

My friend group did a video game Secret Santa back in January. Incidentally, I think 6 out of the 7 games had some form of pronoun choice, with like 4/7 directly letting you choose and the other two being a character selector with fixed pronouns for the characters. Cassette Beasts was the first game opened, and there were quite a few references to that one streamer yelling about pronouns.

[–] Hope 5 points 5 months ago

I have a coworker who swears by it, particularly for C development.

[–] Hope 23 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

We have a product at work whose acronym is a subset of the letters of YIPPIE, so our help chatbot ends every message with "yippie" with the acronym capitalized. It's absolutely adorable and makes me have an emotional connection to our documentation.

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