Your English is fine⊠I was just being deliberately obtuse. âFixed itâ could have referred to Satur9 or your use of pronouns. 
Thats the only one I struggle with (pronouns wise) taught from a younge age that âitâ is offensive so still dosnt feel right saying it but as with everything Iâm sure we will all become a custom to it.
Same here in Germany⊠we have er/sie/es, so equally to he/she/it, and calling someone âesâ would be massively offensive. Similar to reducing someone to a âthingâ, not even accepting that theyâre human in a way. So⊠sorry @Satur9 for calling you they/them quite frequently here, I will definitely try to swap to âitâ, but feel free to correct me if I happen to use the wrong one again 
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The thing is, in English the term âtheyâ is equivalent to âitâ in essence, and was a perfectly good way to refer to a person in a gender non-specific way, before gender pronouns came into the social spotlight.
In linguistics and grammar, a pronoun is a word or a group of words that one may substitute for a noun or noun phrase.
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Donât worry, I volunteered to be fixed can highly recommend.
Youâre working under the assumption that being human is desirable. Weâre terrible creatures. Iâll side with the artificial any day. Iâd prefer to be an animate object.
I never mentioned it so thereâs really no way you could have known. They is a perfectly acceptable default, and if someone gets upset about using it when you donât know the personâs preference then theyâre just trying to stir up trouble.
I donât usually communicate or enforce my preferred pronouns because there are plenty of people (like trans people) who have suffered for theirs. As someone who has had it very easy in life, enforcing mine would feel silly. Some platforms like the Discord require you pick though, and Iâm not going to lie. Iâm an it.
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Today is a holiday for me (MLK day) so naturally I decided to replace one of the door handles on my wifeâs jeep. (Salt air does a number on steel parts)
The door handles are well designed. But whoever designed the door could have designed better access holes. The exterior door handle has a six inch hole about 10 inches away from it, and a slightly larger hole near the bottom of the door. I look like I was trying to cut my wrists with a butter knife. Never mind that the door is actually thinner than my forearm in places.
Anyway, we now have a working driverâs side exterior door handle!
ETA it only took me 3 hours to install. I have at least learned how best to hurt myself for the next door handle.
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Donât wanna polute the endochron thread,
@Satur9
Has anyone looked at how the wifi power harvesting stuff compares to the beta voltiacs? Flesh might cause too much shielding possibly
Yeah, Iâve looked into wifi and Bluetooth power harvesting. Unfortunately they donât look viable.
- you need there to actually be 2.4GHz signals in the vicinity to capture, and youâre sapping power from them
- the capacitance of your skin will attenuate more more than 75% of the signal strength at 1mm depth
- the antennas need to be very large and flat, and tuning is normally somewhat difficult, but much more so in a body with belligerent and numerous parasitics.
If somebody wants to try it theyâre more than welcome. I just donât think it will work and couldnât in good conscience ask someone to shed blood for a test that I believe is doomed to failure.
Thatâs fair, I knew it wasnât going to produce much juice, just wondered how 25% of not much compared to a betavotic
Iâd be a willing test subject, just donât have the know how 
Though if anyone would like to send me some new prototypes, Iâd be more than willing to get them installed and test them out for you, especially if itâs got blinkies 
Iâm afraid to stir up a heated discussion again, and I hope it doesnât happen, but⊠why this self-hate? I read this frequently here, and so I feel like I just have to ask.
I have big problems with mankind as a whole myself, yes - mankind has done terrible things. We pollute and exploit the earth, are responsible for the extinction of whole species, canât even manage to get along with the rest of mankind that just happens to live across the next (artificial) border. âWeâ create stupid concepts like capitalism or religions to justify this behaviour. And yes, all this is really a problem and not a good business card for humans.
But still⊠everyone of us is human, and while I totally dislike âmankindâ, I just cannot say I hate every human being. I met wonderful people, warmhearted people, people with mindsets so unusual and interesting that they helped me evolve a bit. I met people who deciced to share their lives with me, no matter how difficult, strange and broken I may be. I met people who try to reduce the negative impact mankind has on the world, in tiny but important steps.
And while I hated myself for being part of âmankindâ for quite some time, I realized that I am also a part of small, nice communities, that I share similarities not only with war lords and people who torture animals, but also with those who do good. And I realized that it is a lot healthier to look at the âgood stuffâ and the positive capabilities we all, as humans, have, than to revel in self-hate just because other beings of the same species are behaving like shit.
After all, we are all just made of stardust - so I am a part of humanity, a part of the animal world, a part of the big forest I can see when I look out of the window, a part of the clouds, a part of the earth underneath my feet. And thatâs all neither âgoodâ nor âbadâ, that depends on what I make of it.
Obviously, just my humble opinion, I am just a bit surprised by the amount of times I read about someone hating to be human here. So I had to ask
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Since we are in this topic:
While I do appreciate the whole Queer Awareness movement, and do Appreciate that for some people being able to be finally called as they want is a huge stepâŠ
Here comes a controversial opinion:
This whole insane emphasis on pronouns is actually retrograde.
I mean⊠The real issue here is that Gender is an outdated and harmful concept.
The only real use for gender in a modern world is to achieve dominance by a âsuperiorâ caste over an âinferiorâ one.
As an example, âhaving ballsâ is a synonym of being brave/strong while âbeing a pussyâ is associated with being a coward/weak. (and Iâll not even say that just a flick to someoneâs nuts will send then crying while a pussy can withstand
incommensurable amounts of pain during labour).
I mean, this gender divide is literally the same thing as the black/white divide we now are so ashamed our ancestors did that we canât even use the word âblackâ to describe someone without being afraid of suffering whiplash for it. (used here intentionally).
But I honestly see no difference on the use of Gender as to the use of Race. (Both should be abolished concepts)
So the more we put focus on âpronounsâ, the more weâre strengthening the notion that Gender actually matters.
Also on a âfunnyâ note, Take a look at all those âgender pinsâ you see around. The ones which arenât handmade from scratch are usually mass produced by factories owned by people exactly like Donald âTrampâ⊠Thereâs some irony there, right?
Neopronouns on the other hand⊠love it!! ^^
Ok, controversial opinion out of the way (and please, do feel free to tell me to fuck off if you disagree.)âŠ
So back to the pronoun thing @amal said:
Technically, âitâ can be used when you address anything/person while being non-considerate of individuality. This should not be something âbadâ, but our human-centric society does love to nitpick itâŠ
While âTheyâ is a perfectly valid way to address an unknown/undefined entity, it is (or used to be) not a valid way to address a single, known entity. in which case âitâ should be the preferred gender-neutral pronoun.
We just corrupted âtheyâ into being used as a gender-neutral thingie either way.
but as quite a few British friends already told me (in multiple isolated occasions):
âThe problem of native english speakers is that we just use the words. We never had a real reason to actually try to understand what they mean.â
Also, totally agree with this:
Although it does drive me mad when Iâm in a group with people and someone asks me âwhatâs your preferred pronounââŠ
if I reply âwhichever between it to Fae/Faerâ, there is often someone who turns around and exclaims âthose are not valid pronounsâ.
What is even more shocking is that most of the times it happened to me was someone Trans who came with that âzingerâ. (Donât worry, I do not generalise it)
And since I would rather not cause a fuzz about it. Especially being aware that âdenying others of the validity of any variation to what you identify as your identityâ is a very efficient means of achieving oneselfâs own Identity⊠(Just look up basically any teenager development psychology studies), Then I just gave up replying altogether.
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I agree.
I donât hate humans or being human but I dislike the weaknesses and drawbacks of biology⊠And I think that even if you manage to upload yourself to silicon and become either an AI or a robot of some sort, youâd be just as human as before in many ways. At least if you actually succeed at doing this right.
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I feel trapped in my human brain. Always these stupid feelings and stuff⊠I wish I could just modify myself like I can modify software.
If software is not perfect you edit it, if hardware sucks you upgrade, changing yourself and other humans is between hard and impossible.
Humans are at a very early stage of evolution, barely functioning, brutal, greedy and dumb⊠just bad at humaning.
Humanity can become something great, but all humans alive are shitty.
Compared to what we could be, we are all shitty.
I wish I had more time right now, Iâll try to get back to this @Coma
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I love the fact that I can come here and read well thought out commentary on pronouns and being human.
As far as pronouns, I will use those that people express a preference for, but I wonât ask. It doesnât bother me that people have ânon traditionalâ preferences for pronouns but I suspect that people who do have a preference will let me know.
While there are times that I wish to be separate from the worst of humanity, there are other times that the best of humanity astounds me with its creativity, kindness and, for want of a better word âgraceâ.
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This never occured to me, you can generate secrets for secure chips badly, so they become predictable and thus maybe clone secure chips to implants.
We should probably add the lock to the product matrix :â)
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It doesnât matter how many âgoodâ people there are, even if it was 99%. I enjoy interacting with most humans I meet, but the nicest person in the world doesnât âoffsetâ someone elseâs transgressions. If the general trajectory of our society is decided by bad actors, then we have a bad society. Currently selfishness and greed dictate our course. I think itâs possible that we could do some course corrections, but I canât predict the likelihood of that happening. No person is âgoodâ while they allow evil to flourish.
Just looking at the good stuff is definitely better for your mental health, but solely highlighting the good only masks the bad. I suspect it might be so confusing to you because you live in a real country. The United States is a terrible place. Truly, truly terrible. It makes us hate it and ourselves.
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Thatâs nice and all. I think most people would agree with you. I donât think anybody would say âokay weâre there as a society so letâs flip a switch and deactivate race and gender as a conceptâ though 
. In the meantime diversifying those previously binary concepts into a spectrum really muddies the waters in a good way, because you know how much people love navigating ambiguity and nuance in their day-to-day! This is the way. Unfortunately change takes time, so weâll have to deal with this âwhat are your pronounsâ awkwardness for a few years before it becomes commonplace and we can move on to something better
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