I just want to be correct, but it still seems like a white person who writes for the NY Times idea and not universal for all black people, and that seems.... cringey.

I got myself into a tizzy last year as I was editing a document and it was on a person who uses they/them pronouns, and I wasn't sure if I should use "themself" or "themselves" as themself isn't a word, but plural also doesn't sound right. Then I realized a person who uses they/them probably cared less about this than I do.

This was a decision that I think the NY Times made to start capitalizing, and I've never understood why, but editors of books and articles all use it now, I saw it in a Stephen King story recently.

Language does change, a book by the trans writer Jennifer Finney Boylan about her own transition published in 2001 used transgendered through the book simply because that's what was used then, and now it's proper to say transgender; Jenny's book was released for an anniversary edition and she addressed that in the foreword, that she had left it as written but with some hesitation that people would be offended, which I think would be silly because it was never a slur, it simply was the language then, and before that trans people were called transsexual, and that also wasn't a slur. So terminology can and does evolve, but it's just so random in the case of capitalization and nobody has ever explained why.

My coworkers are almost entirely the same sex as me, and I'm not into it, so I never have this problem, but someone I follow on Facebook for reasons I can't remember posted a private detective video of his wife cheating on him, and someone in the comments sympathized and said he and his wife had split after he discovered she was cheating with two of his employees of the business he owned. Talk about shitting where you eat.

Just please don't bring back the metal seatbelt that branded you in the summer months.

I'm not American. I honestly just wondered because the first time I saw this used it was the NY Times saying they were doing it from now on.

I know, I am not very comfortable.

I was looking at weather reports that year for like, northern Quebec, to see if maybe I could move there for the summer and hopefully not get eaten by black flies.

However so far it's been pretty temperate here this year.

I just only seem to think it came from some idea from the NY Times, and I don't think anyone says White, so it just seems, off kilter I guess I'd say. Of course I will say whatever is proper, but it's just, odd.

I do too! A place I would not be excited about visiting suddenly seems so appealing simply because it's there.

The amount of shit a delivery driver puts up with? They certainly deserve it. Good on them, we should all be well paid, and thinking otherwise is Stockholm syndrome.

How is this not enforced by the court that ordered it? It should be 30 days and you end up in prison.

I came to Lemmy from reddit and I find it an incredibly nice place to be, full of polite discussions and fun posts. I haven't seen any of what you're saying.

Picture conservative white southern men who never got their GED trying to frantically Google what a VPN is, because they're missing their interracial porn before the Klan meeting that night.

My union dues last pay? 30 dollars. My union just got the government of Ontario, the shitbag conservatives, who tried to illegally withhold raises from us, and won. My union guarantees I get a set wage because they bargain for it.

Someone is pearl clutching at me on Bluesky for saying how delighted I am, and saying how this guy has a family. Well so so the people he denies health care to, especially this kid.

Nobody says "what about their kids" when a poor single parent stealing food to live ends up in jail and their kids in foster care.

By bombarding her with antivaxxer propaganda and threatening her with divorce if she got it sadly.

Grown or not, some people are very much under their spouse's control because of money and other vulnerability.

And lest you think this is exaggerating, this guy was released after his EIGHTH arrest for stalking.

https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/plano-man-8th-arrest-stalking-harassing-smu-students/