The guy is German, and the German language traditionally uses generic masculine pronouns, although that has become a big political issue in the past years. Some new gender-neutral forms have developed, but some of them have even been banned by the "center"-right-wing clowns in two state governments, and it's all a bit of a mess. The guy probably thoght "they" in English is a similarly experimental concept, and while it's still dumb and he should just try to be as inclusive as possible, it's probably not a matter of him purposefully excluding women from the documentation.

The best part is the guy telling his viewers to not be creative with their music but make exactly what people want to hear. Really shows how people are just bullshitting art, and the bullshit generator is exactly the right tool for that.

Are people here reading the whole mastodon thread?

it is 200% okay to bully them into submission

Sounds rather toxic, and also counterproductive.

Well, German has almost as many vowels as English and we're doing just fine I think. On the other hand, French orthography is similarly fucked up although it's a direct descendent of Latin and they don't even have any weird sounds they can't write concisely. So I think its just a matter of trying.

The english language badly needs an orthography reform

I read it like russia sabotaged the PMs own arson attempt

Garbage take. Just fill it into a glass jar at home. Nobody cares about the 0.03g of flour lost leaking out during transport.

Is there any science behind this or is it just some guy pulling stuff out of his ass that he feels people can relate to?

"Arbitrary scale at which water freezes" is such an annoyingly dumb representation of the Fahrenheit scale, that even as a European I feel the need to defend it.

In dem Fall meinen sie wahrscheinlich Inhaltliche und nicht sprachliche Zensur. Ich könnte mir schon vorstellen, dass auch sonst Werbetafeln abgelehnt werden, die als zu geschmacklos bewertet wurden. Das ist doch im Grunde das gleiche wie bei YouTube und Tiktok, wo alles demonetarisiert wird, wenn man nicht "unalive" statt "dead" sagt.

Meine Abneigung gegen die Ströer-Werbetafeln ist eigentlich ein bisschen größer als die gegen das Plakat. Ich hab nur auch keine Lust auf getarnte Wahlwerbung in Form von Ragebait.

Naja. Das Volt-Plakat wurde ja nicht des Inhalts (den es eh nicht hat) sondern der Sprache wegen abgelehnt. Die von Ströer wollen halt ihren weichgespülten Wohlfühl-Infotainment-Quartsch an den Mann bringen und da ist das Plakat nicht ad firendly genug. Wenn man sich als Partei sonen durchschaubaren Marketing-Stunt leistet wie dieses Plakat, ist es ein bisschen albern, sich dann darüber zu beschweren, wenn der kalkulierte Effekt eintritt.

Lol they just copy-pasted the name "graptemis geographica" to three different species of turtles

That's a bit of a false dichotomy. What media we enjoy and what activities we are passionate about is partly a product of capitalist ideology. So to get out of that, it doesn't help to pursue mindless enjoyment.

Irgendwie ziemlich merkwürdige Fragen, die manche Themengebiete komplett ignorieren (Digitalpolitik) und zu anderen 3 mal irgendwelche super konkreten Maßnahmen abfragen ohne dass man genau beurteilen kann, wie das am Ende funktionieren soll. Habe nicht das Gefühl da eine Wahlentscheidung mit fundieren zu können.

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Turns out you can be a big Nazi and still have some valuable insight on how the modern way of thinking is shaped by technology. Since philosophy is not about idolizing one guy and dogmatizing everything he says, it should be possible to take peoples ideas into consideration regardless of (however keeping in mind) how shitty their political opinions/actions were.

Why would this little bash script that does nothing extraordinary need constant updates? Some pieces of software might just be complete as they are.

Even a broken clock has a justified true belief about the time twice a day, as they say.