[Noisebridge-discuss] 2 sleepers this morning

Justin Hasuike jwcalmus at gmail.com
Sun Feb 16 19:11:47 UTC 2014


To be honest, I was interested in the hackerspace and subscribed
accordingly to see what's going on before stopping by to check it out.
Thanks for clarifying Romy, seemed a little awkward :)

-Justin


On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 7:55 AM, Romy Ilano <romy at snowyla.com> wrote:

> I hope people reading the list don't think the people at noise bridge
> argue over semantics like this 100% of the time .
>
>
> When we aren't fleeing tech talks we actually hack.. This discussion is
> maybe 1% of the real activity that goes on
> ----
>
> Snowyla.com
> Romyilano.com
>
> On Feb 15, 2014, at 10:35 PM, Hannah Grimm <dharlette at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> "It" refers to objects, not people, so pretending you have some
> grammatical high-ground here is ludicrous.
>
> Not to mention, we use "they" singularly all the time in our language, and
> have since Shakespeare.  Since before Shakespeare.  Since *Chaucer.*
>
> Imagine that sentence without the dehumanizing "it": "Male or female THEY
> should be gone."  Hardly going to destroy the English language.
>
>
> On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 10:16 PM, Al Sweigart <asweigart at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> No-hat aka Josh was out of town over the holidays, but before then Ive
>> found him sleeping overnight at Noisebridge. He's been doing this a while.
>>  On Feb 15, 2014 9:43 PM, "Hannah Grimm" <dharlette at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Can you NOT refer to people of unknown gender as "it?"  We already have
>>> a word for that which doesn't dehumanize people by comparing them to
>>> objects.  It's "they."
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 9:10 PM, Norman Bradley <pryankster at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>>  N0_Hat is also spamming the wiki and should be GONE. Male or female
>>>> IT should be gone.
>>>>
>>>> You are entitled to your own opinion.
>>>> You are NOT entitled to your own facts.
>>>>
>>>> Norman
>>>>
>>>> On 2/15/2014 7:57 PM, Paul Monad wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  One in turing named sid.  Other was __Hat. Both claimed they were
>>>> just napping.
>>>>  Nick was here but not sleeping.
>>>>
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