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https://www.dictionary.com/e/they-is-a-singular-pronoun/#:~:text=Lexicographers%20have%20determined%20that%20as,their%20supplies%20ready%20for%20class. "they" is ancient. It's not new.

"You... always you. Again and again, you show up and disrupt my plans. This time though, I was ready. After losing your comrades, one by one, you continued to chase me. Now, you are finally too tired to continue. Too tired to even raise your shield. You didn't realize how exhausted you were...

Oddly, I think my favorite character is from a story I've never written. I've just talked with friends about some story ideas, and it developed into a big idea with a very powerful antagonist, a semi-tragic ending, and a number of twisted tropes, but the story has never actually been written...

For me it's a pretty clear reason: Late at night (or morning, depending on how badly butchered my sleep schedule is) when I'm supposed to be sleeping, my creativity skyrockets. I know exactly what it is: my mind is shifting gears to get ready for dreaming. It's my dreams coming alive before I've...

I think the biggest issue with trying to find the limits of technology without explosions, is determining the maximum burn rate, as the difference between a fire and an explosion is how fast things burn. I'm pretty sure a large number of technologies could still exist in modified forms with...

I think how much detail is needed depends on how much detail the characters are likely to know and talk about. It's usually unnecessary to provide more detail than the characters themselves are aware of.

I started writing Tentacle Girl back in February. I had a few previous stories written before that. I am honestly surprised at how well this story has done. It is such a weird story, and I've pretty much ignored everything I was taught in writing classes growing up. I focused on making the story...

My writing does not deserve to be called majestic at all. It's about as lacking in detail as one can get and still have a story. Mostly, I feel like I got lucky and found a story subject people find interesting. My nonsense pile has a bunch of story prologues in it, and one of the more popular...

Wow. I'm impressed with how fast you've gotten those numbers up. Partly due to how fast you write. I probably just write slow. My Tentacle Girl story is only about 1/3rd more pages in length despite my starting it several months earlier. Makes me wonder just how big your story will get as time...

One thing to think about is what level of infrastructure is present in cities, as this would have a big impact on what ordinary people have access to. A fascinating thing related to steam is the steam system in New York: Thinking about electricity vs other power sources reminded me of this.

It might be kinda funny (in a terrible sort of way) if the use of clean water in machines was considered important enough that poor people would put clean water in their machines, and drink the polluted water that came out. It would also be rather ridiculous and require the overall toxicity of...

I don't see how the dangers of crossing the border justify doing bad things to people who do. They've already done it. You aren't saving them from the horrors of the crossing. You just offer them new horrors. I also have no idea why you think this horrible treatment will be an effective...

I did explain the argument fully: Genocide definition includes separating children from parents in a way that targets a group. That is happening in ICE. You insist it's only illegals it happens to, but that's not a denial, only a narrowing of who's being targeted. So, no, I don't concede. As far...

Um... if the people in charge wanted the practice to stop, they could make it stop immediately. The only reason there is a question as to whether or not it will stop, is because the people in charge are refusing to change the policy unless the courts force them to. Also: Why do I need to prove...

https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/litigation/challenging-customs-and-border-protections-unlawful-practice-turning-away-asylum-seekers

This is not true at all. You seem to not know how the Asylum process works. The first step is to somehow reach the US and cross the border. The second step is turning themselves in to the border authorities. Yet you describe that process as if only illegals and fools do it. You seem to think...

Did it occur to you that they might be fleeing some pretty bad circumstances in the place they came from? You are basically saying: "We must do them harm to discourage others from making bad choices." So instead of these people being merely the victims of their own decisions, they shall also be...

Somehow I'm not surprised you didn't think of the separation of children from parents being done by ICE. Lots of people don't seem to think it counts. https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/genocide.shtml would be the line of interest...

So are you. Did you notice that the US has been committing genocide according to geneva convention definitions for a while already? You keep talking about how one group will eventually do bad things, that are already being done by other groups.

This feels like the shortest way to explain why I can't really answer the poll. Gender is a complicated topic for me, and the issue isn't high enough on my priority list to get much attention. I feel like any answer I give would just end up misleading people.