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Reminds me of when my mom was on a committee to choose a textbook for Sunday school classes, and the priest nixed their choice because it used the word "God" too much .. by which he meant that it was pretty obviously trying not to use a gendered pronoun for God. But it sounded pretty funny the way he phrased it.

It occurred to me that one solution to the English pronoun problem is to simply drop them for third person singular. That is the only time pronouns are gendered, but it's also the only verb form that conjugates for most verbs. Time will tell whether "they" will be become both singular and plural (as happened with "you"), or whether the pronouns start being dropped, as often happens in informal writing: "Pat is a coworker. Eats lunch at noon every day. Goes home at five. Never varies the routine"

So weird that the temps are 75 F a couple hundred miles east off the Jersey shore.

Kind of strange -- we expect people on bicycles to wear head protection, but not people on ladders.

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Most adults continue to shed COVID virus 10-14 days after onset of illness, though everyone is told to take off their masks and return to work by ten days. (Ten days was the 𝘮𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘯 duration, leaving nearly half of people still shedding virus.) Culture positivity was strongly correlated with positive home antigen test results.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9981266/

Soon to be published study shows that the "For You" feed in social media leads to passive user engagement, more acceptance of content from unknown sources, and more ad click-through -- but fewer sales conversions from those clicks. That's good for the social media companies, bad for advertisers.

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/tiktok-for-you-page-algorithm-new-year-20240110.html