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Friday, January 1, 2021
THE HAPPENING WORLD: U.S. House of Representatives to Eliminate “Gendered Terms” from its Rules
“Gendered terms” like “father, daughter, mother, and son” are now eliminated in the House rules for the 117th Congress pic.twitter.com/Hz4x6gOfrX
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) January 1, 2021
In clause 8(c)(3) of rule XXIII, strike “father, mother, son, daughter, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, first cousin, nephew, niece, husband, wife, father-in-law, mother-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, stepfather, stepmother, stepson, stepdaughter, stepbrother, stepsister, half brother, half sister, grandson, or grand-daughter” and insert “parent, child, sibling, parent’s sibling, first cousin, sibling’s child, spouse, parent-in-law, child-in-law, sibling-in-law, stepparent, stepchild, stepsibling, half-sibling, or grandchild”.
I stand by my 1985 prediction that this will eventually lead to mandating the term “s/he/it” to avoid excluding artificial intelligences, followed soon thereafter by the complete collapse of this folly everywhere outside Marin County, California.
Read the whole (stupid) thing. [PDF]
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CONTEXT: Jill Tarter: Signals from Proxima Centauri, Advice from Carl Sagan, and SETI @ 60!
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TRACKING WITH CLOSEUPS: How SpaceX Recovers Falcon 9 after Drone Ship Landings
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CONTINUITY: Every Orbital Launch Of 2020
Includes launch attempts which did not reach orbit. A summary is at the end of the video.
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