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Re:Google Docs will “warn you away from inappropriate words” by deathanatos on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @04:24PM (#31088541)
Depends on context:

> Hey folks, what's the status of that document?

Just means the people being addressed.

> Are your folks coming to dinner?

is, "Are your parents coming to dinner?"

Wiktionary lists both as definitions: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/folks#Etymology_1

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Re:Google Docs will “warn you away from inappropriate words” by melissalobos on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @05:08PM (#31089203)
> Obama: 'We tortured some folks'

https://www.politico.com/story/2014/08/john-brennan-torture-...

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Re:Google Docs will “warn you away from inappropriate words” by grumpymouse on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @04:59PM (#31089042)
I can’t hear ‘folks’ without thinking of Neddie Seagoon from The Goon Show. Probably not what proponents of the word are going for, the show being from the 1950s and in many ways ‘of its time’.
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