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Re:Jeff Bezos to give most of his money to charity by bamboozled on Monday November 14, 2022 @09:35AM (#33594482)
Sounds very positive, awesome they want to help out with climate change.
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Re:Jeff Bezos to give most of his money to charity by bergenty on Monday November 14, 2022 @10:14AM (#33595144)
He, it’s not a group of people.
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Re:Jeff Bezos to give most of his money to charity by veidr on Monday November 14, 2022 @10:35AM (#33595494)
Sorry, we're changing that.

The only question is whether we (proponents of gender-nonspecific and plural-nonspecific "they") will beat them (people who misspell "lose" as "loose" — remember, it only takes a simple majority[1] (and a bit of time for people to get used to it) to change the language(!)).

[1]: As we all are undoubtedly aware, the spelling "cancelled" was canceled via this mechanism, one or two decades ago.

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Re:Jeff Bezos to give most of his money to charity by lioeters on Monday November 14, 2022 @10:24AM (#33595296)
It's been acceptable since the 14th century to use "they" as a gender-neutral third-person pronoun.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they

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Re:Jeff Bezos to give most of his money to charity by edflsafoiewq on Monday November 14, 2022 @10:31AM (#33595410)
> It typically occurs with an unspecified antecedent
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Re:Jeff Bezos to give most of his money to charity by everybodyknows on Monday November 14, 2022 @11:41AM (#33596748)
Has Bezos specified "they" as preferred pronoun?
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Re:Jeff Bezos to give most of his money to charity by 1auralynn on Monday November 14, 2022 @10:47AM (#33595688)
The commenter is talking about Jeff Bezos and his girlfriend, read the article.
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Re:Jeff Bezos to give most of his money to charity by bamboozled on Monday November 14, 2022 @01:09PM (#33598275)
His new partner seems to be an influence.
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Re:Jeff Bezos to give most of his money to charity by pencilguin on Monday November 14, 2022 @11:34AM (#33596616)
What the headline giveth, the fine print taketh away.

Not really positive at all, just a PR stunt to dress up a tax dodge.

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Re:Jeff Bezos to give most of his money to charity by mint2 on Monday November 14, 2022 @01:03PM (#33598182)
The best way to do that would be to create a climate version of Fox News.

Stopping the most powerful country from seesawing between being controlled by full blown climate deniers to just road blocked by them is the single most impactful thing below could do, but he won’t because it may increase his taxes.

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