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    Disclaimer: this is not doxxing. It is publicly available information on LinkedIn. Thus, this is not against any rules.

    Name: Shali Rana Reed
    Experience: COO and Executive producer at The Reeder (https://thereeder.co/) since December 2017. Located in San Diego, CA, USA

    Enjoy :)

  • @[email protected]
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    1723 hours ago

    I think it probably has far more to do with phonetics and the ways different sounds carry emotion than with the gender identity we insist upon associating with specific words

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      161 day ago

      Yes it should. Kind of in the same way that it should be “I couldn’t care less” instead of “I could care less” which I’ve seen a lot more in recent years.

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        15 hours ago

        Bernie said “could care less” in his response to the sotu last night. Made me cringe.

        • @warbond
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          Literally just talking about that! I agree that the original intent (and, you know, meanings of words) should make it “couldn’t” but I think the two have linguistically drifted together within the phrase.

          The rules-boy in me rallies against it, but the descriptivist in me celebrates and I couldn’t care less how he said it.

          • Dragon Rider (drag)
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            01 day ago

            Wittgenstein said that language isn’t actually semantic in its natural state. Instead, language serves as a sort of game to accomplish social ends.

            “I could care less” serves the social end of telling everyone you have no critical thinking skills and shouldn’t be taken seriously.

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              Lol.

              On a slightly more serious note, it makes dry humor a bit harder to land since you can’t rely on subtlety as much. Like “I could care less about my SO” in context where it’s the punchline of a misdirection joke.

              Such is life though.

            • @warbond
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              214 hours ago

              Lol, that second thought boomed me pretty good, thanks

    • @[email protected]
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      71 day ago

      Yes, do you think someone celebrating sexism is going to be the kind of person that edits their tweets before sending them?

    • @FauxLiving
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      61 day ago

      Girrrlllll, it’s so brave that you shared that information about yourself in public on the Internet next to a picture of your IRL face.

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    231 day ago

    Both of those have multiple other uses, good and bad. Maaan is used for amazement and girrrl is used for incredulity.