Can you tell me more about data hoarding? Do you just like download shit off the net and archive it all?

Like 4-5 years of ancestry resources access, or maybe like a short trip to my grandparent’s homeland to do my own research.

Or I can buy like A LOT of thread and cross stitch material. A lot.

Okay, well I’m not sure what language you speak but that’s interesting. I’d be curious to know what your native tongue is.

LGB refers to orientation. In English, the word “sex” does not mean this and I would recommend you do not use it in that context when trying to get your questions across. Orientation refers to the same thing as attraction, and neither of these terms exclusively have to do with sex (neither the act of sex or what gender someone was assigned at birth).

People use these terms and share them so they can find other people like them. At its base, it’s important to know if someone might be attracted to people of the same gender for the sake of finding a partner, but it can also help for finding community and like-minded individuals and people will share it for those, among many other reasons.

People who are trans may choose to share this fact either for community building as mentioned above, or if they’re finding a partner, it might be important for the partner to understand that the person may not have been assigned the same gender at birth than they are currently presenting as.

People share their pronouns so that others know how to refer to them. For example, for some people, it’s very hurtful to be referred to as “she” instead of “he”, so they will tell you that straight up. This doesn’t necessarily have to do with being trans either - a cis woman who dresses masculine and might be perceived as a man might make it a point to tell you her pronouns.

Other people share their pronouns because they believe nobody should assume. If we all share our pronouns immediately, nobody has to make any assumptions.

I believe the amazonification refers to forcing employees into the same shitty type of treatment pushed onto Amazon delivery drivers and external couriers, with unreasonable expectations on delivery, low pay, and generally treating their staff as extremely disposable.

Willing to bet it was a great many of us based on their lack of specificity.

I’m a bit confused here. Sex and gender, in any language, refer to the equipment a person has (sex) and the way they present/identify (gender). It’s possible that in your language or culture, these two are conflated as they often are.

Sexual orientation, in any part of the world, refers to who someone is attracted to. It has nothing to do with their equipment or what the person’s gender is.

For example, a cis man (someone assigned male at birth who identifies as a man) can be attracted to men or he can be attracted to women (or both or any or none). The fact that that person likely has a penis and looks like a man doesn’t affect who he likes.

While there are cultures that might make assumptions about how men should like women and women should like men, you do seem to understand that that’s not how humans work, so therefore, you understand that someone identifying as a man or woman has nothing to do with who they like. You understand that gender =/= sexual attraction.

I guess I’m just unclear as to why you’re saying that in your culture/language they’re the same things, does your language assume that gay people do not exist? Do you use the exact same word for a man who likes women (eg a straight man) as you would for a woman who likes women (eg a lesbian)?

I haven’t read the book either but from the description and from my own knowledge of the systemic racism within Canada, the racist history of the RCMP and police forces in canada, and the known practice of “starlight tours”, I would 100% understand why someone would surmise that the book is racist garbage.

I almost want to read it to find out how the author could possibly justify any of the police actions, but I’d really rather not, so I’m just going to make my own assumptions about why the judge ruled the way they did (and I have one very obvious guess).