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Wordle 718 X/6
🟨⬛⬛🟩⬛
🟨🟩⬛🟩⬛
⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩
⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩
⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩
⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩
Another one of those! 
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Wordle 718 X/6
🟨⬜⬜🟩⬜
🟨🟩⬜🟩⬜
⬜🟩🟨🟩⬜
⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩
⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
Lost today.
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Wordle 718 5/6
⬛🟨🟨⬛🟨
🟨🟩🟩🟩⬛
⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩
⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
 wrong choices...
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Wordle 718 4/6
⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨
🟩🟨🟨🟨⬜
🟩🟩🟨🟩⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Wordle 718 5/6*
🟨🟨⬜⬜🟨
⬜⬜🟨🟨🟩
⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Wordle 718 5/6*
⬜🟨🟨⬜🟨
🟨🟩⬜🟩🟩
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Close!
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
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Wordle 718 4/6
🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨
⬜⬜🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
My two regular starters made it an anagram. Then I guessed wrong...
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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⬜🟨🟨⬜🟨
⬜⬜🟨🟨🟨
⬜🟩🟨🟩⬜
⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩
⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
didn't think I'd make it
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Wordle 718 4/6
🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜
🟩🟨🟨🟨⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Wordle 718 X/6
🟨⬛⬛🟨🟨
⬛🟨🟨🟨⬛
🟨🟨🟨⬛🟨
🟨🟩🟨🟩⬛
⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩
⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩
bleahhh!
Ok, I have had my coffee, so you can all come out now!
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Wordle 718 2/6
🟩🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Jeremy Falcon
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Wordle 718 4/6*
⬜🟨🟨🟨⬜
⬜⬜🟨🟨🟨
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Wordle 718 X/6
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜
🟨🟩⬜⬜🟨
🟨🟩🟨⬜⬜
🟨🟩⬜🟩🟩
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Hadn't thought much about it until I started getting more into graphic "transforms" and trying to keep the terminology "correct". I found this style guide useful.
Welcome - Microsoft Style Guide | Microsoft Learn
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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I was talking about the corner of a rectangle. That's about as much as I will say about who or what's "right".
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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What if the rectangle identifies as a triangle?
Ok, I'll shut up now. 
Jeremy Falcon
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That's a polygon ... and it still has "top and left" coordinates, width and height. As does an ellipse. i.e. You always have to be aware of the virtual "bounding box" no matter how often you rotate, translate, skew or scale.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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I think you missed the point... I can't really expand on it since it's the lounge, so I'll be vague and just say that we all agree that male and female are both humans. So, nobody refutes your point. But, your point missed my point.
Jeremy Falcon
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I'll do better next time. (There won't be a next time)
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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My mom has been a feminist for as long as I can remember.
One of the good ones, mind you, not a feminazi.
She drove a truck and certainly did not expect or ask any men to help her unload, and they never did.
When she got married in the 80's, she kept her own last name, which was a huge deal back then.
Of course I agree because it's just ridiculous to give up your own name just because you think you want to spend the rest of your life with someone (even if you ultimately do).
I know very few men who'd give up their last name like that, but it's expected of women.
You wouldn't believe the stuff she's been through because of it.
Like the bank simply refusing to use her name because "the system" won't allow married women to have a different name as her husband.
Or going to the bank to open an account and then my father getting a letter that the account is now ready.
That last one was in 200X, mind you, not even that long ago.
Anyway, Dutch isn't very gender neutral.
For example, we say "There were about fifty man at the party." (Yes, "man", not "men".)
My mom would ask "So there were no women?"
I kind of copied that behavior from her and now I say "There were about fifty people at the party."
My language now better reflects reality because, yes, there were women also.
Whenever we don't know someone's gender we assume it's a he (unless gender roles dictate it's probably a woman).
For example: "My boss yelled at me today." "Was he very mad?"
And: "My cleaner is on vacation." "When will she be back?"
I wouldn't mind a gender neutral word there, it would save some confusion and correcting one another.
To be fair, I've never heard of male cleaners (I have professionaly, but not the ones that clean houses for cash money), but I know plenty of female bosses.
In English you can say "they", which isn't that weird and has been done for decades, but in Dutch that's really weird and would change the whole sentence.
Why is this important?
Because study shows that language influences the way we think (and probably the other way around too).
If language stopped assuming all bosses were men then maybe so would we and more women would be hired.
I despise the woke-movement that's currently going on, especially in the USA, but I wouldn't mind some gender neutral language for the cases where you simply don't know.
Too bad this guide is in English, which doesn't help me in Dutch  (I vote for language-neutral language!  )
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I have a double-barrelled surname (hence the "T-P" username). My daughter's getting married next week, to a guy with a very common and short surname. They (with no prompting at all from me) have both opted to change their names, she replacing the second part of her name with his, and he prefixing his surname with the first part of hers. This not only seems very "fair" and "modern", but in particular helps perpetuate the "T" half of my name, which is very rare.
(Of course he may come to regret opting for a hyphenated name, it causes all sorts of problems!!  )
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My friends did something like that.
He changed his name to HisName-HerName and she changed her name to HerName-HisName.
She changing her name to HisName-HerName or HerName-HisName is already pretty common in the Netherlands.
All in all changes are coming, slowly but surely
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Sander Rossel wrote: Whenever we don't know someone's gender we assume it's a he (unless gender roles dictate it's probably a woman).
For example: "My boss yelled at me today." "Was he very mad?"
Can't speak to Dutch but in English "he" is the gender neutral term. Very definitely true in the 80s.
Sander Rossel wrote: but I know plenty of female bosses.
So percentage wise it is 50% male and female? If not then when assuming a gender when not known then it would correct to assume the one that fits the majority.
I would also say that if someone was "yelled" at during the business day to such an extent that they felt it necessary to comment on it later then, myself, I would expect that it would be a man. Doesn't mean women don't yell just that men seem to go off the edge more often. But perhaps that is just my personal experience.
Sander Rossel wrote: Because study shows that language influences the way we think (and probably the other way around too
That has been known to be true for a very long time.
But attempting to de-categorize literally everything cannot work because humans need that to provide order for the world.
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jschell wrote: Can't speak to Dutch but in English "he" is the gender neutral term. Very definitely true in the 80s.
"Today, he is the only masculine pronoun in English. In the 18th century, it was suggested as a gender-neutral pronoun, and was thereafter often prescribed in manuals of style and school textbooks until around the 1960s."
Not so today it seems 
jschell wrote: So percentage wise it is 50% male and female? If not then when assuming a gender when not known then it would correct to assume the one that fits the majority.
Not 50/50, but enough to not make assumptions.
jschell wrote: I would also say that if someone was "yelled" at during the business day to such an extent that they felt it necessary to comment on it later then, myself, I would expect that it would be a man. Doesn't mean women don't yell just that men seem to go off the edge more often. But perhaps that is just my personal experience.
I know both can get like that.
jschell wrote: But attempting to de-categorize literally everything cannot work because humans need that to provide order for the world.
Not saying that, just a neutral term for when you really don't know.
Like "Was xe really mad?"
That sounds weird (now), but it better conveys my intent, I don't know your boss or their gender, but I want to know more about the situation.
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