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I have just found out about a new feature in Microsoft Word, although only in some versions, the “Inclusiveness” checker which looks for bias in relation to Age, Culture, Gender and Race etc. I agree that they should all be excluded but it seems over the top. I checked the latest Community Gardens newsletter that I edit and there were 12 suggestions, some degendering comments about some members but it also said that “Pot” is profane in some cases. Our use of Pot is only in reference to vegetables and our rules actually exclude growing pot. I thought we were just a group of mostly retired gardeners but suddenly we are much more interesting. Maybe it’s time for us to take personal responsibility for what we write and say rather than passing it over to computers to check. I didn’t expect the uprising of the robots and computers to involve Grammar checking although maybe it might make Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Terminator easier to understand.
have to admit, I’m beyond done with the whole gender issue. I simply do not care either way. I don’t mean like “ They can do whatever they want.” I mean like “ I just do not have any interest in debating gender because I have zero invest-ment in the cause.” Don’t try to convince me there are only two genders. Don’t try to convince me there are “ x” number of genders.
I do not care and I will do nothing to champion either side. Sorry if that makes me insensitive or overly sensitive or, I don’t know bi- sensitive? Nothing I say or do will change anything. I will say this. It’s honestly none of my business… and it’s
*** The volcanic eruption near Tonga has shown us the power of nature and the destruction that it can create. We have already seen satellite videos of the explosion in all of its might, local videos of the Tsunami waves arriving and aerial before and after photos of the islands.
The aerial photos show the lush green islands before and the dust covered blackened
also see is that nothing could be done to stop this.
There must be a balance between people and nature if we want to survive because despite all of our technological advances we can do very little to stop natural forces but we are doing so much to destroy the natural environment.
[ Editor’s Note: Fill out your Apocalypse Bingo Card. What a time to be alive… plagues, earthquakes, volcanoes and tsunamis. Are we sure we aren’t on likr Chapter 7 of Revelation or something?]
