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Female, according to Merriam-Webster: "having a gender identity that is the opposite of male"

I would be incredibly offended if I was an actual woman.

I was surprised that one of the definitions of Female is exactly as quoted so I looked up male and one of the definitions is:

> having a gender identity that is the opposite of female

we have achieved word definition stack overflow!

Since “male” and “female” are the last words of both, I’d argue that with tail-call optimization this turns into an infinite loop.

>we have achieved word definition stack overflow!

I prefer to think of it as the equivalent of an Excel circular reference.

"Ownership" is morphing into paying rent. all property is becoming more like "intellectual property" with both time components and a public interest.

Ownership of products (especially software) is turning into a license that allows you to use the product as long as the manufacturer allows it (i.e., under certain conditions which of course are revocable or amendable at the corporation's whims).

I'm pretty sure that if they could get away with it (today), some companies would love to sell you a license to breathe the air inside their buildings. On account, of course, of that air being expensive to suck into the building and clean and pipe throughout said edifice, and they need to 'recover' the costs associated with that.

it's called oxygen as a service (oaas) and if you've seen total recall you'll know bezos and musk are working towards it.

Peaceful Protest Coup

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