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ll you this. When Elon Musk says that it's an environmental disaster because it takes so many servers just to support Bitcoin, I don't know that it can recover from that. So I would say there are two things which have made Bitcoin a lot less valuable. One is what Elon Musk said. Well, maybe three things actually. Two is that China is trying to ban it, maybe because they want to control their own…
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Demi Lovato continues to make news in all the wrong ways. You know, if you're a really high-end performer and singer that she is, she's tremendously talented. I don't know if it's good that you're making news for things that don't have anything to do with that. So her latest news is that she's decided she's non-binary. So she's neither male nor female. She's just sort of fluid and asks people to call her by they and them. Those will be her pronouns now.
As you know if you've been watching me for a while, I'm completely in favor of people being able to define what group they're in and also to ask people to be considerate about what names they use to refer to people. I'm generally in favor of that. But it's hard for me to get past they and them being singular. You know, it's one thing to say call me this name, not this name. Reasonable, and I would generally try to comply whenever anybody had that preference. But do I need to comply with changing a normal English language word from a singular into a plural? I mean, I think that's gone too far.
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I would love to have a word that could describe a man or a woman without saying man or woman. They just isn't it. They and them is just not singular. You just need a singular, that's all. Just give me the singular, and I'm okay with all this. But it just seems creepy to me that anybody is trying to make news about their non-binary sexual identity, which again, to me, whatever you want is fine with…
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