[ExI] Gender-Neutral Side Note

[John Clark]

On Wed, Nov 12, 2025 at 5:21 PM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:

*> Twitter is the world’s version of Extropolis.  Musk lets anyone post
> anything they want over there.  Scandal!*


*On my list I don't let anybody post anything they like, I have 2 rigid
rules:*

*1) Don't be boring. *
*2) Don't be stupid. *

*Fortunately over the last five years everybody has obeyed those two rules
so I never had to kick anybody off, I never even came close. We've had a
few heated arguments but that's OK, I like arguing (not to be confused with
fighting) with people, the better they can argue with me the more I like
them, and my policy is that if I find somebody's argument is more logical
than mine then I will abandon my previous position and adopt theirs as my
own. And we've never had an ugly flamewar of the sort we had here in 2016
and 2020. I admit at least part of the reason for that is that it is much
less active than this list, and most of the posts are by me. I wish my list
was more active because it's much more comfortable, I don't have to
constantly behave like I'm walking on eggs as I do over here.  *

*By the way, why don't you let Google Groups host this list? It's free, you
can still have a moderator if you want one, and there's no problem in
posting large photographs or charts. And best of all it's far far more
reliable. I don't know if things have improved but from the day I joined in
1993 this list was constantly going down, sometimes for a few hours,
sometimes for a few days, sometimes for a few weeks. In the last five
years **Google Groups hasn't died once. *

* John K Clark    See what's on my new list at  Extropolis
<https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>*

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