And the guy has got paying work now…
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I hate this reality
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WTF, she looks perfectly OK to me. Athletic, even. 
Let’s see some pics of the dude also on extended, unexpected ISS stay now. 
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He’s a creationist, so he obviously doesn’t change in an altered environment.
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I’ve seen that making the rounds. Wonderful! 
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In the fascinating study, it was also discovered that parents with more than one son lost their cognitive abilities faster than those who had only daughters.
While society worries about how difficult it will be to raise a girl child, science tells an entirely different story. People tend to believe that daughters are more difficult to deal with and families with multiple girl children are often pitied on. A new study challenged these patriarchal beliefs and stated that parenting sons might pose a bigger challenge for parents later in their lives. According to a study published in the Journal of Psychiatric Research, experts have found that having sons may speed up the cognitive decline in parents.
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I would agree with these findings, based on personal and anecdotal experience.
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This touches on a few adjacent issues that I didn’t realize were quite so bad. It’s been a standing joke for 20 years that I carry flash cards so I can subtitle my 
wife in real time; 
don’t quite seem to get the accent (this is a phenomenon that acknowledges, with a certain delight.) It seems anything other than a mid-western accent can be outright ignored by these devices, leading to what is justifiably perceived as a disciplinary effect, a colonial imposition latent in the training data and amplified by millions of electronic clones.
I had not heard of “Pickering’s Harem” before.
Edit: So I tested a Google Translate thing that Dr. Fellows, in the program, describes as particularly galling.
Set your translation language to something like Malay, which has no gendered pronouns.
Now… swap the direction of the translation.
Ooops… Time to check your training data, Google.
Edit edit: Don’t play the trailer for “Desk Set” unless you have an empty stomach.
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I only use Siri while driving, requiring a manual button push rather than voice activation, and they now offer (I believe it’s) 5 options, although they all go by Siri: the original, an insipid male voice just like the original, 2 other women, and one other man, who sounds like a young Black man. That’s the one I use, because he uses inflection and emphasis when he speaks, so it makes more sense to me. I always get a weird look the first time someone is in my car and hears him, but then they say “hey, he sort of talks like you do” and yup, that’s exactly right. I need to know if Siri picked up that I was asking a question, or emphasizing something. And it needed to be a man, BECAUSE they keep insisting on making assistants be female-presenting.
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I just don’t like these virtual assistants, in the sense that i don’t need them to talk to me most of the time. I find it an inconvenience since the majority of the time i want the information presented to me via text, not spoken.
And as far as navigation goes, for Google maps i have the voice directions turned off because it likes to mute what i’m listening to so it can give me clear directions (understandable) but frankly i want to listen to my music or podcast and don’t need it randomly muted.
I do have a standalone Garmin GPS and it does use the default female voice, but i keep the volume on it real low. I think if i used a male presenting voice i would hear it less because of the lower register 
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Just select the Gilbert Godfried voice option. 
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Not against it, but i think i would crash from laughing too much. Or it would stress me out 
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Darth Vader? “Pray you don’t make me recalculate again”
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