165 karma · joined June 28, 2012
Say you're a US citizen. You can choose not to buy an Apple product. You cannot chose to not pay your taxes.
This is just one of many distinctions between a government and a corporation.
I get that using "they/them" requires a bit more mental gymnastics, at least in languages with gendered pronouns. However it is still a grammatically correct use of the language, just one we're not used to.
I approach this from a perspective of compassion. If someone has made the (potentially difficult) decision to live with a non-gendered identity, knowing the snark and ostracism they are likely to face for doing so, they the least I can do is respect that decision by making this one trivial grammatical adjustment.
Also, please don't forget about people (like me) who don't run on $MAJOR_CLOUD_PROVIDER. I'd be curious to try this e.g. on self-operated Docker w/ Minio.
I've been using Mailinator for this sort of thing but I'm finding most of their domains have been increasingly blacklisted on many lead capture forms. And their paid plan that allows custom domains is not priced for this kind of use case.
(Frankly I'm worried your pricing is too low.)
Looks like it's time to go dust off one of those domains I've been sitting on... :)