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		burneraccount12 on Oct 6, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Stack Overflow Inc. Fiasco: Timeline If you want to have a meaningful impact, go volunteer at a soup kitchen. No, seriously. Spend a day at a homeless shelter. Help with the disabled. Arguing about pronouns is, in fact, dumb and no, it does not affect the software engineering community "personally."

saagarjha on Oct 8, 2019 [–]

I mean, those are all good things to do. But the software engineering community is largely isolated from those issues, so it’s natural that our conversation shifts to things like pronouns instead.

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