Language evolves. Listen to people who aren't like you. What the everloving fuck do you care if some words are changed? It's hardly 1984.

Fuck my karma, I've been (stupidly) reading /. comments about this, and use of gender pronouns, and fuck me, I forgot how closed-minded the tech community can be, at least on here.

Watch the blood pressure there, grandpa! It's once a year. It's kitsch. It's funny. If you don't like it, it's what, 1 article to skip? :-) :-)

Good catch, my bad!

It's not really reached critical mass tho, I literally know 0 people IRL who are on a Mastodon instance.

For some reason there's no option to report this post, so I'll have to settle for telling this a/c to take a long walk off a short cliff. Fuck off, troll.

Oh do fuck off. Pim Fortuyn wasn't some some saviour and he wasn't popped by the "establishment" now was he? "Deep state" - seriously, time to take off the tin foil hat, pal.

Edge! I should be so lucky where I work... still on IE11!

Oh ffs I meant I didn't know - not that I didn't believe you.

On _forms_ (eg when entering the country, or various forms for citizens) - it's not on the KSA passport, nor Israeli, and I've not seen a Pakistani passport so I legitimately didn't know. Goalposts firmly in place, mofo.

In Saudi Arabia if you were there as a resident and put Islam there's a chance you may be held to that eg "encouraged" to go the mosque etc. For sure, some friends who were legitimately Muslim (although generally quite secular) were called out if they didn't regularly attend prayers.(source - I lived there in the 80s/90s). I suspect other theocracies may act in the same way.

If you were a citizen you _were_ Muslim - KSA does not allow its nationals practice another religion. Apostasy carries the death penalty (although this hasn't been carried out for a few years, only LONG prison terms and probably torture too).

In Israel it determines who you can marry (only if the ceremony is performed in Israel, because there are basically ONLY religious marriages performed by the Rabbinate/Muslim or Christian religious bodies). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage_in_Israel

Good to know, I know some ME nations ask for it on forms too, Israel has it on some ID systems. But I'd wager the vast majority of nations don't...

Which country puts religion on passports? Maybe Iran? Probably not...

I suspect you've had your edits pulled because you're a racist fuckwit, not because of "the evul libruls."

No, in the case of Brexit voters itâ(TM)s pretty clear a proportion were mislead and a proportion were / are straight up ignorant, more than the usual percentages.

LOL fwiw I'm there too.

Oh you're from the UK. Much of the UK is a shit waste of time... well, at least 52% of it...