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From: rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
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Subject: Re: A quick search on _noticeable_ Linux improvements since 2014
Date: 9 Mar 2025 07:17:08 GMT
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On Sun, 9 Mar 2025 04:23:52 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:

> On 2025-03-08, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, 8 Mar 2025 08:00:47 -0500, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>>
>>>     In Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s quest to nix all diversity,
>>>     equity, and inclusion (DEI) content, some photos on the Pentagon’s
>>>     website and online posts appear to be marked for deletion just
>>>     because they include the word “gay”—regardless of what the context
>>>     is.
>>
>> I assume the DoD has some very skilled database programmers.
>>
>> DELETE * FROM everything WHERE anything LIKE '%gay%'
> 
> Yeah, it looks like a picture of the Enola Gay, the WWII atomic bomb
> carrying plane, was inadvertently taken down.

Back in the '70s a friend and I were visiting his mother, an old Maniac. 
He had non-standard shoes laces in his Chuck Taylor's, red iirc. "What gay 
shoelaces!" she said. Ladies of a certain age in upstate Maine weren't 
attuned to the changing usage.

I remember at least two people from grade school / high school. One's last 
name was Gay and the other's given name was Gay (she was a she). Can't do 
much about the surname but I imagine Gay has fallen out of favor as a 
given name.