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Crap
Nov 3, 2012

why do they need a gender and why is it heteronormative, it's a usb port or whatever

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bump_fn
Apr 12, 2004

two of them

Crap posted:

why do they need a gender and why is it heteronormative, it's a usb port or whatever

that's just the way god made me

.lnk to the past
May 3, 2005

psoting while drunk
gender binary

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

They don't have to be, there are many kinds of genderless connector s. E.g. Anderson powerpole

pram
Jun 10, 2001
because you touch yourself at night

longview
Dec 25, 2006

heh.
A lot of industrial connectors are genderfluid to suit your needs

George
Nov 27, 2004

No love for your made-up things.
Nobody asked this VGA cable what gender it was. They just blasted pictures of its sex organs to the internet.

suffix
Jul 27, 2013

Wheeee!
they were originally going to call female-to-female connectors double-ended dildos, but then they didn't

suffix
Jul 27, 2013

Wheeee!
in the interest of inclusiveness i suggest the connectors be called dicks and butts

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

we vibin'
we slidin'
we breathin'
we dyin'

suffix posted:

in the interest of inclusiveness i suggest the connectors be called dicks and butts

signed

The Management
Jan 2, 2010

sup, bitch?
maybe connectors are comfortable being heterosexual and don't want to be pushed into your tumblr gender confusion

Jonny 290
May 5, 2005



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APC-7 laughs at your silly notion of gender boundaries

ANIME MONSTROSITY
Jun 1, 2012

by XyloJW
computers are binary

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

one still has an internal thread and the other external, clearly gendered

here's a truly genderless connector

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003


Very carefully.

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003


Sagebrush posted:

one still has an internal thread and the other external, clearly gendered

here's a truly genderless connector



hosed up.

Jonny 290
May 5, 2005



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Sagebrush posted:

one still has an internal thread and the other external, clearly gendered


:smug: all of those sleeves freely spin on the threads and every connector has one. extend sleeve, its male, retract, female :smug:

pram
Jun 10, 2001

Sagebrush posted:

one still has an internal thread and the other external, clearly gendered

here's a truly genderless connector



this is pure poo poo

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003


Jonny 290 posted:

:smug: all of those sleeves freely spin on the threads and every connector has one. extend sleeve, its male, retract, female :smug:

electronic foreskin

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003


pram posted:

this is pure poo poo

It's Canadian, they have a long history of inventing loving garbage and acting smug about it

Jonny 290
May 5, 2005



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pram posted:

this is pure poo poo

ive used powerpoles for 20+ years and hausbus is full of them. they are the supreme dc connector

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003


your mom calls me the powerpole

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

anderson powerpoles, like robertson screws, are the best in the world at what they do.

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003


Sagebrush posted:

anderson powerpoles, like robertson screws, are the best in the world at what they do.

yeah, letting Canadians act smug like they've actually ever done poo poo worth talking about

pram
Jun 10, 2001
lol

Jonny 290
May 5, 2005



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img-canadarm-flipping-u-off.pcx

Farmer Crack-Ass
Jan 2, 2001

this is me posting irl

ANIME MONSTROSITY posted:

computers are binary

problematic

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

Citizen Tayne posted:

yeah, letting Canadians act smug like they've actually ever done poo poo worth talking about

i can't hear you, i'm posting from inside the world's best nuclear reactor

e: no, sorry, now i'm paddling my canoe in the world's largest supply of fresh water

Farmer Crack-Ass
Jan 2, 2001

this is me posting irl

Sagebrush posted:

i can't hear you, i'm posting from inside the world's best nuclear reactor

:ohdear: that's probably not a good idea you should at least be sitting outside of the reactor vessel!


EDIT:

Sagebrush posted:

e: no, sorry, now i'm paddling my canoe in the world's largest supply of fresh water

don't do that you'll contaminate it with your posts :ohdear: :ohdear:

Slow-Scan Shep
Jul 11, 2001

the gender xmodem

theadder
Dec 30, 2011


im drinking orange juice

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Space-Pope
Aug 13, 2003

by zen death robot

Citizen Tayne posted:

electronic foreskin
beep boop please mutilate me

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