I’ve been remote since 2013. We said “distributed” because it was important that we didn’t have a central office. This kind of thing happened much less. A company can do distributed well.

That hasn’t held up forever. Because, well, gestured wildly at entire sub.

That one’s so good it makes me want to learn French.

I live in the US South and “folks” is a normal word for “people” here. I’m intentional not looking it up and trying to go from memory to get my dialect. I don’t use it for “humanity”, but will for any subset. “The folks who live in that house.” “White folk.” “City folk.” I dunno. There’s a shit ton of dialects in the US South East and they differ by geography and income and race and all kinds of stuff. And maybe they aren’t dialects. I’ve heard “register”. I’m not a language knower.

Should you use the term “black folks”? Ask a couple black folks if it makes em feel bad. Do what they say. Don’t listen to this white boy.

It’s built into my dialect so I’d use it. But if folks told me it made them feel bad if stop.

I have no idea when I pluralize it and when I don’t.

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Yes, but it needs to be the creamy kind. There is a barista blend. Think of more like half and half than milk.