Vice News covered this more than a decade ago in “This Is What Winning Looks Like.” They literally filmed a conversation where a US soldier tried to explain to an Afghan police chief why raping children was bad. His response was “who else are we going to fuck?”

Swahili has 10 different “genders,” called “noun classes” or “ngeli,” and none of them correlate with sex. Instead, the third-person singular pronouns are:

• he/she and him/her: yeye
• his/her: wake

Yes.

Yes. It automatically closed after two weeks of me waiting on a response after they said they’d escalated it.

Paid. I also found it hard to believe, which is why I checked the logs, tried working with their support staff, and wrote my own program to confirm.

It’s a privacy-focused backup service.