I can say those last two are common where I live. fixin' to is said as fixing to though
Oklahoma, it's not always included as part of the south. Given that it's pretty much just north Texas both culturally and in the industries it has. It's like the Canada to Texas, except it gets more conservative instead of more liberal. not that I haven't heard anyone say "y'all", it's just one or two middle-aged or older people I've heard it from
*I'd definitely consider it part of the south
My group of co-workers and I don't give a fuck about politics when we are at work. It's really fucking simple and I don't know how most offices fail to implement this basic yet life-changing improvement.
Would that be equivalent to "thinking of" in British English?
I don't want to have to have to join botnets like Slack, Discord or Gmail to message coworkers. Even passing collage forces me to use Facebook Messenger due to group projects where you have to build many short term relationships.
I'm likely going to join every single non-botnet communication/social service and only communicate through those or non-third-party tools. Will that cause me to lose many jobs in tech?
You can get protonmail
I use the weeslack plugin for weechat.
Unfortunately there are no alternatives. I rarely have to use it. It's only for when I want to talk to our child slave labor qa team to get some feedback.
I literally just use my tfwno.gf email and no one cares. I even use that email for my git commits. I'm surprised that not even one person has ever called me out on that domain before.
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more like "planning to"
Yes, however if everyone I email uses Gmail then all my emails and their content are correlated with one email address in Google's archives. It's better than nothing but it's not good.
they have subtle domains too which is nice. the only issue is the occasional spam filter, as spammers used a bunch of cock accounts.