On the forum there are a wide array of choices for addressing y’all motherfuckers. I don’t know how much of it is me or if I just can’t remember anything before the “lock downs”, but I can’t remember the last time I addressed more than one person in real life.
I like to use the “Would an angry teenager follow me out to the parking lot to correct me?” rule in these confusing times.
I volunteered for an LGBT Center years ago and that is what the teens would do. Hear an Old use the wrong pronoun and they’d turn it into a teachable moment lol.
In general, I think all we can do is try to be sensitive to others and ask really, even if we don’t understand or agree, what does it cost us to use an unfamiliar word to refer to someone?
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Sorry to bust up the humor. Let’s tell a joke.
Knock knock
Come in.
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How dare you
Wow, soon they/them will be trying to use my bathroom.
And most guys wish their wives would say come in just once.
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Use “Peeps” Zara 
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I use the word “folks,” but specifically to refer to someone’s parents.
For example, “Did you go home last weekend and see your folks?”
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“Every asshole present” works in a pinch
I use “folks,” including in personal and business emails.
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This has got to be a real problem for you in French.
Fun fact: If you Google search “that hipster song with the whistling”, you get this video.
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Reassured to hear from the folks who use “folks”
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lookout, edgelord Obama in the house
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Jesus, I didn’t know that. Do you enjoy the work?
Someone once described an actuary as the right job for people who find accountancy too exciting.
No offence of course.
I like my job but I don’t have a role that is very actuarial anymore. I took the route of practicing as a qualified actuary at a large consulting firm and then transitioning to nonactuarial roles.
I think being an actuary has gotten more interesting as the more boring parts of the job have become more automated.
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I use y’all in California sometimes and get narry an eye bat because of it. Probably because I dont have a southern accent, and saying it in California it doesnt come off as grating.