My mom is from Ingushetia (in USSR times counted as part of Chechnya, now a Russian republic). My dad is German.

German and Russian native speaker here, so English is my third language.

Not a single person in this thread who says Hitler? Kind of disturbing tbh.

It denotes all genders not only male and female by using the asterisk as a wildcard for everything that could be in between the ends of the spectrum from male (Kassierer) to female (Kassiererin).

Please use their full name Dickie MacDickface.

Not sure if it counts as technology but it was a Ford Focus.