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The author's main complaint is that the ACLU has prioritized "immigrant rights, LGBTQ rights, reproductive freedom, and racial justice." But the opposition to these issues (aka the…

I prefer going to the office at least a few days a week, because (a) I like to socialize with other humans, and (b) I want to get out of my "home office", aka corner of the living …

> These are simply numbers that we have collectively settled > upon. Many a Utopian project began with a premise like this. You can say the same thing about spelling or the calenda…

Netflix does this annoying thing where "Continue watching", "My list", "Trending now", and "Watch it again" appear in randomly different orders each time you log in. It would be li…

fwiw, I found it relevant. It's obviously not _exactly_ the same thing, but "sending an HTTP GET request to a URL" is similar to "viewing HTML source" in that both are totally norm…

For a cloud-based app, that might literally just be at the application gateway. Beyond that, everything could be whatever protocol.

> traditional pronouns Nobody is banning traditional pronouns.

Item two entries down from this one: Sicily hits 48.8°C, the highest temperature ever recorded in Europe (I know there's some question about that reading, but the previous record i…

> This is just a consequence of feminization of society. I'd say you're using misogyny to justify what sounds like very typical toxic masculinity.

> Why should someone "come out" as anything? Because the choice is either to hide important aspects of yourself, or else come out, whether that's explicitly by saying something, or…

> Such a small percentage of the population That's not a good argument for the left to stop defending trans people's rights.

You shouldn't assume that nonbinary and trans people "choose" their identity. They might choose to acknowledge it, to themselves or to others. At least, that's been my experience. …

I don't know if the connection is that direct or causal, but I'm NB and went through a punk/goth phase in high school, and part of the appeal was that it's an "acceptable" way to b…

Technical writer here. I avoid saying something is "simple," because whether it's simple is subjective and is relative to the reader's background knowledge. So at best it's unhelpf…

> then it isn't making things substantially worse At least in the United States, any encounter with law enforcement can potentially end in violence, so anything that makes it easie…

My kid went thought a phase of really liking "Brown Bear, Brown Bear." Probably about the same age. And I think you're right -- it's the anticipation of seeing what the next animal…

I love that part, and also "goodnight nobody" - the book starts out being very concrete (saying good night to all the things in the room) then expands out to encompass everything a…

> Trans peoples existence certainly has been politicized To expand on this - If a trans person has a coworker who consistent and deliberately mis-genders them, there's no way for t…

> They're not necessarily ethnic The first list you posted has a bunch of "funny" East Asian names. That stuff was racist in "Sixteen Candles," there's no excuse for it in a modern…

True - but arguably Trump was too slow to invoke it and it wasn't broad enough. And states had to bid against each other to get PPE, only to have the Feds then seize confiscate som…

> our leaders In the United States at least, that's a bit of a cop out. Lockdowns were applied at the local level and were originally meant to buy time and prevent hospitals from b…