bob_roberts

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 Republican party) is rolling in dark money. The forces against social progress are doing just fine without the ACLU.

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 room. I work with a distributed team, so I definitely don't go in to collaborate. In fact, on days with a lot of meetings, I'm more likely to work from home.

> 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 calendar, both of which "logically" need reforming.

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 like if Word randomly put the File menu on the right sometimes.

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 normally things to expect from a user, so it's hard to see how either could count as "hacking".

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 is 48°)

> 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 implicitly by your actions.

In my case, if I didn't explicitly come out as nonbinary / trans, the change in my wardrobe and appearance was going to "out" myself regardless. It seemed healthier and emotionally safer to be upfront about it with the people I know.

In your example, a person doesn't have to "come out" as heterosexual, they can just introduce their spouse, or mention who they are dating. Maybe in an ideal world that would be the case for everyone, but it's not today.

> 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. It was a realization, not a choice.

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 be gender non-conforming. (At least within that particular subculture.)

Having a name for something can be powerful.

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 unhelpful, and at worst it can be insulting.

If you're stuck on a task, the last thing you want to hear is that it's really simple.

On the other hand, I would write that X is a simpler approach than Y, if I was comparing two possible approaches.