What? Why would you permanently compress it?

Hatch is great. It's easy to get started but I wouldn't call it simple. Flit is simple, because it's limited.

Hatch is complex enough to allow you to override everything, which makes it not simple, but also not complicated.

I agree, although it undersells hatch and has a title that made me roll my eyes. Very well researched, none of the usual hot takes and clichés.

Countries that aren't the US of A exist.

I don't see Ben Shapiro as an “opponent”. His weapons-grade bad takes aimed at nothing but to stoke the fires of a culture war simply are vile.

Try spending a new year's eve in e.g. Germany.

everybody above the age of 15 can and will start fireworks in close vicinity to everyone else doing it. You do not feel safe.

Doesn't apply to the author here, so I don't understand why you brought it up?

They accepted one that adds gender neutral pronouns in more than one place instead lol

We could maybe give people like her a glimpse into the sheer defiance that nature has against all attempts to fit into tiny categorical boxes.

It's not just the topics that she doesn't understand (especially the intersection of gender with endocrinology and neurology), but everything.

If you are a biologist and think you have found a rule that applies to some part of biology, you will feel deeply uncomfortable until the inevitable exceptions start cropping up that tell you that while the theory is still statistically sound, it's not unnaturally strict and therefore plausible.

Obviously trans people exist and are valid. Thinking otherwise would be ignoring mountains of biological patterns and data that tell us that every binary in biology isn't actually clean-cut.

Yeah, everyone is the hero in their own story, so from their perspective, they surely feel like they know things until they meet an actual biologist challenging them.

TERFs invoke half-remembered high-school level biology as if it was mathematical fact. In actual biological reality, nothing is binary or absolute. I don't need a PhD in computational biology to know that, but if surely helps.

The track record of the Biden administration is solid. Why should that change?

How about being a compassionate human being who tries to understand the conversation partner's fears without bowing down to misinformation? If that's not enough for them because they see debunking their bunk as personal attack, I don't think anyone from outside of their cult is an acceptable conversation partner for them.