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.

The needless socialization at the office killed my productivity. I don’t need to be interrupted and I don’t need an hour lunch. I socialize off-hours with real friends and family. Work is for (more effective) working

> 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.

This is the most annoying thing. I am confident Netflix and others have data that this increases “stickiness” or some other made up engagement metric, but as a user, it just leaves me frustrated.

Lies, damn lies, and statistics—whenever a company relies too much on data to influences UX or content I feel like we end up with a bad UX and bad content that only superficially increases short-term engagement.

Data-driven decisions only go so far, IMO, and often the search for more data leads to blatant user privacy violations. Personally, I wish we could go back to the dictatorship-style UX: one person is ultimately in charge of UI. They have the final say in every UI decision for that application. At least that’s consistent!

Seems like you are alternately being assigned to the control group and test group of an A/B usability test.

It's a proven method in gambling games. Oh you thought you clicked "my list"?

Sorry, but now you have a list of trending stuff, look at all this good stuff!

You want to watch some, right? Do it now or later, no pressure!

It also helps retain people who would otherwise leave in some cases.

I just want the ability to hide things.

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.

In many parts of the world they are being soft banned.

Yet. And somebody certainly is.

Would spice things up a bit. Might not be a bad idea.

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.