Subpixel font rendering is critical for readability but, as the author points out, it's a tragedy that we can't get pixel layout specs from the existing display standards.
YouTube is effectively a Google Podcasts platform already.
Paying for YouTube Premium to avoid ads is some of the best money I spend each month. I wish I could do the same for Spotify podcast ads. I do pay for Spotify already to avoid ads in music, but I can't seem to avoid them for the Joe Rogan Experience.
Interesting to see this on hacker news. Obviously illegal human trafficking is abhorrent, and I hope we learn more about the charges soon.
It's also interesting that he became an internet phenomenon after previous similar allegations, so I've always be apprehensive about him and people like him.
Your argument sounds like 'these ideas are wrong so yours is wrong too' without contending with the content of my arguments and examples.
I'm totally willing to be kind and treat other people with respect. Never claimed otherwise.
But I also hope people see the errors of their ways, how harmful it can be, and to not try to indulge children and teenagers who get caught up in it. Leave the kids alone.
I don't think any of those examples are good analogies. None of those involve 'pretending to believe obvious lies' or self-mutilation.
The harm of social transition is relatively minor and easily reversible. It's not as concerning, but it still perpetuates the phenomenon as 'tolerable'.
The harm of physical transition is permanent and devastating. We should consider the precautionary principle when engaging in irreversible actions.
Puberty blockers, sex hormones, mastectomies, and the rest are not compassionate treatments for dysphoric youths, but children are being fast-tracked into these decisions without much thought for how likely they'll be to regret it. Certainly many do, and it's an awful tragedy.
As all humans have before two seconds ago, we should let children grow into their bodies, and then they can make better-informed decisions as adults.
My main point being: this stuff is absolutely unacceptable for children, and adults are free to behave however they want, but I won't 'accept' it or go along with it.
It is not compassion to lie to people and pretend they are what they are not.
Gender dysphoria is real, social contagion is real, and we shouldn't accept or embrace a self-destructive ideology that radically derails the lives of teenagers and younger.
Adults can behave however they want, but it should be considered child abuse to foster transgenderism and transsexuality in minors.