Without the haber process modern civilization could not be sustained. We cannot go back without massive population losses. Dunno about you but I'm not picking which of my friends and family aren't important.
She can call people whatever she wants that's the point. You don't go to jail for calling me an asshole. Being forced to use speech that counters her actual thoughts is the part she's willing to go to jail for. You would likely do the same for your own beliefs.
The without ever visiting is the grey area. Federated instances provide the interface to the underlying instances, so yeah you kind of are "visiting" it if you interact. But you're right, the mods of any given instance that host the content source get to decide what happens after the fact.
It's hyperbole and she is referring to being forced to think a particular thing. She's not wrong on the premise. But no one wants to analyze this because thinking and discord are hard.
Just use they/them. It's universally understood and was in use long before you ever knew about LGBTQ at all. It's really not hard. Whatever you think about gender or sex, this is a neutral acknowledgment that is a person. We can all at least agree on that.
To be fair what you've described is just about what any public facing for profit business is heading for lately it seems. Your experience is not dissimilar to mine in engineering.
It really doesn't matter what you call them or how you feel about it, Israel is in the position to call the shots and the US is their most influential ally on this. Israel isn't going to magically go the peaceful route without external pressure, and you have to be fucking joking to think they care what Palestinians care.
I don't know him and never met him so my opinion is colored purely by the content of his I have seen, and I get the same impression. For someone being poised as Sagan's successor, I'm not convinced he's got the right approach.
Without the haber process modern civilization could not be sustained. We cannot go back without massive population losses. Dunno about you but I'm not picking which of my friends and family aren't important.