Let's leave aside the question of whether or not this was Musk's real motive. There may be many things wrong with society, but surely nobody believes that the cure to whatever those manifest ills may be, is anybody being able to say whatever they like in 160 characters or fewer on the internet.

It's the kind of nonsense idea held by individuals whose most serious problem in their young lives has been how steep the flight of stairs down to their parent's basement is. People with real problems aren't sitting around thinking to themselves "If only I could attack trans people on Twitter, that would make everything better".

This is the awful irony of all the "abortion only permitted in the event that the pregnancy threatens the life of the mother" laws.

Literally every pregnancy has the potential to kill the mother, and/or the baby. Forcing a women to give birth, for any reason, is monstrous.

The best part of reading linux kernel code, is all the re-implementation of C++ that's in there.

But that already exists. Use C++, with smart pointers everywhere, and you'll never see a double-free.

The one and only thing that Rust brings is package management. And, as history has amply demonstrated, you probably don't want that as much as you think you do.

Times tables, and mental arithmetic, are - I am convinced - a complete waste of a brain. It's like insisting that you must learn to cut a quill pen before you're allowed to learn to write

This is gloriously false. Spectacularly, and magnificently wrong. It is very well known that cooking food increases the amount of nutrition available to the body, and reduces the amount of energy needed to chew and digest it. It was this innovation that freed us from having to spend 50% of our time in the physical act of eating, unlike many other animals. And gave us enough energy and time to further develop our technologies into the planet-destroying species we have become.

This beautiful comment is why I still read this site.

Reduce. Reuse. Recycle

Those things are not listed in that order by accident, they are in the order in which they should be considered. First reduce, then re-use, and finally recycle. Seems like mostly we've ignored the first two.

This is so weird. You compost by putting piles of organic matter, er, in a pile. Then you wait. It takes about a year. The worms come all by themselves if you do it outside, on the ground. You don't need anything else at all.

I suppose there might exist some kind of barren wasteland wherein earthworms are all but extinct - but I don't live in a place like that.

I find it quite fascinating that you believe that the existence of a cross-dressing character in an extremely mediocre and badly-written TV show was "political". That demonstrates your personal biases very clearly indeed. "Another Life" was absolutely awful, in every single respect. The writing, the story, the pacing, everything. But getting upset about a character preferring to wear clothes that have traditionally been associated with a different gender says much more about you, than it does about the show. I watched most of that show, because I'm a sucker for anything in space, and I didn't even notice a cross-dressing character. I'm taking your word for it that there was one, but was that really the thing about that show that annoyed you?

Why don't you give us some concrete examples of this? Since we're talking about Netflix, let's hear about all these gay people that aren't "blending in". You know, specific shows that you find so awfully offensive because they've got gay people in them that you feel don't belong?

The article is commentary from someone totally unconnected with Netflix.

Well, this site, obviously.

..how do you people tolerate, and permit to continue, behaviour like this from critical public services?

How is closing a customers account with no justification even remotely legal?

True. Once we're done, I fully expect them to take over.