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I need it for Rhino + Grasshopper (well, I guess I could run it on a Mac, but I'd lose GPU acceleration).

Everything else is Kubuntu LTS for me, though I am enjoying Garuda Linux on an old laptop.

They're worth learning to understand the universe and the history of how that knowledge was derived and/or discovered.

If it helps you get a job, all the better, but they're worth learning for their own sake.

The crash-out of BJ Penn that's been drawn out for years now continues to be a crying shame.

I have to admit, I had to re-read your response several times to comprehend your points properly.

No slight intended to you; this subject has always been difficult for me to parse correctly and, in turn, respond with any thoughtful or logical relevance. My expression of thought tends to be more clumsy than I would like to admit.

After some consideration of your reply, I think the answer to my question is that TERF position suffers from both of the fallacies I listed in my original supposition, and probably many more that I'm not recalling or aware of.

Considering your two following statements:

TIRFs are not opposed to maleness.

and...

Daly was a wacky Catholic theologian who turned God into a mom, and decided that women were just special magical spiritual beings. This devotion to some kind of divine womanhood is common among the lesbian separatist types

...would it be safe to conclude that TERFs do (in a way) oppose the "maleness" of the Y chromosome as an affront to the purity of their "feminity"? I know I'm repeating my question, but their ethos reminded me of the "single-drop-of blood" policies on ethnic identity from the segregationists of the American South.

It's certainly an absurdity, and many times a dark one at that, observing upon what proverbial hills people choose to die on publicly these days.

I wonder: does she admit to identifying with or publicly support the Tories, Nigel Farage and/or other "Brexiteers", or other conservative personalities and politicians within the UK? Generally speaking, I refuse to use the "Alt-Right" label, as contend that there's nothing "alternative" to naked authoritarian conservatism about it.

I suppose I should just look it up, but I thought I'd ask.

J.K. Rowling is using her wealth attained from the Harry Potter series to create an organization dedicated to removing transgender people's rights "in the workplace, in public life, and in protected female spaces.”

I need some help with this topic.

I never got into Harry Potter; I watched some of the older films, but I've never read the books. I was born in '83, so it never hit me like the folks in my younger brother's and little cousins' generation. I only knew of Rowling's statements about trans people over the years tangentially and largely dismissed it as background noise. I assumed that she considers herself a TERF (trans-exclusionary radical feminist), as opposed to a TIRF (trans-inclusive radical feminist).

On the assumption that I'm correct about her position, what is the true essence of the disagreement between TERFs and TIRFs?

Is it that the presence of the Y chromosome in male-to-female trans people inherently adds a fundamental "maleness" that "true feminists" must inherently oppose due to the overt and implied threats to women that "maleness" represents?

Is it simply a feminist version of a "No True Scotsman" fallacy or an "Appeal to Nature" fallacy?

Maybe both?

"Thriving" is a bit strong.

Why do you hate Bill Gates now?

A lot of things, but I suppose being a partaker of the Slaaneshi Shenanigans^tm^ at Epstein's island could be pretty near the top.

Ah, I think I understand your point better now; thanks.

Though it's also highly debatable, I still think that my old self-imposed label of "anti-authoritarian democratic market-socialist" would turn off more people than "anti-conservative".

At this rate, I should opt for "anti-technofeudalist" in a nod to Yannis Varoufakis if I'm going to piss people off anyway in the U.S.A.

Luckily for me, my wife is Dutch. Therefore, I split my time between the Netherlands and the U.S., so strangers asking about my political persuasion is an exceedingly rare event, at least when I'm in Europa.

Wildcat strikes. Unions can be infiltrated.

Every hired worker is required to have equity in the business as part of their compensation.

He is an independent as a Senator. But you're correct in that he ran as a Democrat in 2016.

Our (U.S.A.) best option for that in recent history was Bernie Sanders in the 2016 election.