The British establishment has so clearly colluded to make sure we're given no quarter to advocate for ourselves. We're depicted, we're demonised, we're allowed to watch from the sidelines as two panels of cis people discuss with deceptive civility how to solve the problem that is our inclusion in society on their comfy news sofa - but if we take any action they can't spin into rationale for retaliation it's allowed to die in the wind.

We protest non-violently, it's seldom covered by our media. We respond to poorly informed reports whose conclusions about our healthcare implemented would lead many of us to despair, we're dismissed as biased. We organise one of the largest in-person parliament lobbying events in living memory, the domestic media leaves it for international outlets to report on.

But if we protest and leave a sticker reflecting our discontent? Trans vandalism, these sick people should just debate us. We speak too harshly against the people working incrementally towards our excision from society? Trans threats, these people are dangerous. We do a little bit of property damage so that literally anyone will pay attention? Trans criminality, maybe we need to bring the hammer down on them.

Meanwhile public healthcare for trans adults is a Kafkaesque endeavour in waiting lists which stretch on for years if not decades. Healthcare for trans youth is incrementally snuffed out entirely, and the data showing the rise in suicidality and self-harm consequent of that decision is suppressed. Trans people are quietly discriminated against such that many of us live in poverty, and despite that we're disproportionate victims of violence and abuse support is often inaccessible to us.

We're not going quietly into the night. We take actions to try and ensure that no member of our community goes without healthcare, we share resources to help each other avoid poverty, we offer each other support where nobody else will - but we won't lie back and accept the barbarity of society's reaction to us.

Intensifying action in response is a consequence of the fact that we've been given no air to speak, a consequence of the fact that despite our peaceful protestations and attempts at civil debate the assault on our participation in society at large is eroded away at further, a consequence of that we're given no other options.

It's only going to get more radical out there until society realises that we won't accept decisions made about us without us.

It's absolutely fascinating how the right-wing is such a vacuum of creative talent. I don't know that I've ever heard a right-wing musical project which didn't make me wince for lack of quality on an objective level.

It's so bleak watching entire demographics of people being more-or-less openly categorised as expendable. Alerts intended to spur action in response to an impending disaster should be available to as many people as possible.

Even a selection of generic translations with a time inserted would be better than this, and it's heartwrenching that they're not even willing to put that tiny amount of effort in.

I do understand the allure of "we should make things again", and the security implications of maintaining a local manufacturing capacity and workforce - but I think people from advanced economies are incredibly myopic about what it actually looks like to develop that capacity back.

It'll be difficult for the US to compete on price with countries like China, which have a much better developed manufacturing sector and lower wages / cost of living, even with steep tariffs applied to inflate the prices of imported goods.

They'd probably have to subsidise production in the short-term, and invest heavily in capital to automate production to the greatest extent possible so as to avoid needing to ask Americans to accept lower living standards to stand a chance.

Even setting aside that it's so unnecessarily huge, imagine having the utter contempt for others and self-importance necessary to park up on tram lines like that.

Genuinely so disturbing that people are cheering this on, both in general and in the context of these folks being just regular people.

Subscription-based models are a plague, but at least Jetbrains products eventually offer a perpetual fallback license for if you stop paying.

It's absurd that Adobe can just take tools you might depend on away after years of paying the subscription.

It felt like it happened practically overnight when Let's Encrypt released.

Doctor-patient power dynamics deserve so much more scrutiny than they get.

It's always heartbreaking to hear of somebody who died or continued to suffer because they couldn't convince the gatekeeper of care to examine them properly.

Some of the replies here are absolutely vile: if you're going to endorse locking people in cages for years if not decades and pretend that's a justified response to anything short of their being an immediate physical danger to the people around them, then the least you can do is accommodate their most basic needs and ethical positions.

Prisons are pitched to us as places of rehabilitation - somewhere to pay penance and right wrongs before returning to the community, better for having served the time. I think it's a deeply disingenuous characterisation which serves mainly to let people avoid facing up to the reality which is prison's purposeless and ultimately harmful cruelty, but it is the dominant characterisation nonetheless.

But, if we blindly accept the rehabilitation narrative, then how exactly do we expect to rehabilitate people by fracturing them psychologically? By forcing them to violate ethical commitments which are sacrosanct to them, by alienating them from their communities and forcing them to abide by a clockwork dictatorial regime without any semblance of comfort or dignity, by leaving them to rot miserably for years?

No, and no wonder prisons are factories for broken people and recidivism if this is how people think about them. Get a hold of yourselves.

Also, before anybody retreats to the flimsy position of "but prisoners shouldn't eat better than schoolchildren" or "but what about the poor" - yes, those people are also underserved, and we have resources available to improve conditions for all of them too. All that's lacking is will.

Last but not least, if you concede that you care about neither the incarcerated nor the society they come from and will return to in time - then there's also the question of why animals should suffer? If people aren't even worthy of being afforded their basic preferences, then why should the default be the option which necessitates the lifelong suffering of sentient beings on an industrial scale?

Seriously, develop a sense of empathy.

I could understand upgrading so frequently at the advent of mainstream smartphones, where two years of progress actually did represent a significant user experience improvement - but the intergenerational improvements for most people's day-to-day use have been marginal for quite some time now.

Once you've got web browsers and website-equivalent mobile apps performing well, software keyboards which keep up with your typing, high-definition video playback working without dropped frames, graphics processing sufficient to render whatever your game of choice is for the train journey to work, batteries which last a day of moderate to intense use, and screen resolutions so high that you can't differentiate the pixels even by pressing your eyeball to the glass - that covers most people's media consumption for the form factor, and there's not much else to offer after that.