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  • Seems like a run of the mill liberal whose information about “the left” comes from far right talking points:

    But there is a problem with the way in which discussion about family values and having babies is split into two extreme camps – the trad-wife Right and the “abolish the family” Left. For any young couple starting out, the choices seem to be to either raise your non-binary child in defiance of the nuclear family, or to go full homestead and demand that your wife wear gingham and churn her own butter amongst a multitude of children.

    Like, what the fuck is this shit?

    The discussion about “family values” might seem like this if you only listen to what conservatives are claiming about what “the left” wants.




















  • That’s known as a ligature and they’re pretty common in many programming-oriented fonts, which usually have stylistic sets with different ligatures for different programming languages that you can optionally enable in your editor’s configuration. For example, here’s the stylistic sets the Monaspace font offers:

    Personally I’m not too fond of ligatures so I never enable any, but many folks do like them.

    Edit: and just as a side note, ligatures are super common in many fonts, you just might not notice them. Here’s some classic examples from the DejaVu Serif font, with and without a ligature: