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Posting the Matthew Butterick's definite ''ligatures are bad'' take, in case anyone is interested.

Q: Ligatures in programming fonts? A: Hell no https://tinyletter.com/mbutterick/letters/q-ligatures-in-pro...

> And not because I’m a purist or a grump. (Some days, but not today.) Programming code has special semantic considerations. Ligatures in programming fonts are likely to either misrepresent the meaning of the code, or cause miscues among readers. So in the end, even if they’re cute, the risk of error isn’t worth it.

Aformentioned podcast link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0rcLsoIKgA

Better than the simple HTML Gmail? That sounds like it could make me switch.

I quit Gmail because "Google Evil", but came back because I struggled to find a client as good as Gmail's basic HTML one. Does anyone know of a mail service with one as good? It could be something paid or a generic webmail client too.

This is something I've often called a retreat into complexity. Classic example: food corpo gets flak for putting something nasty into their products. They then switch to using an alternative that's just as harmful, just with harder to spot effects.

To be filed under Not Even Pretending Anymore.

The person's deleted their tweets since then but it read something like

> Thinking about how agricultural subsidies are like this classic example of inefficiency but also a big part of the reason the US still has a strong agricultural base.