It’s not. The point is: you don’t get to decide what you call others. Especially when they’ve already corrected you and you know better. And it’s Miss btw, by your own logic.

Hmm, I see you as someone who is called Mr Poopyface, I guess it’s alright if I call you that then, Mr Poopyface?

Sure, that seems reasonable to keep away from minors. Like, I couldn’t commit to whether or not I was a “music person” at that age;

People need to understand that not receiving hormone treatment is also a commitment to a gender—one that you don’t identify with. From that perspective, it’s plain stupid to deny children the treatment they need.

To stay with your example, let’s say you are 14, interested in music, but you hate sports. You might not be able to commit to being a “music person” at that age, but it would still be the obvious choice to further explore your interest in music rather than forcing yourself into being sports person instead.

And sure, there are blockers to delay some developments, but I feel like a lot of people don’t recognize that this is not a choice between A and nothing, but between A and B, and one path permanently locks you out of the other.

It might be reasonable, but the question still stands: why does Microsoft put so much effort into trying to convince people to use Edge? The purpose of Edge is to have a preinstalled browser so that you can start working right away and don’t need to rely on 3rd party software to do basic tasks. Great, I get that. Every OS has their own preinstalled browser. But what I don’t get is, why do they actively try to stop you from using a different browser? Why do they put in so much effort to stop you from installing Chrome? Why do they not put in the same effort when you try to install Notepad++ or Paint.Net? What’s so special about a browser, compared to other standard software? I can think of anti-consumer reasons, like harvesting and selling your data. And yes, Chrome isn’t any better in that regard, but at least you make the choice yourself.

Dude, nothing is more suspicious than when a developer of a supposedly free app nags you to use their app. Why do they even want you to use Edge so badly? You’re never going to pay any money for it, this screams “give us your data, we want to sell it”.

Sure, just throw money at the corpos, but please don’t act surprised when they suddenly double the premium fee, or when they start sneaking in ads for premium users. That’s the problem with corpo greed, it just never ends, and the moment you give in to it, you lose.