The story of how a woman lost her daughter because the grandmother didn’t believe that the girl’s coconut allergy was real, despite years of watching the parents trying to find out the allergen so that they could stop the girl from winding up in the emergency room. The grandmother kept the kid overnight and used coconut oil on her hair; the child went into anaphylaxis and died.

The mother said that the grandmother begs her to see her other grandchildren, as they’ve now cut ties with her; the mom’s response was, “You can come over when you bring my daughter with you.”

A horrible story of how some people just believe they know better than everyone, including doctors.

MacKenzie Scott, Bezos’s ex. She’s given more than $14 billion to charity.

How about “Young Lust” vs. “Great Gig in the Sky” by Floyd? Or pretty much any song from the Syd era.

I have seen many cute things. A cat or two in my time. Bunnies. But that may be the cutest thing I’ve ever seen.

The first thing that came to mind, oddly enough, was Blockbuster refusing to buy Netflix for the equivalent of a rat and a string to swing it with.

Ooooo, this is a good question!

I think mine would be wasabi (or horseradish, depending on how much you are spending). So delightful.

If forced to choose, I’d give up flying. As I’m scared of it anyway, that makes the most sense. :)

That said, I think that if we all just did less of those things, it would be good too. Take more vacations near home. Eat meat only a few times a week. That sort of thing.

Hey, I think it’s fine to cut yourself some slack on this issue. :-)

You like what you like, and if you’re going to commit resources and time to another being over 18 years or so, I think it’s fine to enjoy the way it looks! I for example love gray cats, but only because of a positive association I have with a previous pet. Are all gray cats as loving as he was? I’m sure not, but I still have such positive thoughts in my head about the grey babies. 

My parents were…not great. One of the ways they were not great was that I wasn’t exposed to a lot of new things, so I didn’t have Chinese or Mexican food until I was an adult, not to mention Thai, Middle Eastern, Indian, Japanese, and so on.

So my 20s felt like a decade just full of “holy shit this is amazing” and also a peculiar shame for not knowing such things existed.

My eyes

It’s easy to look at this from the lens of people just wanting power, but maybe it’s something akin to the grief, honest grief, I felt about leaving Reddit because I had been there so long as just a user. I can’t imagine how it would feel to give up control over something that I had created and curated for many years knowing that it was going to be destroyed. 

su root

rm -rf /SteveHuffmanData/SearchHistory/RealStuff

mv HorseNPigPorn.jpg LemonParty.html TubGirl.png SteveHuffmanData/SearchHistory

I’d like to thank you for what you did.

I had been on Reddit for a similar amount of time, but I had cycled through a number of usernames during that period. So it wasn’t nearly as big of a loss for me as it was for you—I appreciate the lengths you went for supporting the cause. Thank you. 

Same, friend. I have three bird tattoos, and I used to be a big birder, but I stopped. The woods around me are becoming quieter, and I can’t stand the silence, so I listen to music instead of looking for friends in the woods.

One of the concepts that has helped me in the past is to think about how the most important piece of media for a lot of elderly people’s lives was the newspaper. When you consider how it was organized—nothing at the top of the first page really matters (all the title and date stuff), the important items are clearly labeled with headlines, advertising was obvious and separate, et cetera—it makes sense why they don’t understand modern UI. I feel like a lot of them also still have the attitude of “if it weren’t true, they wouldn’t be allowed to print it.”