"Only to find out years later — that instead of just moving my services, they left the service connected at the other place and weren't sending me bills for it, instead, they ruined my credit."

The symptoms that show up in little kids are often considered shitty little kid behavior, too. My cousin has Celiac, as well as a host of other recently-diagnosed allergies/intolerances. When she was diagnosed, everyone was like, "Ohhhh. Obviously." Because when she was a little kid, eating almost anything made her…

Yes, time is the best memory dampening drug...except for the truly traumatic memories, which are the ones that need dampening the most.

From what I understand, the beginnings of these drugs (or actual drugs—I don't understand how science) already exist, and they are not about erasing memories. The mind is too complex and we are not adept as a species at navigating the brain (yet?) to Eternal Sunshine actual brains. But making them less intense, that's…

But these drugs don't "wipe memories," they dampen them. That's really an entirely different thing. And there's also a difference between "unpleasant" and so horrifying that recovery without some sort of mind-alteration is virtually unthinkable.

Yeah but there are people who don't like who they are because their memories are so traumatic. People who have severe PTSD or crippling fear of crowds, or other people, or touch, or whatever—those people might want to be someone different. I imagine that if I was a victim of severe trauma and became incredibly afraid…

Yeah I think that the argument that the illegal things he's talking about are already illegal, so it's all cool—that's not really an adequate argument. It's not structurally all that different from the arguments that scientists made when developing the nuclear bomb—like, this thing will do so much good because…

He doesn't actually say "memory erasing drugs," does he? He keeps referring to "memory-dampening drugs," which are an entirely different thing. I have painful memories that have faded over time, and thus become less painful. Like, when I was in high school, the memories of being bullied in middle school were much more…

This is fucking hilarious.

Your post confuses me. It seems at first like you're criticizing the article for not taking this woman's experience seriously enough*, but then you end your comment by saying that you "almost" support eugenics? Either you are pro- or anti-eugenics. You can't be kinda cool with some eugenics as long as you're the one…

Last summer a bat got into my apartment somehow. I heard something flying around my room, and was like, "OH MY GOD THERE MUST BE A CICADA IN HERE!" and sat up, and felt something swish past me and land, like a rocket, in the bed. It flew right into the pillow case of the pillow my partner was sleeping on. I freaked…

Yeah you only have a couple of weeks. Once you have rabies for real, you die from it. Sucks!

Yeah, but now you're addressing what the rest of the original article address—that just because it's "optional" doesn't mean that we shouldn't address problems: "The easy answer, of course, is simply to not use Google+. And I'm quite sure some people will posit that as a solution. But there are two reasons that's not…

I don't think that they're actually real. I mean that olde timey sailors/travelers/explorers/etc wrote up travel accounts describing the shit that they saw. They also wrote about the Amazons, so.

People are not as nice as you think they are. If a kid is gay and contemplating suicide, how many parents do you think would tell their kid, "Go ahead, kill yourself, you're not worth the air you breath, faggot"?

Anthropophagi aren't fairies, exactly. They were thought to be inhabitants of Africa in the middle ages and early modern period (at least). They appear in a bunch of travel narratives, all, "Check out these crazy-looking dudes we saw from our boat when we sailed past Africa! Criz-ay-zee, amirite?"

Did anyone else think that The Year of the Flood was better than Atwood's Oryx and Crake?

Wait, can someone please explain "He found out in the future that the person he knew was the baby of someone else he knows. And then happened to realize that in future, they fall in love."

Well my parents suck and avoided awkward conversations with me, so I just never had those conversations at all.

Just because a lot of people think something, doesn't mean it's not closed minded.