In my experience (vegan since 2002), the people who think breastmilk isn’t vegan aren’t actually vegans, but (1) omnivores who like to say “gotcha!” or (2) people who have some mental health issues that manifest in elimination diets. When I was a baby vegan, there was a news story going around about a couple that…

I will definitely give them a shot! I also spent a lot of time with my grandparents, who were in their 70s when I was a kid, and had a great relationship with them.

Ah, thank you for clarifying! It is easy to misread comments on the internets.

The original article says it is late-baby boomers and early-Gen-Xers (grandparents in their 50s) who don’t want to do free childcare because they aren’t retired.

They do want to bring back the woman-as-housewife (they don’t remember that poor women have always worked), but they don’t want to bring back the family wage that made it possible for white middle-class families to live well on a working father’s income. It doesn’t make sense.

I’ve also wondered why childcare is so expensive if the workers are so underpaid, even at progressive non-profit childcare centers. I ask friends who work in childcare, and the best I can discern is that after administrative salaries, insurance, rent, and utilities, there isn’t much left for the workers. This may be…

I’m curious where you’re based. It is awesome you have access to high-end childcare centers that pay their workers a fair wage. I live in a liberal US city, and have a good friend who was a childcare worker at one of the most expensive and professional childcare centers in the city, and I think his place paid around…

From the original NYT article:

“Meet today’s grandparents, a combination of younger baby boomers and older Generation X’ers who are under 65 and not yet retired.”

I wish the merger hadn’t subordinated io9 to Gizmodo. I also really miss Annalee and Charlie; I started reading because I was their fangirl from She’s Such a Geek.

Me too! I’ve been here for 6 or 7 years, but I only comment a few times a month so I never earned my pre-kinja star. Sometimes on io9, where I comment more regularly, the boys in grey tell me to go back to Jezebel, but I am grey here so it is easy to be lost in the other comments.

I cared way more about Barb than Will. She actually felt like a real person instead of the object of rescue. I don’t mind a story driven by an object of rescue in itself, but I am still pissed the show forgot about Barb and nobody bothered to look for her except Nancy and nobody cared she died.

Not sure if you meant to reply to me, because I agree! 14 years vegan here. I am fortunate enough to have never been poor, but I did eat well as a vegan when I made $9000 a year. Avoiding processed foods was really helpful for staying within my budget.

I agree that it is a privilege to be able to follow a fad diet, but I don’t want to link fad diets with people who eat mindfully as part of a commitment to broader social change. MOVE comes to mind as an example of the latter.

I am a parrot enthusiast and for some reason baby-boomers hear “parrothead.” They are disappointed when I say, “No, the animal! The bird!”

I the shelter dog story is really heart-warming, but it is a bit exaggerated according to snopes:

I am just a casual reader of comics, but I believe she didn’t have a father until the New-52, where yeah, Zeus was her dad. They changed her origin story quite a bit, and she was only 23 in the present day instead of 1000s of years old. I think the movie is based on the original origin story so she will be Hippolyta’s…

I’m more troubled by her wedge heels. This picture is from her Batman v Superman costume, but I think I spotted the wedge heels in this trailer, too.

These posts on the RNC protests are making me nostalgic. I went to the DNC and RNC protests in 2008 and it was quite the spectacle.

Do you just have to turn on “battery saver” mode? Mine doesn’t seem to count steps once the screen puts itself to sleep, but I’ve been having a problem with the game freezing in battery saver mode. (Playing on an Android.)

Shoot, missed a few deals already due to indecisiveness.

Shoot, missed a few deals already due to indecisiveness.