When’s the last time you shaved your beaver? Ew.

Done, thanks!

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Dude seriously. You’re a mod, act like it.

:)

Yeah, the other ongoing article series I’m posting was just too serious and depressing, wanted something lighter

Hi! I had been thinking of starting a community similar to this, and was pointed at this one with the thought that I might adopt it. Would be happy to take it over and grow it.

Who?

https://archive.ph/5Zh7t

It still makes me tear up every time I skim it, yeah.

It’s never been on sale, but the price HAS gone up multiple times since it was first launched in alpha.

There isn’t even any risk, considering the amount of detail they’ve covered in the dev blogs.

They can, but it costs so much that salvaging it is cheaper

Does this ruby actually exist? There seem to be almost no references to it online. A Rolling Stones article, OP’s link, and a couple of reddit posts. It does not appear on Wikipedia’s list of world’s largest rubies. As recently as last year, this would have placed #1 on world’s largest rubies sold.

Something smells fishy here.

There’s a reason the article won a Pulitzer. Maybe you could give it a try

So many possible factors. Family support allowing more sleep, less car-centric cities, less tradition of single parent transporting the kid around while on errands, etc etc.

None of these people were idiots.

Check out this article: Fatal Distraction, it won a Pulitzer Prize. It’s about how the mind works and why this incident keeps happening over and over again.

… what

Nobody INTENDS to leave their kid in the car to die.

Fatal Distraction is a Pulitzer Prize winning article that examines how the mind works and why this sort of incident keeps happening over and over again.

They are. The people who do this? They are you and me and your neighbor.

Check out this article: Fatal Distraction, it won a Pulitzer Prize. It’s about how the mind works and why this incident keeps happening over and over again.

I see it’s time to repost this:

Fatal distraction, a Pulitzer Prize winning article

Tearjerker article about how parents who’ve been through this felt, why it happens, and what car manufacturers could do to prevent it.

Archive link: http://web.archive.org/web/20240617002402/https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/fatal-distraction-forgetting-a-child-in-thebackseat-of-a-car-is-a-horrifying-mistake-is-it-a-crime/2014/06/16/8ae0fe3a-f580-11e3-a3a5-42be35962a52_story.html