@cwebber My current project: https://www.python.org/doc/sunset-python-2/

when I was on Mike Daisey's https://mikedaisey.blogspot.com/ email list, the unsubscribe instructions said:

> please reply to this message with the words "I JUST CAN'T BEAR IT" and you will be promptly removed.

which I still think of

Mastodon folks might be particularly interested in my response in this MetaFilter thread -- someone basically asked whether they should give up on Linux entirely, and I replied.

https://www.metafilter.com/183159/Odious-ideas-are-not-entitled-to-hide-from-criticism#7786619

@cwebber Please consider this more an amusing related thing than any sort of advice: https://www.crummy.com/features/MysteryLoaf/

@cwebber turned this into https://www.harihareswara.net/sumana/2019/03/21/0

@cwebber INDEED

So you know how Back In The Past we had _travel agents_ do this sort of thing? And how, even further in the past, people rarely travelled and we assumed that travelling took tons of prep time? This is -- to me -- all of a piece with how a ton of fiddly expensive-if-you-make-a-mistake labor has emerged or shifted onto the middle class's shoulders, without commensurate logistical, psychological, or financial support for that shift