From the misleading headline, I'd agree. Imagining a bird roosting for 3 months in your hair is insane.

The article tells another story, though. She just raised a bird. She fed it, and it slept in a box. When it was old enough to do so, it would sit on her shoulder and tug her hair around itself.

Doesn't seem like such a big deal if you read the article.

Here's a video of the author, as provided in the article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgiMlnbDN6I

From the headline, I imagined that for 3 months she carried a nest made of wooden branches on her head. Very disappointing that it wasn't the case.

I kinda agree with you, but I had conflicting feelings, one part of me was thinking oh this look so sweet but meanwhile another part was thinking wtf am I really reading about someone letting a bird live in her hair, not sure yet what to think about my time management capabilities sometimes

Funny, for me it's this comment.

Edit: What particularly annoys me is how techies are so intolerant of different life experiences. Fine, you wouldn't do what she did. Good for you. How is it then okay to denigrate that person's experience and how is that acceptable on HN? How is that kind of intolerance and closed-mindedness acceptable?

> how is that acceptable on HN?

It's not. It's explicitly against the guidelines. Which is why GP is getting downvotes

When your whole world is mapped to the 9s, every thing named and every definition known. And you are the master of it. The unfamiliar can seriously upset your crystal handtruck.

I mean, your edit is being close-minded to their experience as well. You can't argue the virtues of subjectivity only one way.

Absolute Peak Guardian.

And in other Guardian news: I bought a 2-bed flat in London (with the help of my rich parents) for ONLY £1.5million. The housing market in the UK isn't so bad after all!

To be fair, the Guardian would be very unlikely to downplay the cost of housing. I think a more likely story would be “The only way I could afford a flat without a mortgage in my early 20s was to move out of London. This is what I have learnt from this traumatic experience:”

"people are saying hello to me and I don't like it"

This must be a generational thing. For me, Peak Guardian occurred in 1994 when Richard Gott was outed as a Russian agent of influence. At the time he was their Literary Editor, previously he had been their Features Editor. He had been taking money from the KGB for 30 years by that point.

I think we're the same generation, but I'd consider that incident Peak Grauniad™ - it was a very different newspaper back in those days. The first half of the Rusbridger era, which followed soon after, was probably the last time it had any worth as a source of news. The last ten years or so though it's just painfully middle-class angst in newspaper form.

Ha! In my initial draft I too spelled it Grauniad. And I agree, it's a totally different newspaper, but as far as I can tell, that's true for all the broadsheets (although in different ways)

I thought it was nice, not quite what the title indicated

No war, politics, or technical problems. Just bird...

clearly you dont read much.

I thought the same. I've seen and read so many stupid things - especially recently, starting from before the election of Trump, with the peak during the pandemic, and now Putin's apologetics[0] - that this bird story seems the epitome of reasonableness.

I discovered that people who haven't had proper education in hard science are particularly susceptible to manipulation involving the invisible: radiation, nanotechnology, genetic engineering. Younger people, who studied these subjects recently, even superficially, don't fall flat for obvious stupidities like 5G vaccines if only because they understand the current limitations of the technologies involved.

[0] Reuter's note about Faebook temporarily suspending hate-speech rules against "Russian soldiers and Russians" is another example of stupidity - and a harmful one.

Abtract concepts are always somewhat invisible. What counts is having the analytical skills to match your book knowledge.

I 100% knew it had to be a well-off white woman doing this without even opening the article.