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Physician Michael Klaper puts it succinctly[1]:

“We have no more need for the milk of a cow than we do the milk of a dog or a giraffe.”

[1] https://www.doctorklaper.com/dairy-free

Mods, please stop "improving" HN story titles to be less illuminating

Two recent examples:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44531569Original submission title matched the article itself, "You should repaste your MacBook (but don't)". It has since been changed to the far less elucidatory title of "Repaste Your MacBook".https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44482978"A 17-year-old teen refutes a mathematical conjecture proposed 40 years ago" (matching the article...

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Re:Thunderbird 140 "Eclipse" on Thursday July 10, 2025 @12:52PM (#44522997)
> On a several occasions (most recently today), Thunderbird has "lost" my mail messages that are in my inbox when I move them to a local folder. Effectively it corrupts the messages - they appear in the local folder as 1 KB messages with no subject or sender info. They are empty messages.

Apple's Mail app has had a virtually identical bug since Catalina; Michael Tsai's article on the issue currently has 636 comments:

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2019/10/11/mail-data-loss-in-macos-1...

After witnessing the bug myself, migrated to Thunderbird with Maildir enabled[1] for long-term storage; have yet to experience the issue despite a large database (>300,000 emails) and daily IMAP import to local folders.

[1] https://tinyapps.org/blog/202207100700_thunderbird_mbox_to_m...

After several hours, the HN title has been modified again to match the original much more closely, from "Hannah Cairo has solved the Mizohata-Takeuchi conjecture"[1] to "Hannah Cairo: 17-year-old teen refutes a math conjecture proposed 40 years ago".

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20250706185220/https://news.ycom...

There is too much "helpful" title modification of late. The original title itself fits within HN limits:

"A 17-year-old teen refutes a mathematical conjecture proposed 40 years ago"

The site's guidelines are clear[1] but increasingly ignored by some moderators:

"...please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I was nodding in modest agreement with @behnamoh's comment on self-aggrandizement, but your reply brought a huge smile to my face. And visiting his linked website dialed the mirth up to 11.

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