I have fantasies of a "Star Trek tricorder" where you can use an app on your phone to get essential health information without a blood draw. (Checking hormone levels would be one I would want to see, if at all possible.)

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Ask HN: Pain Points of Online Clothes Shopping?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2727464

I posted it on July 4, 2011.

I have long dreamed of starting a webcomic and a clothing line. I read Questionable Content online for years, at least until a character dropped their phone in the toilet and never looked at it again after that cuz ewww (germ control is my life), and fantasized I would do what Jeph Jacques did and write a comic and monetize it by selling clothes.

Only NOT just t-shirts like he was selling back in the day when I knew what he was up to but an honest to god real clothing line based on clothes worn in the comic by the main character.

Yes, it's ridiculous and doomed to fail. Jeph Jacques never even answered any of my emails. That rat, ignoring a ditzy nobody. How dare he!

Novemberwest.com

Novemberwestwears.com

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https://raisingfutureadults.blogspot.com/

While I was homeless with my two adult sons, my son came up with the phrase "raising future adults" while we were talking one day. Shortly thereafter, I started my third attempt at a parenting blog using that phrase as the title.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18842009

I self posted the above piece called The Hand Licking Incident to HN January 7, 2019 (nearly 7 years ago) and it did well, 641 points, 348 comments.

It made me ZERO dollars and ZERO cents. No one left any tips nor joined my Patreon.

Shortly thereafter, multiple articles using the phrase "raising future adults" popped up on the Internet. Some butthead happy to line his pockets by stealing phrasing, branding and market position from a dirt poor woman now has the .com site.

I know no one cares.

No girls allowed in the old boys club except hookers and wives. Women: Primarily useful as a decorative bauble hanging off your left arm so you can politely brag "I can afford THIS!" to left-handedly signal competence you may not actually have.

But you are lining someone's pockets for advice on how to raise ethical decent people when they are unacquainted with the concept of ethics themselves.

Methinks you are getting swindled. But it's your money to piss away as you see fit and build the kind of cesspit you prefer living in. I guess.

u/DoreenMichele on Reddit, my only active social media account. (Yes, I have a lobste.rs account. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20261196)

November 6, 2025