Want to read Reddit but don’t have the time? Our daily Reddit Digest highlights the most interesting or important discussions from around the social news site—every morning.
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Reddit’s newest hire, community manager David Croach, just found out he has leukemia. Reddit staff are asking community to help: “A bone marrow transplant’s success relies heavily on the host’s and donor’s immune markers being similar enough that the new bone marrow doesn’t attack its host. This is where we all come in: there hasn’t yet been a good enough match for [David’s] transplant, so we need to get as many people screened as possible to find a good match.” (/r/blog)
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On Thursday we met some expert fantasy mapmakers at r/geek. Today, we continue the geek-out theme. The guy who invented the Dothraki language for HBO’s Game of Thrones, David Peterson, is telling you whatever you want to know about inventing your own highly realistic languages for your fantasy realm. So, as Kal Drogo would say: “M’athchomaroon!” Or something. I think that means aloha. (/r/Fantasy)
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Did you know that mapmakers intentionally include “fake streets or other small errors to be able to detect unauthorized copies?” (/r/YouShouldKnow)
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Some might find this question about autism offensive: “Given that autism causes one to have less empathy, why aren’t more autistics involved in criminal acts (just as psychopaths)?” But the responses it inspired from an emotion and empathy scientist provide some fascinating insight into autism. (/r/askscience)
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Redditor wallyroos suffers from a rare disorder: “My body is split right down the middle with the left side being larger than the right in every way. Bone growth, muscle layer, fat layer, finger length, even my nether bits.” He has pictures to prove it, and his AMA is well worth a read. (/r/IAmA)
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Why did the United States bomb Cambodia during the Vietnam War? And why did the military use so much damn ordinance? (/r/history)
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“I found something on my boyfriend’s Reddit account.” Many redditors are no doubt terrified by the consequences of this sentence. If you’re the greatest good samaritan on Earth, however, you’ve got nothing to worry about. (/r/TwoXChromosomes)
Did I miss something? Let me know in the comments.
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