Comment and Link Roundup: January 8, 2020

[brin_bellway]

Comments on my own posts:

[cw: poverty] Even industrialised, winter is a lean season [one comment, not counting the postscript]

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Comments on other people's posts:

[Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by sigmaleph) The relative difficulties of various imaginary senses.

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by sigmaleph) The appeal of lottery tickets.

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Links:

[Mastodon; Wayback (on the Wayback version, you must open the image in a new tab to get it to display properly)] (by DialMforMara; h/t cryptovexillologist) Menorah alignment chart.

[Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by sidelinesofcode, but read the whole thread) Elemental-pod memes.

Two laugh-rule entries:
[WordPress; Wayback] (by Bret Devereaux)

I say that with no animus towards Star Trek – I too love roughly 50% of the original series, exactly five seasons of TNG, DS9 and four or five Voyager episodes, like everyone else.

[cw: politics]

[Slate Star Codex; Wayback] (by Scott Alexander)

I am telling you, if there is a God, when I get to heaven I’m not stopping to be interviewed. I am heading straight in. I have earned my place in heaven. It’s not even close.

Let’s not focus on what this says about your humility, or about your religious beliefs. I want to focus on a different issue.

Despite spending $100 million in the first month of your presidential campaign, you are currently placed fifth – behind two socialists, a confused old man, and the mayor of South Bend, Indiana. In, let’s not forget, an increasingly shaky effort to prevent President Donald J. Trump from winning a second term.

So my question for you is: what makes you so sure you’re not in Hell already?