Comment and Link Roundup: May 18, 2020

[brin_bellway]

I was too tired to do this last week, so here is a longer three-week post.


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Another mind-blowing these-songs-are-by-the-same-person fact:

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(This is from March 4th, but I overlooked it while making the previous roundups.) [Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by archosaur-automaton) The adorable cover of this textbook is harder to appreciate when you've actually taken the course it's used for.

[mild cw: food, apocalypse] (This is from April 8th, but I overlooked it while making the previous roundups.) [Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by 1rakus) A quiz with weird question weightings, and a digression on emergency power generation.

[arguably cw: aging] (This is from April 24th, but I overlooked it while making the previous roundup.) [Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by thejogging) The many meanings of a half-broken key.

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by sigmaleph) A short puzzle game about meeting password construction requirements.

[cw: amnesia] [Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by staff) Tumblr is ramping up its censorship, under the guise of "keeping hate speech in check".

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by wolffyluna) Fun with Project Gutenberg.

[cw: food] [Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by rustingbridges) Preference ranking of starches.

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by wolffyluna) Space-efficient email apps.

[cw: nsfw text, (mild) discourse] [Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by tototavros; also in response to shieldfoss and eightyonekilograms) Today in people getting separated by a common language (and not always geographically): how to distinguish between different types of plug. [three comments]

[Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by lavenderfables) I like Rincewind *because* of his cowardice, not in spite of it.

[cw: Pyrebound spoilers] [WordPress part 1; WordPress part 2; WordPress part 3; Wayback part 1; Wayback part 2; Wayback part 3] (OP by theredsheep) Pyrebound reactionblogging. (It's amazing! If you're okay with stories getting pretty dark sometimes, go read it!) [four comments]

(I noticed while archiving those that each section had exactly one previous crawl, manually requested, starting in July 2019 but continuing for the post written afterward. It's good to see that someone has taken the story under their wing.)

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There is a blanket [cw: illness] on the rest of this post.


Comments on my own posts:

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Comments on other people's posts:

[cw: death, apocalypse] (This is from March 9th, but I overlooked it while making the previous roundups.) [Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by englishproblems) In which I see a real-world meme that looks like something out of a piece of apocalyptic fiction.

[mild cw: poison, death] (This is from April 18th, but I overlooked it while making the previous roundup.) [Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by screenageralex, but read the whole thread) It turns out that having a false start in university can have some pretty terrible consequences, if it delays your entry into a remote-work-friendly field until *after* a pandemic.

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by siderea) Don't take dextromethorphan as a palliative for COVID-19 coughs. Just in case.

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by lydamorehouse) Toe rashes as a sign of COVID-19.

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by siderea) The Chinese government is producing terrifyingly provocative English-language anti-U.S. propaganda.

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by lydamorehouse) COVID-19 infection is not a binary state; also, plague victory gardens. (Update: the garden centre attached to the grocery store had *no* food crops except a couple of berry bushes: pretty much the only plants left were decorative, though they did at least have plenty of composted manure (at Mom's request, I picked up three 12kg bags for $2.50+tax each). I'll check the garden centre attached to the department store next Errand Day--hell, might as well check the grocery-store one again too, I'll be there--but my hopes are not high.)

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by lydamorehouse) Pulse-oximeter recs. (I looked it up: AccuMeds *are* still in stock *if* you buy directly from the manufacturer, but after shipping it's about 80 CAD. Not *hundreds* of dollars, but I still don't think I can afford that right now, given that I don't even have a fully functional roof.)

[arguably cw: venting] [Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by 90377, though my post is more *inspired* by hers than actually responding to her) Because of the overlap between COVID-19 symptoms and the effect that breathing outdoor air has on me, the rules of quarantine are much stricter on me than most people.

[cw: politics, (arguably) discourse] [Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by argumate; in response to eightyonekilograms and rustingbridges) Uptake rates of mask-wearing. [two comments]

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[XKCD; Wayback] (by Randall Munroe) Colds suck. No mercy.