Comment and Link Roundup: September 8, 2020

[brin_bellway]

Comments on my own posts:

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Comments on other people's posts:

[WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by itsbenedict) Tumblr is fucking around with non-chronological feeds again. Make sure to turn the setting off.

[WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by mostlysignssomeportents) Bridgefy: simultaneously worse and better than previously believed. Probably still best avoided on the whole, though I think my threshold for "how desperate would I need to be before resorting to Bridgefy" has lowered.

[cw: what it says on the tin] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by mathemagicalschema) The subjective effectiveness of OTC painkillers.

[WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by jadagul) How to get Chromium-based browsers to *actually* shut down when you tell them to shut down.

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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: poverty, medical stuff, drugs] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by maryellencarter) Different people need different approaches to budgeting. [two comments]

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[Tumblr; Wayback] (by togglesbloggle; h/t moral-autism) Parts of this post rub me the wrong way†, but it's still an interesting piece of history (and I think it's still *mostly* successful at conveying the emotions it intended to).

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†as a takeout worker who cares strongly about disease avoidance, I cannot experience the emotion of pity towards people who get to lock down