Comment and Link Roundup: January 21, 2021

[brin_bellway]

Comments on my own posts:

The one about Signal [four comments]

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Comments on other people's posts:

[WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by reasonableapproximation) Radical self-expression through clothing.

[cw: embarrassment squick] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by rustingbridges; partly in response to sigmaleph) The confusing proliferation of names in Worm. [two comments, three if you count the tags]

[cw: food] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by BagelofDeath) Honest Chinese food reviews from a Chinese restaurant owner. (Also, advice on how to get good chicken fingers in Canada.)

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by grayestofghosts) Sometimes reading less is a reasonable response to changing circumstances.

[cw: food] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by moral-autism) Some types of professionally preserved foods we highly recommend trying.

[maybe cw: stalking] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by nerviovago; in response to plain-dealing-villain and moral-autism) Hiding secret passageways inside fake clothes dryers.

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Links:

[cw: nsfw text, (mild) death] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (by arihi) A new repository for mind-control erotica, one that is *not* built on 90's tech with 90's limitations.

[Rock Paper Shotgun; Wayback] (by Nate Crowley) I thought this was going to be about priest-based Age of Empires builds, but the thing it actually is is neat too.

Three laugh-rule entries:
[Bloomberg; Wayback crawling forbidden] (by Matt Levine)

Or combine the last two approaches: “At the end of each trading day from now on, the number of Tesla shares will be adjusted, via split or reverse split, such that each day’s closing price is $420.69.” A share of Tesla could represent a variable percentage interest in the company, but always be worth $420.69. Elon you can live this dream if you want it enough.

[Kiwix; Wayback] (by Stéphane Coillet-Matillon)

I wish I could tell you how we did it, but it involved some C++, Typescript, and sacrificing a few chicken. Only two of these three worked, and there’s still some discussion about which.

[cw: politics] [The Guardian; Wayback] (by Lauren Aratani)

“It’s fun to stay at the Y.M.C.A.!” could be heard on full blast as Trump waved to the crowd after climbing the steps of Air Force One, his family following behind him. (They, unfortunately, did not break out into the song’s dance before entering the plane.)

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


Comments on my own posts:

Respirator, part 2: Live-fire exercises [two comments on Tumblr]

And hoped by stretching tall that they might keep their land/Their home, their hearth, their flesh and soul

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Comments on other people's posts:

[arguably cw: discourse] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by Aria Bendix; arguably in response to kaduva) You know you can just tape some cloth over the valve on a valved mask, right? You don't have to abandon an otherwise-excellent piece of PPE just because it came with a valve.

[WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by David Wallace-Wells) The coordination problems of designing vaccines in advance.

[cw: food] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by andmaybegayer) The ideal way to salt popcorn.

[WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by sigmaleph) Old typos and older memes.

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Links:

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