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Comment and Link Roundup: October 30, 2023

*flump*

[muffled by lying facedown] hello and welcome to the Q4 edition of this fortnightly roundup

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Comments on my own posts:

[cw: illness, medical, food] Status update, morning of 2023-08-01 [four comments]

[arguably cw: apocalypse] Friday Five: August 25, 2023

[cw: food, poverty] Extreme couponing [two comments on Tumblr]

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Comments on other people's posts:

[cw: apocalypse] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

c-rowlesdraws) The fictional ~~for now~~ cultural symbolism of auroras.

[cw: illness, apocalypse] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

stumpyjoepete; partly in response to

nuclearspaceheater) Air-purifier recs.

[WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

lonelyroommp3) The psychological importance of tidy surfaces.

[WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

sigmaleph) What does "soul" even mean, anyway?

[WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

moonlit-tulip) VPNs and Tumblr shadowbanning. (Update: they *eventually* un-shadowbanned me, several weeks after I contacted them.) [two comments]

[arguably cw: amnesia] [Start of WordPress thread (Tumblr part 1; Tumblr part 2; Tumblr part 3; Tumblr part 4)] (OP by

calware; also in response to

lizardywizard) Pi and the overestimation of common knowledge; speaking of senseless, fortunately-lifted Tumblr bans... [two comments, sort of]

[cw: illness] [Start of WordPress thread (Tumblr part 1; Tumblr part 2)] (OP by

rustingbridges) Nipping colds in the bud (maybe) with zinc lozenges. (They *do* sell Life Extension in Canada, it turns out.)

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Links:

[Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by

sun-dari, but read the whole thread) Pun translations in Good Omens.

[Substack; Wayback] (by Adrian Hon; h/t wolffyluna) Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser: a LARP event from a post-scarcity (or at least much richer) society that tried to manifest on a world not prosperous enough to support it. (Or at least, that was *my* takeaway from the article.)

[Taiwan Quest; Wayback] (by Zhen-Kang) Discouraging under-the-table transactions via a government receipt lottery.

[strong cw: illness] [Dreamwidth; Wayback] (by

synecdochic) Modern COVID-testing technique. (Well, the post is mostly about other COVID-related things, but anyway.)

[cw: medical, (arguably) illness] [Ontario; America; Wayback 1; Wayback 2] (h/t

cobaltdrgn) Did you know that fat people need a different size of vaccine needle?

[NASA; Wayback] We, the people of Earth, have obtained actual rocks from an actual asteroid!

[Dynomight; Wayback] (by Dynomight) The midwit home: smart enough to be helpful, not smart enough to betray you to the corporate overlords (or just be an overcomplicated pain in the ass).

[strong cw: poison, death] [Los Angeles Times; Wayback] (by Emily Alpert Reyes and Cindy Carcamo; h/t nuclearspaceheater) The terrible hidden cost of engineered-stone countertops.

Laugh rule:
[cw: (fairly strong) illness, (fairly strong) apocalypse, war] [Mastodon; Wayback] (by plaguepoems@mastodon.social)

Darker days ahead
she tells me
for all of us there are
darker days ahead
and as she delivers
this ominous declaration
I’m not really sure
if she means the plague
or the catastrophe
some other calamity
or daylight savings
but regardless of the specifics
I fear she is right.

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Comment and Link Roundup: April 12, 2019

I think I will try making link roundups part of my backup routine, so every 1 - 2 weeks.

(Although after going through my recent comment logs, I've found that this roundup isn't as overwhelmingly large as I thought. It looks like my comments over the past few weeks were concentrated into a relatively small number of threads, so there aren't *all* that many different links.)

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Comments on my own posts:

[cw: embarrassment squick] The one about Daylight Savings

[cw: death, aging] A thought experiment [four comments]

[arguably cw: amnesia] The tracker for ArchiveTeam's Google+ project is a sight to behold right now

On microtransactions [three comments]

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Comments on other people's posts:

[cw: poverty, arguably disordered eating, kind of discourse-y] [Tumblr part 1; Tumblr part 2; Wayback part 1; Wayback part 2] (OP by

shieldfoss; in response to

rustingbridges) Food budgets and travelling. [five comments]

[Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by

eightiesbf; in response to

maryellencarter and

sigmaleph) Mental addition. [two comments]

[Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by

yesterdaysprint; in response to

rustingbridges) Optimal bread buttering. (addendum here) [three comments]

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by

sigmaleph) Why say "half-elf" when you can say "orf"?

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Three laugh-rule entries:

[Bloomberg; Wayback crawling forbidden] (by Matt Levine)

The business came of age in an era of excess, but where the culture of Wall Street was reputedly fuelled by drink and drugs, Gross insists he never saw anything troubling at Pimco. Their main high, he says, was sugar — especially M&M’s. “It gave us all the false courage in the world to take on dealers and tell them to go f*** themselves,” Gross recalls wistfully, as he tucks into what looks like an unremarkable tuna melt.

He … what? Their secret weapon was M&M’s? I’m trying to imagine Gross, high as a kite on red M&Ms, calling his coked-up Salomon Bros. salesman and screaming at him over a basis point. Gross, seeing a young protege looking stressed and bleary-eyed midway through a difficult Fed Day, tossing him a bag of candy and saying confidentially “here kid, try some M, only way to survive in this business.” Gross and his crew of traders, celebrating a big year with an all-night party in Vegas featuring fountains of M&Ms. I hope someone does make a movie of his life, just for the M&M scenes.

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

If this doesn’t make a lot of sense to you, you should read this tutorial, in order to recalibrate your ideas of how little sense things can make.

[Blogspot; Wayback] (by Chris Witham)

but truly everything about how she was holding herself suddenly screamed, Bashful!

Or, at the very least, Sunset's posture meekly opened the door, cautiously stuck its head into the room while hiding most of its form behind the door frame, whispered:

Um... I'm bashful, if anyone . . . you know, is interested in that information

paused a moment, added:

Sorry for bothering you

shrunk back a bit at any attention, real or imagined, it had gathered, quickly finished with:

Bye-now

and sprinted away as fast as its figurative legs would take it.

Because posture like that doesn't really scream anything.

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