brin_bellway | Entries tagged with laugh rule

[Bloomberg] (main article by Matt Levine; quoted section from Moody's)

Moody’s tool has revealed thousands of directors who are as young as zero or older than the world’s longest-living person on record. One listed director — at 943 years old — would have been born in the 11th century. This director is allegedly a minority shareholder and beneficial owner of a Belgium-based business services firm that incorporated in 2018.

all of the other immortals must be so mad at this guy

you can't just fucking *tell* people you're 943 years old, dude, we've been *over* this

(on the other hand, it doesn't seem like anyone is believing it, so maybe you *can* just tell people you're 943 years old)

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[Bloomberg] (main article by Matt Levine; quoted section by Sridhar Natarajan)

Wall Street firms usually grumble in private after getting punished by regulators. Anthony Melchiorre’s Chatham Asset Management is dragging its advisers into a public legal battle for $100 million.

The $6 billion hedge fund is demanding that Adviser Compliance Associates not only cover Chatham’s costs for settling a US probe last year, but also damage to its business. In an unusual lawsuit, Chatham claims the outside consultant, founded by former regulators, failed to prevent trading practices that ran afoul of authorities. …

“Chatham sought, received and followed advice from ACA that certain trading practices did not run afoul of the SEC’s cross-trading rules,” Melchiorre, 56, said in a statement through a spokesman. “ACA gave it improper advice and failed to flag these trades as problematic.” The hedge fund intends to vigorously pursue the matter, holding ACA accountable, he said.

~~man, imagine having recourse when your financial advisor advises you to break the law~~

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[Bloomberg] (main article by Matt Levine; quoted section by Elizabeth Lopatto)

“Short … [Reddit],” wrote one r/Wall StreetBets user. “They have not proven that this user base or data set can be monetized.”

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[Bloomberg] (by Matt Levine)

By the way, there’s a very funny anecdote in Scott Patterson’s Chaos Kings in which Nassim Nicholas Taleb goes for a walk with some colleagues at Universa, Mark Spitznagel’s black-swan fund. “Taleb, sweating in his professorial jacket in Miami’s eighty-degree heat, spotted a penny on the pavement in front of a parked steamroller — and picked it up, laughing at the inside joke.” The sort of thing that could only happen to Taleb.

oh my god

Comments on my own posts:

[cw: food, (arguably) illness, (arguably) heights] I have officially survived my twenties

[cw: illness] Variolation, part 4: Secondhand [three comments, one of which is new]

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Comments on other people's posts:

[WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

itsbenedict) A day in the life of a Tumblr user.

[WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

oak23) The importance of ego-syntonic clothing.

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by

nenya_kanadka) How to make Wikia actually usable (and Dreamwidth even more usable).

[cw: illness, medical, (fairly mild) venting] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

cordeliaflyte) Fantasies about easy solutions to medical problems: not always pleasant.

[WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

eightyonekilograms, though also kind of

jv) Tumblr Backup Awareness Week, and a modernised version of tumblr-utils. (Though I ran into enough problems getting the python3 version of tumblr-utils working that I eventually gave up and went back to python2.)

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by

thedarlingone) More on the mobile-accessibility updates to Dreamwidth.

[cw: nsfw text] [Dreamwidth; Wayback crawling forbidden] (OP by

porthole) The distinction between fetishes that can be done in real life and those that cannot (and the grey areas between).

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

ladiesloveduranduran) Which of these U.S. cities would you be most willing to live in?

[cw: illness, (arguably) poison] [Updated part of WordPress thread (Tumblr)] (OP by

rustingbridges; partly in respose to

keynes-fetlife-mutual) Nipping colds in the bud (maybe) with zinc lozenges. [three comments, two of which are new]

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

toasthaste; in response to

robustcornhusk) Norovirus prevention tips.

[cw: sexism, embarrassment squick] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

RaxKingIsDead) Accidental street harassment.

[cw: corporate bullshit, (arguably) government bullshit] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

JoshGreenberg27) How to get government-funded U.S. tax preparation. (It's still not 100% clear, but it looks like probably *not* for non-residents. On the ""bright"" side, I'm below the income threshold to have to file at all for 2023, and there's no further stimulus checks to claim by doing it anyway.)

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

gummybugg; mostly in response to

sacrificedtoatree) I have unlocked a fiction-writing skill tree! [two comments]

[arguably cw: guns] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

trailertrashin) "The Glass Eye - Adult Greeting Cards": a real store that really exists, somehow.

[WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

whatcha-thinkin) Assuming you had access to perfect medical care at no additional cost, which of these fixes would you want most?

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Links:

[strong cw: illness] [Patreon; Wayback] (by Violet Blue; h/t

siderea) A list of COVID-19 resources, consisting largely of people doing their best to navigate things on their own because God knows there are no trustworthy authorities left on this. I bought a $4 bottle of store-brand mouthwash (contains cetylpyridinium chloride) because of this post: I figure it's an extremely low-risk bet.

On a similar though shorter/narrower note, https://synecdochic.dreamwidth.org/805203.html

(Update from January: ...if someone who *doesn't* now have a history of COVID infection (or who can otherwise psychologically handle it) can pick through all the stuff in Violet's news roundups about Post-Acute Sequelae Even Worse Than Previously Believed to get at the actionable advice, I would appreciate it)

[cw: illness] [Absolutely Maybe; Wayback] (by Hilda Bastian) Researchers have not given up on creating a COVID vaccine with sterilising and/or durable immunity! Things may still improve.

[cw: corporate bullshit] [PCMag; Wayback] (by Chloe Albanesius; h/t Violet Blue) Obituaries for tech products and services that were shut down in 2023.

[Youtube; Invidious] (by Pope Kallisti; h/t

blazingdarkness) A MIDI conversion of "Bring Me to Life".

[Live Science; Wayback] (by Victoria Atkinson) I told somebody in a nuclear-vs-solar argument a while back that I'd care less about solar if ordinary citizens could get household-scale nuclear batteries. There has been non-zero progress towards this.

Two laugh-rule entries:
[Beware The Shadows; Wayback] (by Brett J. Talley) The 56 best/worst analogies written by high school students (or, fairly likely, ""high school students""). (I've seen a lot of these before, but not all of them.)

My favourite is "Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers raced across the grassy field toward each other like two freight trains, one having left Cleveland at 6:36 p.m. traveling at 55 mph, the other from Topeka at 4:19 p.m. at a speed of 35 mph."

[brr; Wayback] (by Anonymous; h/t Jenn) Showering at the South Pole. (This whole blog is amazing, though usually more in a "wow, Antarctica is such a place" way than a "funny" way.)

Current Music: "Bring Me to Life" - Evanescence

*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.

Comments on my own posts:

Tips on Offline-First Smartphones, 2023 Edition [one comment on Dreamwidth, one comment on Tumblr]

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Comments on other people's posts:

[WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

nuclearspaceheater) General life improvements of weightlifting.

[cw: illness, (fairly mild) venting] [Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by

mindstalk) The spirit (and not just the letter) of mask rules.

[arguably cw: amnesia] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

unprettyextra; in response to

etirabys) How to help archive Imgur. (Though Imgur has since started its deletions, the archiving project continues.)

[cw: embarrassment squick, (arguably) discourse] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

hjartasalt; in response to

nuclearspaceheater) American hegemony and (sort-of)-multi-currency cash registers.

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

sigmaleph) How to (maybe) know your sleep latency.

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Links:

[arguably cw: amnesia] [Baturin; Wayback] (by Daniil Baturin) A review of a Windows-ripoff Linux distro from 2003.

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

This is the third part of the second part of our three(ish) part look at the governing structures of the Greek polis (I, IIa, IIb). At some point I promise I will write a series whose organization does not look like a parody of itself.

[Mastodon; Wayback] (h/t Seebs)

(here's the alt text on that image in case you want to stick it into Google Traduction:

ARRÊTEZ L'ANGLAIS – L'ANGLAIS N'EST PAS CENSÉE ÊTRE UNE LANGUE INTERNATIONALE – DES ANNÉES D’ANGLAIS et pourtant AUCUN INTERÊT parce qu’on peut regarder la version du film doublée par Kev Adams – Tu veux dire des trucs en anglais pour rigoler? On a un outil pour Ça, Ça s'appelle «GOOGLE TRADUCTION» – «Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo. Will, will Will will Will Will's will? All the faith he had had had had no effect on the outcome of his life» – Indistinguable d'un AVC REGARDE ce que les Anglais te demande de Respecter, avec tous les cours & voyages linguistiques qu’on fait pour les comprendre (Ce sont de VRAIS mots anglais, parlé par de VRAIS Anglais): Embezzling ????? gobbledygook ??????? discombobulated ????????????????? «The bamboozled children skedaddled»
Ils se sont foutus de notre gueule putaingue

[WordPress; Wayback] (by Crow)

In promoting her new book, the author also made a few choice memes. I can’t think of any other way to describe them.

They immediately without context are my kind of humour. Clickhole could post this and I’d send it to all my friends. Levelling is, as a reminder, a sometimes used term to describe killing god. These stock photos are very persuasive in getting me to love god, I’ll admit. I’ll say the unlevel memes are also quite tumblr ‘I dreamed of this meme and now it is real’ style.

[Know Your Meme; Wayback]

A Google Trends graph for 'stonks'. Hovertext shows that the date of a sudden peak is January 24 - 30, 2021.

A Google Trends graph for 'stonks'. Hovertext shows that the date of another, smaller peak is July 10 - 16, 2022.

[cw: illness] [Armbrust; Wayback] Review of a terrible surgical mask.

"And look at the stare in his eyes. I mean, the woman is intense, but this dude, like something's going on there, man. It's the face of someone actually receiving the coronavirus into their body."

[AO3; Wayback] (by

seasparks) I don't go here, I was just wiki-walking, but:

seasons of crappy Netflix that were deemed sufficiently bad to allow Canadian access to them

(There's quite a bit to catch up on here, so I've added extra line breaks between entries to make it less of a jumble of text.)

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Comments on my own posts:

[fairly mild cw: embarrassment squick] I didn't *make* any comments on my own posts this round (apart from postscripts/tangents written alongside the OPs), but I note that I did receive two comments on "I continue to live in an alternate universe" through Tumblr.

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Comments on other people's posts:

[cw: what it says on the tin] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

flaxseedthot; partly in response to

rustingbridges) Disney World during 9/11.

[WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

rustingbridges) Second-generation hyphenated surnames.

[arguably cw: medical, unsanitary, apocalypse] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

akaanonymouth; partly in response to

sigmaleph) Household logistics, safety nets, and the importance of spare toothbrushes. [two comments]

[arguably cw: food] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

seaglass_takechan) Reporting a violation of the food/pretty-rock binary.

[cw: nsfw text, apocalypse, (arguably) drugs] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

femmenietzsche) In which Brin has second thoughts about whether "I could see myself using [AI-powered writing commissions] for pornography, but even then only because I have very narrow tastes" would be a good idea in practice.

[WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

sigmaleph) Email usage patterns and organisation.

[arguably cw: poverty] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

rustingbridges) High-quality socks (and how sometimes the cardboard-sole boots are the better deal).

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

eightyonekilograms; partly in response to

sigmaleph) In the future, "zoonosis" will be a word everyone knows; knowing *where* they learned it is another matter. [~three comments, one of which is new]

[cw: food, illness, poverty, (arguably) animal abuse] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

augustheart) If lab grown meat became widely available and easily affordable, would you eat it? (At least two people were too quick on the ball and read the draft version of this that I posted slightly too soon, so if you read the non-postscripted version of this do note that there *is* more.)

[cw: unsanitary, (arguably) violence] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

tanadrin) The relative merits of fear, shame, and anger.

[cw: aging, injury, poison, death, (arguably) illness] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

sigmaleph) Independent wealth vs a chance to remake your body.

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

thearchivebaby) Decorated respirators and the Glorious Transhumanist Future.

[cw: corporate bullshit, nsfw text, (arguably) illness, (arguably) apocalypse] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

soolagna-meow) Mourning broken tools, and searching for aligned replacements.

[fairly mild cw: death, injury] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

ultirex) How would you do if dropped at a point on Earth outputted by a random coordinates generator?

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Links:

[fairly strong cw: illness] [Mastodon (Twitter); Wayback] (by librarianshipwreck) I know it takes time to get over things.

[cw: corporate bullshit, apocalypse] [WordPress; Wayback] (by librarianshipwreck) What Y2K can teach us about Twitter. Particularly notable quote:
And in the wake of Y2K proving to be something of a non-event—thanks to the efforts of the legions of people who got to work fixing the problem—the sort of introspection that Y2K called for did not occur. Instead, people and societies only deepened their reliance on computer technologies and by extension the executives and companies that controlled those systems.

[The Intercept; Wayback] (by Nikita Mazurov; h/t Bruce Schneier) Some image-manipulation programs--including, but not limited to, the one in Google Docs--leave the original image data inside the file of a cropped image, allowing the recipient to uncrop it and reveal bits that you specifically did not want them to see.

Three laugh-rule entries:
[cw: (strong) rape, (strong) nsfw text, amnesia] [Read Only Mind; Wayback] (by scifiscribbler) I did not *like* this work, and I shudder to think how low the author's standards must be to think that *this* constitutes "wholesome", but that opening line is amazing:
The television was the colour of a television tuned to a dead channel.

[arguably cw: theft] [Vice; Wayback] (by Joseph Cox) You know how with sci-fi shows we're always yelling at the screen about "why are you people still using voiceprint authentication as if it means anything when you also have good voice synthesis"? Yeah.
To create the voice, I recorded about five minutes of speech and uploaded it to ElevenLabs (for the audio clips, I read sections of Europe’s data protection law).

[cw: what it says on the tin, nsfw image] [Substack; Wayback] (by Sam Kriss)
they’d got the impression that I was one of those people who really has his finger on the pulse. I told them that I definitely wasn’t, I just made things up with enough confidence that people believed me, just like I’ve made up exactly 45% of everything I’m writing here

Also the rambling manifesto containing "谷歌翻译应用程序". (It's funnier if you *can't* read Chinese, though I expect it's still funny if you can.)

Comments on my own posts:

The one about Recoll

[cw: what it says on the tin] The one about plague nightmares [one comment, not counting the postscript]

[fairly mild cw: war, amnesia] The one about remembrance poppies

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Comments on other people's posts:

[Substack; Wayback] (OP by Evan Þ) If you enjoy my posts in which I express wildly alien intuitions about things, you may enjoy me dipping my toes into a (very polite) discussion of free will. (At least, I assume these intuitions are wildly alien from how often I see people say things that only make sense under different intuition sets. In any case, we are pleased to offer the finest autoxenoanthropology here at Brinens and Things.) [two comments]

[cw: poverty, venting] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

catchymemes) In which I have a lot of psychological baggage around museums.

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

treadwells) Cottagecore and a broader view of danger.

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by

mindstalk) The hole in comparative social-media discussions left by ignorance of Tumblr.

[cw: food, poison, illness, (arguably) death] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

ultraviolet-divergence) Dealing with the latest big listeria outbreak.

[cw: (strong) illness, (strong) apocalypse, bugs] [Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by

siderea; in response to

ewt) The wonders of PPE, climate-catastrophe edition.

[fairly mild cw: corporate bullshit] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

rustingbridges; in response to

bulbous-oar) How to selectively prevent Android apps from accessing the Internet.

[Scribble Hub; Wayback] (OP by wingedcatgirl) Isekais and the importance of caution when carrying irreplaceable otherworldly technology.

[WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

headspace-hotel) Poetic meter and artistic instincts.

[WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

reptile-ruler) Fighting Tumblr's slippage down the slope towards Internet silos.

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

eightyonekilograms; partly in response to

sigmaleph) In the future, "zoonosis" will be a word everyone knows; knowing *where* they learned it is another matter. [two comments, sort of]

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Links:

[Imgur; Wayback] Live wire-sculpture (not to be confused with live-wire sculpture).

[arguably cw: injury, embarrassment squick] [Hackaday; Wayback] (by Lewin Day) False positives on Apple's automatic car-crash 911 calling.

[CBS; Wayback] (by Phil Galewitz) Over-the-counter hearing aids now available in the United States.

(Although I am also having feelings about this sentence:

A pair of prescription devices typically sells for {{USD}}$2,000 to $8,000.

Only if you're getting ripped off, dude. Go to Costco. *So* glad we told the non-chain hearing-aid centre to go fuck themselves when they wanted six grand: the perfectly fine Costco hearing aids were CAD$1,800 *before* the $1,000 government subsidy. (that's not even *counting* the refundable tax credits I might be able to wring out of it))

[Kiwix; Wayback] What is the size of Wikipedia? (Also, your regular reminder that Kiwix is amazing and you should check it out. (And it gets even *better* than amazing after you figure out how to make your own ZIM files.))

[AO3; Wayback] (by

Edonohana; h/t Ozy Brennan) The intricacies of tardigrade literature.

[cw: what it says on the tin] [Dreamwidth; Wayback] (by

siderea) Stop relying on Twitter for third-party authentication.

[cw: what it says on the tin] [Science; Wayback] (by Arevalo et al; h/t

KelseyTUOC) A 20-valent influenza vaccine, containing examples of every known flu subtype. Works well in mice and ferrets, soon to be tested in primates and--hopefully--humans. In addition to the obvious benefits, it shows promise of providing cross-protection against novel influenza strains.

Three laugh-rule entries:
[cw: corporate bullshit] [Twitter; Wayback] (by

rahaeli) Sporking the Cohost terms of service.

[Youtube; Wayback] (by Lauren Lopez and Robert Manion; h/t Blazing Darkness) Bella Swan is sixteen, going on seventeen...

[cw: scopophobia, (arguably) corporate bullshit] [Reddit; Wayback] (h/t

trivialagent) It's not paranoia if they're really out to get you.

Comments on my own posts:

Today's the day! It's happening! [one comment, *including* the postscript because the postscript was written late enough to be easily missed]

[cw: (strong) fire, unreality, (mild) illness] Happy...new...year? [one comment, not counting the postscript]

Today's the day, part ~2: House Community Grid

[cw: bugs, (fairly mild) death, (mild) unsanitary)] The one about fly math [one comment on Tumblr]

English is a bullshit language (like all the others)

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Comments on other people's posts:

[cw: food, (fairly mild) apocalypse, (arguably) poison] [Substack; Wayback] (OP by Nicholas Weininger) Induction stoves vs gas stoves vs electric-coil stoves. [two comments]

[cw: (strong) food, (arguably) nsfw text] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

andaisq; h/t

moral-autism) Sociological specfic about a world where people view food with the same sense of profundity and privacy with which we view sex.

[cw: illness, needles (picture in Tumblr version, but not in WordPress version)] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

syellowtails) ~~The latest~~ additional info on COVID-19 bivalent vaccine timing, mostly but not exclusively regarding the United States. (The most recent thing I've since heard is that, while the Ontarian government continues to *recommend* six-month intervals for most triage groups, it's possible to get a vaccine dose only three months after your previous one with a bit of additional hoop-jumping.)

[cw: poverty, illness, (arguably) venting] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by Lucy Liu) Updates from future-me on how my situation has changed since 2018. [three comments, one of which is new]

[WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

snakestack) The seat of a computer's soul.

[cw: venting, (mild) poison, (arguably) illness, (arguably) scrupulosity] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

albertvancouver) Unrelatable complaints about city design.

[cw: discourse, unsanitary, aging, medical] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

boeing747) *Extremely* unrelatable complaints about the "oversanitization of popular media".

[cw: food, embarrassment squick, amnesia] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

robustcornhusk) Way(s) to make Jewish apple cake, and how they've evolved over time.

[cw: nsfw text]
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[cw: nsfw text] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

cryptotheism; in response to

sigmaleph) I was planning to wait for this roundup post to talk about the above, but I was having too many emotions and they leaked out into a post. Sorry for leaking my emotions onto your post, Sofi. [two comments]

[cw: illness, (arguably) discourse, (arguably) amnesia] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

discoursedrome) The past, present, and future of public mask cosplay.

[cw: food, (arguably) discourse] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

rustingbridges) Excuses for holidays. [two comments]

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Links:

[cw: food, (arguably) trypophobia]
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[Imgur] (h/t Sonata) A book with a built-in lectern.

[cw: (fairly mild) trypophobia, (arguably) body horror] [Twitter; Wayback] (by

jonty; h/t Xom) Bugfix for multiocular O.

Three laugh-rule entries:
[Twitter; Wayback] (by

Foone; h/t

ericvilas) Can gender run Doom? For that matter, can visual static run Doom? (I won't spoil the final punchline, but do read to the end. I think I've even coaxed the Internet Archive into making their version readable start-to-finish.)

[Youtube; Wayback] (by Lou & Peter Berryman) A car drove by blaring "Sweet Home Alabama", and it got me thinking about this song again (it's not "Sweet Home Alabama").

[cw: corporate bullshit] [Mobile Syrup; Wayback] (by Jonathan Lamont)

Locking the doors, on the other hand, will probably just frustrate customers (and if they’re going into a Rogers store, chances are they’re already pissed off).

Comments on my own posts:

[cw: discourse, (arguably) apocalypse] The one about AI artists [one comment, not counting the postscript]

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Comments on other people's posts:

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by

mindstalk) Old kitchen appliances (and when to replace them); the wonders of mosquito nets. [two comments]

[fairly mild cw: food] [Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by

mindstalk) Optimal potato baking.

[arguably cw: discourse] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by Anonymous; partly in response to

jadagul) The unrelatability of complaints about modernity (or at least these sub-genres of complaints).

(Update: writing that post inspired me to give warc2zim another try, and this time I successfully got it working! (The Linux port of Kiwix can't *directly* display warc2zim files, but it turns out there's a workaround: activate local-server mode and view the file through your web browser.) Mobile access, baby! (*And* it's even slightly more space-efficient!))

[WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

transgenderer) How to send and receive SMS messages from your laptop.

[fairly mild cw: illness] [Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by

camwyn) Dutch has some amazing profanity.

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by

camwyn) The wonders of mosquito nets, disability edition.

[WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

doctorwhoisadhd; in response to

itsbenedict) How to play Character Opinion Bingo.

[arguably cw: unreality] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

seat-safety-switch) Solar phone charging, the easy ways.

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Links:

[My Modern Met; Wayback] (by Larisa Crowder) The technology behind heated car seats, now wearable and reversible (that is to say, it can also do cooling). (Kind of expensive and hard to get, but I suppose new devices usually are.)

[cw: illness] [Dreamwidth; Wayback] (by the United States Department of Homeland Security, Science and Technology Directorate; h/t

siderea) How to disinfect monkeypox fomites, and how not to.

[arguably cw: venting] [The Millions; Wayback] (by Rebecca Steinitz) A personal view of anosmia. (I came across this link buried in an old email, where I was recommending it to others. It's interesting to look back at it now, having developed a very different relationship with anosmia.)

[Mobile Syrup; Wayback] (by Jonathan Lamont) Payment-method optimisation is about to become *even more* complicated. My parents can't keep up as it is.

[Imgur; Wayback] (h/t Marri) Ordinary office worker in the streets...

Laugh rule:
[cw: illness] [Jenneral HQ; Wayback] (by Jenn)
Relatedly, as a #millennial, the whole #supportlocal lifestyle where I go to 4 specialty grocers for specific ingredients instead of one (1) Loblaw is very appealing to me.

(...I admit that this line is significantly less funny after I looked it up and discovered that the singular of Loblaws *is* sometimes "Loblaw", and not *always* also "Loblaws".)

Comments on my own posts:

The one about thermostats and code-switching

[cw: what it says on the tin (no pictures)] Recipe: Crispy Chickpeas [one comment, not counting the postscript]

[cw: what it says on the tin] In which Brin continues to have finance Issues very different from *other* people's finance Issues [one comment, not counting the postscript]

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Comments on other people's posts:

[arguably cw: corporate bullshit] [Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by

wolffyluna) The cost-benefit tradeoffs of a potential job. [two comments]

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by

feotakahari) Definitions of utopia.

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Links:

[Mobile Syrup; Wayback] (by Dean Daley) It's possible to get Android 12 to run on an 11-year-old smartphone! Technically. Mostly.

[Astronomy; Wayback] (by Eric Betz) What will it be like to watch Betelgeuse go supernova?

[Audubon; Wayback] (by Kenn Kaufman; h/t Siderea) The four sexes of white-throated sparrows.

Two laugh-rule entries:
[cw: apocalypse] [AO3; Wayback] (by

Nestra) NPR during the zombie apocalypse. (This would probably be much funnier if I had any significant familiarity with NPR, but it's still funny without it.)

[arguably cw: violence] [Involuntary Book Club; Wayback] (by Max) "I'm tired of all these grimdark fantasy novels. Have you read anything fun lately?"

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Comments on my own posts:

[fairly mild cw: food] Comment and Link Roundup: August 9th, 2021

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Comments on other people's posts:

[cw: apocalypse, scrupulosity] [My Own Advisor; Wayback] (OP by Mark Seed) A gentle correction of one of the most important omissions I encountered on my wiki-walk through Canadian personal-finance blogs, climate-crisis individual-action edition.

[arguably cw: bugs] [Mastodon; Wayback] (OP by monsterblue@dragon.style) Today in spreading the good word of PPE: wearable mosquito nets.

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

tarhalindur) Laptop recommendations for an erratic-supply-chain world.

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

rustingbridges) Peaches, the easy way(s).

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Links:

[strong cw: war, murder] [Data Secrets Lox part 1; Data Secrets Lox part 2; Wayback part 1; Wayback part 2] (by Chevalier Mal Fet) I don't read Data Secrets Lox much, but every once in a while I take a look at what's won the Alexander Prize for Effortposting. Turns out in May and June one of the people there wrote a whole-ass history book on 20th-century South Korea, with a focus on the Gwangju Uprising of 1980. Well-written, and a good look into a time period from after most history lessons stop.

(Note: I did not proofread a whole book, but the bits I double-checked seemed accurate.)

[Patagonia; Wayback] (by Sakeus Bankson) Zippers: the bane of high-quality, low-waste clothing manufacturers.

Laugh rule:
[arguably cw: unreality] [gwern.net; Wayback]

The lion-hunting paper was duly accepted for publication, with one editorial alteration: our footnote to a footnote was ruthlessly removed.⁴

⁴Monsters! —Editor. ↩

[cw: unreality] [Wikipedia; Wayback] Not a laugh-rule link, but it needed to be after that one: while we're talking about H. Petard, take a look at Ong's Hat.

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Comments on other people's posts:

[arguably cw: nsfw text] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

tototavros) Aspects and histories of hypno-kink.

[cw: nsfw text] [AO3; Wayback] (OP by

Huitzil) Have I mentioned lately how great The Hentai World of Eilverra is? I'm not even personally into almost any of the sex involved, but the humour and worldbuilding are well worth it on their own.

[cw: apocalypse, (fairly mild) poverty] [Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by

grayestofghosts) Resilient, sovereign computing (comms, information storage/search, crunching, etc) is important across almost any situation, not *just* in apocalypses and not *just* in the Global South. [two comments]

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

k-vichan, though not exactly in response to anyone in particular) How to prepare for fanfiction.net's inevitable demise.

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Links:

[MarineTraffic] The bright side of that whole incident with the Ever Given is learning about this neat live map of ships. I did not know you could just...*do* that.

[Nature; Wayback] (by Jessica Morrison) Mantis shrimp likely see *fewer* colours than humans do, not more: their extra colour receptors are for making them *faster* at determining what colour something is. (On the other hand, these are presumably *humans* *telling* us this...)

[arguably cw: apocalypse] [Giving Green; Wayback] Giving Green applies effective-altruism principles to analyse charities fighting climate change, finding the places where money goes furthest. (Note: if you're a Canadian taxpayer (or a Canadian tax-filer who might owe within the next five years) who wants to donate to the Clean Air Task Force, check out RC Forward. They can help you get money more efficiently to some other generally-EA charities too.)

[F-Droid (or Google Play); Wayback] KDE Connect lets you connect your Linux (or *maybe* Windows or Mac) computer and your Android phone. You can receive SMS notifications on your laptop, use your phone touchscreen as a trackpad, and more!

[GitLab; Wayback] (by W1nst0n) Ever wanted to get rid of apps the phone manufacturer or carrier insisted on installing on *your* phone? Don't have the know-how or courage to hack into the firmware and rip them out by the roots? (can't say I blame you: I fucked up the cellular modem on a device attempting to do that sort of thing) Just want to know more about what all the system apps actually *do*?

Universal Android Debloater is a non-invasive built-in-app-removal method. Strictly speaking, it doesn't actually *remove* the apps per se: rather, it seals them off so that they can't run (they also stop showing up in the app drawer). It can unseal any or all of them again upon request, and if all else fails, nothing the script does to the phone runs deep enough to survive a factory reset. The app lists come with documentation describing what every built-in app on every known-to-W1nst0n device does, to help you decide which apps you want to seal off.

Laugh rule:
[Bloomberg; Wayback crawling forbidden] (by Matt Levine, though the part quoted is by Tom Neill)

I thought it would be fun to be the first meme website to sell itself as an NFT. Also to be completely honest, I thought it might make it into Matt Levine’s Money Stuff. Essentially, I was 'doing it for the gram'.

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The maximum duration of a lease, in contrast, must be definite. It therefore is impossible to create a lease that would last “until the Maple Leafs next win the Cup.”³⁰

30. The maximum duration must be definite, but a tenancy may end earlier. Therefore, it would be possible to have a lease “for 999 years or until the Maple Leafs next win the Cup.” It is enough that the lease is certain to end within 999 years, even though there is a slim chance that it will end earlier.

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(I'm not sure if this would be *more* or *less* funny if I had any previous knowledge of the Maple Leafs' reputation.)

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Comments on other people's posts:

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

marcusseldon; partly in response to

eightyonekilograms and

bambamramfan) If you're concerned your job will get automated out from under you one day, try to factor the eventual layoff into your finances now.

[WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

sizvideos) Omeo hands-free wheelchairs (steered by leaning) are very cool and very expensive.

[WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

voxette-vk) Are dishes put *up*, or put *away*?

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Links:

[mailbox.org; Wayback] My email provider is running a Christmas promotion offering new customers €6 of credit if they sign up by January 10th, enough for six months of the basic plan (which is plenty in my experience). I've been happy with them, and I would definitely recommend them over Google or an ISP email. (It's even better if you use a custom email domain so that you can easily switch to a new provider if you ever change your mind.)

[CellSol; Wayback] (h/t Hackaday): I'm not sure how practical this system is (maybe?), but if nothing else I love that a disaster-tolerant comms network has the motto--according to Wikipedia's translation--"get results, whether God likes it or not".

[Kiwix; Wayback] If you ever find yourself on one of those data plans with zero-rated WhatsApp and expensive everything-else, exploit some loopholes with the help of the iHarare WhatsApp bot!

Laugh rule: [Wikipedia; Wayback]

Iqaluit Public Transit used to offer bus service in the city, but the service was cancelled due to low ridership. Motor cars are increasing in number, to the extent of causing occasional traffic jams known locally as "the rush minute".

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Comments on my own posts:

Comment and Link Roundup: October 21, 2020

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Comments on other people's posts:

(This post was made on June 16th, but I overlooked it while making the previous roundups.) [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

gnabrie) I do know what "burning CDs" means, and someday I might actually have a reason to do it again.

[WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

maryellencarter) Extensions of the self.

[WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

voxette-vk) Big 5 personality tests. [two comments]

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Laugh rule:
[Memory Alpha; Wayback] The continuity section of the article on one of the least continuous Voyager episodes (and that's saying something).

Tuvok mistakenly has his commander pip in the past. He did not earn this promotion until the fourth season episode "Revulsion". Although this is technically a continuity error, it is actually consistent as Tuvok was mistakenly shown wearing a commander's pip throughout the first half of season one.

{{Also:}}

This brings the total number of torpedoes confirmed to have been used by Voyager over the course of the series to 66, a total which exceeds the irreplaceable complement of 38 that had been established by Chakotay in the first-season episode "The Cloud".

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(We've more or less returned to an Errand Day system, so I deliberately postponed this roundup so that Backup Day and Errand Day would be offset rather than piled onto the same day.)

Comments on my own posts:

[cw: discourse, (mild) violence] I personally am missing the part of sexuality that would make me sexually attracted to motorcycles

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Comments on other people's posts:

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by

yvannairie) Did you know ruby-tipped styli are a thing?

[mild cw: apocalypse] [Reddit; Wayback] (OP by TheTwelveYearOld) Well, I finally broke down and made a Reddit account. Reddit, while being useful to *read* in some cases, tends to be a bit...harsh, for me to want to participate in. But I found I couldn't just leave the poor OP, not when I *knew* the answer to their question and knew there was a good chance that nobody else would give them a straight answer. (Reddit, as we've seen before, is a *terrible* place to ask for advice on apocalypse insurance. Even r/collapse seems to be generally fatalistic about it.)

[WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

prokopetz; in response to

moonlit-tulip) Utility-belt tips.

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Two laugh-rule entries:
[Rock Paper Shotgun; Wayback] (by Nate Crowley) How fast can you die in Crusader Kings 3?
After that, just in case anyone in the church still likes him, he converts to the Lollard heresy, because its name contains the word “lol”.

[mild cw: stalking, death] [mango.pdf.zone; Wayback] (by Alex Hope) Airline boarding passes are much like keys, in that it is much more dangerous than you might think to post pictures of them on Instagram.
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(Alex Hope's other blog posts are hilarious too, and I recommend all of them.)

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Comments on my own posts:

Doing the hermit-crab shuffle [three comments, not counting the postscript]

Ask me about my special interests [four comments, two of which are new]

Blog formatting skills

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[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by

lydamorehouse) The costs and benefits of smart-home assistants.

[mild cw: death] [Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by

ilzolende) Blog recs.

[WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

rustingbridges) The hostile fee structure of Paypal.

[cw: nsfw text] [AO3; Wayback] (OP by

Huitzil) Hey, remember that porn-worldbuilding giftfic I got a few years ago? The author wrote a revised and expanded version! I highly recommend it, as well as the chapters that *weren't* inspired by me.

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by

siderea) Various ways to follow a Dreamwidth blog (in this case,

siderea), and the circumstances in which one might pick one over another.

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Links:

[cw: food] [Tumblr; Wayback] (OP is technically by

extrajordinary, but the bulk of the thread is by

petermorwood; h/t

ilzo-misc) Restaurants in ancient Rome.

Two laugh-rule entries:
[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (by

siderea) The Great Chain of History.

[Bulwer-Lytton; Wayback] 2019 winners of the Bulwer-Lytton fiction contest, in which one attempts to write the worst opening line for a novel.

Comments on my own posts:

Vocation [three comments]

[cw: drugs, amnesia, maybe medical abuse] The onomatopoeia of breathing

[cw: food] The one about food routines [four comments]

How to Backup Your Dreamwidth [two comments, one of which is new]

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Comments on other people's posts:

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by

sigmaleph; in response to

contrarianarchon) Relatively good computer skills; the wonders of virtual machines. [two comments, one of which is new]

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by

contrarianarchon) How to block the annoying sidebar videos on Serious Eats.

[arguably cw: embarrassment squick] [Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by

argumate) Clever vs obvious solutions.

[cw: nsfw text] [Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by

feotakahari) Foot fetishism vs snake fetishism.

[Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by

sanesparza; in response to

rustingbridges) Dream points-of-view.

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Links:

Some selections from old Youtube bookmarks I was going through:

[cw: abuse] [Youtube] (by TL Forsberg) A bilingual music performance.

Three laugh-rule entries:
[Youtube] (by Joe Nicolosi et al) A trailer for a hypothetical genre-savvy horror film.

[Youtube] (original by Toby Turner; translated version by

Draazil) The Dramatic Song, as heard from the foreign grandma's perspective. (This one is only funny if you speak Icelandic or--in my case--have already heard the original English version (which is also hilarious in itself, btw))

[Youtube] (by Jordan Taylor et al) How to write a worship song (in 5 minutes or less).

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We'll be formatting this slightly differently today. First, the comments/links that *aren't* COVID-19 related:

Comments on my own posts:

The one about how hard it is to control the exact phrasing of your speech

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Comments on other people's posts:

[cw: food] [Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by

etirabys) Granola bars are a solution to many of life's problems.

[Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by

etirabys) Books within dreams.

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Links:

[GitHub; Wayback] (by

gildas-lormeau; h/t Gwern Branwen) Tired of wrangling the file proliferation of saving webpages to HTML? Tired of the broken formatting of saving webpages to PDF? Try SingleFile! I've been testing it out on parts of my archive where I was previously making do with shitty PDFs or multi-file HTMLs, and it's been working great.

Laugh rule:
[Diaryland; Wayback] (by Grizzly and Ninja of the Clan)
Oh, and Jack liked the exercies. He thought they were fun and he likes the color yellow. He wants me to make sure I included that in this review. He likes the color yellow.

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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]
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