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Comments on my own posts:

[cw: discourse, ableism, racism] The one about name pronunciation [four comments, three of which are new]

[cw: poverty] On Universal Basic Income [two comments]

Interesting Fact Meme [four comments]

[cw: amnesia] The one about 1984 and measurement systems

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Comments on other people's posts:

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by [personal profile] sigmaleph) The intricacies of currency exchange. [two comments]

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by [personal profile] wingedcatgirl) Vibrant areas of social media, and making currently dormant areas more vibrant.

[Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by [tumblr.com profile] paxamericana; in response to Joanna Stern of the Wall Street Journal) Subscription audits and self-awareness.

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by [personal profile] contrarianarchon) Cultural osmosis; finding new things to read.

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by [personal profile] contrarianarchon) Books we were not ready for, and possibly will never be ready for.

[Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by [tumblr.com profile] staff) Automattic (the WordPress people) are taking Tumblr off of Oath's hands, which ties the fates of Tumblr and WordPress a little closer together than I'd like.

[cw: food] [Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by [personal profile] wolffyluna) Having lots of freezer space is good.

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Links:

[Uncanny Magazine; Wayback] (by Sarah Pinsker, which is apparently *not* a pseudonymic conceit but the author's longstanding name; I only just realised this now) I'd been hearing praise for "that Hugo nominee where there's a murder at a convention of alternate-universe selves" and was a bit curious, but hadn't realised it was freely available. For those of you in the same boat, here it is. (I read it and enjoyed it.)

[TASTE; Wayback] (by Mari Uyehara) Different brands of kosher salt have significantly different densities: exercise caution when following recipes that don't specify which brand of kosher salt they were normed on. (I wonder what Windsor's density is: this article is aimed at Americans and doesn't say. *googles* Well, here's a chart from Windsor comparing the density of its kosher salt to that of table salt, from which the density relative to other kosher salts can presumably be deduced.)
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Three things that I may or may not have opinions about, courtesy of [personal profile] thedarlingone.

1. Coloring books

I liked them well enough as a kid, but haven't done any in a while. (There's so many other things to do, you know.)

I'm not sure how long a while: I know in 2012 I did a couple things from a book of drawing prompts (you're supposed to draw it directly in the book) at Girl Guides, but that isn't *quite* the same thing. (The other girls in the group wanted to do a group study session for the meeting shortly before their midterms, but my school schedule was offset from theirs and I had no upcoming exams or other large projects. They studied while the Guide leaders and I drew.)

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2. Crockpots

It seems like a bit of a waste of energy to have our crockpot in an unheated part of the house in the non-summer: we could be putting that waste heat towards keeping the house warm. I wonder if we should move it to the main part of the house during those parts of the year: not sure where we would put it, though.

I haven't done much with our crockpot in terms of things that *I* like to eat, but it's been pretty good for everyone else.

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3. Baths

If you're small enough to stretch out and float in your bathtub, then great. Otherwise, not worth the bother.

(...in hindsight, some of the stuff tiny!me did WRT floating in the bathtub was *definitely* self-hypnosis, and probably more load-bearing than I'd realised either at the time or for a long while afterward.)

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If you'd like me to give you your own set of three things to (maybe) have opinions about, just ask!

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