Hey, can you do me a favor?

[conuly]

If you read an article and like it or find it useful, but not enough to repost, and the ONLY thing keeping you from commenting is because you can't think of anything substantial to say and don't want to go with "thanks for the article!", could you try not to let that hold you back? If you don't want to comment because you don't want to comment, that's one thing, but sometimes it does my spammy heart good to see that people read these things, even if they have nothing weighty to say about them. I know I often refrain from commenting because I think my comment will sound silly and pointless, and I'm trying to break that habit.

Jenn starts work tomorrow, which means my more or less free afternoons are at an end. Back to the grindstone with me!

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Pope Francis faces church divided over doctrine, global poll of Catholics finds

http://wapo.st/MC7uXn

How elevators transformed NYC’s social landscape

http://bit.ly/M24eEL

Ice continues to fall from World Trade Center as pedestrians run for cover

http://nydn.us/1h0s2a1

Did Marius The Giraffe Have To Die?

Copenhagen Zoo explains its decision to euthanize healthy, 2-year-old beast

http://world.time.com/2014/02/09/marius-giraffe-copenhagen-zoo/

Is Cantonese a language or a personification of the devil?

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=10303

Assortative mating and inequality

http://slate.me/1ck7DVA

Dominionism's "parallel economy", Pt. 1: The dominionist business directory. Older link.

http://bit.ly/1iCMRFP

Bank of England officials told currency traders it wasn’t improper to share impending customer orders with counterparts at other firms, a practice at the heart of a widening probe into alleged market manipulation, according to a person who has seen notes turned over to regulators.

http://buswk.co/1fPvrTH

Why $1 Billion Doesn't Buy Much Transit Infrastructure Anymore

Another oldie

http://bit.ly/1ffV709

Debtors' prisons sound like ancient history, right? Unfortunately, they're all too common across the United States. In spite of the Constitution, case law, and common sense, low-income people are routinely jailed in places as far-flung as Georgia and Washington State simply because they cannot afford to pay their court fines.

http://bit.ly/1lD8yu1

Comments

[andrewducker]

*waves*

I read some of them, and then run away with the ones I like most!

[siderea]

NEVER STOP. <3

I read almost all your links, particularly on my hour commute to work. Your anti-video bias makes your link posts better for this than metafilter, because I'm reading on a device which doesn't do video, and in any event I am reading in a context where I wouldn't want audio (bus/train).

It used to be particularly useful that you'd copypasta whole articles in a chain, because I didn't have internet for a third of my trip; I could load one of your posts before going underground and then read lots w/o further navigation. But they extended AT&T into the northern red line as far as Harvard, so now I only have one or two stops w/o internet.

But I may not comment much due to the difficulty of doing so on my device during my commute. I get one browser window, so I have to navigate back to your page from the article, then forward to your comment page, then chisel it out with a stylus.

[conuly]

I mostly only want to go through the trouble of copy pasting articles behind a pays all, which mostly means the NYtimes, and I don't like their new site design. I mean, I really hate it. It's the cause of me breaking my 16 year streak (half my life) of reading it every day :(

[hopefulnebula]

Here in Denver we have a skyscraper with a curved roof. It was designed for use in Houston, but ended up being built here instead, so they had to install heating strips in the roof to prevent ice from building up. Hopefully they were planning on doing the same on 1WTC.

[conuly]

Imitation being the sincerest form of flattery, I'm more than happy to accept that in lieu of a comment :)

[conuly]

If they weren't, I bet they are now!

[steorra]

I enjoy or find interesting a lot of your links and repost some of them on facebook but rarely on DW, so you don't see them. I enjoy enough of them that it's hard to comment on particular occasions.

[zhelana]

That giraffe thing pisses me off to no end.

[waterfall8484]

Thanks for saying this! I do tend to read your articles (when I remember I have a DW, anyway) but I rarely have anything to say about them except for "thanks for the article". :~D I should probably at least tell you which ones I read...

So today I clicked on the articles on assortative mating and inequality, and debtors' prisons. Thanks! :~)

[alessandriana.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the articles! ;p

[invsagoth.livejournal.com]

The whole thing with Marius makes me :/ and that's actually not :/ at the zoo. I only just heard about this today, so there might be more that I'm not aware of, but I can't say that I think the zoo was in the wrong. Of course, I've been a biologist for years, and death is something that you have to deal with. Life isn't a Disney movie. I'm annoyed by all the angry people saying "BUT IT WAS SO KYUTE OMGGGG1!!!!11!". Would they have cared if it wasn't something they considered cute? Probably not.

[sayga.livejournal.com]

I didn't read any of these but I read a bunch from a post since then, the one with the "guaranteed basic income" article among others. You usually post great links, when I read the articles the link goes to!

[phoenixdreaming.livejournal.com]

I'm a very irregular commenter, but I like your links and read a fair number of them. I'm glad you share them.