Why is Disqus broken lately?

[conuly]

And is it just me? I can't respond on any webpage that has Disqus, instead I have to find the Disqus version of that comments page and respond there. Which is annoying. So mostly I don't.

(Also, Patheos is also b0rked in different ways, and since Patheos blogs use Disqus and I comment frequently at a few of them that means trying to a. read them and then b. respond to them has been a total disaster lately.)

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The Africans Who Called Tudor England Home

Deaf Eritrean twins break barriers in fashion world (Video)

Hawai‘i’s Last Outlaw Hippies

Norman Rockwell’s Four Freedoms Brought the Ideals of America to Life and A 21st-Century Reimagining of Norman Rockwell’s “Four Freedoms”

LOL! Smart bunny!

What it's like being a female director in Bollywood (Video)

Doctors In China Lead Race To Treat Cancer By Editing Genes

China’s great leap forward in science

The way humans point isn’t as universal as you might think

Inside the OED: can the world’s biggest dictionary survive the internet?

Imagining a Fuller Spectrum of Autism on TV

Tea, Honey And Lemon: Does This Classic Trifecta Actually Help A Sore Throat?

Your chips may soon be made of jellyfish

Utah bill would give teens fleeing polygamy more rights

How Killer Rice Crippled Tokyo and the Japanese Navy

Census Rushes to Respond to Request to Add Citizenship Question

US visa boss insists mission statement isn't anti-immigrant

Trypophobia—the fear of holes—may not be a real phobia

Worst Roommate Ever (Content note: violence and murder)

Women who clean at home or work face increased lung function decline, study finds

CPR survival rates are lower than most people think (What, you mean it's not clean, pretty, and reliable?)

Can You Hack Coral to Save It?

Poison. Traps. Rifles. The methods for eradicating island predators like rats are brutal. Some conservationists want to use Crispr to do the same job. This method isn't brutal, but it could fundamentally transform our power over nature.

US gymnasts tell AP sport rife with verbal, emotional abuse

Crisis actors, deep state, false flag: the rise of conspiracy theory code words

My High School’s Tragedy Actually Led to Change

The Criminalization of Private Debt

Should Cops Be Allowed to Rip Up Your Stuff While Looking for Drugs? (All the more reason to never consent to a search. JFC.)

US Border Patrol Hasn’t Validated E-Passport Data For Years

Mueller and Trump: Born to wealth, raised to lead. Then, sharply different choices.

Putin is heir to Russia's long disinformation experience

U.N. Security Council delays vote on Syria ceasefire resolution

Myanmar bulldozes what was left of Rohingya Muslim villages (More)

Comments

[cosmolinguist]

I'm reading that Black Tudors book right now and it's really good.

[sallymn]

I would be sad to see the OED go.... unlikely though it is in the near future.

[lilysea]

Tea, Honey And Lemon: Does This Classic Trifecta Actually Help A Sore Throat?

This link is broken.

[conuly]

Thanks. Fixing. Try this: https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/02/23/586515159/tea-honey-and-lemon-does-this-classic-trifecta-actually-help-a-sore-throat

[conuly]

Nice icon!

[erinptah]

That trypophobia article is bizarre. Someone took a flying leap to conclusions without realizing that the "phobia" category includes irrational/pathological disgust, not just irrational/pathological fear. I hope they didn't get paid for that.

[conuly]

Look, I'm not judging their bizarre definition of "phobia", I'm just interested in why they have one and how I can spread the idea of trypophobia far and wide.

[malada]

The thing that struck me about the 'hippies in paradise' is that they were mostly guys. Women don't stay long even when they do show up. It's really just another 'boys club' in the jungle.

-m

[conuly]

Yup.

[konsectatrix]

IME, Chrome + Disqus fight. For a while it simply didn't work at all, which while irritating, did stop me from reading the comments on most things, so it was a mixed blessing. The mobile version isn't as bad, but my laptop still doesn't love it.

I follow too many archeology blogs to be surprised about Africans in Tudor England but I have to pick up the Black Tudors book anyway, it seems like it'd be really interesting, and frankly I get tired of hearing about slavery and oppression all the damn time; it's nice to get some history pre-dating that.

The twins are adorable.

I admit that I don't drink green tea+lemon+honey because I expect it to cure anything, I drink it because it's comforting and it's one of the few things I can still taste on the rare occasion I have a cold! =p

I'm very hipster about my conspiracy theorist and Dominionist Christian antipathy; I got raised by that ish, I hated it and had internal red flags for their ever-shifting fandom jargon before anyone else knew to take it seriously ;)
I really wish I'd been wrong about how much of a problem they'd be, though.

[conuly]

I admit that I don't drink green tea+lemon+honey because I expect it to cure anything, I drink it because it's comforting and it's one of the few things I can still taste on the rare occasion I have a cold! =p

Perfectly valid!

[conuly]

Good to know.

[mythicgeek]

I want to read the trypophobia article, but also I have trypophobia and I'm afraid to click on the link so this is a conundrum.

[greghousesgf]

all that story about the twins says to me is looks are more important than abilities.
I know they brought up the idea of House having Asperger's on the show and then dismissed it immediately but I still think he has it, and not just because I have it and I identify with him.

[conuly]

Re: twins - what do you mean when you say that?

[greghousesgf]

I mean I am tired of a society where what you look like is considered more important than what you do.

[conuly]

Still not sure what you mean by that, or what makes you say it in this context.

(Though I gotta say... they're models. What they look like IS what they do.)

[archangelbeth]

There is a picture of bees on a honeycomb, if that helps you decide. It's at the top of the article, and I didn't see any other pictures in the article.

[greghousesgf]

OK, let me clarify a bit more. I am disabled and an activist for disabled rights. Any form of discrimination angers me.
that being said, I fail to see why anyone would have a problem with them being deaf.
More and more intelligent, enlightened people are becoming aware that discrimination against disability, race etc. is wrong.
But I see no sign of discrimination about looks going away or even becoming less. And I often feel like I'm the only person who cares about that.

[conuly]

See, this is why I asked, because it sounded a lot like what some people would say when they're excusing 99% white males in the judiciary (or whatever) with "it's about the best person for the job not a quota...!"

Which, um, there's no way the best person for the job is 99% white males unless the job "mass shooter". (Oooh, edgy.)

But I didn't want to jump down your throat if that's not what you meant, which it sounds like it isn't.

[greghousesgf]

it isn't.

[conuly]

And it's a good thing I always try to check with people!

[sallymn]

Thankee! My Carrollian fanworship coming out....

[mythicgeek]

That does help, thank you! I'm usually okay with honeycombs, so long as they are fairly light and not too zoomed in. :D

[archangelbeth]

It's zoomed in a moderate amount. Squint and scroll fast, maybe, if you click!

[mythicgeek]

That's exactly what I did. Thank you!!