Interesting Links for 03-03-2018

[andrewducker]

Putin boasts new strategic weapons will make US missile defense useless

(tags: Russia nuclearweapons OhForFucksSake )

Sexual harassment in the world of computing

(tags: abuse computers OhForFucksSake )

Median Uber and Lyft Driver Makes Less Than Half Minimum Wage; 30% Lose Money

(tags: driving jobs taxi OhForFucksSake )

Europe points out that the UK still doesn't have a detailed Brexit strategy

(tags: uk Europe )

What Which Character You Think You Are On The Good Place Says About You

(tags: tv personality )

Some comparisons of Hebrew and Japanese, and what they might tell you about their people

(tags: language israel japan Jews )

The world's most vertical dog is amazing

(tags: dogs video )

Obituary: Hugh Russell Paul Hancock, "Machinima" founder and Virtual Reality pioneer

(tags: death obituary games art edinburgh sad )

During NRA conventions, gun injuries drop 20% nationwide—63% in hosting state

(tags: guns usa )

Hormones may affect girls' interests, but not their gender identity or playmates

(tags: hormones girls women personality behaviour )

A shocking story about what the negative effect working in a museum can have on your job prospects (made me so angry I had to share)

(tags: music museum jobs )

Comments

[bugshaw]

I read your museum story and now I'm angry too.

[strange_complex]

Same! Mainly with myself for not looking properly at the icon on the account, and realising it said 'PUNS'. Doh!

[armiphlage]

I am tempted to bite our kind host now.

[calimac]

The museum story seems incomplete (or maybe, because it's on Twitter, I couldn't figure out how to get the whole thing to show). The writer presses for an explanation of the cold shoulder, and is finally told that they won't hire someone who's done an exhibit of violins.

And? It stops there? Why not? What's wrong with an exhibit of violins? Various respondents made pun jokes about this; is it intended to be another one?

[andrewducker]

Encrypting so people who haven't read the story aren't spoiled:
Nffhzvat lbh tb gb "...jr fvzcyl pna'g uver fbzrbar jub unf rkuvovgrq n uvfgbel bs ivbyvaf"

Gur cha vf gung Gurl pna'g uver fbzrbar jub unf rkuvovgrq "n uvfgbel bs ivbyrapr".

(You can decrypt here: http://rot13.com/ - please do likewise with replies.)

[calimac]

V nfxrq vs vg jnf nabgure cha wbxr, naq gung jnf gur cha V unq va zvaq. Ohg V qvqa'g npghnyyl oryvrir gur chapuyvar jbhyq or fbzrguvat fb gbgnyyl ynzr.

[andrewducker]

Gur ynzrarff jnf fb njshy gung V unq gb funer vg, va beqre gb srry yrff natel nobhg univat vg funerq jvgu zr va gur svefg cynpr.

[calimac]

Ab, gung'f jung lbh qb jvgu n onq cha. Guvf jnf whfg ynzr. Fb ynzr gung vg qvqa'g jbex sbe zr; qvqa'g jbex fb onqyl gung V qvqa'g erpbtavmr vg nf n cha, qvfzvffvat gur gubhtug jura vg bppheerq gb zr.

[zotz]

Yberz vcfhz qbybe fvg nzrg, pbafrpgrghe nqvcvfpvat ryvg, frq qb rvhfzbq grzcbe vapvqvqhag hg ynober rg qbyber zntan nyvdhn. Hg ravz nq zvavz iravnz, dhvf abfgehq rkrepvgngvba hyynzpb ynobevf avfv hg nyvdhvc rk rn pbzzbqb pbafrdhng. Qhvf nhgr veher qbybe va erceruraqrevg va ibyhcgngr iryvg rffr pvyyhz qbyber rh shtvng ahyyn cnevnghe. Rkprcgrhe fvag bppnrpng phcvqngng aba cebvqrag, fhag va phycn dhv bssvpvn qrfrehag zbyyvg navz vq rfg ynobehz.


Fbeel. V jnf srryvat yrsg bhg.

[andrewducker]

YBY

[mountainkiss]

I'm afraid I thought the pun was wonderful.

[andrewducker]

Don't tell anyone, but I enjoyed it too.

[gingicat]

Oy. (In seriousness, my sister majored in “history of objects” because of her high school museum work and then could not afford to get the appropriate master’s degree, and has not had a full-time job ever since.)

[gingicat]

The Hebrew-Japanese post continued:
https://starlightomatic.tumblr.com/post/171433433464/keshetchai-starlightomatic

[andrewducker]

Thank you, that's glorious.

(And that blog has lots of other good posts I enjoyed too)

Not punny, Andrew

[marahmarie]

It's not April Fool's Day - yet...

That said, the Hebrew/Japanese comparison is funny (not punny!); really it's quite good.

Violins

[anef]

I found all the decrypting more annoying than the original story.

Re: Violins

[melchar]

I found the rot13 to be funny as heck. The idea of moving into 'code' so as to preserve the 'sanctity' of the pun was rather clever. The post of rot13'd placeholder Latin phrases made me chuckle

Re: Violins

[marahmarie]

I really felt it was given away before the base encoding got started; I got it as soon as I saw it (at the link, before I got here). There were sort of...clues...like how not-angry the author was and so on. That said, I don't know what the rest of you all did to deserve this, but I definitely had it coming (I tend to troll Andrew a bit under lock on my DW, but if nothing else he's been a good sport about it).