i want to clarify a point.

these comments i'm posting to 2016 were not "deleted", or at least not in the sense of being removed with the intention of destroying them. in fact, most of them have been sitting on youtube the whole time.

what happened, rather, is that i began to notice that posts to google+ were disappearing, so i archived the page to prevent it from being deleted. i don't know who or what was deleting posts at google+.

and, yes, i know that blogspot is run by google...

this is taking a long time due to external factors, but i actually intended to have this reconstructed months ago. and, i never intended to hide anything, i intended to save it!