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Urgh.  And here I was hoping it'd ask some really hard questions, like the various ways semicolons are used

The quick rules are, of course, quick.

If you want to use a comma but that would be wrong, then you should probably use a semicolon.
If you want to use a semicolon for readability, you probably want to have two sentences.
If you have two sets of places where you want to commas but can only use a comma in one or the other (nested lists for example), the semicolon is for the outer set.