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MeTa post:
So yeah, suicide girls. After some teeth gnashing,...
Cripes, we should just be paying Matt's MeFi bills anyway. There's a lot of people on this thread saying the SG ads "cheapen" the experience. That means MeFi is worth something to them.
If it's worth something, we ought to pay. How about an annual MeFi Internet-a-thon? Put up begware for a couple weeks or a month a year, like NPR stations' panhandling. Pay the dough, get switched to the non-ad product.
Once enough... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by sacre_bleu
at 1:18 PM on February 2, 2005
MeTa post:
This is a first, as far as I know: a mailto: as...
I sympathize with your distress. On 9.11 something was shaken in me that I haven't been able to settle. I'm a reporter, and long ago established mental mechanisms to deal with atrocity and mass distress, but 9.11 blew them out. I've had to heal, and give my subconscious time to construct new coping processes.
But it's getting better, at least for me. I no longer find myself brimming with tears two or three times a day. So far, prayer, research and talking to people about... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by sacre_bleu
at 11:56 AM on October 5, 2001
graytopia, unlike lots of places on the Internet, the regulars here really want you to play by the rules. The rules you were presented with when you wanted to join this community.
Without rules, it's near impossible for Metafilter to function the way it's supposed to.
That doesn't mean people should sneer at the rookies (including me). But getting mad at people who ask you to follow the rules doesn't make a lot of sense, either.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by sacre_bleu
at 12:27 PM on October 5, 2001
