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""Thoughts?"
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"I swear it's the very last time. Honest. I'm fully aware the gag has been run into the ground, but this post is just so perfect.
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"" TSA wants to suggest ways that people can help the lines move more quickly."
I'd like to suggest a way the TSA can help the lines move more quickly, too: ENGAGE IN LESS SECURITY THEATER...." [
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"As someone who doesn't enjoy being photographed, I find myself required to employ a multi-layered defense. The initial polite-but-firm "No, thank you" occasionally needs to be followed up with a more firm "I do not want you to take my..." [
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""How many more times can we mention "security theater" in this thread?"
At least once for each person going through the security checkpoint. Security theater deserves repeated mention because, let's not mince words, it is the..." [
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MeTa comment:
"I'll stop trotting this out soon, I promise. But first, please allow me to run the gag into the ground. Thanks.
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MeTa comment:
"Ooo, I've been itching to do this! Finally my chance!
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"Here is my hard-earned wisdom, in small, easy bites. They might sound like blurby truisms, but there's an essay of meaning behind each one:
Fresher is always better.
Eschew recipes! They lie!
Cooking is art; baking is science.
Sharpen..." [
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MeTa comment:
"I guess I'll take loquacious' advice, then.
The arrangement of bits your compiler puts out are stored in an identical manner on my disk by fucking courtesy. You want to tell me which bits on the platter I can flip? You buy the storage and pay..." [
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"'"Well, what did he do before?" (as though his identity were completely determined by his work) '
It is. Not to you or him, of course, but to everyone else. "What do you do?" is the first question a man gets from anybody,..." [
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"I've spent a lot of time with hippies. I was raised by some, lived in communes here and there, and to this day retain contact with quite a few people who are tiedyed-in-the-wool old school Summer of Love hippies. While hardly universal, I've..." [
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"What's sketchy about a guy asking for a cracking tutorial? Admittedly, he doesn't seem to know that's what he wants, but pretty soon someone will slap a link to Google search results for "cracking tutorial", mention the concept of..." [
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""It's wild the justifications people come up with for ad blocking."
A web server sends me a document. The document has some suggestions about layout, some content, and references to other objects. What the software in my systems..." [
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"This is a pretty simple thing to do, but it takes some finesse to apply: Don't buy shit you don't need. Obvious enough, sure, but it takes a little thinking to find all the stuff you buy that you shouldn't. After housing, food should be your..." [
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""[W]hat advice have others found to be prudent and sustainable?"
This is what I teach my children:
"Redistributing these files is illegal in some places, including where we live. Now that you know this, if you're going to do..." [
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""Is it possible to make a politically active group of friends out of an existing politically passive group of friends?"
I'm not an especially political person. I have my opinions but politics holds little of interest to me, and much of..." [
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MeTa comment:
""I didn't categorize the topic as being a "best of the web"
In which case, please don't post it to MetaFilter. That's the point you appear to be missing: it doesn't fit the description (the fairly loose "best of the web"..." [
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MeTa comment:
"Dammit, I'm turning into a one-trick pony.
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"I'm fairly cynical about my father in a lot of ways, but hopefully these responses are in fact helpful despite that:
My father taught me (implicitly) that diet and exercise aren't enough to keep you from succumbing to stroke and heart attack if..." [
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