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"I do this constantly. At least twice a day. Things I say:
"Oh God"/profanity (directed at the world)
"I hate you" (directed at myself, this is more common with recent embarrassments)
"I love you" (directed at any..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by doteatop, waitangi
6 ½ hours ago
MeFi comment:
"I'd like to suggest that before we get into this much further that people clarify whether they're talking about genetics or culture.
I suspect there are little, if any, genetic factors improving the scores of asian students, and I suspect there..." [
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favorited 12 times, recently by bettafish, giantfist, orrnyereg, rottytooth, Smart Dalek, flibbertigibbet, liquorice, Jilder, andythebean, Forktine, brain cloud, showbiz_liz
7 hours ago
MeTa comment:
"To be fair, though, any time I see people go off on the tired "piracy isn't theft, it's copyright infringement" diatribe, it makes me want to beat them with their copies of The Fountainhead and stab them in the eye with their Ron Paul..." [
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favorited 18 times, recently by frenetic, DevilsAdvocate, no_moniker, theclaw, DaRiLo, Manjusri, thirteenkiller, papafrita, hattifattener, penduluum, aeschenkarnos, PeterMcDermott, Monochrome, The Bellman, SpacemanStix, wendell, Caduceus, the dief
2 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"I think you will live to regret doing this, although I hope not.
Dude! Maybe you don't like the feature but that's no reason to wish he was dead.
Sheesh...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by The Bellman, lizzicide
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"[Note: semi-tongue-in-cheek]
To be perfectly honest the very first thing I would do if transported back to 1000 AD would be to walk to the nearest fairly remote village, wait in the woods outside of it until midnight, creep into one of the smaller..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by Science!, olya, herbaliser, GaelFC, damn dirty ape
4 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"So have the amazing profits of games like GTA4 started to trickle down to the programmers yet? Or is game programming still an economic wasteland populated by 20-somethings working 80 hour weeks for crap pay because video games are cool and they..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Artw
Last month
MeFi comment:
"The following is all very broadly speaking, and has nothing to do with individuals:
Under optimal conditions a man can procreate in fifteen minutes, several times a day, and then move on without expending further resources on their progeny. The..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Telf
Last month
MeTa comment:
"Any system of criminal justice or reconciling civil disputes that is beyond the understanding and practice of the common man will become a tool for oppression to a corresponding degree.
America isn't the worst that human history has seen, but it's..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by teleri025, weapons-grade pandemonium, MikeKD
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I've always wondered at the entirely rhythmless folk like GW, can they not hear the music at all?
Uptight white people can hear just fine - it's our souls that are deaf...." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by MidAtlantic, liza, pyrex, ltracey
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Ryvar's sociopathic plan
In my own defense, the question was how to survive, not how to survive and be a nice guy." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by cass
Last month
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"prefpara: The 20th century didn't invent critical thinking, either, but it greatly increased the supply. My parents have this encyclopedia-style tome from the late 1800s, and you would not believe how ridiculous some of the bullshit in there was...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by twins named Lugubrious and Salubrious
Last month
MeFi comment:
"You know, this brings something to mind . . .
I'm one of those people who actively attempts to avoid curmudgeonhood. I've always been very worried about becoming like my grandmother, who was literally terrified of computers.
So let's say, for..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by infinitewindow, rodgerd
Last month
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"My wife is not into flowers, jewelry, spas, girly stuff, music, art, literature, eating out, concerts, and she hates gift certificates. We're both 16-hours-in-front-of-a-monitor every day (including vacations and weekends) type people.
Being what..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by lioness
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Modern state societies permit and encourage us to express our love, anger, grief, and fear, but not our thirst for vengeance. We grow up being taught that such feelings are primitive, something to be ashamed of and to transcend.
This is just me,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by rockhopper
3 months ago
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"Speaking as someone who worked on Bioshock *STERN GLANCE IN YOUR DIRECTION*, . . . actually most developers I know couldn't care less when you get it so long as you paid for it, including me. Street dates seem to be broken by stores that aren't..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by zippy
3 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Dude, it's right there:
wit wɪt
–noun
1. the keen perception and cleverly apt expression of those connections between ideas that awaken amusement and pleasure.
2. speech or writing showing such perception and expression.
3. a person having..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by kittens for breakfast
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"The best part, by far, is the not-entirely subtle threat contained in this line:
Further, if any of these patents or trademarks has been licensed to any entity, please provide me with copies of the licensing agreements. I assume that Monster..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by blueberry, vsync, littlerobothead, grubi, you
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Son of a bitch. Son of a fucking bitch.
It is my sacred and holy duty to hate people like George Clooney, and then you people go around linking to articles about him that have a neat premise, very good writing, and actually make him look like a..." [
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favorited 8 times, recently by tehloki, liza, Dillonlikescookies, flatluigi, vytae, LeeJay, pyrex, nervestaple
4 months ago
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"Speaking as someone who managed to shake himself out of what you're describing, the problem is probably one of two things, or both:
1) Depression. Not ADHD, but major clinical depression (or mood disorder with a similar profile like Bipolar type..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by tickingclock, Ladysin, mynameismandab
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"This is so wrong in so many ways, these people don't even hide, they are proud of their work even. Geez this is so fucked up.
posted by zouhair
As feats of engineering, most modern firearms are pretty amazing. What can be achieved completely in..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by quin
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
""Unfortunately, his injury was very serious because it seems that his foot was twisted several times around its own axis and this really damaged the bone and soft tissue," Engebretsen said.
This is *exactly* why, despite the occasional..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by schyler523
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I'd think the point of trying to create a mathematical simulation of the brain is to crack the core mechanism of consciousness at a neurotopological level. Once you have that, you can start trying to improve upon it. Do a sufficiently decent job at..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by wires
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"caution live frogs:
There's a huge difference there - even if you accept the basic premise, racism is fundamentally flawed at the most basic level because of interracial breeding, which is only increasing in frequency as geographic and linguistic..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Jpfed, markr
4 months ago
MeTa comment:
"So? Then don't favor the beliefs of one group over another. Is someone trying to force you to?
posted by languagehat
Yes! I am trying to force him too. It's quiet, stealthy, and the end results will not manifest for millenia (I'm going to have..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by languagehat
4 months ago
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"Poppycock. Didn't affect my wireless network and the phone base and the wireless router are right next to each other. They can operate on different channels; the interference claim is just one more myth.
This is wrong. The further away one..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by blueberry
5 months ago
MeTa comment:
"I am interested in reading and participating in discussion about the American election in exactly one place on the internet: Metafilter.
And that's just it. I *do* want to obsess over all the minutiae of this election with all the very bright..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by EarBucket, LarryC
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"25. I'm a bit upset I missed Wilson, Harding, Ike, Van Buren, and Madison. The rest of the guys I can missed were nobodies." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by xorry
5 months ago
MeTa comment:
"konolia, I wanted to say that even as someone who needles you about religion occasionally, I do actually sympathize. I was a fundamentalist of almost exactly the same vein you are (much of what you write could have come word-for-word from my mom)..." [
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favorited 6 times, recently by herbaliser, RussHy, janedoe, panamax, ssg, languagehat
5 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Scientology is a very different beast from mainstream fundamentalist Christianity. The Bible makes very few *hard* claims that can be out-and-out flatly contradicted by our evidence at hand.
Scientology's basic religious text contains so many..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by anazgnos, five fresh fish
5 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Holy foxy moxie batman!:
Before I became an atheist, I HEAVILY plumbed the depths of 'Creation Science' - it is breathtaking, in a sad sort of way, how adroit they are at conjuring explanations that leave a tiny window open for Biblical literalism...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by limeonaire
5 months ago
MeTa comment:
"dydecker: Sure, but if there is a God (which cannot be disproven), isn't he free to interfere with aging?
There's actually this massive pile of bullshit built up around the idea that the cause for Noah's flood was some huge 'water vapor canopy'..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Pope Guilty, spaceman_spiff
5 months ago
MeTa comment:
"As a twin all this "deleting doubles" makes me very uncomfortable.
posted by pwally
I imagine that one of the most challenging aspects of any twin's personal maturation is the acceptance of your inherent redundancy. Your, shall we say ...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by dirtynumbangelboy
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I thought there was a law requiring one to quote Fight Club when making a suicide blog?
90 days? This isn't even a cry for help. It's a cry for attention...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Goblindegook
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"It's not a perpetual motion machine, but it might be a machine tapping a) forces we don't know about or b) forces we already know about in a non-obvious manner.
As an example of b), it might be tapping into the Earth's orbital momentum - it's..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Galvatron
5 months ago
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"Blingo, in the Perfect Universe That Will Never BeTM, I shot you just before you could post that. It was painless and quick, and it was necessary.
To answer the question: hermitosis, it's a cat, dude. My experience with cats is that if they are..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by dhartung
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"This is an incredibly poorly written article - it's clear as mud to those who don't already know what he's talking about while garrulous and obvious to those who do...." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by reventlov, mccarty.tim, grobstein
6 months ago
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"I worked on Bioshock's story (more as an editor than a writer, although a bit of that too), so I suppose I'm qualified to answer this.
The answer is that every company does it differently - sometimes it's the creative director (as in Bioshock's..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by anildash, SpacemanStix, chrismear
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I . . . I dunno. He seems like an interesting guy with with an interesting story (and, frankly, he's hot as hell if you shop on that side of the aisle), but when you look at all his later work it's so pretentious and juvenile I can't stop cringing..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by pinothefrog, aye, misha
6 months ago
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"Note: I used to be a lot like Lee, but I grew out of it, and I'm speaking from that perspective.
Eventually, mounting relationship failures will pressure Lee to change. You need to give him the chance to mature emotionally over the course of..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by damn dirty ape
6 months ago
