[FUD comment deleted; difficult conversations go better when people make some effort to engage with their opinions/positions rather than just making cryptic sarcastic remarks.]
posted to MetaFilter by taz at 5:44 AM on May 24, 2013

Yeah, I'm not sure how many actually watched the video that is the post link, but I definitely didn't see anything in there that would prompt the "I worry that people are overprescribing hormones and hormone blockers" line of argument; this doctor was being very cautious.

People who know more should correct me, but it's my understanding that body dysmorphic disorder that might be expressed as gender dysphoria is treatable with psychotherapy and (but not... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by taz at 5:53 AM on May 25, 2013

[Maybe folks could forgo the delphic / cryptic / sneering "You can't handle the truth!" hit-&-run thing, and either just participate in the actual discussion or skip the thread.]
posted to MetaFilter by taz at 10:31 PM on May 22, 2013

[People who want to continue this discussion need to go ahead and take it to email, and drop the derail here as requested above.]
posted to MetaFilter by taz at 12:54 AM on May 23, 2013

[Comment deleted; go ahead and take deleting/banning suggestions to Metatalk. Thanks.]
posted to MetaFilter by taz at 5:37 AM on May 23, 2013

[One comment deleted; let's not start off with a derail about how Occupy protests aren't as good as the Vietnam protests were? ]
posted to MetaFilter by taz at 4:38 AM on May 21, 2013

Here's a contemporary photo of the same block of Ermou Street as seen in #6, "Athens, Ermou 1920" [pic from here]. I really like that the cities here build around and preserve the old churches. (Info on the Church of Panaghia Kapnikarea seen in these images.)

Here's a tiny little chapel on Mitropoleos Street, close to Ermou Street, that has been preserved under a large office building. Interesting info on the chapel here.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by taz at 12:49 AM on May 21, 2013

[Comments deleted; flag and move on or skip the thread, but don't start a fight straight out of the gate.]
posted to MetaFilter by taz at 11:10 PM on May 18, 2013

Kubrick sold his first photo to Look when he was only 17, and was hired by the magazine a few months later. Some of his NYC photos for Look.

I do find the Mooseheart photo incredibly touching, especially looking at the large version in which the expressions on the childrens' faces each seem to tell a tiny tale of their feelings at that moment. I wish I could see the other photos he took for that story.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by taz at 11:29 PM on May 17, 2013

[One comment deleted; let's take any further meta complaints about the post, or complaints about the complaint to Metatalk. Thanks.]
posted to MetaFilter by taz at 12:49 AM on May 18, 2013

nathancaswell, the beginning of that quote explains that the telephoto lens originally belonged to a friend: "'Through the death of a birding friend I obtained his telephoto lens,' Svenson writes on his website. 'Having no interest in birds, I turned to the residents of a glass-walled apartment building across the street from my NYC studio.'"

So he connects it that way, though I still wouldn't disagree that it is a dumb equivalence.
posted to MetaFilter by taz at 10:56 AM on May 17, 2013

It's okay to have a discussion about art and privacy that is not the same discussion as government surveillance.

A couple of things I noted about "The Neighbors" is that it looks like the gallery and the artist's web site have deleted the earlier text about the show that seemed to deliberately and specifically play up the voyeur/stalker/creepy angle and substituted a much more anodyne description that refers to the work as "social documentation," a... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by taz at 11:58 PM on May 17, 2013

[Let's drop the animals-suck derail now, please. CiS, you need to cut out the off-topic anti-animal axegrinding. Everyone else, flagging it and actually moving on instead of piling up responses would help us here.]
posted to MetaFilter by taz at 4:35 AM on May 17, 2013

[A couple of comments deleted; please take metacomplaints to Metatalk. Thanks.]
posted to MetaFilter by taz at 5:43 AM on May 15, 2013

bored Internet sluthes, public and private databases all looking these people's lives over

yeah, not something we want to be doing here. As an internet-related sort of thing, this incident may have some interest to us, but no Witchhunts R Us here please.
posted to MetaFilter by taz at 5:09 AM on May 15, 2013

[XKCD derail deleted.]
posted to MetaFilter by taz at 11:26 PM on May 12, 2013

This guy was my next-door neighbor. Not literally, but yeah – same general age, same look, same dorky enthusiasm. Different era; we played Batman. We had a treehouse in an old apple tree where we kept our comic books, and arrowheads, and seaglass, rusty old keys and pottery shards and whatever other treasure loot we could (literally) dig up. And one of these things that we practiced "cracking." We ate sour apples off the tree and Butterfinger candy bars. We wore capes. We fought... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by taz at 4:19 AM on May 10, 2013

[A couple of comments deleted; understood that people are angry, but descriptions of violent fantasies about killing and torturing someone isn't the way to go here. Thanks.]
posted to MetaFilter by taz at 10:27 PM on May 8, 2013

[Comments deleted; maybe take the argument about SA to email? At any rate, please stop digging up the worst stuff you can find on SA to post here. ]
posted to MetaFilter by taz at 6:14 AM on May 6, 2013

One of the authors of the second link in the article (to paywalled study) has a similar paper here (pdf) that might be helpful. The linked paper was from 2002, and this one is from 2004. The author, Anke Hoeffler, is associated with the Centre for the Study of African Economics.

I'll also just note that the blog that the posted article comes from looks interesting: politicalviolenceataglance.org.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by taz at 12:15 AM on May 6, 2013

My ideas for some strong editorial statements:

20 Celebrities With Hardly a Speck of Makeup – still way, waaay hotter than you! Just give up already.

Before & After: When Plastic Surgery Goes Wrong – These famous people look so much much worse than they did 30 years ago! Why would they do that to themselves?

How to do a 5-Minute Perfect "Smokey Eye" that Will Last All Night –... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by taz at 4:15 AM on May 3, 2013

[Let's go ahead drop the why-do-people-watch-playthroughs derail now. Thanks.]
posted to MetaFilter by taz at 7:01 AM on May 1, 2013

Pla, I was confused, too, but she explains the pronoun situation with Carl in the comments.
posted to MetaFilter by taz at 4:15 AM on April 29, 2013

I'd just like to link to this "C is for Capybara" illustration that has been a longtime favorite of mine. (I wish this artist would do the whole alphabet, but so far I think they've only done an equally awesome A, and B.)
posted to MetaFilter by taz at 1:06 AM on April 29, 2013

I'm pretty sure it was meant to be, "I know a few people who have returned [to Africa] but failed, and had to come back to Europe."
posted to MetaFilter by taz at 6:26 AM on April 28, 2013

I'd like to ask something about the events timeline, if anyone knows (here on the other side of the pond, I wake up to over a thousand new comments, so I might have missed this): all the controlled (or uncontrolled?) detonations that were happening – were these just various unidentified items that might have possibly been bombs? Or do we know if there were actual explosive devices planted beyond the marathon itself?

Also, has their activity at MIT ever been... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by taz at 11:11 PM on April 19, 2013

[fixed bigZLiLk's link]
posted to MetaFilter by taz at 11:21 PM on April 19, 2013

[It's okay to talk about philosophical/sociological aspects now that there's really not that much news streaming in, better if it's more closely related to this event, and much worse when it's just squabbling about what's okay to talk about. If we have to open a Metatalk to discuss that, we will, but it would be much cooler if people would all be a little flexible here.]
posted to MetaFilter by taz at 2:27 AM on April 20, 2013

I figured they were worried about more devices, and needed to a) keep large contained vulnerable groups (schools, transit, etc.) safe, b) look and see if they could find more bombs, and c) try to get the guys to see if they would say if there were more devices.
posted to MetaFilter by taz at 3:55 AM on April 20, 2013

Here's a longer version of that house raid video, though I have no idea if it's from the original uploader (we need something like TinEye, but for video, and searchable by newest/oldest). There's another 6 or 7 minutes on the end of it that show the police dispersing, the residents returning, some of the neighbors venturing out briefly... and somebody hugs the dog! I'm not sure it tells us much more, but it does look like the cops don't go to the very next house (I don't think), or the house... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by taz at 12:45 AM on April 22, 2013

[Comment deleted. Let's restrain ourselves with imagining violent/extreme retribution for this person. And, yep, I get that the last one was ironic; but let's pass on all that. Thanks, all.]
posted to MetaFilter by taz at 11:38 PM on April 20, 2013

Just a reminder that there's a Metatalk thread that might be a better place for discussing the Meta stuff about how many users/comments etc. on the site.

The Mother Jones article linked above doesn't have gruesome images in the photo/videos, btw, for those who are trying to avoid that, though you won't want to follow the link to the Atlantic in the first paragraph. When looking at that interview with Arredondo, I just kept thinking that I didn't know how the interviewers... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by taz at 12:53 AM on April 16, 2013

Don't worry Rock Steady; Boston sports has about zero importance in my day-to-day life, and that ad totally made me tear up, too.
posted to MetaFilter by taz at 6:32 AM on April 16, 2013

[People who want to argue the "worse things happen every day" thing, please go do that in the Metatalk thread. This thread is for talking about this incident, even if you don't personally think people should do that.]
posted to MetaFilter by taz at 4:38 AM on April 17, 2013

[Chat FAQ info here, for a little help, but maybe make a Metatalk if you need more assistance. Since the thread is big, let's try to keep comments more info-focused, less chatty here]
posted to MetaFilter by taz at 10:52 PM on April 18, 2013

[Guys, let's not speculate on if someone specific is a girlfriend of either of the suspects, since we don't have that info. Thanks. ]
posted to MetaFilter by taz at 5:15 AM on April 19, 2013

[Yeah, let's not announce locations of police, fire, etc. here. Chat might be a good place to find that out.]
posted to MetaFilter by taz at 6:35 AM on April 19, 2013

[Post edited by OP request to reflect the fact that the cause of death has not been stated. ]
posted to MetaFilter by taz at 6:52 AM on April 18, 2013

[Let's not start a derail about whether this was child abuse? ]
posted to MetaFilter by taz at 11:05 PM on April 17, 2013

[Understood that there are many issues hovering around this tragedy, but just a reminder that questions of regulation and capitalism can easily overtake the entire discussion, and it's early hours yet -- so let's just be mindful of that, and try to keep things a bit focused. Thanks.]
posted to MetaFilter by taz at 1:46 AM on April 18, 2013

[Thesobsister, saying that someone is a troll is not okay. If you think a comment is out of line, flag it, contact us, or start a metatalk post. Everyone: Further meta discussion about this should go to Metatalk.]
posted to MetaFilter by taz at 11:09 PM on April 16, 2013

I've been keeping an eye on Aljazeera especially to try to keep up with any news or updates on this, and it seems like maybe there is less info available than there would be typically? I expected that they would have a liveblog happening, which I haven't found yet, though they are definitely covering it. This timeline of major earthquakes in Iran is scary, though it's difficult for me to compare population densities in areas there, but some of the death statistics are pretty shocking.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by taz at 7:17 AM on April 16, 2013

Oops, I found the Matrix.
posted to MetaFilter by taz at 11:58 AM on April 14, 2013

So, why do people have streaming web cams in their homes? I can understand if people want to see what their pets are doing while they're at work, or make sure their kids are okay, but otherwise?
posted to MetaFilter by taz at 1:14 PM on April 14, 2013

Has anyone reported a site for blacklisting? I used the contact form in the FAQ to let them know about a cam directed toward a child's bed, and after submission, I got a page that said "Are you sure you want to do this?" with no way to respond... so I don't know if they got my message or not.
posted to MetaFilter by taz at 6:27 AM on April 15, 2013

It's not hard to find that info, which is actually on the NYT site. Here's the main subsite; the "Detainees" link at the top leads to info on each of the prisoners.
posted to MetaFilter by taz at 11:38 PM on April 14, 2013

What I'm curious about is the specific conditions that render these particular remaining 166 (of 779) detainees more of a threat (or unplaceable) than ones who have already been released, who decides that, and who specifically has the power to transfer detainees. I'm not asking this rhetorically, but practically. Is there specific information about this? For example, I have read that Yemen, for one, is a country that cannot or will not guarantee continuing monitoring of returned detainees. Yet,... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by taz at 1:35 AM on April 15, 2013

[This discussion will go better if people forgo the sarcasm and personal attacks, and just try to communicate like adults. Thanks.]
posted to MetaFilter by taz at 5:47 AM on April 15, 2013

[Fixed Part 3 link; thanks, barnacles.]
posted to MetaFilter by taz at 12:27 AM on April 15, 2013

[I added quotation marks.]
posted to MetaFilter by taz at 5:58 AM on April 14, 2013