MeFi comment:
"Well, yeah. If I decide that I want recompense for my hard work, you don't get to decide "but waaaahhhh I wannit free too bad for you."
Actually, I can decide that. It's not hard, and I don't feel the slightest bit bad about it,..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by mrgrimm, Iax, Meatbomb
6 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Why do 17-year-old kids have $200 to spend building this thing? I worked when I was a kid. I'm sure some of them work too. I guess they're free to spend their money however they want, but you would have been pretty hard pressed to convince me to..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Reverend John
2 weeks ago
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"See if he's up to trying it with a dental dam. If he's concerned about tastes or odors, then that will put a barrier between him and you that he may be more comfortable with.
Other than that, I think it's something you're going to have to talk to..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by sixcolors
Last month
MeFi comment:
"then there's really no reason not to properly cite the source
Sure there is. It interrupts the lyrical flow of the speech and detracts from the message.
You seem to be confused about the purpose of political speech. It is very different from..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by PeterMcDermott, null terminated
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"But somehow, when Clinton does is, she is trying to game the system, and when Obama does it, he is trying to retain his rightful place. Why?
One candidate says that it's perfectly acceptable for backroom deals to thwart the declared will of the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by sheila t
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"He wants to change Washington. Ok. How? By being the only one to play nice? That's the plan?
Of course not. Don't be obtuse. Obama's entire mindset is one of bottom up change. He believes that if you motivate the electorate, they will demand..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by feloniousmonk, dsword, Nattie
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Grounded - your link was malformed, but I assume you mean this one, and you right. he didn't want to say that his plan wasn't universal because he doesn't believe that it isn't. He believes universal means universally available and universally..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Llama-Lime
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I'm expressing dismay that it seems to me like Obama is lacking familiarity with his own website-enunciated policies. The healthcare smackdown in South Carolina was a good example of this.
I don't have any idea what you're talking about. From the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by psmealey
5 months ago
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"If you want your money to be liquid (that is you can get it when you need it), stocks are a bad choice.
Investing isn't about having fun. If you want to have fun, go to Vegas. You'll probably do about as well as you would with four stocks over a..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by climalene
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Obama's really been working that "I didn't vote for the Iraq war" thing in debates with Hillary, as if he'd been in the Senate in 2003 and voted against it. Does anyone really believe an ambitious young centrist like him would have stood up..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by CitrusFreak12, George_Spiggott, Llama-Lime
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Clinton's association with Wal-mart is such a non-story. It sounds bad until you look into it just a little bit.
On the other hand, Bill Clinton selling his endorsement of a corrupt dictator for $131 million? Well, that seems like a pretty big..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by klangklangston
5 months ago
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"I don't know if it will be more effective for you, but here are some of the things I do:
First, before importing photos into iPhoto, I run them through a PhotoShop filter that resizes them down to my maximum screen resolution. I archive off the..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by desuetude, emoeby
6 months ago
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"Thanks devilsbrigade and dirtynumbangelboy. I'm still open to suggestions, given that this will probably scrolling off the front page soon, here are a few other options I found while searching.
Copper: We need to play around a bit more, but I..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by melorama
6 months ago
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"Because in a world where the host needs the parasite as much if not more than the parasite needs the host, you don't want to do too much to discourage the parasite.
Celebrities will complain about how hard the paparazzi makes their lives, and..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ekstasis23
7 months ago
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"Also, for what it's worth, condoms don't prevent the spread of herpes. You can still infect somebody even if you aren't actively showing blisters and even if you use condoms...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by tristeza
7 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I like McKay, and I never buy Christmas trees, but aren't most trees grown/farmed just for Christmas? Seems like if people stopped buying them, they'd just stop planting them, so there'd be fewer trees in the world, not more...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Mick, horsemuth
7 months ago
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"Don't know if you've seen this SMTP Disclaimer that invalidates mail with legal sigs sent to this guys mail server by imposing his own conditions on the sender, but it seems relevant to you...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by grouse
7 months ago
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How do you use Facebook
favorited 17 times, recently by shelbaroo, prophetsearcher, perpetualstroll, k8t, divabat, hot soup girl, JaySunSee, lhall, Jaie, onoclea, fishfucker, weston, lampoil, JimN2TAW, veronica sawyer, scission, safetyfork
8 months ago
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"My People Connection started in LA and has a pretty active group of people. It isn't the same group every week, but there are certainly things you can sign up for every week...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by kparker
8 months ago
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"I wouldn't have deleted the pictures. If pressed, I probably would have deleted you. People process break-ups differently. I think you should work on coming to terms with that and being more allowing of it. I know that's easier said than done, but..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by blueberry, dead_, missmagenta
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Can't we just grow new organs in a lab yet? I mean seriously, how hard could that really be?
Cutting the rotting meat out of a corpse and sewing it up inside a failing body just seems so 19th century somehow. We really should have gotten past..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by flatluigi, tehloki, Mamapotomus
10 months ago
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"You said that he'll mow the lawn if you tell him to. So, tell him to mow the lawn." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by hhc5
10 months ago
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Is there anyplace that has a good television buyers guide?
favorited 11 times, recently by crookedneighbor, birdsquared, EllenC, |n$eCur3, brownbeards, kirkaracha, LinnTate, fightorflight, loosemouth, octothorpe, kuujjuarapik
11 months ago
Ask comment:
"Why not check with some of the local private pilot airports. I imagine you could get somebody who wants to gain hours to take you up for the cost of gas. Unless you want the jet experience, the small planes feel a lot more like flying to me anyway...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by doctor_negative
Last year
MeTa comment:
"I know (as do plenty of other people on this site) that Christmas and possibly even tales of the virgin birth of Christ probably came from Mithras. However, I'm not at all familiar with Mithras going into the desert or wilderness or being a man who..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by RussHy
Last year
Ask comment:
"Can a horse pull the bars out of a jail cell window?
What about a stick of dynamite? Can you blow a hole in the wall of the cell without killing the prisoner inside?..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by mathowie, marginaliana
Last year
MeFi comment:
"I read Moby Dick. I found just about every page to be tedious. I read it simply out of an obligation I felt to finish it. I read it because everybody raves about what a classic work it was, so I thought that maybe I was just missing something.
In..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by DevilsAdvocate, elphTeq, Popcorn, beth
Last year
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"Evolution is a LONG process, and the span of human history is VERY, VERY short.
Sixty Men from Ur:Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., one the United States' great historians, is less than two lifetimes removed from a world where the United States did not..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Jon Mitchell, snap, crackle and pop, funkbrain
Last year
MeTa comment:
"Those comments should NOT have been deleted.
That was a bad decision.
I don't think I've read an obit thread on the site yet where there wasn't at least one person coming in with a negative view. Personally, I hate the obit threads, but..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by petsounds, amberglow
Last year
MeTa comment:
"I knew what the thread was about. It didn't seem at all obtuse to me. Even if I didn't know what it was about, clicking into a thread doesn't mean somebody is forced to comment, so whether something is clear or not is hardly the point.
MeFi has..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by supercrayon
Last year
MeFi comment:
"There's something about the argument for enforcing conservation instead of a smoothing transitional technology like hydrogen that reminds me of people who want to eliminate abortion because pregnancy is a kind of punishment for sluts.
There's some..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Drop Daedalus
Last year
Ask comment:
"It's probably easier to ignore him rather than goading him on. Everybody knows he's a nut job. Don't allow yourself to get caught up in his drama (even if it does seem like it would be amusing).
He'll continue to rant and spew, but you will have..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by sleeplessunderwater, mckenney
Last year
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"You probably don't need a book at this point. If your company offers a 401k with matching, fund that up to the lessor or your ability to comfortably contribute or the point at which the company no longer matches.
Beyond that, I'm assuming you..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by GalaxieFiveHundred
Last year
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"Get $10 worth of gold. Set it in a jello shot. Tell the person you want to do a shot with them to congratulate them for winning. Then tell them that they just drank their payment in the form of $10 worth of gold and that they can start checking their..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ColdChef
Last year
