MeFi comment:
"Who needs those ivory tower intellectual astronomers. Small town values will stop the near earth objects." [
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favorited 15 times, recently by MikeKD, oozy rat in a sanitary zoo, Pants!, Dormant Gorilla, Durn Bronzefist, kcds, DU, athenian, Ludi, treepour, Freen, Alex404, adamt, AsYouKnow Bob, you're a kitty!
4 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Install a graphics card? Calibrate an HDTV? Those aren't skills they're just reading the manual.
Drive a stick? You don't get to call yourself a driver unless you can even if you don't. Now double-clutching or threshold or left-foot braking,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by quin
9 days ago
MeFi comment:
"You're right, shiu mai baby, the "from a distance" argument is horseshit. So tell me, should I vote for Kelly or Fougere or Boyd? Outhit or Christie? Regan, Lorincz, Khosla, Munday, or Ennis? Because the internet is as fully accessible in..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by shiu mai baby, BrotherCaine
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Elections, for all but the most hardened policy wonks (myself included) are won not by the text of speeches but by their emotional content. Obama's message is wonderful. Obama's words are exactly as you say. I have no quarrel with any of these things...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by boo_radley
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Washington Mutual has 143 billion in FDIC insured deposits, which is three times the size of the FDIC fund.
If the FDIC runs out of money the Treasury will print more. I'd bet dollars to doughnuts that there's draft legislation sitting on a shelf..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by bonaldi
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Yay it's just like work." [
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favorited 11 times, recently by wires, acid freaking on the kitty, mr dodo, sebastienbailard, tehloki, zippy, fleetmouse, kamelhoecker, BrotherCaine, DU, chuckdarwin
3 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"If you'll pardon the snark, I think a cost-benefit analysis of human lives would take into account the...um...what do they call them?... oh yeah, the costs and benefits of those lives. Assigning an equal finite value to every human life independent..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by grobstein
3 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"DevilsAdvocate: only that one should not apply a cost-benefit analysis to human lives.
One might believe, for example, that all human lives are equally, but finitely, valuable
If you'll pardon the snark, I wonder what you think a..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by TheOnlyCoolTim
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"With women, you could argue that adulthood is in fact emergent. Single women in their twenties and early thirties are joining an international New Girl Order, hyperachieving in both school and an increasingly female-friendly workplace, while packing..." [
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favorited 13 times, recently by runincircles, MythMaker
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"the horrors of the US mental health system
Future generations will look on us with the same confused pity for our treatment of the mentally ill as we look on the icepick lobotomists of the past. The level of stigma, antipathy and outright hatred..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by wires, jtron
4 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"I'm starting to doubt the ability of the USA as a country to survive this schizophrenia. Each side is completely convinced of their own righeousness and no amount of persuasion or fact can budge either.
Of course I'm part of the problem. I've..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Haruspex
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Another "stay safe, good luck" to ColdChef and anyone else in the line of fire.
I remember thinking just before Katrina hit and thinking how frustrating it was to know that this was going to happen and yet be completely powerless to..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by borborygmi
Last month
MeFi comment:
"MarshallPoe: Cui Bono. Russia has been antagonistic about every previous attempt for western europe to diversify its natural gas supplies, they've been using energy policy as a bludgeon for a few years now. This fits well.
Also if anyone has good..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by feloniousmonk, orthogonality
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Some previous stuff: Russian airforce shoots down Georgian UAV (drone). Russian Energy Policy [pdf]. "Terrorists" attacking Georgia/Russia nat gas pipelines (2006). Russia cuts off energy supply to Ukraine (2006)...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ourobouros
2 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Women are not supposed to be pushy or aggressive
Women need to be pushy and aggressive (when warranted) and let anyone who gives a shit suffer with missing out on half the workforce...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Brandon Blatcher, TheOnlyCoolTim
2 months ago
MeTa comment:
"All set up by men against men.
I don't think framing the issue as one of who is doing the oppressing is helpful or accurate unless your goal is to punish someone rather than resolve the problem. That's the same reasoning that leads to..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by stinkycheese
2 months ago
MeTa comment:
"The Light Fantastic : "guys don't have it as bad as women have it, so stop your complaining"
Men are not systematically discriminated against. A climate of constant, pervasive discrimination does not exist for men.
Sure it does:..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by stinkycheese
2 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Hu-fucking-zzah onlyconnect. I pine for a mega-favorite button. It should dispatch a beverage-of-choice via UPS I think.
I find the "but women are so much more discriminated against" arguments incredibly tiresome. That a greater..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Zambrano, grobstein
2 months ago
MeTa comment:
"So the consensus sofar is "You're wrong, get over it, also you spent too much time on this get a hobby."
Got it." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by grobstein
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Thanks zeoslap, that makes more sense. I really don't get why this story is being presented as having anything to do with solar energy at all. If it works and is easily manufactured it'll be great for any kind of energy storage. The mainstream..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by DevilsAdvocate
2 months ago
MeTa comment:
"It's not really clear to me how anyone besides perhaps someone with a clear line of sight to Mugabe and a 30-06 can really help the situation in Zimbabwe...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Jahaza
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"MetaMan and paulsc have got to be the best false-flag operation in the history of politics. What better way to distract from real, genuine issues like a cult of personality, FISA and NAFTA than with a few attacks on softball issues like how many tens..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Pope Guilty
2 months ago
MeTa comment:
"isn't that just "hip" naked bigotry?
Well, yeah. I'm nakedly bigoted against a whole slew of things, hip or otherwise. Scientology, creationism, homophobia, automatic transmissions, the list goes on. All progress depends on the..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by jtron, five fresh fish
2 months ago
MeFi post:
And DJB's $500 is safe for another day
favorited 14 times, recently by These Premises Are Alarmed, mike3k, lahersedor, godisdad, bitterpants, mystyk, Cassilda, scblackman, Mr. Palomar, appleyar, ads, Monochrome, BrotherCaine, finite
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I feel like someone is fucking with my internet connection and everyone else is either seeing a) a different metafilter or b) a different, funny animated gif...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by DU
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Oh god. LOGO brought me into computers like so many others; this feels irrationally personal. I'd heard and read bits about Papert and his work since, but never really grokked the scope of his work.
TBIs scare me more than just about anything..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Jpfed
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Humans don't have 3D vision. We have 2D vision with partial heuristic depth perception. It's a great achievement for a passive system with only two cameras but it's a far cry from actual 3D information.
I'd like to see a real 2.5D interface. Like..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Brainy
2 months ago
Ask comment:
"Earplugs. Guaranteed one-way ticket to snoozeville on airplanes (for me obviously). Get a good reusable pair that fits well before you go and you'll be set. Bonus: plausible deniability for 'not being able to hear' your annoying rowmates' asinine..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by papafrita, kidsleepy
2 months ago
Ask comment:
"Just to emphasize: document everything. Log, note, date, video/audio if possible and plenty of 911 calls to corroborate. Try and convince other neighbors to do the same. If the police can't/won't help, being able to drop twenty pounds of..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by orrnyereg
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Curricula are designed so that they can be taught by bad teachers. Because, to be honest, most teachers are pretty bad.
Yes. Yes, thank fucking god yes someone else sees this. Curricula have evolved from "you should probably have seen most of..." [
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favorited 31 times, recently by Blazecock Pileon
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"davejay: A friend-of-a-friend had a riced WRX with all the manufacturer tuning labels. A gas station attendant asked him what kind of car a "Prodrive" was...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by BrotherCaine, davejay
3 months ago
MeTa comment:
"My point was more that some people seemed to jump to point out that they weren't actually judging, which I think is disingenuous, albeit maybe an effort to separate themselves from the kind of hurtful effects that onlyconnect and others were..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Blazecock Pileon, danOstuporStar
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"My friend's dog is called Sebastian. We call him Sbaitso, a reference he doesn't get. It drives him nuts." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by o0dano0o
3 months ago
Ask comment:
"I work at an exclusively PHP development shop. Please allow me to present a balanced, nuanced view of PHP as a language, development environment and software culture:
It's crap. Parts of it seem almost explicitly designed to make doing things the..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by strangecargo, anildash
3 months ago
