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MeFi comment: "One thing a forest firefighter explained to me, and I did not see mentioned, is that in the natural cycle, fires burn through every few years, turning dead wood and underbrush into fertilizer and reinvigorating the system. When you don't let the..." [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by C.Batt, roystgnr, peppito
2 weeks ago

MeFi comment: "Pew Research - Polling has regularly found that the public favors the teaching of multiple perspectives on the issue in the schools. While solid majorities believe that evolution should be taught in science classes, roughly two-thirds of Americans..." [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by PM
2 months ago

MeFi comment: "P: Our mission in general is to document and theorize and perhaps even... S: Lie— P: And act out and make up stories about doll games. Essentially, yes, the site is about two people who were acting out and making up stories about doll games...." [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Nattie
2 months ago

Ask comment: "I think developing a wiki for your major/classes would be invaluable. It seems like the other information is probably available somewhere else. A list/breakdown of good places to study is handy to have, and might be worth doing, but could just be a..." [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by hulahulagirl
2 months ago

Ask comment: "Previously [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, ]." [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by rossination, modernnomad, davar
2 months ago

Ask comment: "That's what friends are for." [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by jazzman, arcticwoman
3 months ago

Ask comment: "Sorry, hit post instead of preview there, here are the full titles and authors. Bumblebee Economics - Bernd Heinrich Ever Since Darwin: Reflections on Natural History - Stephen Jay Gould Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of..." [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by shelleycat
3 months ago

Ask comment: "If she cannot reconcile herself to his dalliance then I think the best course of action for her would be to present the issue as the deal-breaker it is to her partner. That is, to tell him "I know we had such and such a relationship when we got..." [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by misha
4 months ago

Ask post: We'll be comin round the mountain.
favorited 39 times, recently by salvia, fishfucker, blindcarboncopy, seawallrunner, HotPatatta, seiryuu, Mundungus, coizero, Chris4d, zadermatermorts, hought20, JohnYaYa, ShootTheMoon, yohko, nnk, vytae, wearyaswater, craven_morhead, kidsleepy, inigo2, gazole, justkevin, somanyamys, cyclopz, bilabial, donajo, LunaticFringe, cocoagirl, brautigan, malapropist, one_bean, onalark, asuprenant, kickingtheground, doowod, PhatLobley, lockestockbarrel, gottabefunky, sophist
4 months ago

MeFi comment: "I hate that show." [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by MikeKD
6 months ago

MeFi comment: "Singularists are the optimistic twins of the Peak Oil apocalyptists. One assumes never ending exponential growth which will inevitably lead to rainbows and supersmart self-conscious AI, the others focus exclusively on the limits of growth and how..." [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Schmucko
6 months ago

Ask comment: "The US Census Bureau Fact Finder is a good place to start." [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by yoga
8 months ago

Ask comment: "Since you mentioned it." [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by wemayfreeze, anticlock
11 months ago

Ask comment: "My cheif complaint about Kurzweil is that his basic argument boils down to: "Wouldn't if be cool if...". He BEGINS with the idea that exponential growth of complexity is going to continue until soon superintelligent nanobots will rule the..." [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by lodurr
Last year

Ask post: Broke down in Berkeley.
favorited 1 time, recently by sophist
Last year

MeFi comment: "Stewart went on at length about how he is a comedian and his show is a comedy that happens to be about the news and politics. It is not a news show that that happens to be funny. His primary responsibility, as he puts it, is it infuse the political..." [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by 2shay
Last year

MeFi comment: "not prisons, jails." [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by jonson
Last year

Ask post: Hippy Kitty, No More For You!
favorited 1 time, recently by divka
Last year

Ask comment: "heck only 2 days? the flavor is just starting to mature, give it another week." [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by white light
Last year

Ask comment: "Make sure you use Internet Explorer. Movies alone cannot infect your computer, but active-x embedded stuff can. If you can setup a new XP install, don't update anything, make sure firewall is off. Installing Kazaa is a good start Check out the..." [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by bh
Last year

Ask comment: "I just moved from Tahoe, I lived there for 5 years. Although I lived in South Lake Tahoe (SLT) I am quite familiar with North Shore as well. Truckee is where you want to be, in my opinion. Truckee is an awesome "mountain town" that has..." [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by bluejayk
Last year

Ask comment: "Worst comes to worst put your stuff in storage and move into a weekly motel until you find a place." [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by blueberry
Last year

Ask comment: "MusicBrainz. Run it to tag all your mp3s. It will also move/rename files. Exact procedure to fix the problem ON YOUR HARD DRIVE (if this is the path you wish to take) follows. This is to fix your collection and assume you are running winamp and..." [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by rosswald, premortem
Last year

MeFi post: MetaMoom
favorited 1 time, recently by nickyskye
Last year

MeFi comment: "I am really starting to wonder if Isreal's withdrawal of their settlers from Gaza a few months ago was a genuine gesture towards Palestine or if they were just preparing for the area to be a warzone and getting their people out...." [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by rougy, formless, Jimbob
Two years ago

Ask comment: "Check out the guys at LoginRecovery. I had this happen to an old computer a while back and thir service worked for me. You download a file, put in on a floppy, use it as a boot disk and then upload the encrypted password file back to their website...." [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by JohnnyGunn
Two years ago

Ask comment: "maybe its corrupted. just like you, downloading precious costly episodes off the internet. for shame!" [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Mrmuhnrmuh
Two years ago

Ask post: Display Glitch
favorited 1 time, recently by drstein
Two years ago

Ask post: For a Better Cube
favorited 1 time, recently by hooray
Two years ago

Ask post: She has a dream...
favorited 1 time, recently by divabat
Two years ago