MeFi comment:
"The republican fixation on tax cuts is really bizarre
They like big cuts and they cannot lie
There's no way to deny
That when a bill comes through with an itty bitty rate
And rounds out their estate......" [
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favorited 4 times, recently by DU, camcgee, bjork24, delmoi
5 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Most of the very smart people I know think Mensa is a bad joke. There's a lot more to intelligence than joining ridiculous clubs, too.
"the least interesting thing about someone that intelligent should be that they score well on IQ tests...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by BrotherCaine
7 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I don't think she's as stupid as these answers make her sound.
I agree with this. She's not dumb, she's simply out of her depth but trying not to sound like it.
The Miss Teen South Carolina answer train wreck is a pretty apt comparison, and..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by Pantengliopoli, pineapple, kimota, jonp72
11 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I really hate it when ancient religious texts are watered down to make them more "accessible". They're not accessible. They're not easy to understand.
Really good point. For me one of the most frustrating things is the idea that I will..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by cgc373
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Gore never claimed to have "invented the internet"
Sorry to nitpick on what's essentially a true point (he didn't claim he invented it), but I think the more important thing to note is that Gore had credible claim to playing a strong..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by mannequito
3 weeks ago
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"You will need to have a thick skin and be extremely civil. I have a feeling people won't be to you.
This is the biggest part, I think. I sometimes argue what I see as centrist politics and policy in a very conservative online forum. I find it..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by bookley, Solon and Thanks
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Here's something specific to chew on for anybody who assumed the article was going to be "REPUBLICANS SUCK":
I have found that people who call themselves strongly liberal endorse statements related to the harm/care and fairness/reciprocity..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by magic curl
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
""Sledgehammer" or "Big Time" to me. Claymation or no claymation, those songs were so unremarkably Mid 80s Winwood-level Bad that they may have been the cause of lameness in others. Pete was in to get paid and that's it.
Maybe...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by pantagrool, rongorongo
3 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens;only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody,not even the rain,has such small hands
–LVII
i thank You God for most this amazing
day:for the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by johannahdeschanel
Last month
MeFi comment:
"So if scientists told everyone that their jobs made them healthy and that singing instead of talking cured cancer, we would all suddenly be living in a 1950s technicolor musical?
Even if it didn't cure cancer, it might dramatically improve quality..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by bettafish, electrasteph, theredpen, aeschenkarnos
Last month
MeFi comment:
"God doesn't care if you lead an environmentally sustainable lifestyle. There is no big Bill Moyers in the sky checking up on whether you shop at Wal-Mart or not.
Whether or not there is has little bearing on the consequences that flow from..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by ilovemytoaster, Marisa Stole the Precious Thing
Last month
MeFi comment:
"You see it as your "duty" not to participate in consumer society. Who do you think is impressed?
What makes you think the *primary* reason to do this is to impress anybody? And what makes you so sure this is simply more religious guilt..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by vytae, Marisa Stole the Precious Thing
Last month
MeFi comment:
"not being able to figure out how to change my life so as not to be part of the problem. So far, moving to Uruguay is the only thing I can come up with
Why Uruguay? The more pre-industrial agriculture-focused economy? I don't know. I suspect that..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by askmehow, Marisa Stole the Precious Thing
Last month
MeFi comment:
"When George W. Bush is desperately trying to make you obey international law and adhere to the standards of civilized society
I think it's far more likely the key phrase is "President Bush asserted authority" -- that this is another..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by oaf
2 months ago
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""I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create." - William Blake" [
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favorited 4 times, recently by quadog
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"The fact is, you will never get enough qualified math teachers until you pay them enough to make teaching a viable alternative.
I have my doubts that pay scale is the biggest problem. Phillip Greenspun's on to something when he talks about how..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Hactar, wittgenstein, theiconoclast31
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"All kids deserve a Huck Finn summer. We perhaps have lost our collective minds about our overscheduled, overstressed young.
The former statement is obviously a little crazy, but the later isn't so much. It's possible the Times article misreads..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Deep Dish
2 months ago
MeFi post:
My Gracious. Stingrays are migratious.
favorited 13 times, recently by korej, cdmwebs, twins named Lugubrious and Salubrious, Iamtherealme, ikkyu2, lisawin, snofoam, ...possums, RussHy, jmdodd, [NOT HERMITOSIS-IST], jimmythefish, bunnytricks
3 months ago
Ask comment:
"Oh, one more thing: if you haven't read Richard Adams' Watership Down yet, I might recommend you do so as you're going on with this project. One of the layers of the book that I find fascinating is that the characters themselves tell both the literal..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by vorfeed
3 months ago
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"By contrast, I thought that Sauron in "Lord of the Rings" was a terrible villain. We never saw him. We never really learned about him. He was just a dark aura hovering in the distance, more like a primal force than a person.
That last..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by DevilsAdvocate
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"The World Bank kicked off this entire mess back in 2005
Now, now. Don't be too hard on The World Bank. When have they given bad advice before?
Who's in favor of this crap besides corn farmers?
Unfortunately, Barack Obama.
Maybe it's wrong..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by jamjam
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"In a world of outrageous suffering, unbelievable poverty, continual exploitation of the innocent and heinous abuses of power I find it difficult to believe that God is truly concerned (if there is one, and God is not indifferent) about whether or not..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by marble, Snyder
3 months ago
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"Your parents will be quite supportive with whatever you decide to do as long as you're happy, financially healthy and yeah, have health insurance in some form.
It would be nice if this were universally true, but it isn't. They may be a minority,..." [
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favorited 6 times, recently by mdonley, elisynn, ifjuly, divabat, kiripin, LastOfHisKind
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"(And I keep going through this, and I can't believe the conclusions David Coe's drawing out of the story of King David's transgressions, and following it up with appreciation for Genghis Khan's methods of disposing and torturing the conquered.)
I..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by psmealey, blueberry
3 months ago
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"". . . as soon as a man knows that a woman is interested in him, he is no longer interested."
I don't think this is true as stated, but I think I see why it sometimes looks that way:
I. It has in fact happened to many people where..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by nemutdero
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"eiπ = -1
I actually bring that up to illustrate a problem with this question: any succinct expression of a non-trivial, worthwhile proposition or fact apropos to the question is likely to be dense with meaning that's fully parseable only if you're..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by fantabulous timewaster
3 months ago
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"I don't think a healthy 29 year-old can *stop* as in *eliminate* an interest in sex.
However, there's some things I think people can do to check their interest at a balanced level to where it's not a distraction from other things important to you...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by gregb1007
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"MeFiHack, Copyright 1999-2008
See license for details.
Shall I pick a character's race, role, gender and alignment for you? [ynq] n
Pick a role for your character:
a - Programmer
b - Librarian
c - Bard
d - Samurai
Pick..." [
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favorited 17 times, recently by blasdelf, flatluigi, topynate, the dief, bunnytricks, syrcharles, davejay, subaruwrx, goodnewsfortheinsane, ursus_comiter, ShawnStruck, Pope Guilty, kimota, JHarris, kittens for breakfast, unmake, adamdschneider
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"the software development kit and other tools for developers have the potential to be more important to Apple and its users than the specifics of this year’s phone.
Yup.
This is not the first software ecology for mobile devices.
But despite..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by malaprohibita
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I just can't shake the feeling that the iPhone, like Palm (and WindowsCE) devices, are a bit of a hammer looking for a nail.
To the extent this is true, it reminds me of the story of the home computer. They were put out long before most people..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by docpops, Senor Cardgage
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"The moral argument is bunk. God doesn't give a shit if you abort your child. Said child is not a miracle. It's a biochemical reaction under the right conditions,
I don't fear legal abortion, but I definitely fear the reductionism here, amongst..." [
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favorited 7 times, recently by EarBucket, ymgve, artifarce, nebulawindphone, axon, Hollow, ZeroAmbition
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"As for the comments about Clinton, it's really strange to me how so many Democrats today sound like parrots of right-wingers from 15 years ago, with their dire predictions about how the bitch won't stop until she's destroyed everything good.
For..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by nooneyouknow, Anything, jtron, tachikaze, spiderwire
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"No argument from me, scody. Personally, I think she should concede.
But one more point on this. She may not even just be being selfish. She may genuinely believe she is much more qualified to be President than Obama is (or that she's much more..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by etaoin
4 months ago
MeFi post:
Modelling human memory, predicting forgetting
favorited 41 times, recently by alyxstarr, kryptos, delmoi, sebastienbailard, andywolf, exhilaration, Phire, niles, MikeKD, storybored, Nattie, pickingoutathermos, lunit, Uther Bentrazor, Amaterasu, Green With You, lahersedor, nicolin, Ira.metafilter, davar, neetij, Minus215Cee, peacheater, BobsterLobster, samthemander, globolin, folktrash, surenoproblem, Turtles all the way down, muymuy, P.o.B., hilatron, zouhair, ooga_booga, Xoder, Lafe, regicide is good for you, Ictus, The Power Nap, phrontist, sjjh
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"My comment wasn't about mp3s.
But it rebuts your thesis completely. If you don't want to be locked into Apple's platforms, there are plenty of choices you can make that will make it easy-peasy to abandon Apple's hardware at any point in the future...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Blazecock Pileon
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Freeman Dyson is, frankly, a bit weird these days when it comes to Climate Change.
I'm partly with mr roboto. Maybe it's just a bit of residual hero worship I have for somebody who's always seemed to me to be part of the pantheon of 20th Century..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Kadin2048
4 months ago
