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Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
favorited 11 times, recently by nicolin, lahersedor, Rhaomi, thatelsagirl, Ickster, smitt, jeffburdges, vernondalhart, acro, regicide is good for you, KokuRyu
2 days ago
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"After 7 years, we both knew exactly what got the other one off, how to put each other in the mood, the secret spots, all that craziness.
For all practical purposes you aren't really a virgin, except by your highly arbitrary (abrahamic religion..." [
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11 days ago
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"Be self-reliant, grow close to your neighbors, and help your community be more self-sufficient and less dependent on the rest of the world. More specifically...
* Be Healthy. This is what really matters overall, right?
* Have real, tangible,..." [
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12 days ago
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"The Big Pool of Money. The Economist offers good coverage of this stuff for laymen (if you understand some very simple economic terms and are willing to google stuff on occasion)...." [
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2 weeks ago
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"It's really a sacred plant and deserves thoughtful responsible use.
Watching these dipshits abuse Salvia is really disconcerting . Aside from the fact that it seems like they have no idea what they're playing around with, they're drawing negative..." [
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3 weeks ago
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"Would I want to do my job and not get paid for it?
Except that this is a bullshit thought experiment with barely any semblance to the situation at hand.
First off, IP law as it stands does not make sense because IP is not a very sensible idea. No..." [
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3 weeks ago
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"its breaking my heart to think of not being with him cuddling at night or just hanging out.
You've grown accustom to him, and the security that comes from sharing so many things with another person.
Oxytocin. It's remarkable stuff. Maybe..." [
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"(Hell, you could wear a head mounted binocular display to make everyone around you beautiful... like an expensive, nerdy, side effect free booze)" [
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"Bwaaaaahahahahahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaa
I hope this isn't a joke post, because it's just so awesome at so many levels.
Don't talk to him about this. Assuming he's aware of safe sex practices and has a healthy view of people, you've done all you..." [
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"However, I've read various things which have suggested that such an inspection system would be completely unworkable. Not politically, but practically. So even if, let us imagine, the inspectors had powers to look anywhere, rifle through government..." [
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"A relationship is not just two people who love each other, it's two people who are simultaneously in the right place (in a host of ways) to be with one another when they feel it. Tragic, yes, but as the saying goes...
I hold it true, whate'er..." [
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"(oh, and in a previous discussion somewhere on MeFi, someone mentioned tetrachromats, which I'd never heard of before)." [
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"In philosophy, particularly with concern to the mind body problem, there is discussion of "qualia" - sometimes described as "raw feels". The question is whether qualia exist, whether the subjective gut feelings of the taste of..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nickyskye
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"And in addition to the experimental weaknesses pointed out by DU, if I were told that my job was good exercise, I might start doing it more gracefully and vigorously, because hey - it's making me healthy!..." [
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"Don't be desperate. Remember, most guys of your age want to get laid much more desperately than you do, and as a result your standards can be much higher than theirs...." [
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"These introvert/extrovert titles are complete bullshit that are at best meaningless and at worst used to turn a social handicap in to a personality trait.
I have spent weeks without talking to anyone, months without more than a perfunctory..." [
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"Well, whatever energy you get out of the floor will be the net energy you sap from the dancers collectively, minus the likely significant mechanical and electrical losses in transmission.
My point here is just that you aren't..." [
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"As long as you can listen to someone talk about something like perpetual motion and have your BS detector go off enough to not be fooled, that should be all you need.
Eh, but then you're miming the high level "rules" of physical theories..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by JimN2TAW, invitapriore
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"Have babies.
In the long run, your genetic contribution is nil (and it takes a mighty ego to believe you're genetically wondeful in the first place), and influencing the paltry number of kids you can crank out is irrelevant - educate other..." [
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"As far as buddhism ("zen") goes I reccomend anything by Thich Nhat Hahn. Some quotes. The idea of mindfullness and awareness of the present is a very important one in buddhist practice.
Life can be found only in the present moment. The..." [
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"There is actually a good bit of scientific research that answers this question. Yup, some lab-coated dudes sat around in bars and such and watched people be smooth. A good synopsis can be found here, as brought to you by the fine folks at the Social..." [
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favorited 13 times, recently by maloon, umlaut
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"I don't think enunciating "I'm not interested" will be interpreted literally while flirting by most people. Depending on how interested they are, they'll focus on the elements that bode well for their hopes or lack thereof. Ultimately, it's..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by mynameismandab
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"The picture looks like nothing more than a monkey suit :-/
I'm pretty dubious, and have been hiking near some of the places where there have been claimed Bigfoot sightings and photos. Unless those guys are eating only berries and grubs from..." [
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"I'll be watching this thread, because I've never found many good posters in this vein.
That said, googling around just now I found this amusingly obfuscated circle of fifths diagram (looks like solfege around the outside with characterizations of..." [
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"Oh, this is also, I think, why so many people report the music they listened to when they were 13-25 or so is their favorite. This is when most people are carving out their identities, so if that's your primary critical motivation, musically, it's..." [
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2 months ago
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"But these days you hear a name and within minutes you have the entire discography of the band, there is no longer "discovery" when it comes to culture. Art has lost its value both monetarily and sentimentally.
Bullshit. I'm a child of..." [
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2 months ago
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"This obitfilter may not meet the general notability guideline or one of the following specific guidelines for inclusion on Metafilter. If you are familiar with the subject matter, please expand or rewrite the article to establish its notability. The..." [
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2 months ago
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"You're upset, as anyone would be. You want things out of him that he no longer wants to provide, as he is no longer interested in the reciprocal arrangement you had before. This sucks, at the most basic level, because you've gotten used to those..." [
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2 months ago
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"Counter-intuitively, Postel's robustness principle ("be conservative in what you send, liberal in what you accept") often leads to deployment problems. Why? When a new implementation is initially fielded, it is likely that it will encounter..." [
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2 months ago
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"I understand liberterians don't like the second law of thermodyanmics, because it means the statement of "all property is theft" by the anarchist Pierre-Joseph Proudhon is true.
What?
No, she was quite serious, the book is not..." [
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2 months ago
