MeFi comment:
"I came up with a little theory about the Joker a while ago.
Along with Animal Man and Psycho-Pirate, the Joker is one of the few characters in the DC Universe who is aware that he lives in a comic book. He knows that we are watching him. Given..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Faint of Butt
Almost an hour ago
MeFi comment:
"Film critics pull a twofold duty. On one hand, they need to recommend movies for others to see; on the other hand, they need to write essays that are interesting in their own right.
I've never particularly cared about the first duty, and I used..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by kittyprecious, Tbola, pxe2000, mrgrimm, abulafa
more than 12 hours ago
MeFi comment:
"Pavement recorded a similarly abusive version—full of forgotten words, dropped notes, and disdainful chuckles—during a late-'90s BBC appearance.
To be fair, they do that to their own songs too...." [
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favorited 7 times, recently by tiny crocodile, kersplunk, climalene, Atom Eyes, entropone, twistedonion, roll truck roll
4 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Damn, I was going to point out that the wikipedia page for Swarm had an error in it that described the coolest supervillain ever. Unfortunately, someone fixed it. It now reads, "A former Nazi sympathizer, His most notable feature is that his..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by sachinag
9 days ago
MeFi comment:
"These superhero threads always devolve into Batman vs. Superman fights, don't they?
This page has an interesting run-down of Batman's relation with kryptonite in various canons. Here's my favorite:
The Batman/Superman comic combines the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Gary
11 days ago
Ask comment:
"This is very specific to the couple. Some couples need their space, some are clingy, and everyone has their own needs and problems.
My one piece of advice is to somehow set it up so that you will be able to live somewhat independent lives if..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ifjuly
12 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Quibbling about exclusions and rankings is dumb if you take it seriously, but it's fun to remember other cool characters when commenters bring them up.
So in that spirit (and stealing some choices other people have mentioned): this list needs more..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by doctor_negative
2 weeks ago
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"There are a number of philosophers that Steven C. Den Beste might be referring to. Anyone who harbors behaviorist tendencies and who focuses on the social aspects of language is a candidate. My guess is that Steven's thinking of Donald Davidson or..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Korou
2 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"Yay, it's time to grill various meats, drink Negro Modelo in the pool, and blast David Byrne's Miss America on loop for 10 hours. Happy 4th, Metafilter! I'll be your teenage fanclub, although at times it might seem awkward...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nasreddin
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"That's kind of scary. I think she just collected all of our garmonbozia." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by mkdg
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"I just read the Making Light thread and want to praise Cortex and Languagehat for being such well-spoken emissaries." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by UbuRoivas
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"I wasn't at all religious in high school, nor am I now, but Borges's essay on Judas as the true son of God was one of my favorite pieces of literature at the time. Maybe it's not the most historically accurate read (in whatever sense the Bible..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by overglow
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"a random location in Europe (say for instance current France/Benelux/Germany) in the year 1000 AD (plus or minus 200 years).
That's a huge stretch of time and a huge region of space, so any general advice is impossible. One thing's pretty likely:..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by twins named Lugubrious and Salubrious, nasreddin
Last month
MeFi post:
1 Across: Matthowie's community blog
favorited 37 times, recently by ifjuly, kryptos, neoist, suki, sweetkid, Camofrog, Stewriffic, Phire, cogneuro, mrleec
Last month
MeFi post:
Shakespeare and philosophy
favorited 14 times, recently by thebestsophist, Acetylene, PM, P.o.B., nushustu, Salamandrous, mediareport, Cassilda, Free word order!, Saxon Kane, Spacelegoman, LobsterMitten, prosthezis, penduluum
Last month
Ask comment:
"I say I'm a grad student studying philosophy. I get three questions all the time:
(1) "So, what's your philosophy?"
(ugh)
(2) "What are you going to do then, teach?"
Answer: "I'm more interested in the research,..." [
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favorited 7 times, recently by milestogo, mothershock, flatluigi, penduluum, olya, exceptinsects, LobsterMitten
2 months ago
MeFi post:
How well do you know your own thoughts?
favorited 31 times, recently by jammy, kliuless, secretary bird, ethel, wander, zebra3, muymuy, junebug, mduda, philcliff, Homeskillet Freshy Fresh, pantufla, Wilder, yoga, jack_mo, Cassilda, 2or3whiskeysodas, nicolin, vbfg, Rumple, leibniz, louche mustachio, treepour, kensanway, ntartifex, ericost, maudlin, afu, tickingclock, UbuRoivas, MaryDellamorte
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Speaking as a practitioner of analytic philosophy who wishes he knew more about continental philosophy (and who thinks he is probably sympathetic with some of its general themes), I'm finding the characterizations of analytic philosophy in this..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by mdn, Kwine, ornate insect
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Internet anonymity and personal privacy are going to become impossible as search engines and NLP become better. Just remember that your grandchildren are going to be able to ask Google3000 for the dumbest, most embarrassing things you've ever said,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by dabitch
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"The student center at McGill is unofficially called the Shatner Building. It's unofficial because, the rumor goes, there is a university rule that buildings can only be named after dead people or donors. Shatner won some sort of student vote to..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by blueberry
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Aha! I knew that this would make its way to Metafilter sooner or later. Didn't think it would happen until Fodor's book on evolution came out, though. Get ready for a long post.
Disclaimer first. I took a seminar with Jerry Fodor on this topic..." [
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favorited 18 times, recently by lostburner, Freon, languagehat, Mayor West, Mocata, nasreddin, tomcooke, BinGregory, quanta and qualia, Kattullus, Alex404, klangklangston, GeckoDundee, dyoneo, Mister Cheese, tractorfeed, tickingclock, ornate insect
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"In retrospect, I believe that my upbringing in a socialist-oriented family steeped in a class struggle view of society taught me that authorities would often have a different view of right and wrong than mine.
There is little reason to put stock..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Drastic
2 months ago
Ask comment:
"In the game Kingdom of Loathing, you can learn a cocktailcrafting ability that lets you make all sorts of real and fictional cocktails. (eg. The Perpendicular Hula, the Slap and Tickle, the Horizontal Tango, the Ducha de Oro)
And, of course,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by MsLgean
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I'm just here to pile on some more Attack From Mars love.
Watch out man, they've got a Big-O-Beam!" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by JHarris
2 months ago
MeTa comment:
"I know that the point of this post isn't to have people look at your project and tell you whether they like it. But I still want to tell you that I like your project and I like your site...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by roll truck roll
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"ornate insect: In the book "Husserl, Intentionality and Cognitive Science" (1982, MIT Press) that Dreyfous edited, the last essay "Methodological Solipsism Considered as a Research Strategy in Cognitive Psychology," Fodor outlines..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ornate insect
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"ARGH! Despite saying upthread that I don't have the patience for this game, I stuck with it to see how far I could get on Hard mode. After much teeth-gnashing and brow-furrowing, and having racked up 3940 deaths so far, I managed to make it to The..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by kid ichorous
3 months ago
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"I don't really have my finger on what's well-known and what's mostly unknown, but Johnny Boy's You Are The Generation That Bought More Shoes causes happiness to soar. (The lyrics are maybe inappropriate, but they're inscrutable, so I choose to..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Sitegeist
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"That was actually kind of interesting. I like seeing media being used in new ways like this. It's more like a short film than a video game. A short film with a little bit of interactivity to make you feel how old she is.
On the way to the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Baldons
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I wonder if some of this argument isn't simply over semantics.
tkchrist: let's agree that both of us, and most normal people, would be incapable of putting children in ovens. But we could be changed: drugs or brainwashing or hypnotism or whatever..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nooneyouknow
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Count me as another eyeroller at the "only in America" line. But we eyerollers don't matter. Foreigners (I'm Canadian) weren't the target audience. I'll bet that nearly every American who hears that line doesn't notice anything all too..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nooneyouknow
4 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Holy Christ, that speech was incredible.
I support the total excision of politics from Metafilter. IMO, this speech would be objectively FPP-worthy for reasons purely having to do with its form, were it not an unfortunate casualty of a sound..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Rock Steady
4 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Although I'm with ontic on the question whether non-Sony qualia exist. How could we be wrong about that, painquale? What kind of an illusion would that be?
The qualia question! I get called out for this a lot on Metafilter. My profile page..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by tickingclock
4 months ago
Ask comment:
"Firstly: I suggest that in thinking about this topic, you drop the word 'definition'. 'Definition' is ambiguous. Among other things, it can mean (1) resolution (as of a digital picture), (2) meaning (as of a word), or (3) the act of stipulating a..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by LobsterMitten
4 months ago
Ask comment:
"Other grammatical but hard to understand sentences include garden path sentences:
The horse raced past the barn fell.
The old man the boat.
The cotton clothing is made of folds easily...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by JMOZ, LobsterMitten
4 months ago
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"It's pretty common for people to think that their mental images are full-fledged "pictures in the head", but there's a lot of good psychological data that suggests that isn't the case. Response-time experiments suggest that people tend to..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by regicide is good for you
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Some philosophers are terrific comedians. But by and large, philosophers have terrible senses of humor. All their jokes are just quips based upon quantifier scope ambiguities and use/mention errors. For example, here's Bertrand Russell:
"I..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Slithy_Tove
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Man, it is really hard to see what new information the visitor brings. He has to bring something new, otherwise everyone would have killed themselves long ago, as many people in this thread have pointed out.
But it can't be the case that he..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by tickingclock, bent back tulips
5 months ago
