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"Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but no, I don't think it does anything but play DVD menu screens at you. As far as I can figure some people react by saying ha ha, that's happened to me. Maybe there's something technically cool about how it is..." [
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2 ¾ hours ago
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"A few months ago I was talking to an old coworker who it turned out had (several years after we worked together) coincidentally worked at a different business where I later worked for several years - but our tenures at the second business didn't..." [
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favorited 14 times, recently by woebot, lalochezia, mynameismandab, hannahq, hnnrs, Menomena, PatoPata, iivix, Brandon Blatcher, availablelight, zippy, Deathalicious, idiomatika, tyrantkitty
more than 12 hours ago
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"As alluring as the shock-value of the "look at how vulnerable you are to crime" package sounds, I think you just can't deliver such an assessment unsolicited. It doesn't even really matter if it could legally hold up or not: nervous rich..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by yohko
8 days ago
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""Solid scientific evidence" involves properly designed experiments generating data supporting or denying a coherently formulated, scientifically testable hypothesis. Confirmation of this evidence involves publication in a peer-reviewed,..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by palimpsest
4 weeks ago
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"I chuckled at the cutesy little disclaimer on the tadigrades.com home page that warned you might develop an "addictive" fascination if you kept reading. Then I looked at the clock and realized I'd been reading about water bears for thirty..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by giraffe
Last month
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"(unless you have some very powerful sentence-level logic, like in th hmn brn)
I don't see what the hymen barn has to do with anything." [
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favorited 25 times, recently by XMLicious, ntartifex
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"I'm pretty sure it qualifies as animal cruelty to force a couple of innocent chickens to participate in a Neistat Brothers film." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by loquacious
Last month
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"Nice snipe. I've never been near an art school.
Congratulations on developing all that pretension on your own
As an ordinary user it's not up to you to cross out (even conceptually) another user's comment.
Who the fuck are you to tell..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by misha, bonaldi, Sk4n
Last month
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"It's pointless to send the email when she's back tomorrow. Beyond that, the situation you are in is ridiculous and of course it is fair to push her to get out of your apartment ASAP. You need to tell her point blank the situation is bad for you and..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Ladysin
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"I love how people always post these "I've got an irrational fear, how do I overcome it?" questions and everybody chimes in with "oh, you don't have to be afraid about that, it's not rational!" Obviously you know that if you take..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by LooseFilter, jprind
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"I think it is down to UK citizens to advise you on somehow negotiating the health care system. You probably need both talk therapy and continued work to find meds that actually work for you. This is your fundamental need. There is not maybe or..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by elisynn
Last month
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"Is it possible? Sure. Anything is possible. Is it likely? Honestly? No. It's seriously unlikely. Almost nobody's first real thing works out. Really, truly, almost nobody. So is your thing that one in a million? Given that dude told you he..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by streetdreams, yohko
Last month
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"Banning him now would just be playing into his hands. There's no other choice but to apply reverse psychology and make spock a moderator.
You still around, spock? 'Cause I still want to know, are you actually, as it appears, just assuming nobody..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by scrump
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"One more thing: just get an apartment. That "rental black hole" thing is just an excuse and it's holding you back from doing the one thing you desperately need to do, which is take 100% responsibility for your own life. The economics of..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by ROTFL, zippy
Last month
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"and then Matt deleted it all...
You know the rules.
spock, either make the damn post or root around and find an actual deleted post. This attempted back door at discussing this election trivia of the moment isn't the answer...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Rock Steady
Last month
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"A thousand pardons, Ms "grapefruitmoon." Incidentally, your "cat" is a dick." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Heretic
Last month
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"Most of them will be about 18 years old, born in 1990...
Ah, this year's graduating class was born the year I graduated from high school. Ouuuch." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by cass
Last month
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"Either you're letting untreated major depression run your life in a very damaging fashion or you are using personally manageable depression as an excuse to either basically not work when you don't feel like it or to sabotage a job you secretly don't..." [
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favorited 27 times, recently by flibbertigibbet, Riki tiki, Twicketface, srrh, magstheaxe, Liosliath, Khalad, tyrantkitty, ZaphodB, Flying Squirrel, melorama, oneirodynia, oldtimey, puffin, headspace, Doofus Magoo, the dief, fillsthepews, thisjax, kate blank, essexjan, FrauMaschine, moxiedoll, SirStan, twistedonion, idiotfactory, saffry
Last month
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"The idea that this is fiction is really quite absurd. I mean if I'm proven wrong, hey, I'll freely cop that I've been out-absurded. But seriously: someone is working up this much backstory to game askme to no apparent purpose? I just can't see it...." [
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favorited 10 times, recently by magstheaxe
Last month
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"Never impulse buy based on some artificial time constraint that means you gotta do it NOW, because it prevents you from making a really thought-out choice: always hang on to your old computer as long as possible because your money will always buy..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by bbyboi
Last month
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"is it just me, or is everyone on a particularly snarky tear these past few days?
Wow, real "insightful" comment there. Your early comments were like classic Metafilter but you've clearly lost the magic. Honestly I've kind of been over..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Popular Ethics, lukemeister
Last month
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"Even if you talk it out and agree to what your status is you can end up with a relationship of unbalanced expectations that ends up going down ugly. How I wish that was a theoretical scenario I just made up instead of an unpleasant memory. So by..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Wilder, velvet winter, chicainthecity
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"So she cries and says she was a bad mother; but has she actually apologized? I mean, I don't know if your mom is manipulative or genuinely remorseful or some combination of them - I think most manipulative people are not fully conscious of what they..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by sondrialiac
Last month
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"I've never known anyone who attached any sort of embellishment like this on fortune cookie fortunes. Probably because it would be absurd to do so." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Nattie
Last month
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"I can't help but wonder how that guy takes a shower.
Well, for starters..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by acro
Last month
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"I get it! It represents the fantasy state you enter when you're slipping in and out of consciousness after being tazed for throwing a fit after being held captive on the runway for seven hours, right? Trippy, bro...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Forktine
Last month
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"I hope you understand you are proposing a difficult and quixotic undertaking. There are many millions of ambitious people aspiring to the same goal and the majority of them will fail. This is not at all hyperbole. Comparing this to an ambition to..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by dancestoblue, TochterAusElysium
Last month
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"Okay, just so you people know the scorecard:
Three Lutheran orgs in the U.S...
Unless you're just champing the bit for way too much insider info on American Lutherans you might want to just skip this...
I was raised in the Missouri Synod, in..." [
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favorited 8 times, recently by Sangermaine, potch, Jahaza
Last month
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"From a journalist with a book to sell opining 4 degrees could mean "perhaps the beginning of our extinction" to "by 4 degrees we're all dead"? I'm 100% in favor of mitigating global warming but insisting on the most catastrophic..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by tehloki, mw, zeoslap
Last month
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"Maybe your cat doesn't actually know you're sleeping, he's only ever "pretty sure." Which explains the meowing. He's actually going "Dude. Dude... are you asleep? Dude? Oh, oh yeah... you were asleep? Yeah, I thought..." [
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favorited 7 times, recently by starbuckzero
Last month
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"William, who resides in the Netherlands Antilles, says he also has a moral problem with the IRS requiring Americans living abroad to file annual income tax returns.
Oh, is that what they're calling that now?..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by aeschenkarnos
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"Also, "44 percent indicated addressing global warming should necessarily cause them personal financial hardship" does not mean the same thing as "44 percent would be willing to face any financial hardship in the name of a solution...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by zeoslap
Last month
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"I think you are going to have a very tough time getting prototype garments produced with any sort of the economy at the volumes you are describing. I doubt there is a reasonable alternative (of the rapid prototyping sort) to basically hand tailoring..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by fantasticninety
2 months ago
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"I firmly believe that children need a diet rich in all vitamins and nutrients, many of which can be obtained/absorbed most efficiently via an omnivorous diet.
I'm not a vegetarian and I'm fairly confident in predicting I will never be one but this..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by AV
2 months ago
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"That kind of thinking, if it continues down the path it's going, will eventually tear the country apart.
Yes, yes, we'll end up a divided nation of color-coded states, where every political contest boils down to a few "battleground"..." [
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favorited 9 times, recently by lalochezia, aielen, Dreama, Reverend John, supercrayon, fullerine, bpt, Pope Guilty, aeschenkarnos
2 months ago
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"Wow, I can't wait to relive the last 8 years." [
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favorited 21 times, recently by MikeKD, Henry C. Mabuse, Monochrome, pinothefrog, xthlc, The Card Cheat, scrump, Twicketface, tehloki, tyrantkitty, FissionChips, Help, I can't stop talking!, myopicman, any major dude, treepour, cazoo, estherbester, JHarris, yort, DU, eatdonuts
2 months ago
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"Sort of off the topic, but back in the day I worked at this orchid nursery way outside of the city I live in, a good hour+ commute. I carpooled with two other urbanites. On the way back into town there was a "exit only" lane that tended..." [
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2 months ago
