MeFi comment:
"Zonker: "I've often confused advertisers with insects. This won't help."
One spends their time eating and excreting pure shit, the other is an insect...." [
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12 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Andy Rooney will seat you now: I don't like prisms, either, and I don't particularly trust refracted light." [
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2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"jock@law: "Social scientists are notoriously unrigorous and, frankly, stupid."
paulsc: "I, for one, can draw no useful conclusions about the data presented in this very flawed and incomplete "study.""
I don't think..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by miyabo, Blazecock Pileon, jock@law, darkstar, radagast
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"electroboy: "Possibly a valid point if the study were actually available."
THE STUDY IS AVAILABLE HERE (found by the inimitable demiurge)" [
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3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"mr_roboto: "It's going to pay for engineering, design, and construction (good union jobs, each and every one of them). If we cut off half of our defense spending, we'd be cutting a lot of people out of their jobs. That's the genius of the..." [
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Last month
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"This is likely not a large problem for you, but muttonchops & hair down to the shoulders are definitely frowned upon. I was almost laughed out of Congressman Conyers' office at the Capitol Building back in '04 for sporting that look...." [
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Last month
MeFi comment:
"Artw: "explosion - Know many Boeing engineers then?"
If we can go one way, who's to say that we can't go the other?" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Procloeon
Last month
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"Epidemiologist:
"Can you take a look at this rash?"
WHAT THE HELL PEOPLE" [
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Last month
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"Hey, I had what was essentially your trajectory and asked a similar question in 2007. Graduated with a BA before realizing I wanted to be a doctor. I hadn't taken a science course since high school and I loathed math.
I ended up enrolling in a..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by hydropsyche, fook
Last month
MeFi comment:
"oddman: "Unfortunately the so-called translators would appear to lack a certain facility with the original text. Thus my enjoyment of the derivative work was sadly muted."
Let me try:
I'm Hydrogen, the foremost element,
And from my..." [
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favorited 72 times, recently by poq
Last month
MeFi comment:
"kaibutsu: "Assuming a 21% hunger rate in 1961"
This is a bad assumption. Between 1960 and 1999 infant mortality decreased by one half, fertility by two fifths, and malnutrition by one fifth.*
*Measham, Anthony R. and Chatterjee, Meera...." [
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Last month
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"I think that it's important to recognize that family size only initially spikes when there's a surfeit of food. Once the local economy diversifies and GDP/capita rises, total fertility rate drops exponentially.* Zero population growth happens..." [
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Last month
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"Stein, who was a speechwriter for Richard Nixon, lives at the Watergate in Washington DC which boasts a Safeway grocery store. He was in line behind my roommate and I shortly after he released the trailer for his 'documentary.' We started talking..." [
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favorited 35 times, recently by zarq, davejay
2 months ago
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"I second (and third) the suggestions of EMT Training, Bread Baking, and picking up a musical instrument." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by typography
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"10 PRINT "You're unlike a summer's day."
20 PRINT "You're more lovely and less hot."
30 PRINT "March's Lion threatens May."
40 PRINT "Summer's shorter than I thought."
A: 50 GOTO 20
60 DIM
70 SWAP Fair..." [
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2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Not very long ago some one invented the assertion that there were only "Four Hundred" people in New York City who were really worth noticing. But a wiser man has arisen--the census taker--and his larger estimate of human interest has been..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nickyskye
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"He could measure the deterioration on his charts. "It looked," he says, "like money was impoverishing them."
I just logged onto gapminder, and, while I don't have the numbers for Suelo's particular village, the statistics for..." [
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3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"There once was a man from [REDACTED]
Whose policies XXXXXXX enacted.
Through a [CLASSIFIED] clause
They [TOP SECRET] the laws,
And had all of their honor extracted...." [
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favorited 171 times, recently by RikiTikiTavi
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Additionally:
Western Mass Style (with banjo and throat singing)
Sacred Harp Style* (mp3)
Choctaw Style (mp3)
*Can't seem to find a recording of the crazier arrangement, Jewett (score here)...." [
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3 months ago
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"As opposed to the cortexhappyhour which is halfway between a gimlet and a triplesec." [
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3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I'm going to name my son Doctor Senator. He'll never have to do anything.
"Oh! Here comes Doctor Senator! He's so important! Let's all give him free sandwiches!..." [
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3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"floam: "Our brain beats their hecka-complicated ganglia though."
To british researchers, not by much. Octopus vulgaris gets status as an honorary chordate...." [
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4 months ago
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"Here's to separating fools who separate fools from their money from their money." [
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4 months ago
