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MeFi comment: "I have literally heard the "just once" story from kids. I've seen kids I thought were on the mend turn around and get into far worse trouble than they were in before. I leave the kids behind in the program building, head down the street..." [more]
favorited 5 times, recently by mecran01, loquacious, mygothlaundry, anthill, Blazecock Pileon
3 months ago

Ask post: Which barbeque/grill?
favorited 2 times, recently by trigger, hhc5
5 months ago

MeFi post: The Challenge of Global Health
favorited 3 times, recently by alasdair, eustatic, Coffeemate
5 months ago

MeFi comment: "Solutions? Anybody? Well, I don't purport to be wise enough to solve the whole problem, but I'd bet that the first step has to be: Stop being angry at the homeless...." [more]
favorited 10 times, recently by ShawnStruck, eixmi, librarina, tehloki, sugarfish, LMGM, rollbiz, Asherah, agregoli, arcticwoman
Last year

MeFi comment: "Flunkie- this person apparently cut 2,788 dowels, sanded them, painted them, and then arranged them in a pattern to exactly match a piece of existing art. That sounds like a lot of work to me. What does someone have to do to make you impressed? If..." [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by mckenney, tehloki, Wonderwoman
Last year

MeFi comment: "Let me also share my experience of many hours of watching Starcraft on TV in Seoul. It is exactly as you might expect, since ultimately people just find the lowest cracks and tipping points and simply try to get to them as soon as possible. For..." [more]
favorited 18 times, recently by Pope Guilty, bugbread, Derive the Hamiltonian of..., cathodeheart, lumensimus, clockworkjoe, flibbertigibbet, invitapriore, KokuRyu, chlorus, grobstein, lazymonster, Partial Law, MidAtlantic, sveskemus, painquale, zippy, Blazecock Pileon
Last year

MeFi comment: "(I Am Not A Quantum Physicist.) I'll say. Personally, I don't laugh at the goofy, naive ideas of past cultures. They were doing the best they can with the tools and observations available to them. We're doing the same today. In the 1930s,..." [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by DevilsAdvocate, H-Bar, quite unimportant
Last year

MeFi comment: "I want to live in a world where we don't need methodologies because everyone is interested and involved in what they're doing, and we're all tolerant of some failure here and there. My sense is that if you are having problems with your daily..." [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by Penny Wise, ao4047
Last year

MeFi comment: "Ok, for the Wu thing? There's a book called Rise Of The Vulcans, like the Roman god of fire. Bush's cabinet called themselves Vulcans. He was having some fun (and making a pop culture reference that a lot of people get!) by playing off that. Sure..." [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by grobstein
Last year

MeFi comment: "Visit Dandong, on the Chinese border, and you can get a good impression of the Korean life in about two hours. Go to the infamous bridge the US bombed in the Korean War, stand on the end, pay your three renminbi to use the binoculars. You'll see a..." [more]
favorited 6 times, recently by Drexen, notswedish, delmoi, Nelson, bardic, pandaharma
Last year

MeFi comment: "During the 2005 term, there were 87 decisions made, 16 of which were per curiam, leaving 71. This article concerns 4 of those. Here they are, in the order presented in the article, if you care to read the reasoning: Garcetti v. Ceballos Hudson v...." [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by effwerd
Last year

Ask comment: "I think you should carefully consider college, but by no means should you rush into it. You can absolutely succeed in life without it, and you can absolutely be happy without it. I only went to college for a year and consider myself relatively..." [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by umbú
Two years ago