MeFi comment:
"I've been doing some spidering and processing and have come up with 407 posts that simply don't exist in their online archives." [
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favorited 25 times, recently by iamkimiam, lunit, merelyglib, madamjujujive, Optimus Chyme, euphorb, boo_radley, blasdelf, goo, the Real Dan, spiderwire, gmcmanus, Skorgu, grobstein, xchmp, Kattullus, jack_mo, Mick, grouse, zippy, lalex, zota, bunnytricks, JHarris, lattiboy
3 days ago
MeTa comment:
"I hope not. While it's a fine piece of writing, an essay with a few throwaway links shoehorned in is not an FPP at all." [
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favorited 16 times, recently by Monochrome, dmd, jammy, arcticwoman, tomcooke, longdaysjourney, blind.wombat, gyusan, timeistight, Rock Steady, Sys Rq, By The Grace of God, Reverend John, fishfucker, smackfu, NinjaTadpole
3 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"What a ridiculous suggestion. It'd instantly ruin the site. And the technology to make it happen surely doesn't exist outside a handful of little known 1960s science fiction novels.
Why do you hate mathowie?..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Blazecock Pileon
Last month
MeFi post:
Analog textual clocks
favorited 23 times, recently by BobsterLobster, javelina, AsYouKnow Bob, Esoquo, alms, nzero, Rubbstone, BrotherCaine, Substrata, fiestapais, thebestsophist, milov, zouhair, P.o.B., Araucaria, baltimoretim, tomcooke, skyper, puckish, chrismear, mrg, farishta, prefpara
Last month
MeFi comment:
"A lot of Londoners believe that the average Londoner is just plain smarter than the average American. This myth is shattered.
That's only because the average mistakenly includes the idiots of Outer London. Fuck them and their Harvesters...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Lleyam
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I wish tonight's election coverage had been as awesome as last night's." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by phrontist
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Tell you what - if there's a consensus in this thread, that's how I'll vote.
There seems to be a pretty clear consensus against Boris. So vote for whoever you like with your first vote, but you have to put Ken down as your second vote...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by twistedonion
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I have had scores of people - mostly those who have lived on the route - writing to me saying they really love London Cross, and they can’t believe it hasn’t found a publisher
"Hey, this is a great audience. Have we got anyone in from......" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Drexen
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Care to elaborate?
The thing that bugs me most is that Century of Self, Power of Nightmares and (it seems) The Trap all want to tell the backstory of the mindset of western society ca. 1930-present. He presents each one as if it's telling the one..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Smart Dalek
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"that when the first time machine goes back in time, and the first time traveler plants a flag right in baby Hitler's ass, that that flag is going to be red white and blue
Liberté, égalité, fraternité!..." [
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favorited 21 times, recently by triv, oh pollo!, h00py, etaoin, Durn Bronzefist, vira, Jimbob, abulafa, schyler523, suedehead, nasreddin, rokusan, pravit, SBMike, aclevername, Optamystic, vivelame, Adam_S, zippy, Molesome, shakespeherian
4 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Also: "the amazing phenomena which is Obama" makes no sense. It should be "phenomenon".
And that's exactly the kind of small minded, divisive thinking Obama will rid from American grammar...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by donovan
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Did the Gettysburg Address include an entirely unnecessary and pandering (to God knows who, though) mention of YouTube?" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by seanyboy
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"that's just not possible under WP's open administration and transparent article editing structure
Bollocks. From what I gather Jimbo Wales barged in and demanded changes be made with little or no explanation (or rather, made them himself and..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by axon
4 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Can I attach my own earmark to this pony? The system considers my friends to be dullards and/or losers, as they are rarely able to reach its goal of 10 favorites. While I wholeheartedly concur, I would nevertheless like to be informed of their..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by chrismear, misha
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Christ, that website is almost as funny as "has a small willy" Wikipedia edits." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by chlorus
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Terrorists use surveillance to help plan attacks, taking photos and making notes about security measures like the location of CCTV cameras
Well that's me..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by homunculus
4 months ago
MeTa comment:
"2) Fuck off
She may have fucked up beliefs, but she has earned her place as part of this community and deserves to be treated as such and not be used an excuse to make lazy, vicious attacks...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by turaho, Crabby Appleton
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"A direct-current (DC) transmission backbone would also have to be erected to send that energy efficiently across the nation.
Hoy hoy!" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Slap*Happy
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"PareidoliaticBoy: I realise my comment was a bit harsh, and I apologise.
Are you saying that DLP didn't have higher black levels, contrast ratios, dynamic range of color, less SDE, and higher resolution than LCD?
But how does that lead to your..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Nattie
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
""Man, you're totally begging the question: (insert question)" is now the "correct" usage. I suppose it means "Man, you really make someone want to ask the question (insert question)".
No, it means "begging [the..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by tehloki, MythMaker, willie11, msconduct
5 months ago
Ask post:
Fold vs pockets vs what?
favorited 10 times, recently by hannahq, safetyfork, kdern, twins named Lugubrious and Salubrious, mostlymartha, mathowie, qvtqht, M.C. Lo-Carb!, cillit bang, chrismear
5 months ago
MeTa comment:
"that section of the belt has been moved the other way in J2 so the airplane is still where it started relative to the ground
Smart enough to use algebra and "reference frame" correctly, yet completely forgets to take the handbrake off...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by The World Famous
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"The blog post doesn't quite make the connection between overallocation of slots and safety. The Avianca crash appears to be a failure of communication (see the Wikipedia article) rather than directly caused by lack of slots, though you wouldn't know..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Blazecock Pileon
5 months ago
MeTa comment:
"satisfy a narrow interest
That's the bit I don't get. Why is having the asker's follow-ups more visible viewed as something only a few people are weird enough to be interested in?..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by numinous
5 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Matt, your faith in everyone's ability to pay attention to a small, dense, rarely changing sidebar in the corner of a subpage is quite remarkable." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by terrapin
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I think I've found it on Google Maps.
Right across the street there's what appears to be a gypsy traveller camp. I wonder if Daily Mail readers would be quite so sympathetic to them...." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Wilder, arcticwoman, jedicus
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"The Best Buy callout is kind of reaching isn't it? A lot of people probably did "grieve the only way they know how: By reliving the romantic hijinx that is 10 Things I Hate About You". God forbid they adjust their store layout to match...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by DevilsAdvocate
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"The sobsister, you opened the discussion by decalring the ubiquity of hip hop/R&B/etc was an anomaly that needs explaining, as if it was some sort of mistake. You stated that not just one genre, but an entire spectrum genres, was "generally..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Artifice_Eternity
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Rape isn't about sex or libido. It's about asserting your power and dominance over someone, abusing their vulnerability.
I've never liked this assertion. More than anything else it attempts to define "rape" as a cookie-cutter act that..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Deathalicious, liza
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Clue: nobody watches movies with feeds going thru the desk.
The video rolls when it cuts to and from the clip, and the video source clearly isn't synced. That makes me think is either not being done at the desk, or at least not through a route..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by By The Grace of God
6 months ago
MeTa comment:
"The release seems deliberately phrased to sound dramatic but probably amounts to very little. And it doesn't address the actual issue raised on the thread - the "Givewell cause" being a crock of shit. I suppose that was too much to ask...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by orthogonality
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Do they bleep those songs too?
All the time. Though usually the word is omitted rather than bleeped, so it's not obvious." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by amberglow
7 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Popjustice made a good stab at backing the original decision.
(plus they've appended the actual best Christmas record ever to the end)" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by teleskiving
7 months ago
MeTa comment:
"You are getting the front page from another person on your network that viewed the page recently.
That's because you don't send a "Vary: Cookie" header when you serve your pages. It exists to stop this...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by davejay
7 months ago
