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MeTa post:
Misogyny Filter (?)
I'm with MPDSEA all the way on this one (and that is not something I say often). If a man does not feel comfortable having sex without wearing a condom, pressuring him to stop wearing it is no different than a guy pressuring a woman to have sex without protection beacuse of course the dude promises to pull out before he ejaculates. Promise. Swear to god. You can trust me, baby.
posted to MetaTalk by Justinian
at 10:13 AM on August 3, 2008
MeTa post:
Metafilter in the Globe and Mail
I think it's the equivalent of the paper that you read in your white bucks while sitting out on your patio in the Hamptons before getting ready for your polo match, or perhaps a bit of yachting.
posted to MetaTalk by Justinian
at 3:56 PM on July 28, 2008
Because everybody who uses the internet is a geek, amirite?
posted to MetaTalk by Justinian
at 9:31 PM on July 28, 2008
MeTa post:
The title of the proposed LA meetup.
Westside represent. For my dead homies.
posted to MetaTalk by Justinian
at 11:47 PM on July 20, 2008
I nominate katillathehun to make an executive decision on place and time. Because she seems executive-y, and it's already Monday afternoon.
posted to MetaTalk by Justinian
at 3:47 PM on July 21, 2008
Is there a consensus? 'Cause otherwise I'm holding a meetup at my place, and none of you are invited. It'll just be me and my stuffed animals.
posted to MetaTalk by Justinian
at 4:03 PM on July 22, 2008
There's something on the other side of the 110? I thought the world just got all pixelated, like in "The Thirteenth Floor."
posted to MetaTalk by Justinian
at 8:11 PM on July 22, 2008
SF Saloon is the same place as last time? That was cool.
posted to MetaTalk by Justinian
at 10:07 AM on July 23, 2008
Yeah I'm pretty sure. I thought the other thing was just some east-side consolation prize?
posted to MetaTalk by Justinian
at 4:03 PM on July 24, 2008
MeTa post:
Hey, Will, Welcome ...
I like a lot of what Will writes (as long as we're not discussing the Civil War) but this is not a good precedent and probably doesn't belong in Metatalk. Or anywhere.
posted to MetaTalk by Justinian
at 3:45 PM on July 21, 2008
MeTa post:
A SHIT OBIT
I think obit threads, on general, are a recipe for a shit post with shit comments. Was Snow more worthy of an obit than Debakey? Was Helms more worthy of an obit than Tom Disch who died a few days ago? I don't think Disch even rated a post. And so on.
But I still don't know what you think will be accomplished by this callout. It can't possibly wendel... uh... you know.
posted to MetaTalk by Justinian
at 4:31 PM on July 12, 2008
Obit threads suck. If someone was worth a FPP, they were worth a FPP while they were alive. Making the front page of Metafilter isn't some sort of magic undead consolation prize.
posted to MetaTalk by Justinian
at 5:20 PM on July 12, 2008
MeTa post:
5 minutes of great reading.
I think that's unfair; Metatalk is for hashing things like this out. Forrest displayed a rather overdeveloped sensitivity here. Slinking off in self pity because a couple people thought your FPP wasn't brilliant? Even though it got over 150 favorites?
It's true that Metafilter might not be right for you if you're that sensitive; that doesn't strike me as a problem with Metafilter.
posted to MetaTalk by Justinian
at 2:49 PM on July 4, 2008
MeTa post:
Memorial fund?
A metafilter-wide fund of this kind should really only be set up if, god forbid, something happened to one of the mods or something. Otherwise it's vastly better if you just set it up in projects. There is no end to the number of legitimately needy people and organizations and Metafilter isn't really set up to be the kind of thing you're looking for.
C17H19NO3 [good grief, what a handle]
It's undoubtedly C17H19NO3. Morphine.
posted to MetaTalk by Justinian
at 10:48 PM on July 2, 2008
MeTa post:
MeFi Follow-Up: Joe Horn is Cleared of All Charges
Uh, they weren't black.
The guys Horn shot were named Hernando Torres and Diego Ortiz and part of an organized Colombian home burglary ring of illegal immigrants.
Note: I'm not saying that makes it open season, but try to get the facts straight.
posted to MetaTalk by Justinian
at 4:56 PM on June 30, 2008
Ooops, I profiled Colombians as non-black. Sorry.
posted to MetaTalk by Justinian
at 6:26 PM on June 30, 2008
This post, and all comments referencing it should be disappeared.
posted to MetaTalk by Justinian
at 7:57 PM on June 30, 2008
MeTa post:
Kenya hack it?
Sure, a meta callout for this is kind of lame, but using the word "hacks" when you mean "tips" ("I need sex tips, please...") is like hanging a sign around your neck saying "HIPSTER DOOFUS" or, perhaps, "VIRGIN".
posted to MetaTalk by Justinian
at 10:40 AM on June 28, 2008
MeTa post:
Go Team?
General knowledge is not the same thing as IQ even if we are to grant that IQ is an important measure in the first place. Testing if the subject knows which country administered Greenland for most of its history has nothing to do with IQ.
posted to MetaTalk by Justinian
at 1:19 PM on June 20, 2008
MeTa post:
seofeed? really?
7 years and 1400 comments... the time is almost right for me to strike. They will never suspect.
Did I say that out loud?
posted to MetaTalk by Justinian
at 11:48 AM on June 15, 2008
MeTa post:
Where did that link go?
I would just like to say that I have not opted out of MeMail. I only point this out because of the distinct lack of mail I receive, no doubt because of some confusion as to whether I, in fact, accept mail. I do.
and I'm lonely
posted to MetaTalk by Justinian
at 3:51 PM on June 9, 2008
MeTa post:
"Now with more time-suck!"
PC or XBOX 360? I play the 360 version pretty regularly. When I supposed to be working. But I'm not.
posted to MetaTalk by Justinian
at 8:52 PM on June 5, 2008
I have a friend at work who played it on the 360 a lot, until he discovered about the physical mod you can attach to your controller to get semi-autofire in-game.
Given that most of the weapons in the game are already fully automatic I'm not sure exactly what this gains you. About the only weapon I can figure it would be at all useful on is the G3 since that's a good gun but only semi-automatic.
Now that I think about it, I... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Justinian
at 9:58 AM on June 6, 2008
When and where are the Mefi TF2 games, anyway? I might as well humiliate myself with my rusty skills.
posted to MetaTalk by Justinian
at 4:43 PM on June 7, 2008
I see a password on herrdoktor's profile but no server address!
posted to MetaTalk by Justinian
at 9:38 PM on June 7, 2008
MeTa post:
The New York to Los Angeles Metafilter Goodwill Caravan 2008
That's okay, jonson, I don't know any Thin Lizzy songs to pull quotes from. Although, from context, I gather that "The Boys Are Back In Town" is a Thin Lizzy song. I know the refrain to that.
posted to MetaTalk by Justinian
at 12:58 PM on May 25, 2008
So, uh, is there actually a meetup or just a series of quotations?
posted to MetaTalk by Justinian
at 11:24 AM on May 27, 2008
Hey, a westside meetup! Another excuse for me to chicken out at the last minute.
posted to MetaTalk by Justinian
at 3:31 PM on May 29, 2008
How do y'all find the metafilter peeps? Look for the most impeccably dressed and stylishly groomed group present?
posted to MetaTalk by Justinian
at 11:53 PM on June 2, 2008
Well, I actually know what you look like, katilla. From stting outside your place in my va... uh I mean from previous meetup photos.
posted to MetaTalk by Justinian
at 10:01 AM on June 3, 2008
Must... stop... watching... Obama... win... nomination...
(sets DVR to record MSNBC and CNN for the next 6 hours)
posted to MetaTalk by Justinian
at 5:21 PM on June 3, 2008
I am certainly glad I'm not the only one that posted to metafilter right after getting home.
posted to MetaTalk by Justinian
at 11:02 PM on June 3, 2008
Oh noes! The Anaheim meetup with Jessamyn et al is on June 28th!
Also, I don't know how to rollerskate.
posted to MetaTalk by Justinian
at 3:35 PM on June 4, 2008
That's ok, the non-skaters can fall back on the alternate activites: bowling, karaoke, and drinking.
I can drink!
posted to MetaTalk by Justinian
at 7:13 PM on June 4, 2008
Don't worry, it's never a bad thing to confuse someone for ROBOCOP.
posted to MetaTalk by Justinian
at 9:00 AM on June 5, 2008
One unintended consequence of going to a meetup: trying harder not to appear like an ass online in case you go to the next one.
Or maybe it's not me.
posted to MetaTalk by Justinian
at 2:53 PM on June 7, 2008
uh, maybe it's JUST me. I appear to have failed in my attempt to appear less like an ass online. Oops.
posted to MetaTalk by Justinian
at 2:54 PM on June 7, 2008
MeTa post:
In Our Lifetime
Why post this here? I guarantee you somebody will make a one link news post the second the major networks declare Obama the nominee in an hour or two. And I wager that somebody else will post a much better and more fleshed out post on the same subject 15 or 20 minutes later. With luck it is the first that will be deleted.
So now we have a third thread.
posted to MetaTalk by Justinian
at 5:46 PM on June 3, 2008
MeTa post:
Mission Accomplished
Lumping hate sites like LGF with an admittedly very partisan but basically harmless site like DailyKos serves nothing but to legitimize hate and de-legitimize the opponents of hate. You should do better.
posted to MetaTalk by Justinian
at 4:40 PM on May 18, 2008
Aside from actually kicking off the descenting voices, this place tends to be exactly the same as LGF, but in the exact opposite direction, politically.
You've either never read Metafilter or never read LGF. I can't think of a more untrue statement I've read today.
For one thing, Metafilter doesn't tend to call for anyones deaths.
posted to MetaTalk by Justinian
at 7:20 PM on May 18, 2008
MeTa post:
Ministry of Mis-Information
Except you're dealing with an outcome that is binary in nature -- you're either pregnant or not. Therefore, there is no such thing as "slightly unsafe." It's either zero or non-zero.
This is kind of dumb, actually. If you jump out of a plane without a parachute, the "do I die?" outcome is also binary in nature; you either die or you don't. Therefore, there is no such thing as "very dangerous" jumping out of airplanes... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Justinian
at 6:19 PM on May 16, 2008
The best part of this thread is that DarlingBri rants in MetaTalk about spreading misinformation in AskMe while doing the exact same thing! Comedy gold.
posted to MetaTalk by Justinian
at 7:01 PM on May 16, 2008
Cool Papa Bell: But your analogies aren't equivalent either. There is a non-zero risk if the woman is question did nothing. There is also a non-zero risk from taking the pill. The question is which risk is higher, and the odds of a pregnancy being caused by what took place is sufficiently low that it isn't clear which is the greater risk.
posted to MetaTalk by Justinian
at 7:28 PM on May 16, 2008
MeTa post:
What gives?
That's a ridiculous comment, mandymanwasregistered, and a rather insulting view of Matt, Jessamyn, and cortex.
posted to MetaTalk by Justinian
at 4:06 PM on May 16, 2008
MeTa post:
It's not you, it's me.
jayder: yeah, that guy was creepy. Especially when you read his posts in the Mr. Rogers obituary thread after knowing what happened.
posted to MetaTalk by Justinian
at 6:53 PM on May 15, 2008
