MeFi comment:
"Dear women; stop making yourself look like 9 year old girls. Signed,
all men who aren't fucked up." [
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favorited 26 times, recently by hip_plumber
2 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Mr. President Dr. Steve Elvis America wrote: It's just not worth it. I don't care enough about the planet, I guess.
This is one unfortunate side effect of these types of quizzes. After you play with it a bit you realize that you are simply..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by keevinl
7 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Apple also understands their target demographics. That "You are coming to a sad realization, cancel or allow?" was one of the most effective ads I've ever seen. It almost got me to consider a Mac. Almost...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Monochrome
7 days ago
MeTa comment:
"I originally signed up for Metafilter to rant about the Canada-USA softwood agreement.
Geez, who didn't." [
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favorited 13 times, recently by Jody Tresidder, schyler523, shinynewnick, Pope Guilty, koeselitz, Bookhouse, Blazecock Pileon, juv3nal, contessa, GuyZero, 8dot3, brain cloud, lukemeister
10 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Fortunately, the proposed ideas from the original post advocate no such thing.
I'm not talking to the people who wrote the original post, I'm talking to the people in this thread who advocated tossing people out immediately based on an accusation...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by the other side
10 days ago
MeFi comment:
"So the "good bit" at 0:55 consisted of the cat sitting motionless for a while and then cleaning his fur briefly.
I really don't understand this post...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by uncleozzy
11 days ago
MeFi comment:
"He said all along he would win by out-*organizing* the republicans. I see every single sign pointing to just that.
There is a technical political term for every candidate that has ever depended on the youth vote or other historically low-turnout..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by ThePinkSuperhero, eriko
11 days ago
MeFi comment:
"But Batman doesn't have the body type to win, place, or show at every event! Yeah, okay, maybe he wins the shooting events regardless of body type. But how can you be a top marathon runner, a top sprinter, a top weightlifter, and a top gymnast all..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by zippy
11 days ago
MeFi comment:
"The most central and telling point of Clinton's speech was this:
I want you to ask yourselves: Were you in this campaign just for me? Or were you in it for that young Marine and others like him? Were you in it for that mom struggling with cancer..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by The Light Fantastic, Pax, Sys Rq, brain cloud
11 days ago
MeFi comment:
"It's obvious that the vast, vast majority of people use poor password security - and that there isn't any way to avoid that. Good password security requires lots of different things:
1) Don't use the same password everywhere and don't re-use old..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by marble, pushing paper and bottoming chairs
12 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I wish we were having a more open conversation about the pain many women voters felt at Hillary's defeat by a man. Men, they have done it again. They supported a man over a woman.
Goddammit, they did not. They supported Barack Obama over Hillary..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by scody
12 days ago
MeFi comment:
"With regard to the overconfidence I spoke about earlier: McCain took the first lead he has ever enjoyed in the Gallup daily tracking poll today. No, tracking polls aren't all that accurate. But the fact that McCain is leading for the first time in..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by brain cloud
12 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I have to say that I agree with Mitheral. One of the reasons we prefer guilty men to go free than innocent men to be found guilty is that we are not responsible for other people's moral failures, but we are responsible for our own even if we have..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by kid ichorous, Law Talkin' Guy, orthogonality
12 days ago
MeFi comment:
"This gives credence to my theory that California is still stuck in the 3rd century BC.
Yes, that makes sense. Center of the high-tech industry. One of the largest economies in the world, larger than all but like 6 countires (one of which is the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by loquacious
12 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Either I've misunderstood this, or this is a pretty offensive comment....
I am most definitely NOT aligning myself with MPDSEA, and I wouldn't phrase it the way he did, but I've lived in an area with lots of poor or lower middle class people and..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Faze
12 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Regarding McCain and racism, may I introduce into the discussion a picture of McCain's adopted daughter?
So what? And Dick Cheney's daughter is a lesbian. There is no doubt he loves his daughter. I suspect that neither Bush nor Cheney give a..." [
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favorited 14 times, recently by fourcheesemac, Pax, Balisong, PareidoliaticBoy, Blazecock Pileon, lodev, blueberry, every_one_needs_a_hug_sometimes, modofo, StopMakingSense, lord_wolf, Rumple, brain cloud, scody
13 days ago
Ask comment:
"He doesn't want to "give in" and be like all the other "sheep"
I know some people like this. They're generally very smart. But they use their intelligence as an excuse to be huge assholes. Being smart doesn't give you the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by showbiz_liz
13 days ago
Ask comment:
"Obama's proposal to tax windfall profits on the oil industry tells me that his understanding, if any, is far less than mine.
No. He understands the economy just fine, I'm sure. He also understands politics better than you do.
Cool Papa Bell..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by vegetableagony
13 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I picture parmanparman hunched over his keyboard, the oppressive darkness around him illuminated only by the sickly flickering glow of the monitor. He giggles to himself as he types, pausing occasionally to scratch under his cheetos-stained..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Telf
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"As mentioned above, he plagiarized part of a speech in 1988.
Oh come on, this isn't true. He quoted or paraphrased part of a speech by a British politician on 12 different occasions. On 11 of those occasions he attributed the paraphrased part to..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by fourcheesemac, Rhaomi, matteo
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"I mean, really, regardless of skin color, any Bush cabinet member who endorses Obama should be welcomed by the Democrats as much as Satan's endorsement would be.
The people who know that Powell is a fucker are already voting for Obama. The people..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by snwod, BaxterG4, jtron
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Class Goat: That's what we here on the internet call "concern trolling". As Earbucket says, the Republicans would (publicly) be claiming that any pick Obama made was the worst possible pick.
Privately, according to journalists and..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by showbiz_liz, ClaudiaCenter
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Uh, guys? It is neck and neck. I'm getting a pretty amazing sense of overconfidence here.
Obama needs to win Florida or Ohio. He's behind by a modest amount in Florida and a little bit in Ohio. Failing that he needs Virginia or Colorado. He's..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Lentrohamsanin
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Yeah, Fournier is completely in the tank for McCain. He's a BIG right winger." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by box
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"The flawed software is on both touch screen and optical scan voting machines made by Premier and the problem with vote counts is most likely to affect larger jurisdictions that feed many memory cards to a central counting database rapidly.
Larger..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by brain cloud, orthogonality
2 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"The Tropic Thunder PR line is that Downey Jr.'s playing a guy who is just that narcissistically obsessed with his own stardom-- the character doesn't see why blackface is unacceptable, as long as he gets the part.
This isn't really an accurate..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Cool Papa Bell
2 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"There's no way your metabolism is so slow that you don't lose weight on 1200 calories a day and yet have the energy to walk as much as you say you do. So the others have to be correct; you're underestimating the amount of calories you eat or..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by meerkatty, Miko
2 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"How so?
Modern civilization is an intricate thing. For example, microchip fabrication plants depend on a whole series of other high-technology industries. It's a long chain of high tech industry. Remove any part of the chain, and much of the..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by popsciolist, Good Brain, General Malaise, Comrade_robot
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Yeah. Overrated.
Show me a demo where the entire thing is CGI (not just the face) and the resolution is high enough that a barbie doll won't look real and there is no motion capture and then we can talk.
Low res + motion capture + only the..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by marble, roystgnr, gubo
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"You know, is that really such a bad idea? That people have to ensure that they're safe to drive before being able to start a car?
It's a ridiculous, awful idea. Leaving aside any other questions, do you really think that there wouldn't be easy..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Kwantsar
2 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"If you really mean in the long term (millions of years) the true answer is nothing. Or, looking at it another way, the best thing to do is to foster the human race now in an attempt to make sure it survives the present and has a chance to make it to..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by TeachTheDead
2 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"It's mathematically sound if the rate of return is as high as you assume.
The S&P closed at 1083.67 on Aug 17 1998. It closed at 1278.60 on Aug 18 2008. That's less than 2% a year over the last 10 years, or less than inflation. Does that..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by bengilbert
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"I agree with others that what is being called in the article a rejection of adulthood is really nothing but a redefinition of adulthood. Men have decided that turning into a humorless drone that slumps through a life of quiet desperation is..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by ifjuly
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Joel: As someone who has been critical of bb in this thread and on Making Light, it seems to me that almost all of this could have been avoided. I think everybody understands what could motivate someone to remove posts about another person. But..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by gentilknight
3 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"The reason Digg is more popular than Metafilter is Digg's professional white background." [
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favorited 13 times, recently by melorama, saraswati, MythMaker, everichon, fourcheesemac, pyrex, milov, fluffy battle kitten, madamjujujive, gsteff, Symeon, jepler, palmcorder_yajna
3 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"I'm kind of surprised at the answers; your boyfriend was honest with you about something he can't change and shouldn't be a huge deal. What is to be gained by making hay about it? He can't go back in time and change things. As long as he is..." [
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favorited 15 times, recently by waxbanks
3 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"What usually happens is that some situation will come up that could lead to any of the results above, and I would take it, and without even remembering that I had made this request, I suddenly find that my request has come true.
...
The..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by peacheater, TeachTheDead, ian1977
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Cool Papa Bell: The problem is that the "tactical" gear, the kevlar, the armored cars, the M4A1s or whatever are supposed to be for highly dangerous hostage situations or those once in a decade situations like the massive shootout at the..." [
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favorited 15 times, recently by boo_radley, parudox, flibbertigibbet, papafrita, letourneau, Reverend John, Kadin2048, orthogonality, Skorgu, Optimus Chyme, supercrayon, kid ichorous, PenDevil, Blazecock Pileon, five fresh fish
3 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"Is it too much to hope that we could at least pretend that I'm not writing drooling strings of trope and cliche? Let some editor destroy my spirit; you guys don't need to help him.
Netzapper, I'm not telling you not to write or that you're a..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by cass, Artw, ten pounds of inedita, PhoBWanKenobi
3 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"In all seriousness, the first thing to do is actually write some short stories. You're putting the cart so far before the horse that it is now a horseless cart.
Write a million words of fiction. Go over and decide how much of it is crap. Most..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by twiki
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"It's just amazing- yet unsurprising- that the people with that kind of money aren't smarter. They didn't get rich from merit, they got it through violence or luck.
This smacks more than a little of sour grapes. Along with the typical "rich..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nasreddin
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Yeah, it's not like living in the city has any other good qualities, codswallop." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Phalene
3 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"The heat thing makes sense, sort of. But it doesn't explain why the men wear shorts and t-shrts. If it was really about the heat, wouldn't the men at least ditch the shirts?..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Reverend John
3 weeks ago
