MeFi comment:
"It's always tough to vote your conscience when there is no trade off? Only if you're an amoral asshole who is unsure of which dictator to worship." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by orthogonality
more than 12 hours ago
MeFi comment:
"My grandma?
No, silly, Eva Braun!
They not only baptized them, but married them too." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Xurando
11 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Some seem to be arguing that Craig's case should definitely be public because ... well ... because it feels nicer? Is that it?
Craig was pilloried for hypocrisy and then again professionally for being an incompetent lawyer while holding a very..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by gorgor_balabala, aeschenkarnos, Pope Guilty
13 days ago
MeFi comment:
"People learn to "hate" math in school. This is the real math crisis. The root problem is that there is a time limit as to how fast one must learn it. Once a student falls behind, persistent anxiety sets in. Algebra is retaught in college to..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by k8t
4 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Shouldn't we at last take ONE giant step in helping resolve one of our major inequities in this country. RACE.
Maybe he won't tap your phone if you say nice things about him...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Blazecock Pileon
4 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"And his campaign has been so good at everything—message, design, etc.—how could they get this so wrong?
They don't think they can win the swing states by being liberal. So start making excuses and hold onto your asses. This was always about power,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Kadin2048
4 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"if you were a child-free person working at Google, it would probably chafe that the company was subsidizing the guy next to you to the tune of $37,000 per year.
This is always a big problem with Americans who define equal as same (ie, specifically..." [
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favorited 12 times, recently by Hello Dad, I'm in Jail, Gucky, dabitch, tehloki, numinous, rtha, tippiedog, docpops, The Bellman, aeschenkarnos, crawl, drezdn
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Google just figured out that it was sitting on a goldmine of liability for agreeing to look after the little brats of confirmed snobs all day." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Dillonlikescookies
Last month
MeFi comment:
"This discovery will not shake anyone's faith in Jesus directly because they already bought the story. Indirectly it will probably influence the growing doubt of his actual existence among those who debate it. We don't have any reliable evidence for..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by dopeypanda
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Yeah well two months ago you were ranting about how he could never get elected.
I made no such rant, ever, and encourage you to find it to save your credibility and illustrate what I actually did say. I supported Hillary as a better bet to remain..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by gorgor_balabala
Last month
MeFi comment:
"If a kid would be too expensive for you, don't fucking have one.
With that logic then Google shouldn't hire people with kids. Regardless, people "should" probably have kids when they can, while young, which is before they usually have..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by aeschenkarnos
Last month
MeFi comment:
"but the Amish I know and not sentimental about animals.
There's the rub then: most people are sentimental about the Amish." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by etaoin, davemee
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Mormon dress style is dictated, in part, by the need to cover their religious underwear. LDS Mormons have a modernized (shortened) version of the underwear that does not extend to the wrist and ankle...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by roystgnr
Last month
MeFi comment:
"It seems this story just documented the elimination of the concept of the return item in empty trucks (although the crates were apparently empty anyway). One more step away from a returnable universal container for all liquids and sauces. In fairness,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by BrotherCaine
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Are people required to get out of their car when ordered by police, while not under arrest?" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by tehloki
Last month
MeTa comment:
"Vanity Fair sounded absolutely bitter about Metafilter, considering they were upbeat about the tabloids and right wing bloggers with assmarks on their faces...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by blucevalo
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Don't care if the blood of cats were cure-all for every disease known to man. Hate then suckers with burning passion of a 1000 suns. Smelly creature that don't deserve to live.
Did you get sick once after eating too many?..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by sebastienbailard
Last month
MeFi comment:
"What I find annoying is how so many pro-choice advocates, like my lecturers that day, try to trivialize the topic of abortion.
There's nothing trivial about forcing unfit parents to have kids for "moral" reasons they personally don't..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by CitizenD, tachikaze
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I for one am glad that no one here was aborted. We have been given a precious gift of life, and I would hope we would be gracious enough to find a way to extend that gracious gift to the very least among us who cannot speak for themselves. They are..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Kadin2048, tachikaze
Last month
MeFi comment:
"If the vote really shifts that much, that sounds like racism, not angry women.
Projecting anger and racism onto a normally conservative woman voter just because she won't vote for your favorite liberal candidate says more about you than they...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Kadin2048
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I don't think dismissing moral concerns is really going to work.
I prefer not to dismiss them. The moral issues surrounding the abortion debate are whether welfare should be promised to any child before the fact, and whether mothers should be..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Kadin2048, tachikaze
Last month
MeFi comment:
"CNN just reported that a poll they did indicates that 17% of Clinton supporters will vote McCain, and 22% won't vote at all now. WTF????
Just look at Arkansas. It was ready to vote Democrat by a wide margin for Hillary, and now McCain by a wide..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by tachikaze
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Most people who identify as macho are humiliated by their former support of the current administration, and are now considering to vote for economic realism and such safety nets for themselves. This is against the Republican party fantasy program..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by BaxterG4
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Judgment Day
“Your name sir?” asks Jesus
“I don’t know” replies the man.
“Occupation?”
Again the old man replies that he doesn’t recall.
“Number of children?”
“No clue” says the man.
Somewhat exasperated, Jesus starts anew. “Your name really..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by lysdexic
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Most conservatives really don't care about taxes per se, because most of them don't understand how fair the tax code is within progressive marginal rates, because everyone pays the same rate on the same dollar earned along the number line, and if..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by marble
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Rescues (and other contingencies) should be paid for by a surge tax on news ratings. Products are being sold while people tune into disasters." [
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favorited 12 times, recently by munchbunch
2 months ago
MeTa comment:
"I'm going to pretend you didn't say that. Otherwise I'd be forced to think you were a complete idiot.
Pretending doesn't seem difficult for you." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Kwantsar
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I propose that the Los Angeles freeway system be used as an example of libertarian failure. As accounts go, a mass transit system was planned as compeition to cars in the 50's, but coming from the public sector, and so it was fair game for lobbying...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by flamk
2 months ago
Ask comment:
"Monogamy, whether between a man or woman or other entity, can never be polygamy without specifying it as such. The reason people confuse gay marriage for polygamy is because they lazily assume it was an argument between traditional marriage versus..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by chesty_a_arthur, tachikaze
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Win all the swing states, but lose the convention by a popular nose count, minus a few states. I wonder if the democratic leadership understands the statistical opportunity they miss when they treat a swing state vote the same as a red or blue state..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by liza
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"The problem is that they both want a -.com domain name. Why one doesn't have a .car, and the other have a .computer domain name is because the internet names were designed by people who probably didn't understand the real world at all...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Guy Smiley
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"America is in decline. As we race towards a class system, the poorest will become cannon fodder for questionable wars, while religion will be the only thing left to motivate them. Most of our soldiers will never feel free to question popular beliefs..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by perilous, Dreama, intermod, tachikaze, fourcheesemac
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"...or take proactive steps to drive less, eat less meat, and resuse unused space (rooftops) for solar collection.
A few disciplined people just walking away from the pig trough of a mass market may have the opposite effect of lowering the price..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by swlabr, sebastienbailard
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I see a big deal on the horizon here. Let's say that the future public just doesn't see the point in diverting billions to take care of all of those people in the legal limbo of a comatose state, or in any state of vegetation - and not just because..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by youcancallmeal
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I think everyone should be aware that there is a school of economics out there that calls itself rational choice theory. They believe that every choice is either a maxmized utility or something that can be measured to demonstrate an objective..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by treepour, weapons-grade pandemonium
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Only slacker communes succeed at sharing values, because they don't have the burden of sharing each other's goods and services." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by blue_beetle
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Here's my explanation of the Monty Hall problem.
Assuming a goat, a car, and another goat, hidden behind three curtains at a game show, as I would randomly pick the car 1/3 of the time overall, if Monty shows me a goat behind another door, then..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by JHarris
3 months ago
