Yes, the Bush administration is fucking retarded. Please continue to state the obvious. Eventually I'll completely get over my desire to sit at MetaFilter and hit F5.

Keep up the good work russilwvong!

BFF
posted to MetaFilter by tweak at 11:04 AM on June 20, 2006

Why do they get to use this stuff? I'm a U.S. citizen and I don't get to use it, yet some foreign-owned private corporation has the right to use it?

I'm sure that there is a 'really good reason.' My opinion is, if you want dirty business and politics, DeBeers is way bigger and more sinister than say Enron or MCI Worldcom... there is a great link detailing the history of the modern diamond industry here. It is very long but after reading it, I'm sure... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by tweak at 4:23 PM on June 7, 2006

Why on earth would anyone want to pay money to see 90% of those films? Free air-conditioning in summer?
posted to MetaFilter by tweak at 2:32 PM on May 30, 2006

It would be swell if you would go to the movies that really suck, watch them, and then demand a refund from the theater for screening such a terrible film.

Then you can still blog about it. And then you can donate the money to charity. That way, I would admire your project heartily. As it is now, there are movie critics who do what you are about to do, so that's going to be a somewhat disinterested 'meh' for me.
posted to MetaFilter by tweak at 3:35 PM on May 30, 2006

That gave me shivers.

Rougy: Detroit fans are shitty. When I was a kid, my hockey team went to a game and my teammate got yelled at for wearing a Chicago Blackhawks jacket. We were 12, and a drunken adult Wings fan was yelling at us. That's all I have to say about Detroit.
posted to MetaFilter by tweak at 7:50 AM on May 28, 2006

The road to utopia is paved with the bodies of the innocent. Not that they would care, but fascists and communists should take heed. Thanks for the link.
posted to MetaFilter by tweak at 12:47 AM on May 26, 2006

Because it leads to dead people? See: Pol Pot, Hitler, um, nevermind.
posted to MetaFilter by tweak at 1:22 AM on May 26, 2006

Makoto: I would say when the ideal of utopia is primary, and all other standards are subsumed for that ideal, including things like personhood, human rights, and so on. Basically forcing square pegs into round holes and damn the consequences. Things like no balance between the good of society and the good of the individual.

I don't think utopian violence is ever 'good' if that is the goal.

Historical Examples: French Revolution, Nazi Germany,... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by tweak at 1:59 AM on May 26, 2006

rougy, you worry me. My point was that the attempt at utopia often leads to disaster, and that many incredibly tragic events in human history started out with the intentions of making the world a 'better' place (according to their definition of better). This happens for many reasons, to name one: many Utopian or proto-Utopian idealists ignore a simple truth about human nature, that is, greed. Another one is being blind to their own arrogance.

Utopia is... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by tweak at 2:52 PM on May 26, 2006

But I'll ask nicely :)
posted to MetaFilter by tweak at 2:53 PM on May 26, 2006

I don't think it's a fallacy because I was trying to make a distinction between the notion of a Utopia and the actual practice throughout history of trying to make it happen.

I think I get what you're saying now. For example, I grant that in Looking Backward, or Utopia, or The New Atlantis and The Great Instauration, the achievements of those societies happen rather peacefully and are pretty successful. I am sorry for the comments that ventured into ad hominem, they... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by tweak at 4:22 PM on May 26, 2006

Great story on Watterson from clevescene.com.
posted to MetaFilter by tweak at 2:08 PM on May 26, 2006

If you think you're losing the vision, quit.

While I miss it a lot too, I totally agree that he made the right decision. Counter-example: the Simpsons. There is now no potential for nostalgia with that show.
posted to MetaFilter by tweak at 2:31 PM on May 26, 2006

apologies for the slightly awkward transition in the middle of that, as well as for the comma that got away from me after sanitary belt pads and found its way down to righ after 'The Sears, Roebuck Catalog. damn.
posted to MetaFilter by tweak at 12:34 PM on May 26, 2006

I was gonna post a double....

... but then I got high.
posted to MetaFilter by tweak at 11:48 AM on May 26, 2006

No Walker Percy? Philistines.
posted to MetaFilter by tweak at 1:15 PM on May 25, 2006

4 of the top 5 are white males

You know, if I don't look at the picture of the author, if it's included at all, their race or even gender is the last thing I think about, you PC-hypochondriac.

I bet 3 of the 4 white males are JEWS too, part of the illuminati to keep repressed minorities out of Barnes and Noble!
posted to MetaFilter by tweak at 1:44 PM on May 25, 2006

Please, people, I am not complaining. I am observing a phenomenon -- albeit a phenomenon of an ultimately silly exercise.

Not really that much of a phenomenon when you consider that white people (especially men) have traditionally gotten the best educations in America for well nigh 380 years now, give or take. Obviously, this trend is balancing out, so I'm sure in a generation or two we'll see the demographics of 'great' authors change a bit more.
posted to MetaFilter by tweak at 2:10 PM on May 25, 2006

Oh yeah, and rich people often have the most leisure to write as well.

Postroad: shutup, you are an idiot utterly sans of any savant of any kind, ever.
posted to MetaFilter by tweak at 2:11 PM on May 25, 2006

Postroad: I assume you'll check back because you can't avoid making a comment about Bush in a thread that has NOTHING TO FUCKING DUE WITH NATIONAL AMERICAN POLITICS. GIVE IT A REST FOR THE LOVE OF ALLAH YOU CRUSTY PERVERTED OLD MAN. Nobody cares that your only interests are getting your old wang hard jerking off about how much you hate neocons and how you like girls 40 years younger than you in skimpy outfits. Go get some sunlight you fucking dork. If there were a way for me to flag comments as... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by tweak at 11:14 PM on May 25, 2006

omg I got so upset I phonetically replaced 'do' with 'due.' Almost never happens. I have bene semi-trolled.
posted to MetaFilter by tweak at 11:14 PM on May 25, 2006

Vegas had Hicks picked by the way.

Am I the only one who thinks these singers have no talent?

WTF with the spoilers?

You actually watch the show? Heh.
posted to MetaFilter by tweak at 10:51 PM on May 24, 2006

PeterMcDermott: oh I've popped in and watched it from time to time, I just meant 'watched it regularly'

sorry for the miscue there.
posted to MetaFilter by tweak at 4:18 AM on May 25, 2006

"Oilers fans had previously made headlines for disturbances on Whyte Avenue. People have been stabbed, assaulted, and stores have been vandalized."

Who says Canadians are tame now?
posted to MetaFilter by tweak at 9:29 PM on May 23, 2006

I'm not sure why you don't get it, but hey, it takes all kinds to make an omelette.
posted to MetaFilter by tweak at 3:09 PM on May 18, 2006

oh shutup yerfatma, bloggers aren't THAT hated.... ok, except by so-called 'normal' or 'respectable' people in positions of authority like that HR douchebag who was smiling smugly (god I fucking hate smug people). Jessa's story distressed me greatly because the way she was treated reminded me so very much of being in Grade 9 and being disciplined in school for saying bad things OUTSIDE of school (such as 'this school sucks' on my website) as the principal smugly explained the rules. So naturally... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by tweak at 10:28 AM on May 18, 2006

Oh and eventually, when everyone uses MySpace, this kind of shit will not happen, and it will be normal to have an online presence and profile, as opposed to how it is now: it's normal to fire people who know how to use the internet.
posted to MetaFilter by tweak at 10:30 AM on May 18, 2006

Forest Whitaker and Chole Sevigny.

I don't know what to say, given that I'm a white male... maybe I'll try another picture.
posted to MetaFilter by tweak at 3:25 PM on May 17, 2006

I FEEL SO HONORED TO BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT IN THIS MOST EXCELLENT FRONT PAGE POST! MAY GOD BLESS YOU AND KEEP YOU, BECAUSE WE ARE GOING TO SMITE YOU!
posted to MetaFilter by tweak at 2:24 AM on May 17, 2006

(SOMEONE HAD TO COUNTERACT YOUR UTTER DISDAIN FOR THE SHIFT KEY)
posted to MetaFilter by tweak at 2:25 AM on May 17, 2006

so do I flag this as 'noise' or 'it breaks the guidelines' or possibly... 'other' ?
posted to MetaFilter by tweak at 2:26 AM on May 17, 2006

I just don't know anymore...
posted to MetaFilter by tweak at 2:37 AM on May 17, 2006

Actually, it's more likely to get them knocked up when they hit college and try to maintain cognitive dissonance without the benefit of their youth group cradle.

This is so true, most of these kids will fucking burn out in a few years after being surrounded by so much opportunity to 'sin'.

I had a conversation with a Christian reconstructionist once, and he honestly believed gays should be killed. I tried every argument in... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by tweak at 2:13 PM on May 11, 2006

AOL will take MySpace-like social websites to the next level of craptitude.
posted to MetaFilter by tweak at 2:04 AM on May 11, 2006

I think that the far left and right can agree on a few things - On the national level: reduced military spending and intervention in foreign affairs (essentially an end to pre-emptive strikes and a move to more multilateral international policies). More assurances of personal privacy and property rights, especially relating to eminent domain. The elimination of corporate welfare is another point they can agree on. Interestingly, left support of 'fair trade' lines up with right support of 'free... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by tweak at 2:02 AM on May 11, 2006

Manliness? Manliness!
posted to MetaFilter by tweak at 9:51 PM on May 3, 2006

This is the most retarded thread ever.
posted to MetaFilter by tweak at 2:19 PM on May 3, 2006

Hooray for nationalizing industry? Only when politicians we agree with do it. No matter if it's a good standard of action or not.

How would most of the commenters in this thread (save maybe the last 5-10) feel if fucking Silvio Berlusconi nationalized the tourism industry in Italy? They'd flip shit, because the state shouldn't be tyrannizing business owned by individuals in such an egregious manner. Exxon is still owned by people - shareholders in fact.
posted to MetaFilter by tweak at 2:25 PM on May 3, 2006

Why don't you let me come by your house and rifle through your cupboards to see what I can find to feed my family who, after all, is filled with people too. Oh, what about your family, you ask? What are they going to eat? Fuck 'em.

SweetJesus, it's time for you to cool it on the masturbation for hot Morales-on-Chavez action.

And for fucks' sake, my point was all this talk of the 'people' of Bolivia failed to mention that... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by tweak at 3:50 PM on May 3, 2006

always good to see some classic Arnold. The part with the carrot is especially...enlightening.
posted to MetaFilter by tweak at 1:29 AM on May 3, 2006

delmoi: How are these not HIPPA violationa?

Names changed to protect the innocent? Just a few seconds of looking on the website reveals this:
For privacy concerns: I’m always cognizant of these issues, and respect patients’ privacy. If I have any hesitation to write about someone else for any reason, I choose not to write about it at all. All names and identifying characteristics have been altered or deleted in order to protect... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by tweak at 2:05 PM on April 10, 2006

Glad I saw this dupe.

Likewise. Three year statute of limitations anyone?
posted to MetaFilter by tweak at 3:01 AM on April 8, 2006

I remember being 14 tho.

I remember being 14 as well, and that sort of thing from a principal would have had me 1) going to my parents or 2) slashing the principal's tires, or perhaps something even more juvenile and reactionary. Now if a cop with a gun had said that to me, it would have scared the piss out of me. But I don't think I would have committed suicide, because I think it takes a pre-existing mindset or dysfunction to provide the will to do... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by tweak at 2:58 AM on April 8, 2006

No blood no foul.

Hmmm... interesting legal standard. Please elaborate (I'm especially hoping this means I can slap you silly and not be legally liable).

tweak slaps delmoi with a large trout!
posted to MetaFilter by tweak at 2:46 AM on April 8, 2006

TimesSelect still sucks, and pages like this aren't resizing to my browser, forcing a horizontal scrollbar onto FireFox.

Overall, I think it does look better - more like an actual newspaper. Though I think the design is a bit understated with the light gray text for navigation on the left of the front page - I ignored it at first because it looked like a Google textad.
posted to MetaFilter by tweak at 3:47 AM on April 3, 2006

posted to MetaFilter by tweak at 11:47 PM on March 31, 2006

cytherea: lol, unclench, you might find it more comfortable.
posted to MetaFilter by tweak at 1:11 AM on April 1, 2006

Olberman has been showing this a lot.

Who?
posted to MetaFilter by tweak at 8:31 PM on March 29, 2006

Tom Hanks to star in some movie about Starbucks

Before I clicked the link or saw the title, I really, really hoped Tom Hanks was going to play Captain Ahab in some kind of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Stoppardesque film.
posted to MetaFilter by tweak at 7:43 PM on March 29, 2006

It's like playing Doom3.... but like, you are staring at your rug, man. Hmm... how should I explain this...

Imagine your couch... but like, Web 2.0 style.
posted to MetaFilter by tweak at 12:12 AM on March 28, 2006