Ask comment:
"No One Takes Your Freedom, by DJ Earworm. "For No One" (The Beatles), "Take Your Mama" (Scissor Sisters), "Freedom '90" (George Michael), and "Think" (Aretha Franklin). Truly amazing...." [
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more than 12 hours ago
MeTa comment:
"Ask Metafilter has an inherent policy: if it isn't responsive to the question, and if it challenges the actual initial scenario of the question, it doesn't belong there.
I.e., if a woman is going to have an abortion and wants advice as to safe..." [
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Yesterday
MeTa comment:
"You've been the conduit for a lot of good to enter this world, via this website you crafted and built. The universe better pay attention and pay some of that back to you. Add me to the list of people sending good vibes in your direction, Matt...." [
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2 days ago
Ask comment:
"Let's look at the problem from the perspective of looking after your own self-interests.
From that perspective, this has the power to massively affect your life for the worse – and I'm talking on a scale of not only your current job, but..." [
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favorited 12 times, recently by lalochezia, magstheaxe, Nattie, Jacqueline, scody, smoke, andlee210, vickyverky, hot soup girl, LittleMissCranky, so_gracefully, futureisunwritten
4 days ago
MeTa comment:
"churl: Just to throw out my two cents: Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) is a charity I endorse very heavily.
I gotta second that, deeply. When I was researching a FPP about a particularly heinous crime against humanity, those..." [
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5 days ago
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"> it seems like section 2 is there to prevent psychiatrists from being invested at
> all in their position as social/political actors.
Psychiatrists, in their role as people who are supposed to help, both therapeutically and..." [
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5 days ago
Ask comment:
"Amanda, I think that the problem lies in the cognitive dissonance between how FOX News viewers perceive FOX News, and how the rest of the world does. If you are a FOX News viewer, you buy into what the channel is selling: that they present fair and..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by blueberry, Garak
6 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I started with Nattie's comment (which mathowie highlighted in his personal blog, and that's how this thread got my attention) and worked downward; I'll have to at some point read this whole thing from start to finish.
I don't have much sexual..." [
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8 days ago
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"Yes, it's a gross violation. See American Psychiatric Association, American Psychiatric Association: The Principles of Medical Ethics, With Annotations Especially Applicable to Psychiatry:
Section 1, Annotation 1: "A psychiatrist shall not..." [
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favorited 10 times, recently by archofatlas, Jacqueline, wuzandfuzz, blueberry, colt45, marble, so_gracefully, drpynchon, Meg_Murry, barnone
8 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Malor: You know, Jon Stewart's recent deconstruction of Fox News, while very funny, was also brilliant.
Speaking of satire and Stewart, have you seen the Glenn Beck bit he did last night? It is utterly, utterly brilliant...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by LMGM
9 days ago
MeFi post:
"My dad, Master Sergeant Joe Myers, is in Iraq right now ... "
favorited 14 times, recently by Defenestrator, liza, Help, I can't stop talking!, Man with Lantern, scblackman, zarq, tonycpsu, alpineinc, librarianamy, mathiu, Wolfster, chrismear, bwg, PostIronyIsNotaMyth
9 days ago
MeFi post:
OHHHH! EEEEEE! OHHHHHH!
favorited 33 times, recently by zonem, stoneweaver, sidesh0w, Furie, jermsplan, Eumachia L F, The Salaryman, minifigs, nímwunnan, prefpara, olya, mduda, Ramo, LiliaNic, krilli, Hugobaron, agregoli, fleetmouse, col_pogo, Riptor, alicat, crysflame, crataegus, eitan, fredosan, koeselitz, chronic sublime, LMGM, reductiondesign, Errant, neewom, limeonaire, drezdn
9 days ago
MeTa comment:
"Saydur: Goatse jokes? That's humor I can get behind.
YoBananaBoy: I think that is stretching it.
Sidhedevil: Try not to be huge assholes, OK?
gman: you are so fuckin' anal.
This thread is really bottoming out. Still, few here would be offended..." [
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9 days ago
MeTa comment:
"Forums are a tantalizing siren. But there is the rare occasion when Mefites can be engaged on a level beyond annoyance, if they have a sentimental bond with the venue they're talking in.
My first time in MetaTalk, I was there with this old Mefite..." [
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10 days ago
Ask comment:
"I sorted through this thread to get a list of titles, so just for future visitors:
Top 3: Primer (8), Memento (7), Syriana (6)
Four: Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Three: Donnie Darko, Fountain, Lost Highway, Miller's..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by cmoj, burnmp3s
11 days ago
MeFi comment:
"If you want a site that specializes in [xyz body type], where xyz is anything from rail-thin to morbidly obese or anything in between, there are plenty of them out there. (ixohoxi)
To illustrate ixohoxi's point: earlier in the thread, there was..." [
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11 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I'm not ashamed to say I'm goin' through the Kleenex over on this end. Took me about five seconds to well up. I think it's that you can just see the emotional changes show so clearly on her face ......" [
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12 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Horace Rumpole: A forum for recursive people.
Reminds me of Google's 'did you mean?' suggestion if you type in "recursion."" [
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2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"bread-eater: Thanks! This and Cartman's cover has suddenly made "Poker face" tolerable in my book.
This was a related video to your link, and I must admit I was highly impressed with the sync – plus it seems to have him singing the..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by davejay, vorfeed
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"There are many things I dislike about Katy Perry, but the one thing I particularly dislike is that Jill Sobule's earlier, far superior, identically titled song is now semantically lost in the shuffle.
But, yeah, kind of finding the post's video to..." [
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2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"In my mind, when I go to the placeholder for Schwarzenegger, this is what occupies it." [
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2 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"You do not want to resign in lieu of being laid off. Except for edge cases, people who are laid off receive unemployment benefits; people who resign are not. Unemployment benefits can represent significant income for you while you are unemployed;..." [
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3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"More of the Goat's history can be read in A Chicago Tavern: A Goat, A Curse, and the American Dream, by Rick Kogan, who was a great host to a Metafilter meetup at the Goat a few years ago.
Hope you guys like this. It was my 100th Mefi post, and I..." [
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3 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"Anonymous, people may skip your post because it is, no offense, incredibly long. So, for those would just whip off a "tl;dr", here is a summary:She began dating you after seeing a guy for five years. Knowing of the double life she was..." [
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favorited 5 times
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"anotherpanacea: Best Protest Sign Ever.
No, this is the best protest sign ever. Seriously." [
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favorited 4 times
4 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"pwnguin: Is there an RSS feed of this I can stick into Liferea/Banshee or am I pretty much doomed to youtube?
YouTube channels have RSS feeds; I stuck it into a Yahoo Pipe and slapped a filter and sort onto it: RSS...." [
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4 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
""Individual Abortion Forms or Complications of Induced Abortion Reports that are not submitted by the end of a grace period of thirty (30) days following the due date shall be subject to a late fee of Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) for each..." [
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4 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Saying that an argument isn't tenable just because you say it's so isn't an argument, it's just surety. And calling someone loony is attacking the person, not the argument: that's the very definition of an ad hominem argument...." [
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Last month
MeFi comment:
"cortex: [Link to the text of the form or something, please; posting the whole thing in here is way too big.]
Alrighty, a weird deletion considering the form is the thread's discussion topic, but here...." [
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Last month
MeFi comment:
"Okay, here's a perfect example of why I love the Internet – there are people far more obsessed with something than I am, yet I get to take advantage of their fandom. Someone on Reddit or YouTube linked to this, which appears to be someone..." [
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