MeFi comment:
"He just seemed like a really shitty politician to me. He had none of the local party appartus behind him, which is probably the most important in local elections, and he was a horrible fund raiser. It's nice that he had nice policy positions, but to..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by leotrotsky, Maisie Jay, Pants!
6 days ago
MeFi post:
The $1.4 Trillion Question
favorited 24 times, recently by manguero, mhh5, Rykey, hell toupee, funkbrain, MsElaineous, nickyskye, nicolin, tellurian, LobsterMitten, parmanparman, SeizeTheDay, liza, Ctrl_Alt_ep, Marisa Stole the Precious Thing, yeloson, P.o.B., yertledaturtle, lalochezia, Hat Maui, beelzbubba, brandman, horsewithnoname, bunnytricks
6 days ago
Ask comment:
"Your pretty much right as far as I understand. Here is the best article I found debunking the "it's the poor/black people that cause the crisis" meme...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by cowmix
9 days ago
MeFi comment:
"My question is: should Iraq divide into three separate administrative entities?
As it said in the article this is pretty much what is happening on the ground. In the Iraqi constitution there is a provision to set up regional governing units larger..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Marisa Stole the Precious Thing
11 days ago
MeFi comment:
"who's already shot another member of your party at least once - then you kind of deserve what you get.
The first rule of any zombie situation is you always kill the wounded. They are way to dangerous. Plus going for the car was definitely the..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by tehloki, Meatbomb
12 days ago
MeFi comment:
"For those complaining about the lack of regulation on these chumps, please note: a) everything that has failed so far was doing nothing outside of current regulations b) the risk-taking was encouraged by the quasi-government entities in the first..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by PROD_TPSL, darkstar
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"If there is one politician who is at the heart of this crisis it is McCain's economic brain, Phil Gramm.
Gramm's long been a handmaiden to Big Finance. In the 1990s, as chairman of the Senate banking committee, he routinely turned down Securities..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by MikeKD, yertledaturtle
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"I still can't believe that expanding NATO to Georgia is considered an acceptable opinion to have in international politics. The obvious answer is that it would be to help protect oil and gas pipelines, but no one important actually says that out loud...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by yertledaturtle
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"This shit is hilarious
That random building behind John McCain when he was giving his acceptance speech turns out to be the Walter Reed Middle School in North Hollywood.
You think they did a google image search for Walter Reed Army Medical..." [
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favorited 16 times, recently by box, Pope Guilty, blueberry, ValkoSipuliSuola, BrotherCaine, contessa, iamkimiam, lord_wolf, dejah420, cashman, Perplexity, emelenjr, kosher_jenny, delmoi, AsYouKnow Bob, These Premises Are Alarmed
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Blue good! Red bad!
Naw, it's more like,
Red: ridiculously horribly unbelievably worse than anything you can imagine
Blue: kinda of shitty, but what are you gonna..." [
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favorited 16 times, recently by manguero, anvilcity, DU, theredpen, doctor_negative, oozy rat in a sanitary zoo, lalochezia, Optimus Chyme, darkstar, subbes, Hot Like Your 12V Wire, Deathalicious, the dief, electrasteph, H-Bar, Hello Dad, I'm in Jail
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"What a depressing thread, I came here excited to see the unqualified, inexperienced and going to be deposed Palin ripped to pieces as an obviosly horrible choice and great news for Obama. But it seems like the majority of Obama supporters here still..." [
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favorited 12 times, recently by manguero, mrgrimm, RussHy, Servo5678, lord_wolf, showbiz_liz, dopeypanda, shitcock, shiu mai baby, Henry C. Mabuse, quonsar, nooneyouknow
4 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Because, he explained, people in small towns don't like or trust intellectuals, particularly ones who appear to be sneering at them for their supposed stupidity. They admire a plain-speaking man; it's what they know and what they are used to.
This..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by MikeKD, maxwelton
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Having Palin on the ticket has lit a fire under a lot of Republican butts...
I'm not really understanding why this is. Her positions on the issues issues are pretty much exactly the same as McCain's. Is the creationism really that important, or is..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by XMLicious
Last month
MeFi comment:
"BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I must be an evil fuck too but, I am incredibly happy that Palin's daughter is pregnant. This completely neutralizes any blow back to Obama from people speculating about her faking the pregnancy. Because to the low..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by blueberry
Last month
MeFi comment:
"If I understand what he's saying, Newman argues that individual cells, when grouped with other cells, have a built-in tendency to form certain patterns. These patterns (such as the arms and legs of many species having one proximal and two distal..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by troy, Pope Guilty
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I agree with all these comments. The religious fundamentalist demographic, to whom the Palin pick is a blatant appeal, has a very tenuous hold on middle-class status, and these devout Christians have children and relatives who have babies out of..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by delmoi
Last month
MeFi comment:
"So now the McCain/Palin campaign get to dispel the rumor (which wasn't going anywhere anyway) and add a lump of sugar to the already sweet Sarah Palin story. Not only is her daughter going to keep the baby, she's going to marry the young man.
They..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Blazecock Pileon, Pope Guilty
Last month
MeFi comment:
"McCain did not choose Palin. McCain does not make very many choices during a campaign. He is a professionally-managed player. The much-smarter powers behind the party selected Palin for a purpose. "Longshot chance at winning" was certainly..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by lukemeister, delmoi, Marisa Stole the Precious Thing
Last month
MeFi comment:
"But I think the problem with Argentina's woes is that the end-story (the world does not come to an end) doesn't fit with the pessimist's sentiment.
Early 2000s Argentina is now the optimistic scenario for the U.S.?! That's some some scary shit...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by ewagoner, Blazecock Pileon
Last month
MeFi comment:
"So, who's got the short end of the stick here, exactly? Guy A, who "owes" Guy B nine hojillion dollars? Or Guy B, who is hoping Guy A pays back the nine hojillion dollars?
Obviously, the both get fucked.
In the interview Bacevich..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nooneyouknow
Last month
MeFi post:
Asian socities drive like this...
favorited 18 times, recently by lahersedor, nicolin, BobsterLobster, polexa, palomar, surenoproblem, P.o.B., rzklkng, TheophileEscargot, Marisa Stole the Precious Thing, Comrade_robot, Telf, cog_nate, C.Batt, leibniz, iamkimiam, roll truck roll, billysumday
Last month
MeFi comment:
""This long historical relationship has created a still rather unyielding psychological tension that is ever present as each country interacts with the other. And so, despite the fact that China has recently gotten closer than ever to creating..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by not_that_epiphanius
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Obama has a nice dig on McCain for the ridiculous tire pressure thing.
It's like these guys take pride in being ignorant.
They think it's funny that they're making fun of something that is actually true...." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by Liosliath, electrasteph, davejay, boo_radley, DU
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"And I think it's foolish to draw arbitrary lines in the sand and say that is propaganda, that is art, and this is just mindless entertainment.
It's very easy to draw a line between media that is fiction and entertainment, (e.g. violent movies and..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by marble
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Compare:
(a) Asians achieve highly in math because all asian parents choose to ride their children until they're freshmen at Harvard.
(b) Asians achieve highly in math because of a chance higher proportion of a given gene or set of genes that..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by slyrabbit, divabat
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I didn't really understand that Kevin Kelly article. He brings up Google translating English to Chinese as an example of computing done with "no theory of Chinese," but when a real human learns Chinese, they don't study a "theory of..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by axon, delmoi
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"It's classic orientalism to claim that Chinese classical music is "older and more classical" than its western counterparts. Music in China isn't stuck in some unchanging mystical past. Peking Opera was developed in the late Qing Dynasty and..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by kid ichorous
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"It's like saying Apollo was just another rocket launch.
So what's the equivalent of the moon landing?" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by imperium
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"the popular music of the day, hip-hop, doesn't contain even one actual famous player.
Please, please tell us what you think about hip hop. I'm having such a good time reading your comments while imagining you with a monocle, a top hat and an evil..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by sondrialiac, Jilder
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Even Clinton didn't vote for it. And it would have been easy for him to vote no. So the "ideal" we're asking him to live up to here is well short of the most wonderful and virtuous president of all time.
This is the thing that doesn't..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by kid ichorous
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"But you're doing your argument no good there. Those individual things are art, but for a game to be art, it just can't include other kinds of art. It has to bring something more.
This is what pisses me off about discussions about video games as..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by JHarris, roystgnr, jimmy
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Obama lost his shine for me with this fisa caving bullshit, but that shit the right was spinning about him being a commie was too good to be true.
limited slip You can't write off an entire section of the country just because they like cheap beer,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by enn
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"This isn't a "failure of capitalism" because it isn't capitalism.
This has nothing to do with "central planning" either. It's corruption. Corruption in a system that is much more capitalist than socialist...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by twins named Lugubrious and Salubrious
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I'm surprised so many people are praising this article, I thought it badly misinterpreted the evidence from the studies. It's not praise that is bad it's false praise. Even in the first study, horribly designed, lacking controls and I suspect it was..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by twins named Lugubrious and Salubrious
4 months ago
Ask post:
Help me be more anal
favorited 26 times, recently by alllowercase, bilabial, rux, grablife365, justonegirl, streetdreams, Jasper Friendly Bear, hot soup girl, EmilyClimbs, littleredwagon, ourobouros, maloon, mockdeep, sweetkid, cortex, SNWidget, tristeza, Shepherd, DulcineaX, inigo2, SuperSquirrel, hought20, idiomatika, qsysopr, JimN2TAW, WalterMitty
4 months ago
Ask comment:
"Then of those who do speak Mandarin the pronunciation varies widely.
Nah, your still wrong. Of the different versions of mandarin, Beijing is basically pronounced the same. There are no problems with erhuas, dropped H's in ZH, CH and SH or F/H..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by pravit
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I'm looking forward to seeing libertarians come out against Corporate advertising. Never in history has a population been subjected to a more intrusive and ubiquitous pshycological conditioning program with no consent than the current state of..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by R_Nebblesworth
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"But Petraeus' efforts since last September justify some faith in his ability, and for supporting him as he continues, while he still has hope for the situation.
What efforts justify faith? Buying off Sunni militias to stop blowing up americans by..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by YouRebelScum
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"That Clinton speech is pretty good, the problem is that in fact, he didn't do shit to improve race relations in the U.S.
"And blacks are right to think something is terribly wrong when African American men are many times more likely to be..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Maias
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
""If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position," she continued. "And if he was a woman (of any color) he would not be in this position. He happens to be very lucky to be who he is. And the country is caught up in the..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Artw, desiderandus
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Robotics are advanced enough now, that there is really no scientific or technical reason to send a human to mars. Just send the robots up there to do the exploring, the humans can follow in 50 or so years when we have the technology to do it easily...." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by marble, Dillonlikescookies, panamax
7 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Garfield was in fact always a brilliant meditation on depression and the mundane oppression of modern life. If you look at the comics, John never talks to Garfield, the cat merely mocks his pathetic life in word balloons. Taking Garfield out of the..." [
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favorited 16 times, recently by MPnonot3, snowleopard, Citizen Premier
7 months ago
