MeFi comment:
"However, the wailing and gnashing of teeth over this particular extinction seems pointless to me. I don't get the idea that humans have some kind of moral duty to play steward to nature. We're part of nature and that inevitably means that other..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nasreddin
2 months ago
MeTa comment:
"nd the freaking town they named Alice! Now who goes naming a town Alice?!?
Who the fuck is Alice?" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by klangklangston
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Being is a nomad isn't all bad.
Of course not, and Southern California sure is the place to do it, climate wise (this is why Vancouver has such a high number of homeless people, only Canadian city of that size where the winters are survivable..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Goofyy, tehloki
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"At some point, Europe is going to have to accept that for any given country, the people living in the country whose ethnicity includes the country's name don't have any greater right to live there than anyone else who is there legally. I suppose we..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by eye of newt, nasreddin
5 months ago
MeTa comment:
"The person nearest me used to be at Wormwood Scrubs, but I can't remember who it was now. They must have got out, anyway.
That was me, when I moved to Islington I changed my location to Pentonville Prison...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by chrismear
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"if my name was garlicboy they would deride me for being smelly. its xbox live.
Inappropriate, uncouth language over Xbox Live? Next you'll tell me is that Apple made a cell phone.
Just because it's routine doesn't mean it's ok...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by jiawen, poweredbybeard
8 months ago
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"An anthropology professor of mine once said that there was a tribe of people (in Asia? Africa?) that raised cows and claimed to subsist entirely on three foods: milk, blood taken from live cows, and milk mixed with blood. He also said that when they..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by lampoil
10 months ago
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"My flatmate and I routinely use the expression with 'ovaries' substituted for 'balls'.
The roots of the expression are obviously deeply patriarchal. What people disagree on is whether it's allowable to use it for its metaphorical content while..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Wilder, different
Last year
MeFi comment:
""You know, I'm a laissez faire kinda guy..." The girl immediately behind him lets out a loud "Eeewwwwwwww!"
Maybe she just objected to neoliberalism?..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by blacklite
Last year
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"The US currently uses about 100 quads of energy a year. A quad is equal to 1x1018 Joules. So we need to generate 1020 Joules a year. If we assume (incorrectly, but this is only an order of magnitude calculation) that power demand is constant, then we..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by rongorongo, craniac
Last year
MeFi comment:
"Man, this is a smear. Politics aside, the behaviour of parts of the media and Wolfowitz's opponents in the World Bank has been deplorable.
Yeah, the way the World Bank's critics is way worse than what the World Bank itself does. Keep telling..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by yerfatma
Last year
MeTa comment:
"4. You are in Saudi Arabia
Should we be helping someone to violate Saudi law?" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by grobstein
Last year
MeFi comment:
"Gnostic Novelist, I applaud your stand against tyranny. Just as I applauded when those brave, brave small business owners refused to be bullied into serving niggers.
In case you are too young to remember, "property rights" was a commonly..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by furtive
Last year
MeFi comment:
"You can tell a lot about a person by the bottled water they carried'.
yeah, you can tell that they're tacky nouveau riche idiots." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Songdog
Last year
MeFi comment:
"Heh, really? I don't see the deaths of Taliban soldiers as 'a tragedy.'
No?" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Drexen
Last year
MeFi comment:
"Now if only they could solve that whole Apartheid-related poverty consuming their country. Sounds mostly like an image band-aid.
That's right, they've given up on dealing with poverty and are now focussing all their available resources on gay..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by bookish
Last year
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"Please help convince me to become a Christian. Or not.
Well, uh. Do you believe that there is a God and that Jesus was his son, come to Earth to offer us salvation? If you do, then you already are a Christian, if not, then how do you convince..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ThePinkSuperhero
Two years ago
