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Ask comment: "He wants to stay in touch in case he decides he wants to have sex with you again, not for a relationship. Move on." [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by ROTFL
4 days ago

MeTa comment: "Probably wouldn't have looked at the post at all if there hadn't been a NSFW warning. [NSFW] is the best advertisement for your post imaginable, I don't know why people don't use it on every post they make...." [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by Deathalicious, roll truck roll
6 days ago

MeFi comment: "...but I think McCain did a much better job of tying his talking points up into neat little packages. I'm not convinced that this is really what people are looking for this time around. Obama's self-assurance really came across strongly, and that..." [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by wires
13 days ago

MeFi comment: "Actually, do we have a thread where we can just talk about the debates? This stuff isn't quite appropriate here." [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by ornate insect
13 days ago

MeFi comment: "Misplaced satire, in this case, since I don't think any real postmodernist would suggest applying the lessons of postmodernism until after one is already fully involved in the symbolic order. There's no reason to "Emphasise the child's..." [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by nasreddin
2 weeks ago

Ask post: How to get rid of bad dreams?
favorited 8 times, recently by lunit, rbs, divabat, scission, Mamapotomus, xsquared-1, booksandlibretti, diamondsky
2 weeks ago

MeFi comment: "You disgust me, ornate insect. ... I honestly can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not." [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by tehloki, koeselitz, cjorgensen
2 weeks ago

MeFi comment: "The emerging meme of this campaign is that the voters no longer care what the press says, because the majority believe the press is biased. They care. It's just that they want to see negative things happening to their celebrities. There's been..." [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by doift, maryh
3 weeks ago

MeTa comment: "Oh, and if you don't want to give Malkin any hits, this is the post she links to." [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Blazecock Pileon
Last month

Ask comment: "Quine's textbook, Methods of Logic, is one of the best textbook introductions to formal logic. It is not, however, the best guide to the applications of logic in daily life. I think that the best, and certainly most succinct, text in that area is..." [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by ejaned8, Cods
Last month

MeFi post: On royal curiosity and language deprivation experiments
favorited 32 times, recently by crystal.castles, googlebombed, bluefly, protorp, BrotherCaine, Bron, P.o.B., LobsterMitten, notashroom, coffeespoons, Sangermaine, OutlawedYeomen, ageispolis, Weighted Companion Cube, ntartifex, jamjam, Alvy Ampersand, dd42, kliuless, Demogorgon, nicolin, baphomet, Dumsnill, Haruspex, painquale, iamkimiam, kimota, sveskemus, jack_mo, Cassilda, maudlin, Phanx
Last month

MeFi comment: "Jon_Evil: ...this "counterculture" movement isn't really counter to anything, or have any agenda whatsoever. Actually the author did make the point that these kids are extremely observant of pop culture, and if something that they like..." [more]
favorited 6 times, recently by grobstein, bookish, reventlov, Weebot, interrobang, nasreddin
2 months ago

MeFi comment: "Also: There are many opinions about the nature of Irony. Some think it is having too many spoons. Sometimes it is found in far off places. However, closer to home, we now have an example of Recursive Irony. (YT) posted by Lord_Pall at 8:10 AM -..." [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by infini
2 months ago

MeFi comment: "How odd, he actually provided the rebuttal to his own argument as part of the argument: There is no branch of government with the authority to redefine marriage. Marriage is older than government. Its meaning is universal: It is the permanent or..." [more]
favorited 10 times, recently by zarq, wires, ao4047, Dreama, rtha, magstheaxe, regicide is good for you, aeschenkarnos, Henry C. Mabuse, duende
2 months ago

MeFi comment: "Turns out, there are intelligent people in the world who hold different views from your own. Replace a few few words in this thread with their liberal counterparts and you will see a startling similarity to the vitriol spewed in many a conservative..." [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by perilous, binturong, BrotherCaine
2 months ago

MeFi comment: "This is some sort of performance art, I think. (Or would it be installation art?) No way it's real." [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by raider
2 months ago

Ask comment: "Is love enough to avoid these hurtles? This should be translated as, "Is love enough to make one of us change our expectations to accommodate the other," since that's the only way to avoid the hurdles you've described. It's pretty clear..." [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by chicainthecity
2 months ago

MeTa comment: "...since Leibniz so freely admits to the relationship in the Ask.Me, it seems like he either didn't read or doesn't quite grasp the spirit of the guidelines. His problem is actually that his grasp of symbolic logic is lacking. You see, Leibniz..." [more]
favorited 5 times, recently by lia, Kid Charlemagne, jb, fourcheesemac, Blazecock Pileon
3 months ago

MeTa comment: "My wife just got the awesomest spam that I've seen in at least two days. "dont' be sad about badboner!!" For some reason, the use of "badboner" as a way of getting past filters is at once ingenious, comedic, and poignant...." [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by Sys Rq, Dillonlikescookies
3 months ago

MeFi comment: "Very interesting, I wonder how this will affect the charitable organizations dedicated to fighting AIDS. Also... Dr De Cock, an epidemiologist who has spent much of his career leading the battle against the disease... How droll...." [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by vbfg, Reverend John
3 months ago

MeFi comment: "Constructivism is not the same as relativism, and certainly not the same as the absolute form of relativism outlined in the clip. Namely, constructivism is rad, relativism is not...." [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by regicide is good for you
4 months ago

MeFi comment: "The flaw here is that the same logic would apply to those things that virtually everyone agrees are relative. Terrible example. Use ice cream flavors instead, next time...." [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by tehloki, weapons-grade pandemonium
4 months ago

MeFi comment: "The Jeanette Winterson link was interesting, ninebelow. It would be really excellent if these sites also included, on each book's page, a paypal link that could be used to make donations to the author. It's a fascinating thing to watch, the way..." [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by BrotherCaine
4 months ago

MeFi post: Now entering nerdspace.
favorited 2 times, recently by Cassilda, YamwotIam
4 months ago

MeFi comment: "Monster's Den is an amusing little game, but calling it even close to the best dungeon crawl on the web is, uh, a bit much. If you're looking for more substance I'd recommend any of the following... You recognize, I hope, that every single one..." [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by chuckdarwin
4 months ago

MeFi comment: "FTA: I think the experiment had only limited relevance to our understanding of the actions of the German people under Nazi rule. In the experiment, the professor had no power to enforce his orders. In Nazi Germany, the enforcement powers went from..." [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Artw
5 months ago

MeFi comment: "Right, so this is a very watered-down distinction between valid and invalid forms of argument. Something like what you'd learn in a first-year logic course. Of course, if you've ever been in such courses, you know that making the distinction is the..." [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Robin Kestrel
6 months ago

MeFi comment: "This is still mysticism, disguised as science. Mathematics describes nature. Music is part of nature. I don't see why it's mysticism rather than the science it appears to be. If your point is just against the pervasive sense of "the..." [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by autodidact
6 months ago

MeFi comment: "Hincandenza, you've certainly hit the central problem the movie poses -- and I haven't seen it, but reading the synopsis of it at wikipedia got me thinking. We, as audience, seem to be pushed to follow the action from the torturer Paul's..." [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Elsa
7 months ago

MeFi comment: "I'll never forget the time my friend Brian (baphomet), some other friends, and I went to see Chuck Palahniuk speak at a bookstore in St. Paul. He brought his copy of the 2nd ed D&D player's handbook for Palahniuk to sign. If you've never met..." [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by baphomet, EarBucket
7 months ago

MeFi comment: "I'm no physicist, but I seem to remember that hidden variables have been ruled out. (The author puts it this way: "in QM there exist rigorous no-hidden-variable theorems. ... However, each theorem has assumptions. ... Thus, what these theorems..." [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by tehloki, Henry C. Mabuse
7 months ago

MeFi comment: "." [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by RussHy
7 months ago

Ask comment: ""According to the late philosopher and logician George Boolos, who was a professor at MIT, the hardest logical puzzle is one that was invented by the logician and puzzle-master Raymond Smullyan, and modified slightly by the computer scientist..." [more]
favorited 4 times, recently by MaxK, NailsTheCat, vegetableagony, Null Pointer and the Exceptions
Last year

MeFi comment: "Thanks for posting this -- though I had hoped for him to add a bit of analysis in addition to the commentary. I still feel something like cognitive dissonance about this issue. One the one hand, censorship. On the other hand, that. It's not..." [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by PostIronyIsNotaMyth
Last year

MeFi comment: "You actually think mefites give a damn? That they possibly have existential, meaning of life moments? Fuck no. They're getting serious internet snark whenever and however they want it. You think they want a conversation? (and that goes for..." [more]
favorited 11 times, recently by jlbartosa, jeremy b, oaf, RedEmma, LeeJay, Belle O'Cosity, vorpal bunny, loquacious, kigpig, gummi, suckerpunch
Last year

MeFi comment: "Comic Sans is extremely useful in deciding who you want to talk to. You don't want to talk to anyone who uses Comic Sans." [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by grubi
Last year

MeFi post: スズメバチが花にとまった。
favorited 3 times, recently by ronin21, alidarbac, poppo
Last year

MeFi comment: "Excellent post title." [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by Space Kitty, tehloki, DevilsAdvocate
Last year

MeFi comment: "I wish I knew more about the scene. Bloodied leg?" [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by puddinghead
Last year

Ask comment: "There wouldn't generally be much use in such comparisons, so I don't think there's much discussion of such things in most sciences. However, in computer science and mathematics, this kind of question does come up. If you consider more abstract..." [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by Rumple, klangklangston
Last year

Ask comment: "Ugly is probably lack of beauty, which is much more definable. I disagree with this idea, that ugliness is just the absence of beauty. There is a point, though not an entirely clear one, at which ugliness becomes an almost tangible quality. If..." [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by milestogo
Last year

MeFi post: SETI's Seth Shostak on Intelligent Design
favorited 1 time, recently by nicolin
Last year

Ask comment: "I am not a dog owner, but this sort of criticism of your plans: "Some have also questioned our sanity, and have gently suggested that we might be trying to fill some sort of "hole" in our lives not filled by work/relationships/etc...." [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by jayder
Last year

MeFi comment: ""Sure, anybody coulda done it...but who did do it? Huh? That's right...me, baby, me."" [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by quarter waters and a bag of chips
Last year

MeFi comment: "There's an old joke about two flies who lived benath the rim of a toilet in an outhouse. ... Sigh. You could have used the Nietzsche quote about gazing into the abyss instead, you know? To each their own, I keep telling myself...." [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by 31d1, bardic
Last year

MeFi comment: "The Coolest 8 Year Old In The World Talks About O'Reilly Not as cool as advertised." [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by roll truck roll
Last year

MeFi comment: "Fuck keeping it real. The only thing a musician needs to do is keep it awesome." [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by tehloki, grubi
Last year

MeFi comment: ""Died Tragically Rescuing His Family From The Remains Of A Destroyed Sinking Battleship"" [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by Totally Zanzibarin' Ya, grapefruitmoon, moss
Last year

MeTa comment: "I thought he was just a very clever actor, who always remains in character. Pardon me, I've been looking for a new pair of rose-colored glasses...yours look very nice. May I ask where you got them?..." [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by shmegegge
Last year

MeFi comment: ""Hands rove from chicken wings to breasts, from chips to hips, from guac to cock. One couple grind by the sink and feed each other meatballs." I can't tell if the author is a horrible writer or a great one. Rhyming "guac" with..." [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by soda pop
Last year

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