MeFi comment:
"Anyone else feel like partially disemvoweling a comment (leaving only the praising parts) crosses a line?" [
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favorited 11 times, recently by jeblis, ninthart, Pope Guilty, Who_Am_I, spiderwire, vsync, delmoi, mikeh, aeschenkarnos, Mick, Artw
more than 12 hours ago
MeFi comment:
"Mt. Stross, no one has any obligation whatsoever to get on "your good side"
Mt. Stross? No way around it. The only way to get to the good side is to go straight over the peak. Rough passage this time of year. Above the tree line there's..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by hototogisu, languagehat, bonaldi
2 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Another brainstorm, along those ideas: construct a comment that looks on the face of it like an innocuous (if, for these purposes, necessarily vacuous) statement, but which when disemvoweled looks like something altogether different according to..." [
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favorited 8 times, recently by Monochrome, oaf, Jpfed, Pyry, griphus, neustile, Richard Daly, DU
2 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I don't understand the appeal of the argument that says, They're a private (personal?) website, they can do what they want.
Of course they can!
If they wanted, they could become a neo-Stalinist mouthpiece tomorrow.
They could! But that..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Kadin2048, litlnemo
3 days ago
MeFi comment:
"anil--: I am sorry that I was right.
Um dude I've never felt the need to pile on you before, but this is a bit much. Despite your much-self-vaunted expertise, the only reason you were "right" is because what you said had almost zero..." [
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favorited 11 times, recently by sondrialiac, Crabby Appleton, des, Mick, wendell, cavalier, Snyder, anildash, spiderwire, ShawnStruck, loiseau
3 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Has anyone built an un-disemvoweller? That would be a neat greasemonkey script. Sure there are some irreducible ambiguities in the text once it's been disemvowelled (unless you have some very powerful sentence-level logic, like in th hmn brn), but..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by milov, Blazecock Pileon, jamjam
5 days ago
MeFi post:
New Trade Theory
favorited 19 times, recently by johannahdeschanel, sparkletone, graventy, eponymouse, finite, lumensimus, surenoproblem, adrianhon, phyrewerx, Doofus Magoo, estherbester, jeffburdges, atbash, matthewr, afflatus, brundlefly, cog_nate, Artw, dazed_one
12 days ago
MeFi comment:
"mobunited, it's becoming harder and harder to figure out what you're getting at.
If you are really saying that you can't be prosecuted under Canadian speech law unless you are inciting violence, then you are flat wrong, and come off looking..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by oaf
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"I now know what to do with the welts my wife gets when she's upset with me!
I thought those were from falling down the stairs. hem nothin to see..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by facetious
3 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"It's not worth it. Act like a tourist.
I've lived in New York most of my life, and acted like a New Yorker just about the whole time. I recently realized I've been missing out tremendously as a result. Acting like a New Yorker (or a local..." [
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favorited 28 times, recently by allkindsoftime, vespertine, lhall, limeonaire, lou, pocams, regicide is good for you, ddaavviidd, palegirl, oaf, Brian James, lalochezia, Arthur Dent, small_ruminant, DevilsAdvocate, softlord, msittig, theiconoclast31, mckenney, MsMolly, bru, suedehead, alidarbac, aye, scrump, croutonsupafreak, beandip, brain_drain
4 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Interesting relevant, I think, is the timeline of evolution.
See also." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by tybeet
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Organized crime doesn't persist equally over the world. It isn't some constant of human nature, it depends heavily on institutions. So for example the links say that Japan has 80,000 or more yakuza, while in the US -- a much larger country --..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by JHarris, Edgewise
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I'm curious about the reactions of those who "followed orders". Is there anything on the web about their reaction and thoughts after the experiment?
Milgram's book on the experiments includes some fascinating interviews with many..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Blazecock Pileon
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I hate to play the cranky codger card, but back in the day you were known for what you said and how you said it, not how many friends you have or how attractive you are.
I'm sympathetic to this complaint, but it's hardly true that Facebook has..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by mazatec
2 months ago
MeTa comment:
"The fact that (something like) this is the default view on Slashdot I think explains why Slashdot isn't much good for discussions between commenters. While there's something to be said for a pluralism of ways of interacting with the site, I'm..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by nasreddin, quonsar
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I'm celebrating by saying "April Fools" after selected serious remarks." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by vytae
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Ah, good. Kids need to be educated about the supernatural." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by DU
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"(I initially hoped "Like a dog fucking a blender" was a review of the whole showcase rather than some particular song.)" [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Devils Rancher, tehloki
3 months ago
Ask comment:
"Sen. George Vest's speech on dogs is famous and touching.
The best friend a man has in the world may turn against him and become his enemy. His son or daughter that he has reared with loving care may prove ungrateful. Those who are nearest and..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by zeph, yohko
3 months ago
Ask comment:
"Sell your camera, and buy a much cheaper but still excellent DSLR. Perhaps you can get one compatible with your current kit." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by whiskey point
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Not crazy about it. Also, I've got a strong suspicion the group that produced it is funded by drug company PR cash. It seems to be an endemic feature of continuing medical education (CME) programs. See if you can make more sense of their website than..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Blazecock Pileon
7 months ago
MeFi comment:
""Although his appearance was, as the Hannover police stated, "far from evil", Fritz Haarmann entered the record books as Germany's most prolific killer."
Ehem...." [
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favorited 7 times, recently by The Light Fantastic, Ziggurat, Brainy, Faint of Butt, PhatLobley, delmoi, Mick
7 months ago
Ask comment:
"I think the association with the Nazis has produced more heat than light on eugenics -- pointing to the Nazis as an argument against eugenics is a bit like arguing that the fall of the Soviet Union disproves socialism. Yes, socialism might be wrong,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Aidan Kehoe
11 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I call them people. Every single person I know is interested in food.
Hurf durf I'm blind to the starkest differences in degree." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by craven_morhead
11 months ago
MeFi comment:
"It's really irresponsible for the thieves to do this in Washington, DC. Anywhere else and this scheme could be profitable for years! But now someone's going to rip off a legislative aide and ruin it for everyone in the country...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by roundtablewassquare, InnocentBystander
11 months ago
MeFi comment:
"There's a tunnel between 1896 and 1926? Cool!
It's not that cool unless you can get to 1926 to try it out." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by jonson
11 months ago
Ask comment:
"Let's play a game: I'll name some objects, and you have to tell me what category they belong to. Here goes.
Mount Sinai, Mount Zion, and Mount McKinley.
Answer.
There are more, equally hilarious, but I can't think of any...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by splendid animal
11 months ago
MeFi comment:
"i see them all the time in LA and hope dearly that they're surviving on a robust diet of lap-dogs.
Let's introduce them to Washington." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by fleetmouse
11 months ago
Ask comment:
"Awkward. The sinister / weird explanations are not crazy, but don't rule out pure awk (you did say he was a geek)." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Goofyy
11 months ago
MeFi post:
Dr. Seuss meets Final Fantasy plots
favorited 11 times, recently by tksh, whir, benign, mrg, Menomena, voltairemodern, JibberJabber, buriednexttoyou, elphTeq, stavrogin, interrobang
11 months ago
MeFi comment:
"This kind of story is bitter to me. People are so credulous; why am I doing nothing to take advantage of this fact?" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by BrotherCaine
Last year
Ask comment:
"You've got 'em where you want 'em, probably. Hire a lawyer and shoot to maim. er, figuratively
The key question is probably not whether you have a 'formal' signed offer; the importance of that kind of formality seems to be overstated in the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by zippy
Last year
MeFi comment:
"I think something is lost by evaluating the fortunes of all white people in the US as a group. "White people" over all might have a "comprehensive advantage" but the particular white people who are denigrated as "white..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by _squid_, BaxterG4, justgary, moonbird, the other side
Last year
