MeFi comment:
"C'mon dude, almost everything the guy has written is available online. Therefore, you don't have to point to his lack of credentials to discredit him.
Honestly, I don't think most people find their high school education really helps them with the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by decagon
2 days ago
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"Actually, "testify" does not come from ball-grabbing. The meaning of "testis" as "witness" seems to predate the meaning, "testicle." Testify means to be a witness, and that's the etymology offered by the OED...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Kattullus
8 days ago
MeFi comment:
"My hero!
John Stuart Mill and Jeremy Bentham('s head) . . . they fight crime!" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by jtron
10 days ago
MeFi comment:
"that "sarcasm" is pretty rich.
Oh no, I don't think so.
Seriously, though, what to make of this remark? The word "sarcasm" is not like "humor;" it doesn't convey any approval. You can use it without the scare..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by spaltavian
13 days ago
MeFi comment:
"This is serious progress. Sure, I'd rather someone start enforcing applicable laws, actually preventing and punishing torture. I'd also like to see someone go after Marty Seligman, who is reported to have helped the torturers develop their degrading..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by aeschenkarnos
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"I've got this in the "broken swan is right twice a year" category. If you predict a lot of catastrophic failures, some of them will come true. That doesn't make you good at predicting catastrophic failures...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Blazecock Pileon, Lacking Subtlety
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Your problem, Gooch, (and the place where you stray into strawman territory) is when you assume that being "pro-choice" means one believes the choice whether to abort is completely morally neutral. It does not necessarily mean that. I..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nooneyouknow
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Krrrlson, I guess I was sort of straddling the line between sidenote and derail when I indicated I think NOMA is a dodge, but didn't explain why I think that. I will summarize my view of why it's a dodge: NOMA requires you to hold that..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by infinitefloatingbrains
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Bringing Black Hawk Down The House
I was thrilled with the premise but disappointed by the ratio of duds to hits." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Nattie
Last month
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"Um, extroverts don't have an interior life. "Deciding" is not something they do, it's just a word they assign to explain their actions to others post hoc. They have "mental processes" in the literal sense, but not what you or I..." [
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favorited 19 times, recently by vegetableagony, churl, creasy boy, Caduceus, fondle, eritain, scarylarry, PhoBWanKenobi, donnagirl, iivix, nicolin, theCroft, MonkeyToes, darksasami, orthogonality, wilful, aeschenkarnos, cabingirl, Kirklander
Last month
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"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 30 times, recently by Deathalicious, Benjamin Nushmutt, allkindsoftime, vespertine, lhall, limeonaire, lou, pocams, regicide is good for you, ddaavviidd
Last month
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"I'm sorry, but there's a BIG gap between someone who's feeling lost without their significant other and someone who's a conniving, skanky whore who's trying to lure her SO's best friend into sex.
See, right or wrong, avoiding this kind of label is..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by streetdreams
Last month
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"This might have been one of those uncomfortable scenarios where doing what you're supposed to do (confirm interest first) contradicts the desires of both parties. Anecdotally, this happens somewhat frequently. Why these situations occur is a subject..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by streetdreams
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I liked the "We can't be equal while" link because it addresses a common problem of privilege checklists: the labeling of sexist social facts as a "privilege" of one gender over the other is often arbitrary.
When men lapse..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by aeschenkarnos, Kadin2048
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I guess I should have known that MeFi would be a contentless, evidenceless "OMG RUSSIANZ R EVIL" echo chamber. Go ahead, accuse me of being a Putin stooge.
Do you have anything but pure carping? The links in this thread has been..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Blazecock Pileon, orthogonality
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"The definition of "twee" is overly precious. It was originally applied as a term of disparagement, and was later defiantly self-applied because it sounded good / was accurate / etc. This happens all the time, the most obvious example being..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by jtron, skwt
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"It's awesome that he got people to discuss this on the record. I'm a little peeved he held it for his book rather than reporting it immediately. It's getting a little late for an impeachment, but this is Watergate-level shit...." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by flamk, longdaysjourney, yort, orthogonality
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"No, I think the Democrats' excuses for not doing anything will be totally convincing. I'm envisioning something like, "But we're scaaared."
I'd buy that...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by moonbiter
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"ag:Who wouldn't be offended to be accused of cheating? It's idiotic to assume otherwise. Would you like to be accused of it?
So much mysogyny. Those stupid lying bitches, right?
It's weird of you to say this. Your earlier comment suggested that..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Snyder
2 months ago
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"The first is a statement about energy. The latter statements (at least the second and third) are statements about economics. "You can't win energetically" does not imply "you can't win economically," and anyone who tries to draw..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by DevilsAdvocate
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Cashman, let me just clarify my position from my most recent non-parenthetical comment, because some of our disagreement results from my not communicating clearly.
"Right" and "wrong": when I say Banaji's argument implies that..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by yoink
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"This FPP reports two different studies, which had different results. The results of the Hyde, et al., study, are actually consistent with Summers's famous hypothesis about greater variance in male math abilities. The explanations given are different,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Kwantsar
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"(As a sidenote, Lakoff's "old Enlightenment" epithet is pretty misguided:
There is a lesson here, but it is not about politics. It's about the intellectual integrity of scientists, specifically mind-scientists, who wish to apply what..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by yoink
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I can't watch the video, and as you suggested I don't have any hard data on the effectiveness of satire. I think the writers and scientists are overgeneralizing from "well documented [e]ffects," but leave that aside.
Even accepting..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by yoink
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"In seriousness, the problem with the psychologists' critique of the Blitt cover is that it applies with equal justice to any satire. If we flatly accept that restating wrong positions just reinforces them, then satire is always wrong. The argument is..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Artw
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Present day cops are largely those the Army rejected; I'm sure we can look forward to more legal and reasonable enforcement of the criminal law in the years to come
You mean, now that the army doesn't reject anyone?..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Pope Guilty
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Craig was a bad guy, but that doesn't mean that what was done to him was okay, anyway. The ACLU has argued that the sting against him was unconstitutional.
The whole scuffle over equal / unequal protection seems to me to be missing the point...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by kid ichorous, doctor_negative
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"The mods' comments seem quite appropriate -- even pleasant -- if you read them in the voice of a cartoon villain." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by jeblis, waraw
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"From the Economist's "Democracy in America" blog:
the campaign's reaction makes the story. The New Yorker's circulation is almost entirely concentrated in true-blue coastal enclaves. It might have gotten some play on hard-right chat..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by yoink
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Seriously? Crying offense and demanding balance?
Let the fucking Bushies demand that everyone on their side is 'on message,' let them screen the attendees at their political rallies, let them preemptively deploy the word "controversial"..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by vsync, JHarris, Snyder, Blazecock Pileon
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Would the corporate media be talking about pro-McCain PC-ists who can't take a joke? Or would the New Yorker get Dixie Chicked?
How the other side would react to something similar is not relevant to the correct or liberal response to this cover...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by everichon
2 months ago
