MeFi comment:
"klangklangston: Rockism's mostly a problem because it's a lazy argument that purports to justify musical taste based on notions of "authenticity" and "timelessness." Really, it's more like having an insufferable modernist who..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nasreddin
Last month
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"1. Bringing back the abusive theocracy of pre-invasion tibet.
This is not even close to what the imaginary headline described, and it is not the goal of the movement for Tibetan autonomy/independence at all. If by some miracle that headline ever..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by homunculus, billypilgrim
Last month
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"I found Paris's stated beliefs to be repugnant, but that's not why I'd rather see him stay banned- in fact, if I were looking at it from a strictly partisan, political standpoint, I'd be calling for his reinstatement. And that's because, frankly, he..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by jtron, blueberry, dash_slot-
Last month
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"Dwarf Fortress might be just the thing you're looking for- I would say it perfectly fits all your requirements, actually. Mostly a strategy/simulation game (the more developed half of it, anyway), not resource intensive, PC based (with a Mac version..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by nicolas léonard sadi carnot, billtron
4 months ago
MeFi post:
Give Your Heart to the Hawks
favorited 17 times, recently by crystal.castles, poweredbybeard, kaspen, not me, banterboy, digaman, bardic, RedEmma, verysleeping, GaelFC, jamjam, blucevalo, fleetmouse, ronv, invitapriore, statolith, whir
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Ah, GNXP. I wish I could recall where it was, exactly, but in some other blog's comment section, I remember seeing the founders of GNXP arguing that while of course there were bad things about apartheid, South Africa would have been a lot better off..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by mer2113
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"The first Peanuts strips I read were the old ones, fortunately- my mom had a collection of old books from the 60s and 70s. I actually learned to read largely through them. Even as a kid, I somewhat preferred the ones from that period, and in..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by The Confessor
9 months ago
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"This list might be a bit more on the harsh and/or experimental side in general than what you're after, but here are some that came to mind, in no particular order...
"Twilight Twilight Nihil Nihil" by Current 93 (that one in particular..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by secretary bird
9 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Oh, what a glorious world they promise, the de Greys and Kurzweils, the immortalists, futurists and transhumanists, the techno-optimist libertarians, the believers in the "Proactionary Principle", the Extropians and Singularitarians, who..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by bpt
11 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Is there a warrant to your "myth" claim, or are you just trying to get a rise out of people?
Try here, for starters, and he has a whole bunch of other posts on the subject here. I would regard most pro-DDT claims with great skepticism,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Wink Ricketts
11 months ago
MeFi comment:
"So... yeah.
I'd considered making a Louis Wain FPP, but I'd figured that it had been done before (if a very long time ago and not this throughly), and besides, me doing one would have been just a little too ridiculously eponysterical. In any case,..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by shavenwarthog, pywacket
11 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Oh God, not Spiked Online again.
PeterMcdermott already linked to some stuff on the history of the Spiked Online crowd (AKA Living Marxism, and before that the Revolutionary Communist Party), so I won't go over that territory again, but I would..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by tehloki, PeterMcDermott
11 months ago
MeFi comment:
"So, even if I wouldn't call myself a primitivist or neo-tribalist or what-have-you, there are a couple of things that make me much more sympathetic to them than, it seems, almost everyone who's posted in this thread thus far. One is that my politics..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by RedEmma
Last year
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"I am fascinated by how quickly the Internet has accelerated my transformation into a stereotypical crotchety old man. The popularity of Myspace alone helped speed the process up exponentially. I had already reached the stage of complaining about that..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by feathermeat, BrotherCaine, bepe
Last year
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"Oh, yes, you're completely right, Steven. Obviously, carbon footprint calculators, wanting to work less, and solar panels fall into the same category as crystals and mind machines. The green needs a good solid dose of hard-nosed rationality, and I..." [
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favorited 11 times, recently by chuckdarwin, Baby_Balrog, Pope Guilty, supercrayon, EarBucket, grobstein, atrazine, Many bubbles, scody, TryTheTilapia, pyramid termite
Last year
MeFi comment:
"God, I was a total Garfield fanatic as a child. This thread is bringing back all sorts of memories.
About that Halloween arc: I remember that pretty vividly, and yes, it freaked me out. The thing is, I'd actually seen worse, in a Garfield-related..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by JHarris
Last year
MeFi comment:
"Wow, I didn't expect that so many other people would remember the Nine Lives book- this prompted me to dig it out again. It's just as odd as I remembered. Some of the stories are just typical, silly Garfield stuff, but then there's some..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by JHarris
Last year
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"So, I read the Caplan piece, and my thought on it is that, as ever, the Cato Institute fails to realize that many people disagree with them not because they don't understand economics, but because they simply value different things than the Cato..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by axon, jb
Last year
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"People tend to view the whole "New Atheist" movement as being a left-wing progressive thing, but Christopher Hitchens and Sam "In Defense of Torture" Harris are good illustrations of the ways in which it could just as easily..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Canard de Vasco
Last year
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"This is an enormous question, really- there are so many different kinds of music that have been made in the last 50 years, and Neutral Milk Hotel and Dream Theater are very dissimilar bands.
My personal experience has been that when it comes to..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by gregb1007
Last year
MeFi comment:
"Abiezer: On a louis wain cat's point about authoritarian personality types, I can't say I've been overly troubled by this down the years, in so far as if you're hoping for a politics that can address common needs, you're going to be dealing with all..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nasreddin
Last year
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"Happy to hear I helped you discover Orphaned Land, and I'd be glad to make some more suggestions! I'm not sure I can come with anything else as good as Orphaned Land(they're one of the very best metal bands out there, IMO), and I've been a little out..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Smilla's Sense of Snark
Last year
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"It's worth pointing out that Martin Durkin was part of a very odd little Trotskyist party called the Revolutionary Communist Party, who, from what I've read, reveled in taking contrarian positions on just about everything, to the point that they..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by davejay, tula
Last year
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"I was unschooled for my whole childhood, and I'd second what skynxnex said about it, for the most part. My parents were very liberal/progressive types, neither is religious(and my dad is a staunch atheist), and they were very inspired by the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by davar
Last year
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"My heart goes out to you. I went through a similar spiritual crisis myself a few years ago, and though by the sound of things it was rather less severe than what you're going through, I think I have at least an inkling of what you're feeling and how..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Ira.metafilter
Last year
MeFi post:
"The joy of eternal bards/ the sound of the kantele"
favorited 10 times, recently by flutable, Electric Elf, UbuRoivas, Gator, bleary, vertriebskonzept, Colloquial Collision, jack_mo, i_am_joe's_spleen, nickyskye
Two years ago
MeFi comment:
"Mitrovarr: I'm not just talking about the people who actually go out and say that stuff, but also the ones who just plain loathe men and consider them to be almost a lower life form. Instead of being drummed out of feminist organizations, they end up..." [
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Two years ago
