MeTa comment:
"In an alternate reality, Joe Horn is 11 years old. Back in 2006, he was paralyzed from the waist down by a freak accident while volunteering at the local animal shelter. The group of puppies he was with carried him to a hospital, where J.P. Patches..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by tkchrist
5 days ago
MeTa comment:
"I'm going to explain this so that everyone can just get along: Whenever you hear someone use some variant of the phrase "The Fed is printing too much money!", you can just skip over their entire comment. Don't bother reading it; you will..." [
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favorited 11 times, recently by The Bellman, shmegegge, Sangermaine, redfisch, yort, nasreddin, the dief, gregvr, rodgerd, infinitywaltz, Skorgu
5 days ago
MeTa comment:
"Sure, women are shorter than men on average. But a lot of women are tall! And many are also taller than specific other men. My insight is piercing.
This is the basis of all bad discussion...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by delmoi
Last month
MeTa comment:
"I'm glad that we as a nation website have been able to move forward from soft-posting Obama stories to the grey to soft-posting Clinton stories to the grey. Fan-fucking-tastic!..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Rock Steady
Last month
Ask comment:
"First off, people who don't live in Silicon Valley or understand that it has a high cost of living should get out of this thread. There's way too much "Wah you make soooooooo much!" going on here from people who obviously have no clue what..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by fishfucker
2 months ago
Ask comment:
"I set up two columns, seems to work:
A B
1 -6 | =1/(1+EXP(-A2))
2 -5 | =1/(1+EXP(-A3))
...
(Fill down)" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Pigpen
2 months ago
MeTa comment:
"You don't want to use 'OMG' or 'lol' in your post. Or your comments for that matter" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by h00py
2 months ago
Ask comment:
"I know several people who don't know how to ride a bike. What does that have to do with anything? Do you know how to safely tie in to a climbing harness?
I don't see what distinguishes this question from "Why doesn't every single person know..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by josher71, DevilsAdvocate, Echidna882003, als129
2 months ago
MeTa comment:
"cortex said back in September that they were trying to cut down on jokey deletion reasons. Someone started a blog about it anyway." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Phire, [son] QUAALUDE
2 months ago
Ask comment:
"I wonder if you could cut down the three weeks by cutting up the bacon (as to increase the surface area).
I love vodka and I love bacon, but that's disgusting...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ctmf
3 months ago
MeTa comment:
"The community consensus is that if your spouse starts to resemble Jabba the Hutt, you are obligated to somehow be sexually attracted to Jabba the Hutt.
I suspect the ensuing community consensus that is about to be hurtled at you will be that if..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by yerfatma, Mayor Curley, General Malaise
3 months ago
MeTa comment:
"We shouldn't FPP it, we should continue to soft-post this and every other Obama story to the gray. Awesome!" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Rock Steady
3 months ago
MeTa comment:
"body {
background: black;
/* background-image: url(/images/structure/line.png); */
color: white;
font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;
font-size: 11px;
line-height: 18px;
text-align: center;
min-width: 1000px;
}Pro tip for..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by iamkimiam, Blazecock Pileon
3 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Real adults don't need a button on a webpage to stop them from doing whatever harm it is they're bringing on themselves. If you don't want to post to MetaFilter anymore, there's a button-free way of doing it...." [
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favorited 6 times, recently by scrump, Jimbob, Orrorin, loiseau, schyler523, puke & cry
4 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Well, that's that then. Since this thread is about to be closed, can I just bring to everyone's attention the fact that hermitosis only needs another 70 favorites before he has to make good on his promise to disable his account. C'mon people! We can..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nasreddin
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"My friends made a functional coilgun as high school physics project using some soda can-sized capacitors and a transformer from a neon sign. It fired a nail (sans head) at potentially-lethal speeds, and their genius teacher let them fire it inside..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by EndsOfInvention, griphus
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I'd like to see at least one OMG PHOTOGRAPHER post on Metafilter that wasn't either 1) cloying hyper-processed over-saturated vignetted HDR Nutrasweet or 2) pictures of rusty things taken with a..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nasreddin
4 months ago
Ask comment:
"I was in the same position - CS freshman interviewing at some the large software company. I got the internship and now work there (and have taken their interviewing training). Some of the advice here is probably specific to that company.
svolix's..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by scission, pravit, jacobm
4 months ago
MeTa comment:
"I think the idea is that AskMe should be useful without the knowledge that SCDB is just making stuff up that sounds reasonable (and not indicating it as such)..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by arnold
4 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Dear MetaFilter: My collicky newborn weighs 450 pounds, but the airline says children under 18 months can share a seat with their parent, so I guess I'll just get one ticket. The question is: where can I change his diaper? Obviously the restroom is..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by bugbread
4 months ago
MeTa comment:
"OP specifically said they'd be willing to buy two seats if required. Practically every answer in that thread was off-topic." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by loiseau
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Telling me I can't bring my religion into the public square is tantamount to bringing yours in first, and then denying me the same privilege
Secularism is totally a religion, amirite? It's like how how "all people are created equal" is..." [
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favorited 13 times, recently by Reverend John, finite, scrump, funkiwan, Hot Like Your 12V Wire, wendell, marble, googly, patr1ck, Blazecock Pileon, Jezztek, kolophon, Mayor Curley
4 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Anonymous wanted to know if there was a way to get paternity results before a child was born. The answer is yes. Are people afraid that someone would hear about a medical procedure, not take the effort to even google it for a few minutes, then go to..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by loiseau, kidsleepy, The Bellman, Blazecock Pileon
5 months ago
Ask comment:
"Warren Buffett had this bit of wisdom which I'll edit for brevity:
There are roughly 6 Billion people in the world. Imagine the worlds biggest lottery where every one of those 6 Billion people was required to draw a ticket. Printed on each ticket..." [
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favorited 36 times, recently by AceRock, vegetableagony, spongeboy, lalochezia, allkindsoftime, omegar, flibbertigibbet, LN, mjao, pwally, 913, spiderskull, nooneyouknow, Durin's Bane, bent back tulips, KAS, gt2, deadtrouble, cmyk, hjo3, Pater Aletheias, chara, adiabat, ZeroDivides, numinous, wander, ssg, Orb, QueSeraSera, Foci for Analysis, re.becca, SpacemanStix, jedicus, lou, chrisamiller, ajr
5 months ago
Ask comment:
"I'm not a vegetarian, but it's important to realize that using animal by-products is still encouraging the killing use of animals for meat by subsidizing their production. If the demand for leather goes down (by you not buying it), the price will go..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Anything
5 months ago
Ask comment:
"I dunno, I don't GET why this is such a problem
And I'm sure most of the men here don't understand why a woman would cry at work. But we're not being dismissive about it, and you shouldn't be, either.
"Don't do X" is not a helpful..." [
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favorited 11 times, recently by AceRock, Deathalicious, Xoder, Chunder, msittig, anildash, damn dirty ape, RussHy, spork, Effigy2000, bonaldi
5 months ago
MeTa comment:
"It's ironic you would make a call-out here since your "Don't do that because it's rude!" answer is hardly going to help someone who's asking "How do I stop doing this thing that I know to be rude?..." [
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favorited 13 times, recently by tehloki, waxbanks, Big_B, Skorgu, The Bellman, DevilsAdvocate, chndrcks, schyler523, davejay, roll truck roll, misha, goodnewsfortheinsane, EndsOfInvention
5 months ago
MeTa comment:
"there are some questions whose answers are so shockingly obvious that if you have to ask them at all you're probably beyond help
Seriously, if I went to this thread and said "Stop crying! You're being a baby. I've never had this problem...." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by MythMaker, The Bellman, waraw
5 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Seems to be a much more detailed response than the "just don't" a lot of people are casting it as.
It's longer than "Don't do it", but doesn't actually say anything more. Don't confuse verbosity with clarity. "I don't do..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by misha, bugbread
5 months ago
Ask comment:
"Disk: the region in a plane bounded by a circle
Drive: In electrical engineering, a drive is an electronic device to provide power to a motor or..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by blueberry
5 months ago
Ask comment:
"You can give them to your local Goodwill so people like me can buy them for ~$2 when we need them for electronics projects. Win-win-win." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by box
5 months ago
