MeFi comment:
"eclectist: "A friend of mine wrote a short story years ago, where, in the future, food was little squares of chemical that sustained you, and the protagonist of his short story was a 'pornographer' who filmed shorts of people preparing and..." [
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favorited 7 times, recently by shotgunbooty, synecdoche, dan g., defenestration, nasreddin, five fresh fish, Korou
Yesterday
MeFi comment:
"Right wing radio civil war has erupted.
Nope. It's a growing split through the entirety of 'right wing' minded people. I watched FOX News all day yesterday and all night, and it really was one Republican after another coming in with widely..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by lunit
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"fourcheesemac: "Anyone catch Paul Begala call Bush "a high functioning Moron" with Wolf Blitzer during special coverage of the bailout crisis? He went there, he said that.
And amazingly, neither Blitzer nor Ed Rollins reacted in..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by fourcheesemac
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Well, whoever is playing president better start entering cheat codes. Pakistan fires on NATO aircraft." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by butterstick
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Ha ha, CNN has the stock market opening bell along side the live video of McCain's speech this morning. They should run stock market graphs alongside every politician's public addresses, in real time. For the lulz...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by rokusan
2 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"I moved to Kansas a few years ago:
I think Kansas is vastly understood simply because most people don't care about it. Check out the kansas.gov family of sites, who would've expected them to be so well produced and phenomenally useful?..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by thewalledcity
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"In its announcement, it is significant that Best Buy hardly mentioned music subscription. Rather, it described the company’s emerging capabilities to offer services through cellphones, its technology and customer service operations.
The already..." [
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favorited 9 times, recently by zippy, ekstasis23, Blazecock Pileon, peacheater, doctor_negative, blueberry, nasreddin, JHarris, Michael Roberts
3 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"Chuckles: "backseatpilot, you are operating under the fallacy that all good can be measured. Perhaps you even think all good can be measured in dollars?"
All good can be measured in Dollars (USA$ only), Horsepower (fuck the watt), and..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by kuujjuarapik, spaceman_spiff, kittens for breakfast
3 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"Hummus with celery, bell peppers, and carrots. When you've earned it, hummus and pita bread. Also, hard boiled eggs." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by low affect
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Pastabagel: "In the days ahead, remember the following:
1. The objective of Wall Street is to privatize profit and nationalize risk.
2. Behind every great fortune is a great crime."
1: Yes.
2: Yes. See: Thomas Kinkade...." [
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favorited 6 times, recently by ShawnStruck, MLIS, benzenedream, scody, troy, maxwelton
3 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"Oh, and FYI I'm drinking a high life, watching old school Family Guy, and have pizza rolls in the oven. Non of that matters because my actions and preferences have absolutely no impact on the laws of physics and by derivation the laws of biology...." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Pigpen, you're a kitty!, ten pounds of inedita
Last month
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"How open minded are you about other things? You can't tell someone to "just get over" their sexual orientation, or religious beliefs, or any other number of personal matters that don't affect you. Just throw phobias in there with the..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Raichle, 5MeoCMP
Last month
Ask comment:
"Searching for Lateral Thinking Puzzles or Situation Puzzles will give you more results than 'riddles'." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by DevilsAdvocate
Last month
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"You know why jobs like this appear in TV shows and movies? Because they are by and large a fun fantasy that everyone would like to try out for a time, but they're hard/impossible to swing because companies need to make money not entertain you and..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Ookseer, pushing paper and bottoming chairs
Last month
MeFi comment:
"delmoi: "What's the pin on Palin's collar?It looks like an israeli flag to me.
Yeah, she's worn it before. I don't have a problem with not wearing an American flag anytime anyplace, but I do have a problem with wearing the flag of any other..." [
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favorited 8 times, recently by Lou Stuells, blueberry, cass, graventy, koakuma, emelenjr, orthogonality, Blazecock Pileon
Last month
MeFi comment:
"That's it. That's it. They're just so godamned excited to hate. It's really more than I expected. I mean every person's got their faults, but they just want to hate so much...." [
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favorited 9 times, recently by blueberry, weapons-grade pandemonium, penduluum, Orb, dejah420, mostlymartha, shitcock, Artw, orthogonality
Last month
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"+1 to all the above.
It was a cookie. It was a mistake. You were not harmed. They acknowledged the error, refunded your money and told you how they have changed protocol to prevent it from happening in the future. You not being an aggressive or..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by mumstheword
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Holy cow. I think I'm wrong about the flag pin. There's no horizontal blue bars like the Israeli flag. I think it's a single star to symbolize the one child she has enlisted in the armed forces. I'm cool with that. My bad...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by BrotherCaine
Last month
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"I used Hal Higdon to train for a half marathon with great results, check out his 10k page and compare the different levels with what you're already doing and how many weeks you have to train...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by krisken
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Umm, a 'thorough topside check' didn't reveal the straps holding the boat to the trailer?
Shenanigans." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by gubo
Last month
MeFi comment:
"nax: "so, Science!, you'd be okay if, say, Egypt wanted to have troops in Vermont, just in case they "ever need something like emergency flyover permission [they]'ve got serviceman with direct connections who can get stuff done from a..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by The Light Fantastic, marble
Last month
MeFi comment:
"the two lived together only for a brief period in 1981, shortly before Barack left to attend Columbia University and Cooter had to drop out of chicken-killing school because an air conditioner fell on his head.
That is actually funny...." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by myopicman, turgid dahlia, papafrita
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Yeah. The dude's had a hard ass life in a hard ass place to make a life, no reason to mock him. The same goes for people in Appalachia, Idaho, New York City or anywhere else.
I like posting here so I'll keep my opinions on Alabamans to myself...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by nasreddin, preparat
Last month
MeTa comment:
"I just had a dream of grocery shopping and I had a little hand basket full of things that I gave to the cashier and waited while she took all the items out and made a big deal of me not emptying the basket myself. She was really really angry, and..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by puke & cry, booticon
Last month
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"I was at a concert where I yelled for a song to be played the whole night. It annoyed everyone around me and when it was finally played late in the show everyone told me to shut the hell up. No acknowledgment whatsoever from the talent, they were..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by lothar, daikon, cac
2 months ago
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"Yep. Microwaves use NON IONIZING radiation to add energy to polar molecules (mostly water) thus also heats them up. Those molecules then transfer heat and enegry to other molecules and heat them up. Every other cooking technique uses some other..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by schyler523, astrochimp
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Stupid science. Discovering all this weird shit, making the world scary. Back to the humors I say!" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Monochrome
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"So what are they going to call this new sport? Because it's not baseball, and I won't be referring to it as baseball.
Hear that Olympics? I'm not going to call it baseball...." [
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favorited 12 times, recently by tehloki, liza, violette, brain cloud, schyler523, Edgewise, confusionball, o0dano0o, orthogonality, orrnyereg, middleclasstool, dirtdirt
2 months ago
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"Losing weight is not complicated. Eat fewer calories than you burn and you'll lose weight. However if you dip too low and starve yourself, your body will essentially activate an emergency response to the need for food and begin shutting down...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by chicainthecity
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Also, to be honest the "Boxcar Children" series. They were like syndicated TV in my childhood, nothing great but always there and available...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by LoriFLA
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Have all the PBR you want hipsters, but stay the hell away from my High Life, Stag, and Hamm's.
One time I saw some rich kids buying Hamm's, the liquor store cashier was just as annoyed as I was. I could tell...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by invitapriore
2 months ago
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"The greatest RA I ever had stayed out of my business that did not affect other students, was engaged and outgoing as just another student, was aware of students rejecting planned community 'activities' when those activities were stupid and pointless,..." [
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favorited 6 times, recently by phrontist, thewalledcity, Arbac, Dolukhanova, Orrorin, BrnP84
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Amusing huh? Well I'll tell you what, tomorrow morning I'm making strawberry shortcakes from scratch (no cake pans needed) with fresh strawberries. And if you're in the area, you're more than welcome to swing by for a few to get you fed and ready for..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by pril, sarahnade, Countess Elena
2 months ago
Ask comment:
"Well a lot of lab filtration systems required an input of de-ionized water which tastes really bad. This even further purifies that water, so I'd imagine it would taste even worse. (These don't just remove bacteria and chemical contaminates but..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by acro
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"First day at college, in the Sysco managed, single cafeteria on campus...
Science!: Hey, the admissions department mentioned you have a great variety of vegan foods for students at each meal. Can I look over your menus and see what you offer?..." [
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favorited 25 times, recently by papafrita, fleetmouse, Hot Like Your 12V Wire, askmehow, Reto, cheapskatebay, ymgve, seanyboy, litlnemo, numinous, Telf, mystyk, Dreama, oaf, sindas, nooneyouknow, perilous, BrotherCaine, Songdog, H-Bar, Blazecock Pileon, freshwater_pr0n, peacheater, brain cloud, turgid dahlia
2 months ago
