MeFi comment:
"Some day I'm going to make a FPP all about the virtues of snark and offhand pithy sarcasm, and watch with glee as MeFi contrarians' heads asplode in the comment thread, or respond, in true contrarian fashion, with a slow but steady stream of..." [
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favorited 7 times, recently by tehloki, muzzlecough, lunit, tkchrist, jb, Dark Messiah, doctor_negative
9 hours ago
MeFi comment:
"DU -- In order to view copyrighted material on a computer, you must request a copy of the material from the server, to transmitted and stored on your computer. That's just the nature of computers.
In order to view copyrighted material using your..." [
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favorited 25 times, recently by schyler523, bitter-girl.com, badrolemodel, omair, LooseFilter, perilous, Monochrome, Dreama, amethysts, aeschenkarnos, Skwirl, rtha, tizzie, pyrex, pokermonk, Avenger, [expletive deleted], Rhaomi, ShawnStruck, roystgnr, Dark Messiah, Korou, cashman, Benny Andajetz, DU
Yesterday
MeFi comment:
"Judges make rulings on law, not on public opinion.
And the law isn't open to interpretation. If it were, we'd need, like, some sort of special caste of magistrates, charged with the task of interpreting it, and that'd be nutty.
The law is a..." [
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favorited 8 times, recently by ifthe21stcentury, ClarissaWAM, Dark Messiah, aeschenkarnos, Skwirl, [NOT HERMITOSIS-IST], hal9k, Kadin2048
Yesterday
Ask comment:
"Kudos to you for seeing this as a quandary.
Have you researched precisely what he'd be charged with, and what the likely consequences of those charges for your jurisdiction would be? Getting no concrete negative reinforcement for this behaviour..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by zippy, Ladysin, scody
Yesterday
MeFi comment:
"Some of those abortions were of female children. They didn't get to choose anything, ever.
Some of those abortions were of potential future time travelers. They didn't get to choose whether to go back in time and kill Hitler. Are you happy, Henry..." [
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favorited 23 times, recently by Fiberoptic Zebroid and The Hypnagogic Jerks, dopeypanda, cadge, tehloki, lupus_yonderboy, moonlet, Penks, Sys Rq, Dark Messiah, Mayor West, Dormant Gorilla, vira, turgid dahlia, Pendragon, George_Spiggott, mountain_william, Krrrlson, Blazecock Pileon, small_ruminant, five fresh fish, Avenger, juiceCake, mullingitover
2 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I truly despise how large corporations are slowly bleeding the mysterious and whimsical of all life. In creating a context where it's assumed anything extraordinary like this is simply another advert, artistic intervention becomes a tool for cultural..." [
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favorited 11 times, recently by TheWhiteSkull, mzanatta, Christ, what an asshole, lupus_yonderboy, lekvar, JDHarper, adipocere, everichon, tippiedog, jtron, TheOnlyCoolTim
3 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Hey yeah, it's kind of like that box of baking soda in the fridge, except the fridge is Metafilter, and the box is filled with racism." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by stet
4 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Last weekend, a top female rep for Nestlé pitched a fit at the Nantucket Film Festival, which Nestlé co-sponsored, during a screening of "Flow" - a documentary bashing Nestlé Waters as harming the environment.
Um........" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by magstheaxe
10 days ago
MeFi comment:
"This is the truth of it: Fighting leads to killing. and killing gets to warring, and that was damn near the death of us all. Look at us now - busted up, and everyone talking about hard rain. But we've learned, by the dust of 'em all, Bartertown's..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by kryptondog, PROD_TPSL, cass, PenDevil
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"You people have it better then 90% of the population, better then anyone in history.
And all it took was completely fucking over 90% of the population...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by divabat
Last month
MeFi comment:
"this looks like a dangerous time sink
You are on teh Internets. It is a loud and stupid place. Obvious directions are Metafilter.
> Metafilter
You are reading Metafilter. There is a dangerous timesink here.
> Avoid timesink
You..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by klangklangston, kuujjuarapik
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I guess all the people that should be deported can now just refuse to get on the plane, and voila, they are automatic U.S. citizens.
ok
Hey, let's do this for our own prisons, too! Don't want to go to jail? Just refuse to go and we'll set you..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by easy_being_green, Pope Guilty, lord_wolf
Last month
MeFi comment:
"we assumed that teens would use their know-how and understanding of technology to form the vanguard of this new, hyper-informed era.
Please define "we."
Also,..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by nasreddin, emperor.seamus
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Immediate, gut reaction - it's like La Haine, but shitty, and with no context. Hooliganism packaged for buying and selling (insight in to causes and repercussions sold separately).
The disaffection and anger among abandoned suburbanites is a..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Shepherd, By The Grace of God
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
""Now let's have a nice clean war, boys."
I'm a bit divided on this sort of thing. On the one hand, obviously waterboarding should stop. But then, so should all torture. And how to separate the torture committed by, say, an occupying..." [
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favorited 10 times, recently by Hot Like Your 12V Wire, DreamerFi, Jon Mitchell, BrotherCaine, mai, doctor_negative, Blazecock Pileon, Slap Factory, shmegegge, Saddo
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"All manufacturers should be required to have a disassembly line and to take back broken or discarded product.
AKA Extended Producer Responsibility, or EPR.
Though really we should just be making far fewer cars,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Blazecock Pileon
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"it appalls because it is so wildly aberrant and incomprehensible.
It is, and it isn't. On the one hand, treating this man as a severely, shockingly perverted aberration makes sense - I think it's probably impossible to actually shun hard enough..." [
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favorited 7 times, recently by equipoise, derMax, liquorice, RedEmma, taz, jamjam, monospace
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Skeptic:
I recognise I was a bit unfair in my previous criticism: there is a third alternative besides profit-driven agriculture and rural slavery: it's called subsistence farming, and, as billions of people in the Third World could tell you if you..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by melissam, axon, marble
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Skeptic: Far be it from me to deny anyone the joys of a good straw man (or straw comrade) thrashing, but you'll have to show me the page in the manual where it says that opposition to profit-mongering automatically equals support for state socialism...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by melissam
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Chief Wave: We do things by the book in my ocean, McSalty. One more maverick ship-sinking stunt like that and I'll have your badge.
McSalty: You'll have my badge, Chief, but you won't have results...." [
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favorited 10 times, recently by DaRiLo, penduluum, Jpfed, drjimmy11, Dillonlikescookies, strontiumdog, Faint of Butt, KingoftheWhales, LobsterMitten, bonaldi
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"So, where does the world get more food?
The world doesn't need more food. It needs to grow better food and distribute it better.
Many countries - especially in the south - divert most of their agriculture toward export economies, feeding the..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by BinGregory, aeschenkarnos
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"It's time for us to reconsider this whole industrialized agriculture experiment. I think it's pretty clear that it just doesn't work.
I think it's time for us to reconsider the whole "food for profit" experiment.
Once food becomes an..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by axon
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"As fun as it is to get everyone to Buy New Things, especially disposable things with mercury in them, I'd like to see at least as much energy put towards, for instance, making light shelves and similar innovations an assumed part of any building..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by HappyHippo, The corpse in the library
2 months ago
Ask post:
New York City in one post or less
favorited 14 times, recently by anildash, zouhair, NekulturnY, Happy Dave, Arasithil, Dr. Wu, hellopanda, HotPatatta, ivanka, loiseau, chrominance, regicide is good for you, sir_rubixalot, phirleh
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Permit me to sum it up and save you the trouble: no Hitler means no Third Reich, no World War II, no rocketry programs, no electronics, no computers, no time travel. Get the picture?
If traveling back in time and killing Hitler were to render the..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by tehloki, Blazecock Pileon
3 months ago
Ask comment:
"the problem is that we both are not that enthusiastic about introducing someone addtional into the family
I'm not trying to be flippant, but doesn't that sort of settle it? Seriously. If you're not enthusiastic about having a child, please don't..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by hulahulagirl, chiababe, rokusan, katemonster
3 months ago
Ask comment:
"My heart goes out to you both, and I think you need to accept the possibility that your relationship is going to have to change significantly soon.
Still, please read explosion's original comment and dosterm's as well, though I feel a need to..." [
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favorited 7 times, recently by lalochezia, Nabubrush, HighTechUnderpants, zerobyproxy, rtha, dawson, moonshine
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Right now, today, they use rubber bullets, tear gas, and armored riot squads with clubs. I fail to see how replacing those with something that causes a burning sensation is going to put us closer to totalitarianism.
Because this comes closer to..." [
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favorited 15 times, recently by shanevsevil
4 months ago
Ask comment:
"But my husband and I spent about the first six weeks of our daughter's life pretty much being her mattress, and it's something I have very, very fond memories of.
Mm hm. Before you know it she'll reach the point where she no longer wants to sleep..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Capri
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Why the fuck did I read that transcript?
Yup. I certainly won't be reading it, or following any of the links. I don't see any need for any of us to put ourselves through that - especially when it's not, in the end, people like this who are at all..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Pope Guilty, Abiezer, i_am_joe's_spleen
4 months ago
Ask comment:
"I have "womanly" hips. The only time it's ever come up is when girlfriends have said how much they liked them - that is, except the ones who were ambivalent. Maybe it balances out since I've got muscular legs. Or, maybe that makes it worse...." [
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favorited 1 time
4 months ago
Ask comment:
"How does one make a living teaching spirituality and meditation?
Are you asking primarily because you think this would be a nifty way to make a living? If so, my answer is: Pease don't.
After a recent bout of soul searching, I realized that..." [
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favorited 2 times
4 months ago
Ask comment:
"Anyone who can advise on simple meditation for beginners (with ADD), I'd definitely be interested in giving that a try, if it could be helpful. I'm even willing to do freakin' affirmations in the mirror if it truly helps.
The powerful thing about..." [
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favorited 2 times
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
""Society highly values its normal man... Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years." - R.D...." [
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favorited 1 time
5 months ago
