MeFi comment:
"Regarding McCarthy: That the man evokes such hatred amongst detractors, and such shocked defense among his fans, makes me confident in my fondness for his writing. Any artist or piece of art whose reviews can be roughly graphed as a parabola tends to..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Scoo
Almost 4 hours ago
MeFi comment:
"We will then be better able to manipulate matter and energy.
Who's this we you're talking about? This won't affect what you or I can do one iota. Any power it grants will be granted first to the people who make weapons and pollution, handed over..." [
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favorited 11 times, recently by churl, dosterm, ws, a louis wain cat, DMan, stopgap, lalochezia, Sir BoBoMonkey Pooflinger Esquire III, Solon and Thanks, Blazecock Pileon, Jimbob
2 days ago
Ask comment:
"Um...
I have been in threesomes before, but at all times it was me, my gf and another girl, so I was running the show, telling them what to do, and doing whatever I felt like. It was good.
Wow. Was it really?
For starters you might want to..." [
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favorited 9 times, recently by bettafish, Metroid Baby, sondrialiac, sueinnyc, lacedback, PhoBWanKenobi, peacheater, Phalene, crunchtopmuffin
6 days ago
MeFi comment:
"The frustrating thing about this stuff is that the people most likely to watch it are the people that least need to watch it.
Translation: The frustrating thing about people whose minds need to be changed is that their minds aren't already changed...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Shepherd
4 weeks 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 4 times, recently by hought20, porn in the woods
Last month
Ask comment:
"She's mentioned suicide in passing, and though I don't think she's serious, I'm watching for warning signs.
On top of everything else, this specifically is a red flag for an abusive relationship.
Normally I'd be the one piping up with "Can..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by idiomatika
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Dave Faris:
If this were truly the totalitarian police-state that people are decrying it to be
...then it would be far, far too late to complain.
Truly totalitarian police states aren't dropped from orbit. They're built, piece by piece, on..." [
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favorited 58 times, recently by amarie, adamp88, BrotherCaine, bokane, tehloki, Kadin2048, skoosh, gamera, brennen, quin, axon, -harlequin-, RedEmma, stinkycheese, everichon, JHarris, lazymonster, madamjujujive, sotonohito, jamuraa, 912 Greens, lupus_yonderboy, omegar, Lou Stuells, penduluum, Uther Bentrazor, Hutch, infobomb, etaoin, grapefruit, duende, sebastienbailard, h00py, ooga_booga, benzo8, ValkoSipuliSuola, Pope Guilty, stenseng, nightchrome, schyler523, showbiz_liz, SaintCynr, Durn Bronzefist, mecran01, scody, flapjax at midnite, oaf, dawiz, 517, Crabby Appleton, electrasteph, troy, pompomtom, peacheater, Hat Maui, darksasami, orthogonality, George_Spiggott
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Jeez, I wish the Liberals had gone for Rae.
There is a third party, you know.
I'll just see myself out." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by klanawa
Last month
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 28 times, recently by Your Time Machine Sucks, twins named Lugubrious and Salubrious, tehloki, schyler523, bitter-girl.com, badrolemodel, omair, LooseFilter, perilous, Monochrome, Dreama, amethysts, aeschenkarnos
Last month
MeFi comment:
"But when you can't trust the cops to uphold the law, when there are mass arrests on flimsy evidence, when even reporters and peaceful demonstrators are arrested and roughed up, it's hard for me to blame the protesters who are forced to either play a..." [
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favorited 10 times, recently by dabitch, tehloki, OolooKitty, nikitabot, sotonohito, emperor.seamus, ArmyOfKittens, wendell, duende, h00py
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Slithy_tove:
The major totalitarian states of the 20th century—Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and Communist China—were dropped from orbit. They were not the result of slow accretion of infringements on civil liberties. They were the result of..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by skoosh
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Nazi Germany, for example, came into being through violent means, including street battles, the burning of the Reichstag, and Kristallnacht, followed by a Nazi revolution, which swept away the Wiemar Republic. It wasn't a gradual loss of freedom, it..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by lupus_yonderboy, longdaysjourney, mecran01
Last month
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 8 times, recently by funkiwan
Last month
MeFi comment:
"All sites with that damn Gawker template exist within a sort of uncanney valley for me. I recognize them as real websites, and yet I'm also incapable of recognizing them as real websites. Usually I just reflexively hit the back button like I was..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by l33tpolicywonk, willie11
Last month
MeFi comment:
"ROU:
I think his argument is that the broken window fallacy isn't one. To him, it seems to be The Law of Broken Windows, and he's lamenting the "fact" that a higher GDP requires us to go around breaking windows and making people sick.
I..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by dash_slot-
Last month
MeFi comment:
"How does adding words hurt a language? We should be getting mad at people who say "very unique," because they are degrading "unique" to mean the same as "strange;" but those who say "irregardless" are just..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Crabby Appleton, Kronos_to_Earth
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Crowds attract assholes, film at all the fucking time.
I don't hear much clamouring for outlawing minor league baseball. What about John Mayer concerts? Bars? No? How about birthdays? More people got hurt in the last week at any one of those..." [
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favorited 19 times, recently by acro, Roach, Pronoiac, RedEmma, not_that_epiphanius, mai, Dr.Enormous, Duug, Henrik, sir_rubixalot, metaname, Slarty Bartfast, YoBananaBoy, bilgepump, jennyjenny, mullingitover, martinX's bellbottoms, ssg, ryanrs
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Most of us long time CM riders make a point of calling any yahoos out for confrontational behaviour
posted by regicide is good for you at 6:24 PM on July 29
And some, like caddis, revel in it.
I don't see caddis' comment as an indication that..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by RedEmma, fuq, Duug
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Um... you can still play by email on the scrabulous site. And you can still play Scrabble on facebook.
What's the problem?" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by DevilsAdvocate
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"DU:
"Notion" being the operative word. Most (all?) of these journalists (or in some cases "journalists") still represent, consciously or unconsciously, the views of their corporate masters.
DU, I'm wondering how many..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by waldo
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"With the open borders and only partially-connected police forces, I'm surprised Europe doesn't have more of these traveling serial killers.
Why are you surprised? Most people don't want to be serial killers. For the average schlub, there's not..." [
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favorited 14 times, recently by h00py, schyler523, quin, merelyglib, orrnyereg, Axle, Molesome, duende, tehloki, Dark Messiah, chime, PsychoKick, Brockles, delmoi
2 months 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 12 times, recently by twins named Lugubrious and Salubrious
2 months ago
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 9 times, recently by twins named Lugubrious and Salubrious, ifthe21stcentury, ClarissaWAM, Dark Messiah, aeschenkarnos
2 months ago
Ask comment:
"Motivation comes after action. Not before it.
I know dogwalker already quoted it but I'm going to do it again, because it's the crux. I understand how you feel quite well, which is why I feel a need to share one particular insight: as much as you..." [
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favorited 13 times, recently by woebot
3 months ago
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 4 times, recently by anildash, zippy, Ladysin, scody
3 months ago
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
3 months 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
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"The redesign of the gallon milk jug, experts say, is an example of the changes likely to play out in the American economy over the next two decades. In an era of soaring global demand and higher costs for energy and materials, virtually every aspect..." [
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favorited 4 times
3 months 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
3 months 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
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"And of course cops don't trust the judicial system, no street gang does." [
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favorited 3 times
3 months 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
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Well, shucks, as long as he failed at something." [
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favorited 1 time
4 months ago
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
4 months ago
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
4 months ago
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
4 months ago
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
5 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
5 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
5 months ago
