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MeFi post:
FBI After Vegans
It is really, really weird to have one's real life and friends commented upon in Metafilter. Really weird.
Long story short: the JTTF have been harassing activists in the Twin Cities for years (they declared Students Against War and Food Not Bombs "terrorists" in 2003), and we will be seeing (possibly much) more of this in the months to come. The story here seems pretty mild, but when taken in the context of the Green Scare and other harassment that has been... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by streetdreams
at 9:13 PM on May 27, 2008
MeFi post:
Uh, what the hell Twitter?
For those always wondering why anyone would use Twitter, it comes down to this. You have to have friends for Twitter to be useful.
I totally disagree. Twitter is genuinely (and possibly only) useful for things like breaking news alerts.
posted to MetaFilter by streetdreams
at 2:03 PM on May 24, 2008
MeFi post:
Nigerian Scammers
I use eBay all the time, for all kinds of things, and I rarely have any problems with it.
Frankly, I have more problems on craigslist, where every time I've ever posted an ad to sell something I immediately get a dozen or two emails from people asking me to ship the item to some overseas location for somebody's aunt's birthday after they pay on Western Union, or something.
posted to MetaFilter by streetdreams
at 9:44 PM on May 9, 2008
MeFi post:
i can has privilij?
It's not meant to trivialize white privilege. It's meant to use humor to illustrate and call attention to it.
posted to MetaFilter by streetdreams
at 6:23 PM on April 17, 2008
I think it's at least arguable that a certain subset of cranky old folks might have said similar things about early manifestations of political cartoons.
I am quite serious about this topic, and I don't see the use of humor as incompatible with that. I think it can give people a fresh way of looking at things that could lead them to think differently than they would otherwise. Clearly, it doesn't always work that way, but I don't think that means it couldn't.
posted to MetaFilter by streetdreams
at 6:43 PM on April 17, 2008
I agree, gaucho. I hoped the same.
posted to MetaFilter by streetdreams
at 6:47 PM on April 17, 2008
MeFi post:
Stroll Down 35W bridge
I live right near the bridge and spent much of last summer avoiding it, because the construction slowed down traffic. For a while, it was closed completely. One day we drove past it and I saw that it had reopened. Workers were drilling on the bridge and people were driving past them.
"Can they do that? Is that safe?"
"It has to be."
24 hours later, it was in the river.
posted to MetaFilter by streetdreams
at 9:20 PM on February 28, 2008
MeFi post:
CringeFilter
Eventually they changed their name to Pearl Jam, which I always thought had something to do with semen.
I seem to recall that somebody's aunt Pearl used to make hallucinogenic jam, or something.
The fact that I remember that after all these years is almost as cringeworthy as that video.
posted to MetaFilter by streetdreams
at 11:56 PM on February 7, 2008
MeFi post:
Character. Integrity. Do.
On CNN last night, Ari Fleischer said this, in complete seriousness:
"There is no doubt … we hope and pray every night to run against Hillary Clinton."
Which is a pretty good argument to vote for Obama, as far as I'm concerned.
posted to MetaFilter by streetdreams
at 6:43 PM on February 6, 2008
MeFi post:
West Coast Apparently
If one of the worst things they could manage to say about us is our weather, I'd say we're doing pretty good.
I think Minneapolis is a great place to raise kids. Lots of space, low cost of living, lots of nice folks, enough city and cultural life to keep it interesting.
posted to MetaFilter by streetdreams
at 11:03 PM on January 23, 2008
MeFi post:
Strippers Blogging On The Internet
I stripped for years. I quit because I got sick of dealing with the public - and people's assumptions about who I was because of what I did for work.
I've never done drugs or been sexually abused. I was young, but I wasn't dumb or naive. I worked with a large variety of women, some of whom fit the stereotypes but a hell of a lot who didn't. The customers were about as wide a variety of men as you could think of. Some of them were drooling idiots, and some of them were... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by streetdreams
at 7:11 PM on December 31, 2007
MeFi post:
What would your phone do?
Also, how would Mefi look on a small screen?
I read Mefi on my iPhone on a regular basis and it looks just fine to me. You can zoom text to fit.
posted to MetaFilter by streetdreams
at 11:17 AM on November 6, 2007
MeFi post:
Cool "Disco" Dan
This Foreign Service brat saw his tag in the former Soviet Union once. No lie. He was prolific.
I miss DC too!
posted to MetaFilter by streetdreams
at 11:10 AM on November 6, 2007
MeFi post:
Ron Paul Spam
The fact that Ron Paul has the endorsement of both Stormfront and the John Birch Society tells me everything I need to know.
posted to MetaFilter by streetdreams
at 3:43 PM on November 5, 2007
