MeTa comment:
"If you're still struggling with the problem of "men are oppressed too!", it goes something like this: the patriarchy hates women, but the kyriarchy hates everyone. Which is to say that male oppression at the hands of other males is not..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Phalene, nooneyouknow, desuetude
Yesterday
MeFi comment:
"On eliminationism, Angry White Men, and TVUUC, and a follow up to that post.
The note left in his car makes it clear that, in addition to mass murder, David Adkisson planned to commit either suicide, or "suicide by cop." He walked into..." [
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favorited 7 times, recently by CitizenD, lalochezia, yort, KirkJobSluder, jamjam, scody, Artw
8 days ago
MeFi comment:
"A side-scrolling, 2D cartoon platformer for a major console in 2008?
This is why my heart will always belong to Nintendo. It looks completely awesome and I can't wait to play it.
I don't think I fit into the hardcore/mainstream/casual gamer..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by ninthart, ShawnStruck
3 weeks ago
Ask post:
Livejournal replacement?
favorited 11 times, recently by electriccynic, sary, Phire, Melinika, canine epigram, nikksioux, moonlet, Diskeater, yohko, sararah, subbes
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"I understand that the labels of gay/straight and homosexual/heterosexual are fairly recent in human history. We gay guys have been doing our thing for centuries, even if we didn't have a special word for it.
You've misunderstood what it means to..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by quonsar, Miko
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Why is it that every photographer's website must make it as difficult as possible to actually look at the person's pictures? No, I don't really want to change my screen's resolution and size of my browser to be able to see the entire thing. Fuck off...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by parhamr, sidereal
Last month
MeFi comment:
"There are over 300 million people living in the US. If one of them wants to set himself apart by being 'Crazy Zombie Guy,' more power to him. If all 300 million of us had the same aesthetics, goals, and sense of priority in life -- that's when I'd..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by perilous, skammer
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I'm not a big fan of the pop/rap beat + rap song model of mashups, although there's definitely some good stuff out there, and I'm looking forward to giving this a listen. For my money, though, the most amazing mashups are done by a guy named Jason..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Ambrosia Voyeur, Artw
Last month
MeFi comment:
"The Aptera. It looks like the future. Sexy, sexy future.
They're planning to make both an electric and a plug-in hybrid model, starting production of the electric in late 2008 and the hybrid in 2009.
Top speed for the production model will..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by rongorongo
Last month
MeFi comment:
"The thread this spawned is worth so much more than the image itself. Not saying I agree with anyone's take on what's going on here, but it's really interesting to see it being fought out like this. Like Ynoxas said, this isn't meant for this crowd,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Ambrosia Voyeur
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Divisive remarks (if helping x, you're not helping y) are counterproductive. There are a plurality of goods in this world, and people devote time and money to them as they see fit, under their own ranking scheme which may or may not line up with..." [
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favorited 47 times, recently by zoomorphic, Liffey, googlebombed, _squid_, maryh, perilous, BozoBurgerBonanza, quin, zarah, Locative, ChestnutMonkey, elphTeq, tarheelcoxn, musicinmybrain, Coatlicue, sugarfish, effwerd, jonson, jennyjenny, zarq, Edible Energy, tzikeh, everichon, coolhappysteve, Optimus Chyme, found dog one eye, ZaphodB, Debaser626, JDHarper, Jess the Mess, Ziggurat, god hates math, cj_, punilux, sageleaf, lemuria, ShawnStruck, rtha, cazoo, imperium, MythMaker, rodii, jiiota, arcticwoman, marginaliana, tula, asterisk
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"The problem of grues is, of course, their recursive nature. To wit:
A) Grues are found wherever it is very dark.
B) There are no light sources on the inside of a grue.
Therefore, being eaten by a grue is a fate which entails being eaten by an..." [
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favorited 26 times, recently by confusionball, papafrita, iamkimiam, Baby_Balrog, dinty_moore, hototogisu, Malor, jeffburdges, Thoth, tickingclock, Rinku, Rock Steady, flatluigi, davejay, ursus_comiter, spiderwire, pmdboi, shmegegge, shinji_ikari, flotson, Cat Pie Hurts, Atom Eyes, jtron, uncleozzy, phrontist, nebulawindphone
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I am legitimately a fan of Chris Crocker. The Britney video is what brought him to my attention in the first place, but I neither care for it nor care much about it. You're free to not care for him, or dislike him, or whatever.
Here's the thing..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by Drexen, winna, ArmyOfKittens, mediareport
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"For those of you not getting it: the game in question involves merging several instances of yourself into the same timeframe, double-posting it deliberately is a play on the game mechanics...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by bugbread
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Stop misusing Godwin. His law is simply that, as discussion size approaches infinity, chances of an opponent being compared to the nazis approaches one. Stop trying to make it into "invoking nazis is bad or inappropriate".
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What..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by generalist
7 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I love it when programmers start talking aesthetics. These are the people who give us the Gimp's interface and web pages that talk about "required fields".
The aesthetics of a programming language are more like the aesthetics of good..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by SpecialK, Jpfed, psmith
7 months ago
MeTa comment:
"geekyguy: It's not one thread. If anything, it's two metatalk threads, two deleted threads on the blue, and a slew of memails and other external communications which were discussed inthread. The two meta threads comprise the bulk of it, but are also..." [
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favorited 13 times, recently by peacheater, skoosh, papafrita, sondrialiac, iamkimiam, aclevername, tehloki, madamjujujive, ClaudiaCenter, LobsterMitten, cgc373, Free word order!, onlyconnect
7 months ago
MeTa comment:
"The tacked on "plus she's hot!" was indeed superfluous, and yes, sexist; chuckdarwin's post really was worse than this one; but the thing that's standing out most to me here is how much of a ridiculous trainwreck of a thread this is. Seems..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Subcommandante Cheese
7 months ago
MeTa comment:
"On non-preview:
What are sexist comments? Surely a comment is not a "sexist comment" based on the reaction of the reader. It must be one that is intended to be sexist.
This is dead wrong. The worst sexism is that which isn't done from..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by peacheater, sondrialiac, malocchio, Abiezer, jtron
7 months ago
MeFi comment:
"On the controller as a real musical instrument: The Guitar Zeros. Video." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by motty
7 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I don't have time to go through all those links right now, but I don't think you've got Jason Forrest behind any of them. His latest album is definitely mashups, but to the point where the original sources are easily lost; they're there, but the end..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by eritain, tehloki, tayknight
7 months ago
MeTa comment:
"So, it took me a while to catch up, and in the process I've forgotten most of the bits I wanted to respond to. The ones I can still remember:
-On transphobia/homophobia: I'm of the opinion that these are properly subspecies of sexism, as evidenced..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by notashroom, grouse
8 months ago
MeTa comment:
"What I'm saying is that there's no need to add anything to offensive tag. If some asshole makes a sexist comment and if offends you, flag it as offensive. There's no need to add anything to the offensive tag.
The reason why it was necessary to add..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by tehloki
8 months ago
MeTa comment:
"A point, aimed at the thread in general and no-one in particular:
-Everyone is sexist. Fact. Men and women both, feminists and not, everyone. The "I'm not sexist" game is one which only engenders denial of actual sexism when it happens,..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by grobstein, onlyconnect
8 months ago
MeTa comment:
"puke & cry: I might be. The intention was more that you were using a sarcastic exaggeration of the position being staked out by TPS which seemed to fail to capture any actual detail of the position being staked out. Not really a straw man, in..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by ClaudiaCenter, Hobgoblin
8 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Astro Zombie: This is a foolishly nitpicky point, but the proposed headline was to with the the Quadrilateral, the joke being, of course, five sides minus one gives you four sides. Septagon, or more properly, Heptagon would be gaining two sides...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Rhomboid, mosessis
8 months ago
MeTa comment:
"It doesn't seem to me that adding the layer of remove to the sexualized violence (fame-vagina) actually addresses the concerns raised by the women in this thread: namely, that references to sexualized violence create a hostile environment and serve..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by cybercoitus interruptus, Salamandrous, LobsterMitten
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"An analysis of what this website says about how our culture deals with youthfulness and gender. After reading that, I'm now much more strongly in the not offended camp, if for no other reason then the observation that this actually subverts the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by miss lynnster
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I will happily admit to occasionally becoming an internet fuckwad myself. I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing, handled properly. I'm careful to only do so in environments which are explicitly unsafe spaces, ones where fuckwadery is the norm,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by bhance
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Honestly, it's like I've wandered into a completely alien discussion with these sorts of things. I will sometimes start sweating after eating pepperoni pizza, depending on the pepperoni used. Black pepper has a not insignificant heat to it, if..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by amethysts
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Which is a long way of saying: appreciate good stuff for it's goodness. Focusing on it's lack of other sorts of goodness leads to madness.
It's as simple as that...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Jess the Mess, rodii
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Oh, and not that this thread isn't doomed anyway, but: It's still copyright infringement, not stealing, and the major difference isn't that it's individual vs. corporation, it's whether the infringement is commercial or noncommercial use...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by survivorman, wendell
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"a slightly schizophrenic comment, please bear with me:
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Pastabagel: Do stop asserting that all atheists believe in the non-existence of God. It's false. Some do, some don't. Many have clearly articulated reasons for..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Bora Horza Gobuchul, jeblis, Anything
9 months ago
MeFi post:
You say you want a revolution/Well, you know, we all want to change the world
favorited 10 times, recently by lou, roll truck roll, Anything, Weebot, DevilsAdvocate, brownpau, shiu mai baby, amberglow, Rykey, fleetmouse
9 months ago
MeFi comment:
"On Alan Greenspan's declaration.
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The page isn't loading for me, so I'll come back to it later, but right now I'll address the whole "about the oil" thing. It's really not. Look at where the money is right now. There's not a lot of..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Anything
9 months ago
MeTa comment:
"I actually know very specifically the trail of internet that led me here, dating back to about 1996, when I was in fifth grade.
So way back then, I was good friends with this kid David, and we would share dorky computer things with each other. One..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Arturus
10 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Navelgazer, here's the thing with using the system to prove the system: we are allowed to do this because the system is neither right nor wrong, the system simply is. It is the system mathematicians and everyone else finds most useful in describing..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by DevilsAdvocate
10 months ago
MeFi comment:
"if .99999... = 0, then there exists a problem with the system, in that two uniquely valued numbers are, in fact, not unique at all. This is a systemic problem.
Not so. The fact that the same number can be written in two different ways under..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by DevilsAdvocate
10 months ago
Ask comment:
"Neither of us feel like we could "do" polyamory [...] I do not want to just have anonymous hook-ups anyway, I want to try real dating.
Poly is not anonymous hook-ups. This is very nearly categorical. I know of almost no people within the..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Infernarl, Drexen
10 months ago
MeFi comment:
"The news is filled with the ultra-left praising her
Here is your problem: this isn't the ultra-left. The people who get on news shows are not the ultra-left. The progressive wing of the democratic party, the 'ultra-left', are nothing like what you..." [
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favorited 3 times
10 months ago
MeFi comment:
"there is a difference between 'anti-globalization' and what the left means by 'anti-globalization', which is better expressed as an opposition to neoliberal globalization. Most people involved in this movement are, in fact, pro-globalization, just..." [
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favorited 1 time
10 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Any product advertised with a fine-structure constant joke is a product I would buy.
There is, unfortunately, a rather small number of people who might say this along with me...." [
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favorited 1 time
10 months ago
