MeTa comment:
"Someone told me yesterday that the internet is expected to run out of bandwidth in a couple of years. If this is in any way true, I hold Metatalk responsible.
But I still love you, Metatalk. It just means we have to take out those other pesky..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by misha
Yesterday
MeFi comment:
"Crap, now I'll have to go across the street.
The one that's about a block away from me is still open. The one that's about two blocks in the opposite direction got axed. I'm beginning to understand why they have a problem...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by liza
5 days ago
MeTa comment:
""I grew up in Northern Ireland. [It] was a place where the word 'cunt' expressed the worst form of contempt one person could feel for another. If you loathed or despised a person, 'cunt' said it all.
It was scrawled on the walls of..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by davemee, gladly, Kattullus, madamjujujive
12 days ago
MeFi comment:
"There are other ways to promote a book to the public or to the students. And guess what? there are other books out there which would also be of value to the students. I also believe that a good teacher is more important than any one book, yet she by..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ShawnStruck
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Man, English teachers and librarians. Threats to society as we know it.
Thanks to my middle and high school English teachers, for The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Black Like Me, Summer of My German Soldier, To Kill a Mockingbird, As I Lay Dying,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Richard Daly
2 weeks ago
MeFi post:
Natural selection observed in a lab
favorited 27 times, recently by magstheaxe, sambosambo, skoosh, huzzahhuzzah, shavenwarthog, radiobishop, ooga_booga, slickvaguely, Cassilda, pantufla, milov, Haruspex, Dillonlikescookies, mhh5, ronv, bergeycm, Aversion Therapy, owhydididoit, Blazecock Pileon, John of Michigan, surenoproblem, xchmp, ErWenn, lalochezia, turgid dahlia, dreadpiratesully, Joey Michaels
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"It may not be fantastic for the environment, Tehanu, but significantly fewer trips by truck, saving fuel and carbon emissions, and the huge water savings (60-70%) since they no longer have to wash down the shipping crates is actually a gain for the..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by muzzlecough, twins named Lugubrious and Salubrious, gac
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Although the new design may take a while to get used to, the ecological benefits are fairly clear - the new design is cheaper to ship and fill, and doesn't require milk crates, thereby saving fuel, water, and labor.
Funny, although the article..." [
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favorited 7 times, recently by muzzlecough, tehloki, RedEmma, lupus_yonderboy, chime, Miko, dyoneo
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Some of those abortions were of female children. They didn't get to choose anything, ever.
That's true. I don't take abortion lightly at all, and I don't make the life/non-life distinction many other pro-choice people seem to make. I'm sure I..." [
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favorited 10 times, recently by lysistrata, tehloki, lupus_yonderboy, jokeefe, magstheaxe, arcticwoman, axon, arha, aclevername, cider
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Hypothetical-filter: Adult conjoined twins. One has a liver, the other doesn't. If separated, the one without will die. Can the one with a liver legally demand a separation?
Hypothetical-filter: Two adult women. One is pregnant in circumstances..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by beautifulcheese
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"The real troubling question is of course how good could he really have been? I mean even if you buy the part about how the guy he seemingly betrayed was going to die anyway, he was still a spiteful jerk most of the time. He was the most evil Potions..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by lord_wolf
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"It's hard to understand how the hospital could have deteriorated to this point. Didn't any of the employees, at some point, look around and think "you know, this probably isn't the best place for all these feces"?
They're likely..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by dyoneo
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"However, it's a perfect example, critics argue, of what can happen when commercial considerations are allowed to ride roughshod over careful research.
Look out Discovery Channel! National Geographic has made a move on your turf...." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by JHarris, quanta and qualia, retronic, DU
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Well, in terms of influences on the U.S. Constitution, I'd rate highly the Massachussets Constitution written a decade beforehand:
Article I. All men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, and unalienable rights; among which..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Caduceus, treepour
4 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
""All persons are created equal." Please explain that agreement in secular terms.
You've already edited it once, so I'll take a stab at the requested additional edit. "All persons are created equal." What do I win?! I don't need..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Caduceus, modernnomad
4 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"I want examples of you guys losing it for no reason and being jerks. Otherwise, it's all too much to bear!
It is really huggy in here lately... waaaait a minute. What's that mist? Is that Oxytocin?
Oh well I'm sure it's ok...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by jamjam
4 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"I think the real mistake the principal made was talking to a reporter." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Artw
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Some of the pregnant girls made a pact to help each other finish school and raise the babies. The school nurse thought some of them looked disappointed to not be pregnant. An older student who had a baby says some of them asked about her baby a lot...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Artw
Last month
MeFi comment:
"He wasn't an indoor cat, he wouldn't have wanted to be. Neutering, a bowl of milk, dry cat food, these were not for Ugly. That's why the narrator didn't try to take Ugly in. The cat would have lived longer, but he wouldn't have been happy coop-ed up..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by twins named Lugubrious and Salubrious
Last month
MeFi comment:
"btw, what would really be interesting to add is what non-religious people's attitudes are towards homosexuality. Are the majority really okay with it?
It's not that simple, although it may seem so because of all the action coming from faith-based..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by roll truck roll
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Twenty-five years from now when opposing gay marriage is viewed in the same light that we view opposing interracial marriage now, the organized religions that are still around are going to feel pretty stupid.
I'm not so sure. They seem to have..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by treepour
Last month
MeTa comment:
"This is one of the dumbest internet IQ tests I've seen. And that's an accomplishment, so awesome for them I guess?" [
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favorited 2 times, recently by bookish, loiseau
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I'm mostly pretty sad that many of these girls seem to have been motivated by a need for another human being to love them. I have close relatives and have had classmates who had kids pretty young. My grandmother had her first child at 16. But no one..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by echolalia67, etaoin, aclevername, mewithoutyou
Last month
MeFi comment:
"This thread has pretty much crushed my soul enough to last a good while." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by dd42
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Sometimes people invite the nice Mormon kids who come round every now and then into their homes, offer them some cookies and milk, smile and nod at them a lot, and then part ways politely even though, now that they've heard more about it, they've..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by roll truck roll
Last month
MeFi comment:
"This is a tangent, but: I really think it's long past time to see some science and reason advocacy and outreach groups form to travel across the country from household to household ministering to people (especially in rural areas) in the same fashion..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by roll truck roll
Last month
MeFi comment:
"These articles are sexy headlines making arguments from extremely limited angles.
That's actually a rather kind reading of it. This article is very poorly researched and even more poorly written, and the way it couches sustainability in religious..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Blazecock Pileon
Last month
MeTa comment:
"Metafilter: measures high in both snark and community, represented by the invisible 3rd and 4th dimensional axes not pictured. Once you factor in that 4th axis, we come out damn close to the lolcats.
Vanity Fair: pretending to be relevant by..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Telf, limeonaire
Last month
MeFi comment:
"We've had genetically engineered crops for much human history. It was called grafting back then, among other practices.
Selective breeding is not genetic engineering. Genetic engineering, by definition, means you are adding a gene to an organism..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by gorgor_balabala, cinemafiend, malpractice, rtha, MikeKD
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Winning the war on global warming requires slaughtering some of environmentalism's sacred cows.
Heresy? War? Sacred cows? So it's a matter of a religious war over canon, then? Odd, I thought there was science in here somewhere. My bad. Where's my..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Phalene, MikeKD, regicide is good for you
Last month
MeFi comment:
""So, what do you do for a living?"
"I have spent seven years shooting, trapping, and poisoning cats by the thousands and will not stop until I achieve their complete eradication so that I can repopulate my island with small iguanas..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by jrockway
Last month
MeFi comment:
"It was a bit of an expensive hoax, actually, since the print ads cost a fair bit. Some of the aforementioned outrage was whipped up by the local chapter of NAAFA, the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance, which called it a clear case of..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by CruiseSavvy, rokusan, GuyZero
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Is Google Making Us Stupid?
I think that poor information literacy is the true crisis at hand. Feeling stupider from much greater access to information seems to me to just be a symptom of it.
Short answer: You are asking the wrong question...." [
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favorited 12 times, recently by Reto, Burritos Inc., everichon, Korou, thedaniel, willie11, DiscourseMarker, sperose, teleri025, Smart Dalek, penduluum, tybeet
Last month
MeFi comment:
"in terms of personal safety, it's much safer than any place in the West.
You're not the one in danger there. It's everyone who talks to you who is...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Dillonlikescookies, tachikaze
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Pointing to an absence of any well-designed systematic studies is a different ball of wax from pointing to a group of well-designed studies supporting or refuting some position. The Mind Hacks reply does the first thing.
Pointing out that..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Artw
Last month
MeTa comment:
"Debunk cortex's comments? What is he, an alien crash site rumor? I think you mean refute.
(isn't it great when you've been blogging long enough to quote yourself?):
It bet it is great...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by miss lynnster, iamkimiam
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I haven't been paying much attention to Hillary, as she was not my candidate of choice. What sexism was heaped on her? And was it coming from the Obama camp?
I think there was a lot of smoke, and at first I thought no fire, but then I heard some..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Nattie, longdaysjourney
Last month
