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If Janet's void isn't a shrine to Jason in daisy dukes, I'm gonna eat an entire cake.
posted to FanFare by nicodine at 9:11 AM on November 19, 2018

I had no idea this museum existed and if I'm ever in the area, it'll be my top priority, and I'll drag anybody I can with me, if I have to.

I've been talking to white people about race and whiteness for years, but it still floors me how many nice, Trump-hatin' white progressives fundamentally do not have, nor do they seek to have, any gut-level understanding of power imbalances where a white-skinned person has all the systemic-level cards.

A... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by cybercoitus interruptus at 1:31 AM on November 17, 2018

I felt a weird moment of cognitive dissonance at the end: wait, what, Lizzie has a CoinBase account?

I need to come out and make a confession here on Metafilter.

I, too, have a CoinBase account.

And a Binance account.

*hopes no one ever sees this comment*
posted to FanFare by nightrecordings at 6:11 AM on November 17, 2018

While in Ouro Preto, Brazil, I took a tour of a slavery era gold mine called Mina Do Veloso underneath the colonial town.

sounds like it could have been the mines of Shelby County, Alabama.

How much of the economy of the United States was financed on the value of human bodies?
posted to MetaFilter by eustatic at 6:35 PM on November 16, 2018

Are radishes fart-inducing? I know about beans/lentils, but...?

Radishes are members of the brassica (mustard) family, which also includes broccoli, brussels sprouts, cauliflower, and cabbage. They contain a fair amount of fiber, which is broken down in the colon by microoganisms that release gas, as well as a particularly farty kind of sugar called raffinose.

I am here to provide facts about radishes
posted to FanFare by purpleclover at 9:00 PM on November 16, 2018

"12 years of fencing! En garde!" [thwack] "Obviously I would never do that in competition, that'll be a 3/10ths deduction!"

The strike would have been valid in sabre, though not the two-handed grip.

Was delighted to see in the credits that's the actor's real name! Bambadjan Bamba.

I can only assume that his character originally had some other name but that when... [more]
posted to FanFare by tobascodagama at 5:51 PM on November 16, 2018

Or that said miserable life included a breakfast of waste-tea and, from the trimmings, 1 solitary raw radish.

I can imagine that a glass of water at Doug’s house may well be rather piquant.
posted to FanFare by mce at 5:46 PM on November 16, 2018

mathowie: Janet saying “all he consumes are lentils and radishes” was that supposed to imply Doug is dreadfully farty?

Are radishes fart-inducing? I know about beans/lentils, but...? I mean, it could be. I just took it as part and parcel of the "This dude is living a miserable life" message.
posted to FanFare by tzikeh at 5:18 PM on November 16, 2018

Bambadjan Bamba gave a great interview about a year ago about being an undocumented immigrant, by the way. I sort of think I'd like everyone involved in this show in real life.
posted to FanFare by Homeboy Trouble at 11:11 AM on November 16, 2018

On a recent episode of the podcast, they made a passing reference to a "bottle episode" that was somehow more extreme than your average bottle episode and perhaps had never been done on television before, which makes me think that next episode is just going to be 21 minutes of team cockroach talking with each other in a monochromatic emptiness, which I would be down for.
posted to FanFare by Rinku at 8:53 PM on November 15, 2018

While in Ouro Preto, Brazil, I took a tour of a slavery era gold mine called Mina Do Veloso underneath the colonial town. The vein apparently still contains gold, but the danger of collapsing the buildings on top of it has been too great to allow the owners to continue the mining. The gold was mined by slaves, they worked 16 hours a day in the dark, underground, in water up to their knees, with ceilings too short to stand upright and smoke from the candles that lit the shaft filling the air -... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by youthenrage at 4:15 PM on November 16, 2018

Thanks, mathowie. That was a compelling read and now I want to go (and take my kids) even more than I did before.
posted to MetaFilter by dawkins_7 at 1:31 PM on November 16, 2018

If that's the case then the statistic is meaningless without knowing the number being purchased, it could be 13 or 13,000.

I think it's a very useful statistic, because it demonstrates how the traditional "birth rate" data point that applies to normal human populations was upended in the slave population. A negative birth rate means that the slaveholders had to constantly import new slaves to replenish the population and keep it from... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Pfardentrott at 9:59 AM on November 16, 2018

I wish there was a way to make a visit to this museum mandatory for every person in the United States. We owe it to the human beings who were tortured and murdered to be uncomfortable for and be in the presence of the evil of slavery. We need to sit with the true reality of slavery to really comprehend the brutality of it and to really comprehend that just because slavery ended so many years ago, it left a scar on the country that we need to heal.
posted to MetaFilter by cooker girl at 6:27 AM on November 16, 2018

For the record; the Flickr account download is a very complete data bundle. I just did mine. I got 5 zip files. One contains all my account data in the form of a bunch of JSON files. One per photo with photo title, description, time, tags, geotags, comments on the photo, etc. Also several other JSON files with things like all the comments I've made, JSON data for my photo albums (a collection of photos), etc.

In the other 4 zip files are my photos, JPG files with EXIF... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Nelson at 8:08 AM on November 14, 2018

When I was about sixth grade, we were all at dinner at home. Me, my parents, my baby brother and my six-years-older big brother who had been my tormentor since toddlerhood if not birth. So, he’s a junior or senior, maybe. And I’m sure he’d been a dick all day. He’s sitting at dinner with no shirt on and I’ve forgotten what he said, something teasing under his breath no doubt and I was fed up. I sat there for a moment as everyone settled in, and gripped my full, cold, glass of milk. I calculated... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by amanda at 8:57 PM on August 24, 2018

It's funny how we just got Skyscraper, which is basically What If Die Hard But With An Even Bigger Building, and not two months later here we are talking about What If Jaws But With An Even Bigger Shark.
posted to MetaFilter by Holy Zarquon's Singing Fish at 2:01 PM on August 9, 2018

What The Hell Is A Gravel Bike?

It's awesome, that's what it is.
posted to MetaFilter by slogger at 11:41 AM on July 2, 2018

Paul Hardcastle.
posted to MetaFilter by ColdChef at 10:12 AM on July 14, 2018

*glances at oven* OH ye GODS
posted to MeFi IRL by cortex at 1:17 PM on July 2, 2018

Are You There, Luigi? It's-a Me, Mario!
posted to MetaFilter by moonmilk at 7:46 PM on June 24, 2018

Are you there, My Brother and My Brother? It's Me, Your Sweet Baby Brother And Thirty-Under-Thirty Media Luminary.
posted to MetaFilter by cortex at 12:00 PM on June 26, 2018

Interesting post. Hopefully we see more FPPs by this person.
posted to MetaFilter by Chrysostom at 6:37 PM on June 9, 2018

Based on the various drawers, boxes, bins, and random floor piles, I assume this is my husband's secret project.
posted to MetaFilter by VioletU at 9:05 AM on June 9, 2018

Is the adapter museum accepting contributions? I have like twelve shoeboxes worth.
posted to MetaFilter by snuffleupagus at 7:58 AM on June 9, 2018

FUCK YOU I WON'T POISON THE CLOVER
posted to MetaFilter by flabdablet at 1:23 AM on June 9, 2018

My kid heard Rage a couple years ago when she was 10 and immediately connected. It's right up her alley (she has zero tolerance for racism or the patriarchy, and gives no fucks). She can be unyielding and will seethe at real or perceived injustices.

Guess how election night went for her?

She taught herself Killing in the Name on her viola, because that's how she rolls.
posted to MetaFilter by spikeleemajortomdickandharryconnickjrmints at 5:48 AM on June 8, 2018

At least a few of their songs never exited the Rebellious Teen back catalog, especially "Killing in the Name Of."

That song really sticks it to the goddamn phonies, yes
posted to MetaFilter by thelonius at 5:28 AM on June 8, 2018

I was lucky enough to spend a few days with Jacques Littlefield’s insane (100+ tanks) collection in the Bay Area before he passed. Every single yank was in operational order. Incredible resource.
posted to MetaFilter by asavage at 5:54 AM on April 23, 2018

A bit of progress! I asked folks on twitter for some help as well, and (thanks in part to a signal boost from freakin' Michael Bierut) got a few suggestions on possible leads. And this morning someone provided these two shots from a late-20s supply catelogue, featuring metal numbers that look just like the ones we're talking about. The source there is happily on the Internet Archive; it's Catalogue and price list no. 27 : aluminum white metal & brass pattern letters and figures from the H.... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by cortex at 8:54 AM on May 1, 2018

I guess it's a good thing that a user named blue_beetle wrote this, instead of say, fishfucker.
posted to MetaTalk by yhbc at 9:50 PM on April 28, 2018

There are also other sources of funds towards a budget than a bank or lending company. When we were buying our first home, my in-laws wanted to give/contribute towards the purchase about $50,000 (Thanks!). For bank reasons, they wanted to see the money in our account for something like 4 successive months prior. What we ended up doing was buying the house on our own putting down 25% and using the in-law cash to renovate the kitchen and a bathroom and replace the boiler. Money is fungible.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by AugustWest at 10:03 PM on April 22, 2018

I bought my first house with a 203(k) loan that covered purchase and renovations.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by The Deej at 5:59 PM on April 22, 2018

Oh hey I'm the neighbor she stole a diet coke from. It's been a wild month and this is the topper so far.
posted to MetaFilter by Uncle at 8:46 AM on April 18, 2018

… and absolutely nothing to do with staying the Sandy Hook legal action against them, nope nope nope
posted to MetaFilter by scruss at 5:10 PM on March 26, 2018

I think Quinn Norton is all kinds of problematic but she deserves more benefit of the doubt and respect that she's being given here. She is not "a literal Nazi that doesn't even make an effort to hide it". I accept her use of "fag in the context of 4chan". She's written some interesting and insightful bits about Internet culture, particularly around security.

Still she was a terrible choice for the NYTimes. I like the way a friend of mine put it:... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Nelson at 8:43 AM on February 14, 2018

The only time a military jet has scared me is on 9/11/2001 when a lone fighter jet flew overhead. They often circle over my house before flyovers at Patriots or Red Sox games so usually I'm like "Cool, a jet!"

Granted, I'm sure I would feel differently if I'd ever been on the receiving end of one, and I totally understand what these jets are ultimately for.

But I posted this just because I thought it was a neat photo taken in a creative way.
posted to MetaFilter by bondcliff at 12:08 PM on January 3, 2018

I have no idea what that cockpit must look like if he has pedals he is pumping (or why he is pumping pedals? Rudders? Flight is MAGICAL.)

well since you asked

Airplanes have three major control surfaces - ailerons, elevators, and rudder. Ailerons control the roll of the aircraft, which is how far from horizontal the wings are pointed. Elevators control pitch, which is how far the nose of the plane is pointed up or down.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by backseatpilot at 11:33 AM on January 3, 2018

I liked a lot about it, but man, there were a few things that really broke my suspension of disbelief.

The lightspeed attack. The technology is literally thousands of years old, and this tactic has not been exhaustively analyzed and made into part of standard warfighting doctrine? At least throw in some lines explaining why the First Order wouldn't consider this tactic a threat. (And pointing to the suicidal nature of the attack is laughable. Seriously, how many suicidal... [more]
posted to FanFare by bjrubble at 12:53 PM on December 15, 2017

Here's the black and white version.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by jessamyn at 10:40 AM on December 14, 2017 marked best answer

Are you okay with a color photo? This is what I did

- cropped to just the image from your first link
- searched on TinEye
- looked for only stock photos
- clicked the link, which was broken
- looked at the URL to get the title of the image
http://www.corbisimages.com/stock-photo/rights-managed/FP001301/martin-luther-king-jr-playing-with-daughters
- Searched Getty for those words: king playing with... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by jessamyn at 10:38 AM on December 14, 2017 marked best answer

A lot of women would prefer their lives without those last couple lines, but you get them whether you want them or not.
posted to MetaFilter by Sequence at 3:49 PM on December 9, 2017

I subscribe to the WaPo, have read this series (thank you for posting it here!) and it filled me with a profound sadness. These people profiled have been pretty much given a pittance and left to rot. And the grandmother profiled in Part 2 is crab-bucketing her grandkids instead of being ambitious and hopeful for them like an emotionally healthy parent would.

This is why I think we need a "social capital" WPA as well as a jobs program and a mincome. I'd like to... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Rosie M. Banks at 10:24 AM on November 26, 2017

In the current version of Firefox, the amount that the "page down" command scrolls is the height of the page minus 2 "lines" or 10%, whichever is smaller (so on large pages, it's the height minus 2 "lines").

The definition of a "line" depends on the page's font size, down to a minimum of 5 pixels. That last number can be customized using the mousewheel.min_line_scroll_amount preference in about:config. So if you increase that... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by mbrubeck at 11:30 AM on November 14, 2017 marked best answer

I talked to Matt Ross (aka Gavin Belson) at a party in a wine bar designed to mix the cast and writers of Silicon Valley with real people who work in startups. This was to collect material for season two and for a while I had the privilege of knowing some of the broad strokes of the show before it came out.

Matt was nice to everyone and talked to me for a long about a lot of stuff including real estate in the outer boroughs of New York. He genuinely listened and made... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Alison at 7:58 PM on November 12, 2017

Use Better Keynote Export.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by caek at 5:17 PM on November 12, 2017

You need a partial differential equation changing temp with either position or time to help you estimate the solution to this problem. Your upper boundary layer will be your starting temp and either zero time or zero position. So either make it to graduate level math (calc 5) OR measure it. Or just agree with your partner because that will bring you happiness.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Kalmya at 4:12 PM on November 7, 2017

I have an infrared thermometer. When I get home, I will run an...experiment.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by notsnot at 3:13 PM on November 7, 2017

If you have any relatively wide mouth thermos, hold one in the stream at the elevation you want to test until it's full then pour it out quickly (to temper the thermos) and let it fill again about halfway and measure the temp inside; then do the same at the other elevations that interest you.

The differences in temperature at the various levels will give a pretty good indicator of how much the temperature falls from one elevation to another.

I... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by jamjam at 2:25 PM on November 7, 2017

If you have any relatively wide mouth thermos,

I'd go the other way, and use like a dixie cup - which has almost no thermal mass on its own, will fill up super quick, and still holds enough water to measure the temperature of.

Really you could probably just get two dixie cups, fill them both simultaneously from different heights, and use your own body to feel if one's noticeably colder. But the point about the spread of the... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by aubilenon at 3:18 PM on November 7, 2017