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He looks like he's dropped a ton of weight since Good Eats. I hope he's okay.

Yeah, he decided a few years ago that he wanted/needed to lose weight, so he retooled his diet. There were rumors that he'd had heart issues, but everything I can find just says that he decided to do it prophylactically.
posted to MetaFilter by asterix at 2:19 PM on May 27, 2014

I have a cooling vest for my dog that seems to help on walks. I also encourage him to stop and take a break when he starts panting, which is often, cause he's a pug and their respiratory situations are shit.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by diamondsky at 4:03 PM on May 27, 2014 marked best answer

The fact that anyone, including Edgar Wright, is sad that Edgar Wright got fired from a superhero(?) comic book movie is absurd. Hopefully he'll be forced to go back to making modest budget masterpieces instead of high dollar blubber.
posted to MetaFilter by Potomac Avenue at 3:14 PM on May 27, 2014

Threes
posted to Ask MetaFilter by brentajones at 2:16 PM on May 27, 2014

Couple days later and the Downfall generator finally emails me that the video's done: here.
posted to MetaFilter by klangklangston at 1:14 PM on May 26, 2014

‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens via The Onion.
posted to MetaFilter by j03 at 1:36 PM on May 27, 2014

The shootings happen frequently enough that it's always too soon, but what she was getting at I think (read the article, did not watch the videos) was more the post Sandy Hook fatalism, the belief that gun control is a political impossibility.

I think over the last few years the left has gotten way to used to seeing things as impossible rather than seeing them as hard and likely to take years of effort. A lot of victories have been things that appear to have happened... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Drinky Die at 1:29 PM on May 27, 2014

We don't want to hurt the guns' feelings, BP!

Guns are people, too!
posted to MetaFilter by winna at 1:23 PM on May 27, 2014

I grew up in the DEEP south where Robert E. Lee is revered as a hero and a brilliant scholar. Later in life I moved to DC. Late one evening I was riding home in a cab after a few drinks and looked up to see the lights of Arlington mansion overlooking the National Mall and it was at that moment that it suddenly dawned on me what a despicable, traitorous, bigoted man Lee was. He threw everything his nation had given to him, all that his very forefathers had fought for, for slavery and likely made... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by The 10th Regiment of Foot at 1:13 PM on May 27, 2014

I hate when people are defrauded by forcing them under threat of beating and death to do a lifetime of labor without pay. Millions of times over centuries in a brutal ongoing regime of horror. But corb, you are wonderful, never change. Well, maybe change a little.
posted to MetaFilter by Drinky Die at 1:07 PM on May 27, 2014

Only thing I'm sorry about is that the traitors eventually got compensation for it.
posted to MetaFilter by tavella at 1:01 PM on May 27, 2014

I know this: if there's not already a clear map navigating people through the afterlife, then they're about to get a really great one.
posted to MetaFilter by fremen at 12:55 PM on May 27, 2014

Hm, could use simplification and updating.
posted to MetaFilter by maryr at 1:02 PM on May 27, 2014

Most of the media coverage I've seen is ignoring or downplaying the gun control aspect — the media is making its usual shrugging motions that we all have to go through with every massacre caused by violent gun owners.

CNN host bans all gun control talk after Calif. mass shooting, then gets schooled by panelists
posted to MetaFilter by homunculus at 12:33 PM on May 27, 2014

Best rap song of the year? Really? The flow is not cold, the lyrical content is unremarkable to put it mildly, and the beat isn't even that hot. The sample is cool, thank you for the post it's fascinating, but these critics are out of their minds. Runt the Jewels II will be out in a couple of months and this song will fade into oblivion.
posted to MetaFilter by TheTingTangTong at 10:10 AM on May 27, 2014

and probably the best rap song of the year so far......

Ahhhh, lyrics:

Let's look at the intros:

[Betty wright]
There's a field with angels movin' around me
I just worship thee, for all he's done for me
It's a new day, I have been born again
I've been born again, I've been born again
In His spirit, and His name, I'm sanctified!... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 6:23 AM on May 27, 2014

Get a gun and stand your ground sister. These fuckers are not giving up without a fight.
posted by humanfont at 8:03 PM on May 26 [+] [!]

Q: How many NRA members does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: More guns!
posted to MetaFilter by hydropsyche at 7:23 PM on May 26, 2014

I've been running a cookie company online, out of NY state for a little over a year and a half. Several of the regulations we follow are different because we only sell on the internet and we are in different states, so, ymmv.

As far as I gathered from my research, the shared commercial kitchen thing varied a great deal. In some, you could rent storage space for your ingredients, packaging, and equipment, others you had to bring everything with you every time. Some you... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by firei at 6:03 PM on May 26, 2014

Does anyone have a link to any discussion of the acquisition of the firearms Rodger's used? I'm still aghast that someone so clearly mentally unfit for possessing firearms was able to get them so easily.
posted to MetaFilter by Justinian at 5:44 PM on May 26, 2014

It appears that he followed the correct legal procedure to purchase his guns in accordance with the laws on the books.

If the laws completely allowed it, as they evidently did, they're abhorrent.
posted to MetaFilter by raysmj at 5:56 PM on May 26, 2014

[If all you have to say is "don't speed" you are not answering the question.]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by jessamyn at 3:54 PM on May 26, 2014

The mental health team followed the law.

The Aurora shooter's psychiatrist also warned police that he was a ticking time bomb. Apparently, something is wrong with this system.
posted to MetaFilter by roomthreeseventeen at 3:07 PM on May 26, 2014

Short answer, they turn rancid.

Long answer, the more polyunsaturated fat in a nut the more quickly it will turn rancid. And roasted/toasted nuts are more likely to turn rancid than their unheated counterparts.

Walnuts have a lot more polyunsaturated fat than other nuts.
100 grams of walnuts contain 47 grams of polyunsaturated fat
100 grams of pecans contain 22 grams polyunsaturated fat
100 grams of Brazil... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by zinon at 11:01 AM on May 26, 2014 marked best answer

The idea that I should have to submit myself and my family to a police interrogation and review of my medical history in order to exercise my constitutional rights is not something that I could support.

Yeah, and I wish I owned a printing press. Not all constitutional rights are as straightforward as they seem.
posted to MetaFilter by Rory Marinich at 12:46 PM on May 26, 2014

Yeah, I wish I could exercise my constitutional rights as easily as people can buy guns: that I could get an abortion without jumping through umpteen billion hoops and that I didn't have to worry about being shot by misogynists as I walk down the street.
posted to MetaFilter by hydropsyche at 12:49 PM on May 26, 2014

I'm asking people to directly confront how the desire for a guarantee of physical safety has driven the rise of surveillance, the NSA, imperialistic war both at home and abroad. I'm asking people to stop and carefully consider that they may never be able to eliminate people like Rodger, and how the effort to do so has unintended consequences that we're living with right now.

This argument seems to conflate the rise of the surveillance state with the... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Going To Maine at 11:23 AM on May 26, 2014

Thomas Piketty accuses Financial Times of dishonest criticism: Author of bestselling economics book says paper is ridiculous to suggest his thesis on rising inequality is incorrect (The Guardian)
posted to MetaFilter by ormon nekas at 6:48 AM on May 26, 2014

Fewer guns = fewer dead people


That's so obviously true, and you can't even sell THAT to people. Thousands of little kids die in gun accidents/shootings each year and you cannot get the 2nd Amendment believers to change their stance on anything.
posted to MetaFilter by roomthreeseventeen at 9:46 AM on May 26, 2014

A ► Al Jaffee ◀︎ B
posted to MetaFilter by Room 641-A at 6:23 AM on April 22, 2014

Here's Stewart Lee's take on them.
posted to MetaFilter by vverse23 at 10:17 PM on May 25, 2014

Any Brits care to give me your take on them?

Well, about 27% of Britons at least kinda like them.
posted to MetaFilter by codswallop at 10:25 PM on May 25, 2014

I'd guess that people feel like they're under threat for a host of good (the ongoing looting of the UK's public infrastructure, a crap economy, and all the knock on effects of sky-high housing prices) and bad (racism mostly, though I think workers, particularly trades and manual laborers have valid concerns about immigration and wages) reasons. The lunatic far right had a ready made story for these people about why things are bad, who's to blame, and how to set it right.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Grimgrin at 10:39 PM on May 25, 2014

Criticise UKIP on Twitter? They'll call the coppers on you.
posted to MetaFilter by His thoughts were red thoughts at 11:22 PM on May 25, 2014

Now saying "Fire service say 90 % of building viable and 70% contents safe incl many student works" thats way better than it appeared 8 hours ago
posted to MetaFilter by stuartmm at 1:37 PM on May 23, 2014

Medicine is all about balancing risk and benefits, in the case of a patient with known HIV infection and falling CD4 then it's obvious that the benefits of taking Truvada outweigh the risks. Lets not forget that these drugs have significant side-effects and the long-term effects of taking them in non-HIV+ patients just aren't known. They're certainly not sugar pills but they're not a panacea.
posted to MetaFilter by zeripath at 10:44 AM on May 24, 2014

it's incredibly irresponsible to promote widespread use of these drugs as a lifestyle drug in a fear-based marketing system.

That seems to be the era we're stuck with. Many health, beauty, personal hygiene products are advertised using (at least covert) fear tactics. I also see an analogy to widespread (very expensive) surveillance in the era of (vaguely-defined) terrorism.

Creating such fear is an attempt to take advantage of... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Twang at 12:07 PM on May 25, 2014

The medical disease itself is bad enough; the leveraging of fear for profits

I think this overstates the pure fear component. There is fear marketing, to be sure, but when you see marketing focused on encouraging people to engage in risky (in many ways) behavior, you should ask what benefit they expect.
posted to MetaFilter by rr at 12:35 PM on May 25, 2014

I'm not so sure that his feelings about women were genuine, nor the cause. I feel like they were a (mimicked) symptom. So much of what he wrote (which I didn't finish, my eyes got tired) reflected back onto the situation the feelings he claimed to have now.

And as a gay man... I find it *really* hard to believe that if what he really wanted was to get laid that he couldn't. He could walk into any club in my area gay or straight and go home with someone, regardless of his... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by one4themoment at 4:58 PM on May 25, 2014

Please, please, please tell me that's the real name of an actual JS framework that I somehow haven't heard of!

Sorry! But maybe one day, if it's very lucky, it'll become a Java interface. (But only if you call it MyShinyToasterCommonAbstractionInterface.)
posted to MetaFilter by chrominance at 8:17 PM on May 25, 2014

On the one hand, I agree. I recently spent a week learning the basics of Meteor.js for a project, but it turned out to be unsuitable for what I wanted to use it for. And I got this distinct feeling that besides being able to add a buzzword to my resume and knowing about a technology I could use for future real-time web projects (as opposed to content-heavy, largely static sites like the ones I usually build), Meteor knowledge was largely useless to me. It doesn't help me much with what I build... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by chrominance at 6:52 PM on May 25, 2014

try to get "the system" to "do something" about a clear trajectory toward harming self and/or others

Committing someone involuntarily should require an extremely high bar obviously, but we should not need such a high bar to separate them from their firearms if they are on a 'clear trajectory,' imo.
posted to MetaFilter by Golden Eternity at 12:01 PM on May 25, 2014

> People with run-of-the-mill diagnoses of depression and in treatment for same are not at the top of any list for having their guns taken, so please stop acting like that's what people are talking about

And Jesus Christ, who cares if it is. I have a run-of-the-mill diagnosis of depression and I would happily be prohibited from gun membership if that's what it took to get some common sense going here.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by The corpse in the library at 12:54 PM on May 25, 2014

Blazecock Pileon: "Clearly, there is a problem with mentally ill people with a predisposition to violence having easy access to weapons. We have driver's exams before giving out driver's licenses to people who want to drive cars; no rational, sane reason why we couldn't administer mental health exams to gun operators."

Max Fisher of The Atlantic on how firearm ownership differs in Japan:

"To... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by bluecore at 10:34 AM on May 25, 2014

Before buying a semiautomatic weapon -- which has no real use for hunting or for self defense -- you should need professional training, a six-month waiting period, and a one-on-one interview with a state employee. That's what we require for a car, I don't think it's too much to ask for a specialized machine whose only purpose is to kill humans.
posted to MetaFilter by miyabo at 9:48 AM on May 25, 2014

So all the guns were legally purchased. That's just great. I'm going to assume that they were legally purchased by someone else because if this guy could buy a bunch of handguns we're all screwed.
posted to MetaFilter by Justinian at 1:42 AM on May 25, 2014

Paul Krugman weighs in: Giles finds a few clear errors, although they don’t seem to matter much; more important, he questions some of the assumptions and imputations Piketty uses to deal with gaps in the data and the way he switches sources. Neil Irwin and Justin Wolfers have good discussions of the complaints; Piketty will have to answer these questions in detail, and we’ll see how well he does it.

... [all the other evidence is that wealth in the US in particular... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by shothotbot at 6:50 PM on May 24, 2014

I'm out, you guys have fun justifying why it's okay to insult mentally ill people. Removed from my recent activity.

This is a pattern - somewhat juvenile and super unhelpful to the mods. I'm pretty sure you actually will continue to read this thread (as you have "bowed out" of several others only to bow back in), and I would urge you to think about how and why you interact with the site this way. This "new day" and the way you... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by smoke at 4:00 PM on May 24, 2014

Just another fffm show. I'd have given him a timeout just for the actually offensive words below the fold. I don't find the term wackadoodle particularly offensive, considering its recent increase in usage in politics. I have my own flavor of mental illness as well, and this word feels apt to me.
posted to MetaTalk by Roger Dodger at 4:05 PM on May 24, 2014

This is an unusually terrible meta.
posted to MetaTalk by elizardbits at 4:32 PM on May 24, 2014

Feel free not to make it our business.
posted to MetaTalk by Etrigan at 7:18 PM on May 24, 2014