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What is "black water"?

A drink that is not rum and coke.
posted to MetaFilter by clinthowarth at 4:40 AM on August 8, 2020

basalganglia: And if more than a quarter-million English words aren't exotic enough for you, at least ASK someone who natively speaks that language. They are located in Wellington, after all.

Perhaps they did. "Hey, is huruhuru a good name for my store?" "Hmm... yes... yes, I do believe it is..."
posted to MetaFilter by clawsoon at 5:46 AM on August 7, 2020

These people are acting in a completely irrational fashion, you're dealing with active voter suppression because you'd win in a fair election, but it's your fault when you lose because you're not catering to whatever magical message would work with irrational voters and keep traditional D voters showing up to the polls."

If democrats actually appealed to voters with policies that could actually stand to make a direct, material difference in... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by windbox at 1:58 PM on August 5, 2020

I remind us all of the 2016 election in Michigan, where Trump won by 10K votes; 172K went to the Libertarians, 51K to the Greens; 16K to the Constitution Party candidate.

Also worth noting the biggest bloc in MI, which was approx 2.7 million voting-aged people who did not vote at all. These voters have always been on the table for the taking, winning even just 1% of them would have hugely influenced the outcome of the election.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by windbox at 12:38 PM on August 5, 2020

People with more legal knowledge, can you tell me if the following is the right way to think about this?

It seems like Reeves could perfectly well have ruled against the qualified immunity claim. He knows that would be overturned by the Supreme Court, but it's something he could have done - taken on the lousy precedent himself, as the Fifth Circuit ultimately decided to do in the other (Section 1981) case (let us not fail to celebrate the digs at those judges for their... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by nickmark at 1:21 PM on August 5, 2020

Kanye's not going to be a Ralph Nader or Jill Stein, or even an Evan McMullin. He'll be more of a Darrell Castle or Rocky De La Fuente, at best.

Kanye West is Deez Nuts.
posted to MetaFilter by heyho at 10:09 AM on August 5, 2020

So has he resigned and done something useful with his legal knowledge and eloquence, or is he going to continue to rubber stamp state violence with the occasional crocodile tear?

This is an extremely unfavorable attribution of intention and motive to someone who I don't think you've sufficiently demonstrated should be subject to your purity tests. Since the total destruction of the judicial system does not appear to be on the horizon, I might suggest... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by axiom at 6:23 PM on August 4, 2020

This is a location-specific legal question. In many places, the tree would be your landlord's problem unless the tree was obviously dead/compromised and the neighbor negligently failed to have it dealt with. If the tree was in good condition as far as the neighbor knew, then they probably aren't responsible for it having fallen on your landlord's property. If that's the case then your landlord takes care of the fence and the part of the tree that's on his property, and you take care of the... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by jon1270 at 8:16 AM on August 4, 2020

Honestly, telling Satan to get behind you is... a poor strategy. “Get thee to the bus stop on 3rd and Hope“ is safer.
posted to MetaFilter by GenjiandProust at 5:22 PM on July 31, 2020

While natural for the demon sex to drown out the rest of this story, I was more interested in where this Doctor came from, what sort of practice she runs, and why DJT was even watching her. The google results were not surprising, but are worth mentioning, so another political detour here:

The event Trump saw her speak at, "America's Frontline Doctors," was backed by the Tea Party Patriots, who are also lobbying on behalf of hospitals to pressure the government... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by p3t3 at 4:56 PM on July 31, 2020

Taking antibiotics? Do it inconsistently, and you just breed antibiotic resistant variants of whatever you're trying to kill.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by smcameron at 4:24 PM on July 30, 2020 marked best answer

Birth control pills
posted to Ask MetaFilter by babelfish at 4:43 PM on July 30, 2020 marked best answer

“I have a heart. And a damaged car. Don’t you have insurance?”
posted to Ask MetaFilter by spitbull at 6:24 PM on July 19, 2020

By not pursuing this against her, you're effectively giving her $1300. If you had not been rear-ended by her, would you have randomly given her $1300 out of the goodness of your heart? I think the answer to that question should help you decide what to do.

As a pragmatic matter, a driver that routinely hits parked cars (as suggested by damage to her vehicle) is probably not someone who should be driving.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by saeculorum at 5:47 PM on July 19, 2020

Wouldn't that be tantamount to insurrection for state forces to oust federal forces?

Play lawful stupid and take the US marshall's office at their word when they said they didn't take the man into custody. Now you can assume there is a van full of heavily armed terrorists impersonating federal officials just roaming around the city kidnapping people. Sounds like a good excuse to send the national guard in on a manhunt with probable cause to seize and... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Zalzidrax at 1:35 PM on July 17, 2020

This smaller casting pool has resulted in uniquely specific challenges during the casting process: for instance, “it’s a little hard to find MILFS right now,” says Calvert.

I guess now we know why Trump is pushing so hard to get the kids back in school.
posted to MetaFilter by spilon at 3:12 PM on July 16, 2020

Man... those were the good old days. Imagine dying instantly in a flash of light with no idea it's coming and without months of stupidity and suffering beforehand.

How quaint.
posted to MetaFilter by bondcliff at 7:44 AM on July 12, 2020

Tell the lawyer that if he does not include your request in the next batch of documents, you will report him to the state bar for tortious interference between your relationship to the estate.

Then report him anyway.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by notsnot at 11:42 AM on July 10, 2020

Tell you what, dang ol' animation directors, man, they say like, animate all them fingers, man, make it look like you're eating, man, I tell 'em you try animating this at thirty frames per second, man dang ol' sweat shop man.
posted to MetaFilter by RobotVoodooPower at 2:43 PM on July 8, 2020

I will not eat from anything that needs a sneeze guard.
posted to MetaFilter by Splunge at 8:23 AM on July 9, 2020

paying people in anything other than dollars is illegal under Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938

Paying for their labour, sure. But a UBI is explicitly not a payment in exchange for labour, so paying a UBI in local scrip, and making local taxes payable in that same scrip at an issuer-defined equivalence scale to dollars, does not involve any breach of an act regulating labour standards; and there's nothing stopping anybody from... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by flabdablet at 3:30 PM on July 7, 2020

I use a keyboard cover. They make all different kinds for MacBooks and they are easy to wash and help prevent issues.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by eleanna at 8:38 AM on July 4, 2020

You might also want to try resetting the PRAM and SMC, that seems to fix a lot of weird things on Macs.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by xedrik at 4:37 PM on July 2, 2020

If Encrochat servers had access to decrypted messages then the whole system was a sham from the get-go.
posted to MetaFilter by grumpybear69 at 6:39 AM on July 2, 2020

"Time is an illusion" - George R. R. Martin.

Lunch time doubly so - Douglas Adams.
posted to MetaFilter by DreamerFi at 6:06 AM on July 2, 2020

I'm very suspicious of this person. Having a former English professor string a bunch of weird superlatives together about you sounds like something Donald would pay someone to do. I'm going to go ahead and not pin all my hopes for this administration's demise on this book.
posted to MetaFilter by Salvor Hardin at 4:21 AM on July 1, 2020

The Trumps sure know how to sell books.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 4:07 AM on July 1, 2020

George: Zoom, Jerry! They fired me over Zoom!

Kramer: Zoom's bad.

Jerry: I can never figure out how the mute works in Zoom.

Elaine: Snapple?
posted to MetaFilter by bondcliff at 7:42 AM on June 30, 2020

My favorite follow-up, on the same subject:

Cheney Waits Until Last Minute Again To Buy Sept. 11 Gifts
posted to MetaFilter by gimonca at 11:21 AM on June 29, 2020

@dwdavison:

Assuming this Russian bounty story is true, and fwiw the sourcing seems very thin at this point, I for one am shocked at the notion that a nation would arm and incentivize Afghan extremists to kill the soldiers of a rival nation. Such depravity has never before been seen, surely.

posted to MetaFilter by Space Coyote at 7:52 PM on June 27, 2020

I thought the article was great, and enjoyed how much it jarred me to have it truthfully pointed out that the US works like apartheid South Africa and the supreme court makes decisions based on personal religious beliefs.

I think that the comments saying "it's all been done before and I'm bored" don't belong in this thread.
posted to MetaFilter by medusa at 8:55 AM on June 27, 2020

"One can hate a typeface?"

Ah. I see you're new to Metafilter.
posted to MetaFilter by mikeand1 at 8:51 AM on June 24, 2020

Comic Sachs would have been a catchier name for it.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 8:46 AM on June 24, 2020

I don't even understand why an engineer would consent to undertake the translation of machine code to a higher-level language. The software is supposed to be a reflection of the tax code, not vice versa. Just spend the time and money to port the tax code to a human-readable, machine-agnostic language.

I wish more people would recognize "I don't understand the problem or the motivations behind it, but here's my simple and obvious solution" for what it is.
posted to MetaFilter by mhoye at 7:33 AM on June 24, 2020

Because that is a super cool and fun project for an engineer to do.

Yeah, I was a 22 year old hot-shot once too. We all learn the hard way.
posted to MetaFilter by klanawa at 7:25 AM on June 24, 2020

As the mother of a 17yo freerunner, what I want to say re: why boys gravitate to parkour nowadays is that if you have a super jumpy, energetic boy who starts off in Gymboree and My Gym type places even as he's just barely started walking, and then graduates to gymnastics around age four or five when the manager of the toddler gym says "Hey, he's jumping so high and so far and throwing himself around with such vigor that our facility isn't really safe for him," so you enroll him at a... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by BlahLaLa at 3:52 PM on June 20, 2020

I honestly suspect that the parkour guys did better on the balance beam than male gymnasts would have. Like they mentioned, there just AREN'T male gymnast beam routines, and the skills beam uses are a lot closer to parkour skills than men's gymnastic skills.
I also would love to see it go further -- each group trains each other for a week, and you get to see how good they can get in a couple days instead of just one, then each group goes back to their own home discipline, and sees... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Xiphias Gladius at 2:22 PM on June 20, 2020

this fulfills all my worst expectations about cops so perfectly I'm afraid that it is fake
posted to MetaFilter by bq at 7:17 PM on June 9, 2020

I think you should let your insurance, that you pay for, be the only people who speak to the other driver's insurance. Let them do their jobs. That you pay for.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by phunniemee at 3:21 PM on June 9, 2020 marked best answer

I don’t believe you were wrong, and I’m as pedantic as the day is long.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by The Underpants Monster at 7:43 AM on June 6, 2020

Why are papers not calling for Trump's resignation?

Then they'd also have to call for Pelosi's resignation too. Both sides, and whatnot.

I mean, I'd take that deal.
posted to MetaFilter by Etrigan at 8:19 AM on June 4, 2020

You don't get to murder people on camera and then come out as heroes.

That statement would only make sense if this were the first time the cops ever did this.
posted to MetaFilter by showbiz_liz at 9:05 PM on June 3, 2020

I would really like to believe that this is the dam starting to break, and more and more people who have stayed silent (to my eyes, often cowardly so) will start speaking out.

But the number of times I have said, "surely this time..." is depressingly large.
posted to MetaFilter by Dip Flash at 4:54 PM on June 3, 2020

Does it have blockchain though.
posted to MetaFilter by jquinby at 5:06 AM on May 28, 2020

Rolling your own encryption will put you about 80 years behind your expert adversaries. It’s way better to use something off the shelf.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by sjswitzer at 9:00 AM on May 26, 2020

I think you want gaffer tape. It is cloth tape so has a nice grip, comes in bright colors, and the adhesive does not become sloppy and sticky over time like duct tape. See Amazon.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by jabah at 6:10 AM on May 25, 2020

Nowhere in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders does it identify a patient sending several legions to invade the south coast of Britain only to have them step onto the beach, collect seashells, then turn around and sail away without even trying to conquer anyone.

Recently I rewatched I, Claudius, which includes this scene. Watching John Hurt as Caligula, posturing, shouting, threatening the senators and then... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Countess Elena at 8:55 PM on May 22, 2020

Someone else there by herself, trying to make conversation, asked me how many quarters were in an ice hockey game

The correct answer, for any curious, is six because ice hockey (being Canadian) is played on the metric system.
posted to MetaFilter by nubs at 6:41 PM on May 3, 2020

You may very well be right, but here are some ways in which you could be wrong. As a disclaimer: I am not saying this isn't a big deal, that it's the flu, that lockdowns were wrong or should end now, etc. I don't believe any of that; I think opening up slowly is not a bad idea but the haphazard way in which most states are opening is, so in practice I am in favor of continued government action to stop the spread. I'm thinking of these as possible answers to the very narrow... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Polycarp at 1:49 AM on May 3, 2020

Unfortunately, Whole Foods is, for lack of a better way to put it, exactly right about the situation. So long as employees consider unionizing only when work conditions become intolerable, it's in the company's interest to just barely keep your workforce not angry enough to actually go to the effort of unionizing.

When employees, as a whole, consider unions to be innately something they want and there is a critical mass of employees that want a... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by tclark at 6:22 PM on April 24, 2020