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Nobody? Bueller? I am disappoint! Well, okay, then:

They flagoned it and moved on.
posted to MetaFilter by taz at 7:34 AM on July 4, 2022

Two strings walk into a bar.

The first string says, "I'd like a beer please."

The second string says, "I'd also like a beer.O^B^@H<8>t^BH<8>^H^@^@^@^@^@5RM^B^@%SM^B^@^O^_^@^O^^h^@^@^@^@<9>
^O^^h^A^@^@^@<9>^O^^"

The first string says, "Sorry about my friend. He's not null-terminated.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by suetanvil at 7:34 AM on July 4, 2022

Julius Caesar walks into a bar and says, "I'll have a Martinus." The bartender gives him a puzzled look and asks, "Don't you mean a Martini?" "Look," Caesar replies, "If I wanted a double, I'd have asked for it!"
posted to MetaFilter by DreamerFi at 6:22 AM on July 4, 2022

Based on a true story!
posted to MetaFilter by rhizome at 6:24 PM on June 30, 2022

Crypto is an information attack from a parallel universe. It operates similar to religion. It exploits several loopholes in human psychology, and propagates itself. By nature it is designed to squander resources, enable only instability and speculation, and erode trust in society and institutions such as organized government.
posted to MetaFilter by bigbigdog at 9:56 AM on June 30, 2022

It's not formal corruption it's informal bureaucracy.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by grog at 4:49 PM on June 29, 2022

I dodge issues with pathogens by sprouting food grade dried lentils and peas. Dry chickpeas sprout wonderfully after a few hours soaking, as do lentil sprouts and mung bean sprouts. Dried mung beans are harder to get but I find them in kilo bags at my local South Asian grocer. Like my first round was just some soup mix lentils on a wet towel when I was kid.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Jilder at 8:56 PM on June 29, 2022

Lie! Through your teeth! No screens migraine is a good one, then turn that shit to mute, and check it once a day.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by The Last Sockpuppet at 4:18 PM on June 24, 2022 marked best answer

Look, I think I speak for everyone here when I say
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posted to MetaFilter by DirtyOldTown at 6:27 PM on June 25, 2022

The order prohibits any Executive Department agencies from assisting another state’s investigation into a person or entity for receiving or delivering reproductive health services that are legal in Massachusetts.

This is gonna sound grim as fuck, but one of the big conflicts in the decades before the Civil War was over free states refusing to allow slave state law enforcement officers (or freelance bounty hunters) to chase and arrest escaped slaves... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by soundguy99 at 7:57 PM on June 24, 2022

Well, I mean, we could if we could get control of state legislatures and had more seats in Congress and had the Presidency. We could do more. We really could.

I'm going to fucking rant for a bit.

The reason the fucking zombified corpse of the Republican Party is racking up shitty, awful wins is because they think generationally, which the Democrats absolutely, positively, never fucking do. I can't tell if this will evaporate... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by corb at 11:48 AM on June 24, 2022

I have been collecting plants to put into a bed in the community garden; one that isn't meant for any individual, but is rather a plain patch that we're working on turning into a bed to attract pollinating insects.

I am seriously contemplating putting a bunch of pennyroyal plants in there now. Hey, they're easy to care for and have attractive flowers...
posted to MetaFilter by EmpressCallipygos at 8:51 AM on June 24, 2022

I think the way this would work, if you could do it, would be to remove and replace Thomas and then codify Roe in law, and hope that you can shame John Roberts into siding with the liberals to uphold the law.

Again, none of this is going to happen - history teaches a repeated, consistent lesson about how fascists are defeated, and it never involves legal maneuvering or moral appeals.
posted to MetaFilter by ryanshepard at 8:29 AM on June 24, 2022

At least part of it could be the Tater-Meinhof Phenomenon.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by gauche at 5:56 AM on June 24, 2022

Yes, I’m sure that people who are stranded on desert islands are amazingly unstressed.

I'm equally sure that all kinds of stress are exactly the same, and everyone responds the same way to them.

(Has nobody else ever had an experience of formless, unproductive, wracking future-looking angst suddenly giving way to a real crisis, and finding the real crisis infinitely easier to cope with?)
posted to MetaFilter by We put our faith in Blast Hardcheese at 6:01 PM on June 23, 2022

I dropped my grim membership because I hated going there.
posted to MetaFilter by Greg_Ace at 2:35 PM on June 23, 2022

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potati sumus
posted to MetaFilter by away for regrooving at 11:58 PM on June 21, 2022

Everyone's a leftist until they have the opportunity to slam on the South and the marginalized people who live there

I lived in the South for two decades, and I can tell you that the problem with the South is white people. We should've executed Confederates in 1865; instead, it was decided that reconciliation between white people was more important. Even now, the Democratic Party keeps fecklessly chasing after white voters to the point of throwing... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Pseudonymous Cognomen at 11:38 AM on June 20, 2022

It is my mission in life to make sure that people who buy property with someone else consider not only that person dying, but also that person developing cognitive problems and being assigned a guardian who then gets to make financial decisions completely in opposition to that person's original wishes. People can develop cognitive problems at any age, and the unscrupulous guardian of someone you own property with can make your life a living hell for years. Ask me how I know.... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by FencingGal at 11:33 AM on June 15, 2022

I love semantic arguments.

And by "love" I mean...
posted to MetaFilter by AlSweigart at 5:30 PM on June 15, 2022

...not just politicians or bureaucrats. Your own family members. It’s like someone flipped a switch, and a chunk of the country just immediately lost touch with reality.

I've observed this phenomenon in the US right wing and moderate conservatives since 9/11.
posted to MetaFilter by Rash at 1:43 PM on June 14, 2022

http://wondermark.com/1k62/
posted to MetaTalk by ambrosen at 9:56 AM on June 9, 2022

It's not a "culture war", it's arguments for genocide. I think we need to stop ignoring the fact that these people know that these laws will lead to suicides and fatal hate crimes like the Pulse massacre (all it would take is one of those Christian fascists to be armed, which they undoubtably will be, and to decide to take the final step). They want to eradicate LGBTQIA people. Literally.

Next I believe we will see:

- bans on rainbow... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by fight or flight at 6:21 AM on June 10, 2022

> This is the most "late-stage capitalism service economy" thing possible

you are not imaginating hard enough

Yeah, the next step is paying some dude off to do the time in your place.
posted to MetaFilter by EmpressCallipygos at 4:38 PM on June 7, 2022

This is the most "late-stage capitalism service economy" thing possible

you are not imaginating hard enough
posted to MetaFilter by elkevelvet at 4:33 PM on June 7, 2022

This is the most "late-stage capitalism service economy" thing possible
posted to MetaFilter by Jarcat at 3:00 PM on June 7, 2022

I have no idea how these people got their cats edged out by some scammers or why.
posted to MetaFilter by Zedcaster at 11:45 PM on June 2, 2022

They’re good cancellations, brent.
posted to MetaFilter by mochapickle at 8:55 PM on June 1, 2022

Much better to have people follow the lead of fellow citizens than of politicians with a vested interest in a particular outcome.

It's almost as if the system of popularity contests and funding competitions might not be the best method for selecting a governing body.
posted to MetaFilter by hippybear at 12:32 PM on May 15, 2022

No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.

Well someone had to say it
posted to MetaFilter by gwint at 3:35 PM on May 11, 2022

Lots of people will be embarrassed for ten minutes and then something else salacious will happen and everyone will just move on.

So it goes.

Props for owning up, I guess. You want a cookie, Schmidt? It’s FUCK YOU flavored with BURN IN FUCKING HELL icing.
posted to MetaFilter by JustSayNoDawg at 11:43 AM on May 10, 2022

Once again everyone is focusing on the stonks and ignoring the bronds
posted to MetaFilter by phooky at 3:57 AM on May 10, 2022

Haven’t read the paper but I’m guessing this will be commercially viable in ten years. Like fusion. And fully autonomous cars
posted to MetaFilter by From Bklyn at 11:32 PM on May 5, 2022

People will already be starting to celebrate the end of Ramadhan/Ramadan/Ramzan and the beginning of Syawal/Shawwal this week (1st day of Eid is starting to be announced from Sunday to Tuesday in various communities), sooooo taking the opportunity to wish everyone Eid Mubarak! Now I'm gonna go back to stuffing my face.
posted to MetaFilter by cendawanita at 4:28 AM on May 2, 2022

I am a composer and I have nothing right now to say specifically about the audiophile claims here

but in general the more someone tries to equate any piece of music to a single physical or digital form that is the best, most purest, most one-of-a-kind, most definitive, etc. etc.

(as opposed to an ineffable moment in shared listening experience that can't be captured or reproduced, only lived)

and they... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by daisystomper at 6:19 AM on April 27, 2022

I got this taken care of -- I've been selling substandard copper for years.
posted to MetaFilter by Etrigan at 8:59 AM on April 26, 2022

Matt Levine summed up the offer like this:

A letter from his banks offering to lend $13 billion to Twitter, if he buys it, with $7 billion of that coming in the form of senior secured bank loans and $6 billion coming in the form of junk bonds.

A letter from his banks offering to lend him $12.5 billion personally, secured by $62.5 billion worth of his Tesla Inc. stock. At yesterday’s closing price, that comes to about 64 million shares, or about... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by BungaDunga at 9:02 AM on April 25, 2022

Where are you now Gen X, when we need you the most?

We weren’t even supposed to be here today.
posted to MetaFilter by The Underpants Monster at 1:58 PM on April 24, 2022

Yeah, I'm sure she never stopped loving that little boy she knew a long time ago that this man reminds her of. I'm sure she never stopped loving the imaginary NPC version of that man who lives in the stories she tells herself. I'm sure she never stopped loving that pure extension of herself that exists solely as a reflection of her.

Her actual son, now, the actual person who's the player character in the game where she's the NPC? Mmmm.
posted to MetaFilter by GCU Sweet and Full of Grace at 7:55 AM on April 20, 2022

Every time I see a revelation like this, I have a set of feelings about the universe that make me feel uncomfortably like some weird all-are-one cosmic-love hippy, a complete break from my usual workaday sense of self, but between the idea that the consciousness of the observer matters in physics in some fundamental but not-at-all-understood way, and the fact that we never, ever seem to discover that anything is less smart, less sensate or communicative... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by mhoye at 7:24 AM on April 7, 2022

I wrote about third places once, during the five minutes I was successfully keeping up a newsletter: Welcome to the Jerk Pit

At the risk of looking like a huge asshole by blockquoting myself:

The thing about brief shining moments is that they’re shining, and that they’re brief. Third places are supposed to be neutral and pleasant, but at the same time, any crucible of community contains implicitly within itself the possibility of rift,... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by babelfish at 7:04 PM on April 5, 2022

Everybody, eventually, will become Generation X
posted to MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 6:45 PM on April 4, 2022

I worked in graduate admissions for over 20 years and it was always very clear to me that college students applying to grad school are very much in the dark about all kinds of terms universities use every day (like "first generation") and even more, entirely unclear about what grad school was, even. I was always happy to explain everything I could but I can very much understand students misunderstanding or misinterpreting categories the university wanted them to use to self-identify.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by See you tomorrow, saguaro at 2:23 PM on March 30, 2022

LizardBreath is right. I was only a teen, but I read a lot of news, and I remember that no one seemed to believe that Bill Clinton had done anything more than inadvisable. (I believed them myself.) The few feminist commentators that did were considered the ultra-pure ivory tower leftists that both liberals and conservatives liked to pile on and make fun of, like Dworkin. I remember people saying that the Clintons were "fortunate in their enemies" -- some of the worst Americans on earth,... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Countess Elena at 6:52 AM on March 28, 2022

Tsk tsk. Librarians have been called to task for so much as noting Sci-Hub's superior usability in conference presentations. Its founder has been roundly castigated by the journal-publishing establishment over her express desire to improve access to science. Surely we all know by now that Sci-Hub is the Source Never To Be Named.

Never, ever recommend Sci-Hub to those interested in the journal literature. It will only end in tears. And access.

I... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by humbug at 4:35 PM on March 27, 2022

Some people in here are going to lose their minds when they find out how much science there is backing up fingerprints.
posted to MetaFilter by mhoye at 7:25 PM on March 27, 2022

To be fair, a lot of forensic techniques (and police tactics in general) turn out to not stand up under scientific scrutiny, so, if they stopped teaching hokum, the courses would be shorter and not make as much money.
posted to MetaFilter by GenjiandProust at 4:15 PM on March 27, 2022

Well the number of people here on Team Lying is certainly eye-opening.

Really? I’m surprised at the number of the people on Team Nightmare System That Makes Life Hell.
posted to MetaFilter by Vociva at 9:14 AM on February 19, 2022

I'm sure there will be better answers than mine. But, one could do it all in the forward direction in Blender. Place a camera facing the illuminated wall, make the model by hand, compare the result to an image, and iterate. When it's done, export the result as a DXF file or similar, which is then easy to convert to either drawings or send to a CNC shop to make. (Or, you could do the modeling in some other CAD software - the free version of Studio360 would probably work for... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by eotvos at 3:11 PM on March 21, 2022

Do pennies next
posted to MetaFilter by Reasonably Everything Happens at 12:21 PM on March 15, 2022