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I know more about fine dining THAN YOU CAN POSSIBLY IMAGINE.

I've... seen meals you people wouldn't believe... Sautéed rock shrimp in a creamy lemon and garlic sauce on fire off the shoulder of Felidia. I watched Muscovy Duck glitter in the dark near Momofuku Ko. All those... entrees... will be lost in time, like [small cough] tapas... in... rain. Time... to dine...
posted to MetaFilter by delfin at 11:43 AM on August 21, 2014

That's why I'm saying that changing "60%" to "none of the above" makes it no less paradoxical.


The point is that it currently isn't paradoxical, the answer simply isn't a-d, it's secret option e, 0%. If 60% is replaced with 0% then there is now no correct answer.
posted to MetaTalk by Cannon Fodder at 12:25 AM on August 21, 2014

For anyone bothered that this endeavor was gauche or a burden to other patrons, there's this at the very end:

If you’re interested in having your restaurant or four-year-old participate in a future edition, (especially if you’re in San Francisco or Los Angeles), e-mail jessica@thebolditalic.com.

Given how artfully framed the photos are - down to the placement of the hands that are extending service to the girl - and how... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by jbickers at 5:56 AM on August 21, 2014

heads on spikes is my jam
posted to MetaFilter by elizardbits at 12:30 PM on August 20, 2014

My best friend's father died two years ago from ALS, and the ALS Association was a huge part of their lives from when he was diagnosed until his death. They were enormously helpful in helping her family come up with a plan before Hurricane Sandy when her father was on a respirator full time. While patient services, counseling, and support won't cure the disease, those things mean a lot to the families who are dealing with ALS.

The ALS Association didn't start this meme.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by gladly at 11:36 AM on August 20, 2014

My conclusion to that comment was missing. My point was:

The ice bucket challenge thing is stupid and I'm glad the mockery is finally showing up.
posted to MetaFilter by EmpressCallipygos at 9:36 AM on August 20, 2014

The best part is that all these people decided to post these videos after they turned out this way.
posted to MetaFilter by alms at 9:27 AM on August 20, 2014

Policing misogyny is fabulous in theory. In practice, it's a bitch.

Is this supposed to be ironic, or illustrative, or wha OW! dammit, my brain just scrammed.
posted to MetaFilter by Cold Lurkey at 8:09 PM on August 19, 2014

You know, I'm sensing a pattern in these 'cop kills unarmed [black] man' stories. The cop inevitably claims that the victim was 'reaching for the cop's gun'.

My solution: Cops don't have guns. Sounds silly perhaps, but the UK makes it work (they just call for backup when needed - the backup cops have guns if the situation warrants).

Sure, the cop will be saying 'he reached for my tazer', but then we'll only have tazed unarmed victims, not murdered ones.
posted to MetaFilter by el io at 3:55 PM on August 19, 2014

Second link: But I’m going to be tuning into the HBO show. It seems the least I can do after devoting so much time to the lurid saga 23 years ago.

Was the FPP's parenthetical meant as a demo?
posted to MetaFilter by LogicalDash at 9:09 AM on August 19, 2014

What the actual fuck? They are armed to the teeth with non-lethal weaponry and they can't handle a guy with a knife? This is out of control.

This really bothers me. Why the hell even buy and train them on the damn things if they aren't going to be used in a textbook case where non-lethal weapons are called for?

Well, I guess I know the answer. The answer is torture. Non-lethal weapons are to be used to torture the... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Slap*Happy at 12:49 PM on August 19, 2014

Dotson said witnesses could hear the man saying: “shoot me now, kill me now.”

Normally I would think that would be suicide by cop, but in light of Ferguson I wonder maybe he was trying to say something about excessive use of force?
posted to MetaFilter by corb at 12:19 PM on August 19, 2014

It's called CannaCare. It doesn't sound like their business model is about turning people down.

What were the results of your most recent sleep study?

That is a dangerous, unreasonable amount of medication you are taking to sleep. This is not anxiety/talk-therapy/white noise stuff, and it's not today's-potent-weed stuff. Something is wrong. With the exception of glaucoma, marijuana is only a palliative and is not going... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Lyn Never at 7:19 AM on August 19, 2014

One thing I find relevant that isn't discussed much is that the use of tear gas against military targets is forbidden by the Geneva Convention. But it is both perfectly legal, and increasingly commonly, used against civilians.

I also have to question the viewpoint that a lot of people, not here, seem to take for granted: that there is an inherent need to disperse crowds. I find this especially puzzling because the right to come together and form a crowd is explicitly... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by sotonohito at 7:18 AM on August 19, 2014

In Brief: A Thought Experiment on Ferguson
posted to MetaFilter by ryoshu at 11:55 AM on August 18, 2014

She is, presumably, a trained medical professional. What the actual fuck is she doing breaking quarantine? She knows better.

She's a human being, terrified of dying separated from the people she loves. This isn't Hollywood, nor are people acting in accordance with logical costs and benefits like in some economics textbook. Humans are going to do all kinds of fucked up shit they shouldn't do. From where I sit I'd really like to think is be more noble,... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by OmieWise at 9:12 AM on August 18, 2014

That's what decades of thorough crushing of labour movements looks like.
posted to MetaFilter by Zarkonnen at 9:46 AM on August 14, 2014

Rand Paul: We Must Demilitarize the Police
posted to MetaFilter by Golden Eternity at 9:43 AM on August 14, 2014

This speech needs Luther the Anger Translator.
posted to MetaFilter by zombieflanders at 9:59 AM on August 14, 2014

Several news reports are stating as fact that molotov cocktails were thrown by protestors last night. Is that documented anywhere reputable? It certainly is plausible, either violent angry protestors or else agents provocateurs. Or it could all be made up; many folks are misinterpreting this photo of tear gas being thrown back as evidence of molotovs.

Protests like this are dangerous when either side escalates. Snipers and armored vehicles, throwing bottles, doxxing the... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Nelson at 8:36 AM on August 14, 2014

Um, what the fuck is everyone here talking about?

You got you this big-ass computer that was designed by big-brained dweebs to make money out of, I shit you not, thin-fucking-air.

Now, this ain't folding money, this is the kind of money bankers and shit put down in ledgers, only there ain't no more ledgers, that shit's all computers on the internet now. So instead of hiring Sean and Vinnie to take a paper bag of the folding... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Slap*Happy at 8:18 PM on August 13, 2014

THE SOLUTION IS CLEAR

WE NEED TO BUILD MORE PYRAMIDS
posted to MetaFilter by The Whelk at 11:42 AM on August 13, 2014

Being blunt. Your question is incorrect so I am going to ignore it. The fact that you posed the question in that way means you probably do not understand what you are asking for.

You have got absolutely no way of knowing what any of the php files contain because they are obfuscated. Your fix is unlikely to solve the problem, and short of a complete de-obfuscation and audit that code will never ever be trustworthy.

Do have any de-obfuscated... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by epo at 5:13 AM on August 13, 2014

Two things you say together make me wonder.. I'm quite certain it's not the cable modem since all other internet-connected devices work fine. .. Occasionally, I get the "another computer is using this IP address" error ..

Do you have more than one router in your house? Are there things using your cable modem that aren't going through the one Linksys router? If so, that's a fairly complicated configuration that can be made... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Nelson at 8:48 AM on August 13, 2014

Which Picture Would They Use?
posted to MetaFilter by likeatoaster at 8:01 AM on August 13, 2014

And, FWIW, I don't think that's absurd paranoid nonsense.

Under the Bush Administration, John Yoo, Deputy Assistant U.S. Attorney General and Counsel to the President, has argued in public that, should the President determine it necessary to crush the testicles of a child in order to extract information from that child's parent, no law stood in the way.
posted to MetaFilter by gauche at 7:33 AM on August 13, 2014

an Afghani-wedding-hit-by-a-drone level slaughter by cops.

Oh, you mean like the MOVE bombing in 1985 that burned 5 children alive? Something like that? The one where the Philly cops fired on people trying to escape the burning building?

Yeah, something like that would surely put the brakes on US police brutality, right?

i mean surely
posted to MetaFilter by elizardbits at 3:10 PM on August 12, 2014

Yeah, Phunniemee has it. Lots of everyday sounds can probably erroneously be attributed to sex if you've got some sort of complex about hearing sex noises. I'm not sure there's anything else you can do. I mean, in tears because of hearing neighbors make a little noise at 9:30pm? That's beyond the realm of your control.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by misskaz at 6:52 AM on August 12, 2014

I think the joke was ".exe's", rather than that you've had multiple exes...
posted to MetaFilter by benzo8 at 5:08 AM on August 12, 2014

The people committing the genocide are wrong... but in some way, aren't the victims of genocide equally responsible?

Can't the cop that shoots an innocent teen, and the teen who gets shot by a cop for doing nothing but being black in America on a sunny day, just agree to meet in the middle?

Partisanship is destroying this country! We must learn to compromise!
posted to MetaFilter by drjimmy11 at 1:36 PM on August 11, 2014

It's been infected three times? Nuke it from orbit and re-install Windows.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by jeffamaphone at 12:57 PM on August 11, 2014

Why not just get rid of the boxes and put the records directly on the shelf? You're going to be hard pressed to find a pull out shelf strong enough and low profile enough.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by mollymayhem at 1:02 PM on August 8, 2014

There is no room for genuine debate because of the inherent dogmatic nature of libertarianism and that dogma is tidy and convenient in that any critique or challenge to Austrian Economics is reframed as 'you just don't get it' *smug face*

I for one have never met a sneering liberal convinced of his own superior grasp of [topic] and dismissive of any evidence to the contrary. Never met a liberal who was adept at selectively applying a principle or... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by echocollate at 6:09 AM on August 8, 2014

I-95 from DC to Richmond or vice versa. Standstill traffic across 6 lanes at 1pm on a Sunday? Yep, because reasons. And all your gods help you if you believed the GPS when it said 2.5 hours to Baltimore.
posted to MetaFilter by T.D. Strange at 11:22 AM on August 5, 2014

Also I don't really understand how you can have a list like this that doesn't just say "all of I-95, especially the Cross Bronx but really all of it."
posted to MetaFilter by uncleozzy at 11:18 AM on August 5, 2014

Actually, on Youtube West Africa, there's a video of fat Americans tasting the flesh from the raw fruit from the cacao tree for the first time, and looking equally astonished.

Seriously, I don't see how the situation is any different in reverse. Most Americans couldn't even tell you that chocolate comes from a tree, much less that the fruit itself (which we throw away) is pleasantly chocolatey tasting.
posted to MetaFilter by miyabo at 9:21 PM on July 30, 2014

I find this video pretty distasteful (and that's aside from the link between cacao plantations in Cote d'Ivoire and child slavery).

I work in southwestern Cote d'Ivoire, just on the border of Cote d'Ivoire and Liberia. The men I employ are largely cocoa farmers, when they're not in the forest taking complex observational data on primate behavior and ecology.

Most of the people in this region are farmers with 5-10 acres in cacao or rubber... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by ChuraChura at 4:22 AM on July 30, 2014

Definitely make them fire you unless you get a new job. It is not you; it's them. There are two ways I know this just from reading this question.

One: They asked why I don't every come in early or work late. Unless this is a very very high-level job, like a C-level or just just below, they want you to work for free, and they lied about it. Either one is bad, but both mean you owe them less than nothing.

Two:... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Snarl Furillo at 7:13 PM on July 28, 2014

A black man walked by me slowly and said "Hey." I looked up and he looked like he was going to ask me for me money

And the "otherness" was the what the whole thing was about. To say otherwise is disingenuous.

Indeed it was, because you made it so. A black guy says hey, and based on his race, and that one word, you say he "he looks like" he is about to ask for money? So you... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by nacho fries at 7:21 AM on July 18, 2014

Today I was out at lunch sitting on a bench near the metro stop, just enjoying the weather and looking at my phone. A black man walked by me slowly and said "Hey." I looked up and he looked like he was going to ask me for me money so I looked back down without responding. He said "What, you can't answer me?" apparently indignant.

I had a class on homelessness and public policy in the spring of some school year, then went to school... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Michele in California at 6:30 PM on July 17, 2014

but it would be foolish to suggest that they have any current plans

The Pentagon very much has plans which are kept current for nuclear bombardment. It's not like the President would say to the Joint Chiefs "Hey, I'd like to nuke Wherever, go make a plan." They'll just pull the appropriate binder from the shelf.

(see how many people think the NSA is recording every phone call in the US or is storing every... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by feckless fecal fear mongering at 8:57 AM on July 16, 2014

So, a douchy snakeoil 1 percenter has raped the populace of all the loot he can stomach, and now that he finally feels the dinner bell has rung for free market capitalism to eat it's own young he has bugged out to his island compound with wife and plaything, presuming that the global collapse of civilization will cut him a break on rent while he fondles his way into a jungle grave.

But, it's all marinated in peacenik consomme so it's all cool.

Fuck that guy.
posted to MetaFilter by CynicalKnight at 10:13 AM on July 15, 2014

How about an even bolder proposal: do absolutely nothing.

1. Teenage pregnancy is declining every year
2. Median years to birth of first child is increasing
3. Average years of maternal education are increasing
4. Economic outcomes for young mothers are improving
5. Educational outcomes for very poor kids are improving (both in reading and math)
6. Dropout rates are declining
7. High school... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by The Giant Squid at 9:56 AM on July 12, 2014

What is this about soaring violence?

The truth is simple. Chicago Homicides Are Not Soaring (but we could do better.)

In fact, Chicago's homicide rate has fallen for the last twenty years every year but two, and those two were only slight rises. In fact, the 2013 homicide rate was the lowest since 1958.

For the vast majority of people reading this, the number of murders in Chicago was lower in 2013 than it has been in... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by eriko at 9:00 AM on July 12, 2014

If you ever find yourself commenting on the internet that this or that pop star has vapid lyrics or seems manufactured or inauthentically marketed etc. you should probably just go pick out a retirement home or something.
posted to MetaFilter by shakespeherian at 7:29 AM on July 12, 2014

I can't shake the impression that Lana Del Rey was not actually born, but spontaneously generated from inside an Urban Outfitters one night.
posted to MetaFilter by Metroid Baby at 7:04 AM on July 12, 2014

Is there video of that Tonight Show appearance that I missed? Simply reading about it underwhelms.
posted to MetaFilter by Chocolate Pickle at 7:30 PM on July 11, 2014

Is this a textual description of a thing I can't actually watch?
posted to MetaFilter by bleep at 7:33 PM on July 11, 2014

So, Chicago's aggravated assault count is at 40 year lows (and steadily declining), its robbery count is at 40 year lows (and steadily declining), and its murder rate is at a 40-year low and is half of what it was in the early nineties.

Now is certainly the time to bring the National Guard.
posted to MetaFilter by The Giant Squid at 4:51 AM on July 12, 2014

Duolingo is really fun.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by erst at 8:30 PM on July 10, 2014 marked best answer