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LINQ and WebAPI are the reasons I am not campaigning for my shop to give up on Microsoft technologies entirely.

That conversation you're quoting happens all over, all the time.

Programmer: "I want my data in format X, because of read() and reasons."
Architect: "You really want to put your datas in a database, that is what databases are for and good at."
Hardware Vendor: "We... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by mhoye at 6:40 PM on October 14, 2015

Mr. Yuck: I would say not.

I don't mind fictional stories on the blue, but I do want them clearly marked.
posted to MetaFilter by el io at 6:38 PM on September 25, 2015

Am I wrong to point out that this is fiction?
posted to MetaFilter by Mr. Yuck at 6:36 PM on September 25, 2015

"Evil" seems like a pretty hyperbolic term for what the article is describing, and I found the supposedly feminist angle -- you think she's being a nice feminist epitome of womanhood, but actually she's making money -- deeply irritating. What is so shocking about a woman using feminism, gasp, to her own benefit? I thought the point of feminism was to benefit women. If she was benefiting herself by harming other women, I could see the argument... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Aravis76 at 11:46 AM on July 22, 2015

"Hi Bruce. Yeah, I know who you are. I have this alter ego who's a journalist and I've been investigating the Batman that way? Also I have x-ray vision. Look, I'm really sorry about how Wayne Enterprises suffered major property damage and loss of life when my batshit crazy relatives showed up, but I was hoping you weren't going to blame me for that. I mean, people dying sucks, yeah, but I'm pretty sure you had insurance, and I understand the government is offering financial assistance?... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by A dead Quaker at 10:56 PM on July 12, 2015

Would also accept an ending where they just start fucking in the street.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 8:41 PM on July 12, 2015

Panel 1:
Bruce Wayne's funeral. Various People in funeral attire surround the grave, including Robin and Clark Kent.

Panel 2:
Small panel - Bruce's heartrate, flatlined.

Panel 3:
Same sized panel - a spike in the line, a single heartbeat.

Panel 4:
From Robin's POV: Clark surreptitiously lowers his glasses and shoots laser beams into the ground.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 8:22 PM on July 12, 2015

With respect to Martha Kent's line, has anyone else thought about how scary a proposition it is to have Superman raised in Kansas today? What if he were raised with the sort of ideology that would lead him to vote for Brownback? Is that a world you want to live in?
posted to MetaFilter by Jonathan Livengood at 7:36 PM on July 12, 2015

You know, probably the most discordant thing in this whole mess of BWOOOONNNGGGG and CGI is Ma Kent saying basically: "Remember Clark, fuck 'em, you got yours." Which could be an interesting jumping off point for another alt-Superman as global overlord story, but is just so utterly wrong for anything where he's supposed to be regular continuity Superman.

I'm kind of wondering if Zach Snyder is functionally illiterate. Because he doesn't actually seem to... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Grimgrin at 7:00 PM on July 12, 2015

I really like the trailer, it was awesome. I probably won't get around to watching the movie, just like I didn't see the last one despite really liking the trailer. But man, they make really good super-hero trailers these days. Can't wait for the next big one!
posted to MetaFilter by skewed at 5:53 PM on July 12, 2015

It's better than the first trailer, but Snyder is a hack...

Snyder is not a hack, he is the best second-unit director working in Hollywood today. Unfortunately all the real directors who know about making coherent and engaging films are sick or something, and he gets called up to do the best he can, films filled with beautifully shot b-roll.
posted to MetaFilter by AndrewStephens at 5:48 PM on July 12, 2015

I do like the fact that one of the legitimate complaints about Man of Steel - that the final confict between Superman and Zod was equivalent to several simultaneous 9/11's, and couldn't be simply brushed aside - becomes a major plot point and motivator in the sequel.
posted to MetaFilter by Bora Horza Gobuchul at 5:36 PM on July 12, 2015

How I live to watch the morn,
with golden sun that shines,
up above to nicely warm these frosty toes of mine.
The wind doth taste of bittersweet,
like jasper wine and sugar,
I bet it's blown through others' feet, like those of …
Caspar Weinberger.

Start over!

My level of child-like, joyous, absolute glee about this cannot be overstated. Bloom County was hugely... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by BigHeartedGuy at 11:17 PM on July 12, 2015

brennen@exuberance 0:06:39 /home/brennen ★ ack --thpppt

_   /|

\'o.O'

=(___)=

   U    ack --thpppt!

posted to MetaFilter by brennen at 11:07 PM on July 12, 2015

Gorbachev sings tractors: Turnip! Buttocks!
posted to MetaFilter by Chrysostom at 10:22 PM on July 12, 2015

"I see the moon all white and pretty / just like the hind o Conway Twitty"
posted to MetaFilter by Potomac Avenue at 10:09 PM on July 12, 2015

Ack-thpppt
posted to MetaFilter by Potomac Avenue at 10:08 PM on July 12, 2015

Ack pthbt
posted to MetaFilter by echocollate at 10:07 PM on July 12, 2015

This thread turned out to be serendipitously timely — thank you for posting it! As I was heading out from work this afternoon, there was a man in a wheelchair slowly making his way across the street as the signal counted down to zero and then turned red. I popped over and asked "excuse me, would you like some help out of the intersection?" He said yes and I wound up pushing him a block up to the bus stop as we chatted. Based on tips in this thread, I turned around and backed down... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Lexica at 8:57 PM on July 13, 2015

Also

- do not touch the wheelchair user without asking. Do not ruffle my hair, pat me on the head, whack me on the shoulder. It's condescending, it's startling, and it often physically hurts.

- do not lean on the wheelchair without asking. You could break the chair, and also the chair (even sturdy powerchairs) flex when you do this, in a way that causes the chair user pain. Plus, it's just plain rude - do you lean against strangers backs or... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Year of meteors at 11:40 PM on July 13, 2015

Offer help but don't assume it's needed and dive right in.

That's right, folks. Use your words. Ask! It's really that simple.

In his day-to-day travels, Mr. Conspiracy (who is blind) gets grabbed by people who grab him by the arm and try to wordlessly drag him places. He weighs around 230 lbs and used to powerlift competitively. So they can't really move him.

Then he says "Get your hands off me.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by mandolin conspiracy at 7:31 AM on July 13, 2015

actually, my boyfriend loves walking with me as I roll in my wheelchair because people part like the Red Sea. It could be one of two explanations:
1) People are kind and will inconvenience themselves to get out of my way
2) I usually I am talking as I roll, glancing my walking partner and saying weird shit like AND SO THEN ON HANNIBAL MASON PULLS UP LIKE HE'S AT A MONSTER TRUCK RALLY and my arms are ropy with muscle and I'm all tan and tattooed and generally nine times... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by angrycat at 6:27 AM on July 13, 2015

Oh, the cost... So: recently severely visually impaired (not blind, but it looked for a while like it might end up there. Still might, but...) but hey, techno-whizz, right?

I quickly learned that a lot of the things that might be really useful - the screen readers that are specially designed for MS Office, the customised Android distro - are also incredibly expensive, to the point where you really have to have someone else buy them for you. And I think that's a big part... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Devonian at 6:23 AM on July 13, 2015

What? Why not?

Hospital grade equipment (which is what you get standard) is built for durability, not user interface. It works but is not fun nor easy.

One of the things that slightly peeves me is all the hoopla surrounding fancy wheelchairs or prosthetics that are super lightweight or customizable or some other clearly really transformational medical device... and all these things are really (REALLY) out of the price range... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by edgeways at 5:41 AM on July 13, 2015

What? Why not?

Medical equipment rarely seems designed by, or even in consultation with, people who need to use it. Pretty much,"take what they offer and shut up or kitbash your own solutions" is the order of the day.

Talking to a friend with MS, I heard about a motorized wheelchair design (one based on the Segway), which (among other things) has the virtue of raising the user up when the device is stationary. Test... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by GenjiandProust at 5:17 AM on July 13, 2015

When in a department store, remember the hanging clothes are at face level for the wheelchair occupant and go around the long way. Don't push all the way up to the checkout counter, which likewise puts the wheelchair user's eyes below the lip of the desk or counter. Be firm and polite with people who push ahead of you in line. They actually didn't realize the wheelchair user was in line.

Come around to the front of the chair and lean or hunker down to talk to the... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Peach at 3:58 AM on July 13, 2015

I found particularly haunting the bit about the mystery tsunami that hit Japan in 1700 and whose cause remained undetermined until the 1990s because the Native Americans who experienced the earthquake at the time didn't have a written language to record it for posterity.
posted to MetaFilter by Atom Eyes at 9:16 AM on July 13, 2015

Mental images of horrific devastation aside, I'm absolutely fascinated by the correlation between Genroku-era Japanese tsumami and earthquake records, Native American oral traditions, and the rings of dead trees on the coast of Washington. It's like seeing all the threads of a really well-written novel come together at the end, only it's in the world I actually inhabit. It gives me the same sense of childlike wonder as the idea that Australian Aboriginal oral traditions are historically accurate.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by curiousgene at 9:13 AM on July 13, 2015

/smug east portlander

By some quirk of tectonics and geomorphology, St. Johns will be the only part of the city unscathed by The Event; all else will be in ruins, people living amongst burning rubble, any semblance of civilization crumbled along with the brickwork.

And I'll be all, "come by the house, we have running water, food, fuel."

And they'll still be like, "ugh, but North Portland, that's so faaaaaaaar..."
posted to MetaFilter by cortex at 8:58 AM on July 13, 2015

“We can’t save them,” Kevin Cupples says. “I’m not going to sugarcoat it and say, ‘Oh, yeah, we’ll go around and check on the elderly.’ No. We won’t.”

welp this is almost refreshing I guess?
posted to MetaFilter by showbiz_liz at 8:48 AM on July 13, 2015

We need a plan to save Portland. Somebody come up with it and we'll get Mike Nesmith to pay for it.

In a bit of cruel irony, the plan winds up requiring fluoridated water.
posted to MetaFilter by Celsius1414 at 8:48 AM on July 13, 2015

> I asked Dougherty about the state’s long-range plan. “There is no long-range plan,” he said.

This bit could be from an article about virtually anything.
posted to MetaFilter by The Card Cheat at 8:31 AM on July 13, 2015

Instead of an illustration or animation of the subduction zone, the New Yorker uses 3 paragraphs to test your ability to follow strange hand/arm motions and imagine what the plates do.

I kind of like that the thread is dominated by (1) why isn't there extra web-optimized content? and (2) how do we avoid paying anything for what content there already is?

I mean, I'm not paying for it either. And If I were a homeowner in the... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by rewil at 8:23 AM on July 13, 2015

Actually do the hand thing, it's terrifying. Especially if you live on a knuckle.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 8:21 AM on July 13, 2015

Up here in Victoria, just north of Port Angeles on the Olympic Peninsula across the Strait of Juan de Fuca, just west of Bellingham and Whidbey Island (we can hear the Growlers practice taking off from the air strip), the Big One is definitely a concern.

If you look at what happened to Christchurch in New Zealand a few years ago, it could be Victoria's future for sure. Many of the buildings in our downtown core date back to the late 1800's, and are made of brick and beam.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Nevin at 8:19 AM on July 13, 2015

Instead of an illustration or animation of the subduction zone, the New Yorker uses 3 paragraphs to test your ability to follow strange hand/arm motions and imagine what the plates do.

The web enables so much interactive media, and the only images on this article are not-funny 'cartoons'. What a strange place.
posted to MetaFilter by stobor at 8:07 AM on July 13, 2015

I can give you my short version of the article: fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 7:56 AM on July 13, 2015

I've decided to start telling people who insist they are paleo that they can't run marathons.

The marathon is a product of an agrarian society, less than 3000 years ago. Paleolithic people had no concept of what "26 miles" would be.

Rather, you should just run for an extended period, until your totem spirit, or your ancestors, or whomever tells you to do otherwise; or until you are killed (and possibly eaten) by the people whose sacred... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by TheWhiteSkull at 5:58 PM on July 13, 2015

She kept telling the whole class that I was doing it wrong, and I was the worst, and they would all have to wait for me to finish, etc.

you should go back there just to throw up on her tbh
posted to MetaFilter by poffin boffin at 2:34 PM on July 13, 2015

they also view exercising until you puke as a badge of honor (Pukie the Clown is also a thing).

A few weeks ago I was waiting at the bus stop, when out of the corner of my eye I notice a young, fit woman come running out of a store front a few doors down. She ran straight to the curb and started puking. Concerned, I asked if she was okay and started walking towards her. When she finished hurling she bounced back up, gave me a big smile and waved me... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Room 641-A at 1:30 PM on July 13, 2015

the moral of this story is that no one should ever run for any reason other than fleeing death

well, you know, if you just lay back and accept death you will be dead and not running, seems like a fair deal to me.
posted to MetaFilter by selenized at 1:20 PM on July 13, 2015

Huh, once in a while after a particularly intense weightlifting workout I get nauseous. That's when I stop exercising and sit quietly and wait for either the nausea to pass or stop exercising for the day because my body is clearly trying to tell me it is super unhappy with me in the same way it usually tries to tell me that I've drank too much or have food poisoning or the flu.

But I guess if the Big Boys are powering through and puking and getting... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by griphus at 1:08 PM on July 13, 2015

had been a member of a gym geared toward the musical theater community.

Fit!
I want to live forever
I want to pump up my thighs!
posted to MetaFilter by octobersurprise at 11:41 AM on July 13, 2015

WODs are named after women — Fran, Cindy, Mary, etc. — “because they’re total bitches,” Steve tells me.

I can't wait to open a subversive CrossFit "box" and name my WODs things like Chase, Blake and Tanner.
posted to MetaFilter by Mrs. Rattery at 11:28 AM on July 13, 2015

i thought it was young urban contemporary conformist?
posted to MetaFilter by poffin boffin at 11:19 AM on July 13, 2015

He’s been doing CrossFit for almost two years, and before that took trampoline classes and had been a member of a gym geared toward the musical theater community.

Please find that gym and write another essay about your experiences there
posted to MetaFilter by rogerrogerwhatsyourrvectorvicto at 11:10 AM on July 13, 2015

Really, as much as it's about jock masculinity, it is also tailor-made to suck in people who get that kind of weird obsession. The urge to be an expert and to optimize and correct everything. (See also weird fitness orthorexia.)

As a former college radio DJ and recovering record collector, I can tell you definitively that jock masculinity and aggro-nerdery are two sides of the same sweaty, obnoxious coin.
posted to MetaFilter by ryanshepard at 11:09 AM on July 13, 2015

“They actually didn’t drink Kool-Aid at Jonestown,” he says, referring to the 1978 mass cultic suicide of more than 900 people. “It was actually Flavor Aid.”

I'm making a new Internet law: The Sparber Law of Internet Pedantry.

Anytime someone reflexively corrects you online, that correction will also be wrong, or at least incomplete. So: Flavor Aid: Both Flavor Aid and Kool Aid were seen at Jonestown.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by maxsparber at 10:48 AM on July 13, 2015

I wanted to try it...because why not? I asked a friend about it and her response to me was, "IIRC, you have lower back problems, right?" I said that yes, once or twice a year, I throw my back out horribly, sometimes simply by having an intense sneeze. She replied, "Then I really really think you shouldn't." I took it under advisement, watched some CrossFit videos, and essentially all I saw was THIS EXERCISE REGIME WILL BREAK YOUR BACK LIKE BANE SNAPPING BATMAN OVER... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by imnotasquirrel at 10:45 AM on July 13, 2015

Almost everyone in my general age/social cohort would probably really benefit from a frequent, intense bodyweight exercise class, for instance - squats, push-ups, those reverse tricep thingies, planks, etc.

This video is all I will ever need tbh
posted to MetaFilter by theodolite at 10:45 AM on July 13, 2015