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Why are we not hunting him for sport?
posted to MetaFilter by Kitteh at 4:35 PM on July 8, 2022

The tyranny of 6 unelected extremists appointed by a minority of voters funded by a handful of warped oligarchs. Supremists delenda est.
posted to MetaFilter by anecdotal_grand_theory at 7:25 AM on June 24, 2022

Sorry but dancing grannies are the best. And anyway they do not make more noise than the school gym practice at 7 am.
Miss them
posted to MetaFilter by thegirlwiththehat at 4:26 PM on October 8, 2021

Babies have object permanence younger than we thought. When you hide an object, it's not that they think the object has vanished from existence. They just don't have the executive functioning and motor planning abilities to pick up the blanket/cup/pillow/whatever you hid the object behind, so they start crying. You monster.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by brook horse at 5:27 PM on August 7, 2021

A live fucking bird.
posted to MetaFilter by aniola at 9:30 AM on August 8, 2021

I have a friend who's being forced back to the office. She requested some accommodations as her chronic respiratory (and other) ailments put her at a high infection risk.

She asked for Plexiglass barriers around her desk. They put up a pipe-and-drape made out of PVC tubing and literal dollar-store shower curtains. She asked for a door; they put up a rope barrier. Apparently they don't know how air works and subscribe to the Les Nessman school of architecture. So now... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by The Underpants Monster at 1:46 AM on July 28, 2021

We went to Hooters after church today

What?
posted to MetaFilter by Abehammerb Lincoln at 4:31 PM on July 18, 2021

My sister in-law recently came back from visiting her sister in Florida. She went to Clearwater for a couple days while there, and was appalled that some of the restaurants and bars she was dining/drinking in were short-staffed. She's telling me this story and I say "The restaurants should just pay more." She looked at me with disgust and grumbled something about how lazy the people there are.

Her husband has been a VERY proud Union Iron Worker for the last 30... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by SoberHighland at 3:52 PM on July 18, 2021

Came for a Cabbage Merchant reference, was not disappointed!
posted to MetaFilter by fifteen schnitzengruben is my limit at 7:21 PM on July 16, 2021

my cabbages!
posted to MetaFilter by kokaku at 7:16 PM on July 16, 2021

This is a good post.
posted to MetaFilter by latkes at 4:30 PM on July 16, 2021

But it said that the trip would “fulfill a lifelong dream for Oliver”

He's 18. It's not that long to carry a dream, really. Bully for the 82 year old actually astronaut-trained woman who is going. Now THAT is fulfilling a lifelong dream!
posted to MetaFilter by hippybear at 7:17 PM on July 15, 2021

busy not wanting people talking about guillotining them on Twitter -- that's the only explanation that I can think of, a PR backlash. Either that, or it's a Ray Smuckles-level power move to impress whoever they canceled the flight for.
posted to MetaFilter by Countess Elena at 6:45 PM on July 15, 2021

It's definitely a weird feeling to have, but I'm relieved the term is a portmanteau of "screaming + vomiting" instead of "scrotum + vomiting" as I originally assumed.
posted to MetaFilter by LionIndex at 9:18 AM on July 15, 2021

I just wanted to report back that I finally did the thing. Here's hoping some good will come of it.
posted to MetaFilter by Mchelly at 12:08 PM on July 1, 2021

“Many people, all with the best of intentions, have said that if I walk away from UNC, I will have let those who opposed me win. But I do not want to win someone else’s game. It is not my job to heal this university, to force the reforms necessary to ensure the Board of Trustees reflects the actual population of the school and the state, or to ensure that the university leadership lives up to the promises it made to reckon with its legacy of racism and injustice.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Gorgik at 11:54 AM on July 6, 2021

Good for her. I hope giving UNC the finger felt good.
posted to MetaFilter by Lutoslawski at 11:39 AM on July 6, 2021

A genocidal war criminal. May he rot in hell.
posted to MetaFilter by Ahmad Khani at 1:19 PM on June 30, 2021

Hilarious how the exact people I remember from IRC drama 20 years ago are still central characters to the biggest IRC drama in 2021.
posted to MetaFilter by automatronic at 8:20 AM on June 28, 2021

You wanna know the real story about Chuckie? That's right, no middle initial, and "Cheese" ain't his last name. We spent a lot of time together on the cell block, Chuckie and me, just shooting the shit to pass the time. He said that he was safer on the inside, after what he did and who he ratted on, until we noticed a couple new fish that looked harder than anyone already there; after a while, you get an instinct for guys that get sent up the river just to take out someone inside. Well,... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Halloween Jack at 9:35 PM on June 27, 2021

Chuck gnawed a man in Reno just to watch him die.
posted to MetaFilter by Abehammerb Lincoln at 9:16 PM on June 27, 2021

Jacob Shamsian is a senior reporter at Insider covering legal affairs.
posted to MetaFilter by glonous keming at 7:51 PM on June 27, 2021

This is the Ratatouille sequel nobody asked for.
posted to MetaFilter by cardioid at 7:49 PM on June 27, 2021

Holy cow Felleisen's website makes my skin crawl. I think it hits almost every single square of the white male martyr bingo card.

It's kind of perfect that the pretty straightforward "clean" design is marred by a sidebarred screed against diversity efforts, a boxed Orwell quote that is clearly intended to be pro-confederate-monument, and a fucking Dilbert cartoon. This guy is the platonic ideal of an asshole.
posted to MetaFilter by mr_roboto at 5:09 PM on June 25, 2021

Holy cow Felleisen's website makes my skin crawl. I think it hits almost every single square of the white male martyr bingo card. And the rest are checked off on his blog.
posted to MetaFilter by supercres at 4:38 PM on June 25, 2021

Laurie Penny probably said it best:

John McAfee has never been convicted of rape and murder, but—crucially—not in the same way that you or I have never been convicted of rape or murder.

posted to MetaFilter by acb at 3:54 PM on June 23, 2021

The article quotes Judson Brewer but it leaves out what I think is his most interesting research result, which is that the reward value of any choice is evaluated by a piece of the brain that unless we specifically pay attention to the detailed experience of the consequences of that choice just assigns the same anticipated reward value as it did last time the same choice came up.

In other words, some of what we do ends up being... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by flabdablet at 10:37 AM on June 23, 2021

I highly recommend the books "The Antidote" and "4000 Thousand Weeks" by Oliver Burkeman. They are anti-productivity books in a way, and one thing they discuss is how we can't "manage" our way into better productivity because the drivers are emotional. We're not procrastinating or failing to find time to exercise because of a personal organizational failing.
posted to MetaFilter by tofu_crouton at 8:41 AM on June 23, 2021

I did my undergrad at 18, went back for one grad degree in my early 30s, and am about to go back for another in my early 40s. I'd recommend you spend time between now and the start of your program practicing being a student. Watch academic lectures on YouTube and take notes while doing so. Find background books in your subject and start reading aggressively now. Make sure you're able to carve out time for all of this, able to set a schedule, a routine, etc. It's hard, and even harder when... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by NotMyselfRightNow at 8:09 AM on February 21, 2021

To all the nut thieves out there: You think you can get away with it, but we'll always cashew.
posted to MetaFilter by mochapickle at 3:04 PM on June 21, 2021

In the Hacker News discussion I found this 2019 presentation the developer gave about the app and how he built it. Some details:

It's all Javascript. No other languages compiled to JS. Just ES5 Javascript, no Babel. Made without frameworks. Only 1150 lines of CSS. He cares a lot about performance, including rendering at 60fps. So he uses WebGL for graphics acceleration. He wrote his own Javascript minifier/obfuscator.

He also wrote his own... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Nelson at 8:29 AM on June 11, 2021

Animatrix was the best Matrix movie of all.

There are parts of "The Second Renaissance" segments that haunt me to this day, so it definitely has staying power.
posted to MetaFilter by AlonzoMosleyFBI at 5:45 AM on June 7, 2021

Animatrix was the best Matrix movie of all.

Don't bother to change my mind, there is no spoon.
posted to MetaFilter by loquacious at 5:39 AM on June 7, 2021

"Managers", alarmed that not having employees around will expose their own jobs as utterly useless, are deeply concerned about employees working from home.
posted to MetaFilter by star gentle uterus at 6:45 AM on June 2, 2021

> And for Twidt, there’s also the notion that some bosses, particularly those of a generation less familiar to remote work, are eager to regain tight control of their minions.

So many aspects of our society are based on cycles of abuse and exploitation perpetuated by people who feel that since they suffered or continue to suffer, so must you also.
posted to MetaFilter by The Card Cheat at 6:32 AM on June 2, 2021

Wow, Foci, thank you for posting this. Rachel Dietkus' article in particular is very helpful for me in the current moment (although as someone who has been told point-blank on more than one occasion that I needed to "manage up," I'd like some more detail on what the heck else I am supposed to do if I don't manage up).

My therapist, of all people, recommended I seek a job at IDEO many years back when I was floundering through my PhD, and I am so, so... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by All hands bury the dead at 9:33 AM on May 28, 2021

once again the students werent. fucking. listening

i said, as a faculty member, i wanted to "nuke chegg into steady orbit" not "use chegg for your nuke study bit"
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 8:19 AM on May 28, 2021

Somebody set us up the bomb.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 7:51 AM on May 28, 2021

This is almost triggering to me.
In my opinion, IDEO is a huge used brown bag of hot air. I cannot think of any positive aspect to the business, and I hope it will be one of the organisations that die in the coming revolution. It is no surprise to me that it also has a toxic work culture, because the toxicity comes with the foundational lie. I think that toxic workplace culture has spread to a lot of design companies and design schools across the globe.
Now, for those... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by mumimor at 8:46 AM on May 28, 2021

I worked for IDEO in a support role in the mid-to-late 1990s, and it was absolutely a culture of entitled white boys. It was a open secret at the time that the women who worked in the admin roles in the company HQ were looked at as a pool of "girlfriends" for the executives. In my office, there were no female designers at all and only a couple of female engineers, and absolutely no people of color. One of my co-workers was reprimanded for sexual harassment, but not terminated. I have... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by briank at 5:59 AM on May 28, 2021

The last link isn't working, I think it should be to this medium post. (Also it should be Dietkus rather than Dietku).
posted to MetaFilter by scorbet at 4:48 AM on May 28, 2021

I run a design team that used all kinds of stuff to prototype:
- pencil and paper
- web-based whiteboards
- Sketch
- Adobe Illustrator
- Adobe XD
- InVision (both the clickable prototypes as well as freehand wireframes)
- physical props acted out over video chat
- Unity3D for physical interactions
- etc

We use whatever tool works for the level of fidelity we need... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Snacks at 1:51 PM on April 18, 2019

When life gives you basilisks, make rokonade.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 9:01 AM on May 26, 2021

the 5g people were right!!!!!!!!

(sorrynotsorry)
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 10:37 AM on May 25, 2021

Oh Diplomacy is outright diabolical. I mean, it's all about betrayal. We never finished a family game, someone always stormed off in tears.
posted to MetaFilter by Zumbador at 7:50 AM on May 20, 2021

(n-gate recently described Paul Graham as "increasingly belligerent walking participation ribbon Paul Graham" and, yeah, this defense of a true shitbird is exactly that.)

Good riddance to bad rubbish.
posted to MetaFilter by introp at 8:30 AM on May 14, 2021

The introduction of computers into everyday routines, both at work and at home, was a historic site of vast cultural anxiety around the body.

You shoulda seen what logging did to my grandfather's body.
posted to MetaFilter by mandolin conspiracy at 10:29 PM on May 12, 2021

*stares in weaving*

The sheer ahistorical and seemingly classist ignorance of technology enthusiasts always bewilders me.
posted to MetaFilter by geek anachronism at 10:24 PM on May 12, 2021

I'm 2.5 years sober after decades of booze (mostly) and some drug abuse. Rehab stints, detoxes, hospital, sober living house, near divorce, etc.

2.5 years ago, I felt something click as I sat down to call my wife from my second 5 day medical detox. I don't know exactly what happened and it wasn't a revelation or some godly intervention. I just couldn't do it anymore. I stopped. I was embarrassed. I had a vision of who and where I was. And I have no desire to do it... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by SoberHighland at 11:19 AM on May 12, 2021

And now I've learned the word "thixotropic" - "solid at rest, but liquid under pressure".

Also, they made A SOLAR CELL. AT HOME.

And glass cleaner from ammonia, vodka, and distilled water.

I'm curious - fiber is one of their 5 key materials ... have they ever looked into making cloth/clothing?... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by brainwane at 7:29 AM on May 5, 2021