Activity from Tell Me No Lies

So when a car spins out and the track is under yellow, and the leader comes to another car, pulled over to the side because it also failed, the entire race just . . . stops? Given the equipment costs I’ll bet there is a strong bias… [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

Trump’s trial date in classified documents case indefinitely infinitely postponed I'm a dreamer so I'm hoping they take this to the appellate court and get Cannon tossed completely from the case. The trial date still probably wouldn't land… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

Laurie Anderson is always a few years ahead
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MeFi post - 3 weeks ago

Prepare for a left-oriented navigation of everything-not just driving. Don’t get too attached though as it can change by city. There are often signs. For example, Kyoto and Osaka are 30 miles apart, but which side of the escalator step… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

Michelangelo didn't create David or Rodin his nudes as early pornography. It has been well understood by artists throughout history that humans can be exceedingly beautiful and many have spent their entire careers trying to capture that. So… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

This may or may not apply to you, but I feel a subtle mental weight lifted from my back while travelling in certain countries. Caution: it can be addictive. [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

It would be nice, once we're all sitting around in the smoldering ruins of society, if people could at least admit that (a) the thirst to reduce translation to unpaid, zero-value labor was really shitty and has had entirely predictably disastrous… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

The rest of us will be unemployed and then homeless and then dead. Unlikely. You could paint the same picture of the concentration of wealth that went into the French monarchy, and look what came out of that? You do not want a bunch… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

Speaking as someone who has worked at bleeding-edge companies the biggest issue is that every time your badge doesn't work on the first attempt you'll wonder if the company is still in business. The crypto market is growing extremely rapidly and if… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

I think she conflates existential loneliness — the fact that infinite distances continue between the closest of people — with social loneliness. Social loneliness is about the fact that humans are herd (sorry, "tribal") animals that… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

As I’ve gotten older I’m finding that I rely more on others to confirm my self worth. It’s a very precarious position to be in. At some point no amount of confirmation will provide it, then what? Then you grow, whether you want to or not. [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

Tex-Mex is its own cuisine. I’ve eaten at Tex-Mex restaurants in Greece. [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

Heh. I just went to find out if Taco Bell lists “tortas“ on their menu, but discovered that the entire Taco Bell website is blocked in Mexico. [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

If you are near Spokane there are a number of Asian and Oriental markets (one handily named "Oriental Market") there. I've found that sometimes those only carry East Asian goods, but if you're willing to do a scouting trip you should be… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

Used to be, you could just post a link to MetaFilter without writing an entire essay. I have been around since 2006 and I am very hard pressed to remember a time where someone posted a four hour video with almost no context and wasn't… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

On the flip side, I have an interest in believing he’s lying because I don’t like to think of anyone being in that state. I’ve extended as much belief as I’m willing to with him, but I wouldn’t wish suicidiality on anyone. [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

Maybe because I engaged with quite a few of Somerton's podcasts where he spoke specifically about his own experiences rather than media plagiarism, so he feels more human to me? I present this very gently, but is it possible that you have… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

Tips for living in an Easy-Bake oven
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Ask MeFi post - 3 weeks ago

Uhhh, Newsmax? Doh. It's something I remembered happening so I just grabbed the first article that popped up. Here's some local news covering it. [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

am not...entirely sure that I want my doctor having a literal word for word transcription of everything I said to them, something that will no doubt be fed to the insurance company and used to deny coverage or otherwise harm me. And if it… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

a good ol' yuk-yuk rubes-between-the-coasts trope never gets old. Yup, that pretty much covers it. Every area has its mean stereotype. [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

You joke, but I work in health care. Where I work we are testing "AI Supported" documentation. That is, the provider places their phone between then and the patient and press record. When they are done with the visit, they press stop… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

Thanks everyone. I decided this whole thing was stressing me out too much so I canceled tomorrow’s appointment and will be doing an Open MRI. (it also helped that I found one in town). For the record, the reason for the general anesthesia was… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

Prediction: This will be commonplace within 10 years. Once again, the Baby Boomers are plowing their way through and breaking the way open for the rest of us. It was terrible to read about this woman’s life (the daughter’s) and it… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

but we are hardwired to survive Actually we’re hardwired to die. Happens to everyone. And before that we are hardwired to assist in passing along the family genes, whether directly or as part of a support system. And quite a few… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

Citing Gutenberg as purely benign form of technological change is also a bit questionable. Did printing advance science? Sure. Did it make modernity possible? Yeah, probably. Did it also spread misinformation, fuel pamphlets wars, and play a… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

I’m not in it until the Supreme Court rules. [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

No, I think a pointed and public refusal to extend sympathy to someone who's clearly had a very bad lifelong experience through no fault of her own and has just lost a parent because some members of that person's family are or were wealthy… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

Some Sophistry Required
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Ask MeFi post - 3 weeks ago

Target Stores in Five States Receive Bomb Threats After Removing Some Pride Month Items. Not normally a tactic I would approve of, but I'm hard pressed to think of a better one. I really feel for the Target employees caught in the middle though… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

the “chat with people with dementia and remind them of things" case [will] never have the ROI they need to appease the overlords Probably not the overlords, but I think the under-overlords may take it up. After all the investment… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

To that end, David d'Angers monument to Gutenberg at the Place Gutenburg in Strasbourg. It includes a plaque of jaw-dropping iconography (CW: racism, colonialism) depicting elegantly dressed Europeans standing over a throng of naked, fawningly… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

scribes can check the content they are creating and a human wrote whatever got printed now Chat GPT pulls bullshit out of thin air, wearing a bikini and waggling its ass, but its still bullshit and hallucinations The question is going to… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

Just for clarity, what does the poll have to do with any of this? Why aren’t you just splitting the 80 people into four random groups? Are you trying to make sure that if there are only four Ringo fans they each end up in a separate group? [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 4 weeks ago

I just feel ridiculous as an old childless beesh still crying about my shitty parents Okay, this is very important: Everyone is fighting their own hardest battle, and everyone deserves help with it. Also, it is very common for… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 4 weeks ago

Trump is not used to being required to do anything. This trial will wear him down in a way he hasn't experienced in his life. It's his first criminal trial, which comes with requirements. Civil trials, he could blow off attending because different… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 weeks ago

“I don’t know if I would say I’m an artist,” he said in an interview with the Guardian’s Xan Brooks in 2011. “I would say that I’m a craftsman. I attempt to ply my trade in the best possible way. If occasionally something transcends the craft, then… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 weeks ago

I’m not sure anyone has posted this yet, but the same ad from 2008. Now I really am disappointed in Apple. [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 weeks ago

I would bet a lot of money that this ad was designed to provoke outrage. That would be incredibly out of character with Apple’s advertising for the last 40 years. In fact, I think that may be part of the energy here. Apple has put out… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 weeks ago

The ad in reverse is lovely It really is, and it gets at what they’re saying in a much less destruction-fetish way. The way it is set up in the original is that all of these objects are slowly and grotesquely destroyed before being put… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 weeks ago

Judging people for not engaging with an advertisement on a deep level? I’m mostly judging people who find it important to take time out of their day to show disrespect to people who are considering the deeper meaning of things. If you… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 weeks ago

it's got resentfulness against the "elitism" of those smug morons who use Apple products, lording it over the rest of it; It’s not all that weird, particularly here. Buying into the Apple ecosystem requires a lot of money, and… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 weeks ago

Sympathetic vs Empathetic, which is the difference between intellectually knowing that someone else is feeling a certain way vs viscerally feeling it yourself. Professionals who deal with people in crisis (counselors, nurses, priests, etc.) tend… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 4 weeks ago

“sadness” does not describe the experiences of the people i know who have had loved ones die by suicide This bears repeating. Taking death out of the picture — If you just stopped communicating with everyone you knew one day there… [more]
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MeFi comment - Last month

>>That is almost certainly 100% CGI. Nothing was actually crushed. >Yeah, that's kind of not the point? It mean, it kind of is? No. There is not a massive blowback because a single television or trumpet or piano was… [more]
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MeFi comment - Last month

My best friend, the person who I connect with and trust more than anyone else in the world, and I are in a similar position. Our outlook on life touches on almost all points, but there is one thing that he feels is perfectly fine that I find… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - Last month

“People who lose their parents can feel orphaned. People whose parents commit suicide can feel disowned.” I interpret this as a suggestion that anyone likely to choose to end their life should refrain from having children Nah, just… [more]
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MeFi comment - Last month

I can remember thinking "You were willing to leave us" Yeah, both of my parents have (separately) told me directly that they've done everything that they want to do and they're ready to move along whenever. It was a horrible sort… [more]
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MeFi comment - Last month

Apple has apologized. [more]
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MeFi comment - Last month

I think there are a lot of valid point made here, but one thing I come back to is the idea that this is what a person wants. I wonder if perhaps this is strictly true in enough cases to make a choice to honor that valid. On the other hand,… [more]
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