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I legit did not think this would happen, i thought for sure there would be a hung jury. damn, it has become impossible to expect the correct thing actually happening in our current system of justice. But I'm also scared, a bit, of the backlash. Yet another rubicon crossing, norm shattered, it's so exhausting to have no idea what the next week will bring.
posted to MetaFilter by dis_integration at 4:27 PM on May 30, 2024

the funniest thing is definitely trump locked up in county, getting knuckle tats, in an a-shirt surrounded by secret service, watching the election results from a tv mounted in a plexiglass box and winning from prison. that would be the apotheosis of the american system of justice
posted to MetaFilter by dis_integration at 7:28 AM on May 31, 2024

I loved living in Pittsburgh but a couple things probably await you:

1. Pittsburgh has more cloudy and rainy days than Portland or Seattle. It can be dreary there.
2. You can't exaggerate how hilly it is. Still a great biking city.
3. It's not very diverse, although the universities help with this a bit.
4. It *is* very racist. Think southern style racism. And very segregated.
5. Pittsburgh is pretty small. There's like… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 8:45 AM on May 27, 2024 marked best answer

you know i really thought i was just getting older and perceiving things differently or losing my sense of taste or something but i never thought that they were just making them less spicy
posted to MetaFilter by dis_integration at 8:22 AM on May 27, 2024

this is on streaming now so, I finally watched it and It's incredibly well made, but utterly incoherent. i have no idea what it's trying to say about journalism. like all antiwar movies, it's actually a pro war movie. i think the lesson at the end was, when the civil war comes, wouldn't it be cool if we had some really sick black and white Kodak Tri-X shots of the action as it's happening? that would be pretty sick, to consume the downfall of america with the proper film grain.
posted to FanFare by dis_integration at 9:16 PM on May 26, 2024

Note that no matter what strategy you use to hide the text on highlight, if it gets picked up by the copy, it will be visible when they paste it into ChatGPT et al. Although if you're lazy enough to ChatGPT your homework, maybe you won't even notice?

BTW another strategy would be

<div style="opacity: 0.0;">
This text will be invisible, and won't show up on highlight in most browsers, but will be present in the copy/paste
</div>

posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 11:48 AM on May 24, 2024

This is basically unobjectionable as a list of good albums but objectionable as a proper ordering of the absolute best albums, missing tons of stuff, and really emphasizing middle class white suburban late-millenial taste, but not the edgy side of that. Also you can't make this list without Aphex Twin, arguably the most important electronic music producer of the past 30 years... but then have Travis Scott?
posted to MetaFilter by dis_integration at 11:10 AM on May 24, 2024

> Can Jeremy Strong be sleazy enough to pull off Roy Cohn? Because Cohn's sleaze makes Trump look like a choirboy. Cohn's was so sleazy the ducks back slid off him. Cohn was so sleazy he's make deSade blush, and not in a sexy way.

I've never seen a broadway production of Angels in America but if Nathan Lane can be an effective Cohn, Jeremy Strong will be an outstanding one. I just hope he doesn't go too method on it and get someone executed for treason
posted to MetaFilter by dis_integration at 10:29 AM on May 21, 2024

i guess in the end the alien thing kind of works. there's really only one other possible explanation for the existence of such a creature as sugar, not just his ability to block bullets but his kind of buddha nature, perfect level of tact, and unthinking love of humanity, and that's if he was an angel. i dunno if that would've been worse. in the end though i think it would've been improved if it was left ambiguous until the end whether he was in fact an alien or some kind of warrior monk, or… [more]
posted to FanFare by dis_integration at 7:35 PM on May 18, 2024

Nicotine by itself is not carcinogenic, and at normal doses is well tolerated. It raises blood pressure and the chance of a heart attack, but it's probably not as bad for your heart as, say, vyvanse or adderall or other ADHD meds. It has positive effects on cognition, and may have other benefits. The fear mongering around vaping is bizarre to me, even vaping by teens. It's far less harmful than, say, drinking alcohol. It's incredible how successful advocates have been at transferring the stigma… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by dis_integration at 12:36 PM on May 15, 2024

Having watched the Maggie Mae Fish video now, I can confidently say it's a bunch of bullshit. Sure the anti-vaping ads may not be effective. But the video continually conflates vaping and smoking as if they're the same thing, uniting them under the rubric of "nicotine use". They're not the same thing. It's absurd to claim they are. Nicotine is not what makes cigarettes bad for you.

Part of the problem with making effective anti-vaping ads is that you can't… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by dis_integration at 1:17 PM on May 15, 2024

> That's debatable. The info under health effects here is awful. link

the health effects here are literally entirely “potential”, “under investigation” and “mixed results”. we know that nicotine has cardiovascular effects, although they’re not exactly dramatic. it’s all just fear mongering and frankly it’s done to keep up funding for anti smoking initiatives now that they’ve won and smoking is thoroughly disreputable and has basically no base of political support. who… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by dis_integration at 5:30 AM on May 16, 2024

i did kind of laugh at the serial killer cliche torture dungeon reveal. this show though is suffering from intense third act problems
posted to FanFare by dis_integration at 5:26 PM on May 13, 2024

I think this ad would have played perfectly fine just 2 or 3 years ago. Nobody would have even thought twice about it. The intention is clear: everything someone needs to make art and music fits in this extremely thin device. Indeed, one of my main uses for my iPad lately is to plug my digital piano's midi into it and run state-of-the-art piano modelling software that sounds incredibly realistic (to me) and much more nuanced than the sample library in the digital piano. All that (and some damn… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by dis_integration at 6:57 AM on May 10, 2024

> The image of thoughtlessly destroying one is alienating, almost like body horror.

as an elder millennial raised on grunge, i basically grew up dreaming about playing a killer set and then smashing my guitar to pieces on stage. let’s not be hyperbolic. smashing a guitar is not a sin against the world
posted to MetaFilter by dis_integration at 5:31 AM on May 11, 2024

I'm not actually completely sure there will be a twist in the now traditional sixth sense. Granted I haven't watched this weeks episode. But Sugar might just be an ex-spy who takes on private work and has a dark past? The thing with the movie clips feels like post-modern metacommentary. The real twist would be if at the end they pull back and it's all been on movie sets all along.
posted to FanFare by dis_integration at 7:28 AM on May 3, 2024

ok apparently there was a twist in this weeks episode. nevermind
posted to FanFare by dis_integration at 7:29 AM on May 3, 2024

My father being one of those boomers who think the Beatles were the last great band, because he was 11 when Help! came out, and him generally being unable to consider anything else good (like you're the same age as david byrne but you couldn't even get into the talking heads?), and just generally having a bad relationship with him means I refuse, obstinately, to get stuck in the middle-high-school music rut. I revisit some of those albums from time to time, and they do have a certain nostalgic… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by dis_integration at 7:28 AM on April 26, 2024

If we're listing newish music that an officially old person is listening to (me, on the knifes edge of 40) then I'm game. If you want to be as cool as I am, you might be listening to:

- Sundial by Noname
- Wet Leg (self-titled), this album fucking rocks
- Stumpworks by Dry Cleaning
- Mood Swings by Marcus King
- Negro Swan by Blood Orange
- Never Enough by Daniel Caesar
- Wide Awake! by Parquet… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by dis_integration at 2:49 PM on April 26, 2024

> have you been to a goth club lately?

> Do...do they exist?

Last I heard the Senator and the Shoe Licker are still showing up to the Castle in Tampa, but then again Tampa is, strangely, a kind of Goth capital. You might think the central florida climate would be a goth repellant, but you have to account for the absolutely cursed vibes of growing up in Tampa. The sun might be shining but it only does that because it wants you dead.
posted to MetaFilter by dis_integration at 7:16 AM on May 3, 2024

SuperCard is a direct descendant of hypercard (and even supports hypercard conversion). However, it's a 32 bit app and it looks like they have no plans to transition to 64bit, so you can't run it on modern macs.

Something in a similar vein, although without the easy to use templates, would be the Squeak or Pharo smalltalk systems.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 2:47 PM on May 1, 2024

Seinfeld has been on this bullshit for a while, and the weirdest thing about it to me is that Seinfeld's standup has basically never been "edgy" or "provocative" comedy. His best jokes are about like, doing laundry, shopping for groceries, how women love to use cotton balls but nobody knows what they're for. Nobody is protesting Seinfeld's routine because for violating the rules of political correctness.

My guess is he just has a lot of boomer comic… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by dis_integration at 12:45 PM on April 30, 2024

Old montreal is very crowded when the weather is nice and feels a lot like a theme park, so I wouldn't sweat not staying there. It's also not where the best restaurants are, instead it's filled with places that remind me of the bad restaurants in Prague's old city, tourist trap kind of overpriced but "fancy" (for the most part, there are some exceptions).

I highly recommend checking out the area around Parc La Fontaine, esp., Avenue Mont-Royal. It's where I… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 7:01 AM on April 25, 2024 marked best answer

i've been rewatching the Supermen a la Reeves lately and they're all so delightfully terrible. This one however is not that bad, compared to Superman 3, which is an absolutely bonkers romp (richard pryor, computer hacker!, robert vaughn, evil business tycoon!). This one however does bring up an important question, which is why superman doesn't just put a stop to all war and establish a kind of pax supermanica, making all others bow to his will in the name of an endless, eternal peace. Why stay… [more]
posted to FanFare by dis_integration at 4:12 PM on April 23, 2024

> 3 got middling reviews and what I've seen does look not great, but I've gotta figure it's still quite a bit better than this film

3 is kind of like what if the Zucker brothers directed a superman movie, only cheaper and with worse special effects. It's the one where Superman becomes a jerk and grows a beard, and tears open an oil tanker cause he's horny. But Richard Pryor does rock a sick Louis Vuitton suitcase, and there's a joke about Kant's Critique of Pure… [more]
posted to FanFare by dis_integration at 7:29 PM on April 23, 2024

I don't have any objection to coming up with new salad recipes but if it's a Caesar and you don't even use anchovies then I don't know what the world has come to. This is not that! Call it whatever you want. Call it a Pompey, call it a Mark Antony, call it Cleopatra, just don't call it a Caesar.
posted to MetaFilter by dis_integration at 6:57 AM on April 23, 2024

> Who puts anchovies into a salad whose original construction, never to be altered, didn't have anchovies in it.

My exhaustive research (one single google) reveals that the original recipe used Worcestershire sauce, which, and I'm requesting a drumroll for this, uses anchovies to achieve a deep umami flavor.
posted to MetaFilter by dis_integration at 4:04 PM on April 23, 2024

i had no idea that Dalton Wilcox was a real guy
posted to MetaFilter by dis_integration at 6:25 PM on April 22, 2024

The federal loophole making 0.3% d9-thc products not illegal (but are they legal? nobody knows) has opened up a kind of wild west for these products. https://www.3chi.com/ has, I think, a good reputation, and claims tons of lab testing, but for all of that, for every brand, you have to take their word for it.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 8:14 AM on April 22, 2024

i hated the cgi effects in this movie, which were uniformly terrible. especially in the final setpieces with the smoke effects and the pool of crude oil. just pure uncanny valley garbage. bring back practical effects in action films!

the critical reaction is spot on for me. you can have a dumb action movie if the action set pieces are good. they are not good in this movie, and the comedic bits are not enough to make up for it on the whole, even if i got a chuckle in here or there.
posted to FanFare by dis_integration at 10:30 AM on April 21, 2024

Maybe "The Founder", the movie about Ray Kroc turning McDonalds into a globe-striding colossus
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 6:23 AM on April 21, 2024

i am also procrastinating now. you know i thought that was some of the best ventroliquism i've ever seen but then she was singing at the same time as the puppet and so I guess it's just movie magic. charming movie magic
posted to MetaFilter by dis_integration at 1:18 PM on April 12, 2024

it's pretty bonkers how the whole country was basically mesmerized by the trial. My teacher wheeled out a television for us to watch the verdict! In the 6th grade! I think she just didn't want to miss it. the whole thing was confusing, because while he was obviously guilty, i was already on my anti-cop bullshit by then and knew, just knew, that mark furhman was a dirty cop and a racist.

Anyway, I hope the Kardashians pay homage to the man who made them famous.
posted to MetaFilter by dis_integration at 9:25 AM on April 11, 2024

It's amazing we're beanplating the OJ simpson trial after all these years. It's true that one of the detectives (insanely!) took the blood to the scene. Whether or not they planted that evidence in the home, *Ron Goldman's blood was in Simpson's Bronco*, and as far as I know there is no basis to argue that the police planted or had a chance to plant evidence in the car.
posted to MetaFilter by dis_integration at 2:22 PM on April 11, 2024

stupid blathering. corporations have always been the primary mode of capitalist organization since the british east india company, and capitalist governments have always been arranged to their benefit. capitalists accumulate capital and corporations are the primary vehicle for this accumulation. if you think there’s some other mode of capitalism you’re dreaming
posted to MetaFilter by dis_integration at 6:55 AM on April 11, 2024

In short, this corporatism – in all its iterations including the regulatory state and the patent war chest that maintains and enforces monopoly – is the core source of all the current despotism.

It obtained its first full trial run with the lockdowns of 2020, when tech companies and media joined in the ear-splitting propaganda campaigns to shelter in place, cancel holidays, and not visit grandma in the hospital and nursing home. It cheered as millions of small… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by dis_integration at 7:05 AM on April 11, 2024

It's upsetting to me how much I'm enjoying this incredibly pretentious, implausible, and overwrought, confusing jumble of a show about a man who seems like he might be a fallen angel (except with a dark past?). Glad we're still making challenging television though. For some reason it's reminding me of The Leftovers (although only by vibrating at certain similar frequencies)
posted to FanFare by dis_integration at 12:51 PM on April 10, 2024

A book might be "sold out" because they've remaindered the remaining copies so they don't have to hold on to inventory that they don't expect to ever sell, in which case there's very little chance they are holding on to unpaid royalties.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 10:23 AM on April 10, 2024

I'm still using my 2012 Transit of Venus glasses. :)

my eclipse glasses say to not use after 3 years. is that just litigation averse CYA disclaimer language or do they actually expire?
posted to MetaFilter by dis_integration at 6:18 AM on April 8, 2024

i do think it’s important to learn that rich high status people aren’t actually having more fun than you can have with your no status dumb friends, a rack of old style and a fire pit on a summer night (add a guitar and a rope swing over a watering hole and now you’ve got a party). but you can’t turn the snobs into something they’re not, and there’s no high society without stuck up assholes
posted to MetaFilter by dis_integration at 6:42 AM on April 5, 2024

conceptually I'm not against the idea. Some of these places even look nice. But it seems like a way to greenwash having a million+ dollar home in a gated community. The "farms" do not appear to be worked by the homeowners, which hey, many of these are 55+ communities, so not expecting our senior citizens to break their backs in the hot sun, but that just means migrant labor is holding up a boutique "farm to table" luxury experience. Like the AI generated images in the… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by dis_integration at 8:03 AM on April 2, 2024

I have not seen any "agrihoods" that are just about having community gardens worked by homeowners. They're typically more like this: Olivette, NC. A small scale commercial farm surrounded by expensive houses. As far as I can tell it's essentially a way of marketing real estate in rural areas the way you might invent a new neighborhood in manhattan to sell condos. These are the Hudson Yards of rural america.
posted to MetaFilter by dis_integration at 8:14 AM on April 2, 2024

this would have made a great episode of the larry sanders show (“endo?” artie, played by rip torn, would say, “in my day we smoked the hashish after the show!”)
posted to MetaFilter by dis_integration at 5:19 AM on April 1, 2024

13,000 meals for 2 million starving people. it's eaten before it hits the ground. it's so puny it's worse than doing nothing
posted to MetaFilter by dis_integration at 7:46 PM on March 24, 2024

> They've signaled over and over again that they will respect the authority of the UN! Epistemic closure has led a lot of otherwise sensible people to believe that Hamas is of course always lying, i guess?

It's pretty well accepted, if not outright admitted, that both the American and the Israeli position on the UN is that they will only respect the authority of the UN when it makes decisions in their own interests and the UN be damned if it decides against them, so… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by dis_integration at 4:26 PM on March 26, 2024

You should be able to find a used Roland FP-10 for around $400 on marketplaces like Reverb. You'll also need to spring for a sturdy stand. It's a good digital piano. The next model up, the FP-30X, is an excellent digital piano that will meet the needs of someone learning piano for many years. Around that price there's also the Kawai ES-120 which will be good enough for playing everything but the most advanced pieces. These pianos tend to hold their resale pretty well, so if you buy a nicer… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 9:35 AM on March 22, 2024

i’m so exhausted from seeing weird smooth and too shiny ai art with fucked up fingers and francis bacon painting faces, just make it stop!!! i hate it!
posted to MetaFilter by dis_integration at 8:14 PM on March 20, 2024

the barcode on a boarding pass often includes things like the frequent flyer number, the pnr/booking reference number, date of birth etc, which is enough info to get going on a scam against the airline somehow (honestly not sure what you can do besides cancel the flight that’s already about to taxi) so a photo of it might be valuable on its own
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 8:49 PM on March 17, 2024

it’s an interesting list. not the list i would have made (at the very least replace Updike, a terrible hack, with John Cheever’s The Falconer) and there are some novels i’ve never seen on a list like this before that are now want to reads. also nuts to ignore Brautigan’s Trout Fishing in America imo
posted to MetaFilter by dis_integration at 6:00 AM on March 16, 2024

when whole foods sold raw milk i would buy it specifically for making yogurt, although part of the process there is cooking milk to 140F which is basically pasteurization. i did think that yogurt was better than any made from most other milks but that’s probably because the raw milk still has all the cream in it.

in general i wouldn’t be against the sale of raw milk except that the oppositional defiance disorder of conservatives means that because you warn them of the… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by dis_integration at 6:20 AM on March 13, 2024