Activity from dis_integration

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… [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by cowlick, d-no
FanFare comment - Almost an hour ago

> 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… [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by younggreenanne, haptic_avenger
MeFi comment - 12 hours ago

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… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by younggreenanne
MeFi comment - 13 hours ago

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… [more]
favorited 10 times, recently by younggreenanne, grobstein, travertina, ovvl, The Manwich Horror, justsomebodythatyouusedtoknow, showbiz_liz, Sphinx, mittens, coffeecat
MeFi comment - 13 hours ago

No One Buys Books
favorited 30 times, recently by SynapseCracklePop, pelvicsorcery, alyxstarr, xenization, Green-eyed grenade, esoteric things, Synaptic, bq, chicofly, limeonaire, gamera, mandro, ob1quixote, Lexica, BibiRose, mdoar, snsranch, AsYouKnow Bob, fimbulvetr, caviar2d2, mduda, virago, Smart Dalek, mfoight, googlebombed, banterboy, JHarris, emf, Wobbuffet, Multicellular Exothermic
MeFi post - 6 days ago

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… [more]
favorited 13 times, recently by ishmael, The corpse in the library, bunbury, ovvl, nofundy, adrienneleigh, rifflesby, marxchivist, mmoncur, Pouteria, fleacircus, Garm, Lexica
MeFi comment - 7 days ago

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… [more]
favorited 4 times, recently by Bella Donna, glhaynes, torokunai, EmpressCallipygos
MeFi comment - 8 days ago

For a long time i regarded The Conversation as the greatest film I'd ever seen and still think that it's one of the best things to come out of Hollywood in the 70s and on that strength i made myself watch all his films. Everything after Apocalypse… [more]
favorited 6 times, recently by clavdivs
MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

> 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… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by EvaDestruction
MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

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,… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by SaltySalticid
Ask MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

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… [more]
favorited 4 times, recently by Pedantzilla, mmoncur, Celatone, d-no
FanFare comment - 2 weeks ago

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… [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by kozad, chavenet
MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

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… [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by whuppy, Artw, chavenet
MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

> 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… [more]
favorited 6 times, recently by mubba, mmoncur, audi alteram partem, mazola, figurant, Atreides
FanFare comment - 3 weeks ago

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… [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by MuChao, fruitslinger
Ask MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

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… [more]
favorited 4 times, recently by qxntpqbbbqxl, abraxasaxarba, Atreides, davidmsc
FanFare comment - 3 weeks ago

> 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… [more]
favorited 6 times, recently by Bodechack, Lexica, mumimor, telophase, chavenet, TrishaU
MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

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,… [more]
favorited 12 times, recently by Lesser Shrew, LizBoBiz, Artifice_Eternity, TrishaU, gimonca, Fuchsoid, Lexica, thecincinnatikid, daveliepmann, supermedusa, chavenet, GenjiandProust
MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

i had no idea that Dalton Wilcox was a real guy [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by Shepherd, Kitteh
MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

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… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Candleman
Ask MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

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… [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by Recliner of Rage, edithkeeler, mygraycatbongo
MeFi comment - Last month

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… [more]
favorited 32 times, recently by sneebler, The Outsider, youthenrage, taltalim, nofundy, Barbara Spitzer, Ten Cold Hot Dogs, emf, Faint of Butt, faceplantingcheetah, bombastic lowercase pronouncements, GenjiandProust, mygothlaundry, lord_wolf, DSime, slagheap, BlueHorse, kelborel, Brainstorming Time!, gc, Pope Guilty, May Kasahara, The Great Big Mulp, adamsc, Artw, 1970s Antihero, lalochezia, constraint, sotonohito, The Card Cheat, seanmpuckett, RonButNotStupid
MeFi comment - Last month

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 [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by HeroZero
MeFi comment - Last month

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… [more]
favorited 24 times, recently by nofundy, Barbara Spitzer, nikoniko, Faint of Butt, bombastic lowercase pronouncements, grubi, symbioid, fifthrider, mygothlaundry, okonomichiyaki, june_dodecahedron, Mesaverdian, Mayhembob, BlueHorse, whm, brightghost, Brainstorming Time!, Pope Guilty, Foosnark, SaltySalticid, constraint, Richard Saunders, mittens, The Manwich Horror
MeFi comment - Last month

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… [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by luckynerd, Navelgazer, doctornemo
MeFi comment - Last month

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. [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by Jon_Evil, ovvl
Ask MeFi comment - Last month

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? [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by TrishaU, luckynerd, knotty knots
MeFi comment - Last month

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… [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by caviar2d2, May Kasahara, joannemerriam
MeFi comment - Last month

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… [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by Aethelwulf, BrotherCaine, adrienneleigh
MeFi comment - Last month

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!”) [more]
favorited 10 times, recently by Lesser Spotted Potoroo, /\/\/\/, riruro, kaisemic, missinformation, wierdo, chavenet, SaltySalticid, kinnakeet, ovvl
MeFi comment - Last month

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… [more]
favorited 5 times, recently by toodleydoodley, adrienneleigh, KGMoney, BlueHorse, May Kasahara
MeFi comment - Last month

calling people illegal and then trying to get civil rights bona fides is cynical and gross [more]
favorited 15 times, recently by busted_crayons
MeFi comment - Last month

he’s doing pretty well, verbal tumbles aside, but this border bill is terrible, but not for the reasons that mtg is screaming. what we do to migrants is terrible and this would make that worse. [more]
favorited 21 times, recently by busted_crayons
MeFi comment - Last month

> 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… [more]
favorited 10 times, recently by jedicus, Bella Donna
MeFi comment - Last month

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 [more]
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MeFi comment - Last month

+ everything. Cried like a damn baby at the end. Absolutely beautiful, at least for me, it resonated so deeply with my own experiences of trauma, the search for meaning in our pain, the dreams we have that construct a meaning out of the… [more]
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FanFare comment - Last month

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… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - Last month

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! [more]
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MeFi comment - Last month

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… [more]
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MeFi comment - Last month

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… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 2 months ago

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… [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 months ago

> Biden farking nailed it. Left his critics, on both the left and right, nothing to work with. His delivery was good, for an 80 year old. There’s still plenty to complain about from the left, starting with continued support for the ongoing… [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 months ago

polling clearly indicates that americans are (stupidly) anxious about immigration from latin america. it's a stupid concern. latin american migrants are a net positive for the country, and not just because i love taco trucks. we need the population… [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 months ago

Marx didn’t have a clue about this stuff. it’s true that nobody in the 19th century had a clue yet about climate change, and yet marx already had diagnosed the cause: competition leads to falling profits which in turn push capital to… [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 months ago

I've been meaning to ask, what is Japan trading with the Spanish? they're getting guns and ammunition but what are they offering in return that's so valuable? I thought it was silk at first but the silk was coming from China. japanese… [more]
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FanFare comment - 2 months ago

“you say it’s bad to kill children but have you considered that our enemies were once children”, incredible. this is the logic of holocaust, cold indifference and thirst for blood. it’s almost impossible for me to believe someone said that out loud,… [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 months ago

Returnal has a fantastic coop mode. You choose to host or to join a coop session and you're randomly paired with someone to go around fighting the aliens with. It might support microphones but I've never talked to anyone or heard from anyone on it… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 2 months ago

i have to say, everyone in that room is so OLD. they’re all ancient [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 months ago

Holy geez, Mike Johnson gives me the creeps. he’s doing jim halpern shit back there, i can’t stand him [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 months ago

WaPo's feed is scanning the crowd -- every third person appears to be chewing Nicorette? probably zyn, which has become a partisan bugaboo [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 months ago

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