Activity from dis_integration

> I don't eat at CF often, but when I was at one with people who had some issues with various ingredients, someone from the staff sat down with us to discuss what would be safe for each person. Apar from the decadent embrace of postmodern… [more]
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MeFi comment - 10 months ago

i remember thinking the pope burning thing was awesome and that she was SO cool as a kid to the point where i mandela effected myself into thinking she made punk rock instead of 80s pop music. i revisited it a an adult and was so confused because i… [more]
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MeFi comment - 10 months ago

This was a lot of fun and well acted, loved the fake 70s film stock look. I love that they tricked me into thinking it was a Groundhog Day type scenario but switched it up into something much more nefarious. Far from feeling like it was plodding, I… [more]
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FanFare comment - 10 months ago

> If you are working remotely, no you will not owe NY non resident taxes. This isn't true anymore. They changed the convenience rule in 2021 and it hit me, who hasn't stepped foot in NYS since 2019. [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 10 months ago

I enjoyed the Barbie movie, it was fun. But it was not a radical critique of basically anything, not even patriarchy. It certainly wasn't a critique of capitalism! It had nothing to say about capitalism at all, really. Hell, it featured a fairly… [more]
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MeFi comment - 10 months ago

So this David Grusch guy is full of shit right? This feels like a con to me, but I have no evidence besides my gut feeling that sorry, no, there are no visitors from space. [more]
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MeFi comment - 10 months ago

> the way Barbie straightforwardly says that she does not have a vagina but is still indisputably a woman The movie is definitely full of contradictions! I thought that moment of Gender Discourse was really interesting, and from the way the… [more]
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MeFi comment - 10 months ago

> this film had and has tons to say about and for capitalism I guess what I meant was: this film was not critical of capitalism in a meaningful way, and was, if anything, pro-capitalism. "Feminist" barbie will earn a profit for Mattel… [more]
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MeFi comment - 10 months ago

> the various points you make about prior uap reports and debunkings of some of those are all evidence (of varying strength) in favour of the weaker skeptical position, but don’t (to me) seem to take recent developments into account. it’s those… [more]
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MeFi comment - 10 months ago

> Elevatorgate i never describe myself as a skeptic because of how distasteful the ditchkins/harris assholes and their acolytes are and i somehow missed this elevatorgate thing entirely, jesus christ richard dawkins is an asshole. i mean… [more]
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MeFi comment - 10 months ago

Does anyone have a good link showing how Gellers water detecting trick was supposed to work? Geller dowsed? dowsing doesn’t work, to be clear, however it is the case that if you dig under most places there’s a decent chance you’ll find… [more]
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MeFi comment - 10 months ago

This summer is peak Timothy Olyphant and I'm here for it. It's interesting to see Justified get the Prestige treatment here. It was always a good but kind of dumb and cheap (read: USA network) tv show, that was good mainly because of the performances… [more]
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FanFare comment - 10 months ago

> The lowest note is G, not C. Man that really messes with my pattern matching to find C position brain but I guess I'd get used to it quickly. [more]
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MeFi comment - 10 months ago

Mellotrons are still being made now! MkVI since 1999, MkVII since 2005. why does the keyboard have two CDE groups at the start? i’m incredibly confused by what notes are expected there [more]
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MeFi comment - 10 months ago

What's your price range? The Baldurs Gate system requirements page says an M1 MacBook Air will surpass recommended specs, so an M2 MacBook Air ($1099) should have the juice. But there aren't a lot of other games available for macOS (yet! there's good… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 10 months ago

I'm glad I'm not the only one who got increasingly more frustrated and perplexed by that bizarre piece in the times about Geller's new life as a tour guide to the museum of himself. It was written in such a slippery way that even after bringing up… [more]
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MeFi comment - 10 months ago

Nthing museum shops for earrings. The MCA also has a great collection. [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 10 months ago

Yes, that's stale beans. Which is fine. It won't make you sick or anything. America loved stale coffee until like 1999. It's still caffeinated. But it also sounds like it's too finely ground for a french press, which makes it tough to press. You… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 10 months ago

I'm still halfway convinced that Musk's Twitter takeover coinciding with Dorsey's attempt to launch a replacement microblogging site is all just what they call a "work" I think we should never forget that Musk was forced to buy… [more]
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MeFi comment - 10 months ago

> Really the only contemporary mainstream games that are legitimately masterpieces, IMO, are the 2 Switch Zelda games (but I get why people bounce off these as well). Screaming in Sekiro (also last of us part 2 is a masterpiece) [more]
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MeFi comment - 10 months ago

i suspect there’s a lot of internal division within hollywood ownership because there’s definitely a contingent that wants their studios to win the classic awards (oscars, emmys, golden globes) as well as get rich and there’re those who just want to… [more]
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MeFi comment - 10 months ago

i’ll never understand how i spent so much time at the mall without more than 5 or 10 dollars in my pocket at once but i guess that’s why i had to get good at street fighter. the better you are the fewer quarters you spend. in a central florida summer… [more]
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MeFi comment - 11 months ago

Threads just randomly including tons of people I've never followed was such an annoying experience (getting all kinds of weird shit, like bizarre christian influencers and instagram thirstposting models that I don't follow, presumably because people… [more]
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MeFi comment - 11 months ago

Twitter is threatening to sue Meta over Threads Don't you dare use my precious trade secrets like "hiring the people I laid off in a fit of pique" and "hosting a message board"!!! And don't email my wife. [more]
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MeFi comment - 11 months ago

This is kind of a left field suggestion but you can often be paid to be an apprentice electrician. No, it's not an office job and you'll have to work on site and with your hands, but it's a great job (my uncle was an electrician and he did pretty… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 11 months ago

I think we should have to learn to use T9 texting. It forced economy of thought and ensured we only sent the most succinct expression of our ideas. [more]
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MeFi comment - 11 months ago

OK, if you insist, Tolstoy could not have written War and Peace and Anna Karenina and Resurrection and 18 novellas and some dozens of stories and a couple of dozen fables and a half-dozen plays and a couple of dozen volumes of philosophy, by… [more]
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MeFi comment - 11 months ago

> And failing that, how about we just apply federal law on bribing public officials and put some justices in jail. Because if millions of dollars in unreported gifts isn't enough to get them step down from the court, I'm ok with arresting them… [more]
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MeFi comment - 11 months ago

Highlights has already had a big right wing controversy. I’m betting that you can’t find a copy of it in conservative charter schools these days [more]
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MeFi comment - 11 months ago

i think it obvious people should learn to write by hand, something that continues to be desirable even on digital devices. i do believe that writing by hand engages the mind more intimately with the word, although why this is i’m not sure. but… [more]
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MeFi comment - 11 months ago

Tolstoy could never have written War and Peace by printing individual letters. pynchon wrote gravity’s rainbow in tiny block printed manuscript. cursive is not necessarily faster than print [more]
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MeFi comment - 11 months ago

Biden fucked this from the beginning. If he had done universal loan forgiveness for all federal student loans and made it immediate, instead of having to fill out paperwork and wait for approval, it would have been a fait accompli. The supremes could… [more]
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MeFi comment - 11 months ago

Plato and Aristotle, after all, spoke from the vantage of a privileged position in a slaveholding society. Nonetheless, Aristotle, at least, allowed for the possibility that genuine leisure could someday be extended to everyone, noting that if… [more]
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MeFi comment - 11 months ago

The roberts court is easily the worst court of the post-jim crow era. ghouls. i wish only ill upon the ruling majority. [more]
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MeFi comment - 11 months ago

I'm currently working through this free Music Theory Course from the University of Edinburgh as a complement to learning the piano. It takes things very slowly, so will be good if you feel like other courses throw you in the deep end too fast. [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 11 months ago

If you're say 40 today, and your ancestors came to America before the end of slavery, whether as slaves or as white people, then there's a good chance at least one of your 128 5th great grand parents or your 256 6th great grand parents was involved… [more]
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MeFi comment - 11 months ago

Did the CIA ever do anything that didn't suck? [more]
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MeFi comment - 11 months ago

Sodium percarbonate is sold as "washing soda" in the states. E.g, "super" washing soda. If it's washing soda, it's sodium percarbonate [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 11 months ago

If anyone has been watching "The Other Two", this is more proof that becoming a billionaire breaks your brain [more]
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MeFi comment - 11 months ago

> US Supreme court justices make $268,300 a year, while the Chief Justice makes $280,500. Not sure why they're being bought, other than basic human greed. The gulf in wealth inequality is so great that $268k a year, while it seems like a lot to… [more]
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MeFi comment - 11 months ago

I definitely struggled with guilt like this when I was taking adhd meds in grad school, because they made it possible for me to actually do what was expected of me but these were drugs that people would buy without prescriptions in the same field so… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 11 months ago

> That "swimming through matter" mechanic I've seen a lot.. how much matter can you go through? Can you get to the surface from a cavern using that? ascend will take you as far as it goes the next empty space. it's usually how i exit… [more]
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MeFi comment - 11 months ago

One thing I don't get about this is how anyone is farming enough zoanite to make so many damn things. I keep having to crawl down into the depths to mine zoanite just to autobuild basic shit, or go kill zoanite warriors to get stuff to trade at the… [more]
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MeFi comment - 11 months ago

ChatGPT would probably make a better supreme court justice than Brett Kavanaugh, I'll give it that [more]
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MeFi comment - 11 months ago

the thing about kacynzski was that a bombing campaign wouldn't have stopped the march of technology transforming humanity into the horrible state we find it, almost nothing would have stopped it, so instead it just inflicted pain and death on people… [more]
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MeFi comment - 11 months ago

How are the stable diffusion models trained? The way I would assume it's done is lots of cheap labor that takes input images and assigns them adjectives (marking images as assertive or compassionate or beautiful). Like if you got a CAPTCHA that said:… [more]
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MeFi comment - 11 months ago

I think it would be fantastic if reddit shut down completely (except for the people who lose their jobs becuase of it, that would suck). Let's go back to small forums run by hobbyists on ad-hoc phpBB sites. Let us put an end to winning internet… [more]
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MeFi comment - 11 months ago

It can detect the pattern to the arithmetic because there’s usually several different instances of the same question-structure available, enough to flag those parts as variable. it’s remarkable how quickly we turn to explanations that… [more]
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MeFi comment - 11 months ago

Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't taking the sub private mean the people subscribed to the subreddit can continue to interact, but it is dark to everyone outside that group? No, at least not in the way they did it. Plenty of subreddits… [more]
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MeFi comment - 11 months ago

One fewer orange man in politics [more]
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MeFi comment - 11 months ago

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