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I was just about to mention the episode of Knowledge Fight that dropped over the weekend. It's over three hours long and I'm still working my way through it. I don't listen to the show that often, but when I heard about the latest shitfest I had to… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 days ago

A Free Download Now and Forever
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MeFi post - 2 weeks ago

The reason so much of news media sucks is they aren’t writing for you.
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MeFi post - Last month

I never liked Seinfeld a whole lot because the characters were so deeply unlikable. Now I realize that's because Alexander, Dreyfus and Richards are gifted actors, and Jerry Seinfeld is genuinely deeply unlikable. [more]
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MeFi comment - Last month

I mess around with our county's GIS maps a lot, and discovered they include soil ratings and classifications. I was shocked to see there are dozens of different soil types here in Summit County alone! [more]
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MeFi comment - Last month

Enjoying this much. Thanks! [more]
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MeFi comment - Last month

Renate Nyborg?? Nice try AI bots. I'm not falling for this one. [more]
favorited 9 times, recently by edithkeeler, Kabanos, LizBoBiz, joannemerriam, natteringnabob, mmoncur, Dr. Twist, chavenet, brachiopod
MeFi comment - Last month

Capitalism and Communism are about as relevant to modern society as buggy whips are. You can still beat the shit out of someone with a buggy whip, though. Just because the tools of the state are outmoded doesn't mean they are no longer… [more]
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MeFi comment - Last month

from The loneliness cure [Financial Times Instantly I can tell this will not wendell. [more]
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MeFi comment - Last month

I'm not a huge basketball fan, but watched the game last night, and wow, that was a great game. Iowa was down significantly in the second quarter, then slowly ate away at that deficit up to the half. Then the first shot of the third quarter, Clark… [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 months ago

I'm very attached to it because NPR uses the USNO signal for confidence audio on many of their network feeds. So during my many years running a live board in local radio, I spent a lot of time listening to it through the cue speaker. It's… [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 months ago

Upon reading my first thought was, 200 servers for a race? What a waste of energy and computing power. Glad to see it's much more French than that. [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 months ago

No lions in Chad? Dude, bro, like the lion’s always been inside me. He like never left, ya know? [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 months ago

Like Jo Jo's and Devil Strips
favorited 14 times, recently by Techmudslinger_, wats, fgdmorr, ravelite, soundguy99, fimbulvetr, lianove3, theora55, Dysk, star gentle uterus, Faint of Butt, cupcakeninja, jedicus, limeonaire
MeFi post - 3 months ago

Nice to see fellow Rancho Gordo Bean Clubbers so well represented in this thread! [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

Is.... This the one with the, uh, interspecies living arrangements that got..... .....weird? Sure is. For clarity, we're talking about Lilly here, right? Was Bateman also included in ketamine-induced interspecies romance? Wasn't there… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

I use the CATGACATE constantly in SQL. [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

"How is it different from spaghetti bolognaise with a lot of chilli?" That has spaghetti. Chili is sometimes served on macaroni, though more usually with rice. I hope this clears things up. The latter is chili-mac. The… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

Was a student at Kent State during the 70s. Akron was the closest "Big" city. I will always remember the big fancy downtown hotel had a ballroom called the rubber room...Lots of rubber barrons in Akron in days past. posted by Czjewel… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

Oh man, sauerkraut balls are the best thing ever. EVAR. They are A Thing here in Akron. Most bars and restaurants around here have their own version, and we can buy them frozen at the local Acme. My sister and I have talked about doing a sauerkraut… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

These are amazing. One of my favorite activities is following animal trails through the woods to get to inaccessible parts of the park. I can imagine finding and following holloways like these. One of my dreams is to do a hiking tour of the British… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

Iunno, fuck that guy. [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

I've been enjoying it so far. I've had to follow tons of people to get an active timeline (and don't attract many followers with my ham-based humor). I hope it starts getting popular with the podcasts I listen to. So far, few of them or any of their… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

Someone has probably already made this comment, as I'm only half-way through the piece and haven't started the thread yet, but... Winzen soon left General Mills and formed his own balloon company, Winzen Research, which manufactured plastic… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

That was a very interesting article. I've grown so fatigued by the tech industry and SF's place in our zeitgeist that much of it rang true. Having grown up in midwest suburbia, I've since had the opportunity to live in places from small rural college… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

I indeed identify with most of these, which, if I’m reading the tone of the article correctly, makes me the greatest poster of all time. Prove me wrong! [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

The popular support is a lot weaker than its blustering adherents The New York Times keep trying to convince themselves everyone FTFY [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

TI-ming tI-MING t- t- t- Timing! [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

Tired of vinaigrettes, looking for new salad dressings
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Ask MeFi post - 4 months ago

Tower Records was great, but across the street was Other Music. That's where the cool kids shopped. [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

It was the least remarkable Q&A I’ve ever been a part of.
favorited 15 times, recently by Green-eyed grenade, xenization, Ipomoea, riddley, fregoli, blue shadows, star gentle uterus, cupcakeninja, chesty_a_arthur, skald_kennings, mumimor, Saxon Kane, chavenet, JHarris, clavdivs
MeFi post - 4 months ago

Wow, Amazon sure is in a quandary having to figure out how to profit off of AI as it destroys its business. [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

I used to work with a guy who had the last name NAMEROW. When I first saw it, I thought it was some kind of database error. I also enjoy the stories of people with the last name NULL. [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

slogger' previously. I KNEW there was a previously and spent a good 15 minutes looking for it. Amazing that it was my own post. [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

As far as I can tell, registering any product whatsoever (other than, possibly, software) is utterly pointless and nothing more than an indication of your willingness to be subjected to further advertising. Counterpoint: yay, free… [more]
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MeFi comment - 5 months ago

We haven't made fondue at home for a couple of years, but it was making a regular appearance there for a while. I use my smaller dutch oven on a portable electric burner with one of those heat-diffuser-plate-thingies and it turns out pretty great! [more]
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MeFi comment - 5 months ago

Can canned fish taste good?
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Ask MeFi post - 5 months ago

Awesome, that was my AskMe! I do love me some good tinned fish. There's usually a stack of cans in my pantry! [more]
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MeFi comment - 5 months ago

I love this so much. The first I learned about NIST and the world of standards and measurements was in the mid 90s after I had just moved to DC. I was having beers at the Big Hunt right off DuPont Circle when I struck up a random conversation at the… [more]
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MeFi comment - 5 months ago

I heard recently (on some podcast quiz thing that I don’t recall the name of) that the four original flavors were blueberry, strawberry, brown sugar cinnamon, and apple currant! [more]
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MeFi comment - 5 months ago

"Real housewives of Parma." lol.gif If you knew what Parma is really like, this is much much funnier. [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 months ago

Hey, OP here. I’m really sorry about the offensive term. I picked it up in another thread the other day and thought it was funny, not thinking twice because I’m a bonehead. I’ve responded to the mods and requested the language be changed. [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 months ago

I have used Evernote for years and hate it. Only reason I haven’t switched is that I barely use it, mainly to share grocery lists, and it can’t even do that very well. Maybe this is the impetus I need to final get off that shit. [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 months ago

Love me some McMuffin. Never bothered with the app. I've come around, mostly, on fast-food apps, mostly because you can make complicated orders without someone mishearing you and getting them wrong, or worse, having to repeat yourself three… [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 months ago

Amazing. The first few minutes of that video, the time signature is so flippin out there that I can barely parse a rhythm. Then he drops into a 4/4 but the fills are just whackadoodle. But, TBH, I got bored after about four minutes, like most… [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 months ago

But XLII was also a “big [middle] finger . . . to all those out there who want to control other people’s lives through force,” Elwartowski declared in a YouTube video. By early February, the team was cracking the champagne and streaming live to a… [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 months ago

Westworld! Party time! Excellent! [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 months ago

Not only are the mindsets mutually exclusive, njohnson23, but I imagine the latter are actively working to thwart the former in their tireless pursuit of wealth. [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 months ago

They downplayed it so much I was sitting there thinking that they were amazing friendly to someone who's obviously got at least one major red flag (getting rid of a central bank is a real dumb idea), and feeling very surreal that NPR sounds so… [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 months ago

This conversation reminds me of how much I used to love cooking shows, before the Food Network turned into reality competition shite. We got rid of cable about a dozen years ago but before then Food Network was a staple of my channel surfing. [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 months ago

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