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Metafilter: DO NOT BREAK THE SKIN; if you break the skin, you cannot eat that potato.
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 8:29 AM on June 2, 2024

ooh a fun game lets play.....need some more variables though

disinfo

resistance by bad actors including corrupting processes

national squabbling

politicians grandstanding

forum shopping by polluters and capital

fraud - straight up lying about activities - at micro and macro level

wars and disasters distracting from efforts… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 6:33 AM on June 2, 2024

Possibly related: Bobby McFerrin demonstrates the universality of the pentatonic scale at a World Science Festival lecture.

flagged as fantastic EmpressCallipygos !
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 10:10 AM on May 31, 2024

Can I gently suggest that if we want to have a discussion about the origins of racial dehumanization/the holocaust/antisemitism that it happen in another thread?
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 4:06 PM on May 11, 2024

‘Solidarity over hatred’: the small band of Israelis stopping settlers obstructing aid trucks


“These are people who have lost their homes [and] their land, people facing starvation.

“But it’s not only about on this, it’s also a battle over the soul of our society, over the question of whether we can remain human in the face of fear, in the face of trauma; whether we can make sure that we choose life over death, or we choose solidarity over hatred and starvation.”
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 8:54 AM on May 31, 2024

metafilter: brace for screeds.
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 2:01 PM on May 30, 2024

Not president trump, not donald trump.

CONVICTED FELON DONALD TRUMP is the only way he can be referred to.
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 2:15 PM on May 30, 2024

on NYPOST.COM (!)


GUILTY ON ALL COUNTS

Donald Trump convicted on 34 felony counts for falsifying business records in historic Manhattan hush money case

Donald Trump is now the first ex-US president to be convicted on criminal charges

Donald Trump is a convicted felon.
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 2:41 PM on May 30, 2024

Bluesky is on fire:

I'M A VERY INNOCENT MAN

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oh! oh! jail for Donald! jail for Donald for One Thousand Years!!!!


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Today is the day Donald Trump became precedent

posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 7:19 PM on May 30, 2024

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posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 2:53 PM on May 30, 2024

It probably won’t be for another Xnumber of decades before her work is given the respect and place in the cannon that it deserves.

philistines want to put her work in "the cannon" right now tho
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 8:15 PM on May 29, 2024

Whenever I read about the dems and their "Realpolitik" re: gaza, immigrants, trans people, cops, the environment etc etc etc etc., I think, a la the torment nexus, they read Freebird's Comment Fable about "progress in abstracted morality" and they thought, WOW WHAT A GOOD IDEA.
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 2:10 PM on May 29, 2024

Why can't Biden just say "Israel is our ally but they need to stop this genocide". Is that so hard? The country may be an ally but Netanyahu isn't and he's the one leading the genocide (with US help of course). Just say we support Israel but they have to stop the genocide. It's not hard.


don't forget the important feelings of rich donors and their proxies who consider anything but the mildest… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 6:56 PM on May 29, 2024

what a day to have eyes
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 12:12 PM on May 29, 2024

It was a simpler, better time. (John Oliver,6min video) reached the same conclusions in 2010....(when it was a simpler, better time...)
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 5:52 AM on May 29, 2024

There's tea with nipples?

nice cuppa titley..... i mean tetley?
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 6:34 AM on May 28, 2024

Hmong Cornhole is my new favorite set of syllables for the day.

I think that's because if you repeat it, you get semantic saturation really quickly.
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 1:54 PM on May 26, 2024

: - O
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 8:36 AM on May 26, 2024

fuck this (quite literal) noise.
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 8:33 AM on May 25, 2024

much cute

very joy for world

so rest

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posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 5:37 AM on May 24, 2024

hello, who dis

hello its me, midlife crisis

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posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 8:58 AM on May 23, 2024

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Poll of polls between Jun Last Year and May today shows "Reform" party doubles UK vote share from 6->12%

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Nigel Farage says he will not stand in UK general election
Blow to Reform as Farage says he needs to be free to focus on helping Donald Trump’s election campaign

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Wikipedia: Reform UK is a right-wing populist political party in the… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 6:27 AM on May 23, 2024

🎵 🎵
These are the only ones of which the news has come to Haaaaaaaarvard,
And there may be many others, but they haven't been discaaaaavered.
🎵 🎵 🎵 🎵
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 8:16 AM on May 22, 2024

when I saw those NERF vids a few years ago, my mind simply boggled. Now?

Some ML processes now have developed correlative models 1, 2 (of MANY) that appear to 'understand" physics; or ducktype outputs that are indistinguishable from current state-of-the-art sims,..... when that happens at scale....oy.
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 5:11 PM on May 17, 2024

"My name is otter, and I like to get....blotter?"
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 3:54 AM on May 17, 2024

A TOAST TO PEACE BETWEEN NEW YORK AND CHICAGO
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 3:25 PM on May 16, 2024

if you freeze your fishy battered monstrosity, and pour cupcake flavored magic shell (TM) on it and before the magic shell sets, you add rainbow sprinkles, you have the Ortolan of Brit-American deserts, which should only be eaten when covering your head with a 7-11 branded sports towel.
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 4:19 AM on May 15, 2024

CUBE RULE - previously
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 4:45 AM on May 15, 2024

reading this shit and its ilk is like viewing the documents in the animatrjx that ends "Your flesh is a relic; a mere vessel. Hand over your flesh, and a new world awaits you. We demand it."
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 2:01 AM on May 15, 2024

spiked? brendan o'neal? jfc this thread is going well.
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 5:06 PM on May 14, 2024

MANDATORY SANDWICH ALIGNMENT CHART
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 4:08 PM on May 14, 2024

real r/TIHI energy here
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 8:04 AM on May 14, 2024

study suggests dunking on trite 'academic' analyses temporarily improves nerd wellbeing and outlook
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 8:00 AM on May 14, 2024

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posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 12:16 PM on May 13, 2024

Now the scammers can even sound like your poor daughter in trouble who just needs $800 to get home!

Scammers already do this with specialized tools. This and its ilk just lower the bar.
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 12:20 PM on May 13, 2024

I suspect we're setting up some real social timebombs as some of the ways that these things are being asked about, for instance, legal advice, aren't caught immediately. everyfuckingthing
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 9:38 AM on May 12, 2024

in conclusion the butlerian jihad is a land of contrasts
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 4:21 AM on May 13, 2024

"becuz shitposting is life you beta cuck"

(/s in case it's not obvious, but this is..... the answer the internet's Ids ultimately come down to)
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 4:56 AM on May 12, 2024

If this had more lead time, like the eclipse, I would totally chase it to Northern Minnesota. Not gonna hop on a flight today for the best chance tho'!

Do we have any capability of medium range sunstorm-activity forecast?
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 8:34 AM on May 10, 2024

1) insulted, the creature is, by association with vermin. I refer, of course, to the Elongated Muskrat

2) Metafilter: Hint: Not a Beaver
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 6:24 AM on May 10, 2024

tl;dr

(too lucrative, didn't retract)
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 7:06 AM on May 9, 2024

counterpoint: what if the moon got mad?
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 3:19 AM on May 9, 2024

from the grauniad article:

He has not exactly become mild-mannered with age – “However you define ‘woke,’ anti-woke means being a cunt who wants to indulge bigots,” he wrote recently


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posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 11:51 AM on May 8, 2024

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posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 11:25 AM on May 8, 2024

Two main party candidates: metaphorical brain worms

RFK: Hold my beer thiomersal!
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 11:15 AM on May 8, 2024

If you're worried about Biden's chances, nothing is stopping anyone from going and doing GOTV, like, right now. Call your racist uncle!


metafilter: call your racist uncle, literally, ftw
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 5:05 PM on May 7, 2024

Hmmm yes, Italy, you have been measured and found WANTING!
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 8:49 AM on May 7, 2024

There's always a simpsons
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 9:25 AM on May 7, 2024

My far-from-best-but-most-interesting scenario would be something where BOTH Biden and Trump exit the process sometime around September

funnily enough, there is an article outlining what is Meant To Happen in all of these cases at the top of this page, nominally the purpose of the FPP.
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 7:21 AM on May 6, 2024

Sorry, gonna have to stop you there, pingu, but this is the best pastiche of all time. ALL TIME

THIS BE THE KIRSCH by Kieran Healy.
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 12:30 PM on May 5, 2024