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Send not to know for whom the bell tolls (but in this case.......)

What happens if a US presidential candidate dies? Joe Biden and Donald Trump are the two oldest candidates in US history. If either needs to be replaced, what next? from the Guardian
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 3:25 PM on May 5, 2024 (128 comments)

Awww look at the wikkle murder machines!

Boston Dynamics two latest bangers All New Atlas and Sparkles. For once, sort by “top” and definitely read the YouTube comments.
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 5:20 AM on May 2, 2024 (71 comments)

From Aardvark to Zyzzyva you don't know SHIT

From TED To PERNOCTATED, Scrabble’s Best Player Knows No Limits by Stefan Fatsis, author of Word Freak
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 8:28 PM on March 12, 2024 (6 comments)

Ask meliponfilter

Ask A Bee!!! In other buzz Queen Reminds Worker Bees - Declining Bee Population Linked To - Bee Wishes It Could Hang Around Open Soda Can - Bee, Man Allergic To Bees
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 10:25 AM on September 11, 2023 (2 comments)

Drill Baby, Drill!

Biden Administration Approves Huge Alaska Oil Project Despite pledging no more drilling on federal land, the US president approved ConocoPhillips’ Willow project in Alaska.
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 7:59 AM on March 14, 2023 (82 comments)

It’s a series of intertubers.

Potatoes are a land of contrasts. While the definitive microhistory The Propitious Esculent: The Potato in World History  bears serious examination, and the fact that POTATO in yoof slang means "People Over Thirty Acting Twenty One.”, this shouldn't discourage You-(K)-On-line. For example.....
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 4:57 PM on June 21, 2022 (7 comments)

“The ultimate twenty-first-century dictator”

Viktor Orbán wins fourth consecutive term as Hungary’s prime minister - Viktor Orban, Hungary's authoritarian leader, calls Zelensky an 'opponent' after winning reelection - Viktor Orban Is Set for a Fourth Term as Hungary's Prime Minister. That Could Be a Boost for Putin - Hungary's isolation, economic woes will make Orban's fourth term his toughest yet - In Hungary, Viktor Orban Remakes an Election to His Liking -The Hungarian Journalist Trying To Break Viktor Orban's Grip On Media, And Voters - Why Conservatives Around the World Have Embraced Hungary’s Viktor Orbán
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 6:14 PM on April 3, 2022 (29 comments)

I have a soft spot for this kinda food. It's right below the stent.

All Praise the St. Louis Bagel and Its Infinite Potential The infamous, vertically sliced St. Louis bagel is not an abomination—it’s a brand-new playing field for a brand-freaking-new game.
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 6:06 PM on January 23, 2022 (56 comments)

The Home Office’s plan was impeded somewhat by British law

The secret deportations: how Britain betrayed the Chinese men who served the country in World War II. During the second world war, Chinese merchant seamen helped keep Britain fed, fuelled and safe – and many gave their lives doing so. But from late 1945, hundreds of them who had settled (some married, with kids) in Liverpool suddenly disappeared. Now their children are piecing together the truth.
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 10:11 AM on January 8, 2022 (12 comments)

A catastrophe

The Ship that Became a Bomb Stranded in Yemen’s war zone, a decaying supertanker has more than a million barrels of oil aboard. If—or when—it explodes or sinks, thousands may die. SL NewYorker.
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 5:22 PM on October 4, 2021 (28 comments)

A story about NYC delivery workers and the conditions they endure

Ride Like Hell.  Exploited by apps. Attacked by thieves. Unprotected by cops. 65,000 strong, with only themselves to count on. Revolt of the Delivery Workers. Reportage by NY Magazine.
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 5:14 PM on September 19, 2021 (25 comments)

UN+Maritime Capitalism. I'd rather stop shipping this pairing.

Tasked to Fight Climate Change, the International Maritime Organization - A UN agency - does the Opposite, in secret. The NYT reports that the industry that generates more CO2 than all of America's coal plants has, for decades, suborned the UN agency tasked with regulating it. The IMO keeps on delaying and watering standards down (and neutering their enforcement) so much, that shipping is dirtier and more consumptive every year. Regulatory capture, old school transnational-capitalism style.
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 11:44 AM on June 3, 2021 (9 comments)

You are the globally distributed vaccine manufacturing revolution.

Exploring the Supply Chain of COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines Somewhat technical (but fascinating) summary of how the giant poly-dimensional intermeshing of modern industrial and scientific society is used to validate, produce, formulate, package, distribute, administer and monitor COVID-19 vaccines to billions of people.
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 4:30 PM on January 21, 2021 (9 comments)

RIP Michael Apted

Michael Apted, Director of the "Up Series" films, one of THE great cultural artifacts of the 20th and 21st centuries, dies at 79 years old
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 2:07 PM on January 8, 2021 (53 comments)

Crop Is On! I Sop Corn!

Do you feel that predatory arachnid links are almost perfect except for their subject’s letter order? Fear not! How to become Coin Pros . Learn how Cops Iron . And finally, swoon at Pi Croons .
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 2:21 PM on February 24, 2020 (23 comments)

T E N E T

The trailer for Christopher Nolan’s new film - TENET - was released today.
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 12:12 PM on December 19, 2019 (68 comments)

I´m not made for such complexity.

It'd be a pity not to recognize what's at stake.........Deadwood The Movie, Full Trailer.
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 7:56 PM on April 25, 2019 (51 comments)

"I Hereby Confess Judgement"

Sign here to lose everything How an obscure legal document turned New York’s court system into a debt-collection machine that’s chewing up small businesses across America.
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 6:52 AM on December 3, 2018 (23 comments)

"When it's done properly, taco should be a verb"

Jonathan Gold, Food Critic Who Celebrated L.A.’s Cornucopia, Dies at 57
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 8:29 PM on July 21, 2018 (49 comments)

We've changed kings since then, some of us twice. No one cares.....

…....no one remembers. The uncounted. US Military officials say that the air war against ISIS is the most precise in history.
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 6:16 PM on November 16, 2017 (16 comments)

Brexit, Food & Sustainability.

Jay Rayner: “Michael Gove asked me to a meeting to share my expertise. I declined. Instead, I’ve given him a piece of my mind.”
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 9:02 PM on July 23, 2017 (17 comments)

There was another side to the Harvard-educated physician.

An overdose, a young companion, drug-fueled parties: The secret life of USC med school dean. slLATimes.
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 1:40 PM on July 17, 2017 (55 comments)

Alpaca my things and go now.....

100% Felt Bodega Opens In Meatpacking District, Selling 9,000 Essential Felt Deli Products
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 12:30 PM on June 6, 2017 (51 comments)

You are accused of attempting to kill President Erdogan

Inside Turkey's Purge slNYT
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 2:24 PM on April 13, 2017 (12 comments)

Once you lose trust in one institution.....

Russia: Life After Trust
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 9:11 PM on January 25, 2017 (35 comments)

The mesa is a little darker today. Roger Tsien 1952-2016.

UCSD Chemistry Nobel laureate Roger Tsien dies. Amongst many other achievements, he is most well known as co-discoverer of Green Fluorescent Protein, which, as well as making headlines with glow-in-the dark rats, initiated a field that revolutionized biology and our understanding of the molecular and genetic basis of disease and life itself. More reaction and links from In The Pipeline.
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 8:15 AM on September 1, 2016 (14 comments)

My father had few enthusiasms, but he loved comedy.

Dead Man Laughing. Comedy, family, class (British) and death intertwine in this essay by Zadie Smith.
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 9:11 PM on July 19, 2016 (7 comments)

You Ask Me for A Hamburger.

What is Cuil Theory? One Cuil ( ‽ ) is one level of abstraction away from the reality of a situation. A pictorial guide.
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 11:05 AM on April 29, 2016 (21 comments)

Surely it can't happen here.....can it?

How the Nordic far-right has stolen the left’s ground on welfare
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 9:15 AM on July 26, 2015 (23 comments)

Leftist Concepts: Trust (x) vs. Agency (y)

Je ne suis pas liberal: Entering the quagmire of online leftism "Classifying leftist ideology in a framework of agency and trust, I find a buried contradiction at the heart of anti-oppressive activism, one in which practitioners pathologically self-position themselves in a space of chronic moral jeopardy."
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 8:16 PM on March 27, 2015 (115 comments)

Ping City

A tour of the physical internet infrastructure of New York City From r/nyc. Also Previously.
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 7:45 PM on July 9, 2014 (7 comments)

The wistful specter of what might've been if only he'd been listened to

From his time in Cairo, Lawrence was aware of the extravagant promises the British government had made to Hussein in order to raise the Arab Revolt: full independence for virtually the entire Arab world..............His first act of sedition — and by most any standards, a treasonous one — was to inform Faisal of the existence of Sykes-Picot.....The True Story of Lawrence of Arabia . Previously and Previously
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 4:18 PM on July 1, 2014 (11 comments)

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chainstores.

Consumerism's petty liberties have made us inhumanly passive. We've forgotten what freedom is, and how easily it is lost.
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 9:07 AM on January 21, 2014 (70 comments)

Berlusconi Oustered

Silvio Berlusconi ousted from Italian parliament after tax fraud conviction.
Slideshow of his ups and downs. Wiki. Previously on mefi.
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 1:02 PM on November 27, 2013 (57 comments)

"Armed demonstrators had attempted to break into the building...."

Killing in Cairo: the full story of the Republican Guards' club shootings
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 9:47 AM on July 18, 2013 (3 comments)

Eat the meat you are Fed: It's good, we guarantee it!

The last mystery of the financial crisis. It's long been suspected that ratings agencies like Moody's and Standard & Poor's helped trigger the meltdown. A new trove of embarrassing documents shows how they did it. by Matt Taibbi in Rolling Stone.
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 11:10 AM on June 19, 2013 (32 comments)

Car Review: 2013 Rolls-Royce Phantom Drophead

This Roller is a chariot for the glittering Eloi, and if we’re not exactly Morlocks yet, that does seem to be the way things are going.
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 7:09 PM on May 24, 2013 (70 comments)

Faced with such high stakes, it's no wonder that so many defendants cave

Bail is Busted - How Jail Really Works
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 4:08 AM on May 21, 2013 (22 comments)

Enter, Stranger

How we made Knightmare The creator and the dungeon master of the 1980s fantasy game show revisit dodgy technology and terrified children. The wikipedia entry explains more. Knightmare mentioned previously on mefi
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 3:31 PM on April 9, 2013 (16 comments)

"It wouldn't hurt you to seek out a little.....companionship".

Whoopi Goldberg Hugs Autistic Star Trek Fan on Dutch TV SLYT. Found on reddit here
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 7:48 AM on March 10, 2013 (28 comments)

Don't Be Shellfish, Share the music!

Shrimp Glockenspiel - Prawn Xylophone SLYT. That is all.
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 6:04 AM on February 6, 2013 (13 comments)

Maybe somewhere down the line Congress will relieve the people in your position.......

Life Without Parole: Four Inmates' Stories
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 9:04 AM on December 13, 2012 (25 comments)

“Once it’s your pop stand, you look at things a little differently”

The NYT reports on how a Secret 'Kill List' tests Obama's principles and will
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 2:04 PM on May 29, 2012 (189 comments)

Woody Allen's favorite question.....

Is death bad for you?
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 12:25 PM on May 19, 2012 (94 comments)

18,200,000 palms and counting

What does the biggest donor to the 2012 campaign season really want? The operator. [print link]
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 10:02 PM on May 5, 2012 (24 comments)

Scott Ritter's Fall.

Scott Ritter's Other War SL NYTMagazine
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 2:51 PM on February 22, 2012 (76 comments)

If they've got you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers.

Activists Fight Green Projects, Seeing U.N. Plot
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 6:05 AM on February 4, 2012 (76 comments)

Luis Posada Carilles Acquitted

Luis Posada Carilles Acquitted.
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 2:55 PM on April 10, 2011 (8 comments)

Pakistan's Secret Dirty Little War

Pakistan's Secret Dirty Little War
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 10:21 PM on March 29, 2011 (31 comments)

"For international visitors who see people boarding trains, pulling people off, asking for documents, it feels a lot like East Germany did when I visited in 1980."

Far From Border, U.S. Detains Foreign Students
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 4:31 PM on January 11, 2011 (113 comments)

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