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I got the news yesterday that our 100-150 year old ponderosa pine has a fungal infection and is going to die "soon". It's a drag because it's the largest tree in the neighborhood and losing it will change the area. Also because of how I… [more]
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MeFi comment - 7 months ago

Movie: Quiz Lady
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FanFare post - 7 months ago

Ah! KEXP is playing Gut Feeling! It was meant to be! [more]
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MeFi comment - 7 months ago

Part of your question sounds like you want resources or research, which some people have mentioned above and which I don't have. But I can give you my perspective. "... the social and psychological reasons why most people are less engaged… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 7 months ago

I was about to say. Do you have any idea what people will be saying about Covid 2019 in 200 years? It will make evil cats look positively tame and be absolutely true. I totally get why someone might read "orange piece of shit"… [more]
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MeFi comment - 7 months ago

Swift's Trouble also paved the way for MeFi's own to create this [more]
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MeFi comment - 7 months ago

/Baldur's Gate 3 Filter: Just beat Raphael in the House Of Hope, and holy shit the fight theme was amazing. For those who haven't/don't/won't play, you sneak into a devil's house, steal some stuff, then fight him and some minions. And that's him,… [more]
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MeFi comment - 7 months ago

Sodomy! "This also means that odds are you, dear reader, have likely done sodomy at some point in your life if not earlier today." [more]
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MeFi comment - 7 months ago

From the NYT link above: “There’s not a lot of sex in this show,” one of the HUSBANDs, the other one, said now. They had switched seats, and he was bored by the “Speak Now” era. “That’s because this isn’t for you,” I told him, and I found… [more]
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MeFi comment - 7 months ago

In my head this works, not sure about implementation. Could you make hotdogs, but maybe decorate the buns like cars or trains and cut hotdogs into pieces and stand them up so they look like little people? I realize Godzilla didn't really eat people,… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 7 months ago

I'm not much of a fan, but this article (and the one heyitsgogi linked) and this previously are fascinating. So thanks for posting. I'll always be grateful to her for "Shake It Off", which led me to my love of Screaming Females (which I… [more]
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MeFi comment - 7 months ago

First: The Who, in Denver, 1979 or 80. Wasn't my kind of music (I was...11?). I fell asleep during the bridge in Who Are You. First voluntary concert was The Cars, who were great. I saw Helmet open for Faith No More in Albany in 1992,… [more]
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MeFi comment - 7 months ago

Yeah, no? I can only speak for the plaintiff’s attorneys in TX and CT, but they put up with an amazing amount of bullshit to get their clients justice, and did it with professionalism, good humor, and, apparently, deep concern for their clients… [more]
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MeFi comment - 7 months ago

But he ruled that other parts of the verdicts, including $324 million in attorneys' fees that were awarded as punitive damages in the Connecticut case, could possibly be discharged. So the victims might get paid but the attorneys might… [more]
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MeFi comment - 7 months ago

Just want to chime in to say that I'm grateful to be part of a place that has so many passionate people contributing/running/etc. [more]
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MetaTalk comment - 7 months ago

But when I stare at the girls as if I'm free
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MeFi post - 7 months ago

The energy expenditure required to dance like that would almost certainly kill me. I mean, they are skeletons. [more]
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MeFi comment - 7 months ago

Gravity-free (thread)
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MeFi post - 7 months ago

Fun read! "Wobbly tosser" sounds like an insult from a 70s British crime movie. [more]
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MeFi comment - 7 months ago

A+++ for the title. [more]
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MeFi comment - 7 months ago

If you need help naming your pet moth, this kid's got you covered [more]
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MeFi comment - 7 months ago

Lin my experience food banks have minimal training requirements before you can start working. Sign up, show up, do a shift. [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 7 months ago

Whatever you end up watching, please add the episode of Community called Introduction to Teaching, at least the bits with A bed (which maybe you can find on YiuTube), where he becomes obsessed with Cage movies. The final scene where he loses it in… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 8 months ago

Re COVID I was relieved to not feel absolutely miserable, but like... did it do the thing? By this measure, the newest Moderna vaccine worked great for me, because I felt like shit for 36 hours afterwards. Muscle and joint aches,… [more]
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MeFi comment - 8 months ago

It's Monday!
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MeFi post - 8 months ago

Steve Martin doing Martin Short's nasally snort killed me. [more]
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FanFare comment - 8 months ago

Thanks everyone. I think one of the factors was that as some pointed out a roof is different from a deck, and that only became clear to me the more I talked to contractors and read. I got two other estimates, and I got a similarly detailed/informed… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 8 months ago

I never saw the original video, but this made me laugh and laugh. Bentley ASMR (train) [more]
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MeFi comment - 8 months ago

The second link has a line about students not knowing where their classes were, and I'm like "why don't they just look in the course catalog" and then I was like I got one when I was in school it was a paper book like 50 pages long and then… [more]
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MeFi comment - 8 months ago

I think that I shall never see, a thread as lovely as a free
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MeFi post - 9 months ago

Y'alls honesty has allowed me to admit something: Until very recently, like this year, I didn't understand/clock/recognize that the name the of the band The Beatles wasn't a label describing them as bugs, but a sort of pun with the musical word… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 9 months ago

Mefi favorite Riddley Walker puts you inside a character's head in a time and place in a way I've never experienced before, by narrating the story in a post-apocalyptic version of English. I'd also suggest How To Be Both by Ali Smith, mentioned in… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 9 months ago

Nthing great story. I wonder if the first person who got the egg tried to contact her. It's not mentioned, and it seems strange that they wouldn't have tried. Although I get finding people in 1951 was likely more challenging than in 2023. [more]
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MeFi comment - 9 months ago

Such a great read! Also Metafilter: From here on out though, it is stubbornness. [more]
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MeFi comment - 9 months ago

Witcher 3: Blood and Wine is gorgeous! [more]
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MeFi comment - 9 months ago

I don't listen to jimmy buffet, but being able to come here and read these heartfelt stories is a big part of why I love metafilter. [more]
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MeFi comment - 9 months ago

Community's "Cooperative Calligraphy" is explicitly a bottle episode. [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 9 months ago

Movie: Landscape with Invisible Hand
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FanFare post - 9 months ago

The least realistic thing to me was the idea that a parent finally apologizing *once* after years of being shitty would have any impact on a child's mood or mental health *whatsoever*. My opinion isn't based on personal experience or anything. [more]
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FanFare comment - 9 months ago

You should've seen by the look in my eyes, kitty I was pspsps-ing You should've known by hand motions I made, cutie But you didn't listen You played dead Didnt' turn your head Insead you lay still in the grass All curled up and purring I… [more]
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MeFi comment - 9 months ago

"...made her look either ethereal or like a glazed donut..."
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MeFi post - 9 months ago

Peskin said city officials are pursuing “every means” to have the CPUC decision reversed, and are discussing whether to seek a court injunction. Another option: fining Cruise and Waymo thousands of dollars for each robotaxi road blockage… [more]
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MeFi comment - 9 months ago

Gender-based violence is predicated on the messages that boys and men get about their place in the world and how they should behave. I'd recommend looking into programs/activities/information that seek to educate/inform/unpack these messages… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 9 months ago

How did you approach creating unique themes for each universe? [They] did a presentation of all the different art-style approaches in the movie, which was phenomenal, talking about all the different techniques, from the sort of Syd Mead-inspired… [more]
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FanFare comment - 9 months ago

I cycled into work again today, despite being hungover. [more]
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MeFi comment - 10 months ago

Get on your bikes and ride!
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MeFi post - 10 months ago

Someone once asked me if I was a bear. I wasn't wearing a costume. [more]
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MeFi comment - 10 months ago

I cycled to work despite being hungover. So there's a silver lining to Monday's suckiness. [more]
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MeFi comment - 10 months ago

I spent the weekend volunteering (including 3.5 hours! of bagging cherries! at a food bank) and was reminded again of the privilege I have that allows me to spend my time this way. On my way home Sunday, the northbound light rail platform was full… [more]
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MeFi comment - 10 months ago

Dance like someone's ignoring you
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MeFi post - 10 months ago

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