Activity from Ghidorah

Show Favorites Activity: Fuzzy | Precise | Popular
kirkaracha, the thing about Leary is one of those things that can be applied to a lot of public figures and entertainers. There’s what they want to say, to be known for, what they’d like the audience to hear, and what the audience actually latches… [more]
favorited 3 times
MeFi comment - 4 months ago

Add me to the list of mildly annoyed overseas citizens who is deeply annoyed at the US tax code. I live, earn money, and pay taxes in a foreign country. I earn far, far less than the threshold for paying taxes (and am unlikely to ever earn even close… [more]
favorited 2 times
MeFi comment - 4 months ago

About a year ago, I realized that, even waking up earlier (at 5:15), I was still rushing to get out the door (6:15) to get to the train on time. It took me a little bit too long to figure it out, but it was that I was sitting down on the sofa with my… [more]
favorited 1 time
Ask MeFi comment - 4 months ago

That wasn't a major concern for the scrappy pioneers who inventing blogging a quarter century ago. Stop worrying about algorithms and popularity. Just do what you want to do, and say what you want to say. Artifice Eternity, this seems to… [more]
favorited 8 times
MeFi comment - 4 months ago

Thanks for the kind words/commiseration. As far as the group goes, it’s a group of long time friends that I’ve only just met, aside from the one guy who invited me, so I don’t want to mess with their thing, but also there’s added pressure that if I… [more]
favorited 2 times
MeFi comment - 4 months ago

Over the summer, a friend reached out and asked if I’d be interested in joining a weekly online DnD meetup. One guy had to leave, and they needed a fourth player. It’s been years since I played, and I gave it some thought. I wanted to do some… [more]
favorited 9 times
MeFi comment - 4 months ago

I realize some of us are still living in a world where the issues still seem somewhat conceptual but don't worry, if shit is not real enough for you presently it will get very real soon enough I think one of the things I have been… [more]
favorited 4 times
MeFi comment - 4 months ago

mediareport already pointed out the Defector piece on SI, but there's also a piece just up by Ray Ratto. Earlier in the week, Israel Daramola wrote about Pitchfork's ignominious end, through the filter that we're losing some real cultural value in… [more]
favorited 6 times
MeFi comment - 4 months ago

"It was built in the 14th century after the old one was swept away in a tsunami and was built above the top of that flood wave, so everyone knows to build higher than that." One of the things that came out after the Tohoku… [more]
favorited 10 times
MeFi comment - 4 months ago

until Congress passes guidance on how to handle it Unfortunately, Panjandrum, the GOP has just sort of realized they can reliably continue to hold the House simply by not doing anything at all. Just a quick check of what's passed the… [more]
favorited 7 times
MeFi comment - 4 months ago

The votes in the decision will let us know who on the court believes that society exists because we are safer as a group, that governments earn legitimacy by providing a measure of safety to its citizens: the food is safe, the air is breathable, the… [more]
favorited 34 times
MeFi comment - 4 months ago

The Japanese series What Did You Eat Last Night usually has a scene in each episode where one character cooks for another, with a voiceover explaining the ingredients and the process. It is readily apparent that love and care are taken in each step. [more]
favorited 1 time
Ask MeFi comment - 4 months ago

A group of actors, a troupe? This particular group? Not exactly sure. [more]
favorited 1 time
Ask MeFi comment - 5 months ago

The problem isn’t that people are wearing things fewer times just because they’re disposing of clothing for fun The disposability of the clothing is very much part of the issue. The core concept of fast fashion is that modern… [more]
favorited 5 times
MeFi comment - 5 months ago

Backs were a mistake. I’ve always thought that the human body is the best possible evidence against the theory of intelligent design. What intelligent designer would make this crap? No intelligent, benevolent designer, at… [more]
favorited 11 times
MeFi comment - 5 months ago

thousands and thousands of stories have been told by hundreds of different writers continuously for over 80 years. That’s one of the things that makes me hesitate whenever an idea for a Superman story pops into my head: it’s probably… [more]
favorited 2 times
MeFi comment - 5 months ago

The writer, Tom Scocca, is so much more than an example of how fucked up the medical system is in America. He's a fantastic editor, and had a direct hand in some of the reporting that made the loss of Gawker and the gutting of Deadspin as bad as it… [more]
favorited 13 times
MeFi comment - 5 months ago

I'm not sure why this isn't more of the focus, but news in Japan very quickly (within a couple hours) reported that the incursion was an error on the part of the coast guard plane. The tower had not given it permission to enter the runway, but the… [more]
favorited 10 times
MeFi comment - 5 months ago

From Reuters, the coast guard plane was on its third relief flight to the Noto peninsula within the previous 24 hours. Something else worth noting is just how crowded Haneda was. It was essentially the peak of the “u-turn” rush, with everyone… [more]
favorited 1 time
MeFi comment - 5 months ago

and we lost Gotanda God damn it. I’m not a mod. I don’t claim to know the shit you all have to deal with, but part of the whole thing has got to be impartiality, and we’ve seen over the last couple of years more than a few… [more]
favorited 26 times
MetaTalk comment - 5 months ago

I was saddened by the utter lack of my favorite meme of the year, the Orca uprising. Fuck them boats, indeed. [more]
favorited 5 times
MeFi comment - 5 months ago

I’ve seen a good amount of people i tangentially know complaining about the change, using it as a chance to decry wokeness, and fucking hell: When you’re a kid and you don’t know any better, yes, maybe you developed attachments to things that you… [more]
favorited 9 times
MeFi comment - 5 months ago

Ah, yes, Gung Ho, a movie about a Japanese takeover of American industry, titled with an American bastardization of a Chinese word. I mean, Hollywood in the 80s, when “Asian #2” was a perfectly acceptable role to cast. I remember liking the movie… [more]
favorited 8 times
MeFi comment - 5 months ago

I’d love to make a joke, but I don’t really see this as any different from the fact that it was just below 80 degrees in Tokyo on Saturday, or that typhoons/hurricanes don’t follow the “season” they used to, or the rising number of bears wandering… [more]
favorited 11 times
MeFi comment - 5 months ago

Hey, Jacen, you’re perfect. [more]
favorited 41 times
MeFi comment - 5 months ago

OnceUponATime, the thread also has a bunch of teachers talking about how they’re dealing with a cohort of students who, skill-wise, are literally years behind where students are generally expected to be at their age, and are lacking crucial skills… [more]
favorited 7 times
MeFi comment - 5 months ago

It’s a shame that people that weren’t around for Homicide will largely only know Braugher from Brooklyn 99 and his comedic roles. In a different world, his amazing talent for incredibly dramatic acting would have been more properly rewarded, and we’d… [more]
favorited 16 times
MeFi comment - 5 months ago

The churn is a fantastic concept, and the Gibson’s jackpot is uncomfortably apt (the third book is being written now, the Peripheral was great, Agency less so, but I have hopes that Jackpot will be great). And yes, if anyone was secretly a time… [more]
favorited 8 times
MeFi comment - 5 months ago

Coming home last year, I ended up doing a cross state drive of Michigan for the first time in a very, very long time. First time back in Michigan since at least 2009. I was kind of surprised by the evolution of billboards along 94, especially near… [more]
favorited 1 time
MeFi comment - 5 months ago

Boo. Honestly, this feels a lot like Kevin Durant joining the Warriors, and like that, it’s already affected how I feel about the player. I mean, it’s not like he went to the Yankees, but it’s pretty close. He seems like an awesome guy, and it’s… [more]
favorited 5 times
MeFi comment - 5 months ago

Are any of the original staff back? One of the things I’d read was that the union contract with G/O wouldn’t roll over in a sale if there were no union members left on the payroll. I’m pretty sure it was Defector or someone affiliated pointing out… [more]
favorited 5 times
MeFi comment - 5 months ago

Careful, I think I saw it post a question about how to get a fake ID. Not yet, young website (unless you live outside the US, then have at it)! [more]
favorited 1 time
MetaTalk comment - 5 months ago

Regarding the cheating, one of the things our school did at the beginning of Covid was switch everything to Google Classrooms, which, fine. It did what we needed it to do, and has its uses. However, this year, I’ve had to go back to paper quizzes and… [more]
favorited 3 times
MeFi comment - 6 months ago

I’m teaching the equivalent of 7-10th grade in Japan, and there’s been a noticeable change in the general level of students on several levels. Academically, they lack several key skills that students even a year ahead of this cohort had. Serious… [more]
favorited 32 times
MeFi comment - 6 months ago

corb, students at my school are allowed to have it with them until the beginning of homeroom, when they are collected by a teacher and placed in a locker in the classroom. They get it back at the end of the day homeroom session. Students who come to… [more]
favorited 1 time
MeFi comment - 6 months ago

I'm having a profoundly rough time of things, and dealing with a staggering amount of stress, but goddamn if this wasn't the first thing to make me smile all week. Goddamn, the motherfucker is finally dead. There's the old saw about living a life… [more]
favorited 37 times
MeFi comment - 6 months ago

credulous, somehow, in all the cavalcade of ruin and evil he spread about the world, I'd somehow missed that comment. I don't know if it's possible to be more of a poster child for the wicked child at Passover than a sentiment that despicable… [more]
favorited 7 times
MeFi comment - 6 months ago

On a separate note, self checkout is almost everywhere in Japan now, and if you’d like to see what great advances it’s made on society, well, none, really. Wages are still stagnant, and while there are job ads on every window, the jobs are offering… [more]
favorited 17 times
MeFi comment - 6 months ago

Regarding the skilled/unskilled terminology, given that we’ve adjusted the way we talk about topics, trying to be cognizant of arguably shitty connotations (remember when hard drives used to use master/slave notation?), it seems there’s a good number… [more]
favorited 11 times
MeFi comment - 6 months ago

I, too, am a grown ass man (late 40s, if that helps at all), and my Pooh bear is on the night stand next to my bed. I've had him since I was 4, and when I moved to China for a year, he came with me. When I came to Japan, he came with me. He's been… [more]
favorited 3 times
Ask MeFi comment - 6 months ago

I wonder to what extent GI Joe made the hovercraft seem so immensely cool that young boys all over America just sort of expected them to be a normal part of the modern world. Then, we grew up, and there just weren’t hovercraft everywhere? Harsh… [more]
favorited 2 times
MeFi comment - 7 months ago

Wait, has no one mentioned Dr Jack? Or his colleague, Dr. Jim (not as skillful, not as smooth, but will do in a pinch). While I admit to loving Dr. Pepper (and it makes a fantastic bbq sauce to boot), Jack and Coke has nothing on Dr. Jack. [more]
favorited 1 time
MeFi comment - 7 months ago

tgrundke, honestly, I haven’t given him a lot of my time, if only because I don’t feel like watching the hour long videos that his accolytes keep sending me. These are people I’ve known a long time, people I had thought of as friends, but have become… [more]
favorited 7 times
MeFi comment - 7 months ago

I said as much in the last thread about Peterson: most of the people I know who adore him (and seriously, I mean adore as in talk about lovingly and consider beyond reproach) are people that, while you might consider them successful, clearly… [more]
favorited 8 times
MeFi comment - 7 months ago

Teaching English to kids who’ve had some experience overseas, but are a couple grade levels behind their native level peers, I ask them not to use grammarly to write their assignments. When they ask why (and many of them have been using it for years),… [more]
favorited 2 times
MeFi comment - 7 months ago

Other random concert events since then: seeing Ani Difranco as the headliner of a weeklong series of shows highlighting indie artists. The Japanese band GO!GO!7188 opened up for her, and blew me away. Think the 5678s in Kill Bill, but with a harder,… [more]
favorited 3 times
MeFi comment - 7 months ago

Back when I was trying to get my restaurant off the ground, and making the terrible decision to run a mostly unused kitchen at a friend’s bar, I became friends with the guy dating one of the people running the place. He was around a lot, so we… [more]
favorited 14 times
MeFi comment - 7 months ago

To add to the Japan alert horror: in the days after the earthquake, there was nothing on TV aside from news about the (developing) disaster. Almost all advertisers pulled their ads from the air, a mix of trying to avoid the jarring transition from… [more]
favorited 2 times
MeFi comment - 7 months ago

If you follow WWE at all, there was a wrestler, Cesaro (now with AEW, as Claudio Castagnoli) whose first entrance music started with a tornado siren sound. That went away very, very quickly, as it was being played every Monday night on Raw, blaring… [more]
favorited 1 time
MeFi comment - 7 months ago

Uh huh. Now fix WKRP. As god as my witness, I didn’t think those music rights would be such a problem!” [more]
favorited 18 times
MeFi comment - 7 months ago

Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ... 90