Activity from hippybear

The world doesn’t need an archive of me any more than it needs all the stuff I used to store in my basement And yet that is exactly what we crave from ancient Greece, Sumer... written records of everyday life are regarded as having no… [more]
favorited 9 times, recently by olopua, jzb, JHarris, sohalt, sarble, protorp, limeonaire, adrienneleigh, miles per flower
MeFi comment - 45 minutes ago

Thirty-five years of handwritten journal? Surely there would be some sociology or modern anthropology study society/department who would be thrilled to have that? Alternately, get a pretty good waterproof chest and bury them someplace to be found… [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by JHarris, adrienneleigh
MeFi comment - 4 ½ hours ago

Right To The City
favorited 10 times, recently by DSime, viramamunivar, all the versus, pracowity, KingEdRa, unearthed, sepviva, Saxon Kane, busted_crayons, Green-eyed grenade
MeFi post - 5 ¼ hours ago

Thanks for that Out interview. I'm glad I read that. I think we're at a really interesting inflection point for country music. It's a genre I really haven't followed since the years when I thought it was fun so Garth and Reba and Kix Brooks with… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by adrienneleigh
MeFi comment - 7 hours ago

Might be showing my age but there's a part of me that still blames Will and Grace. Will & Grace premiered only about 3 weeks before Matthew Shepard was beaten to death in Wyoming. I think these two events happening so close together… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by adrienneleigh
MeFi comment - 7 hours ago

As a driver of a Hyundai Accent, I have to say the size of most vehicles on the road is pretty terrifying. And I say that also as someone who drove a Chevy Express Van or Chevy Express Box Truck for work for 20 years. Even in those larger vehicles,… [more]
favorited 50 times, recently by skoosh, younggreenanne, CaffinatedOne, veery, rude.boy, 40 Watt, eckeric, msbutah, mostlymartha, amanda, northtwilight, snsranch, kinnakeet, schmod, urbanlenny, lalochezia, sharp pointy objects, cozenedindigo, brand-gnu, stripesandplaid, directnine, Faint of Butt, The Card Cheat, pracowity, gudrun, Phlegmco(tm), cybrcamper, Popular Ethics, queensissy, Gyre,Gimble,Wabe, Esq., The Manwich Horror, entropone, adamsc, AsYouKnow Bob, martin q blank, wenestvedt, gc, Kitteh, Well I never, adrienneleigh, audi alteram partem, tavella, clew, retronic, May Kasahara, Foosnark, non canadian guy, caviar2d2, The corpse in the library, hydropsyche
MeFi comment - 8 hours ago

I'd take Katie Porter. [more]
favorited 29 times, recently by Fiberoptic Zebroid and The Hypnagogic Jerks
MeFi comment - 8 hours ago

A podcast I was listening to earlier today, can't remember which one, pointed out that Trump even as President would usually emerge around 11am. So this entire trial is well outside of just the regular sleep and function schedule he's had for years… [more]
favorited 48 times, recently by Fiberoptic Zebroid and The Hypnagogic Jerks
MeFi comment - 8 hours ago

There are many who refer to Trump and "the cheeseburger from Heaven"... with hope in their voices. [more]
favorited 16 times, recently by Fiberoptic Zebroid and The Hypnagogic Jerks
MeFi comment - 8 hours ago

Alright! Well, I got over my anxiety and called and they got it all squared away for me. And I had to call back to get the reservation squared away, but they did it all at the costs I was seeing online and it was friendly and great. So, here's… [more]
favorited 40 times, recently by adrienneleigh
Ask MeFi comment - 9 hours ago

Newsman isn't a real news site. I'm irrationally angry about all things that are moving against Pride this year. I have, however, volunteered to sell drink tokens at the door into the beer garden, so I will get to spend some hours chatting with… [more]
favorited 37 times, recently by zekesonxx, esoteric things, fairlynearlyready, camyram, Well I never
MeFi comment - 12 hours ago

America's Test Kitchen on Tavern-style Pizza. [11m30s] [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by mumimor
MeFi comment - 15 hours ago

What a fascinating way to present music! I know nothing about these instruments or this musical form, but this visual presentation really helped me understand it better than just listening to it would have been. Thanks for posting! [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by glasseyes, mpark, AsYouKnow Bob
MeFi comment - 17 hours ago

I'ma show y'all how to move this yay'
favorited 19 times, recently by the sobsister, Paragon, It's Raining Florence Henderson, ChalybeateSprings, bowline, Dee Grim, Coaticass, mbrubeck, oc-to-po-des, Xurando, Gorgik, Wobbuffet, salix
MeFi post - 19 hours ago

In my teenage years in the Eighties, we had a Ford Courier pickup truck. Honestly it was the most useful thing ever. It was tiny, it got great gas milage, it could hold three people and had a full pickup bed... If they built something like that… [more]
favorited 9 times, recently by larthegreat, snsranch, tinymojo, biogeo, Grumpy old geek, clew, retronic, McBearclaw, caviar2d2
MeFi comment - 19 hours ago

The dosing differential between LSD and speed would make it basically impossible to cut speed into the LSD without increasing the volume of what you're taking in to some ridiculous amount. LSD is measured out in micrograms. Speed is consumed in… [more]
favorited 8 times, recently by flabdablet, busted_crayons, abraxasaxarba, TedW, aramaic, chavenet, lalochezia, schyler523
MeFi comment - 21 hours ago

Improve Your Sandwiches
favorited 20 times, recently by Green-eyed grenade, papergirl, kaisemic, esoteric things, mduda
MeFi post - 22 hours ago

Not sure you've read the room properly with that suggestion, but I'm curious to see how it goes. [more]
favorited 9 times, recently by salix, cyrusdogstar, mostlymartha, cozenedindigo, May Kasahara, Absolutely No You-Know-What, Kitteh, adrienneleigh, BrotherCaine
MeFi comment - 23 hours ago

Biden's moves are strictly protectionist, as China was about to dump cheap cars onto the US market, cheaper than our own industry could produce them for. Doubling their price means that US made product will be able to find a market that could have… [more]
favorited 5 times, recently by CaffinatedOne, brand-gnu, nanny's striped stocking, knotty knots, wenestvedt
MeFi comment - 2 days ago

Where I was working in the mid-2000s, one woman had all these things on her desktop... extra toolbars, stupid stuff... she also had downloaded one of those free cursor sparkler-trail things, like fairy dust trailing behind your pointer. Turned out… [more]
favorited 5 times, recently by emf
MeFi comment - 2 days ago

The number of them that appear to carry actual Children's Television Workshop/Sesame Street branding is shocking. Surely when developing a product for an IP, you have to submit samples??? And these were approved????????? [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by cinnamonduff, Fuchsoid
MeFi comment - 2 days ago

I'm really going to have to agree with Czjewel -- the point of high heeled shoes isn't the shape it makes the feet take, it's the shape it makes the calf and ass look. Focussing so strictly on the feet while missing the calves entirely feels like… [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by Hypatia, chavenet
MeFi comment - 2 days ago

There's enough context at the Genius page, it felt important to include that. [more]
favorited 4 times, recently by vac2003, treepour, Dee Grim, Gorgik
MeFi comment - 2 days ago

After decades of putting my pizza stone in the middle or middle-top rack position, a recipe for tavern-style pizza told me to put my pizza stone on the rack that is basically against the heating element. It changed my pizza baking entirely. Not… [more]
favorited 5 times, recently by snsranch, Atreides, chavenet, Two unicycles and some duct tape, DirtyOldTown
MeFi comment - 2 days ago

The Chevy Bolts produced at GM’s Kansas plant will be bigger than the previous Bolt model, which was retired last year. But... this is how car models have always worked. You start off with a small car and a medium sized car as a new auto… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by dr_dank
MeFi comment - 2 days ago

Made of cardboard was it? The Trabant was made of cotton wool soaked with linseed oil, I believe. Was never sold in the US, however. [more]
favorited 4 times, recently by dr_dank, Kattullus, Sauce Trough, wenestvedt
MeFi comment - 2 days ago

If it's only foreign car companies going to be making sedans anymore... I assume the Civic is going to survive? And I don't think the Hyundai line of sedans is going anywhere. Volkswagen? No clue. Who else is making sedans? Suzuki folded a while ago… [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by dr_dank, wenestvedt, adrienneleigh
MeFi comment - 2 days ago

And just to make things most simple for you, the song is a braggadocio about dealing cocaine. "yay'" is slang for cocaine, so the singer is bragging about how he knows how to sell drugs in good quantities. The song also talks about how the… [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by numaner, ThatCanadianGirl
MeFi comment - 2 days ago

OMG that's exactly the type of comment a bot would type! [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by chavenet
MeFi comment - 2 days ago

I've only in the past few years come to realize that 1) I was a very attractive young man and that's why I could get picked up at bars if I wanted to be and 2) that I'm probably not going to be able to travel to a city, go to a gay bar, and end up… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by chavenet
MeFi comment - 2 days ago

I mean, also what is complicating about this is the whole Rainbow Capitalism thing to begin with. Yay, we're a season, in June where there are no other real holidays, so we are like Halloween or Christmas or Valentine's Day... And we get packed away… [more]
favorited 35 times, recently by zackfern, Well I never
MeFi comment - 3 days ago

I'm sorry, this comment doesn't engage with the content at all, which I promise I will get to this evening... But my brain, every time it sees this on the front page, insists on taking a cue from Pet Shop Boys and singing "New York City… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by rmd1023
MeFi comment - 3 days ago

And that horrible burnt orange that was around for a while. WTF? [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by queensissy, Melismata
MeFi comment - 3 days ago

So, on the Genius page, some of the lyrics are backgrounded or highlighted in a different color. If you click on those lyrics, an explanation of those lyrics will appear to the right on the screen on a desktop. I have no idea what this looks like on… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by ThatCanadianGirl
MeFi comment - 3 days ago

The continuing ripples from this are really fascinating. I hope it signals a change in the culture, but I suspect it only signals a change in the moment. [more]
favorited 4 times, recently by adrienneleigh
MeFi comment - 3 days ago

I mean, honestly, there are a lot of things to be outraged about involving SSSniperWolf, and her name is seriously the LEAST problematic part of who she is. My favorite part, after learning about the plagiarism and other stuff is how she outright… [more]
favorited 4 times, recently by adrienneleigh
MeFi comment - 3 days ago

So, just a casual observation, I'm seeing a lot more on-screen citations in videos produced in the past week or so. A little line at the top or the bottom that tells where information that is currently being talked about is coming from. I haven't… [more]
favorited 6 times, recently by adrienneleigh
MeFi comment - 3 days ago

I do find myself wondering from time to time... "what is James Somerton doing right now" I had much of my life stripped from me against my will once. But nothing like what he's going through right now. And I just wonder, as a human being,… [more]
favorited 6 times, recently by adrienneleigh
MeFi comment - 3 days ago

Okay, on some level this video might actually need its own FPP because it's great on its own. But I think putting it here means you're a targeted audience already primed for long videos about plagiarism. So here is, from Philosophy Tube, A Man… [more]
favorited 7 times, recently by adrienneleigh
MeFi comment - 3 days ago

I now feel like maybe it would be nice to have a disclaimer or something attached to this post about a video by Somerton that I made nearly a year ago. I wonder if we can get that done somehow. [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by adrienneleigh
MeFi comment - 3 days ago

That part of the video is exploring the devolution of AVGN from a work of love into "content"; and on the value of writers. This part was fascinating to me. I'm a writer, sort of well known-ish in certain small circles. I write from… [more]
favorited 10 times, recently by adrienneleigh
MeFi comment - 3 days ago

Okay, and that SSSniperWolf video just keeps getting better. If you thought Somerton was stealing other peoples' work, he's a complete amateur compared to Lia. [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by adrienneleigh
MeFi comment - 3 days ago

I guess I'd really only gotten the doxxing part of the SSSniperwolf situation, and didn't know all the other stuff. This whole thing is a bit like reading the soap opera digest magazines they used to sell at the checkout stands. All these stories… [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by adrienneleigh
MeFi comment - 3 days ago

Not that I would object to an hbomberguy-style video on SSSniperWolf Well, you best get started and we'll meet back here in six months? [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by adrienneleigh
MeFi comment - 3 days ago

That SSSniperWolf situation might be worth its own FPP as it is entirely unrelated to the subject of this one other than YouTube being involved. [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by adrienneleigh
MeFi comment - 3 days ago

Holy shit, according to this summary video [13m], Somerton was making $170K from his patreon and other income before all this collapsed? Fuck! I should start a YouTube channel and plagiarize a bunch of shit and make that for a while, bank all… [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by adrienneleigh
MeFi comment - 3 days ago

I watched a lot of Iiluminaughtii's videos, and she was not devoid of charisma or sincerity in her videos. She regularly expressed quite a bit of empathy about people who were the victims of the MLMs or other scams she was bringing to light with her… [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by adrienneleigh
MeFi comment - 3 days ago

I'm just really appreciating the variety of people even my limited view of YouTube is showing me are reflecting on what is going on. I'm also wondering if there are any channels which are going to be suddenly mysteriously silent for a while. It's… [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by adrienneleigh
MeFi comment - 3 days ago

The amount of self-reflection and reckoning that is still shaking out from this is pretty interesting. [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by adrienneleigh
MeFi comment - 3 days ago

What exactly would be the form of pop non-fiction wherein references would not be required? [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by adrienneleigh
MeFi comment - 3 days ago

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