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We care a lot!
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 1:43 PM on May 18, 2024

Came here for Repo Man, was not disappointed.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 3:33 PM on May 16, 2024

I love Chicago.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 2:18 PM on May 16, 2024

Though maybe Yakov Smirnoff is more the Kurtz in this story.

In Soviet Branson, the horror says "you, you".
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 9:19 AM on May 16, 2024

This is an excellent article, thanks for posting.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 3:34 AM on May 16, 2024

That's ... incroyable.
And low.
I wonder, just for curiosity's sake, if this plagiarist is actually translating the materials or just dumping them into "AI" for the quickest, most pathetickest euro.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 1:43 AM on May 16, 2024

The US had a "Populist Party" at the turn of the 19th century, William Jennings Bryan was its leader for awhile.

Here's a brief history:

The Populists reiterated a long-significant question in the American experience: Why do some have and others have not? Historians can find similar patterns of populist agitation throughout all of US history, particularly when examining the interests and points of view of rural vs. urban… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 3:52 PM on May 15, 2024

But after taking office and examining hundreds of pages of curriculum, Gore was shocked by what she found — and didn’t find.

"shocked" like Captain Renault in Casablanca, I'm sure.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 12:06 PM on May 15, 2024

Yeo's 2014 portrait of Camilla [then scroll down]

She's enveloped in a haze of gin & smoke which I take it is on brand for Camilla.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 12:01 PM on May 15, 2024

How to get 7th graders to smoke
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 7:53 AM on May 15, 2024

I have to ask: is a Choco Taco a sandwich?
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 4:42 AM on May 15, 2024

I have no idea how these people got their cats wedged into their screens, or why.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 3:14 PM on May 14, 2024

Google "cat"
Click on the paw icon (under the pictures of cats in the box on the right)
Click anywhere else in the browser window.
Enjoy!

works for "dog" too, you get a very catlike dog's paw
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 12:36 AM on May 15, 2024

That thinking ends in asserting fondue is a sandwich.

Close enough
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 12:32 AM on May 15, 2024

“Fuck you, wet cookie.”

If only I needed a username
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 12:34 AM on May 15, 2024

The only way to truly improve any sandwich is to eat it.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 4:03 PM on May 14, 2024

Love the "Coal Man" drawing.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 11:18 AM on May 14, 2024

Looks like it was typical to write on those "Coal Man" postcards
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 11:24 AM on May 14, 2024

"The internet" is such a broad and non-specific thing

This is why I never look at the Internet anymore, and only use my smartphone.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 11:07 AM on May 14, 2024

A-and separating the last Pre-Raphaelites from from the Post-Raphaelites, I give you Raphael.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 4:33 AM on May 14, 2024

I like to think (and
the sooner the better!)
of a cybernetic meadow
where mammals and computers
live together in mutually
programming harmony
like pure water
touching clear sky.

I like to think
(right now, please!)
of a cybernetic forest
filled with pines and electronics
where deer stroll peacefully
past computers
as… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 4:17 PM on May 13, 2024

I like how the clocks in the Dali attempt aren't melting. It's like it's the persistence of emoji...
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 4:08 PM on May 13, 2024

With a name like "Target"...
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 4:03 PM on May 13, 2024

I can confirm. These are ... bad.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 1:28 PM on May 12, 2024

Does Mr T actually pull that microphone out of his butt? Because I would be totally OK with that.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 1:25 PM on May 12, 2024

I go with Xitter, myself.

This is even better in Portuguese, where the letter X is pronounced "sheesh" and thus Xitter is ... well you do the math
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 11:59 AM on May 12, 2024

Don’t encourage them…
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 9:13 AM on May 12, 2024

MetaFilter: the distorted faces I see don’t scare me anymore. I’m used to it. I’ve made peace with it.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 3:46 AM on May 12, 2024

More likely the applicable text is "Money Money Money"...
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 8:24 AM on May 11, 2024

Well, it's underway
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 1:42 PM on May 11, 2024

Ape Water is the new Disney guys, you heard it here.
posted by wellifyouinsist at 8:03 AM on May 11 [1 favorite −] Favorite added! [⚑]

Eponyisterical!
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 1:15 PM on May 11, 2024

Whack a mole game
Heard for the very next time
Whack a mole game
When your post breaks copyright
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 8:43 AM on May 11, 2024

Ooh I like this, it's Little Nemo meets Oglaf on sheooms. And that’s just my first impression! Thanks!
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 6:03 AM on May 11, 2024

Karl, unleashed
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 11:27 AM on May 10, 2024

thanks for this, they showed bits of this on TV here and it looked like a lot of people having a lot of fun.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 8:56 AM on May 10, 2024

The Economist newspaper's cover story this week: The world’s economic order is breaking down
Leader: The liberal international order is slowly coming apart
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 4:29 AM on May 10, 2024

d'oh. yeah that's it, sorry. thanks billjings for pointing it out. I've alerted the mods.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 2:49 AM on May 10, 2024

I "got into" Bowie over this album. I was 15. This was "late Bowie" and all the cooler kids and hip young adults thought it was trash, DB selling out, the MTV years yadda yadda yadda. But I loved it (and so did millions of others) and 40 years later it holds up. Turns out, too, that it was more middle Bowie than late, and man was he productive thereafter. I look forward to watching this, never got to see him live.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 2:06 PM on May 9, 2024

I don't know why anyone would refer to this as Bowie's weaker period when he had three songs off it that have become classics of the rock genre.

No one would, now [even if they would still rank the earlier work higher]; but in 1983, lemme tell ya.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 1:50 AM on May 10, 2024

I remember when the first iPad came out. I really really wanted one. I even stopped a couple wandering around a tourist attraction near my house and asked them if I could just take a look at the one they had.

I really really wanted one.

Simultaneously there was a "meme" going around of snotty kids larking about destroying their brand new unused iPads, usually with bricks or golf clubs or something. Just petty vandalism of their own… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 11:41 AM on May 9, 2024

The ad in reverse is lovely.

Introducing the new Elppa dApi Orp
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 2:47 PM on May 9, 2024

I need a cold shower after reading this.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 8:59 AM on May 9, 2024

Isn't it cool, Norwegian Pearl?
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 5:53 AM on May 9, 2024

MetaFilter: just because some accountant at Oxford had never heard of it proves nothing at all; oak beams always become beetly in the end
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 2:41 AM on May 9, 2024

'That is a hilarious suggestion, given the competition.'”

This flak just won my heart.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 12:25 PM on May 8, 2024

"Coloring Gravity's Rainbow" suggests that "Tyrone" as in Slothrop echoes Tyrian (purple).

a-and on page 166, "Tyrian purple, alizarin and indigo, other coal-tar dyes are here, but the important one is mauve. William Perkin discovered it in England, but he was trained by Hofmann, who was trained by Liebig. There is a succession involved. If it is karmic it's only in a very limited sense..."… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 12:23 PM on May 8, 2024

this is why i only ever use the what3words system to describe where I am.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 8:34 AM on May 8, 2024

a different take: 🇪🇺 European Accelerationism - eu/acc
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 8:18 AM on May 8, 2024

it looks as though the koala is bent over and barfing there on the verge at the end of their mad dash through the triathlon, which to be fair is not an uncommon occurrence for the triathletes themselves after a long run
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 2:44 AM on May 8, 2024

on preview, oh god GenjiandProust I just can't
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 2:46 AM on May 8, 2024