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This is wonderful, a perfect blend of nostalgic homage, ironic reimagining, batshit cray-cray & verve.

The Care Bears deserve no less! When you need them they'll be there...
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 3:01 AM on March 2, 2024

Is it same to assume that the post title is a reference to OMD?

perfectly same!
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 1:11 AM on March 2, 2024

I guess Boeing is making moves to buy back their previously spun-off main body assembly company to put it under their direct control. I wonder if they were ordered to do this by the FAA.

The NeoMax must fly
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 4:58 PM on March 1, 2024

do you eat lefse with just butter, like a slice of bread, or do you add butter and a huge pile of sugar so that it crunches when you eat like God intended?

This is one of those rhetorical questions, right?
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 7:16 AM on March 1, 2024

lefser is plural, lefse is just one. always eat them plural
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 8:48 AM on March 1, 2024

I’m waiting for the follow-up post on lutefisk

Flagged for offensive content and threats of chemical weapons.

Weapons of Norge Digestion
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 10:12 AM on March 1, 2024

Oh come on, it’s his penis!

Assigned Hambone At Birth
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 3:41 PM on February 19, 2024

I have read Moby Dick 6 times. I have always assumed the Ahab's peg leg is on the same side of his body as the long white scar that runs down his face (and possible his body).

Don't leave us hanging here, trapped between two worlds; which side!?
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 11:24 AM on February 20, 2024

EXTRACTS: Ahab's Leg Dilemma Pt 3
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 9:37 AM on February 29, 2024

Rolex = roll eggs, well done Uganda
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 9:15 AM on February 29, 2024

Meanwhile: Portugal has bacalhau à bras [Portuguese recipe]
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 9:19 AM on February 29, 2024

Or maybe "they" did it on purpose: The Google Gemini conspiracy theory
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 1:57 PM on February 28, 2024

Related: A former senior Boeing employee on why he still won’t fly on a MAX plane.

‘I’m Not Trying to Cause a Scene. I Just Want to Get Off This Plane.’
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 1:47 PM on February 28, 2024

I wish I could laugh at this, because what fascism and its bluenosed enablers need is to be laughed at, drowned out by the raucous guffawing of a huge mob of everybody who finds them ridiculous, pathetic and laughable. I wish I could laugh, because they deserve it.

I wish I could laugh.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 12:07 PM on February 28, 2024

Sheriff Robert Norris is speaking into his body camera. “Today’s date is April 20, approximately 7 a.m.

you know what else is April 20?

That's right: Adolf Hitler's birthday.

I wish I could laugh.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 12:11 PM on February 28, 2024

I'm offended by the cock in Marianna Cochran's name.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 12:22 PM on February 28, 2024

fun! interesting reuse of d12 there (I think)
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 6:40 AM on February 28, 2024

Really? Can we not do this? This single-link recipe posting thing? I mean, come on, really. Especially when the single link is nothing more than a brilliant essay with details on how to make some extraordinarily fantastic-looking spicy dish along with wonderful pictures of something that seems too yummy to be real. I mean now I'm starving and have an itch for mapo tofu that will be difficult to scratch. Come on.


[I hope you will all be able to tell that I am… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 2:24 AM on February 28, 2024

Almost everyone I’ve ever met would be well-served by spending more time thinking about what to focus on.

well, he's not wrong

—Sam Altman

wait, wait oh yes he is!
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 3:14 PM on February 27, 2024

MetaFilter: it's a detailed, comprehensive look at the future, and it's pretty wrong
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 11:28 AM on February 27, 2024

This is pretty interesting, a tight summary of his tricks (and also how other politicians use them, differently).
I never thought I would hear myself say this, but it would actually be interesting to cut Prof. Mercieca's explication with illustrative clips of Trump on the stump and in the act of committing rhetoric.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 2:31 AM on February 27, 2024

tell me your region is filled with Scandinavians without telling me your region is filled with Scandinavians
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 4:38 AM on February 26, 2024

thomas pynchon writing a short story about money and drinking

ah but it cannot do the hands

hands in the style of MC Escher
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 3:37 PM on February 25, 2024

The terayacht takes its name from Pangea

way to go, name your future floating civilization after something that famously broke up and drifted apart
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 5:07 AM on February 25, 2024

SPEED RUNNING THE BULLSHIT BINGO

FTW
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 6:44 AM on February 25, 2024

More about sperm whales
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 3:47 AM on February 25, 2024

sheesh, everyone's a diacritic!

(here's an excellent example of the New Yorker flexing its umlauts, in an article that not only deploys the accent aigu but also the slashed o: She grew up listening to the Beatles; when she was around eight, an uncle got her into American glam metal. “I was this little kid, still wearing pink, and listening to Mötley Crüe,” she said. “I didn’t have a lot of people to share my particular interest for this weird music with.”)
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 9:42 AM on February 24, 2024

First, get a really big metal detector....
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 6:07 AM on February 24, 2024

I'm not sure which I like better, "affective cartography" or "uneven Anthropocene"
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 6:04 AM on February 24, 2024

And, it’s the thought that counts.

When we finally get true artificial intelligence (sentience, singularity &c) then we will be able to outsource offload the countable thought as well!
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 4:40 AM on February 24, 2024

Related: Is the Media Prepared for an Extinction-Level Event? [The New Yorker; ungated]
and
A Requiem for the Culture of The Wall Street Journal
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 4:25 AM on February 24, 2024

Per the video it’s relatively common if you’ve worked rides long enough

"or even if you've worked with rides for short enough"
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 4:39 AM on February 23, 2024

bend violet...
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 4:33 AM on February 23, 2024

I'm not sure who're the bigger monsters here. The pedos or the mothers prostituting their daughters to them.

¿Por que no los dos?
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 12:56 AM on February 23, 2024

The people who truly love R.E.M. know that they were the best band in the world but tend to have trouble articulating why.

QFT
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 5:35 AM on February 22, 2024

Stipe's mealy-mouthed, near-nonsensical lyrics

you go stand in the corner now
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 11:48 AM on February 22, 2024

"Things went horribly wrong when I discovered rock and roll" --The Edge

This is great, thanks for posting.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 5:00 AM on February 20, 2024

The book is available to borrow from the Internet Archive
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 8:52 AM on February 19, 2024

what if your fetish is toeing the middle ground, so to speak?
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 2:38 PM on February 18, 2024

The new crypto mega group and its affiliates have attracted prominent Democratic and Republican consulting firms.

Like flies to shit
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 10:37 AM on February 18, 2024

I’m still recovering from it all.

I expect that's because you did what any right-thinking person did and celebrated both 1/1/2000 and 1/1/2001 as if they were the NEW MILLENNIUM

extra points for celebrating it all year long
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 6:35 AM on February 17, 2024

“We should set the record straight that there aren’t some shark-ray shenanigans happening here,”

shark-ray shenanigans is a MetaFilter username just sitting there for the taking
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 2:03 AM on February 17, 2024

being able to keep generating stuff until you get something you like is a pretty fundamental feature of the technology

also of being an artist
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 9:57 AM on February 16, 2024

This is a lovely thing to do. I kind of wonder though if it wouldn't have been easier to just build the picnic site 150 meters away.

Meanwhile: yeah I'm not going to a picnic 150 meters away from trapdoor spiders
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 1:03 AM on February 16, 2024

You know they stay in or very close to their burrows, right?

That's what they want you to think!
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 2:37 AM on February 16, 2024

My birthday is on the 16th. Fuck Valentine's Day trying to steal my thunder.

Valentine's Day is ... my ... birthday.

So, I automagically ruin the plans of any romantics in my immediate environs because they have to focus on me and not their petty little affairs of the heart!
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 12:25 PM on February 14, 2024

sounds like catlighting
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 3:45 AM on February 15, 2024

Do Lenny Bruce and Lester Bangs know about this?

they are not afraid

[Birthday party, cheesecake, jelly bean, boom]
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 1:49 PM on February 14, 2024

Related: Armadillos in our trousers and Derek Smalls / Airport Security

...tuning fork...
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 8:03 AM on February 14, 2024

That is an excellent overview of a horrible man & his horrible system and a fascinating look at the state of modern journalism, among many other things. It's kayfabe all the way down, except when it isn't.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 12:47 AM on February 13, 2024