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MetaFilter: Poo-eaters and a whole lot of moths
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 3:05 AM on February 12, 2024

Oh no... that is like a textbook definition of tragic.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 3:03 AM on February 12, 2024

this is how their world ends
with a bang AND a whimper.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 7:20 AM on February 10, 2024

Note: I am old. I still travel with a book no matter where I'm going because I fear having nothing to read.

Are you me? I often take Charles Portis' The Dog of the South with me when traveling, because even though I have read it a hundred times every time I read it it's like it's the first time, and that book just weirdly calms me down.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 7:16 AM on February 10, 2024

This is great!
Also useful: Juggling Notation
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 4:57 PM on February 9, 2024

There are a lot of excellent reasons to celebrate the posts of chariots pulled by cassowaries but for me the best bit is I always learn of the existence in the world of some animal I've never heard of! Goannas! Numbats!
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 3:19 PM on February 9, 2024

I made one too.

I miss making mixtapes too. I made many many in the 80s & early 90s. CDs killed that. Tried with Spotify et. al. but it just ain't the same. This ain't either, but it's fun.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 2:58 PM on February 8, 2024

has anyone here read:

Butler to the World: How Britain Helps the World’s Worst People Launder Money, Commit Crimes, and Get Away with Anything by Oliver Bullough?

Not yet, but I did read the "prequel," Moneyland and it is very good. HIghly recommended.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 12:30 PM on February 8, 2024

Wannabe Bezos.

Wannabezos!
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 4:11 AM on February 8, 2024

This will be either really good for watching porn, or really terrible. That this primary driver of tech uptake isn't even mentioned in this article (or the WaPo one about data privacy) is ... interesting.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 1:45 AM on January 31, 2024

I said: This will be either really good for watching porn, or really terrible.
I read: ‘$3,500 Chastity Belt’: Early Apple Vision Pro Adopters Alarmed to Learn VR Porn Doesn't Work
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 9:30 AM on February 6, 2024

Not surprised to find Words With Friends 2 rated "bad"; I was finally able to unhook from that a year or so ago -- liberation!
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 11:54 AM on February 5, 2024

This is great stuff. As someone who adores ink (in particular black ink) and yet can't draw for toffee, this leaves me agog.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 12:44 PM on February 4, 2024

They need to do this in the Bay Area, then they could call it Bus-Bee Berkeley to match the old Humphrey Go-Bart shuttles.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 5:10 AM on February 3, 2024

the Fifty-Fifty makes for a nice change, once in awhile, and puts paid to all that "wave at Italy" guff.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 2:37 AM on February 3, 2024

To me he'll always be Action Jackson (and not Lando!). Take care, Carl.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 1:39 AM on February 3, 2024

Eventually I hacked into the server and installed a script which gradually turned the volume down as the day progressed. Nobody noticed.

Brilliant. When I was a kid my parents would play classical music at high volume and I would turn it down a notch each time I walked by until it was gone. Did that with "The Prairie Home Companion" too, no one ever noticed.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 2:03 AM on February 2, 2024

Well the children were above average.

the adults, however, were stone bores
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 11:06 AM on February 2, 2024

I'm here for this, right now.

A nice video too, sort of like as if "Take On Me" grew up and got old.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 1:20 AM on February 2, 2024

made me wonder why it's so often restaurants, and so rarely newspapers...

Might be it's harder to launder money right in front of a bunch of journalists
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 12:54 AM on February 2, 2024

A Startup Allegedly ‘Hacked the World.’ Then Came the Censorship—and Now the Backlash [Wired]
Sorry Appin, We’re Not Taking Down Our Article About Your Attempts To Silence Reporters [TechDirt]
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 2:02 PM on February 1, 2024

the best one:

Finally if the post is about something O.P. cares about, remember that you’ve cared about it longer, deeper, harder than they have, and that even someone’s care can be a basis for your triumph, along with condemning them for all those other things they evidently do not care about.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 2:44 PM on January 31, 2024

MetaFilter: like a bindle-bag of logical fallacies
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 1:27 AM on February 1, 2024

We're so lucky to have rich people around. I hope they never leave us

As it doesn't say in the Bible, "the rich ye shall always have with ye"
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 11:14 AM on January 30, 2024

The average member of Generation Alpha as defined here is 6½ years old

All of the members of Generation Alpha are above average.

Living in a cardboard box in the middle of the road, nothing to eat but a handful of hot gravel?

You had gravel?!
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 12:22 PM on January 28, 2024

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit and of course here's La Banana
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 12:20 PM on January 28, 2024

Love that story, also the aside that people didn't believe Kinkade could have ridden the rails like a hobo when that was mentioned in his obituary.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 8:23 AM on January 28, 2024

QFT: “There's not a binary that is categorically one thing or the other when it comes to genitalia”
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 2:13 AM on January 28, 2024

and loathed by almost everyone else

I like Vegemite, and am not Australian.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 10:07 AM on January 27, 2024

"genocidal self-defense" may end up a term of art.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 4:51 AM on January 27, 2024

Contrary to the posters, we don’t live in a big clockwork, we live in a dance club, and while some of us are doing the same old waltz with our same old moon, there are bodies out there do-si-do-ing their way all over the solar system.

lovely.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 4:48 AM on January 27, 2024

Judge Absolutely Kneecaps Trump’s Testimony in E. Jean Carroll Trial

Kaplan told the jury to disregard everything after “Yes, I did.”
Kaplan interjected that the jury should ignore everything Trump said after “no.”

This is how you deal with TFG.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 4:44 AM on January 27, 2024

one word
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 3:09 AM on January 27, 2024

I know, let's drown all the supercomputers and see if that yield artificial general intelligence
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 2:57 PM on January 26, 2024

So this was really about making perfect cups of tea by using briny water?
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 8:30 AM on January 25, 2024

as if someone was livestreaming wiping their arse with a screenprinted teatowel of elizabeth ii while singing the fuckin' marseillaise

Your ideas are intriguing to me, and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 9:00 AM on January 25, 2024

Villa Mauresque . . . where you can stay [€250/room]

Some are set up in
the Somerset Maugham suite...
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 2:02 AM on January 25, 2024

That's very pretty. How would you get the water for the swimming pool into space in the first place?
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 1:59 AM on January 25, 2024

Matt Levine adds his 2 cts.: Pastor Got His Crypto Scam Audited
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 12:23 PM on January 24, 2024

I’m pretty sure this practice of handing out stimulants and sleep drugs goes back a long time before Trump.

George Washington grew hemp
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 12:16 PM on January 24, 2024

There’s a line from Jonathan Swift, although the idea goes back millennia: “Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.”

more recently, William Gaddis: “Justice? --You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.”
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 9:47 AM on January 24, 2024

but no one was able to really put a finger on it.

I see what they did there.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 12:33 AM on January 22, 2024

MetaFilter: like dog crap studded with semiprecious stones
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 12:25 PM on January 21, 2024

These characteristics are typical of a special type of meeting place known as “a hanging promontory” site thought to be places for meetings of large groups.

That "promontory" is doing the opposite of hanging
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 5:18 AM on January 20, 2024

It was a good fraud, Brent

[This dents my faith in humanity. Not in doggity though.]
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 12:34 PM on January 16, 2024

Update, the Portuguese media is reporting that Bobi has not been "stripped of his title" but that the nomination process for new candidates has been suspended while they assess the process. That is to say, he may yet be stripped of the title, but so far has not. And since new candidates are not being accepted, Bobi's record may stand for a long time. [Bobi's person blames the kerfuffle on "big processed dog food," saying in part Bobi lived so long because he never ate that… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 3:44 AM on January 18, 2024

also, Portugal X is now photoshopping Bobi into recognizable historic moments like the April 25th revolution (1974), the trucker standoff on one of the Lisbon bridges (early 1990s) and the big bean feast on the newer Lisbon bridge (1998) [links are all X links] plenty more at the hashtag #BobiNoPanteao
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 10:48 AM on January 18, 2024

A legend. New Horizons in Music Appreciation , in addition to being hilarious, is the best introductory lecture on sonata form I've ever encountered.

I just listened to half of this with only the right-side ear bud in. It was funny that way, but much much better with the left-ear bud in & the music track running...
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 2:12 AM on January 18, 2024

Big fan of Bitches Brew, I used to be scared of that album when I would flip past it in my parents' collection of LPs. Later, blew my mind.

That said, he's no "McClintic Sphere"
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 1:15 PM on January 16, 2024

Disgraced insurrectionist rapist traitor bigly as geebus

or D.I.R.T. B.A.G.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 11:29 AM on January 16, 2024