Diseased Thinking: Dissolving Questions About Disease

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this seems like it has lead to emotionally charged tangents -- mathowie

posted by Human Flesh

fuck yeah, neil's dog cabal!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Dogs are great and I heart Neil, but this is a really one-note blog and not in a "what a fascinating niche" sort of way. That internet celebrity is weird and interesting is true but doesn't make a post referencing some kinda banal Exhibit A a great post by itself. -- cortex

posted by Fizz

Invert to Dislike

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Sorry, kind of a thin lame-ish project to hinge on a post. -- mathowie

posted by nayrb5

2012/0

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this is not a good post for metafilter. EU Tiimes is a sketch website and this article is weird and misleading. -- jessamyn

posted by falcon

Memorial Day.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: It's a nice thought I guess, but you know really well by now that this not how the front page works. -- cortex

posted by markkraft

Tale of Success

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I'm sorry but you are now spamming metafilter. -- vacapinta

posted by susanharper

Fun while it lasted...

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Looks like this isn't actually what you thought it was. -- cortex

posted by shockingbluamp

"...punch the mime out."

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Eh, thin link is thin. Probably best to just skip a post if you find yourself apologizing for it when you make it. -- cortex

posted by marienbad

Darn.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: There's some sort of "Art 2: Dee Too" joke in here but I can't make it work so but anyway this is a double. -- cortex

posted by AirBeagle

Ipad: it only needed just one more thing.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Yeah, this comes off too much like a blog entry to work as a mefi post. -- cortex

posted by skepticallypleased

And that's that

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Sort of a bad-timing ships passing in the night thing here with the Metatalk thread, no worries mazola. -- cortex

posted by mazola

Writing Online for Money?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Yeah, the article seems pretty grindy and the blog it's on is weirdly SEO-obsessed ("AC does nofollow" is an ethical complaint?); this seems not so great as the main meat of a post. -- cortex -- jessamyn

posted by susanharper

Happy Birthday, Mukhtars!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: more like 2dselsdag -- cortex

posted by boo_radley

Ex-lawyer jailed 14 months, but not charged with a crime

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This post was deleted for the following reason: kind of thin for a post. -- mathowie

posted by lungtaworld

Writers' Dilemma

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This leans a bit over the line in terms of too much editorial in the post. The context, with adequate framing of course, should usually speak for itself. -- vacapinta

posted by susanharper

A uniquely spoonoid lifestyle

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Alas, these waters have been spooned before. -- cortex

posted by i_am_joe's_spleen

The human race has found its successor

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This bear will hit you so hard you'll wake up in 2008. -- cortex

posted by cloeburner

Abstraction Chapter 1

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This post was deleted for the following reason: PANTS -- cortex

posted by nthdegx

Metafilter in the news

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Metafilter-related news belongs in Metatalk, where it is already so hey cool. -- cortex

posted by MechEng

Should we accept polygamy? Even religons that kind of do don't seem sure.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This is neither a very good link or at all a good way to present one. -- cortex

posted by sstapley

Crater Face, a cartoon

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This post was deleted for the following reason: two moon pimples indeed! -- jessamyn

posted by The Devil Tesla

"Of course me being me, I took it to the extreme..."

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This post was deleted for the following reason: LET'S NOT MAKE A HOBBIT OF THIS AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA -- cortex

posted by desjardins

Garbage Dreams Home Video DVD!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Okay, so this is a blatant self-link. -- cortex

posted by Mina Naguib

WAKKA WAKKA WAKKA WAKKA WAKKA WAKKA WAKKA WAKKA

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This post was deleted for the following reason: * . . . . . >) -- cortex

posted by Pope Guilty

THE TITLE IS THIS IS THE TITLE IS THIS IS THE TITLE

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This post was deleted for the following reason: PARANOIA PARANOIA EVERYBODY'S COMING TO POST ME -- cortex

posted by The Whelk

It's life Jim, but not as we know it.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: posted previously -- vacapinta

posted by jonesor

Crowdsource scientific research

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This post was deleted for the following reason: The future of being fucking banned for self-linking. -- cortex

posted by databuff

“SO GORGEOUS was the spectacle..."

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Wikipedia and Amazon links are neither generally good enough for a post without something more substantial included as well; there's not really anything here for anyone to read. -- cortex

posted by kgander

It's a metaphor for change, and for industrial processes, and for the eternal conflict between production and consumption. It's a metaphor about inten

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This post was deleted for the following reason: What disillusioned said -- mathowie

posted by twoleftfeet

A very special Public Service Announcement

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Posted previously -- mathowie

posted by scalefree

Get it while it's hot!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this is good news. Now we can all join MeFightClub and... go hiking or something. -- jessamyn

posted by valkyryn

A (non?) Social Experiment

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This post was deleted for the following reason: There's plenty of active discussion of why Facebook sucks/doesn't suck/etc, and at least one mention of this particular thing, in this two-day old thread, and framing a post around a kind of shitty and risible pullquote metaphor isn't helping anything besides. -- cortex

posted by The Winsome Parker Lewis

Doing good without God

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This post was deleted for the following reason: link to a 100 word blog post on a topic that's only contextualized via the fact that peopel holer at each other about it here is probably not such a great post for metafilter. -- jessamyn

posted by evilmomlady

I've found no law that commands me in any way other than to love my neighbor as myself

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Next up: a frank look at the controversy over same-text postiage -- cortex

posted by melissam

Art Comes Alive

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Generalissimo Francisco Franco-American Still Holding Horses -- cortex

posted by Solon and Thanks

Noam Chomsky barred from entering Israel

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This post was deleted for the following reason: single ling blog op-ed abotu israel + Chomsky. If this is big news, maybe put together a non-GRAR post about it? -- jessamyn

posted by homerica

Neverland Lost

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This post was deleted for the following reason: So it looks like you work for the company that built one of these sites. Nice knowing you. -- cortex

posted by avex

The Boy Who Cried Cal

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This post was deleted for the following reason: previously -- cortex

posted by reenum

\m/

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Why does metafilter have to revolve around dio? -- cortex

posted by jonmc

Jean Claude Van Damme Dances For You

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Pretty weak looping video, sorry. -- mathowie

posted by MetaMonkey

Scene and not heard

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This post was deleted for the following reason: as near as we can tell, this is you linking to the site you work for. Against the rules. -- jessamyn

posted by chrisError

Where was this Laura when we needed her?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this sounds like more of a GYOB post. If it's worth making a MeFi post about it, take the time to compose a post that isn't a sinlge link op-ed and please spellcheck. Thanks. -- jessamyn

posted by helmutdog

Le fils de la Vulcanne

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Eh. -- cortex

posted by lholladay

Don't eat that steak! Have an avocado!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This looks like a direct response to a thread from two days ago that you are already arguing in. Please do not make followup counter-argument posts on the front page; add these links in there instead. -- cortex

posted by candasartan

Etybuilder

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This post was deleted for the following reason: to me htis is pretty interesting but I think all the good jokes have been made over at metatalk -- jessamyn

posted by Pranksome Quaine

David Horowitz Takes Question from Muslim Student Association Member

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This post was deleted for the following reason: If this is post-worthy for some reason this post does not do a good job of making clear why. -- cortex

posted by shivohum

Space Invaders in NYC

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This post was deleted for the following reason: posted previously -- mathowie

posted by hippybear

We the people of facebook

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This post was deleted for the following reason: sort of already talking about this in the other facebook thread. -- jessamyn

posted by the_very_hungry_caterpillar

onesocialweb: an open source distributed social networking system

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Yeah, we just had a Diaspora post, maybe add this there if it hasn't shown up already. -- cortex

posted by melatonic

onesocialweb: an open source distributed social networking system

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Yeah, we just had a Diaspora post, maybe add this there if it hasn't shown up already. -- cortex

posted by melatonic

nonononononononononnononononono

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This post was deleted for the following reason: see what i intend to do is attach the rear of this post to the front of the previous one... -- cortex

posted by DZack

Don't Get Caught in a Bad Hotel

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This post was deleted for the following reason: If this is worth posting about, it's worth doing in a way that doesn't bring down the hell of a thousand gaga-fatigued mefites. -- cortex

posted by jardinier

Omar (not) Walkin!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Maybe wait until something more definitive has been pinned down here? -- cortex

posted by spicynuts

The Great Zim-Zam Scam

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This post was deleted for the following reason: i'll bet he gets all kinds of girls -- cortex

posted by jtajta

Thurston Howellitz?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Man, there's got to be a better way to approach this than a short op-ed. -- cortex

posted by geoff.

Make that bitch itch.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Sorry, man, but this one doesn't feel like a winner. -- cortex

posted by ColdChef

Britain's New Prime Minister

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Missed it by a few minutes. -- cortex

posted by MajorDundee

Consummatum Est

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This seems awfully thin and the jokey presentation isn't really helping. Maybe someone can make a stronger post about this. -- cortex

posted by tigrefacile

Coordinated Universal Time

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This post was deleted for the following reason: poster's request -- jessamyn

posted by infinitefloatingbrains

in medias res

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Eh, this is kind of a mish-mash pile of images many of which have gone around the internet before. -- cortex

posted by changeling

"I mean, I support free speech and all, but..."

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This wasn't great the first time and this is arguably worse. -- cortex

posted by DZack

Maine GOP now the Tea Party

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Single link to a PDF file is very rarely a good way to go with a post. If someone wants to present this with some context, that'd probably be okay. -- cortex

posted by psilon

Frank Frazetta, February 9, 1928 - May 10, 2010

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Just missed it -- mathowie

posted by somnambulist

RIP Frank Frazetta

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Going with FLF's post, thanks for being such a sport griphus. -- cortex

posted by griphus

Frank Frazetta R.I.P

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This post was deleted for the following reason: a wikipedia link really isn't enough for an obit post, someone try again? -- jessamyn

posted by blackfly

All Complex Ecosystems have Parasites

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This post was deleted for the following reason: needs to be more facts and less LOLCORY -- jessamyn

posted by Kid Charlemagne

It's Kagan

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This post was deleted for the following reason: can you make this post once something has actually happened? -- jessamyn

posted by delmoi

Miranda Rights and Terrorism Suspects

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Maybe put some more effort into it beyond a google news link -- mathowie

posted by Rykey

A man walks into a bar

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Last call! -- cortex

posted by djgh

GEEZ, MOM!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I love EIT to death personally but I think we're getting to the point where we need to cut down on the frequency of posts about it now that mefi readers have a decent chance of knowing it's out there. -- cortex

posted by The Devil Tesla

Shaun C. Hawkins: World's Most Punchable Face?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Eh, "this guy sure is a douchebag" isn't a great reason for a post. -- cortex

posted by Optimus Chyme

The story of Willie McGee

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This post was deleted for the following reason: poster's request -- jessamyn

posted by HuronBob

Siren

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This post was deleted for the following reason: what? -- cortex

posted by Mblue

It can happen to anyone.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: It's funny in an ironic sort of way but this isn't exactly substantial news. -- cortex

posted by sidereal

Are we looking at a Huge Scam?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Single-link youtube posts are fine but I think this post needs more context -- vacapinta

posted by moorooka

Lesbians Who Look Like Justin Bieber

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Eh. -- cortex

posted by domnit

Non-profit fires single mom sex blogger

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Don't link to your employer's site. Banned. -- cortex

posted by bizwiz2

The Cleanup That Wasn't

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Maybe add this to the thread from a few days ago? -- cortex

posted by AugieAugustus

¡Quien te va chingar mas no es Satanas!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: posted previously, can you stick these links into that thread please? -- jessamyn

posted by ignignokt

Police officers in Columbia, Missouri shoot two dogs during a search raid

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this is not a good post for MetaFilter. A terrible thing has happened but a "look at these assholes" post is not really a good reason to post to metafilter. -- jessamyn

posted by Optimus Chyme

It's not easy being an american puppet in England.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: mupple -- cortex

posted by blue_beetle

Kent State

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This post was deleted for the following reason: poster's request -- cortex

posted by HuronBob

Lovely photos of Chinese ethnic groups

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This post was deleted for the following reason: posted a few months ago -- jessamyn

posted by math

Washington keeping green.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This seems more like boosterism than a solid post for mefi, all else aside. -- cortex

posted by ZaneJ.

Hitler on Fair Use: "Don't tell me it helps sales. We might as well all become communists like Stallman!"

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Maybe add that to the recent thread if it's not already there. -- cortex

posted by tybeet

Car bomb in Times Square

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Nothing is actually happening happening as far as I can tell; maybe wait until there's actually some substantial news out of this, if any, before we do a post. -- cortex

posted by EarBucket

Molest victim kills his abuser

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Okay, you are now banned. -- cortex -- jessamyn

posted by travelnut15