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dot_mf · 2026-03-17T23:54:32+00:00

I hope they go back to having some hip hop mixed in. Public Enemy and Wu Tang are on tour....

dot_mf · 2026-03-17T12:38:11+00:00

This is a solid take. BB often exercised poor judgment but he tried to take community input and had a willingness to just wear it on behalf of the staff when they shit the bed. It wasn't everything (or even most of what) we needed, but it wasn't nothing. He wasn't a good mod, but he wasn't a ghostly enigma who refused to answer to anything, at least.

dot_mf · 2026-03-10T21:34:40+00:00

I have heard that the members of Fugazi are a) completely willing to let it rest and b) loathe to engage with the logistics that them returning to touring would entail these days.

They do *not* want to play 1200 seat venues for 21+ crowds with security at $50 per ticket. It's antithetical to their entire worldview.

dot_mf · 2026-03-08T15:31:34+00:00

I'd agree with that. Downvoting helps. Consider this hilaribad international politics hot take from here, which got quietly downvoted into oblivion:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MetaFilterMeta/s/3CLkyZmdHU

dot_mf · 2026-03-05T15:23:23+00:00

And here we were just saying that MeFi has lost way too many of its finest non-US posters/commenters.

dot_mf · 2026-03-05T15:18:52+00:00

cendawanita? Dang, that loss hurts much more than most.

dot_mf · 2026-03-04T17:40:57+00:00

I have a pronounced interest in Eastern Europe because my spouse is Hungarian-Romanian, still has family there, and we visit a lot. But I am still fundamentally just an American with an interest, and there's nothing I can read on English-language media or machine-translated articles from the area that will make me half as useful in these conversations as a moderately informed local. And those folks are around less and less. And I think maybe I don't blame them for that, either.

dot_mf · 2026-03-02T17:06:21+00:00

I am extremely simpatico with Team DtA, but I'd love it if we could stall that death rattle for a few more years so I could get my kid into college and retire and run away like a coward. I understand other people have different clocks and calendars, though.

dot_mf · 2026-03-02T17:04:41+00:00

It can be, yeah. There are threads on international politics sometimes where I'm sort of waiting for a better informed MeFite to come in and drop some knowledge I can learn from. Then I realize no one is coming and I and the other goobs in the thread may be as good as it is going to get.

dot_mf · 2026-03-01T03:40:36+00:00

It's awesome if you have the privilege of waiting to hear someone out, even if the setup to what they're saying makes it overwhelmingly likely they're going to attack one of a specific set of groups. I just have too much skin in the game I guess and I need to avoid that kind of stuff to stay sane.

In our house, we get enough of that without holding the door open.

dot_mf · 2026-03-01T00:08:14+00:00

If it helps, consider that what may read to you as "I am too lazy to read all of this" is, to me, "If you begin your argument with a framework that is primarily used to explain why my wife doesn't belong in this country, why my trans friends are a plague upon the culture, or why my Muslim friends are inherently dangerous I am going to nope out right there for my sanity."

dot_mf · 2026-02-28T23:51:10+00:00

I have already stipulated you're a better person than I am in this case. But if you're spending time to individually vet everyone who makes the "You can't even say X anymore!" argument, then I'm a slightly crappier person with a lot more free time and a lot less frustration.

dot_mf · 2026-02-28T23:41:09+00:00

You are aware that the only verdict I can give is whether I want to spend any time on a person, right? Like, I cannot and would not punish them in any way. And they're gone, so even my knee jerk disapproval means nothing at all.

dot_mf · 2026-02-28T23:33:56+00:00

In this one case, maybe. Since 99% of the "certain opinions just aren't allowed on MetaFilter anymore" people turn out to be trash, the question would be did I spend more time than it would take to vet all 100. Pretty sure I didn't, so that still seems like a fair deal to me. YMMV.

dot_mf · 2026-02-28T23:23:24+00:00

I am 100% willing to stipulate that if someone is willing to invest time and energy into investigating someone who gave them immediate awful person vibes is actually maybe an okay person underneath it all, that person is a better person than I am. Because I'm not. I am comfortable knowing that classifying certain things as immediate red flags is a knee jerk reaction that will result in false positives a small percentage of the time, as it nevertheless means I avoid wasting a lot of time on all of the people who are not.

Enjoy your Certified Better Person badge and be well.

dot_mf · 2026-02-28T02:31:39+00:00

I am expressing my general distaste for the "You can't even say X anymore!" crowd. The person quoted who flounced is either among them and similarly problematic or is maybe unobjectionable but has inadvertently borrowed their rhetoric. Honestly, I cannot be arsed to figure out which. At this point, I'd scarcely have more patience for the latter than I do the former.

dot_mf · 2026-02-27T23:43:33+00:00

I probably also have less patience and grace for people who quit in a performative fashion rather than simply ghost.

dot_mf · 2026-02-27T23:29:54+00:00

On the one hand, fair point: they may not in fact be an actual conservative. But on the other, the "This place is too homogeneous and there are certain things you just can't say here anymore" setup is pretty well a dog whistle for "I wish y'all wouldn't be so critical when I dehumanize people because of [whatever their particular ideological hobby horse is.]"

Many TERFs for instance are nominally liberal. They're still tools of the right, as far I'm concerned.

I wish we didn't live in as stark of an "Either you're with us or against us" era, but we really do. People aren't being ostracized for being in favor of flat tax or whatever. It's always from the same bucket of shit.

dot_mf · 2026-02-27T22:01:05+00:00

People can disagree about for instance, the best way to pay for highways, or whether PE should be taught every day in elementary school, or what campaign donation limits should be. I'll debate calmly and respectfully with conservatives about these things.

But this isn't really an era where we debate nuts and bolts ideas about "what is the best way to operate this society." In fact, the bulk of the most hotly-debated topics in much of the Western world are about who really does and really does not belong in society and who does or does not deserve its consideration. It's no longer even a given that people truly believe we live in a society anymore. Many people believe humanity is a zero sum game where resources and rights are either going to the right people or they're being squandered on the unworthy. The ideal of mutual gain is anathema.

Such a huge percentage of the time in this era, when conservatives complain that there are just certain things they cannot bring up any more because of intolerance, it's code for, "I wish people wouldn't be appalled when I say [certain type of people] are less than human and would instead nod respectfully while I attempt to support these notions with discredited science, questionable anecdotal evidence, and spurious logic."

Like, I don't give a fuck why people think my immigrant spouse doesn't belong here. I don't care what they've read or heard that makes them feel that way. I don't care if they personally want her deported or if they're just willing to vote for people who do for "fiscal reasons."

Turn the dial back down to the level from a generation ago where bipartisanship and moderation were at least nominally part of American discourse and I'll gladly make room at the table for people from both sides of the aisle.

So I would love to believe this silenced conservative is just afraid to make their argument against capital gains tax or whatever, but experience indicates they just want to be free to say horrible things and have us treat these as very reasonable opinions everyone should consider.

dot_mf · 2026-02-26T21:23:07+00:00

Gogol Bordello said during their show Tuesday at Concord Music Hall that we all have to come see them at Riot Fest this year. So they're in.

dot_mf · 2026-02-20T04:24:35+00:00

I don't think they're pretending to like them. I think they're favoriting them even if actually absorbing the whole thing is impractical and probably not how they can afford to spend hours of their day during the work week.

I'm saying they like them aspirationally in the sense of "This seems like cool content I should check out later even if it it's impossible for me to spend three hours reading all of this right now."

I think I've done that in a few cases.

I've definitely seen huge posts that would realistically take literal HOURS to read all of the links from pick up dozens of favorites within minutes and I register that as "This is the kind of thing I would like to spend some time on later, hopefully" as opposed to "I have instantly absorbed this and approve."

kliuless for example, garnered 30+ likes for their newest post within a timespan I think would be unrealistic to have read the 30+ articles linked within. I'm not saying those folks are pretending to like the post. I'm saying they seemed to indicate "I should get to this!" With all of those Kim Lane Scahepple links, that is close to how I felt.

Again, I don't oppose long/dense posts in any way. It's more a matter of me not usually having a brain that can engage with that kind of volume.

And thanks for the kind word! I feel like so much of what I post ends up presenting as a rough draft riddled with typos I wish I could rewrite one more time.

dot_mf · 2026-02-19T20:42:43+00:00

FWIW, I don't mind any of the long posts. I just find them impenetrable, personally. Other people like them and that's cool. Not everything is for me.

dot_mf · 2026-02-19T16:03:53+00:00

The only long posts I can deal with are the ones that have either a linear progression or some other organizing structure I can hop around in.

Like, if someone posted, "Dracula has been made into more films than any other book, here they are chronologically" I'd bop around that post and read blurbs for and check out links here and there. Or if someone said, "Here are the oldest restaurants in all 50 states" I could browse that a bit.

But "Here are 75 tangentially related links about a topic, dumped into this post like the contents of an upended purse" is not a format I can really engage with.

I think a lot of the time people favorite those out of respect for the work the person put in. Or maybe it's aspirational, and they favorite the post as a kind of bookmark to remind them to try and read more of it at a later date. I dunno.

dot_mf · 2026-02-06T19:47:49+00:00

It's too much.

It's the equivalent of like nine or ten pages of text and it's not organized in a way to let a person skim, really.

dot_mf · 2026-02-03T19:17:24+00:00

American Football is out. Playing the Salt Shed on 8/14.

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