Awesome. I’m liking the request posts in this thread to mark off which ones I’ve already liked.
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I think I already liked the ones above, but I’ll double-check. (If you check my stats, you’d see that I’m a bit promiscuous with the likes. Embarrassingly so.)
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Raises hand in solidarity and looks around sheepishly…
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Well, I was fighting for myself as well as for you!
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subextraordinaire:
Embarrassingly so.
I might…have a problem in that area too…
And thanks for all the likes upthread. I is badged!
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Already liked it. Anyone else?
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It may be gauche to nominate one of your own, but I actually requested this very nomination process to be a feature in a BB meta thread…so it’s for the system, not me, I swear!
A thought on more “qualitative” badges, and the potential for “nominations”.
There have been contributors who have shown two behaviors that I think ought to be encouraged by the bbs, but current badges have no way of reflecting this. and both would require a process of nomination and voting to approve their distribution.
content expert - to a person who clearly has some professional knowledge, or at least specific passion for, a specific topic, and spends time setting the record straight on …
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Doesn’t this very topic achieve what you described there, more or less?
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As much as I dislike profanity, this is just hilarious.
Angel: Fifty bucks you can’t hit those two Aussie drivers at the same time.
God: You fuckin’ kidding me? Look at all those trees. It’d be a slam-dunk.
Angel: Do it then.
God: I’m gonna. [blows down all the trees]
Angel: HA! Grease my palms, bitch.
God: Fuck you. Here. [Hands him fifty-dollar bill].
Angel: What the—fifty Aussie bucks? Fuck you.
God: Hey, that’s good ice cream money.
Angel: Ice cream, my holy ass. I’m going to Chicago and getting myself some H.
God: Whatever. Jus…
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And this one is just sublime:
Sounds unlikely to me. I call BS.
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I always learn something reading BB but this post was a concentrated dose of education:
Not necessarily the best call either, as its not nearly that simple. Most fisheries for larger, well known fish species are in deep shit. Few of them are sustainable. I try to limit myself to those wild fisheries that are clearly sustainable. Or at least fish pulled from smaller, independent fishing operations and coops. These are typically the operations that are most environmentally benign. And for the most part I attempt to stick to fish caught, distributed, etc in my region. Asside from that…
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Well thank you, now I wish I bothered to cite some things. If anyone is more curious about these things google is your friend. Seafood Watch is the usual go to for ratings on sustainability of various things on a fish by fish basis.
When in doubt eat farmed shellfish raised in your own country. Its the single most environmentally beneficial thing you can eat from the water.
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I’ve read this post like ten times now and I’m still laughing (yes, out loud) every damn time:
Some things would be so much simpler if we all lived in small communities. You’re looking for a new place to live in a new town and you arrive and you see “Welkum To Grugsham: Perpulashun: Thurdsay” you know the school system sucks, but you can probably get away with cheating on your taxes.
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Time to pay a little back. Y’all too kind.
This. For the last three sentences. So you’ll need to go there to read them. And hit like while you’re there.
Before this conversation encourages anyone else to post pics of spiders, and I’m looking at you @ficuswhisperer :
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I have another relevant story to the thread to share. I gave a guest lecture tonight on gender and negotiation in librarianship, which is particularly important in my field because we hover at ~85% female. I gave my usual caveat at the beginning. While we often we talk about gender in terms of male and female, it’s the societal constructs commonly assigned to both that I’m …
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Oh good. Mother always wanted to see Paris…
Went well with my coffee this morning.
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