It’s not surprising because so many Americans are so fat. We’ve trained ourselves to see overweight as normal and obese as a little overweight. (I’m not exempting myself, because I’m still overweight and had crept up to the border of obesity before I got a handle on it...but still had people saying “oh, you’re not fat”…

2 is not going to help much because a late 1st round pick doesn’t mean much in basketball. 4 is a great idea, and along with parts of 3 (increasing the cap and making it a hard cap) I’d go so far as to say that the league needs a variable cap that allows small market teams to spend more than the teams that every free…

Exactly. I agree that we’ve become germophobic in general as a society, but when I’m embarking on a vacation I’m damn sure going to take precautions to make it less likely my vacation is ruined. The only time I regularly use hand sanitizer is right before and during my vacations for that reason.

Just this week, British Airways even experimented with a “no-clean trial” between flights coming from Heathrow, London to Dublin, Ireland, meaning cabins weren’t cleaned at all (so they could better make their scheduled departure times)

I guess I’d draw the distinction between whether something frequently involves corporations and exploitation, or requires it. Consumerism is all over American society, no doubt, but sneaker collecting stands out because it’s not like there are people hand-making their own shoes for the art of it.

I’m having a really hard time with the use of the word “culture” around a hobby rooted in an industry that has always been about multi-billion dollar corporations charging hundreds of dollars for something that cost a couple bucks for people who are essentially slave labor to put together in an overseas sweatshop.

We can agree that a very basic litmus test for intelligence would be not voting for Trump, right? Well, 37% of millennials voted for him in 2016.

People who consider entire generations to be monolithic entities where everyone shares the same values are the dumbest people.

Yeah, it’s one thing to argue that my definition of fairness differs from your definition. To bemoan the entire concept is some caricature-of-an-evil-billionaire type stuff.

Agreed. This isn’t a baseball player making less than a million dollars a year before he’s eligible for arbitration, or a running back languishing under a rookie deal who will never get a big payday because of the brevity of careers at that position. Davis is making more than $25M a year, fully guaranteed, and barring…

Yeah, I’m team mountain lion. There’s a vast overage of human beings in this world.

If Tom Ricketts came out and said that his father was a racist shit-for-brains, or even something with the same effect but cleaned up a bit, that would be one thing. I don’t see one thing in his statement that directly condemns his father’s racism; referencing “the language and views” in the emails as if they were…

Yeah, they can try to distance themselves by saying that Joe doesn’t have any control over the operations but the fact remains that his money bankrolled the sale.

The added bonus is that there’s a good chance that the Ricketts’ refusal to pay the luxury tax is also going to curtail their championship window. So while they did bring the first championship to the team in over a century, they might turn out to be big failures from a baseball standpoint as well as racist assholes.

Yeah, we don’t do this for a couple of reasons (use of ingredients that are potentially poisonous to dogs, and the fact that we’re trying to keep our dog from getting fat), but I don’t understand the gross-out factor here. You’re washing/sanitizing the dishes afterward.

I do this and I don’t know why...it’s some kind of a mental block against finishing something. And I was neither poor nor in a class-conscious family growing up.

What a ridiculous thing to say. Ignorance, particularly the willful kind that is required to continue to believe in racist conspiracy theories even when they’ve been thoroughly debunked, has very little to do with age.

Yeah, I don’t get it. The only reason to enjoy a blowout is if you’re a fan of the team winning. Otherwise, blowouts are incredibly boring.

Jared Goff is about 100 times more to blame for this loss than Sean McVay. He’s just not a good QB, and it takes really good scheme and coaching to mask that and make him look like he’s good.

My contention is that Goff is a very mediocre QB, maybe the 20th best in the league in terms of aptitude. McVay gets about as much as anyone could get out of him, but no coach could mask Goff’s shortcomings to the point of winning a Super Bowl against any team with a good offense.