Der-Rebbitzer's discussions

Yeah. I know the autism spectrum disorder link was later shown to be an issue of men with those traits tend to take longer to find a partner to have a kid with rather than with anything to do with aging sperm. Big tell was that the driver was age of father for first child vs age of father overall. E.g., no additional… Read more

My experience is that men who go this route are actually turned on by the person they’re mocking, and they’re deeply afraid that their desire puts them outside of whatever weird box they desperately want to inhabit. 

If I were going to replace someone who was a creeper and maybe a cannibal with someone safer, I would not have gone with Will Arnett. He’s probably fine, but he does not give off “person you’d LEAST suspect of being a cannibal” vibes.

Read a thing about the prevalence of sexual harassment by industry, and two correlates are: lots of young people and “stars.” DC, start-ups, and the arts all check the boxes there. My Jewish community decided to not use the music of a rabbi/composer who was a pedophile (he’s now deceased) partly as a conscious effort… Read more

First thing I did when I read this was google their ages. He seems older than he is. In Train Wreck, he was playing a mid-career orthopedic surgeon. That was 7 years ago. I figured he was 55.

It would have been gutsy to just say, “Hey, Jill has a job, and decorating isn’t her thing. Staff chose and decorated the White House. Enjoy.” I liked how Michelle Obama was really into the garden and had basically no interest in cooking and was honest about it. 

This caused a little bit of confusion when my oldest kid came out to their grandparents. They went with, “I have a girlfriend.” And the non-reaction we got from the grandparents was like afterward, “Did they get it, or were they just hearing ‘girlfriend’ like your grandmother uses it?” My wife had to call her parents… Read more

Literally only clicked through to make sure our family friend who is a professor at Emory was not the subject of this article. Good on you, Jon, dodged being a subject of “Would you?”

Fair enough. Olivia Jade isn’t a great dancer, but keep in mind that crew is her sport. If this were Regatta of the Stars, we know she’d be cleaning up after her seeing her impressive high school accolades in the sport.

That congressional election was the worst. On paper, it’s the closest she’s gotten, but she underperformed the partisan lean in that district by quite a bit. Trump got barely over 50%, and Clinton got 44%.

“Eat good food” is terribly ineffective advice. Age trumps almost every other risk factor. Some of the risk factors more significant than age are relatively rare immune system disorders (low interferon response and a thing where your immune system develops antibodies that disable your t-cells, each about 0.3% of the… Read more

The sci-fi novel where women get electrical zapping power, reverse the power dynamics between men and women, and the men set off nuclear weapons and try and destroy the world because they can’t handle it?

“We can’t make changes that decrease car dependence because we’re dependent on cars and can’t make any changes that inconvenience drivers.” Guaranteed the folks using free parking in that neighborhood are much wealthier than the average resident, and for every person who uses their car for work/disability issues,… Read more

I once saw a guy on a plane reading Atlas Shrugged, but he didn’t know how to work the light, so he was reading it in the dark, which I found to be perfect. There was no way I was going to tell him to push the light bulb button. No one should help anyone consume that drivel.

We’re all kind of trapped in our own stories. I grew up with my dad doing all of the cooking and grocery shopping and managing the household (until my mom made enough that they just hired it all done), and things like doctor’s and dentist’s appointments basically didn’t happen. We went to the same vacation destination… Read more

I don’t understand the FDA’s request for more kids in the trial for their safety data. The myocardia they’re looking for is too uncommon for the additional kids to offer clarity, and it peaks in 14-20 boys (both the non-vax and vax incidence), not the ages being studied in this cohort. It’s ending up pushing the… Read more

I feel like the online programs are worse this way. I do live classes 6-7 days a week, and the weird messaging takes a back seat to the sense of community all working together? Like it’s annoying when a teacher at the end of class will be like, “Now go and drink that wine tonight guilt free,” but that’s not that… Read more

It seems like the deliberate weaponizing and altering theories have been pretty well debunked based on the fact that the virus structure doesn’t look particularly engineered. There remains a possibility of a leak where they were just testing introducing coronaviruses to different species, and they had poor lab… Read more

I actually reference Matrix 3 all the time as an instance where the ending of something is so bad that it makes the cool beginning retroactively bad. Surprisingly useful.

Before I got COVID, I worked out 6-7 days a week at a Crossfit gym. I mostly did their bootcamp and kickboxing classes since the times work better for my schedule. I’m almost exactly Greene’s age, low body fat, okay 5K time, pretty fast rower for my size, among the strongest/fastest folks I work out with. Anyway, I… Read more