Thirty Helens agree with your assessment here.

Because it was a cheap exploitative ploy in which Glenn, bestowed with Plot Armor, was able to escape the situation of all situations with the help of the deus ex machina of all dei ex machina.

This is not a “new trend”; this was part of a study. Do you need it? No, because it’s not SOP and babies are surviving, but it’s A STUDY to see if it’s possible to mimic the beneficial exposure to the flora of a mother’s birth canal in babies delivered via C-section.

Been reading about this. I’m in a microbiology lab, doing metagenomics, and we talked about this paper a bit (although the lab is more focused on environmental microbiology). Microbes are important! Not sure that this is necessarily a good thing to do, but it would be interesting to see a longer-term study looking at…

It’s small but it’s designed as a proof-of-principle or pilot study, not a large scale epidemiological one. Basically you run a small study to see if your hypothesis holds water and then scale up if it does (like experimenting on animals or ex vivo before doing a human study).

Actually Jezebel you are kind of full of shit. This is a technique that comes out of more than a “boutique study.” NYU researchers have published and have been highlighted in more than one news source for the results of swabbing C-section born children in order to create the microbiome, e.g. gut flora, who diversity…

So, what are you saying? That dressing up like an alien shouldn’t be kosher in South Africa? You wouldn’t have even noticed any racial element to these costumes if it wasn’t originally framed in a “Is this blackface?” context due to a shitty photo. So that is ENTIRELY being read into it by you. No, they were not…

Holy fuck...but you know, having guns is the most important thing...

Fuck. Yea.

She got a dick pic when it was actually took some effort. I’m grossed out but also I marvel at the work involved. Wow.

Analog dick pics! OMG

Are there enough scifi movies out each year for that to be an official category? I mean I personally would be in favor of it, but there are some years where it seems like there just isn’t any good scifi out. Then again - most of the recent blockbusters could be counted - Hunger Games, Jurassic World, Star Wars, etc.…

The original Nyc and the San Francisco with Puck. God I am old.

I think consent is separate from desire. I have been having a low libido spell, but I still desire to have sex with my partner for his sake, and I often do get into it once we start, although I wasn’t feeling desire per se at the beginning. But I did consent.

Shout out to all my fellow Jezzies who read “inexpensive Yankee candles” and thought about how you only get Yankee candles when they're on the clearance endcap at TJ Maxx.

I hope it sucks. God, I hope it fucking sucks. I hope it’s the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull of Star Wars movies. God, I hope it fucking suuuuuuucks.

This is possibly the most humorless thing I’ve read in a while. “#Adulting” is obviously a joke, meant to be taken as such. Most of the time I see it, it’s used by the person saying it to skewer themselves for being childish or lazy, not to garner praise.