A bit off topic, but did you know that Prince was considered for Bowie’s role in Labyrinth? So was Michael Jackson.

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Dude, those are the best parts...

“They’re both wrong and dumb!”

I feel like I am giving him credit for exactly he sort of insular, limited empathy you mention – I’m sure that if one of his daughters was assaulted he would feel the same grief and rage that we all would, and not believing them wouldn’t even be on the table. Others are saying that he would view an assault on his…

I mean, it is if you are trying to completely dehumanize him. Don’t get me wrong, he’s a shithead, but just painting him with the “he’s not even really human” brush is, to be frank, how we got here in the first place.

Yeah, exactly. It’s like the many cases we’ve seen of anti-abortion republicans who help their daughters get an abortion quietly because hey, when you actually look at the human cost of an unwanted pregnancy face to face, it’s a little different, but somehow they manage to convince themselves that everyone *else* is…

The answer, of course, is that only one of them cares about the difference between a geek and a nerd.

Oh yeah, now I can suck at Rocket League with a whole new stable of players!

There’s a sloppy seconds joke in here somewhere but it feels in poor taste in light of sexual assault allegations...

I honestly do have a Casper mattress, MeUndies underwear, and SockFancy socks thanks to various podcasts (and fwiw pretty happy with all 3).

Indeed. And probably a bunch of other things if I were to do some research/thinking.

“...thinks that giving more power to the government to fix those ills will create even greater problems...”

Effectively banned abortion in huge parts of the country?

I agree, and sorry if I implied otherwise. There are plenty of fun, harmless initiation rituals performed by all kinds of organizations, including Greek ones, and there are of course some examples of non-Greek organizations (like marching bands) doing stupid, mean-spirited, dangerous shit like this as well. Wasn’t…

Hmm. I can’t quite tell from the video, but that would change things, though it seems like no way in hell a ref could see that from 20-30 yards away.

“i mean, i am all for persecuting frats that engage in truly harmful & demeaning hazing rituals... but throwing chicken nuggets at each other is not that.”

Christ these stories make me sad. I mean, when I was in college (Cal Berkeley, early 90s) I was in the marching band and we did an initiation (probably technically hazing) where the seniors would go paint the big ‘C’ up in the hills red (rival Stanford’s color) and then we got “taken” from the uniform demonstration by…

Geez. I feel like the hulk because I can still lift my ~50lb son over my head with one arm (disclaimer: I only do this in the pool). Otoh, I’m 45 and not a professional athlete.

/me calls CPS about a 12-year-old drinking beer.