A friend of mine, when he was hired at Apple many years ago, was asked what he wanted his job title to be for his business cards, and he said “Testing Twit”. It was an accurate description; what he normally did was go through new software and deliberately do the stupidest things he could think of to see if he could…

Point to the “wahhh wahhh it’s not fair” in... well... anyone’s verbiage.

It’s not really surprising, the church is locked into this position. Changing now would require them to admit that they fucked it up before, and that’s just not how the church rolls. It’s too bad because they actually adopt really good positions on a ton of issues. Unfortunately they’re SO BAD on sexuality and gender,…

I think this is a huge part of it - its basically a requirement of their jobs to detach from the work and cease seeing the patient’s humanity, in order to best see them as a problem in need to repair and doing an effective/efficient job. The flip side of that is no longer respecting as a person, and not having a…

Well, setting aside the VERY BAD AND WRONG interpretation of 1 Corinthians 7:1-7, he also willfully neglected the second half of that verse, “The wife does not have authority over her own body but yields it to her husband. In the same way, the husband does not have authority over his own body but yields it to his…

There is so much wrong with this even from a theological standpoint that I don’t want to go digging up chapter and verse for right now because I will be here all day. But when Mary was asked to carry Jesus, she was ASKED, she could have said no. If even God needs consent then this fat fuck does too. Can we start a go…

I’ve been saying for awhile now that “suicide prevention” is a fool’s errand. Besides the fact that bodily autonomy implies that suicide is a basic human right, I am increasingly coming to believe that the rise in mass shootings is a direct result of trying to keep alive people who used to just bring a toaster into…

This tends to be my opinion as well. I think that the concept of fairness in a restricted-class sports competition (in this case, women’s sports) relies on a fundamental adherence to the spirit of that restriction.

In a more sane world, everyone would just use the NCAA’s testosterone policy, and then be open to monitoring outcomes over the course of years or even decades as we continue to accrue more observations of trans athletes. This is a topic where I don’t really care about people’s opinions right now. I think the…

It’s tape. It is really obviously tape. It looks like the edge of packing tape when you cut it off the little reel because the teeth are serrated.

As a pokemon casual, don’t flame me, Arceus seems kind of unimpressive in terms of design. As the most powerful pokemon, as far as I understand, one would expect a design with more flair.

This. That a significant proportion of the population are simply too stupid to understand what BMI is and isn’t, shouldn’t be seen as a reflection on BMI, it should be seen as a reflection on *them*. It’s like the Bechedel test: that you can point to good/awful films that fail/pass the test doesn’t negate the…

Unfortunately you are correct. I am a fat 59 year old, and though diabetes is not something I have to deal with (not even high blood sugar) I do have HBP and high cholesterol. I also have circulation issues in my legs, and mobility problems (partially exacerbated by old injuries, but the fat doesn’t help). Not really…

Wait - this was about birds??  I was expecting a story about some Aussie gents dressing up in bird costumes and trying to pick up women in a very lame, depressing way.  This was better!

I also don’t get why people think seeing the enemies is better when you can’t really avoid them. The slider was a way better mechanic.

A major issue with the first two Bravely games is that they stuff absolutely everything cool at the very end of the game. So you wind up with about 5 hours of fun, 30 hours of monotony, and then a final 5 hours of fun again. It’s really bad design.

Field enemies are a great improvement from random battles, but Bravely already figured out an even better improvement for a system that requires you to fight a ton of monsters to get EXP and JP. The slider is everything to this series, they took an intentional leap backwards from the great idea that drove their…

not so sure about that

If you are referring to real Japanese wagyu, then any expert or layperson could tell the difference. It has a completely different mouth feel and taste. I’ve been to Japan and had it multiple times, and it is simply not comparable to anything I’ve had anywhere else, and I’ve had steak in probably 25 countries.