100% agree for men who have enough time and money to do it. I’d be interested to hear more about the tradeoffs for the big online counseling companies, which are more affordable and flexible, but I’ve also read about how overworked, underpaid, inconsistent, and thus less effective their providers are.

Meh, they would have seen Clark zipping at lightning speed, but Clark is capable of moving at speeds between normal human and lightning. In the chaos of a tornado, nobody would have looked askance at a young man running a little faster and more steadily than a normal human could have in extraordinary circumstances.…

True. Between the Snyder Cut “campaign,” the Whedon accusations, and the success of Aquaman, WW, etc. it’s easy to forget how much Snyder and DCEU were on the ropes when JL was being made, especially given how desperate WB was to catch up with Marvel. Underperforming with the two biggest characters in American…

This is the first take that makes any sense to me.

From what I’ve read, there are a lot of people making a strong claim that opposing a union is anti-equity, anti-diversity, and racist, which feels a little sloppy to me. It sounds like there are some other racist issues going on, but it does feel off when ideas that are indirectly related to racial injustice are…

It was especially weird because when Emmanuel was introduced, they made a reference to reparations in a previous episode and then awkwardly said, “but of course that’s not what this.” 

In college I (very insensitively) challenged a catholic friend to a contest to give up as much as possible for Lent. I won and have tried to give up at least three things (one thing that’s bad for me, one thing that’s good for me, and one that’s ambiguous) every year since. I’m not particularly religious, but it does…

This is a good breakdown of how obsessed he is with unearned big moments. I can’t see a scene of his without seeing this, and it looks like this cut isn’t going to be any better (just longer!).

This is just going to be 300 with Justice League characters, isn’t it.

I’ve spent a dumb amount of time arguing with fanboys about how bad his DC movies are, and I thought I might have to watch this to give it a fair shake. Now it’s a hard no, just like the BvS extended cut or whatever. Justice League was already the best Zack Snyder movie (like being the smartest glue sniffer), and I…

Ugh, it’s so true. The Youtube comments on any Snyder DC movie scene are a ludicrous parallel universe (even by Youtube standards) where every dumb thing about those movies is explained away with the most tortured reasoning this side of “The Civil War wasn’t about slavery.”

I don’t know, especially with no box office, it’s hard to imagine anyone making back the money that is getting spent on this fiasco. Is HBO Max really making $100m on this? Are they really paying WB that much? Lord knows it’s not going to come from DVD or download sales. I have to imagine they’re just gonna get what…

Yes, it’s a negative term (like I said), but it doesn’t necessarily mean that the words are misleading or cause to dismiss the ideas like the OP here seems to think. The term is often used negatively to criticize vague or ambiguous writing (see links below), and you’d have to provide some solid evidence that these and …

“Weasel words” can be intentionally misleading, but they can also just be inserted to weaken a claim or show uncertainty about it (#3 from the link you posted). Wikipedia seems to have focused on a pretty specific meaning (anonymous authority) for this term that isn’t universal. Here are a few examples of people using…

It’s interesting when someone gets so worked up about words that they clearly don’t even know the basic definition of. “Weasel words” are defined as “words or phrases used in order to evade or retreat from a direct or forthright statement or position” or “words or statements that are intentionally ambiguous.” In the…

The same problem has been going on for centuries and has needed conscious correction forever. Twitter just makes it faster and easier to see.

“Calm objective discussion” has never been a widespread norm anywhere. The only communities that believed they practiced it were ones that were segregated enough that everyone agreed enough already on the definition of “objective” to stay calm.

If I ever get my Netflix to-watch list down to zero (or even to 40) I might consider a second one, but I can’t really imagine having enough time to do that, let alone really wanting to.

Usually I’ve seen it the opposite way where non-strict or non-muscle-isolating lifts are pointed out as “wrong,” but it’s ridiculous and obnoxious all the same.

Those dudebros are the worst. Any time I see one of them giving unsolicited advice, I want to come up to them a few minutes later and say, “Hey, I noticed that you’re doing a set and then spending 15 minutes sitting on the bench looking at Instagram, checking yourself out in the mirror, ogling the women around the…