Oh good, god forbid people make something new.

We’re all impressed by how you’re doing the work by calling strangers names on the internet. Robin DiAngelo is very proud of you. Maybe you two can cowrite a new book titled What if Performative Allyship is Actually Great? How White People Can Solve Racism by Being Self-Righteous Twits on the Internet.

Reminds me of the old chestnut: “If you think being falsely accused of racism is just as bad as experiencing real racism, you aren’t being falsely accused.”

If you’re a dude at the gyms I’ve gone to, a safe answer is yes. There’s something (probably the desire to feel tall) that makes nearly every dude at every gym I’ve been a member of for the last decade, set hooks too high, often going out of their way to move them up another slot or two, so that they have to awkwardly…

Oh good, I’m glad he’s finally opening up. He’s been so cagey during his non-stop year-long media blitz about this one crappy movie with two bad directors that got made 4 years ago. Finally the people can hear like 3 new details about it to add to the 6 details that he’s been shouting about for months! It must be such…

Yeah, WB was rushing to get the DCEU up and running against Marvel, but it seems like Snyder was the one rushing it into the heaviest and most complicated storylines without any setup.

It’s good to remember that a lot of people get systematically bad advice from doctors (especially overweight people, women, Black people, people with chronic conditions, etc.), so it’s understandable that some people don’t want to run to their doctors for advice. Nonsense on the internet isn’t much better, but “speak…

Pedestrians are so unthinkable in the exurbs that people think they’re ghosts.

I always enjoy reading Cal Newport’s ideas, but it feels like reading a luxury travel magazine. My work is so far away from deep knowledge work and from letting up on the email and other constant distractions that it’s just lovely to imagine being able to set up this kind of lifestyle, just like it’s lovely and…

I’m probably not going to bother seeing it, but I was worried that there was going to be a lot of gratuitous murder and violence by heroes. It’s hard to take Snyder’s “vision” and “integrity” or whatever seriously when he treats every superhero like a Mortal Kombat character.

I’ve never heard “wonton” as a slur, so the headline felt a little overblown, but it’s clearly a racially motivated term.

Nearly every word that you use every day was considered the result of ignorance when it came into English. The only exceptions are loan words borrowed from other languages. Nearly all were the result of pronunciation mistakes (since most people were illiterate when Modern English came into form) yet they all made it…

Yeah, and look how the 19th century turned out. Yikes.

If you even tried to turn kids loose outdoors in most urban or suburban settings, people would call the cops and you’d have to deal with CPS before they had a chance to do anything fulfilling.

That’s a curious interpretation: descriptivism is “rigid adherence” to the idea that you learn about language by observing how it’s used. I guess all scientists are pedants, then.

I think the optimal viewing experience for this movie is having a 14-year-old watch it and explain it to you in 5 minutes or less. Snyder’s basically every insufferable teenager who thinks he’s the first person in history to, like, really question things as opposed to all these, you know, sheeple, so any random…

And they tweeted that weeks before it was released, but even still, they’re obviously true and right.

I don’t think there’s any definitive way to differentiate “a word has gained a broad secondary meaning that is different from but related to its morphological content” and “a word has moved to a broader new meaning that is different from but related to its morphological content,” so I’m not going to engage on it…

“Supposedly” is the word that’s been bleached into something that means approximately “some people think this but I’m not so sure.” It’s more of a stance marker than a grammatically analyzed word (see definition of semantic bleaching). “Supposably” can exist in the same space as “supposedly” just like “totally” and…

It’s easy to forget now that Whedon did the unprecedented job of putting together the first good and absurdly lucrative major crossover movie ever in the Avengers, and ,while Ultron wasn’t quite at the same level, nobody else had made a popular movie that balanced so many known characters in a way that people liked.…