Look dude, we know nobody could be honestly outraged about the cynical exploitation of suffering and death to shill a scammy app, so it must be fake.

So they’re namechecking Barry Lyndon, but do they claim the title as a reference to the classic direct-to-home-script exploitation play La Ronde by Arthur Schnitzler (whose novella Dream Story, like Barry Lyndon, inspired a Kubrick film)? Because that’s a level of unearned pretension I have to respect.

Rajon is honestly kind of a cult-classic himself.

On the one hand I feel bad for Pop, having his first year as coach see a superstar exodus, but on the other, he took the Spurs to the playoffs this year with no point guards on the depth chart. He’ll make a team of above-average NBA players into a killing machine and it’ll be great.

Well shit, what’s a cellar for if things don’t age in it?

Chuck Schumer can request — indeed, demand — whatever he wants, but he can’t unilaterally remove a Senator. Franken could have refused and stuck around through the election, where a win presumably would have been seen as a mandate to stick around.

Obviously he’s playing. You think he’d stand up his team when they’re playing at home?

I assume you mean by this that New York’s children can’t possibly be further injured by exposure to bad basketball.

I dunno, I wouldn’t put it past him to have as many as 8 or 10 eyebrows secreted around his body.

He...wasn’t raped. Or lynched. He was convinced to retire from a hugely prestigious job and go back to being an extremely wealthy private citizen.

But it reduces the risk of this sort of sudden death, doesn’t it? (I’m honestly asking. I knew about the accumulated damage, but I thought there was at least a tradeoff.)

In general, no, driving shouldn’t be a thing. It’s dangerous (to participants and bystanders), expensive, dirty (both particulate and carbon emissions), and destructive of urban environments. We should be busting our asses to provide alternatives and our failure to do so is no less shameful than the existence of…

Similarly, I don’t support politicians being raped for their (real or perceived) errors in judgment.

I dunno, Splinter and its sibling sites do some good work and dumbass clickbait like this article help subsidize it. In sum,

NDT’s tweet implies a threat?

The joke, of course, is that NDT is pretending to be upset about a Frozen poster and Crosbie is pretending to be upset about NDT and people in the comments are getting actually upset.

“This obviously unscientific thing is scientifically dubious for this reason” is his opening line to talk about whatever related topic. He’s never actually demanding a retraction or whatever; it’s just a dorky science-teacher patter that, unsurprisingly, makes people on the internet super mad.

If he were serious he’d talk only to me about my favorite topics at my level of sophistication!!!

“Your dad jokes are neither particularly funny to me nor serious engagement with the issues of the day” is just the saddest, strangest stand to take.

I think it’s the opposite of that? Normal people can see that tweet and think “Oh, it’s Neil deGrasse Tyson doing his science pedant schtick” and roll their eyes or chuckle or point out that Frozen might take place in an environment of crushingly high pressure where ice has 4-fold symmetry, according to their…