OK. Let’s pretend that soldiers are never tasked with cleaning duties and that having been involved in sanitation on Starkiller base means Finn was never a stormtrooper.

You’re right. I forgot about the First Order’s well-known Take Your Janitorial Staff on a Combat Mission Day.

Ah yes. One of those janitors that goes on combat missions.

Yeah, no. He was trained (“since birth”) as a stormtrooper, per Disney cannon.

I’m annoyed that they decided to gloss over the fallout of Finn being a former storm trooper. They spent six movies hammering away at the idea that the faceless cannon-fodder our heroes have been mowing down aren’t actually, you know, people. Then they introduce Finn by showing him traumatized (literally marked) by…

I’m a fan of “non-scientific” language in scientific work: I have a friend in grad school and one of her research papers uses “pointier” and “edgier”.

Star for one-upping the pedantry but I feel I must point out that technically your buddy’s car key is magnetic, just on an atomic scale.

I live with roommates and we once managed to order pizza twice in one day from the same place. It was even the same delivery driver...

This is my most favorite comment. Not only did you provide a helpful suggestion for improving my Lego experience, but I’ve never met someone who has the Cool Whip-medicine trauma memory too! I feel heard and validated, thank you.

Just tell your friends that you enjoy the sensation of your food digesting you back. That’ll sort ‘em.

For what it’s worth, I think a part of what makes their relationship uncomfortable is that they’re, you know, evil. These are two characters who have done terrible things, egging each other on to do more terrible things, and relishing each other’s terrible-ness.

Given Mariah’s past I’m fairly certain she wouldn’t be encouraging incest-play...

There’s all kinds of crazy stuff in the Apocrypha (the Bible-related stories that weren’t included in the “official edition” as it were). For instance, there’s a much better bird-related Young Jesus story than Hemmerling for Mitchel’s. The story goes that YJ was playing with a friend and lost a game. Because he was a…

I don’t follow your meaning. Singal is not a woman and not trans; his only “experience” is in researching and interviewing women and trans people for his articles. The objection is not that he is a non-trans person writing about a trans issue (from the article: “The fact that Singal is cis does not disqualify him from…

Where is the clear need in this case?

This “clear line” is based on an arbitrary cutoff applied capriciously and only once a competitor is already believed to be in “violation”. The benefit to the goal of fair competition is debatable, to say the least. The benefit to a goal of stigmatizing and hobbling specific competitors is fairly clear.

You go into one of the unoccupied stalls.

That’s tautological. A rule tells you what is allowed because a rule determines what is allowed. That’s not a benefit; that’s the function of a rule. What improvement to the competition is conferred by implementing this testosterone limit?

I will never understand the whole “reverse White for Black and see how racist this is” shit. If you reversed the races, none of it would make any fucking sense.

The Haber process is the primary way that ammonia is produced for agricultural fertilizer so it’s a big deal in that regard. That said, I only know that because (1) I am a massive nerd, (2) I work in chemical manufacturing, and (3) I took a history of science class in college wherein the Haber process was heavily…