Chess is recognized as a sport by the International Olympic Committee.

When played in the format that “esports” are, video games fit pretty much all the criteria for a sport. It is not an athletic sport, but it is a sport. Personally I think “esport” is a really terrible term, but it gets the general idea across pretty well. The whole e-*something* terminology just sounds so ‘00s. 

Video games arent a sport.

Iit says ESPORTS. You know, like Email.

Governments around the world give athlete visas for esports players. Chess is recognized as a sport by the Olympics.

Astrology itself may not be directly harmful, but it feels like part of a larger pattern of not trusting people who have spent their lives studying a science. Even if you accept climate change, many people who follow the same beliefs don’t. Then they fall into anti-vax, anti-medicine, conspiracy theories. I have had…

I would say that about astrology and religion. No one has ever been able to say that anything in astrology works. I don’t really care what people believe in their own mind or read as a fun hobby, just like I don’t care where people go to worship. I do care when these hobbies or beliefs go beyond those places and…

Thank you, as someone who teaches astronomy. It’s so frustrating to me that people conflate astronomy and astrology, intentionally or not. I will even discuss how closely they were tied in the past, and how we have learned to differentiate testable data from untestable beliefs by now. Some people still like to push…

Religions and astrology are equally dumb.

There’s no evidence that astrology is a reliable indicator of anything about a person’s personality. Why should something based on a lack of logic be a respected source of information? 

Scientist (an astronomer!) checking in here. I don’t think it’s ok to bash or belittle people, but I find the recent resurgence of astrology deeply troubling. It’s not that astrology is useless or without logic. It’s that it makes testable predictions that have never, ever, ever been verified, but people believe in it…

Maybe the first thing we should fight is kleptocratic hocus pocus.

Jesus Christ.

I took jrotc because it got me out of gym. There was no expectation to join the service after high school, we never saw recruiters, and they never performed any testing that would weed out someone who would not do well in the military. My experience was it was just a class.

There’s a pretty major difference between JROTC and ROTC. We had several disabled kids in the JROTC class in the 4 years I spent in it during high school. They absolutely were not in the class to prepare them for military service. At least in my class, we didn’t actually deal with military specific topics very often…

I got punched in the face by someone I wouldn’t give my number to. We literally cannot win.

I’m still surprised Cruz was a part of the JROTC. Given his emotional and learning disabilities he was never going to be allowed into any branch of the Armed Forces,

Because they are morons.

Im no attorney but im guessing its because they want money

Nobody who references “you talkin’ to me” owes De Niro a dime.