It doesn’t make him more powerful. It distracts from the genuine criticisms against him.

It’s not about sympathy. It’s about normalization. It’s a distraction.

Please, it’s exactly the opposite. This just makes him more human. He’s not someone ruining local economies. He’s just some dude with a bad love life like your neighbor Stan.

Under no circumstance is it ever okay to invade the privacy of any persons’ personal lives as long as no laws are being broken and no one is being harmed. Jeffo can dick it up with any consenting adult he wants and should be free from prying eyes, judgement or shame. Also, it’s just dick pics, not a big deal in the…

I agree, and you know it’s making Trump happy, and anything that makes Trump happy doesn’t make me happy.

Is he being humiliated, though? I think being dethroned as the world’s richest man or having his company displaced by another would be more humiliating to him than knowing some strangers saw his dick. Too many men go out of their way to let strangers see their dicks unwanted.

We do not need to know this. Consenting adults make a mess of their personal lives everyday. Jeff Bezos decimates unions and exploits his workers. Amazon leaves a trail of housing and transportation problems in communities and they get major tax breaks for that privilege. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez and New York…

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.