Only robots designed to spec are allowed to compete in sports now. That’s the only way it will be fair and to ensure no one has a significant genetic advantage.

Too many people in this comment section have seen Juwanna Man and think it’s something that would actually happen. Nothing drags out the neanderthal misogyny in the Deadspin commentariat more than Caster Semenya.

As opposed to what? Reddit users aren’t the most representational cross section of a city’s residents, sure. But neither are Lonely Planet writers, TripAdvisor users, Wikitravel editors, etc.

It was unprofessional no doubt. But social media marketing is bad, and telling people it is bad is good.

This was a great race to watch. And last week’s last ~20 laps where Bottas was chasing Vettel were super exciting as well. Off to a really good start, and I hope the fun keeps up.

If you just watch for the result, why waste time watching at all?

No doubt about that.

I mean the US really is not better than Israel. We perpetrate plenty of human rights abuses ourselves against our own people. We selectively ally ourselves with other abusive regimes across the globe depending on who best serves our imperial interests. Israel isn’t unique, though certainly one of the worst.

This is an old-man-trying-to-be-in-bed-by-10 sorta take.

These look so fucking boring.

Ah, the old “they’re asking for it” approach to community standards.

Ben, I really like your writeups on chess recently. Do you have a blog or anything where you write more frequently about chess?

Lmao. “An accident is more likely to involve a Civic than any other car.” =/= “Civics are more likely to be involved in accidents than any other car.”

Read this as “Ovid’s Pastry Creature,” didn’t remember any such myth, and then felt guilty for letting my high school Latin teacher down....

But on the internet, which was a mistake

My toaster doesn’t even get it right most of the time, hence the “cancel” button. So I guess what I’m saying is.... absolutely not.

I see these things in SF either nearly mow someone down or cause traffic accidents at intersections almost weekly.

I want to offer a sincere, unironic thank you for this post.

It’s me - the guy looking for hard hitting journalism about people’s christmas gifts.

Speak for yourself.