I feel like everything goes much better if you’re not trying to arrive in NY at all.

I drank a shit ton of port last night.

I still maintain that the whole thing was cooked up by big lifeboat. Have you seen how many lifeboats cruise ships have now? Like, so many they have to hang them off the sides just to get them all to fit. All because of the titanic. It’s a fuckin conspiracy, man.

I recently investigated these things and what I determined is that if you actually do sports things and want your watch to keep track, get a Garmin.

If you want to count “steps” and have your watch look nice, get a fitbit. I mean, it’s not even waterproof for christ’s sake. It’s like they aren’t even trying.

Neither are black people? Genetically speaking, there’s as much (or more) genetic diversity within the group Caucasians as there is between some caucasians and what we consider “black”. The line of “race” is an arbitrary designation based on appearance, mostly used by ignorant people to justify theirn own treating…

Thought exercise: Is this behavior any different than racism? Is it racism? I mean, your average redhead is basically melanin deficient vs melanin rich- it’s still just a pigmentation difference.

I mean, to my knowledge (which is limited) nobody ever enslaved and forced gingers to do labor (besides maybe the irish…

Not how I read it. You’re “agreeing to purchase for 7000", not paying 7000 now. They just need to be able to demonstrate to the government that when the car comes out, you won’t say “nah I don’t like the color” and bail.

There’s nothing in the verbiage of the statement that requires you to lay out all 7000 without…

How many times a week do you usually have to explain to people that your jokes aren’t racist but are instead lazy pokes at hypothetical racists? Just roughly speaking, no need to be exact.

That’s some solid “im not racist but here’s a racist joke for your consideration” posting.

is that a pokemon?

I mentioned in a separate thread that if it was a kers like thing which was verified to start empy, I would at least consider it a valid approach. I agree it might add some strategy to the whole thing, and having the rider provide the energy during the event eliminates most of my objections.

As a cyclist, I don’t…

In all of those, the energy is provided by the athlete after the event begins. The pole vaulter loads the pole, for example. How dumb would pole vault be if they jacked the pole all the way bent with a winch and then said “go” and he just held on for dear life?

Actually, that would be kind of cool, but not a test of…

They’re analogous to sailing again. Same argument applies.

I’d be provisionally OK with such a system, though I suspect that nobody would use it since the weight you’d have to carry over the entire race would probably be prohibitive.

True, but they don’t harness wind power from before the race starts, and the available wind power during the event is equally available to all racers based on their skill at capturing it, so I don’t think it’s in any way analogous to your stupid take.

Someone also mentioned equestrian, which I suppose might be true. If…

This take, while quite hot, is honestly one of the stupidest olympic takes in history. There is literally no sport (besides maybe shooting and/or sailing, if you really want to split hairs) which allows any force besides that generated by the human themselves.

I could maybe (MAYBE) see an argument for some sort of…

That’s the really funny thing, right? It’s not like they were trying to make a time travelling banana leaf based 3d printer which gives blowjobs.

They started with a pretty achievable goal and somehow just decided not to achieve it.

Pretty much posers and bachelor parties.

They also picked up 11 mil in VC funding, so its where did the other 9 mil go...

I was on their mailing list for a while because the product looked interesting. However, it became increasingly obvious over the course of about 6 months that they were so desperate for cash that I unsubscribed. Anyone who sends you LITERALLY DAILY emails asking you to “pre-order” is danger-will-robinson territory.