Kind of like how in violent movies, the actors are always actually being shot, stabbed, and killed!

I benefitted from a unique position, I think. I was on a near-total media blackout around the time it came out, so I didn’t really hear any of the hype/takedown about it. I’d also never seen any of the originals before. So, I was truly tabula rasa going into it, and had literally no expectations whatsoever. I found it…

I’d very much include 2014 in that, because if people hadn’t sat on their butts and stayed home, we might have had a democratic Senate, and thus Merrick Garland confirmed. It still galls me to this day that there were people dismissive of the warnings, in states like Colorado, that the Republican candidate for Senate…

It would also be interesting to see how they respond to those pushing for their own groups versus other groups. Do they respond differently to Jewish BLM activists and black zionists?

I’m not saying they are good.

I’m trying to understand how one uses they/their/them pronouns in Spanish or Catalan? Inanimates and plurals are gendered, and unlike English or (especially) German, there is no liguistic neutral gender.

That would work too. Anything that did a cross-racial comparison would be more helpful.

This isn’t a surprise. Activists are a liability. Why would they want people more likely to be disruptive and file lawsuits?  

I’m trying to imagine the smell when the freshly heated bag is opened. My face will not unfrown itself.

Why should women be able to empathize with victims better than men? Men can be victims of sexual assault as well, and in some cases, they can be drugged. Men should be as capable of empathy as women and not want sexual assault to happen to anyone.

Since I’m 35 now and officially No Longer Get the Kids™: young activists of any kind are annoying. It’s kinda their job to be! I suspect that even black admissions counselors respond poorly to that sort of profile. That said, if there were evidence of systematic discrimination by public institutions’ admissions…

But that’s because white women counselors were much more willing to accept activists black female girl students than activists black male (a difference of 22 percentage points).So what does this all mean?

As a (currently) fat bastard myself I completely agree that that article was full of shit. At 165 I was not diabetic, at 245 I am. At 165 I didn’t have high blood pressure or high cholesterol, at 245 I do. At 165 I didn’t need knee surgery, at 245 I had knee surgery. If I could get back down to a normal 40 hour work…

The article doesn’t pretend that being overweight is always perfectly healthy (although they’re not incorrect that for up to 1/3 of overweight and obese people don’t have any metabolic disorders - that’s a pretty big slice of healthy people who are also fat).  What it does say is that being overweight is something we…

1. Hot dogs have bread on the left and right, not the top and bottom.

Came here prepared to stump for Sampras, but Federer made the right call and won me over.

It’s a hotdog sub. Look, the answer isn’t complicated. A hotdog is a specific type of sandwich that everyone recognizes simply as a hotdog. Just like a hamburger is also a unique type of sandwich, but people will look at you weird if you say hamburger sandwich.

Hot take: that article is all sorts of bullshit. “Yes, nearly every population-level study finds that fat people have worse cardiovascular health than thin people. But individuals are not averages.”

If shaming fat people was an effective way of making them lose weight, every fat person in America would be thin.