I’m the exact opposite. If I’m on the subway, and it lurches to a stop, I go back to reading my book and think, well at least I’m not in a fucking car, stressing over whether I can cross five lanes of bumper-to-bumper traffic to get to the poorly placed off-ramp.

So, I know the studies show children are being taken out of cities, but I live in one of the cities where the trend is supposedly increasing and there is a terrible (and increasing) issue with school crowding. The schools in the wealthy/white part of the city are very good (as good/better than anything I had growing…

Most American soccer fans should go to... they bring a fawning and pretentious style that is enamored with OTHER country’s soccer culture, and the one tiny bit of American sports culture they make room for is the shitty, boot-licking, band-wagoning support for a fucked up system. It’s like if Duke fans talked in fake…

For several reasons I’ve tried to eat less meat, one of which is that the quality of meat in the regular grocery store has gotten REALLY bad. I’d rather go somewhere like Whole Foods, or an actual butcher and pay more for something quality. If I’m eating less, it doesn’t change my budget, but I am happier.

Right, the Fitbit obviously does not have anywhere near the sophistication of the equipment they used in the sleep lab. But, after the test results came back, the doctor looked at it and said, “Well, you woke up X times per hour, and you can see, here, on this chart (which was identical to the Fitbit graph of sleep…

Considering the issues we have with farm runoff and those giant lagoons of animal shit, we could do with a lot less animal waste.

It’s just marketing.

I eat a *mostly* vegan diet, and rarely eat meat-replacement products. There are entire cuisines that are almost exclusively vegan or vegetarian. For example, almost all Indian and a great deal of Chinese and Middle Eastern food.

Isn’t it also detecting movement? The Fitbit allegedly does that, and was very, very accurate on sleep stages when compared to my sleep study results.

My doctor sent me to get a sleep test for apnea, and it was extremely unpleasant and expensive... when I got the results, they were shockingly similar to my fitbit’s daily analysis of the previous night’s sleep. The fitbit was dead-on when it came to wake-ups, time spent in light sleep, REM and deep sleep. Fitbit cost…

I have the new Fitbit and it lasts for dayyys... and it charges in about 45 minutes.

How about we just promote partial veganism. Or, to put it more palatably for a lot of Americans who have bizarre knee-jerk reactions to the word “vegan”: “try eating less meat”.

This is aggressively stupid.

Most Americans consume too many calories. It is not elitist to try to design a way of eating that is less grotesque. In fact, in the face of all the world-wide hunger, it’s almost cruel not to.

Being PARTIALLY vegan, however, is probably very doable. And it sounds better if you just say “eat less meat”. It’s hard to justify the increasing amount of meat we eat, and impossible to support if developing countries adopt our meat-eating habits.

What’s really disturbing is the blatant way that Ronan Farrow tries to capitalize on the whole thing to advance himself. Whether his sister was molested or not, she deserves deep sympathy and concern. Ronan seems to be concerned with how to leverage her situation to get on TV and get attention. The most horrifying…

There are contexts where it could be a joke. But go ask the nearest woman how many times she has been flashed, and you’ll quickly pick up that often times, it’s not a joke, it’s a creepy, scary thing.

In many ways, it’s not “productive”. It’s doing some damage to organizations that have created good things, and fucking up careers of people who have been involved with good things.

Most cookbooks are now just Kindle singles based on Instagram recipes. Srsly.

re: remotes... does anyone actually use the remotes?