Inclusion into the IOC is a false dream that leads only to corruption and exploitation.
By all means, international competition--but not like this! not like this!

Analytics are so good at predicting pennant winners, what’s the use in having baseball seasons? We can just calculate WAR by evaluating individual performance in a CUBE and then run the numbers and hand out trophies.

Honky alert!

He was a chad bully on The Office, and now he’s a chad bully in Venezuela.

Abusers often use the threat of suicide to coerce people into abuse. Using a suicide to silence future survivors from speaking out amounts to the same thing.

“Cocaine is a hell of a drug”
This is what OP meant by ‘wrong people’:

I used to live down the street from Safeco back around 2012. I studied for my GRE in the bleachers by buying a ticket for ~$6 after the games started. I’d buy a hot dog outside on the way in and I’d only drink water. It was a nice place to sit and read when the weather is nice. If you want to take a break, watch the…

Just threw up a bunch of bucatini. It was not fun!

The Jets’ new Eagles’ uniforms look nice.

Nick Denton?

Again: either high performance art, or insufferable nonsense.
(in case of the latter: There’s nothing wrong with thinking that Gabbard is hot [except that she has terrible 9/11 revanchist politics]. What matters is how you comment on looks, not if you do. The only people who would say it’s misogynist are people who…

Really hoping this is an anti-joke, where you play the character of an insufferable sourpuss.

I’ll bite: convince me.

“If the North and South were benefiting from slavery, then the South would have beat the North.”
Whoa, nice use of FACTS and LOGIC

This is wrong up and down the board.
It’s true that ‘the north’ as a monolith wasn’t totally concerned with slavery. It’s why there was opposition to the war, and why Lincoln only got 40% of the popular vote in 1860.
But secession was precipitated by Lincoln’s election because of his abolitionist sympathies (and the…

I understand gripes about frame rate. But can someone explain what’s bad about shitty graphics? Is it just the preference of those with finer sensibilities? Or does it affect gameplay (inaccurate hit boxes?) in some way?

I like Warren, but my preference is for Sanders.
As great as Warren is, a lot of the programs she supports are means-tested, and will always allow for slippage into nothing (look at foodstamps), whereas Sanders always emphasizes his desire for universal programs that benefit all as a right (like social security).
The…

“I’m not owned! I’m not owned!”

You’re being pretty charitable to Pitaro here, and there are times when charity is the right approach. It’s not clear that this is that time. To say ‘it might make business sense’ and so we shouldn’t condemn it is, I think, the wrong way to go about this. It’s right to say that Pitaro is being a coward. People have to…

Mai Tai Guy is a fun name. But he is a jerk.