Except - it isn’t the FTC, or anyone involved in the case, asking the judge to recuse, it’s an outside third party. It may be that the litigants decided that they didn’t think the judge would be biased and they could deal with it.

Wouldn’t surprise me at all, but the fight was never going to happen and both of them knew it. There was always going to be somebody stepping in to “stop” them. We’ve all seen these.

This was always going to be a hold-me-back fight, where they were only pretending to step into the ring because somebody else would prevent them from doing it. 

Sure, but *gestures at the entire history of movies casting twentysomethings at high school students*

Far too many judges have a hole in their head when it comes to people not obeying their orders. They literally don’t know what to do other than do the equivalent of a parent shouting “I really mean it this time!” at a misbehaving child. I am sure when this woman cuts off her ankle monitor (or just goes to the casino…

That would at least have made the workplace funnier. No, this guy was a bog-standard Promising Young Man. If you work in a male-dominated industry they’re thick on the ground. 

“Lofty language” isn’t a compliment. But I sense that you are one of those rare souls whose egos seamlessly transmute criticism into gold.

Sohnlein’s lawyers should be telling him to shut the fuck up right about now. I’m sure he’s going to try to blame everything on Stockton Rush, but even so, now is not the time for his bullshit.

Same, but I think even Phony Stark knows he’d get his ass kicked. Sure, Zuck is losing matches, but he appears to be legitimately training and competing in matches. By all accounts he doesn’t appear to be paying anyone to throw fights with him.

If that’s your mindset, the only difference between you and these billionaires is the resources to put sociopathy into action.

That’s a lot of lofty language to justify gleefully betting on the death of other human beings, isn’t it?

Or any of the follow-ups to “The Cold Equations”, which point out what a dumb scenario it is.

All you need to know about their commitment to “authenticity” is their complaint that the Little Mermaid is Black with zero complaint that the Little Mermaid was rewritten to have a happy ending.

You don’t need to create an opportunity for bigoted whatabouters. They’ll make one.

Yes, who can forget about the nerd-rage when Mandy Patinkin, a white American from an Ashkenazi Jewish family, was cast as beloved Spaniard Inigo Montoya?

Or maybe, as libertarian-bros are always saying about whitewashed casting, she was simply the best candidate for the role?

How will AI destroy all human jobs? Do you understand there are jobs that aren’t about throwing paint at wall (metaphorically speaking) to see what patterns emerge?

If you need a ridiculous theme restaurant to make you ponder how we treat service workers, that’s a problem all by itself.

Nope. What’s steadily shifted is that the ‘you’re a snowflake, if you don’t like speech, fight it with more speech’ started flowing in the other direction. The lectures about how queer people or women ought to just shrug off slurs (and even outright threats) vanished when the lectur-ers started being on the receiving…

He used to have the public at large fooled into thinking he was a talented engineer, because he didn’t shoot his mouth off about anything and everything. When he drew more attention to himself, it also drew some poking into his background that the media hadn’t bothered with previously. Now he can’t back down because…