Time to watch bad movies on purpose

Probably, yeah, if he had like, a single gram of self-awareness. Most professional athletes work very hard, but in my experience, they tend to know that they are afforded the opportunity to work hard at their job because they were born with a certain build not everyone has. Why?

Yes, but I'm not sure what that has to do with equity in sports? A walk-on isn't just like, a random person who asked to be on the team, and the coach was like, "According to the laws of fairness, I have to give you a shot." They had to demonstrate athletic prowess in some way.

But you understand that sports ARE unfair or you wouldn't be proposing hypotheticals where we make a team that's fair, right? So is that not in fact what you're saying?

That's what you do. You have the competition and determine who's best. I'm sorry, I don't think I understand what you're asking.

If sports were about fairness and equity, any random person who showed up off the street would be eligible to try out for basketball, and the team would be decided by a lottery. Sports are not supposed to be fair. That's not a flaw in the system; it's the whole point.

We're saying that trans athletes should get to compete with everyone else, because even if they do have a biological advantage somehow, that's what athletes are. That's what sports are for. They measure which person is most biologically fit for a task.

No, you pick the best athletes for the team, and the girls who aren't as good at basketball get cut. That's why sports are unfair. We're trying to explain to you that sports are unfair, and you're saying, "Yes, sports are unfair. How do we fix it?" But that's not what's being debated.

Rebecca Hall is probably one of the most talented actors of her generation and that movie made me walk around in a hollowed-out haze for two days

Like, I'm aiming to put on some muscle, here. If I'm going to do this, I want to wind up looking like I could realistically beat someone up. I can have a fat layer, that's fine, but I want people to think twice before they try to cut me in line at the bank. It's so much protein, man. It's endless.

HOW DOES ANYONE CONSUME ENOUGH PROTEIN. If it weren't for powder I can scoop into a blender, I would basically have to just eat a whole rotisserie chicken with my bare hands every day like that fucked-up episode of Doctor Who. And it's still a challenge, even with the powder!

But all obligatory self-flagellation aside, I'm actually really enjoying myself. I'm starting from a couch potato baseline, but I do have a pretty active job, so it turns out I'm stronger and more fit than I thought I was! My post-workout recovery time isn't bad at all. But the PROTEIN

I have gotten into exercise. I'm 36, so, given the rate of decline in American life expectancy, I guess I'm due for a midlife crisis. I can't afford a cool car, so I took up running and I've been tracking my macros and browsing knockoff fitbits on ebay

It used to be that if you invented something and nobody liked it or wanted to use it or pay money for it, you just didn't get to sell the thing. You had to go back to the drawing board and make a better thing, or stop being an inventor and get a regular job. Why can't we go back to that system?

I just did the dumbest thing of my entire career to prove a much more serious point.

I tricked ChatGPT and Google, and made them tell other users I’m a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion

People are using this trick on a massive scale to make AI tell you lies. I’ll explain how I did it

Never, ever apologize for being delighted by Muppet shenanigans. There is ALWAYS room for Muppet shenanigans.

Todays(tonights) creature is the cat from the stop motion short film The Cat with Hands by Robert Morgan

Are they likely to have stuff my local library doesn't have physical copies of? They have a pretty good selection of comics, but most of it is either for kids and teens or is sort of autobiographical or literary stuff like Maus and Persepolis

I'd really love to get back into comics. I love a good horror comic, and there are so many great ones out there, but there's also a bunch of recent cape stuff I'd like to check out. But Jesus Christ, it's an expensive hobby. I would have to have a second job just for funding my comic habit.

He looks like he's wearing rouge and lipstick to add color to his face to disguise the fact that he's an ashen-skinned corpse who has been dead for years and is animated by the concentrated power of racism

or just stop posting sceeenshots from twitter like a pining divorcee whose friends all say “yeah they still haven’t gotten over it”’ behind their back

Carpenter bee is a timber pest
Digs into wood to make his nest
Lays the largest egg of any insect
Here are some facts about carpenter bee

I had friends in high school, but mainly because we freaks needed to move as a pack to survive. None of them made any effort to contact me when I moved states after graduation. I don't use Facebook and have no reason to ever return to my hometown, so I'll probably never know where they ended up.

Wow, I've never wanted to pet a drawing before

“these are crystal funko pops”

true

“I would never pay these obscene prices”

good call they’re ridiculous

“they were so preoccupied with whether they could, they never stopped to think if they should”

correct

“I would never own one of these if someone gave it to me”

don’t lie

Friday the 13th immediately followed by Valentines day weekend goes gothically and romantically hard

That bastard can miss me all it wants. I hope it cries itself to sleep every night

Happy 82nd birthday to Stockard Channing, who has always understood the assignment.

I know you probably can't chip a tortoise, and I assume they can't wear collars. Maybe you could paint your phone number on his shell. If lost, call...

Lines of academy cadets, one in command red seated but at attention while in a wheelchair.

I have a friend who said, of Starfleet Academy, that this took them out of it - that seeing a person in a wheelchair in the 32nd century seemed unrealistic, since medicine in Star Trek "should be able to cure whatever was wrong with them."

That's not the case, for any number of possible reasons.

I once again feel compelled to remind folks that you feel science news/new scientific developments are bad and destructive because you are not reading science news: You are reading techbro press releases, regurgitated uncritically by outlets that long ago fired all their science/tech beat reporters.

In the movie Stickmen, there's a guy who always goes to the bar in a pink shirt so some drunk guy will question his masculinity, giving him the excuse to beat them up. You always know a Pink Shirt Guy when you meet one.

(Disclaimer: every vegan and goth I've ever met has been perfectly lovely)