Ok, this was much funnier than I expected:
— Atanae (@atanae) December 1, 2019
I laughed, I cried, I identified.
Day: December 4, 2019, 3:11 PM
Bullshit By The Peloton
What a bunch of malarkey. I need Joe Biden’s bus to drive over this shit, reverse, and do it again.
For the vast majority of people, being as thin as Grace from Boston would require not just a combination of daily use of a Peloton and a lifetime of hyper-vigilant restrictive eating, but also a genetic makeup that the vast majority of people don’t happen to have.
This fact is hidden from view by the further fact that every woman on TV looks like Grace, which produces a distorted cultural perception equivalent to that which would be produced if every woman on TV weighed 300 pounds.
But of course Peloton isn’t actually about “fitness” — it’s about attempting to achieve what for most people is a completely unachievable ideal of thinness, which itself is a synecdoche for wealth, status, beauty, youth, whiteness….
Here’s how you get and stay thin: ignore eating advice from puds like this dipshit, work out frequently, don’t eat whole cakes, etc. It’s not that hard. My partner is as thin as Grace in the ad and she eats a lot more than I do, even. And though we do work out, ain’t a Peloton in sight.
And whiteness? Grace doesn’t look white to me. She looks a lot like my first serious girlfriend, who was half-Pakistani. Grace:
I guess in some ways it is progress (?) that libs say that anyone with relatively straight hair is white, though? Not sure. Maybe they just have poor vision. That said, the ad is pretty terrible.
Take control over your own fucking life. You’re the only one who can do it.
10K and 10Q
Publicly traded companies have to disclose a lot of info, including revenues and budgets. Does anyone know of a site or public dataset where you can search and/or run statistics on these figures?
— Sarah Constantin (@s_r_constantin) December 1, 2019
Here is one:
You can also grab the raw structured data here and do whatever you want with it:
https://www.sec.gov/dera/data/financial-statement-data-sets.html
I’m Dying Here
I see Fat Acceptance nutter butters write things all the time like, “I’m fat and I managed to walk 5k as a fatty” and such.
Is that some kind of achievement? I could run five miles and I don’t run. It wouldn’t be fun, but I could do it. Walking 5km is not a fucking achievement of any kind. A three-year-old could do that.
What’s amazing is that they have such low standards and because they do, they think successfully not dying when they do something any adult human should be able to do without thinking twice is like organizing a fucking expedition to the moon.
Cop Out
A bunch of men are going to make jokes now and pile on Kamala’s mistakes without any awareness of the double standards she was up against. So that’s fun.
— Zerlina Maxwell (@ZerlinaMaxwell) December 3, 2019
It’s not that gender and race had nothing to do with it, but she was a bad candidate. Flip-flopped more than a school of fish tossed onto land, had the same bad team as Hillary without any of the fame, and was about as exciting as a can of motor oil.
Racism doesn’t explain everything. Here, being a very uninspiring vacillating cop candidate does.
TED Spread
You suddenly find yourself on-stage for your own TED Talk. With no prior planning, what's a topic you can discuss for 18 minutes?
— Eric Alper 🎧 (@ThatEricAlper) December 3, 2019
Many areas I could choose, but I’d probably discuss how to learn complex ideas or fields quickly.
Aurora Not Roaring
Turn on subtitles. Interview, but no performance. I’ve never listened to much spoken Norwegian but a lot of words are obviously related to English ones. Pitch-accent language!
She has the same attitude towards death that I do. The other dude on the show is completely fascinated with her. It’s kind of cute.
Conqueror
Great outfit. Wonder who made it? Definitely not something you can buy in a store. Not a skirt — that’s pants with a front drape. Very cool.