Are we really canceling JK Rowling because she has the temerity to believe that there is such a thing as biological sex?
Ok, then, go ahead and cancel me too. I’d rather be right than a motherfucking idiot.
Day: December 20, 2019, 4:30 PM
Adipose the Question
How long before the food companies, in league with the FA types, make it illegal to not be obese? Ok, I am joking. But not totally, as if the propaganda continues and actual healthy choices become unavailable (eat ultraprocessed seed oil pea garbage, drink cockroach milk), the difference between de facto and de jure illegality becomes muddier.
NarriTV
Because academics and similar are raised in a soup of words, and are generally not very visual in nature, it’s taken a while for them to be able to analyze TV and movies with any sort of rigor. That transition is not at all complete.
Before this year I hadn’t thought deeply about it much, but now that I have I enjoy finding reviews of movies and TV shows where the viewer (invariably an “intelligent” academic type) obviously did not understand the work in the least. It’s good comedy, because it’s like a four-year-old explaining cytology or atmospheric thermodynamics. It’s just hilariously and obliviously wrong.
Learning and Burning
Here's how much federal money the candidates have pledged to fight climate change over 10 years:
Sanders: $10.9 trillion
Warren: $3.0 trillion
Yang: $2.4 trillion
Buttigieg: $2.0 trillion
Klobuchar: $2.0 trillion
Steyer: $2.0 trillion
Biden: $1.7 trillionhttps://t.co/MFK7jEDHou— NPR (@NPR) December 20, 2019
Sanders, even, is not remotely close. It should be around $2 or $3 trillion a year. That’d be $30 trillion at the high end.
If you think we can’t afford that, wait till you get a load of what not doing it will bring about.
The Right Cart
“social construct” is a social construct.
— Steve Randy Waldman (@interfluidity) December 20, 2019
Statistics and probability is a social construct, and physics is (mostly) a social construct.
Practicum
Watchmen’s Lube Man Slide Was a Real Practical Stunt.
Oh no fucking way. I was sure that was CGI when I saw it. What a great practical effect, then. I’m in awe of whatever stuntperson managed that craziness.
Taste the Freedom
Wait, why has the US not changed the name of bombs to “Freedom Fireworks” and UAVs to “Democracy Deliverers?”