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  • Hold up, because this gives me an idea.

    Let's embrace the celebration. Let's lean into honoring the man they claim Charlie Kirk was. Make remembering him all about the tolerance for debate and discussion, the respect for minorities and women, the traditional values of freedom of speech. In honor of Kirk, speak truth to power, and challenge the conventional ideas.

    Nevermind, my mind isn't limber enough for all thos gymnastics.

  • We don't need a smoking gun. Trump has smoking guns in his hands at all times on national television broadcasts. He keeps firing them in every direction, and people are being maimed or killed.

  • We should reclaim the broadcast airwaves from television companies and use it to broadcast news, sports, and PBS, all paid for with taxes. There's no reason that one conglomerate should have a monopoly on the electromagnetic spectrum so they can be showing Judge Judy reruns all day.

  • Or they are crimes of opportunity. Museum security is probably not what we see in movies, and smaller museums might leave the wrong person holding the right key at the right time.

    But the fact that there have been similar robberies would support your theory.

  • I didn't make it a sex scandal, Republicans did. I don't care at all who has sex with whom.

    It's relevant because they did not disclose the relationship, and created the appearance of impropriety. Was her ex really the best person for the job? There are quite literally thousands of lawyers who could have done the job. What if instead of an ex, she had given the job and the salary to her nephew? It wouldn't be as click-baity, but it would have been the same problem. She made a bad decision in a high profile case against opponents who cheat. I feel empathy for the frustration and regret she must be feeling, but I also hold a lot of anger and resentment that she did something so stupid that affected literally every person on earth. It's not fair that she's being held to a higher standard, but this is the job she sought, fought for, and claimed to know how to do.

    And again, I don't know that it was over years ago. There was work-related travel where the two of them were alone on the taxpayer's dime. I'm taking your version of events at face value, and it's still a serious lapse in judgement.

  • I have not followed the case too closely, because I literally do not care about the salacious details. What matters to me is that the relationship was undisclosed, and because of the scandal, the whole case was fucked. It was one of the best chances to nail Trump to the fucking wall, and it was derailled because of a sex scandal. The irony is dense enough to affect navigational equipment.

    If not for the scandal, they would have attacked her for something else. But she made it easy, and we're all suffering from her incompetence.

  • I mean, all those things are true, but she did have an undisclosed romantic involvement with the attorney she appointed (and paid) to lead the case. She could have appointed any number of various attorneys to lead the prosecution. I want Trump in jail, but these are the sort of unforced errors and endemic corruption that provide cover for criminals like Trump to exist in the first place.

  • I'd love a continuation on an unrelated show with an ensemble cast and some wild mysteries, and then the end of the season one of them meets Hurley and he's just like "Dude... Good to see you." and you realize it's Aaron.

    It could go in any direction, and you can bring back Linus as Hurley's Richard, and keep tabs on Walt, Charlie Hume, Ji-Yeon Kwon, Clementine, Megan Pace, Zach and Emma, and a bunch of other kids from the show. Introduce some new mysteries, explore other places of power around the world, fight some Eldritch evil, anything is possible.

  • I got really into Lost. Like really into it. I was on message boards, sharing theories, doing alternate reality puzzles, hacking websites, going to live events, eating apollo bars, reading bad novels, full tilt. It felt like an actual mystery we were actually solving.

    Then the quality of the show started to dip. Plot threads were dropped due to external factors, like Eko dying because the actor hated living in Hawaii. Walt aging too fast. The writers strike shortening Libby's backstory. Nikki and Paulo. The Dharma Initiative being poorly received. And it became clear that there wasn't actually a satisfying conclusion written. The "mystery" was that the writers weren't sure what happens next. They weren't making the show for me. They weren't counting on somebody studying Egytian mythology to decipher the significance of a four toed foot, or learning finite math to establish a relationship between the Numbers. I was imagining answers that were never there, and posting them on the internet created backlash. The writers admitted to changing some plot threads because they didn't want to spawn more internet scavenger hunts.

    And looking back, the show was fine. It was clever and twisty and well acted. Characters developed and grew. Some of the show still sucked, but it wasn't the massive disappointment like OG Dexter or Game of Thrones. The end is satisfying, if you're not really thinking too hard about the unanswered questions.

    But yeah, I got too into Lost.

  • Perhaps. Or maybe, people with healthier, more efficient lungs are able to walk faster without breathing heavier. In that case, breathing less might reduce the inhaled carcinogens, reducing the risk of lung cancer.

    Looking at the actual research, the conclusions are carefully worded to avoid this sort of reporting.

    Faster walking speed, whether self-reported or measured, is associated with a reduced risk of cancer development. This association appears to be partially mediated by lower inflammation and improved lipid profiles.

  • Probably. Or maybe, people who have healthier lungs don't need to breathe as much to efficiently exchange oxygen for CO2. So maybe breathing less protects against lung cancer by inhaling fewer carcinogens.

    There are simply too many confounding variables to control for all of them. Research like this is important, and it's not the researchers' fault. Notice how the conclusions are carefully worded to specifically avoid exactly this sort of news article.

  • A research team in the Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy at the LKS Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong (HKUMed), has conducted a pioneering study that found an association between walking speed and cancer risk. The researchers found that individuals who walk faster have a markedly lower overall risk of developing cancer, particularly lung cancer. This association was consistent regardless of whether walking speed was self-reported or objectively measured.

    As always, correlation =|= causation. Walking speed is almost certainly linked to like 15 other good health indicators. Exercise is good for you, and you should do it. But these results do not support the recommendation that fast walking will reduce your chances of lung cancer. These results say that if you already walk fast that you probably have a lower chance of lung cancer. Maybe it is the healthier lungs that allow you to walk faster? Maybe it's a genetic component that makes you walk faster AND reduces your chances of lung cancer. Maybe they fucked up the sample and all of their slow walkers lived downwind of an asbestos plant.

    Again, exercise is good for you. Exercise as much as you can. Cannot stress that enough. The health value of exercise is unquestionable and universal, and a lack of exercise is bad for you in every way. Bad science is bad for everyone, though.

  • Not exactly what you're asking, but Cabin in the Woods is like a love letter to all horror movies. It drops references and homages left and right, making horror movie tropes actual plot points, including bizzare foreign horror movies that aren't explained at all. The more you know about horror movies, folklore, and monster cinema, the more you will understand the movie.

    If you haven't seen it, go see it now. I won't say anything else.