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Sunday, March 30, 2014

"But on this page..."

That's pretty hilarious. - Neil Patrick Harris and Jason Segel Sing "Confrontation" from Les Miserables

"Men of Tumblr, I’m counting on you to make this one good."

You know you're pretty jacked when you pop a vein in your biceps singing. Also, funny. - Hugh Jackman Sings About The Challenges Of Playing Wolverine:

"The folks at BBC Radio 1's The Matt Edmondson Show convinced Jackman to sing a Wolverine-themed number to the tune of "Who Am I?" from Les Misérables."

Lovely. Sure to end well. Now Airport Employees Are Being Trained To Spot Sex Traffickers - Hit & Run : Reason.com:

"Concessions workers at the Atlanta International Airport are being trained in how to spot sex traffickers and victims. One employee, Gary Norris, told wsbtv.com that before the training, he would just come in and do his job. "But now," Norris says, "you look at people, how they carry their bag or (are) walking, the expressions on their face—do they look fearful, do they look terrified?"

...Because it's not enough to have Transportation Security Administration officials watching your every move suspiciously: now the guy behind the Jamba Juice counter and the gal making your Auntie Em's pretzel will be side-eyeing you at the airport, too. Wonderful...

Neil deGrasse Tyson Wins Everything.

Neil deGrasse Tyson likes to dance from imjustanape on Vimeo.

I'm tired of shows where the 'good guys' torture people. "How cop shows help build public support for police violence."

"Do What You Gotta Do": Cop Shows Bolster Idea That Police Violence Works:

"Within a minute and a half of the first episode, the show has summed up its central message: Police violence works. This is relayed again and again throughout the series: When a cop with a chain-wrapped fist savagely beats a Spanish-speaking suspect demanding an attorney until he relinquishes a tip; when officers debase the idea of policing without intent to arrest; when cops round up black non-criminals and deliver them to precinct torture chambers. In every episode, these methods achieve the desired ends. The message: Police violence works...

By far the most well-known CPD scandal involves the systematic use of torture. From 1972 to 1991, officers brutally tortured more than 100 detained men and boys, all black, by, among many other things, burning cigarettes on their bodies, beating their faces with a flashlight and emitting powerful volts of electricity with cattle prods to their genitals. After the news of torture broke more than two decades ago, it was also revealed that a whole crew of higher-ups had turned a blind eye to the widespread maltreatment. When a medical examiner for one of the first few abuse cases demanded a superintendent of police investigate the abuse, the buck was passed off to the state attorney, whose office essentially sat on the allegations as a culture of torture proliferated for more than a decade. Meanwhile, CPD Cmdr. John Burge personally sanctioned and participated in the torture of a number of men."

Wil Wheaton on bullying, compassion, and being a nerd. | WIL WHEATON dot NET:

"When a person makes fun of you, when a person is cruel to you, it has nothing to do with you. It’s not about what you said. It’s not about what you did. It’s not about what you love. It’s about them feeling bad about themselves. They feel sad. They don’t get positive attention from their parents. They don’t feel as smart as you. They don’t understand the things that you understand. Maybe one of their parents is pushing them to be a cheerleader or a baseball player or an engineer or something they just don’t want to do. So they take that out on you because they can’t go and be mean to the person who’s actually hurting them.

So, when a person is cruel to you like that, I know that this is hard, but honestly the kind and best reaction is to pity them. And don’t let them make you feel bad because you love a thing...

I know it’s really hard in school when you’re surrounded by the same 400 people a day that pick on you and make you feel bad about yourself. But there’s 50,000 people here this weekend who went through the exact same thing—and we’re all doing really well. So don’t you ever let a person make you feel bad because you love something they decided is only for nerds. You’re loving a thing that’s for you."

Right in the feels.

Awesome.

919, of course. Texts From the Avengers:

Broken. And broke. Pentagon: Wars Come and Go but War FUNDING Should Be Forever! - Hit & Run : Reason.com

Food Log - "Your Fat Is Unequivocally Your Fault."

3/24 - coffee, cream, Cannibal Inferno, ON 100% Whey, eggs, chocolate milk, Animal Flex, Monster Multi, water, ground beef, ground pork, salsa + avocado, iced tea, Universal ZMA

3/25 - coffee, cream, water, eggs, Cannibal Inferno, ON 100% Whey, chocolate milk, Animal Flex, Monster Multi, iced tea, steak, chicken, potatoes, garlic, onions, avocado, curry powder + coconut milk, Universal ZMA, Quest Bar

3/26 - coffee, cream, water, eggs, Cannibal Inferno, ON Platinum Hydrowhey, ON 100% Whey, chocolate milk, Monster Multi, Animal Flex, ground beef, ground pork, cheese, tomato, avocado, Universal ZMA

3/27 - coffee, cream, water, eggs, 1.M.R., ON 100% Whey, chocolate milk, hamburger, bacon, guacamole [avocado, tomato, onion, garlic], Universal ZMA

3/28 - coffee, cream, water, eggs, ON 100% Whey, Monster Multi, Animal Flex, mayo, bacon, hamburger, tomato, butter, cream cheese, kale, spinach

3/29 - coffee, milk, water, double cheeseburger, McNuggets, fries, bbq sauce, Coke Zero, bacon, milk, chocolate, ON 100% Whey, beer & lamb chops [not pictured]

3/30 - coffee, milk, ON 100% Whey, water, eggs, iced tea, steak, tomato, mayo, Universal ZMA

ChAoS & PAIN: Your Fat Is Unequivocally Your Fault:

"The most common correlation mentioned between fatness and anything else is poverty. Fat people and leftists love to claim that obesity is the result of poverty, and use a variety of studies to illustrate the correlation. If you're thinking to yourself that this makes no sense, you're right, but they confuse correlation for causation because they're stupid and lazy, and they seem to think that all poor people are so fucking dumb they don't know what food is bad for them and what's not.

'It’s no secret that there’s a correlation between poverty and obesity. We’re living in the supposedly richest nation in the world (thanks to a glorious legacy of slavery and property theft), where the majority of the people are either poor, or hopelessly debt-riddled and overtaxed middle class. The majority of Americans don’t have enough money relative to the quality of life we’re expect to maintain for our families, and at best rely on consumer debt to survive, and at worst criminal activities that may land us in jail. Many of us live or work in areas where we don’t have access to affordable healthy food. We may not have the time or money or energy or desire to work out or cook healthy meals at home when they’re already working 2 or more jobs to barely get by. Most of us don’t have adequate healthcare. Most of us don’t have gyms in our office buildings (my building even discourages us from using the stairs), can’t afford or don’t have access to a public gym, and may not live in areas where it’s safe to go jogging at night, or for our children to get exercise by playing outside. We’re encouraged to self-medicate our exhaustion and misery with booze, cigarettes, television, video games, internet, and processed food that is literally chemically engineered the hit the pleasure centers of our brains like narcotic drugs, driving the urge to eat more (a hence, buy more). This narcotic food is cheap, even cheaper if you go for the 64 oz. Big Gulp, the King Size candy bar, the supersize fast food “value meal.” You can buy this “food” almost anywhere, and it’s a quick makes you feel good when you’re tired or cranky, at least temporarily. And it’s no big surprise that this lifestyle often leads to obesity, diabetes, and other issues.'(James)

To summarize: fat people are fat because rich, thin, blood-thirsty capitalists force them to live beyond their means and internalize the belief that they can afford anything and everything. Thus, having overspent on trinkets, there's no money left for food, so the overworked and under-appreciated proles are forced to feed their families processed foods because they're too lazy to cook real food. Then, they're not given free gym memberships or rides to the gym by the aforementioned blood-thirsty capitalists, replete with top hats and monocles, and they must live with their big-screen tvs and smart phones in undesirable areas with people in the same situation but are whom apparently dangerous. Finally, they're forced to apply a chemical salve to their wounded, flabby psyches with junk food, nicotine, and alcohol to escape from the reality in which they live, and those medications are the only things that the rich provide them, as a soma for the Betas, Deltas, Epsilons, and Gammas of our cruel world.

Only the fattest simpletons on Earth could possibly buy this ridiculous tripe. The fat broad who penned that ridiculously intellectually disingenuous bullshit has cast herself as nothing more than an easily led herd animal manipulated into a lifestyle she could have easily avoided if she didn't suck, and then managed to paint her fellow cattle as dangerous miscreants and criminals. Had this genius ever read Rhetoric, she might have developed the ability to formulate a cogent argument, but that would again require she not be a lazy piece of shit. She'd also know, were she not so fucking disgracefully slothful, that the correlation she mentioned between poverty and obesity only exists in the last decade of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century in the United States. This, of course, brings me back to my premise- our problem is that people are hideously, shockingly, and inexcusably fucking stupid and lazy. The fattie above blames everything on capitalism and income inequality, but fails to take into account that the United States of of the early 20th Century had nearly as much income inequality, yet they were far leaner.

The immigrants coming across the ocean weren't whining about how fat they were, simply because they were too busy working hard and making their own fucking food to get fat, in spite of the fact that they were hard-drinking, chain-smoking, street fighting motherfuckers who likely never once thought about their waistline because their lifestyles kept them from getting fat. Nor does this correlation exist outside of the United States, because the correlation is nothing more than the root of a stupid fucking argument that's the brainchild of [the] intellectually lazy...

Oddly, I have no problem with people being fat, necessarily, if that's what they want to be... What I cannot abide, however, is the intellectual disingenuousness that begins with people whining about the alleged discrimination under which they supposedly suffer for a condition they themselves embraced and actively cultivated, only to turn and state that they're victims of a mysterious and nebulous third party. It's the same bullshit that resulted in 10 Minute abs and the Thighmaster - sloth. If they love eating and fucking and want to lay around all day eating cheesecake, awesome, but keep your fucking mouth shut about discrimination- they chose a lifestyle that led to their current state."