These scientists want the world to eat more bugs -

https://twitter.com/thisisinsider/status/958963150958690304

What happens to introverts when they open up to you:

https://i.imgur.com/qIrgacD.jpg

As is typical with this sort of news, many of the models were not at all pleased with being out of a job due to the chatterings and pesterings by feminist organizations.

On the #GridGirl hashtag there are various grid girls who are complaining about being out of work thanks to the feminists.

https://www.oneangrygamer.net/2018/01/f1-caves-feminists-fires-grid-girls-order-progressive/50478/

Politicians can get really dumb ideas into their heads. And thus into bills to be voted upon.

So to summarize. It won’t work on multiple levels both technical and constitutional but if it did work it would lead to more of the very thing it is supposed to stop. Sounds like a perfect government program! The only surprise is that the virtue signalling bansturbators who proposed this are Republicans not Democrats, but I guess bansturbation is a cross party interest.

https://ombreolivier.liberty.me/taxing-the-internet-to-stop-porn/

The Dart/F1 girls situation explained by Marge Simpson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fliLsaB0ooc

As is typical with this sort of news, many of the models were not at all pleased with being out of a job due to the chatterings and pesterings by feminist organizations.

Ever wonder if #metoo and the fury over sexual harassment isn't just a backlash of high school insecurities, fomented by unrealistic expectations given us by Hollywood and the music industry?

The movies and TV show us only pretty people - pretty person puts on glasses to play the nerd who, by removing said spectacles, is transformed into the beautiful swan.

The music industry gives us MTV-pretty stars with auto-tune and little actual talent singing vapid songs. Martha Wash was labelled "unmarketable" because of her weight, despite singing lead vocals on more hits than most singers will have in two lifetimes (12 number 1 hits). She was left out of the video for "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)" since she did not fit the MTV aesthetic.

So, the world is taught that, if you're not pretty, forget it. Now, the not-so-pretty ones are getting their revenge. It's revenge of the high school nerds against the cheerleaders.

Harvey Weinstein preys upon the pretty girls who ignored him in high school but now want a job from him. Silicon Valley nerds engage in a hedonistic lifestyle that was beyond their reach in high school but within their monetary grasp now. Nerdy girls get model-pretty girls fired from jobs that pay big money and provide glamour and access to famous racers in return for almost no work.

And the pretty girls are getting their revenge, too. They expected to sleep only with stars and hunks in Hollywood, but the nerds run the show. So, #metoo allows the pretty girls to tank the careers of the nerds who dared think they could sleep with a cheerleader.

We're adults now. It's time to leave high school insecurities behind.

The only surprise is that the virtue signalling bansturbators who proposed this are Republicans not Democrats, but I guess bansturbation is a cross party interest. ~ I R A Darth Aggie at February 1, 2018 7:42 AM

To be a politician is to want to limit the type of fun people are allowed to have, while reserving for yourself all types of fun.

McArdle.

Always make more dinner rolls than you think you can eat. For some reason, dinner rolls loom much larger in our imaginations than in our stomachs.

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-01-30/megan-mcardle-s-12-rules-for-life

What Conan is saying is probably true, but I wanted to leave this comment before reading him closely. I've been a moderately enthusiastic F1 fan for about 10 years, after not having paid any attention to it since I was a little boy. Never in my life have I thought I want to tune into the race today because I know I'm going to see a bunch of girls in their late teens wearing sportswear composed from s***** artificial fabrics and decorated with sponsor logos.

That's my cell phone fixing the spelling.

Mostly grid girls looked like they were having a mediocre time of it… As if they were thinking of the neurologists and financiers who they could have been dating on that perfectly good Sunday afternoon. No drivers or other players have ever given them the slightest attention. Everyone seems to understand that this was a holdover from the [Bernie's] gogo 1960's, as birth control really hit its stride... When middle-aged men who might have served in World War II, or wanted to, suddenly realized that people who look like their daughter's good friends were having a lot of sex which they themselves would never enjoy.

Sociological changes of this magnitude are not from prudery or corporate timidity. No harm, no foul.

See you at Eau Rouge. Be ready.

Don't overcomplicate things Conan. #Metoo is the inevitable result of tribal politics. Anyone who cared to know about Weinstein knew. But since he was 'on our side' it didn't get any press time. Note the multiple times reporters submitted articles about his abuses that got stopped by their editors. What changed is there was a conflict in the Democrat party and suddenly Weinstein wasn't 'on our side'. It was ok for some people to report on these things. Once things calm down it will be back to business as usual and the abuse will continue. After all the fundamental forces driving that abuse haven't changed.

Benny! Snooplettes! Radmosaures!

Here's your Orange Savior, totilly winnnninggg, with your dick in his hand.

#Metoo is the inevitable result of tribal politics. Anyone who cared to know about Weinstein knew. ~ Ben at February 1, 2018 9:39 AM

Weinstein was not running around raping women and exposing himself to women because of politics. His actions may have been covered up because of tribalism, but his unhinged sexual antics were because of his own insecurities.

The poorly-socialized doofus gained power and was determined to have the sex life he imagined the jocks in high school were having and from which he was excluded.

Get away from my girl!

I read this and thought of The Advice Goddess:

How Carob Traumatized A Generation:

"A wry disgruntlement will forever unite those of us who were children during the height of the nineteen-seventies natural-foods movement. It was a time that we recall not for its principles—yes to organics, no to preservatives—but for its endless assaults on our tender young palates. There was brown rice that scoured our molars as we chewed, shedding gritty flecks of bran. There was watery homemade yogurt that resisted all attempts to mitigate its tartness. And, at the pinnacle of our dietary suffering, worse even than sprout sandwiches or fruit leather or whole-wheat scones, there was carob, the chocolate substitute that never could."

"She was left out of the video for "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)" since she did not fit the MTV aesthetic."

When Arsenio Hall had her as a guest, he pointed out that many wouldn't know who she was, and said, "Why don't you let them know?" or some such. The mike boom guy yanked the overhead up a few feet because he knew what was coming - her "Everybody dance now!" rang the building.

Deborah Iyall had the same problem fronting Romeo Void. It just wasn't possible to make her into eye candy.

Never in my life have I thought I want to tune into the race today because I know I'm going to see a bunch of girls in their late teens wearing sportswear composed from s***** artificial fabrics and decorated with sponsor logos.

Um.. About that..

https://twitter.com/rebeccageldard/status/958774286931693568

And then she said this:

Maybe this is the only part being seen on Tv coverage, but we are not actually merely decoration. We promote the sponsor, we interact with fans during signings, we represent the brand or team to the public. The Tv only picks up the standing on the grid part!

Who was a good boy?

https://twitter.com/Boogie2988/status/959187535464419328

> Um.. About that..

You mean I'm affirmed, right?

> We promote the sponsor, we
> interact with fans during
> signings, we represent the
> brand or team to the public.

And again... These are not things that race fans care about.

Affirmed about what?

Plus, somebody cared enough to get these ladies out of a job.

Is it really a cat?

https://twitter.com/Grand_DM/status/958847378236366848

But.. When it comes to the tech sector, we are stuck with a Monopolistic Competition, or an Oligarchy, depending on which country you are

But in a competitive economy, greed is typically satisfied by making your services better, not worse. To quote a wise Scotsman, “It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.” Your local pizzeria offers free bathrooms, delivery service, and fresh ingredients because they know it will give them a competitive edge, not because they love you. Companies know that if they make life worse for their customers, those customers will take their business elsewhere.

https://lbry.io/news/why-do-tech-giants-abuse-their-users

Absolutely bulletproof data from science

maybe

Boaty McBoatface and the Golden Palace Casino monkey show how easy it is to hijack online polls.

But I guess you're right. If they want to stay profitable, they just can't skip an entire generation and they have to cater to the crowd that finds a bland show like Friends painfully offensive.

There's no hope for Gen Z either:

With the Blue Whale Game and the Tide Pods
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/sciencetech/video-1606804/Teens-eat-laundry-detergent-dangerous-Tide-Pod-challenge.html

There is nothing but even more despair in the years ahead.

This would have been much cooler with a flamethrower

https://twitter.com/ConfessionsExMu/status/959105875171360768

Raw water? Heh, that's cute

https://twitter.com/Slate/status/959129820243415040

"Weinstein was not running around raping women and exposing himself to women because of politics."

I agree. He did that because he is a scumbag. But there are lots of scumbags out there. Weinstein was protected and defended because of tribal politics. It was tribal politics that enabled his scumbag behavior along with lots of other scumbags for decades. When the tribe split he lost his protection and when the tribe joins again a new group of scumbags will gain it's protection. In the end nothing has changed.

I reread your comment Conan.

"The poorly-socialized doofus gained power and was determined to have the sex life he imagined the jocks in high school were having and from which he was excluded."

Prove it.

The guy wanted sex. Simple as that. Nothing complicated. Don't spin elaborate fairy tales about teenage angst or jocks. Guy wanted sex, was able to harass women into giving it to him, so he did. Nothing more to it. He didn't need to be excluded from anything for that to happen.

Trump falsely claims most-watched State of Union

He did that because he is a scumbag. ... Weinstein was protected and defended because of tribal politics. ~ Ben at February 1, 2018 4:27 PM

That's exactly what my argument said.

Don't spin elaborate fairy tales about teenage angst or jocks. Guy wanted sex, was able to harass women into giving it to him, so he did. ~ Ben at February 1, 2018 4:31 PM

No fairy tales, just some insight from being old enough to have met a few Harvey Weinstein's in my life.

And I'm not the only one who got that vibe off him. Zoë Brock wrote a recollection of her first meeting with Weinstein and got the same vibe.

"Hearing those words the first time I saw, in an instant, an unattractive, overweight kid who never got the girl in high school, and went on to become one of the richest and most powerful men in the world so he could take revenge on the girls who rebuffed him when he was young."

"And again... These are not things that race fans care about."

Hey, you're fond of asking others if they've ever kissed a girl, but have you even been to a race?

At least in AMA, World Superbike and MotoGP motorcycling, yes, the umbrella girls DO hawk products for the sponsors of the race. See here - or perhaps ponder why thousands of images of them are online.

Perhaps you're upset that one of them took your job standing next to a sweaty Marc Marquez and his howling multimillion-dollar prototype, but hey, you get to cluck about denying a woman a job now. Oooh, you're "woke"!

No contest for prizes and feminine attention for you!

And the apostrophe in Weinsteins earlier was put there by my phone. Damned autocorrect.

I have compelling responses to all this, but it's not letting me post them. Trust me, I'm perfectly correct... Surrender your system of belief and move forward.

I've met plenty of Weinstein types as well Conan. Scumbag is a common form of human. Many of them were the jocks. Others weren't but didn't have any teenage angst. They wanted something so they took it. Juvenile, uncivil, evil even but no angst against what could have been. I've met very few that actually did have that angsty fantasy thing.

Either way, whether Weinstein dreams of mean cheerleaders or not in a few years there will be another Weinstein doing the exact same thing to the exact same type of people. And the reason he will be able to do that is tribal politics. Weinstein's personal motivations are irrelevant.

"I have compelling responses to all this, but it's not letting me post them. Trust me, I'm perfectly correct... Surrender your system of belief and move forward."

Nope.

Or you'd have noticed that the NFL has a cadre of eye candy at each and every performance.