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  • Nate Bargatze’s Boys & Girls Club Emmys Bit Fell Flat and Was a Clumsy Exercise in Celebrity Humiliation

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  • It seemed pretty clear to me:

    • Nate Bargatze did a bit the whole night that donations to charity would be keyed to the amount that award recipients took for their acceptance speeches.
    • The bit fell flat and wasn't funny, but the bit continued the whole night, and unfortunately took attention away from the content of the acceptance speeches.
    • In terms of actual time of broadcast, acceptance speeches are a tiny percentage of the overall production time, so anyone who wants to save time should've found it in all the filler that was actually scripted into the show.
    • Nate Bargatze almost certainly wrote the bit and put it in, so the blame should lay with him.

  • ‘Penguin’ Season 2 Is ‘In Discussions,’ Matt Reeves Says

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  • I don't think he does it for the money.

    When he was young he definitely enjoyed that playboy lifestyle of being the hot young actor, but at this point he really just seems to love the art of television/film and acting and storytelling, and genuinely seems excited about good projects, even the ones that he had nothing to do with.

  • From Hero to Zero: 'The Bear' Suffers Massive Drop in Emmy Wins in a Single Year

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  • Note that this awards season is for season 3. For whatever reason, The Bear releases its seasons in June, right at the very beginning of eligibility window, so by the time the awards roll around in September the next year, the season being awarded is like 15 months old.

  • From Hero to Zero: 'The Bear' Suffers Massive Drop in Emmy Wins in a Single Year

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  • I disagree. I've worked in kitchens and it accurately captures many of the background stressors and the low level anxiety that is hard to turn off when off the clock (and I wasn't even management).

    The storylines and plots aren't that interesting to me, but the emotional depth rings true to me.

  • [Dinosaur Comics] Idioms

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  • Were you "popular" in school?

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  • I was popular within my niche, the nerds who were racking up all sorts of college credit and high standardized test scores while taking the most academically challenging classes offered by my school. Dated a bit, usually could get a group together in any given weekend night to hang out, could always find a group to watch rented movies or play pickup sports or play video games with (this was before home broadband so people had to lug their desktop computers to someone's house for a LAN party).

    There was some exposure to the athletes (most of the athletes at my high school were pretty good students), the arts and theater types, goth types, etc., but I never felt that there was a true hierarchy in popularity of the different groups, just people sorting into what they preferred. I hung out with my friends, and I was one of more popular kids within my particular group. I had a blast.

  • IF YOU TAKE ENOUGH YOU CAN SEE THE PATTERN BRO

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  • Like the Kumail Nanjiani joke about a new drug called "cheese," made by mixing Tylenol PM with heroin.

  • Seriously what's that idea?

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  • There is a need for more precise terminology. We should refer to "block" as stopping someone from interacting with you or your submissions/comments and "mute"/"ignore" as making it so that the person's own actions cannot be seen by you.

  • How Saturday night ended

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  • In other words, really low probability with a substantial risk that even if you do hit it, you'll have to share the jackpot with others?

  • Evolutionarily speaking, wouldn't premature ejaculation be considered the desired trait?

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  • Evolutionarily speaking, wouldn't premature ejaculation be considered the desired trait?

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  • The authors modeled a 3d penis and vagina and showed that the penis is able to scoop out paste from the vagina. They then interpret it as that it's "possible" for the penis to have evolved the way it has to scoop out rivals' semen.

    The obvious counter to the claim is that anything can be used as a shitty scooping spoon if you try hard enough.

    The starting point is the focus on ways in which human sexual behavior is different from those of our closest living relatives, other primates and apes, and how the observed sexual behavior of those other species correspond with physical characteristics in their genitals.

    I found this paper to be pretty interesting, and it has a decent summary of why the semen pumping theory sticks around despite some pretty significant issues. It proposes its own theory for the glans penis, but the discussion of the history of the displacement theory is good background on its own.

    Basically, species with low sperm competition (where each female tends to mate with only one male) have smaller testes and smaller sperm midpieces (the motor unit that actually drives movement), and species with high promiscuity and high sperm competition, like chimpanzees, tend to have larger testes and larger sperm midpieces. And on these metrics, humans sit towards the less promiscuous side of the spectrum.

    So any theory of intense sperm competition is pretty inconsistent with other observed characteristics of human genitals and sperm.

    But there also aren't good alternative theories for human penis shape, when comparing all the primates that do or don't have similar features.

  • Evolutionarily speaking, wouldn't premature ejaculation be considered the desired trait?

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  • Humans are unusual that females don't show easily perceptible signs of ovulation and willingly fuck outside of that window.

  • Clock logic

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  • Maybe where you're sitting. But my frame of reference has had slightly different time dilation than yours.

  • Clock logic

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  • The decimalization of money is its own fun history, with a lot of different countries undergoing their own transitions at different times.

    The Spanish dollar, which was the world reserve currency in its heyday, was divided into 8 reals (see how pirates used to refer to money in the form of "pieces of eight") but issues with the supply of silver led to the introduction of the lesser real de vellón, which eventually settled at 20 to the dollar after over 100 years of uncertainty and confusion.

  • It's just rude really.

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  • Just wait for that first time that you realize your doctor is younger than you.

  • Kinesin Protein

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  • The animation is actually slowed down. Kinesin can take something like 100 steps per second. Each step is about 8 nm, and they've been observed to move 600-1000 nm per second.

    In reality it wiggles around in Brownian motion but the equilibrium of it "clicking" into place is so attractive that it keeps happening really fast.

  • 5 tomatoes

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  • I don't believe that "watt hours" are more convenient than joules

    Clearly you've never had to do the calculations where these things come up, where hours are a much more common unit of measure for time than seconds, so that multiplying and dividing by time is easier when working with hours.

  • 5 tomatoes

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  • it's more when people are almost using the metric system then fuck it up, like the "Watt Hour" for measuring energy use.

    Energy is just so important to physics and engineering that it will be measured in whatever unit is most convenient to convert in that particular context: joules as the SI unit, watt hours for electricity usage, calories for certain types of heat or food energy calculations, electron volts in particle physics, equivalent tonnes of TNT for explosion energy, things like that.

  • I think this is the most censored meme I've ever found

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  • Cable doesn't have rules, other than each corporate entity's own practices of what they're willing to publish/broadcast. Part of it is appeasing advertisers, and some of it is them wanting to gain market share, but it's all business reasons. And those same business reasons apply to websites and podcasts.