In June 2022, a federal appeals court affirmed Donziger’s criminal contempt conviction. In March 2023, the Supreme Court declined to hear further appeals.

I’m shocked.

My history teacher said that the greatest curse you can give someone is telling them “May you live in interesting times” and boy do I feel that now.

Where are you that therapists can prescribe? I thought only doctors of medicine/some pharmacists could.

They’re all cute to someone.

(Not me, I have crippling arachnophobia)

I saw someone theorizing that this helps Republicans down ballot. They give the Dems the presidency, but having more Republicans showing up to vote helps house/senate/whatever local elections swing Republican.

The human urge to domesticate anything that is slightly cute

STOOOOOPP THIS IS CURSED KNOWLEDGE 😭😭

DO NOT BRING OMEGAVERSE TO LEMMY PLEASE THIS IS MY SAFE SPACE 😭

Nothing, that’s what I’m trying to say. All the “sports” I listed have some sort of skill expression that can be judged. Why is break dancing less worthy? Should skateboarding also not have been included? Why is making a horse hop around to music considered a “real sport”?

It’s all arbitrary.

Eh, painting and chess used to be Olympic sports. Shooting/air rifle still is. Break dancing requires more physicality than all of those.

I don’t particularly care about gatekeeping what activities are added/subtracted to the Olympics, as long as it’s competitive and entertaining to watch.

Mm, you’re not wrong about the originality, especially considering it’s given equal weight with the other four categories (the scoring is another issue here I could go on about). I guess in the judges eyes her “original” moves didn’t have anything to do with breaking (like the T-rex thing? That was odd…), so it was irrelevant to the judgement.

I can only speak for my own interpretations though.

No, I think the score of 0 is fair, because imo her Olympics performance was straight up trolling. If you watch any of her previous performances (like her Olympic qualifiers) she’s actually pretty decent. Comparing those to what she did at the Olympics honestly felt like BM to the entire artform.

My take was that she pushed breakdancing into the human consciousness significantly more than anyone in history ever has

Interesting thought exercise, but a WILD take. Notoriety shouldn’t be considered the same as actual accomplishment. Otherwise, John Wayne Gacy should be considered the best clown of all time.

Phil Kim/Phil Wizard (the gold medalist) is a pretty accomplished breaker/bboy.

Not pointed at you OP, but it kind of pisses me off how this lady got more attention than the actual breakers and medalists the Olympics.

I can hear this.

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you’re*

(I’m sorry T_T)

-sigh- Ok I’ll start another playthrough

During undergrad I had to schedule my microbiology and pathology classes during lunch hour. Worst two semesters of my life.

Yes, I know. I watched Kill La Kill.

Everyone that watches it still asks, “Why is she naked?” before it’s explained though. Because that’s part of the creator’s intent.

Me watching Kill La Kill