Apologies for resorting to an LLM, but sometimes complex searches require them:

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That seems to be the only thing you are considering

No, I am merely constraining myself to known information. I don’t make assumptions about a person’s ‘goodness’ based on merely political leanings, public statements and that sort of thing.

If I don’t know for sure then I’m not going to call someone a “piece of shit” over something that might have triggered me.

I don’t know remotely enough about what Maher is like behind closed doors to say for sure, but there was a time when he was essentially the most progressive mainstream comic in the States. By a wide margin.

Not unlike Joe Rogan to an extent. Once a solid standup comic and interesting interviewer who seemed to get wrecked by fame and money, or something like that.

You can hang on to your opinion all you want, but what I said isn’t wrong, and I’m pretty sure the known metrics support all that.

He was brilliant at his best.

One of the world’s top comics, with plenty of specials and his own shows. If there was some kind of critics’ roundtable on comedians, I’m pretty sure he’d be rated at or near the top for years, now.

Hence my disappointment.

I just saw below that this is a new clip. Maybe he immatured instead.

Exactly.

He was a smart, funny, excellent comedian for like 10yrs, and then seemingly he devolved to this bullshit shock material. Wtf…?

Brilliant composition.

And bonus pts for incidental water bears. :D
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrade

Abs - a - fooking - lutely, if you know his earlier material.

Dude had been arguably the funniest comic on earth for ~10yrs, and then this bullshit against women.

Damn, that’s disappointing.

Jim is so good when he’s taking on guns, idiot politics, crazy stories, and all that… I’m seriously baffled why he’d shift to women as a punching bag.

You mentioned Maher, another comic I used to love, and I can’t help feel you’re right on the button with that analogy. It’s like he came out hitting home runs, and then fell in love with the idea that he automatically had prescient things to say about society.

Something like that, anyway.

Right at the :16 mark, the idea that tickets for women are ‘easy’

…and then it gets worse and worse from there, like he has to double-down-dunk in order to keep propping up his point.

Fucking embarrassing, mate.

He’s absolutely not a shock comic. What a ridiculous take.

His comments on gun control, politics, and whatever else have been leading edge for quite a while, hence my bafflement, here.

A little black panther is always a welcome taxation. 🙂

Brilliant photo, post, and words.

A sculpture, essentially?

(now if we could just get an Escher-style drawing of Ned Flanders’ extended family walking endlessly in that loop)

Top of my FUN list!

(when I get bored, that’s where I look)

You’ve come up with a wonderfully-fertile premise IMO.

I’ll be curious to see how it moves ahead…

Super-creative and amusing, with a lovely nod to familiar mythology.

3.75/5 ⭐'s

They ARE NOT just energy, and are in every single cell wall of your body. They are far more important than an energy source.

Go ahead and explain, please.

Aside from that, you seem to have missed the whole premise of what I was really pointing out, above-- that complex carbs in the forms I mentioned are about as unhealthy a way of taking in simple & complex sugars as one could possible want, i.e. almost all fibre, vitamins and minerals have been stripped away, leaving a form that contributes to diabetes, long-term.

THAT was the main point(s) I was making. I’ve certainly nothing against resistant starches and grains that retain as much of their whole selves as possible.

This comic scares me in a way that TNG never did.

It’s almost like Data up there on stage, trying to learn from Joe Piscopo…

Good points. I’ve heard borderline horror-stories from expats trying to find Euro-style or authentic whole-grain bread in Japan, in particular.

And yeah, here in the States it seems a lot more common to deep-fry tofu, which is health-wise arguably a much worse way to consume it than it’s usually made in EA. Actually one of the reasons I love air-fryers is that they offer something of a healthier compromise, with much less oil typically required.