Speaking of quick, notice how many of these were years down the line after audiences had moved on (even if the originals had been well-received).

Funny I thought warmth as well as the thing Lee would be missing. 

“Warm” was the adjective that came to mind for me also, in imagining the difference between McKellen’s Gandalf and what Lee’s Gandalf might have been.

We sort of peg Robert Downey Jr as the original thespian-level actor taking a massive pop-culture franchise role, but McKellen as Gandalf (and the IP of LoTR, plus the 3-in-1 filming) predates all of it.

If it’s on Ring cam, she was screwing the guy on the front lawn.

Criminal courts issue protection orders that protect the safety of the victim with the threat of arrest behind them. You don’t need a university to do that if the crime is reported to police and the police act on that report. I am not saying that criminal protection orders work all the time but they have more teeth…

But colleges and universities don't even do that. They try to avoid the issue and hope they don't get sued. And they do take their chances with doing nothing. 

Tesla Shanghai has reportedly sued a Chinese firm over tech secret infringement

Yeah, that’s the payload.  ;-)

Mostly doesn’t do it for Falcon launches? They abandoned second stage reuse entirely. It was a goal in the early days, but they aren’t even considering it now. (I do not count fairing reuse as second stage reuse.) The energetics are too difficult — you lose too much upmass to make it worthwhile.

Regarding the voice, yes 100 times yes. It was so jarring to hear 80 year old grumpy curmudgeon Ford voice coming out of youthful Ford face.

Regarding aerospace parts, I have to wonder if his obsession with a stainless steel truck is in any way related to the decision to make Starship out of stainless steel, which was frankly a very surprising decision at the time. To put it mildly, it’s an unusual choice in the space launch industry because its…

They are giving SAG-AFTRA everything they ask for, and will also be one of the first people to have new shows on the schedule. The longer their competitors take to give in to the union, the more they get to be the only ones with new shows and stars doing press tours/late night circuits.

When A24 got back to work it was because they gave the unions everything they asked for. Dunno if the same is the case here, but I imagine it has to be at least similar.

It seems to be a pattern among the sycophants of “genius,” “visionary,” “innovative” CEOs — they heap praise on whichever rich ignorant asshole is willing to ignore the actual engineering (and, in some cases, physics) issues and just “innovate” the things that people have been aware would be nice (if the logistics…

I’m hearing from other sources that the new law goes as far as constraining the Governor to pick from a shortlist cooked up by the state Republican leadership. The list will probably include one ultra-hard-right headbanger who no-one in their right minds would actually elect, and a bunch of even worse characters as…

He has to pick someone from a list the state GOP gives him.

The conventional wisdom is that “the Force is in and around all living things” so everything is at least a little bit Force-sensitive. But Force-insensitives (the majority) are people whose ability to interact with the Force is so microscopically small that there might as well not be a Force to them. Huyang has been…

Kinja is refusing my star, so internet high five it is.

I think it’s weirder that he’s on a military ship. Why does she have her kid on a warship?