Vismuradov was not only given a Schengen visa to enter Rotterdam, but was able to travel freely between multiple European nations without significant molestation.

It’s not a great movie, but the hype was never about it being a great movie. The hype was about a big-budget mainstream film filled with black characters that depicts a thriving African civilization, which is not only timely but, like, late already. The fact that it does so without resorting to pandering or prejudice…

Entitled 33-year-old brat has an entitled, elderly brat of a father! What a surprise!

Real talk: the Maybach still exists just to capture the segment of the market that is dumb or status-conscious enough to buy it based on the name alone. The 90s revival of the name as a high end make only succeeded among rappers and people who can’t spend a quarter of a million dollars cars to begin with - it’s a poor…

I don’t see the left wrist, but they’re definitely enormous cuffs. Another case of overcompensation?

I don’t know. I reckon that if you took out the artistic parts, you’d actually get the peak to skew older: part of the reason why figure skaters and gymnasts, especially women, tend to peak so early is that there’s a deeply ingrained expectation that they have a certain youthful, lithe look that gets harder in late…

Bode Miller is the Donald Trump, Jr of winter sports.

Hey, that’s unfair. The Sixers are almost 3 games above .500!

The horse, presumably.

It’s a difficult thing to fake, but it’s an easy thing to delude yourself about.

No shit - that’s how every dating site works. Get men to sign up, entice them with fake messages from bots to do something on the site that requires paying, cash checks.

Nah. You might be able to throw together passable marinara, but part of the appeal of Italian cooking is how hard it is to fuck it up, so being able to not fuck it up isn’t much of an accomplishment.

The NBA All-Star Game at least has potential because basketball has the chance to be Globe-Trotterized into a flashy, entertaining, but low-effort game. Keep the dunk contest judges around to award extra points for trick shots or something. With baseball, there’s not really that much you can do to make it more fun…

As long as you can cash out or get away before the scandal breaks, you don’t care.

You grossly overestimate the ability of anyone, ex special operations or no, to fight off multiple assailants without weapons.

Throw in a couple of audience members or something so they’ll always be picked last.

Here you just have to worry that the managing editor will ignore the advice of counsel and the whole place will just get burned down.

You’re right, we should save our outrage for the fact that he’s profoundly unqualified for his job, in an intellectual as well as moral sense, is collaborating with the most profoundly corrupt government since the 1920s and the first to be wholly beholden to hostile foreign powers. Why quibble over a few business…

Any excess power produced by the thermoelectric battery charges regular batteries. The main takeaway is that conservative estimates and aggressive engineering built something that could fulfill its primary functions properly at a much lower power level than expected.

There’s more to it than that, though - they didn’t have any idea that there would be enough wind to clear dust off the solar panels, for example., or whether certain terrain might prove unstable or impassable (such as ultimately ended the Spirit mission). 90 days may have been a reasonable target, too - one of the…