Not just the fact of the slap - the sudden shift in emotions (laughing, then furious), climbing on stage and walking over to Rock (rather than slapping him off-camera later), walking back THEN shouting obscenities (Smith doesn’t strike me as a man to shout f-words in public very often, and why wait until he sat down…

It’s not just Hollywood. Ayanna Pressley, a progressive member of Congress, responded by tweeting “Thank you Will Smith. Shout out to all the husbands who defend their wives”.

Powerful people are more able to break norms. But when norms break, they break from the top - powerful people break them, which makes it easier for less powerful people to break them to. People model their behaviour on role models, and a popular, rich, handsome, successful, powerful man like Will Smith is going to be…

Traditionally, ableism has specifically been discrimination on the basis of disability, not just bullying people for looking different (that’s just ‘bullying’). Being bald is not a disability, and it’s insulting both to disabled people AND  to bald people to claim that it is.

In this case it was so weird because they effectively placed the DRS detection line so as to penalise people for overtaking at one of the few places they could overtake...

It’s known as ‘trackstanding’ - it often involves both slowing down to avoid being in front (because a cyclist following another gets about a 30% drag reduction) and trying to move upward on the velodrome track (because swooping from the top to the bottom of the track gives you additional momentum through gravity).…

In principle, NFTs could allow you to transfer assets out of the account ecosystem governed by a single authority, or could even remove the need for such authorities at all. So you could, for instance, transfer items (or characters) from one offline game to another, without needing to be online at any point to allow a…

And conversely, buying the copyright to art doesn’t actually give you the art. We all have the right to copy the Mona Lisa, because the exclusive copyright has expired, but most of us do not actually own the Mona Lisa.

The movie version is pretty good, and Oldman is pretty good in it too. Doesn’t need to be forgotten. Even though, as you say, it’s only a shadow* of the Guiness version (or should that be the Richardson version?), which is incredible.

“If we have yachts at our GP, the Europeans won’t be able to laugh at us anymore!”

They used to break seasons up into, like, 22-24 different parts, all released at different times. I think it was just a scam to get people to keep tuning in, personally.

Haven’t you heard? Haircuts are literally the most important thing in the universe, and if you see a “bad” haircut without expressing how much you despise it and its owner, you’re a bad person. I mean gosh darn it, you might as well pass by an avocado bathroom without comment!

Well, coercion is still a thing outside of sex too! One party being coerced can absolutely invalidate contracts. However, she’d presumably have to prove that, rather than just generically claiming “he was someone I admired so I agreed to whatever he said”. [even in a sexual assault case I think in theory you need to…

Farhadi seems to be saying that he’d independently heard of the story, which had been reported in the media, and possibly even that he’d suggested to Masihzadeh that she base her documentary on it. When he decided to make a film based on the events, he asked Masihzadeh to agree in writing that she had no problem with…

I’m not sure there’s much fat left to trim in Europe:

This has indeed been the policy for decades. The problem is, the “lame” European tracks are the ones that viewers care about - they have the history, the prestige, the local fan base, and generally the best racing. Replacing them with indentikit tilkedromes or super-tight rectangular street circuits, with few or no…

FWIW, Kavanaugh recused himself from 47 cases the term he joined (not including ones heard before he joined) - mostly because he’d been involved in the case in a lower court, or because he’d represented a party in private practice. Barrett recused herself from 79 cases in her first term, including 3 very early cases…

If nothing else, that photo does at least show that, however misjudged it might seem out of context, Ted Cruz’ beard was actually a good decision.

Hey, that’s unfair, some of my best friends are people who ask people if they know who they are!

“From the beginning” is an understatement. I just checked the original trailer. It starts by cutting between Eve and Villanelle, with Villanelle dressed in what looks like a semi-translucent Victorian nightdress stroking a bed and smiling seductively, then continuing to cut between them in a ‘romantic’ scene between…