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There's legitimately not enough space for everyone to bring a carry-on, especially on smaller planes; until that changes, carry-on fees are as good a way to allocate that space as any.

This is great + well-deserved, plus it has the side benefit of making some of the world's worst people really, really mad.

Kissinger is outside the frame, scowling at the scoreboard as the Grim Reaper's total goes up by 1.

The tourist-y parts of it are pretty much all newly rebuilt anyway; there's not much of the original wall left at Mutianyu or Simatai or wherever.

locals may have to accept that same-day delivery is a thing of the past

In a pedestrian-friendly city like Amsterdam, couldn't they mostly replace this with a pickup depot / Amazon locker type setup? (maybe residents with wheelchair / limited-mobility / etc permits can still get front-door package delivery, but it's not something most people need)

I really hope that they don't try to Cinematic Universe this; it should be possible to watch and enjoy a Star Trek movie without having seen any other recent Star Trek movies or TV shows, and you shouldn't have to go to all of the movies to understand what's going on in any specific one.

(a trilogy is fine - that's what 2/3/4 were - but keep the story arc to that size or smaller; of course 2 was also a continuation of a specific Original Series episode, but you didn't actually need to have seen it to understand immediately what was going on with everyone)

I wouldn't discount Harris' innate advantages there too; he was 10 years older than Gambon, aged more poorly (having been an alcoholic hellraiser in his younger years), and his natural delivery - even when he was much younger - had that sort-of wizened wheezing sound to it; "old and physically frail but with incredible magic power" was sort of baked in even before he added any actual acting to the mix.

But I don't know if there's an alternative who would have been better in that regard; the three I'm aware of them talking about were Christopher Lee, Ian McKellen, and Peter O'Toole, but the latter two would have played him very much like Gambon did, and I'm not sure if Lee could have pulled off "frail" either given his voice + physical stature.

One of the few non-Avengers in the list of all-time highest grossing actors.

One of Chief O'Brien's more elaborate holodeck simulations

With him, Richard Harris, Robbie Coltrane, and Alan Rickman all gone, the only members of the Hogwarts Professor Tontine left are Maggie Smith and Warwick Davis.

This Friday or last Friday?

Ah, the blissful-but-brief interval between when a Texas district judge issues a sensible ruling and the 5th Circuit overturns it with a concurrence by Judge Ho saying that if it were up to him people attending drag shows would be rounded up in internment camps.