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The people predicting a trainwreck may not realise that Musk has a fairly extensive comedy background, more in the Andy Kaufman anti-comedy stunt school than in the stand-up tradition. Kaufman, however, was never in possession of near-infinite resources or the ability to build novelty flamethrowers. Here is a guide to the comedy stylings of Elon Musk, including what might be the most valuable joke of all time. June 2010: Musk joins Twitter Many billionaires appear happy to spend their staggering amounts of money in relative anonymity....

The joke, unfortunately, is grounded in truth. The reality of being a flight attendant has always had more to do with low pay and cranky passengers than glamour and excitement. Now, it seems, the events of September 11 have put us on the front lines of the war on terrorism, and a tough job has gotten even tougher. Ever since I can remember, I wanted to be a flight attendant....

To hear White House political advisers tell it, Clinton owes Mike Woo a debt because Woo was an early and steadfast Clinton supporter during the ‘92 presidential campaign. This is mostly bunk: Woo was hardly decisive in carrying L.A. for Clinton. In fact, Riordan’s campaign chief, William Wardlaw, was chairman of the Clinton California campaign. So why would Clinton take the risk of intervening in a local election on behalf of a candidate who could quite easily lose?...

The news was revealed by director Josef Fares, who was speaking in an interview with Eurogamer. There, Fares went into more detail about exactly how A Way Out will work, and explained that the game’s focus on co-operative gameplay does not align with online co-op with strangers. “It’s cocky,” explained Fares in the interview. “But the experience is made to be co-op. This is the game.” Of course, A Way Out is taking co-operative multiplayer to extremes that are very rarely covered by video games....

More women, including Native American and Black women, will serve in the U.S. Congress next year than ever before. Most recent counts show 129 women joining the House and the Senate. Even while the majority of those are incumbents, real gains were made, during the 2020 election. But is it enough? Not by a longshot. Even with increased numbers of women in office, some may wonder whether this will result in meaningful shifts of power....

About eight months since the U.S. withdrawal, Afghanistan has been relegated to the back pages of the newspapers. While the violence has decreased significantly under the Taliban’s rule, this has less to do with the new government’s policies than with the Taliban’s consolidation of power. Afghanistan under the Taliban is very much a country in limbo, with U.S. and U.N. sanctions deterring the functioning of a normal banking system, foreign reserves locked up in the New York Federal Reserve and Afghanistan’s economic prospects looking bleak to nonexistent....

This clash is the first major fixture of Serie A 2014-15 and will be fiercely contested as both the teams will aim to continue their winning run, having won their opening two games. Venue The first encounter between Italy’s top 2 sides will be played at San Siro stadium, which is home to both the Milan teams- A.C Milan and Inter Milan. The stadium boasts a capacity of 80,018 and it will be Milan’s second game at home for this season....

What Is an A2W File? A file with the A2W file extension is an Alice World file used with the Alice educational program from Carnegie Mellon University. The file is a 3D animated scene called a “world” that’s used for teaching computer programming. A2W files are just ZIP archives that contain things like a script.py file, some text documents, images, numerous folders, and XML files that the Alice application can understand....

Along with its partnership with Sony Interactive Entertainment, the stunning visuals of Kena: Bridge of Spirits puts it on par with AAA titles. But if there’s anything that they can learn from the breathtaking indie game from Ember Lab, it’s Kena’s length. RELATED: No Matter How Kena: Bridge of Spirits Plays, It’s Going to Look Good The Length of Modern-Day AAA Titles Mass Effect: Legendary Edition was recently released, bringing nostalgic gamers back to the 2007 journey of Commander Shepard....

Musician Aaron, 34, was found dead in a bathtub on November 5 at his home in Lancaster, California. He was pronounced dead at the scene, according to local authorities. A cause of death has not yet been revealed. Days before he passed away, Aaron spoke about his desire to be back on good terms with Backstreet Boys star Nick, 42, with whom he had a complicated relationship over the years....

The most stunning move of Thursday’s first round saw the Packers trade up to land Utah State quarterback Love, a physically gifted but raw prospect who has drawn comparisons with Patrick Mahomes. The selection was reminiscent of Green Bay picking a sliding Rodgers in 2005 when they had future Hall of Famer Brett Favre entrenched as the starter, a position he would hold onto for the next three years....

Is that the stuff of revolution? The organizers of the Cacak protest, a coalition called Alliance for Change, plan a “summer of rallies” across the country, finishing up in downtown Belgrade. Another pro-democracy group staged a demo on Friday in Novi Sad. There is a tradition of anti-Milosevic protests; in 1997 up to 1 million demonstrators rallied in the capital. Milosevic survived–but that was before the Kosovo war. NATO bombing caused massive damage to the Serb economy, which was already a basket case....

Unlike modern Orthodox Jews–whose acceptance of the Torah as the word of God goes together with a firm embrace of the temporal world–my brother regarded secularism as philosophically incompatible with his religious values, and he set out to build a life apart. For years my brother’s religious transformation filled me with a rage and embarrassment so profound that I struggle even today to understand it. I had always hoped that Tony would find a focus, but ultra-Orthodox Judaism was never what I had had in mind....

The conviction she got is dearly not what her father intended. Last week a military court in Peru sentenced Berenson, 26, to life in prison for treason, a fate usually reserved for terrorist guerrilla leaders. Police say she helped supply arms, a safe house and intelligence information to the Marxist Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA), which had planned to take congressional hostages and exchange them for imprisoned MRTA rebels. Police say they found a stash of weapons in a Lima house she rented, as well as espionage reports on congressmen and a draft of the congressional seating chart....

Creating new foods through biotechnology is a fairly straightforward process. To build the Flavr Savr, scientists identified the gene in tomatoes that promotes softening, copied it and put it into a tomato – but backward, to hold back the effect. So the new tomato, and all its progeny, have a new genetic trait: very slow softening. They can remain on the vine an extra couple of days, ripening and gaining flavor, without becoming too mushy to ship....

The next day, Cheung’s death was the top story in Hong Kong, even as the city was preoccupied by the SARS virus and war. From Beijing to Taiwan, his suicide set off an outpouring of grief and speculation. In the West, Cheung was best known for 1993’s “Farewell, My Concubine” (in which his character, a Chinese opera star, kills himself) and films by Wong Karwai and John Woo. In Asia, he was a figure of glamour and defiance who had transformed himself from teeny-bopper heartthrob to consummate actor....

However, it feels like there’s a tonal hole in all the projects going on right now. There are plenty of Star Wars games where players can take control of a Jedi, but a game that focuses on the elusive Sith is nowhere to be found. Sure, Sith show up in droves for crossover games like Star Wars Battlefront and LEGO Star Wars, and Jedi: Fallen Order has more than its fair share of new Sith-like characters....

This game of hardball is the uncomfortable reality facing Clinton in the Paula Jones case. Kathleen Willey denies she made the call to Cammarata, and her lawyer, Daniel A. Gecker, says she “has no information relevant to the Paula Jones case,” and will ask a judge to quash the subpoena. Willey’s lawyer also said that she was “outraged” to be drawn into the case, and added that she “had and continues to have a good relationship” with the president....

From Tahrir Square in 2011 to Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014 to the #MeToo and #BlackLivesMatter movements, the social media site became the platform to track social movements around the world in real time. It also became the world’s biggest call-out megaphone for putting bad dates on blast or putting mediocre airlines to shame (I’m looking at you, Southwest Airlines.) Twitter isn’t just an important organizing tool for activists—it’s also indispensable for reporters looking to check the vibe on any topic or discover subject matter experts on a given beat....