"'Deeply offensive' and 'laughably absurd'Other scholars who have studied the US's relationship with race say Trump's comments are wildly off the mark, characterizing them as "deeply offensive" and "laughably absurd.
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Every big life begins in places that are laughably small.
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Obviously this scenario involves a laughably unsustainable and insane lie.
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The company's website was, laughably, down at time of writing.
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You found Carrie Bradshaw's shoe budget to be laughably restrained.
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Siri also had laughably awkward pronunciations of some artist names.
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No LikeThe step and GPS distance tracking is laughably bad.
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The bar for this election was always set laughably low.
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It's made me see how laughably inadequate individual legal repercussions are.
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And, most laughably, the Israel lobby silences all criticism of Israel.
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Five years ago, iTunes was so laughably dominant in that space.
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Water bills are laughably cheap, typically less than $35093 a month.
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Like, either someone dies or everyone dies or the protagonist spends half the movie staring vacantly into a body of water or the dialogue is laughably wooden or the sex scenes are laughably porny, and so on.
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Its starting capital of only a few million euros is laughably small.
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And some of their recent efforts like smartwatch apps are laughably useless.
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It was almost laughably inappropriate, but such was our disinhibited age.3.
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Their commitment to their cause comes down to some laughably clichéd banter.
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But, for the record: it was a laughably, impossibly awesome catch. 3.
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There's a large selection of food, in portions that are laughably small.
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The acting is deliberately wooden, and the special effects are laughably cheesy.
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I didn't speak for conservatives — something you laughably claim to do constantly.
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The entire evening seemed way over the top—perhaps even laughably so.
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He has said the government's former target of 2033 was "laughably unambitious".
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Today, the bar for compliance for patient data safety is laughably low.
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And it's still undercut by the laughably incomprehensible clichés of Ellis' narrative.
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Back in the car, it is evident the dogs smell laughably bad!
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Comedy becomes her, perhaps because—not although—she looks so laughably glamorous.
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The official security justification for the travel ban policy is laughably weak.
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Maybe another runaround in what had turned into a laughably Kafkaesque experience.
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It is certainly true that Becker can come across as laughably po-faced.
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So far Cruz's plan is working, though history may prove it laughably futile.
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If you took one, teeny-tiny, laughably insignificant step toward a better life.
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In one sense, the decision to paint photographic portraiture was almost laughably conventional.
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These German romantic poets were laughably devoid of any humor of self-awareness.
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That would make headlines at any other time, but now seems laughably optimistic.
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Juxtaposed with the data of human drivers, Uber's autonomous cars appear laughably incompetent.
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He gave laughably implausible explanations for any conduct that suggested impropriety by Trump.
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But over a year later, progress in the US has just been laughably slow.
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You see and hear this in the gym regularly, and it is laughably pathetic.
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Numerous studies show that it's laughably easy to make humans treat robots like humans.
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But at least its attempts to change the subject will be less laughably obvious.
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As the sample I quoted above should show, the stuff was really laughably demure.
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This isn't unique to living in Europe, but I'm laughably reliant on Google Maps.
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I get it; words are laughably inadequate when it comes time to express ourselves.
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They don't seem to care or try, and when they do it's laughably stubborn.
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The hoaxers began their project with the assumption that certain ideas are patently, laughably absurd.
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The problem they settled on is in a way laughably contrived: Being a quantum computer.
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For now, the profiles Facebook creates from users' browsing habits can be laughably off-base.
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But the threat that the US would stop "all trade" with China seems laughably implausible.
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But even so, the present workarounds for both Android and iOS users are laughably easy.
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Penalties for their crimes were laughably light; ivory left the Selous in an unending stream.
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He said a government target for complete full-fibre coverage by 13 was "laughably unambitious".
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Whether oil is just cheap or laughably cheap doesn't matter too much to the consumer.
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Originally a purveyor of manicured lies, D'Souza became a purveyor of rowdier, laughably obvious lies.
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No, 200 politicians didn't switch -- that's a laughably high bar -- but there were plenty. 1.
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He said a government target for complete full-fiber coverage by 215 was "laughably unambitious".
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And the $197 million the White House requested for border security technology is laughably insufficient.
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The past decade and a half has proven O'Reilly's narrative about sexual harassment laughably wrong.
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And Friday's pop alone added more than a point to that forward P/E, laughably.
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"A reprehensible threat from Senator Schumer is followed by a laughably illogical prevarication," tweeted Sen.
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But second, putting him in prison seemed almost laughably ill suited to what I needed.
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The Clintons possessed and projected a moral arrogance that was laughably oxymoronic under the circumstances.
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I'm living under the Trump administration, which is almost laughably dedicated to endangering us all.
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But Apple Maps was laughably bad in 2012, and it's still pretty mediocre in 2019.
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" A senior Democratic official pushed back, telling Axios that the GOP "spin is laughably bad.
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Ross claimed, laughably, that the citizenship question would help the Trump administration enforce voting rights.
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A laughably bad interaction with old Messenger chat bot Poncho The Weather Cat A laughably bad interaction with old Messenger chat bot Poncho The Weather Cat Now with Discover disappearing, Messenger seems to be surrendering the fight to become a WeChat-style monolithic utility.
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The front-facing camera is just one megapixel, which is pretty much laughably bad on paper.
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Ginn did laughably lose track of one deep pass, though, so yesterday still felt real. 5.
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Reynolds' tweets about Lively are hilariously meant to snub her, but always in laughably good fun.
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Laughably, she uses a Teddy Roosevelt quote about the need for self-restraint in a leader.
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Not only was it, as Mr. Obama warned, predictably "spoiler-free," it was almost laughably anodyne.
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On the mainland, blog after blog reported that Taiwan's biaoqing packs were outdated and laughably malformed.
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Occasionally, though, cause and effect are so disproportionate that trying to untangle them is laughably futile.
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Almost laughably, we are competing in the single market with what should be our own fish.
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At one point, Manafort's lawyers laughably claimed iPod Touches could only be used to play music.
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The organization laughably blamed the Obama administration for approving the devices for sale on several occasions.
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Riders were forced to carry or roll their bikes straight up a laughably steep mountain path.
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Their budget on traditional television advertising and mail advertising was laughably small compared with opposing candidates.
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More affluent New Yorkers find ourselves hemorrhaging money on goods and services with laughably inflated prices.
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Giving him the award in 2015, the year of "Beyoncé," was just laughably out of touch.
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She and her mother were both clever, heads-held-high victims of those laughably imperfect men.
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Relative to the more calamitous ramifications of global warming, an off-flavor chardonnay seems laughably trivial.
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Who can be bothered to waste so much money and time for what appeared laughably incremental convenience?
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Trump's statement that he hadn't announced a plan to run before 2016 is laughably easy to invalidate.
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The franchise paid laughably low, which meant that staffers relied on meager tips to supplement our income.
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Everyone loves a good supercar: gorgeous, aerodynamic, laughably out of reach for almost everyone on the planet.
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Months after launch, the NES Classic is still laughably rare hard to find, despite the massive demand.
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The article itself is riddled with misinformation and outright lies that are laughably easy to fact check.
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Characters Dio Brando, Robert E. O. Speedwagon, Will A. Zeppeli, Bruford, and Tonpetty, are laughably bald references.
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The script is laughably bad, the action sequences are...fine, I guess, and the stakes feel stale.
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Almost laughably, doctors have even reported a "post-brunch surge" in victims on Saturdays, The Times reported.
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It was Middlesex's first title since 1993, a drought that must seem laughably short to Somerset fans.
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These sorts of plans and questions would have been seen as laughably radical just a decade ago.
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Giuliani's earlier description of the Cohen-Trump tape — from just six days ago — now appears laughably inaccurate.
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Its tiny wheelbase makes it laughably chuckable, with surprisingly communicative steering that invites you to push it.
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From the start, the Peru deal has served as a cover for almost laughably rampant illegal logging.
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Drogon, in a laughably on-the-nose piece of symbolism, literally burns down the Iron Throne in protest.
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He negotiated a long leasing deal for the commercial rights at what many considered a laughably low price.
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And China's national GDP figure is laughably out of line with the sum of its provincial GDP figures.
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And laughably, many of the same faces appear on multiple corporate sites, the result of using stock photographs.
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The quarter century since has demonstrated this idea laughably wrong, with neoliberalism currently flailing about worse than ever.
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Still, what makes West Ham's "2365 days argument" so laughably disingenuous is the actual text of the lease.
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Outside of Warren, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro gets the most buzz, but he's laughably unqualified.
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Even the $650 billion market capitalization is "a figure many experts would contend is laughably impossible," Sorkin writes.
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They also told of pledge functions that sound much more like typical, if sometimes even laughably innocuous, hazing.
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No. The storyline is laughably thin and does not pretend to be anything more than a serviceable premise.
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With Apple's AirPods leading a field full of truly wireless earbuds that are laughably cheap (and, often, laughably crude) or expensive, one-trick options like the Bose SoundSport Free, the question is how (and how well) will Samsung carve out some room for itself with the new version of the IconX?
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The relatively low voter turnout in the Democratic primary so far makes this more sweeping plan seem laughably implausible.
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Just 1,480 people rode on a Bridj van, a laughably small figure in a city of 2 million people.
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Half an hour into dinner, her boss showed up with Brody Jenner and his laughably big entourage in tow.
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However, they also contend that the film's uneven tone and laughably thin story kept it from achieving full potency.
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Laughably unprepared for the most basic, obvious questions, Trump turns out to also be unprepared for non-obvious questions.
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The app's stated intentions to "improve your friendship by discovering your strengths and areas for improvement," are laughably naive.
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DSA, with its 25,000 members is both large, growing, and in the grand scheme of American politics, laughably small.
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That notion is wild, the police station as fortress/safe haven is laughably naive (particularly for people of color).
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After years of moving laughably slowly, in the eyes of some observers, the firm was now moving suspiciously fast.
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I would like to bend myself around this situation, which is certainly not ideal and is almost laughably experimental.
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Alberich literally stumbles upon the magic gold when he makes advances at the Rhinemaidens, who find him laughably hideous.
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Convenient for dramatic purposes, but laughably improbable (the white, black and red set design is courtesy of Ann Beyersdorfer).
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Sonia talks in a impassioned, slightly amused voice, as if she's always responding to some previous, laughably wrong statement.
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Its finale, an anthem called "Bring On the Monsters," would be laughably banal if it weren't so aggressively false.
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Even another quarter point hike would be laughably miniscule when set against the steep rate increases of crises past.
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Master P, David Hasselhoff, Tom Delay and Steve Wozniak -- and many more -- were all laughably bad on the show.
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Samsung has cut way back on its once laughably complex settings menus and some other features of its Android skin.
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At first these stories were laughably simple; a character hugging his kidnapped girlfriend, a peppy song as the credits rolled.
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Rather, the company's value (a laughably high $47 billion) is based on its potential future growth, not its current revenue.
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In the Western narrative of bisexuality, that period is, laughably enough for anyone who lived through it, a large footnote.
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Your article, on the other hand, applauds the laughably failing universities for falsified or misleading statistics that emphasize their failures.
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From a distance, many of the replicas looked acceptably David-like, but up close most of them were laughably bad.
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Samsung has cut way back on its once-laughably complex settings menus and some other features of its Android skin.
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It's all so laughably tacky and silly and inessential; there is nothing in it, no value of any kind to find.
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It seems like such a laughably harmless trick now, but I'd never been so forcefully and intimately addressed by a game.
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His statement that he didn't "nationalize" anything as mayor of Burlington was a laughably dumb way to explain his track record.
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It winds up feeling deliberately satirical, because it's so laughably self-important, yet at the same time so unbelievable and irrational.
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In the same way, the value of the winning firm, which looked laughably high during the bubble, will later look reasonable.
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Amazon kicked off a delivery drone trial in the UK in December, but, laughably, the 'beta trial' has just two users.
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It will run Android apps in a pinch and do some cool Google Expeditions AR stuff with its laughably bad cameras.
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In a city where the state services are laughably inefficient, the justification for this shadow infrastructure has never been far away.
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Actually, the rules are laughably complex and malleable, but who cares when you're three piña coladas deep on a Tuesday night.
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There are internet cafes, CD-ROMs, pagers, and overlong loading screens—all laughably poor technology compared to Kree's advanced communication devices.
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Google is now offering its Home speaker at an almost laughably cheap price, with an extra device to sweeten the deal.
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He wore his jeans, his white socks, his white sneakers, a knitted sweater—Linda's—that seemed laughably and obviously a woman's.
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The Millennials, in an almost laughably predictable scene, decide to take a dip in the ocean rather than build their shelter.
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Trump repeated this view a number of times, and tried to retreat by laughably pretending it was just a bad joke.
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Neither woman had to offer clumsy, laughably dishonest definitions of "boofing" and "devil's triangle" to the Senate, and the American people.
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And at the center of all of it are the laughably weak Ethics Committees in both the House and the Senate.
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When President Donald Trump fired FBI Director James Comey back in May, his administration at first offered a laughably implausible pretext.
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Cruz compounds this big-picture problem by running on a tax program that is almost laughably infeasible in terms of practical politics.
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The ~50-person team and $200 million budget are laughably small compared to practically any serious mission, let alone a lunar landing.
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Likewise, our antagonists seem to toggle between invincible, superpowered bullies who could easily crush us and laughably archaic relics of the past.
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Binging the sitcom today on Netflix is sometimes even funnier than it was back then, because the technology is so laughably outdated.
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Mr. Trump turned the 2016 election into an anti-fact crusade in which laughably vague promises masqueraded as common-sense policy proposals.
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There's a strange quality to watching something that would be laughably cheesy in a Disney movie as it happen in real life.
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However, anyone living in New York City can tell you how laughably low $32,000 per year is for a single-income household.
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Greg Abbott to say, "He was not supposed to have access to a gun, so how did this happen?" is laughably disingenuous.
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Kushner has been talking up his immigration plan with the aid of a PowerPoint presentation, which detractors have derided as laughably simplistic.
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The design for a new restaurant that is scheduled to be built across from the Sacramento Executive Airport is almost laughably unattractive.
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For a show dealing with real estate worth millions of dollars, the stakes are laughably low — and that's what makes it so good.
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Not only is this a laughably bad (lack of) policy, the #metoo movement proved it's that kind of thinking that enables bad behavior.
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Instead of impactful, it turned out to be laughably ridiculous, and the internet responded in the best way they know how, with memes.
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A mob of players fighting to the death on a 25-square-mile island is as structurally compelling as it is laughably familiar.
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Even YouTube commenters — a community of people whose bar for what's offensive is laughably low — thought the monologues might have gone too far.
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Then came his acquisition of NBCUniversal, a TV network and film studio, at a valuation of $30bn, which some analysts found laughably high.
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Even if you desperately want to separate the art from the artist, putting all that aside, Brown is laughably far past his prime.
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Instead, she played into his hands by getting (and publicizing) a genetic test that showed her to have laughably little Native American DNA.
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Years later, its heavy focus on EDM can be very grating, and its lyrics are laughably empty compared to Grande's more recent efforts.
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The rich man — lynchpin of the triangle — says laughably "intellectual" things and looks good in both a suit and a pair of jeans.
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The premise — one woman's attempt to go on summer vacation — is almost laughably banal, something like a satire on the French vacation obsession.
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The Rutles started as a quick gag on "Rutland Weekend Television," a BBC sketch comedy series about a laughably small-town TV station.
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On the face of it, a pedal-bike seemed a laughably inappropriate expeditionary conveyance: vulnerable, unsteady and — let's be honest — inherently daft-looking.
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Unfortunately, that conceit doesn't work with the larger narrative, which requires Ashley's hit songs to be laughably inane and her handlers soulless and unethical.
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And unless you're using it in the password-protected parental control mode, the "barriers" Screen Time puts in place are laughably easy to circumvent.
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In truth, it was a laughably pathetic attempt to pander to his remaining audience and generate some buzz with an over-the-top stunt.
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Trump has no experience in government, has changing or heterodox views on all kinds of issues, and does a laughably poor job feigning religiosity.
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Today, publisher Ubisoft is expanding the pre-order strategy, testing the method on movie tickets with laughably expensive packages for its Assassin's Creed film.
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That starts with the Omni Importer tool, which is a laughably simple way of proofing and prepping the 360-degree footage that you've shot.
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Although there are plenty of no-brainer duh reasons why you shouldn't get romantically involved with a coworker, office hook-ups are laughably inevitable.
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And her nemesis, Kanye West, has made a career of rendering divisions of high and low art, ear candy and experimentation, almost laughably irrelevant.
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It stretches back to the 1970s and 1990s, when graphics in the games were almost laughably cartoonish compared to the virtual reality of today.
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Reading this poem is like watching an old black and white comedy where the characters are mere caricatures and the plot is laughably unsurprising.
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It snowed last night, so I should leave a little early because cleaning off my car will take forever — my snow scraper is laughably small!
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Nearly all available public evidence suggests this conception of the race isn't just wrong, but laughably simplistic and far from representative of GOP voters' preferences.
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Perhaps most bewildering to its author would be the extent to which developed nations have achieved many of his Utopian ideals, once so laughably remote.
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The original tests, known as presumptive field tests, have a history of being almost laughably wrong — if they weren't putting people behind bars, even temporarily.
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Proof: On Good Morning Britain, Fassbender was laughably tight-lipped about his relationship, concisely saying, "It's good that it happened," according to the Daily Mail.
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Sadly, this laughably antiquated double standard is as relevant today as it was in the 1950s, even in New York City, where we live now.
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Former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo later implied the report was "laughably false," while Twitter said it would continue to make the platform a "safer place."
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I've devised a new strategy for enjoying life of a virtual farm, however, and it reads laughably similar to my life as a pre-teen.
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It wasn't long ago that the name Kirk Cousins called to mind ill-advised throws and multi-interception games for a laughably bad Washington team.
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She pointed out to me that Saki made some laughably anti-Semitic comments in his early letters (he reformed later), so the decision makes sense.
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Yes, the iPhone is laughably bad compared to the other three, and only Samsung manages to get close to Huawei's amazingly sharp and bright photo.
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The fry was laughably small, and multiple people walking past the spread remarked that both the fries and the Happy Meal box itself looked smaller.
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And when she made some terrible decisions and then had a laughably miraculous recovery from being stabbed in the stomach several times, fans became annoyed.
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He said the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has allocated a "laughably small number of tests" to look for signs of community transmission.
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As copycat investors flooded into the buyout markets, the quality of deals deteriorated — laughably, one major acquisition was insolvent on the day the deal closed.
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My experiences with Magic Leap at Sundance Film Festival last year were laughably disappointing, with its clunky hardware, ghostly projections, and narrow field of view.
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Even at the most practical level, we fall short, sometimes laughably so, as Laurie Kramer, a professor of applied psychology at Northeastern University, has found.
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His poorly lit, robotically recited and defiantly half-assed videotaped apology released under pressure from his staff late Friday was laughably (or cry-ably) inadequate.
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Apple's largest deal ever was a $20193 billion purchase of Beats in 2014, an almost laughably small "record deal" given Apple's size and cash hoard.
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It's almost laughably uncomplicated, and while I wouldn't try to make a meal of it alone, it's useful as a spacer between more intense bites.
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Death Stranding is a blank check of a game, as startlingly evocative as it is laughably in-your-face about its themes of human connection.
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But the whole thing is a bummer, at times risible, as when swarms of law-and-order types conveniently overlook a laughably visible surveillance camera.
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My mother was my first best friend, which is a laughably inadequate way of saying she was my world, in a terrifying and somewhat unhealthy way.
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The papers featured, he says, "laughably bad" methodology and a shocking conclusion that the molecule is "a promising new drug" despite an absence of clinical trials.
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At one point during the speech, Trump laughably cast himself as a defender of protections for those with preexisting conditions to a standing ovation from Republicans.
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The transition from one to the next is a cynical doubling down, a flattening of complex ideas, and an almost laughably appropriate move for our times.
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Superman's second-weekend box-office nose-dive was all about its negative buzz, much of which highlighted the laughably overdetermined yet underdeveloped conflict at its center.
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Airbnb horror stories are hardly uncommon, and there have been a number of incidents at properties that are inarguably more traumatizing than Speller's laughably shitty receptacle.
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Laughably, in 2019, some still use Windows 2000 and Windows XP. Twelve states still use paperless machines, meaning there's no paper trail to verify vote counts.
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The $450 million that Lacob's group paid to Chris Cohan, the former owner, seemed so laughably expensive because of the woeful state of the Warriors franchise.
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Snap is having an awesome 2019 after a laughably bad 2018, the stock has recovered from record lows and is trading in its IPO price wheelhouse.
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And, as Reason pointed out shortly after its initial publication, it uses "laughably bad" back-of-a-cocktail-napkin methodology to reach some of its conclusions.
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Even though the Beats don't support wireless charging and their case is "laughably large," according to our review, it doesn't take away from the value here.
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It turns out those letters were "the product of a misleading – and laughably clumsy – public relations campaign by corporate interests," according to an investigation by Bloomberg.
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Meanwhile, the thing that actually takes him down is so laughably cheesy that it makes you wonder what the big deal was in the first place.
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To many of us—though far from all—it's obvious that Musk's is a laughably feebleminded and emotionally stunted perspective, and no actual debate is necessary.
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From there it goes haywire and becomes a laughably inept, crazily edited, incomprehensible, suspense-free thriller, one of whose villains repeatedly runs people down with a motorcycle.
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Rather than nurturing the creation of a global shipping powerhouse, protectionism for US shipbuilders has allowed the industry to survive despite being laughably uncompetitive in global terms.
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A lot of the wild moments he described — knights, magicians, sentry droids, Mark Wahlberg dodging explosions — appear in this trailer, set to an almost laughably wrought score.
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What's more, the value of several of these "innovative" companies is laughably high—Uber is supposedly worth more than $60 billion, despite its trouble turning a profit.
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All of the questions were handpicked on Thursday night, and many of them were laughably soft -- including one asking Trump about his most important early childhood memory.
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To some it may seem laughably archaic to hand-write a note, drop it in snail mail and hope the recipient gets it a few days later.
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"Can people change?" one of Ever's students asks him, as Ever gives a lecture on environmental science (and some laughably doom-laden predictions for the human race).
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Russian ads on Facebook were clumsy and schizophrenic, hitting multiple sides of issues, and were often laughably simplistic (such as the "Jesus Punches Hillary" ad shown here).
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The re-elect question (or some form of it) at this point in a president's first term has been almost laughably unpredictive of the actual election result.
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A flaccid blend of eugenics, purloined children, memory-wiping gas and laughably unlikely scuffles, "Allegiant" (directed by Robert Schwentke) offers a weak bridge to the series' conclusion.
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The first trailer for Venom, featuring Tom Hardy's growly voiced comic book antihero — no, not that one, the other one — was almost laughably devoid of plot details.
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The Lady Jaguars, sometimes with barely enough girls to compete, and rarely with players experienced in basketball, are routinely on the losing end of laughably lopsided scores.
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It's no secret that the 5GB of free storage that Apple offers on iCloud — an amount that has gone unchanged since its introduction in 2011 — is laughably small.
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The attempts to portray Rory as flawed and sometimes a "bad egg" are laughably disingenuous, especially factoring Alexis Bledel's painfully shit acting: She can't even portray boredom well.
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But any stroll through the table literature at the Saturday gun show laid bare how much we got laughably, conspiratorially, troublingly wrong about the world outside our bubble.
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American journalists watching the rise of an aggressive new quasi-official Trump media have been able to take solace in one thing: Much of it is laughably bad.
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She's alone, and her guitar is plugged into an amp that looks almost laughably tiny on this empty stage, surrounded by the more formidable equipment of other bands.
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A Gallup poll earlier this month found that just 49 percent of Americans "think the United States is number one in the world militarily," a laughably false notion.
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Johnson had lampooned that timeline as "laughably unambitious" and acknowledged that accelerating it would cost more, but that it would also offer a major boost to national productivity.
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But the almost laughably conservative United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit didn't understand it that way in the decision that the Supreme Court overturned Monday.
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Despite the laughably conspicuous movements of the fan (or someone with general music knowledge and a group chat to gossip in?), Oli either doesn't clock, or doesn't mind.
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There's a laughably small wooden bar stocked with beer, soda, and Lithuania's national snack, kepta duona, which is fried bread served with a mixture of cheese and mayonnaise.
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His plans for long-term care are laughably weak, as well: A $5,000 tax credit for informal caregivers is like second prize in the Third Way holiday raffle.
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A braver film might have had Jojo being gripped more tightly by Nazism, whereas here his Hitler Youth membership is treated as a gullible youngster's laughably misguided hobby.
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The minister of health had dispensed laughably impotent advice, telling locals to keep their windows shut, and to wipe their shoes on a wet rag before going inside.
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Glitchy software and diminished frame rates are issues you can probably learn to ignore, but emulated Sega games are notorious for their laughably bad audio, as this video demonstrates.
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There isn't one specific reason why sex education videos are often awful; it's more like a collection of different issues that merge together to create one laughably awkward video.
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The results are far from convincing, but they'll get better fast — becoming another example of how machine learning will make the maxim "seeing is believing" laughably out-of-date.
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Therefore, "total nonsense" and "laughably false" may be referring to the larger piece, which is more than 5,500 words on Twitter's 10-year history with abuse on the service.
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Under these conditions, deleting Facebook seems like a laughably small gesture; luckily, Odell knows it's both tired and banal to devote a book to urging readers to do so.
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For starters, the central underlying premise of this argument — that the combined ratio of Jews to non-Jews in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza matters — is laughably obsolete.
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The genre probably peaked a decade ago when they went with Def Leppard and watched them immediately defile the Stanley Cup, but the choices are almost always laughably bad.
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In secret meetings with Stalin before the invasion, Kim delivered wildly enthusiastic and laughably wrongheaded analyses of how the war would unfold when his army stormed into South Korea.
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Mr. Franco achieved a funny parody of postmodern gangsterism in the 2013 film "Spring Breakers," but, trying to play a more authentic variant of the type, he's laughably weak.
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Though he now markets himself as a star-whisperer, the actual students at his storefront studio are laughably bad when they start and little better after his vague interventions.
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The program requires the employer to provide "a certification that the employer will adjust its practices to avoid the same potential violations in the future" — a laughably insufficient measure.
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When 156 people were recently asked if they could draw some of the world's most iconic brand logos from memory, some of their recreations were laughably off the mark.
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We produced a bunch of speculation that was laughably incorrect, and there were clearly moments where the cast and crew of the show purposefully threw us off the trail.
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The industry is often and sometimes laughably called liberal, but its entrenched economic conservatism as well as its gender and racial makeup is often matched by its aesthetic traditionalism.
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Just look at the laughably half-baked attempts Donald Trump Jr. has made to respond to each unfolding revelation about his 2016 meeting with Kremlin-affiliated lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya.
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While no doubt stylish at the time, most of these sites have never updated their now laughably out of date design, and their once dedicated fans have largely drifted off.
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The grid study was commissioned by Secretary of Energy Rick Perry in April, and carried a laughably transparent goal: undermining support for renewable energy, and boosting support for fossil fuels.
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Lawyer Billy Halleck (Robert John Burke, in a laughably unconvincing fat suit) accidentally hits and kills an old Roma woman with his car, and worms his way out of justice.
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The Secret World also blurred the lines between the real world and its own characters—like the intensely disinterested Kirsten Geary, whose callous middle management defined the laughably corporate Illuminati.
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But when she tops it all off by also earnestly telling him everything that's happened to him since he was summoned to Earth, the film lurches into laughably clumsy territory.
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Earlier this year, Google had to tweak the feature to stop serving up wrong and biased answers, after reports emerged about how often snippets featured "improbable or laughably incorrect" information.
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Nobody will go with her, so she decides to invite her laughably cautious worrywart mom Linda, played by Goldie Hawn, in her return to the big screen after 15 years.
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But instead of the serious and tension-filled send-off those characters deserved, we got an almost laughably violent exercise in how to milk a scene for all its worth.
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Singh joined SAP after that company acquired Concur, where he was CEO (so blame him if you have ever tried to find a hotel in Concur's laughably bad search interface).
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The study was almost laughably arcane: Air Force cadets' pupils tended to dilate more when they read cartoons they thought were funny than for ones they didn't think were funny.
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You will see a game talked about as if it was war, and the laughably flub-prone league that administers it talked about as if it were a nation state.
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Leo Beletsky, an associate professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University, called the $57,000 figure "laughably low" and said Trump's announcement includes little in the way of substance.
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At Thursday's lows the S&P 500 forward price/earnings ratio dropped to 14, near where it bottomed in late 2018, but current profit forecasts are likely laughably too high.
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This is a laughably obvious ploy to stifle legitimate criticism and cast aspersions on Americans who are rightly skeptical of the powerful forces exerting control over the primary election process.
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WASHINGTON — A billion-dollar World Bank initiative to advance women's entrepreneurship, funded in part by Saudi Arabia and championed by Ivanka Trump, might seem a laughably easy target for reproach.
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The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN and other establishment outlets have been brazenly, laughably hostile to Mr. Trump, in their news pages as well as their opinion sections.
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While the show is laughably vague about drug testing and corruption, the athletes themselves are forthcoming about their careers, their heartache and the surprising compassion they have toward their competitors.
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He has taken the lead in recent polls, but there have been anecdotal reports suggesting that Trump's ground game — crucial in the low-turnout caucuses — is laughably inferior to Ted Cruz's.
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And there's not much the filmmakers can do to make the Apple of Eden, a laughably overpowered game weapon that can apparently obliterate the human mind, into a less ridiculous McGuffin.
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Cahill's work is set in a small, secondhand retail boutique redolent with thrift store scores, and a laughably "curated" (read: tiny) record section, crowned with three of the artist's graphic posters.
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Although US data speeds are often lampooned for being laughably slower than other Asian and European countries, the US was a pioneer in creating and adopting 4G and 4G LTE networks.
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Apple's CareKit wants to make it easier living with a diseaseMedicine advances at an incredible pace, but tools people use to help keep track of their treatment can be laughably archaic.
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The Times responded Thursday afternoon to the criticism of Jeong by actually defending its decision, laughably claiming that Jeong was only trying to reflect the kind of rhetoric she faced online.
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Trump didn't mention that since 2011 he has pushed the laughably, self-evidently false conspiracy theory about Barack Obama's place of birth, helping to elevate the fringe tale into the mainstream.
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Patrick Roy is coming off another disappointing year in Colorado, one in which he took aim at his core players and failed (again) to improve the team's laughably bad possession numbers.
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Anybody who was delusional enough to believe that upon assuming the presidency, Trump would somehow mature, evolve and adapt, can now see how laughably off base that pipe dream really was.
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To accuse a country that has been the primary target of terrorist organizations from both the right and the left of not being sincere in fighting terrorism is laughably at best.
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Given the success and visibility of Douglas, and now Biles, the days in which an African-American woman gymnast might not seem a candidate for all-around gold seems laughably archaic.
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For now, these are laughably melodramatic statements, but if North Korea's nuclear and missiles programs continue to improve at the same pace, those proclamations will quickly stop seeming like empty boasts.
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Allow me to make an addendum to that suggestion that will seem laughably minuscule but in fact distinguishes you as a person of subtly discerning taste: Make that food name plural.
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The major exception is a mission where you go kill bin Laden—which is laughably ill-advised given how inadequate this game is for modeling a squad-level mission like that.
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But even if there were not such a glaringly, laughably obvious gap between your abilities and my own, which of our past encounters should give me confidence in your leadership abilities?
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From the laughably absurd to the refreshingly frank, here some of the best and worst portrayals of abortion on film and TV.Just 7% of 2016's top films were directed by women.
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The New York Times notes that "experts would contend [the $650 billion valuation] is laughably impossible," but said that even reaching several of the targets would still net Musk billions of dollars.
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Amazon already offers about a million tracks through its Prime Music service—a laughably small number compared to over 30 million on Spotify—but the new service will supposedly be much better.
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Every character is flat, the dialogue is laughably bad, and the killer's identity is proven using the Elle Woods prosecution method of uncovering a crucial hair-related detail, which, how dare you.
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"Trump happily traded the reputation of Rosenstein, who began the week as a well-respected career prosecutor, for barely 24 hours of laughably transparent talking points in the news cycle," Wittes wrote.
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Someday we'll probably have wireless earbuds that are so inconspicuous they'll make the Dash look laughably big and obtrusive, sort of how we snicker when we look back at old cell phones.
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However, civil asset forfeiture allows police forces to seize property from citizens before any conviction is made, and in many cases, the standard of proof required for a forfeiture is laughably flimsy.
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On almost every single concern, Congress — whether it's the misnamed People's House, or the Senate, laughably mischaracterized as the world's greatest deliberative body — is going against what most of the country wants.
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The provision laughably authorized oil and gas development in the Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) in Alaska as a partial offset to the tax bill's big price tag.
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I'm saying that even leaving aside the logistical nightmare of moderation, Facebook is too big and centralized to address hate speech in any way that won't seem either laughably perfunctory or dangerously overreaching.
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I found the suggestion of devolving more democratic powers to cities almost laughably lame in comparison; and further it is difficult to imagine how a local administration could enact any truly grand vision.
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But presenter of Australian TV show The Project, Waleed Aly addressed the serious side of the U.S. presidential election, reminding audiences that Donald Trump is not your laughably drunk uncle on Christmas day.
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For Andy Cohen's part, he makes some laughably ineffective attempts to calm everyone the fuck down — and speculates about Joe Giudice's penis size and the age at which Teresa's husband lost his virginity.
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You can move Windows down there and play a video if you want, but the size of buttons, icons, and text is so laughably small, I can't imagine why anyone would do this.
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For example, the Democrats' laughably imprecise "Green New Deal" is an aspirational hodgepodge of disparate goals, many of which are espoused by The Economist, such as fully accounting for the price of pollution.
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She also lives with a wolf man, a taxidermy raccoon come to life and a formerly mummified cat from ancient Egypt, each of whom offers commentary on her laughably elaborate, often creepy projects.
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In the long years after Guns N' Roses' most famous lineup fractured in the mid-1990s, a détente between the band's lead singer, Axl Rose, and its former guitarist, Slash, seemed laughably unlikely.
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Given the situation, Mr. Fernández's strategy seems almost laughably optimistic: to convince diverse sectors with opposed interests that their only hope is to cede a bit to all pull in the same direction.
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In 1976, Nadia Comaneci dismounted the beam with what today would be a laughably simple double twist, receiving a perfect 10 (displayed as a 1.0 because the scoreboard wasn't equipped to show 10.0).
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What we're left with is a strange paradox: a commercial that feels both deeply insidious and laughably ineffectual at the same time, a bid for sales that may wind up garnering only clicks.
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To anyone sensible, this story is laughably thin and deeply unconvincing, especially when contrasted with the unusual volume of evidence that the UK is providing to support its case against the two men.
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Iran has denied as "laughably absurd" a detailed Israeli claim that intelligence agents stole clandestine Iranian documents this past winter that reveal what Israel has called Iran's extensive past research on nuclear bombs.
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And instead of being able to look back at my portfolio of work from college (which was undoubtedly laughably bad) my most pervasive memory is a grudge against a company and its defective product.
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So far, the government's counter-propaganda efforts on social media have been laughably bad—if anyone at Twitter can help the poor souls on the Think Again Turn Away team, they'll be miracle workers.
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" The firm has put together a helpful video with a laughably ominous soundtrack for you:Check Point says that hackers have been focused on finding exploits in social networks because they are usually "white listed.
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The Olympian dispatches we get from up there tend to be plummy and laughably self-regarding, but again: it is difficult to maintain perspective while clomping around a Wild West Village of one's own.
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For those who shied away from the Knicks for the last two years, it's worth taking a step back to review the laughably awful and often surrealistic idiocy that Jackson visited on this team.
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That's what those laughably incomplete maps tell you, shaded in a single color and everything and everyone else feathered out of the picture until they're just part of the bare geography beyond imperial borders.
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"So Much for That," which appeared just as the Affordable Care Act became law, chronicled the bankruptcy of a family whose health insurance is laughably inadequate to cover their bills for a devastating illness.
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In this century alone, a time scale so laughably brief as to effectively not exist to geologists, we could send the planet back to a climate system not seen for many millions of years.
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It would have been laughably easy, thanks to the work of journalists like Ryan Grim at The Intercept, for moderators to have similar material locked and loaded to confront Biden, yet they did not.
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The watch looked somewhat convincing to me, though the embossed stamp on the back of the band read "GENUINE LEATHER," a laughably unnecessary statement for a watch that is supposed to cost six figures.
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And for straight white men to misguidedly believe that they are the arbiters of taste in this matter, or that their opinions of this show have any bearing on its value is laughably entitled.
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Occupy Wall Street prefigured the effort to resist urban global capital by taking over a public-private stretch of concrete laughably known as a park and calling it the occupation of New York City.
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She's laughably clueless about the basics of the fashion industry and doesn't seem to have researched anything about it — not even how to spell the names of the top designers she'll be working with.
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The case of Brock Turner, the Stanford student given a laughably brief sentence for a clear-cut case of rape, as well as that of the high-school athletes in Steubenville, Ohio, went scorchingly viral.
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But his efforts to spin those comments, which confirmed the White House used aid to Ukraine as leverage to get the Ukrainian government to do political favors for President Donald Trump, were still laughably weak.
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An unnamed defence source told The Times that XP was likely being used because the ship's IT would have been ordered in 2004, when it was still commonplace, but is now laughably out of date.
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The 29-year-old gave birth to their first child, Bodhi Soleil Reed Somerhalder, on July 25, and her laughably honest Instagram post proves that you really can't take a break from being a mom.
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Further, it allows TRON to fill its war chest with solid businesses even as its own efforts end laughably with ham-handed announcements about non-existent partnerships and failed pumping by the idiosyncratic John McAfee.
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But "Amarcord" also discovers something adolescent in Fascism itself, with its taste for proud poses and its laughably doomed attempt to manhandle the vast profusion of experience into line with a single point of view.
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While Slate's Chris Molanphy didn't mind the song overall, even he admitted the songwriting is "laughably retrograde... (I'd be a total player and step out on you, if you weren't so servile and totally hot!)"
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With the exception of DNA evidence (which emerged from biology, not criminology), forensic tests are laughably unscientific; no independent entity exists to establish that such tests are reliable before their results are admissible as evidence.
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And despite the fact that Pitt has had roughly the same amount of success in the past decade-and-half as Penn State, Nittany Lions fans still, laughably, think they're too good to be Pitt's rival.
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The dialogue occasionally veers into laughably self-serious territory, but more often the show feels like a diet hybrid of "Sons of Anarchy" and "Vikings," with an aspirational wisp of "Justified" — mostly in a good way.
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Parallel Universe: winning bigly ... To Trump, this will feel laughably familiar to the Republican establishment whining when he announced, when he won the nomination, when he stumbled in debates, when he surely couldn't win the presidency.
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The whole scheme was laughably criminal: VW engineers installed defeat devices — pieces of code labelled "acoustic condition" — designed to help the company's diesel vehicles trick regulators into thinking they emitted less pollution than they actually did.
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"How to be a Nigger on Twitter" outlined vicious, laughably simplistic guidelines for cultural assimilations, linking black identity to qualifiers like "large female buttocks," combative behavior, "expensive Nike tennis shoes," and a lack of punctuation in tweets.
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Given the skittishness of the MPAA to give R-ratings to movies that depict sexual pleasure, specifically of the female variety, (opting instead for an X-rating), the scene in question is most likely something laughably tame.
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The answer ended up being laughably simple: I'm shelling out another $17 for WNBA League Pass, which promises to fill my post-graduate summer months with the requisite friction and balletic fury, unassuming grace and sheer magnificence.
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The betrayal encouraged contributors to come forward with horror stories about being forced to write for BGN gratis, often for weeks, before getting paid laughably meager rates and barely receiving any editing or feedback on their efforts.
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The solutions she proposed either involved maintaining status quo policies, such as economic sanctions against Russia, or were almost laughably modest, like providing more funding to US government-run media outlets to try to counter Russian propaganda.
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But given the laughably-poor state of security on most consumer IoT products, the best way to prevent your devices from DDoS'ing a gaming server in South Korea is to not connect them in the first place.
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We can't continue to frame mental illness as something apolitical, when it's bound up in your access to wealth, housing, and stability—all things that may sound laughably out of reach for a jobbing and touring musician.
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Laughably, neither fact-checker nor Immigrations and Customs Enforcement bothered to try updating the number – based on the increased presence of immigrants subsequently convicted of crimes since the data was last produced more than a decade ago.
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In 1990 "Europe—A History of its Peoples" was published simultaneously in eight languages, laughably depicting Homo erectus as "the first Europeans" and lamenting Europe's being "outstripped by the Neolithic revolution" in the Middle East in 8000BC.
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The Hugo 2 is weird in that, if you pair it with headphones with a weak treble response — such as the Bowers & Wilkins P9, which are laughably bass-heavy — you might just strike on a good combination.
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" In an article for ESPNcom, he writes that if you watch it, "you'll probably wonder what all the fuss is about" with 10 players in "laughably short pants" who "move slowly through 40 minutes of ordinary basketball.
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That's even putting aside the record of U.S. "interference" in foreign elections, Russia included; the word "interference" in quotes because it is so laughably inadequate, as anyone with the slightest familiarity with recent history must be aware.
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"As a result of AB 5, you may soon be required to drive specific shifts, stick to specific areas, and drive for only a single platform," an email Lyft sent to some drivers this morning laughably rehashes.
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High time to be a donor Even when aspiring candidates were being almost laughably coy about their presidential intentions in 22015 and 22015, there was one group of Americans with whom they could tell it straight: mega-donors.
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After a soft consumer tease that was buzz-worthy if not laughably pre-mature, Google Glass Enterprise Edition was announced two years ago and the dedicated group has been plugging along since, courting businesses to hop on board.
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It eventually became so massive that the studio had to create enough prints (this was the pre-digital era) for it to play simultaneously essentially everywhere, but its initial opening weekend is almost laughably small by 2019 standards.
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Dern will join Once Upon a Time in Hollywood's almost laughably stacked cast list, which includes Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Al Pacino, Dakota Fanning, Kurt Russell, Timothy Olyphant, Lena Dunham, and so, so, so, many more.
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Unfortunately, when I arrive in Rio, it quickly becomes clear that thanks to media buses that seem to enjoy taking serpentine routes — when they show up at all — the time estimates I provided Professor Trick were laughably optimistic.
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A brief summary of recent history: Now, in an interview with the Financial Times, Cohn has gone public with his disappointments, but given a laughably self-serving justification for his decision to stay on at the White House.
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Perhaps my eye-rolling at its laughably non-human dialogue was by design—a tactic to steer my thoughts to how superior I am to these lines of code, rather than let my mind spiral into further negativity.
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"[T]he Green New Deal's very broad ambition has made it a favorite target of Republicans, who have tried to cast it as an illustration of how their liberal opponents are both dangerous and laughably unrealistic," it states.
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It's also occasionally laughably inaccurate: there were times when the app thought that Tiki was leaving the house, and notified me that I was taking him for a walk, when in reality, we were both sitting on the couch.
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But like my colleague Dieter noted in his review of the Surface Laptop, a good compromise would have been to provide one of each type of USB port (and maybe send that laughably dated Mini DisplayPort out to pasture).
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What is perhaps most frustrating is that the fact that racism exists in the fashion industry — sometimes in blatant, obvious, almost laughably tone-deaf ways — is no surprise to anyone, especially for the people who these slurs are directed.
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All the while, Lisa Rinna was repeatedly chiming in to a conversation that had nothing to do with her — stirring the pot, offering her unsolicited, unhelpful counseling to the women ("Listen with your heart"), and making laughably hypocritical remarks.
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Carson is laughably unqualified for the job, and has made a second fortune for himself—as a right-wing author, speaker, and failed presidential candidate—scolding the very people who support and benefit from the programs that HUD administers.
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Others, schooled on decades' worth of parodies of that same movie (especially its projectile-vomiting and 360-degree-head-spinning scenes), will be on the lookout for anything in the TV show that might be laughably ineffective or pretentious.
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It's almost laughably easy to get rid of an employee by making them miserable and driving them to quit, or by writing them up for every little thing until they look like the worst problem employee in the world.
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In a financial report earlier this year, auditors for U.S.A. Gymnastics estimated the potential cost of the federation's litigation to be between $75 million and $150 million, though lawyers involved in the lawsuits say those numbers are laughably low.
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Roger Federer, who maintains homes in Switzerland and Dubai, said that he had been tested once in the past 15 years at his residence in the Middle East and laughably often when he is living near Basel, his hometown.
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There is no word yet about Mr. Wertkin's motivation for undertaking a course of action that now looks almost laughably amateurish, but the silliness may indicate that it was the product of desperation and not a more nefarious plan.
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Lee Saunders has every reason to protect the status quo that funds his six-figure salary and his union's political clout, but pretending as though he is arguing for anything other than coercion — let alone "freedom" — is laughably dishonest.
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There was something very familiar about EA's botched roll-out of a premium Battlefield V character skin a few weeks ago, where the company slapped the name of a significant anti-Nazi resistance member onto a laughably overdone German super-soldier.
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While the traffic police were apparently quick to acknowledge and remedy their system's screwup, and Gree's response was sympathetic, this incident still signals one glaring issue with the mass adoption of AI-based recognition systems: The technology is still laughably flawed.
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Republicans are citing this laughably tendentious outpouring of FBI leaks and disclosures as pretext for years of investigations of Clinton's as-yet unsecured and unconstituted administration; and even letting slip that they might move to impeach her for imagined crimes.
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In recent weeks, the black market exchange rate — far more trusted than the government's laughably rosy official rate of 10 Venezuelan bolivars for one U.S. dollar — has spiraled out of control, recently topping 200,251 bolivars for a dollar, per DolarToday.
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Officially and laughably listed at six-one, Walker was a vervy volume shooter with little patience and few physical advantages, and he spent his first few NBA seasons chucking fadeaways for teams that ranged from historically bad to borderline passable.
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After a while the news conferences, with their long-winded, multipart questions, their laughably imprecise simultaneous translations and their rigid, time-controlled formats, begin to seem like parts of one giant whole, their details spilling and flowing into one another.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads It's shitty enough for an artist to receive no mention when his or her art is for sale — but it's almost laughably cruel when a reduction of their identity becomes the work's prime selling point.
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But few shows have as bewildering a topic as "On a Clear Day You Can See Forever," the 1965 jaw-dropper about ESP, telekinesis and past-life regression that's a weird mix of laughably earnest woo-woo and chipper Broadway savvy.
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If you haven't been living under a rock, you probably have an idea of what happened next: The festival, billed as a luxury getaway, just about imploded on all fronts, with musicians pulling out, laughably bad food, lack of accommodations, and so on.
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Monitoring threats made against Trump on Twitter already represents an impossible task, let alone securing multiple properties—especially when Mar-a-Lago is laughably easy to breach and Trump often undermines attempts to keep him safe and secure by acting against best practices.
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It seems as though now, when to kink-shame is to reveal oneself as laughably prudish, a leather harness on a straight male celebrity is both the signifier of a more open and accepting society but also one that's become increasingly homogenous.
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The trip to Bakersville could have taken them half an hour in Chrysler's old truck, but they had traded it weeks ago for a laughably small batch of P. So now they had to walk, and walk slow because of Sammi's 'condition'.
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" Others complained that the gift bags — which were only included with purchase of a VIP ticket and were promised to be worth "quadruple the price" of the ticket — were laughably sparse, save for small items like a wristband and condoms branded "TanaCondoms.
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Also, in this mode, the touchscreen part of things doesn't map directly to where your finger touches, so in order to click something on the secondary display, you have to move the mouse pointer over it and click, which is laughably tedious.
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In April 2017, Jenner appeared in one of the most poorly conceived ad ideas in living memory, resolving the tension at a laughably bland protest (picket signs had messages like "Join the conversation" and "Love") by handing a cop a can of Pepsi.
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Depending on your point of view, Cris Beam's "I Feel You: The Surprising Power of Extreme Empathy" might seem either laughably behind the times or naïvely, maybe even willfully, ahead — so far beyond our collective horizon as to be pretty darned invisible.
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Since then, we have heard varying explanations for why he has reneged: No one cares about them, the returns are no one's business, and, most laughably, that he is precluded from releasing them until an Internal Revenue Service audit has been completed.
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I think the range of shades is revolutionary for people of all different skin tones, but my very pale option was laughably lily-white (and see-through, so I wore a nude thong underneath.) I'd be fine with a more traditional nude.
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But it's mostly that Amazon has put remarkably little effort into improving the things you might actually want Alexa to do from a car, to the point some of the use cases it advertises on its website are laughably bad right now.
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When I froze my eggs, I didn't understand that "fertility preservation" (as many doctors laughably call it) has only a 2 to 203 percent success rate per thawed egg, according to my clinic, meaning more likely than not, my eggs would fail me.
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Those calls have only grown during a week of bipartisan derision for the FTC's proposed $5 billion privacy fine for Facebook — a historically large penalty by U.S. standards, but one that many lawmakers have called laughably small given the social networking giant's resources.
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But your enjoyment will hinge on your ability to turn off your brain — to not be bothered by a plot that's both laughably slapdash and ridiculously convoluted, or by Bay's tendency to film women as if their butts were their main features.
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What has amazed me in the first year of Trump's presidency is not his willingness to fib about big things but the little white lies he tells about stuff that's laughably easy to check -- and in so doing prove him wrong. 20.
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"Four Weddings and a Funeral" asks us to buy a lot of hokey nonsense, and sure, I'll accept people being way too good at dressing up for costume parties and having laughably stupid habits of writing longhand letters that never get sent.
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"Four Weddings and a Funeral" asks us to buy a lot of hokey nonsense, and sure, I'll accept people being way too good at dressing up for costume parties and having laughably stupid habits of writing longhand letters that never get sent.
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But SEX, an exhibition in one of those places I've been since I left San Diego — Chicago's Lawrence & Clark gallery — features works that struck me as laughably brash before they slowly revealed their intimacy, pulling the rug out from under my feet.
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Sure, Paltrow has starred in some stellar films (The Royal Tenenbaums, Hook, Shakespeare In Love) but over the years her brand has been one more associated with orgasmic moon dust, the phrase "conscious uncoupling," and laughably out-of-touch holiday gift lists than with humor.
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It dawned on me that what I had brought to Belarus from Yale and Indianapolis was laughably inadequate: some bad Russian, a set of clichés about the end of the Cold War, and mostly just expectations about the way things ought to turn out.
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But copycatting aside, the audience almost certainly is curious to see the world burn, or at least splinter under car-sized hailstones and cold waves that chase people around Brazil, exactly like the laughably memorable "fleeing from cold" sequence in The Day After Tomorrow.
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Absolutely. The GOP establishment grew laughably complacent in the post-Reagan years, essentially ignoring the plight of working-class Americans and catering to corporations and the managerial class, making policy that targeted the Wall Street Journal editorial board rather than the Main Street business owner.
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Take a look at Shaking Out the Bed (2015), for example, an immense canvas of a scene that seems laughably banal—an aerial view of a couple lazing around in bed, entangled without evident passion, and surrounded by heavily frosted donuts and other random detritus.
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There's this nasty idea held by an angry, vocal subset of the cosplay community that Black women should only cosplay as Black characters (as laughably limiting as it sounds given the medium), and a general stigma that Black people can't be nerdy at all.
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His appetite for calling candidates, colleagues, donors and staff members on his laughably retro flip phone at all hours, and his willingness to attend fund-raisers in far-flung places like Skaneateles, N.Y., on a Friday night, have earned him a rare kind of admiration.
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Let me be frank: any CEO of a startup that would give all of their technical information willy-nilly to their investors or customers — Chinese or otherwise — is so laughably incompetent about trade secrets that I can't imagine their business surviving long-term anyway.
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They can think back to the NFL's laughably insufficient response to a series of high-profile domestic violence incidents involving players, a response that included partnering with No More, a nonprofit that, as Deadspin reported, is more of a branding operation than a charity.
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The typing-based semantic user interfaces were confusing, the AI necessary to make chat bots seem human (or at least reliably understand their human conversation partners hadn't evolved yet) and several of the launch partner bots like Poncho The Weather Cat were laughably useless.
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It didn't take long to see that matters were unlikely to improve with Great Hill, which has been accused by G/O staffers of promoting men rather than qualified women, engaging in laughably archaic business strategies, and changing the editorial directions of successful sites.
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Watching Love gaze at Joe in the cage, just as he once stared at Beck, is a positively out-of-body experience as a viewer (his inner monologue even says that he knows what Beck feels like — not entirely false, but still laughably off-base).
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But if you're sick of waiting for an update from April's laughably long birthing livestream —it's been over a month, now —the Chester Zoo in the United Kingdom welcomed a baby giraffe on Monday and captured the miracle of giraffe birth on camera for all to see.
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Through the laughably simple means of copying and pasting internal conversations, whoever is responsible for the leak provided an inside look into how ire around the management of the op-ed pages, liberal-versus-conservative fracturing, and diversity initiatives are causing a heated level of strife.
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The 25-minute recital was made up of almost laughably fragile music for this setting: a brief Fantasy by the Baroque composer Nicola Matteis; a whispered "Nocturne" by Kaija Saariaho; and the Chaconne from Bach's D minor Partita, the pinnacle of the literature for solo violin.
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The FBI must have been well aware that Steele, who laughably claimed he had evidence of an "extensive conspiracy between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin" had not even been to Russia in 20 years, making most of his Russia-based information secondhand hearsay at best.
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If you're anything like me, you'll get over-excited by this feature and thump down three dark detectors in the closest inn ASAP — only to discover that the "severe" and "emergency" foundables that begin popping up are too strong for your laughably weak spell-casting arm.
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Her laughably sincere university dissertation about the lyrics of Gilbert O'Sullivan: Ooh Wakka Doo Wakka Day … In a fragmented, post-Brexit England, four not-exactly-close people — plus the vision of a disembodied head one of them has been lately seeing — convene in Cornwall on Christmas Day.
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John Mulaney's 'SNL' monologue is just a hilarious mini comedy show Airport sushi sets the stage for a lavish 'SNL' musical about LaGuardia Pete Davidson turned a laughably bad John Mulaney photo into memes on 'SNL' Democratic contenders take on the coronavirus in the 'SNL' cold open
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Arguably another viral video that would be slotted into the "weird but wholesome" category, 2011's "Friday" was a laughably mundane song and music video introducing the world to a gawky-but-sincere 13-year-old named Rebecca Black, and to YouTube's utterly baffling video production wormhole.
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F-1 RaceThe graphics are laughably basic when compared to modern racers like Forza or Gran Turismo, but that didn't matter to '90s kids because F-1 Race allowed up to four players to race against each other using a bulk adapter we happily carried everywhere we went.
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Despite critics going so far as to call the film's final twists "laughably over the top," there's a clear critical desire to read the film seriously, ably summed up by Refinery29's Anne Cohen: [W]hen stripped of its maniacal trappings, The Perfection is dealing in very real emotions.
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First there was Scott Baio and a bunch of alt-right Trump supporters laughably attempting to stick it to everyone else with the short-lived #TrumpCup campaign—a self proclaimed "movement" in which they encouraged Trump followers to make Starbucks workers inscribe the president-to-be's name on cups.
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This is an enormous distraction, because it means that time and attention that could be put into exposing that Trump's policies are either paper thin or laughably unworkable are instead diverted to disproving lies which usher forth from his mouth like water from a hose at full throttle.
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" The level of specificity is laughably precise, as when Molina learns "the brand of salted crackers left open and half-eaten in a rented room in a boardinghouse in Atlanta where his name never made it to the register because the owner was too drunk to ask for it.
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Under the law, the government can boot companies that defraud Medicare and Medicaid out of those programs, but when Novartis got caught, it just paid a penalty — one so laughably small that its C.E.O. said afterward that it "remains to be seen" whether his company would actually consider changing its behavior.
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I can say similar things of the experience with my all-time favorite Dota 21440 (whose simpler textures and character models look laughably sharp and precise at 24K) as well as Gears of War 4 and Grand Theft Auto V. Dota 2 in 8K (7680x4320) is my kind of overkill. pic.twitter.
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The build-up is mostly faux drama about whether her dad approves of her super-athletic, super-popular boyfriend, as well as a laughably bratty scene in which Destini stares at her phone while a school administrator explains that she can't pull ninth graders out of class to fill bleachers.
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The solution to this problem is laughably easy: phone makers have to either put headphone jacks on their phones or make sure that the adapters made for dealing with the situation are actually available for their devices, by either making them themselves or partnering with another company to do it.
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But again, as my TC colleague Josh Constine pointed out, the parental consent system Facebook has concocted is laughably easy for teens to circumvent — merely requiring they select one of their Facebook friends or just enter an email address (which could literally be an alternative email address they themselves control).
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But with a design that encourages rapidly hitting the "Agree" button, a lack of granular controls, a laughably cheatable parental consent request for teens and an aesthetic overhaul of Download Your Information that doesn't make it any easier to switch social networks, Facebook shows it's still hungry for your data.
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The solution to this problem is laughably easy: phone makers have to either put headphone jacks on their phones or make sure that the adapters made for dealing with the situation are actually available for their devices by either making them themselves or partnering with another company to do it.
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Joseph Weizenbaum's ELIZA, a very early chatbot, was the pioneer example of such superficial illusion making, and it was his dismay at the ease with which his laughably simple and shallow program could persuade people they were having a serious heart-to-heart conversation that first sent him on his mission.
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Makeup Towels (Pair), $40, available at WeezieTowels made specifically for one thing — like removing makeup — make me think of the joke that women get sold products made laughably hyperspecific, like lotions for an elbow patch, while men get six-in-one bottles of shampoo that can also clean their car upholstery.
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Also I don't know what else I'd play - outside of recent R&B and rap, the only other sets I play lately are either 90s dance at my Rhythm of the Night parties or laughably obscure old gangsta rap records during the early hours at my hip hop party Halfway Crooks.
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John Adams pines for Constance Fletcher; Jo the Loiterer marries Indiana Elliot and they bicker about changing her name; in the work's heart-rending climax — laughably anticlimactic to describe — her allies try to get Susan B., wearied to her core, to leave her house and speak at one more meeting.
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This is not because Shideh's husband, a laughably handsome doctor named Iraj (Bobby Naderi), has been drafted to serve near the front line, leaving his wife and daughter to fend for themselves, or even because of the missile that landed, not long ago, on their building and failed to explode.
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There's a leveling system where solving cases and killing monsters gave me experience points to upgrade my health meter and improve my guns, but many of the upgrades are laughably bad (such as a 10% chance to do double damage) and a maxed on health bar didn't do much protect me from monsters.
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"Musty" (partially filmed in the parking lot of the Gower Plaza on Hollywood and Gower) and "Bottle Service" (shot at the now-defunct Windsor Donuts on Sunset and Hobart, after the group was kicked out of a rented mansion) are definitive Shoreline: rollicking, slithering, and, in their creation, laughably janky and blatantly illegal.
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My desk is filled with random bouncy, squishy, or clicky objects that have no use other than being futzed with, and cataloging them all makes me feel like a person who is laughably unfit for modern life — particularly when I live in New York, one of the most stressful cities on the planet.
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The idea that sexism becomes out of bounds only when it's directed at Melania (or Ivanka) is laughably hypocritical, and shows how little this administration and its enablers actually care about women -- sexism, for them, is a cudgel with which to criticize their detractors in a way they know liberals won't fight.
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He could run against Trump and promise he would not humiliate his secretary of State by proposing to cut the budget for the State Department by 30 percent, as Trump has done, or permitting a laughably inexperienced son-in-law to act like a shadow secretary of State, as Trump does every day.
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In an open letter for Parents addressed to "Dads Out There Killing It," the actress, New York Times best-selling author and mother of two addresses the "laughably antiquated double standard" that sees dads often receiving heaps of praise for performing tasks moms are traditionally expected to carry out with little to no fanfare.
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This problem is a laughably minor one in the grand scheme of things—I mean, sure, some people in their late 20s won't be able to run around catching pokémon for a while—but it underscores a criticism that some observers have levied against Pokémon Go: namely, that the app is a hacky travesty.
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He often seems to be working directly from the O'Neal playbook: an almost laughably devastating first step for a man of his size, a drive and head fake that melts into a soft turnaround jumper, precise spins that never sacrifice his center of gravity and frequently leave a defender bodying up against empty space.
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Every year we endure more of these predictably edited, laughably plotted thrillers centered around a young girl foolishly toying with the tools of Satan (usually a Ouija Board), becoming possessed by a demon, and then being exorcised by a priest who was struggling with his faith but now sees the error of rational thinking.
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"Iran has always been clear that creating indiscriminate weapons of mass destruction is against what we stand for as a country, and the notion that Iran would abandon any kind of sensitive information in some random warehouse in Tehran is laughably absurd," a spokesman for the Iranian mission, Alireza Miryousefi, said in an emailed statement.
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" Laughably, Tom McCarthy's Variety review pondered whether men might have to worry about movies not being about them anymore, writing: "What with this and Ang Lee's similarly female-slanted Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon poised to dominate the action market through the holidays, slighted-feeling boys may start wanting to get some of their own back.
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Their reluctance to do this work as of two or three years ago — when single-payer health care was considered laughably implausible — was entirely understandable, but in the wake of the 22021 election outcome and the apparent failure of the Republican Party's drive to repeal the Affordable Care Act, it's become counterproductive and dysfunctional.
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The aim is to ratchet down overall US emissions 26 to 28 percent below 2005 levels by 2025: If you compare this with the vast scale of what's needed to halt global warming — an 80 percent cut by 2050 that involves completely retooling our electricity, transport, industrial, and agricultural sectors — Clinton's proposals are laughably, tragically inadequate.
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In one of his latest films, "Code of Honor," which was released this year and called "laughably awful" by The Los Angeles Times, he plays a special-forces colonel who does the dirty work of many men by going after drug dealers and gang members as he avenges the fatal drive-by shooting of his wife and child.
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The highly detailed Postal Plan that grew out of those years of work—a real-life version of Kevin Costner's laughably bad 1997 post-Apocalyptic thriller The Postman—carefully lays out how life-saving medical supplies would be orchestrated and distributed throughout an affected region, drawing on the unique capability the nation's mail carriers bring to Doomsday planning.
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With the help of this number and publicly available information, Spacek would just need to answer two laughably simple questions at United Airlines to immediately create a new password for the victim's account—that's the jackpot, because from there, he could score other relevant information, such as payment information, reservations, and addresses, as well as one or two free flights.
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It's not Crusader Kings 2, where the game design itself generates and endless medieval soap opera (complete with twists that are by turns tragic and laughably overdone), but it gives you a sense of their being a political inner life to each nation, and creates internal tensions and pressures that tie back to what you can achieve on the map.
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In Arkansas, however, the Neighborhood Youth Corps was a piñata from which those same government officials meant to get their mitts on a shower of federal dough, a laughably infinitesimal portion of which was earmarked to provide low-income (read: black) kids with "work experience," which would—it was dearly hoped—keep them in school and out of the state's hair.
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Some of the show's most ridiculous plots mimic real-life events — the death of a foreign princess in a murder-disguised-as-car-crash hit a little too close to the conspiracy theories about Princess Diana, for example — others are so far out in left field that they're just laughably ridiculous, like when Fitz made an incredibly speedy recovery after an assassination attempt.
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When: March 3–8 / Thursday: 6–10pm; Friday–Sunday: 11am–22pm ($26) Where: 28 W 210th Street (Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan) Perhaps more so than any other Armory Week fair, Scope is full of extremes: it includes very sharp conceptual work, legitimately cool street art, kitschy Pop paintings, and laughably hokey art that is trying really hard to be, well, extreme.
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BIRMINGHAM, England — Cornwall, that gnarled old boot of land, which kicks violently out Atlanticward from the southwest corner of England, has long been a tremendous allure for artists and writers seeking to imbibe something of the wildness of its coast or the intoxicating spirit of its general remoteness from any standards of gentility proposed by those laughably know-all metropolitan know-nothings.
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The extensive list of immigration "priorities" the Trump administration sent to Congress on Sunday night — which amounts to a comprehensive immigration-hardliner agenda — is either a sword through the heart of any attempt to pass a bill to legalize the 690,000 young unauthorized immigrants currently protected by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or a laughably empty act of saber-rattling bravado.
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Read more:6 money apps and strategies to help you make a budget — and keep itHere's how much money you should save at every age so you aren't working foreverI spent my 20s being too intimidated to invest until a casual conversation over dinner changed my mindI saved over $285,000 in my 20s without ever making a budget thanks to a laughably easy strategy I use instead
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The most popular videos currently on the channel are tips on how to sneak food and makeup into class in laughably arduous ways: One suggests removing the glue from a glue stick and inserting a block of hard cheese into the container, while another recommends cutting an apple in half, using an Exact-O knife to remove the center, and then stuffing an eyeshadow palette inside.
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The thing I liked about this is I walked up to it at the demo table and I thought, "Okay, this looks like a normal iPad Pro," whereas the reaction I had when I first walked up to the 3.53-inch one a couple of years ago was, "Oh my god, this things is ginormous," and it's almost laughably funny if you have ... KS: Too big.
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By contrast, as Lisa Friedman of The Times discovered, the Trump administration's laughably weak replacement plan would cause (by the Trump E.P.A.'s own calculations) as many as 1,400 premature deaths annually by 2030, as well as 15,000 new cases of upper respiratory disease and billions of dollars in new health care costs, mainly from an increase in fine particulate matter linked to heart and lung disease.
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But for Facebook to go to so much work consulting 2,200 people in 88 countries for feedback on its plans to create the Oversight Board, then propose bylaws that keep its powers laughably narrow, feels like an emblem of Facebook's biggest criticisms: that it talks a big game about privacy and safety, but its actions serve to predominantly protect its power and control over social networking.
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My personal belief is that it's laughably hypocritical to claim you care about gender equality while supporting policies that would force women to carry pregnancies to term against their will, especially considering the atrocious state of maternal health and maternity leave in the US. With that said, I can understand where the argument is coming from, in general: We are losing, and we can't afford to have an ideological litmus test!
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If Mr. Musk were somehow to increase the value of Tesla to $650 billion — a figure many experts would contend is laughably impossible and would make Tesla one of the five largest companies in the United States, based on current valuations — his stock award could be worth as much as $55 billion (assuming the company does not issue any more shares over the next decade, which is unrealistic).
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If Mr. Musk were somehow to increase the value of Tesla to $650 billion — a figure many experts would contend is laughably impossible and would make Tesla one of the five largest companies in the United States, based on current valuations — his stock award could be worth as much as $55 billion (assuming the company does not issue any more shares over the next decade, which is unrealistic.).
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On Monday night and Tuesday morning, when a delay for the Iowa caucus results turned into an overnight postponement and that turned into the promise of an eventual announcement, a theory arose that read something like this: The Democratic establishment, and maybe Mayor Pete himself, schemed with the makers of a laughably broken app to steal the all-important Iowa win away from the revolutionary Bernie Sanders, who was surging in the polls.
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There is an air of phoniness that, rightly or wrongly, has stuck to the Clippers for some time, thanks to the incessant appeals for more whistles, the battle for DeAndre that introduced the world to the term "free agent moratorium", or perhaps most laughably, the attempt, via Twitter, to convince fans that Griffin punching a team staffer in the face was simply a case of #family business getting a little too heated.
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Read more:5 everyday budgeting tips for the 1% that anyone can useI was living paycheck to paycheck with over $100,000 of debt until I made a mental shift that had been in front of me all alongI saved over $285,000 in my 20s without ever making a budget thanks to a laughably easy strategy I use insteadA self-made millionaire who retired at 30 says budgeting is like dieting, and there's a reason neither feels effective
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Philip Bobbitt, a law professor at Columbia and the University of Texas, and the author of a new edition of Charles Black's "Impeachment: A Handbook," replied to my inquiry: I doubt he would go quietly and would not be surprised if he claims he was robbed, but any attempt to hold onto office — to refuse to leave the mansion, or keep issuing executive orders drafted by Stephen Miller, or sending nominations to the Senate — would be laughably brief.
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You would be silly to pretend as if he weren't part of the reason that this show has the very best, the laughably best, of everything: Ann Roth, the queen of costume designers ("Midnight Cowboy" and "The Book of Mormon"), is sitting here trying to work out how you design a jazzy, feminine-heeled shoe that can be tapped in as hard as Glover needs without coming apart; Jules Fisher is working on the lights (he lit "Hair"); Santo Loquasto is on scenic design (three Tonys).
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In it, marriage is defined as between one man and one woman, and insists that "male (man) or female (woman) refer to an individual's immutable biological sex as objectively determined by anatomy and genetics at time of birth"—a laughably useless set of criteria which doesn't take into account the one in 1400 people born outside of XX and XY chromosomal typing, and the one in 100 people born with bodies that do not have "standard" male/female genitalia (according to the Intersex Society of North America).
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On the other hand, radical Islam is a laughably tiny minority of the world's 1.6 billion Muslims, and is arguably fuelled mostly by oppressive Middle Eastern governments, many of which have, awkwardly, historically been supported by the West; Daesh is a weak faraway quasi-state on the verge of collapse; and despite a few awful successes, extremist Islamic terrorists have shown no ability to mount any kind of actual sustained assault on the values and institutions of the enormously wealthier and more powerful West, unless you count triggering massive overreactions.
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As with the Kendrick Lamar-curated Black Panther soundtrack which currently has no fewer than eight songs (and various chart debuts) in the Billboard Hot 100, despite including a whole bunch of tracks that are 'inspired by' the film but don't actually feature in it at all, an appearance on the Fifty Shades seems to be a pretty successful way of ensuring that your song becomes a hit, despite the film itself selling a laughably awful two-dimensional heteronormative version of romance that I'm sure any musician with a modicum of artistic integrity doesn't really want anything to do with.
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But none of it was as good as this single headline:The Plan to Make California Wet By Spreading Beavers Up and Down the StateEnding the drought in the West will require rain—not too much rain—and smarter ways to collect and…Read more ReadFinally, I have to give a shout out to this post from last week:Hey Facebook, It's Spelled G-I-Z-M-O-D-OBack in May, Gizmodo writer Michael Nunez broke the story of former Facebook workers who said the…Read more ReadThis is Gizmodo at its best—and that includes the exquisitely reported Facebook exposé that motivated Facebook to throw this kind of laughably obvious shade.
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