He’s been amazing in more dramatic roles many times. Watch “The Foreigner (2017),” “Shinjuku Incident (2009),” and “New Police Story (2004).”

That said, he’s had issues - cozied up to the Xi regime, issues with alcohol and drunk driving, a son in frequent trouble with the law where Daddy bailed him out… So you have to hold his nose a bit to watch movies. And he’s clearly got a bit of the Nic Cage in him where he can do some great stuff, but also doesn’t seem to say no to anything, so he does a lot of trash movies.

Save you a click: not surprisingly, they plan to add a ton of AI features that no one asked for (“agentic OS”) tired to the cloud, etc, to the point that it will require new AI-specific hardware to run.

Sorry it was someone else who mentioned tomatoes

You’re also talking about orchards and tomatoes in a “no lawns” community. I think you’re a little lost

The point made in the article: Except wood mulch soaks up the water itself and then it evaporates from the wood chips and lots of water never makes it to the soil.

Maybe that works if you live in an area that gets so much rain it can still soak through to soil after soaking the mulch, but in a lot of the world during summer, that won’t be the case.

I can’t speak to soil bacteria, but I’m pretty sure ecosystems have evolved to have healthy soil without requiring wood chip mulch (leaf cover in the winter is a different story, of course, so don’t rake/blow your leaves!)

Soil evaporation? You mean to keep soil from drying out? Or do you mean to prevent soil eroding?

The article discusses how it can actually contribute to soil drying out.

I would think it would be worse for erosion as well, given that it prevents roots from growing and roots are the best erosion prevention there is.

Chadwick Bowsman in anything, but I would have loved it if he could have had a real close to the Black Panther character. If I have a magic wand I’d cure his cancer, of course. But even giving him just a few more years so he could give that character a worthy send off and better set up the rest of his universe.

Don’t sleep on “A Knight’s Tale”

A real, functional minimum wage across all jobs (close the loopholes around tips, piecemeal work, etc). Have it pegged to inflation so it stays a living wage.

Spending the day working in a field, in a factory, etc you don’t do a lot of socializing.

Some of the DVD/Blu-ray versions of “GalaxyQuest” have the entire movie dubbed into the weird screeching alien language as a quirky bonus feature.

They’re creating their own events, separate from the official Olympics

For free.

How many other games give you as much free “DLC” at Minecraft, year after year? And the game was lower cost to begin with.

If this was any other game, every one of these updates would be $10 and/or the whole platform would have gone to an annual subscription a long time ago

Funny that the article doesn’t talk about Pacific Rim, which was definitely a departure from his normal dark, gothic, practical effects-driven horror/drama.

Nothing. I rode several times.

Pedestrians, bad traffic, sketchy lane lines/stripes, etc were all easy. It even allowed a bit before passing over bumpy street tracks like a human driver would.

It veered a bit into a very wide open opposing planner of traffic to give someone unloading his car more space without having to slow down much.

It even briefly double-parked to pick me up when the curb was completely full near my pickup spot - but it did stop at the most open area of curb it could find.

It was really amazing.

They’ve been doing beta testing and driving cars around to learn the roads for more than a year. It’s been in the works for a long time.

I got to ride in one a couple of weeks ago in SFO. Amazing experience. This is the future of transport in America, I’m convinced

His videos are really good, but I recommend watching whole series, not just individual videos. He tends to have to have a lot of corrections from one video to the next (“on my previous video I said this, but it would be more accurate to say…”). Especially from some of these older ones from a few years ago

I don’t, really. But my field is also kinda niche (it’s not like some popular field like genetics or infectious diseases. There aren’t many journalists covering us at all, yet. I work in marketing for an industrial exosuit company (think practical, assistive, biomechanical wearables). Most of the journalists that are covering us at this point are used to covering news about forklifts or warehouse automation, so they aren’t used to reading peer reviewed scientific publications at all. Their exposure to papers on biomechanics and injury risk factors is more rare, and they might as well be Latin (well, sometimes they do have a lot of Latin).

But it’s also something of a joke. When I was back taking journalism classes for my communications and marketing degree, the professors would joke about how journalists covering either legal summaries or scientific summaries would say that 1 + 2 = 5 all the time, leaving out important details that were critical to the conclusions because they weren’t interesting. I think the scientists put up with it because as long as the conclusion is correct, they’re just happy to have anyone paying attention.

As someone who works in communications in a very science-heavy field: in fairness, journalists are also typically terrible at summarizing scientific papers.