Here's where I get to point out that in Sweden (and several other countries), everyone get a longer parental leave than IKEA's US policy (#1) including access to a lactation consultant (#8), healthcare coverage (even interns) from #5, no college tuition (#7), and childcare (#19). And a lot of vacation time. I'm self-employed, and I get something like a year of parental leave. Oh, and the latest is that kids get free eyeglasses up to 18 years old.
I found another example of train tracks going through a building above ground level, at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Line#/media/File:Chelsea_Market_IMG_9040.JPG . It seems the Chelsea Market "construction coincided with that of the High Line, allowing a freight train siding to be built directly within the building itself."
If one of them was soaked in brandy, it could represent an aquifer. It would need to be between something like marzipan, which would also represent clay layers. Ohh! And an extra layer of ganache for coal.
I haven't followed Batman for about 20 years. I think I'm missing something, as the Batman here isn't what I expected. In Tim Burton's "Batman", we see Bruce Wayne go on a date with Vicki Vale, at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9NmAhXh970 . He wears a business suit, not his superhero costume. A web search now finds a scene from a comic where he's on a date with Harley Quinn, at https://comicnewbies.com/2015/05/14/bruce-wayne-goes-on-a-date-with-harley-quinn/ . It sure looks like he dresses to impress in both cases.
Wayne is also a billionaire and philanthropist. Why would slink out to avoid paying for what's at most a $100 dinner bill? Is there something going on in the new movies or comics so that those jokes make sense?
I was expecting someone to bring up Disneyland Paris. If she had suggested it as the compromise, then he could have still made the same retort about Spaceship Earth.
There was an IBM ad for RFID grocery store checkout over 10 years ago, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eob532iEpqk . Oddly (ok, to make the joke work) it assumed that people would still want paper receipts.
Hey! I came up with that idea in high school! I likely wasn't the first, and in any case it likely took all this time for the material science to be advanced enough to do it. I'm still happy that it actually exists now.
Neat story, but the introduction text "closest neighbor is the International Space Station" really annoyed the pedant in me. ISS only gets as far south as Patagonia. Vostok station is only 350 miles away, and Dumont D'Urville, which is roughly due north at the Antarctic Circle, is 680 miles away, is still quite a ways south of ISS.
The staged Jeep video shows the driver passed 3 empty parking spots before the parked car even moved. There's also a spot almost immediately to the left. All that work to not walk 5 parking spots further, to say nothing of possibly ruining the other car's transmission if that were done for real, makes me wonder who Jeep is marketing this towards.
The population decrease for small towns like Övertorneå is a big problem. With fewer people, it's more expensive to provide everything from social services to fresh baked bread. Last month, the maternity ward in Sollefteå was shut down, to save on costs. The nearest ward is 100km/60 miles away. Last week, one women gave birth in the car while trying to make that trip. About 10 years ago a town in Norway made some "love nests" in woodland trail to encourage couples. It's not that the fertility rate is low. To the contrary, Sweden and Norway have some of the highest rates in Europe. The problem is that the cities have more economic and social opportunities.
I visited the Dallas Dhu distillery, now a museum, about 10 years ago. It's one of the stops on the Whisky Trail. While it hasn't made whisky since 1983, it has the advantage that you can get up close to everything. Some of the machines still smelled of whisky! And at the end, there was a free shot. Even without the shot, I enjoyed the visit.
We've done a couple trips by Amtrak; Durham-Philadelphia and San Diego-Albuquerque. It's nice to not have to worry about traffic. Both routes had wifi; when we pulled into Rocky Mount, NC I pulled it up on Wikipedia and learned Thelonious Monk was born there. Half of the San Diego/LA route was right by the sea at sunset - gorgeous! LA to ABQ was overnight in a sleeper. I slept lightly because of the rocking but my wife had no problems. She also adored the observation car. We decided on trains because it was cheaper than renting a car one-way and staying in a motel. Would do it again. Just remember that it isn't all that fast, US long-distance trains are often delayed, and unlike European trains, all luggage (except a single carry-on each) is checked and goes in the baggage car.
Criticism is great. That's why I'm free to criticize what I believe is the misdirected nature of your criticism. I have a very different view of the point of the short documentary, based on the Kickstarter video, the Haitian machete fencing organization web site, and the essay from the film festival site describing the movie.
I feel no need to rebut irrelevant commentary. Speaking of rebuttals, you "criticiz[ed] the style because it is an inefficient and risky way to quickly kill someone", without demonstration that killing someone efficiently was the goal of this style. You also mention "as little risk as possible". Why is that relevant? I can easily point to the German academic dueling scar tradition as an example of a semi-ritualized fighting style where the goal was neither to kill nor avoid injury. Scars showed courage and the ability to take a blow, and a goal of the victor was to come out with a scar. Speaking of which, this film shows an example of ritualized scaring of one of the students by the teacher, though not as part of fighting.
I think you consider this only as a fighting style. My point is that the people involved seem to regard this more an expression of Haitian and Caribbean history and culture than a fighting style. As a loose analogy, it's like folk dancing. Each area has its own style, some are more interesting than others, and a few become internationally known. But you're not going to convince most Norwegians Tinikling is better than halling, because even if there is an objective reason like better health benefits, it's the subjective ties to Norwegian heritage which are important.
Wayne is also a billionaire and philanthropist. Why would slink out to avoid paying for what's at most a $100 dinner bill? Is there something going on in the new movies or comics so that those jokes make sense?
I feel no need to rebut irrelevant commentary. Speaking of rebuttals, you "criticiz[ed] the style because it is an inefficient and risky way to quickly kill someone", without demonstration that killing someone efficiently was the goal of this style. You also mention "as little risk as possible". Why is that relevant? I can easily point to the German academic dueling scar tradition as an example of a semi-ritualized fighting style where the goal was neither to kill nor avoid injury. Scars showed courage and the ability to take a blow, and a goal of the victor was to come out with a scar. Speaking of which, this film shows an example of ritualized scaring of one of the students by the teacher, though not as part of fighting.
I think you consider this only as a fighting style. My point is that the people involved seem to regard this more an expression of Haitian and Caribbean history and culture than a fighting style. As a loose analogy, it's like folk dancing. Each area has its own style, some are more interesting than others, and a few become internationally known. But you're not going to convince most Norwegians Tinikling is better than halling, because even if there is an objective reason like better health benefits, it's the subjective ties to Norwegian heritage which are important.