All posts tagged: refuses

Yellowstone star reveals why he refuses to watch Taylor Sheridan’s show

Yellowstone star reveals why he refuses to watch Taylor Sheridan’s show

Published by Daniella Wilson

Neal McDonough does not want to revisit his villainous role on Yellowstone anytime soon. The 60-year-old actor, who played ruthless real estate mogul Malcolm Beck on Taylor Sheridan’s Western series, admitted on the Arroyo Grande podcast recently that he has not watched the show. “I’ve never seen it,” McDonough said on the podcast episode released Wednesday. “You know, I don’t watch any of my stuff.” He went on to explain that he refuses to watch back any of his work because of his process “as a method actor.” Method acting is an immersive way of preparing for a role that requires an actor to channel the emotions of their real-life experiences while they are performing. “If I look at a frame of a show from 20 years ago, I know exactly the thought I was thinking,” McDonough said. “I know the song I was thinking about. I know where I was going. So going back, to me, sometimes can be really kind of traumatic and painful.” Neal McDonough admitted that he has never watched Taylor …

Kash Patel Refuses to Take a Republican’s Lifeline

Kash Patel Refuses to Take a Republican’s Lifeline

Published by Daniella Wilson

This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. President Trump appointed Kash Patel to lead the FBI not because of his brief experience in law enforcement but because he is a political brawler. The problem, as Patel demonstrated yesterday, is that he is not a very good one: No skilled political messenger would have allowed nearly every headline about a Senate hearing to connect their name and agency with bestiality. Yesterday’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing was Patel’s first appearance on Capitol Hill since a raucous visit in May. (At that hearing, Patel and Senator Chris Van Hollen verbally agreed to each take a self-screening test for alcohol abuse. Van Hollen posted his results the next day, but his office said it never heard back from Patel.) It was also Patel’s first hearing since CBS News revealed changes to FBI hiring standards, which reportedly now allow the bureau …

3 perfectly reasonable things Windows 11 still refuses to let you do

3 perfectly reasonable things Windows 11 still refuses to let you do

Published by Miika Tikkanen

I’ve used Windows long enough to understand how much it’s evolved. But because I use several other OSes, I’m reminded every once in a while that Windows 11 still doesn’t let me do a few perfectly normal things. These limitations may not always feel like a total deal-breaker, but once you understand the extra steps they force on you, it’s impossible to stop wondering why they still exist. Related Windows still won’t let you use this name for a folder — and DOS is why I typed three innocent letters and Windows reacted like I had insulted its ancestors. Every file shows a size. Folders don’t. The column File Explorer never added Afam Onyimadu / MUO Try this now: open File Explorer in Details view. Create a few folders and fill them with different files. Then include other files in the same directory as these new folders. Every file in the directory will report a size, but the folders will be blank. It may feel like nothing, but when your SSD is almost full and …

Bluey composer reveals why he refuses to ‘dumb down’ orchestral music for children

Bluey composer reveals why he refuses to ‘dumb down’ orchestral music for children

Published by Daniella Wilson

Add Bluey to your watchlist As beautiful as a Mahler symphony is, I wouldn’t expect a young child to sit through an 80-minute performance in a concert hall. The capacity of children to enjoy classical music, however, is so often underestimated. That’s why, when composing Bluey – the smash hit TV series that follows Bluey, a lovable, inexhaustible blue heeler dog alongside her mum, dad and her little sister Bingo – I weave elements of Vivaldi, Holst, Mozart, Bizet, Bach and Ravel into the soundtrack. I don’t dumb down and I hope that by taking this approach to enhance the wonderful and clever animation, we’ve helped create a new generation of classical music fans. Bluey has become a phenomenon since it first aired in 2018 and its success, with parents as well as children, has taken us by surprise. As well as being a hit in the UK, Australia (where Joe Brumm created the series) and around the world, it was the most‑streamed show in the US in 2024 and 2025. Its music has a …

Yvette Cooper Repeatedly Refuses To Say Whether The UK Is 'At War' In Iran

Yvette Cooper Repeatedly Refuses To Say Whether The UK Is 'At War' In Iran

Published by Sam Flores

Britain’s Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs Yvette Cooper leaves after a cabinet meeting in 10 Downing Street in London, Tuesday, March 3, 2026.(AP Photo/Kin Cheung) Yvette Cooper has refused to say whether the UK is “at war” in Iran. The foreign secretary repeatedly dodged the question on the BBC’s Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg programme. Keir Starmer has given the US permission to use British bases to target Iranian weapons storage facilities and missile launch sites. RAF jets are also patrolling the skies in the region looking to shoot down Iranian missiles and drones targeted at other countries. However, Cooper would not be drawn on whether that meant the UK was at war or not. Kuenssberg asked her: “Hasn’t the government actually put the UK in the most awkward of all? We’re neither taking part in this war in the wholehearted way that some of our closest allies would want us to, but you’re also facilitating the war in a way that many people watching will think is dangerous and wrong?” Cooper …

EasyJet refuses to honour a promised £472 refund

EasyJet refuses to honour a promised £472 refund

Published by Sam Flores

The day before my easyJet flight to Budapest last July, a UK air traffic control outage caused significant disruption at Gatwick. On my arrival at the airport check-in, easyJet staff refused to issue me with a boarding pass because a smaller aircraft, with fewer seats, had had to be substituted. This left 35 passengers unable to board. I was advised to book another flight and claim the cost of the new ticket via the easyJet website. The next available flight was with British Airways and cost me £472. EasyJet has since refused to refund me. Customer service staff first denied that the plane had been downgraded, then said my claim was rejected because I had booked the original easyJet flight through a third party, then said I was a no-show. IB London The air traffic control chaos disrupted hundreds of flights, and easyJet’s obduracy is inexcusable. Your webchats with its agents make nonsensical reading. One told you the rejection was because “the email address on the booking does not match the one on the booking”. …

This five-year-old GPU refuses to go away, and it’s only going to get more popular

This five-year-old GPU refuses to go away, and it’s only going to get more popular

Published by Miika Tikkanen

If you have been browsing GPUs lately, you have probably noticed something a little strange. The GeForce RTX 3060 keeps showing up like it missed the group chat about newer cards. It dropped all the way back in February 2021, and yet there it is, still popping up in fresh PC builds, budget upgrade lists, and those “best value” debates that never seem to end. And it is not just nostalgia talking. In Valve’s Steam Hardware Survey for December 2025, the desktop RTX 3060 is still sitting comfortably at the top of the DirectX 12 GPU chart with a 4.25 percent share, ahead of plenty of newer midrange options like Nvidia’s RTX 4060 and RTX 4070 GPUs. That kind of longevity usually means something went right. The 3060 landed in a sweet spot of price, performance, and VRAM that still makes sense, especially if all you want is a dependable 1080p workhorse without turning your PC into a long-term financial commitment. Affordable performance and 12GB of VRAM keep the RTX 3060 on top Aging like …