Have you seen the price of gas?

Also, Iran has been striking at neighbouring countries, including UAE and Saudi Arabia, and not limited to the military. US owned, or related, assets are juicy targets.

Logistics in the whole region is a hot mess, and holding 2 racing events with the size and viewership of F1 would not only be impossible to organise, but more importantly, do you really want to host such events in the middle of an active war zone and tempt fate?

I’m sure there’s videos of that in Epstein’s collection.

We need openWrt for TVs :(

It should.

Had the EU been forceful in its deterrence, Russia would have never looked to Crimea, let alone start a war.

Buy alas, being spineless and weak gets you exploited.

I’m surprised how we’re not seeing Chinese AA systems randomly show up across Iran.

Not officially supplied by China, of course - sold to some neighbour, and mysteriously and “illegally” moved to Iran, along with some Chinese passer-by to monitor the systems performance against real American combat aircraft.

Especially against the F-35s, I assume they’d want to collect data.

It is not the right call. That cedes ground to Russian influence.

The right course of action is to fight back the russian covert ops, expose orban as grossly incompetent and corrupt, and get him replaced with someone who’s actually good for Hungary.

That’s just par for the course, like with emails, slack messages etc, always assume they have access to everything.

I don’t get these companies that are trying to force AI down people’s throats.

I really like how mine is handling this. They gave us Gemini like 6 months ago, along with about a paragraph at most saying that we must stop using AI services from unvetted providers (GPT, etc) with company or customer data, because we needed to have legal agreements in place for that.

Nobody ever mentioned it again, at all. They probably provided us with that AI because we had people using all sorts of services and it was becoming a nightmare, so they signed some contract to cover data protection requirements and said “here, use this one if you must”.

Now it’s just there. There’s zero pressure to use it. Some Google guys wanted to come over to make some presentations, some people signed up for those but they were entirely optional.

You use it if you have a use case for it, or don’t, doesn’t matter. The only metrics are the one we’ve always had - deliver good work, on time. How you do that is up to you.

You guys still have hair?

The EU has a nuclear bomb when it comes to trade: ban, or apply huge “tariffs” on US tech services. Walk away from any patent agreements for good measure.

The US economy would literally implode.

Right now that’s just unthinkable because of how much European companies rely on American services, but opening up alternatives that could make this possible is a huge bargaining chip.

Cat tax!

In what universe do you live in? Because in this one, it’s not the men who are being beaten, abused and raped in their own home by their own partner, is it? Look up surveys and studies, if you find this in any way surprising.

I fail to see your problem with “withholding intimacy”. Nobody is forced to consent to anything, and if someone no longer wants to have sex with you, then that relationship has very serious problems.

Lack of sex is a symptom, not the cause, and if you think it’s being used to “punish you”, then you need to take a step back and have a very long think about what is going on from your partner’s perspective. If you’re unable to do that, then find help - a therapist, a psychologist, a councillor, someone that is unbiased and that can help provide insights.

Ultimately, you may come to the realisation that your partner and you have needs that the other is not willing or able to meet, and that it’s time to go separate ways. Or you may both come out of it with a better understanding of each other, and live happier lives because of it.

But let me tell you, the fact that you assume that you’re being punished because you’re not getting sex, that’s one massive red flag.

NO. It is, quite literally, the opposite. How do you misinterpreted it that badly?

A marriage is a legal contract, and it binds the parties to mutual support, fidelity, respect, and cohabitation.

This serves to clarify that sex is NOT included in that list of obligations, but do note that fidelity IS. You don’t get to get to justify cheating with “I wasn’t getting any…”.

That said, the parties are obviously free to come to an agreement on what works best for them - and if that includes extramarital sex, then that’s fine as long as both agree.

No, no, there’s a big change here.

Yes, divorces still go through as before, that doesn’t change. What does change is the context of fault in the divorce.

If sex is a marital obligation, the party refusing it can be considered at fault for the marriage failing. This usually carries consequences when it comes to splitting the assets, with the judges usually penalising the party “at fault”.

This makes it so that refusing to have sex cannot be grounds for being found at fault, and makes things more balanced.

Those fair very poorly. I don’t know of a better system, but elections are kinda of a fucked up system.

That’s about how I picture America - 35% now love Iran, other 35% are outraged out of their minds and think that Trump should nuke Iran, and the rest think iRan is a fitness app and instantly blocked that source of ads.

NATO: pushes back against an aggressive nation, in defense of its members.

Trump: Noooo not like that

Upper management doesn’t excel at decision making, they excel at convincing others they make good decisions.

Rumours had the pot at 187 million dollars, to be split 50/50.

Jake Paul in the meantime had tweeted that it was more, that he was getting 267 millions or something.

Even by the more conservative estimate, 90 million dollars buy you a lot of healthcare…

The BBC article covering this “boxing” match is awesome. You can tell right from the title that the journalist wasn’t amused:

Joshua and Paul earn riches but deliver budget sporting spectacle

The plot played out in the ring was lifeless - a slow, joyless watch that would have struggled to earn even a charitable rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

And the ultimate irony is that this spectacle has provided one of Joshua’s biggest paydays and, in all likelihood, his largest television audience.

With seconds remaining in the fourth round, referee Christopher Young perhaps spoke for viewers around the world when he pulled the fighters together and urged them to engage.

Directing his comments at Paul, he said: “Fans didn’t pay to see this crap.”