and questioned whether certain nations can remain reliable allies

Funnily enough most of Europe has been asking the same question about the US under Trump. I guess Russia has got a psychological win (even as their military fails dismally in Ukraine) by corrupting a key player from the inside and then pitting old allies against each other.

There are usually two factors that can cause auto insurance rates to change:

1. Something happened to you personally that caused your rates to change. Like if you were in an accident (and especially if you were deemed at fault), or if you’re vehicle changed in some way. There are other factors too, but those are probably the most common ones.
2. Your zip code was reassessed and is now deemed to be more or less risky from an insurance perspective. This decision is separated from your personal actions, but it can still have an impact on your individual rates. And there’s no really transparency on how or why the insurance company comes to a conclusion on this aspect. Which sucks.

My guess is the second factor is thinking into play for you and your rates.

Just like they were ready to fully conquer Ukraine, fight?

Setting up Jellyfin as a local media server is very simple. Setting it up with easy access for remote friends and family is a hassle.

Dementia.

ETA: As in, Trump kinda forgot who he was, and that he should be irrationally hating on him.

No mention of Obama being invited.

Nothing says “I’m innocent” like “you are going to come to regret this!”

Strong agree on the lack of punctuation.

Medium has become a bit of a cesspool for low-effort hot takes. Sometimes the articles make a great point but are not very well written (as is the case with this one). But more often than not they are a single, unfounded, absurd rage-bait argument that’s been spun out into an article with the help of AI.

Whataboutism at its finest.

Whatever. Lock all the predators away.

Your 15 minutes of game is over, Kim Davies. Stop trying to milk it. Go back under your bridge, you miserable little troll.

The ultra wealthy already got their ‘tariff dividend’, in the form of not tax breaks and a discrete heads-up of when to play the market to real maybe amounts of extra wealth.

As for the rest, this offer is just more bullshit. If it does surface (which is very unlikely) there will be some strings attached. And it will in no way fully compensate most people for the turmoil caused by these tariffs.

“I don’t always lick my own butthole. But when I do it tastes like Dos Equis beer” -The Most Interesting Cat In The World

He clearly lives in a completely different reality to me and millions of other people.

There was a clip from the other day where a reporter asked him about a person they had interviewed who stated that grocery prices have gone way up.

His response? “She’s wrong!”

Putting aside the fact that he was clearly and profoundly incorrect, the unbridled dismissiveness of his response is crazy.

So the woman who was at the grocery store buying groceries just like she is every week, and noticing prices going up again (not to mention shrinkification), is wrong. And you, Donald, who has no fucking clue how much any groceries are, are right?

Give me a break!

“Well it works for unit testing, so just extend that out to all testing! Problem solved!” -Senior Management, probably

Who am I kidding. They have no idea what unit testing is.

Pretty well, all things considered. I played off and on for about 15 years (more on than off). Got into an awesome family-friendly guild and made some very good friends. I still regularly chat with and occasionally play other games with some of them.

I became the leader of that guild eventually, but by then it was well into a slow death spiral. It was sad to see everything slowly fall apart and there being nothing anyone could do to resurrect it. That was kind of a painful life lesson.

But I also have some very fond memories playing with both my wife and my son, and with those friends.

Maybe I was to much of a ‘filthy casual’ to get drawn too deeply into it (I only casually raided sporadically). But even still, it did hook me in for a while. And even now it’s left an itch I can’t scratch. I miss the Wrath era and how vibrant and dynamic and crazy the ‘world’ could be.

Overall I feel like it was worth the time and money. But I know that’s not the case for many others.

My son still plays it sometimes and is trying to get me to come back for the new xpac. But I have zero enthusiasm for it. The last several months I was playing I would log in out of obligation and then almost immediately log off again because nothing sounded fun to do. I didn’t (and still don’t) like what they’ve done with both retail and classic. I guess I’ve moved on in life.

Imagine leaving Texas because you think it’s too liberal.

Maybe it’s watched vs buffered?

So we (the working and shrinking middle class) are still paying our taxes. But now our taxes are going to Argentinian ranchers, and gaudy and unnecessary ballrooms.

Meanwhile those who are financially willing and able are helping out their family, friends, and neighbors in need to not starve. Which is basically an unofficial extra tax - on top of the extra expenses charged to us via frivolous tariffs.

What a fucking joke. Every time I think the government can’t get any more flagrantly greedy and irresponsible, they find a way.

A lot of the comments here seem to be missing some key points from this article:

• The writer made her own likeness available to everyone on purpose. She did this knowing what would happen, but it was part of the exercise of seeing how weird it would get. So the points that she was stupid for doing, or that she was outraged by this, this are missing the point. Was she stupid? Maybe, but she made a conscious sacrifice on her likeliness. Was she outraged? Clearly not.
• It’s short-sighted to say “yeah this will happen, so don’t put your is image out there”. There are lots of people (especially women and girls) who have gone out of the way to avoid having their image/likeness out there for these it similar reasons. But they have still ended up the victim of humiliation and trauma from photoshopped images or deep fakes made against them.
• This second point was a big part of what the author was trying to point out. It’s both a warning to others about being careful of protecting your identity, and an alarm sounding that there are some really weird and creepy fetishes out there that people can get their likelinesses pulled into, even when you actively try to avoid that.
• It also highlights the lack of safeguards on this kind of issue. Consent, age, level of fame… none of that matters in this issue. And in most cases the companies behind these tools don’t do shit to address these concerns.

TBF the British played a big part in the Whitehouse ‘renovations’ back then (in 1814).