They really need to start building nuclear armed submarines.

Another contributing factor is the TikTok website just doesn’t fucking work half the time and the only support they offer is a misconfigured AI prone to getting stuck in loops.

KSA has given up on trying to defeat the Houthis, and now wants to buy them with a promise of revenue sharing from the oil fields that were recently captured by UAE-backed STC.

KSA hopes they can reduce the frequency of attacks against their oil infrastructure and economic diversification mega-projects. They’re betting that the cost of the Houthi attacks that will still be launched against them, plus the cost of the bribes aimed at reducing the frequency of those attacks, will still be less expensive than a full ground invasion of Yemen.

Furthermore, KSA is racing against the global trend away from burning oil for energy. They need to diversify their economy while oil is still valuable, and a ground war would halt that progress because investors won’t want to put their eggs into an exploding basket.

So KSA is willing to act against members of their own anti-Houthi alliance in order to prevent a UAE-sponsored break-away state from metastasizing on their border - a break-away state that would control the oil revenue that KSA hoped would buy them a temporary reprieve during this fragile economic moment.

Sanctions without consequences for breaking them are just suggestions.

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There is no amount of nice you can be that will prevent shitty people from doing enemy shit.

Being well armed is as close as you can get to having no enemies.

Mriya sends her regards.

I left for the opposite reason. Reddit does not have enough moderation, and they gave me a temp ban for reporting someone advocating political violence.

Huh. Apparently the Epsteins have reason to believe that Steve Bannon:

1. knew about President Fucking Moron literally sucking Bill Clinton’s dick

2. knows what kompromat Russia has generally

the ‘Mirror’ link goes to a different video

frosted macro-wheats

I suspect this is incompetence, but once Oracle gets it the enshitification will be due to malice.

Yeah, not sure if its badly configured AI, or an employee not getting paid enough to care.

I wonder if their staff have a ticket quota system that lacks oversight of whether or not the ticket’s support needs were actually addressed before it was closed?

https://xkcd.com/1114/

Roy from Order of the Stick

Seems like the best time to let someone else take the wheel is while you’re trying to shoot at the car full of gangoons chasing you. Too bad auto-drive is disabled during combat.

Why not hire more judges?

Which door would the other guard tell me leads to treasure?