The cargo tracking firm Vortexa has reported that at least 34 tankers linked to Iran have circumvented the US blockade since it began, with 19 exiting the Gulf and 15 entering from the Arabian Sea.
I don’t understand why this is happening. Is the US Navy somehow trying and failing to intercept these ships? (That would surprise me.) Or are they being allowed to pass deliberately?
I wouldn’t mind being able to start my washer remotely - I want it to run while I’m not home because it’s noisy, but I don’t want the wet laundry to sit all day like it would if I started it and then went to work.
I also have a personal rule against playing team-based multiplayer games - losing because the other team was more skilled was tolerable, but losing because half of my team was goofing around and not even trying to win (or winning because the other team was doing that) was just a frustrating waste of my time.
The first clip show episode is actually season 4 episode 18, but the framing for the clips is so good that the episode is worth watching.
I consider myself very, very lucky that my ex-wife and I did not have any children.
Yeah, that’s the problem. Once I married a woman I had known for six months, because that whole time she was crazy about me. I was the center of her world. It felt great - I wasn’t used to getting a lot of attention from women, and here was one literally begging me to marry her. I went for it. But for whatever reason (maybe God thought it was funny) there are people out there who flip between over-the-top loving someone and over-the-top hating him, for no external reason. My ex-wife kept the crazy under control before we got engaged, but after that about a couple of times a week she would flip out. I ended up divorcing her after six months of marriage - the last straw was when on my birthday she flipped out because I wanted to celebrate with my family and not just with her. (She was extremely jealous - not just about other women but about my family and even my dog.)
Normal social interactions don’t prepare you to deal with a person like that. Even long after the divorce, I would still wonder if maybe I was the one who had been doing something wrong - after all, she was usually so sweet and loving!
I just bought a very lightly used BRZ (20k miles) for $27k and I thought I was splurging because I could have paid significantly less for a completely adequate car, but I wanted something fun. It cost me more than an SUV would have, so even people who want practical cars aren’t being forced to spend over $30k.
Weird how people keep saying things like this despite the clear inverse relationship between income and fertility.
There’s very little chance that the USA will accept the plan - among other things, that would mean paying reparations to Iran.
Generally when I choose to do something, I have the hope that it will turn out well. Although I’m aware that it might not and I’m prepared to deal with that possibility, if I knew with certainty from the start that what I was considering doing would not turn out well then I would not choose to do it.
According to gay people I’ve talked to who tried to adopt but ended up paying a surrogate, adopting a healthy baby is very difficult. Children available for adoption are generally older and/or have serious health problems.
What exactly would a person use 25 Gbit internet for?
I mean, the article seems to do a pretty good job of answering the question in the headline. There isn’t strong evidence in the files (which have been released) that anyone else was involved in sex trafficking.
The lack of arrests in the U.S. contrasts to the fallout in the U.K., where investigators have pursued charges related to corruption, not sexual abuse, in their dealings with Epstein. Two former government officials — former Prince Andrew and ex-ambassador Peter Mandelson — were arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office.
Sculpting an unflattering portrayal of one of your petty, capricious deities seems unwise.
The article implies that tungsten pellets are particularly bad, but they’re actually a replacement for cluster bombs that could leave behind unexploded ordnance. Technology can’t save civilians from a missile targeted at where they are, but at least these missiles don’t also endanger people entering the area in the future.
I want a car with a manual transmission and ideally with rear wheel drive, so I’m looking at the Miata and the BRZ/GR86. Even the new Miatas have real, physical gauges but the BRZ has an LCD display with the tachometer shown graphically but the speed only ever shown with digits, and that can’t be changed unless you buy the 2020 (or older) model which still has physical gauges.
I used to drive a sedan so I’d prefer a newer BRZ (I’m looking at a 2023 one) because the Miata has so little cargo space (the BRZ at least has back seats that fold down) but I’ve been renting a car with a digital display for a week and I still haven’t gotten used to it so I’m worried that I never will.
I don’t mean that the numbers flash when I’m going over the speed limit - I just mean that the value is constantly changing, the changes are abrupt (a big part of the screen updates), and visually the difference between “55” and “75” is no bigger that the difference between “55” and “57”. Actually monitoring my speed feels like having to look at my phone. This is as opposed to just seeing the speedometer needle out of the corner of my eye and knowing how fast I was going and how fast my speed was changing.
There is an element of hypocrisy in all this because American intelligence agencies were previously caught intercepting Cisco-made routers on their way to customers and updating their firmware to deploy espionage tools.
It’s not hypocrisy to try to spy on others while preventing them from spying on you.
It sounds plausible to me - the part about Hegseth, not the part about negotiations going well. (Although maybe Trump’s people are telling him that negotiations are going well.)
Well, criminals generally don’t like law enforcement officers…
I can’t quite read the first word - looks like “ЛУБЧЕК” (Lubchek) which might be a name? The rest means “with great irritation repeats everything which he said earlier about the difficulties to which is coupled the solution of these questions.” It sounds awkward in English because I’m trying to preserve the original Russian wording.