One should note that the stock is still up $50 per share up from its IPO price ($135 vs $185 or about 37%). Also the Cursor option was fully outlined before the IPO so it shouldn’t surprise anyone.

Not that I don’t think all of this is dumb, it’s just another hype / gambling stock without much substance led by Elon who got his Twitter buyout.

No crying in the casino

Two certain clowns, though for different reasons

I would guess the isn’t cultural as the idea of “people, but small” isn’t very specific. It’s probably similar to the “machine elves” users of DMT often report

Not sure where exactly this was supposed to happen, but a country has the right to down any unauthorized aircraft in its airspace. When Turkey downed a Russian jet nothing happened because this is just how things work. A military aircraft in another country’s airspace can’t expect to not be shot. It’s rarely done but always possible.

What’s Anti-Data? The equivalent to Anti-Matter? And how does an Anti-Data Center look like?

Interesting enough, the ruble is actually quite strong, which does create problems for Russia’s exports, while they are capped on imports by the sanctions so they can’t really make use of that

They got a very nice beer brewery in return so it’s all fair

Germany did opium business with China? When?

But then a hero came forth
His name was Oliver North

the cost of basic necessities like housing and food are about 3x cheaper.

Depends. Newly built apartments will set you back $200k after conversion there, some years ago it could easily reach $500k.

Why would Europe negotiate with Iran? The conflict is between Iran and the US. What kind of perspective should Europe offer?

His base by definition approves of him, the more interesting question is whether that base changes in size

Let’s not get ahead of ourselves

If they weren’t, the headline probably wouldn’t have used the comparative

What you’re implying makes no sense.

The ships passing are not “NATO owned”. They’re most likely not even ships owned by the armed forces of NATO countries apart from the US. And even if they were attacked, this is outside of the territory of the NATO member state, which is a condition for triggering article 5.

That swiping keyboard typo happens way more often to me than it doesn’t

I totally know how NATO works (am former soldier from a NATO country), I know Mario is a defensive treaty and even if you’re a member it doesn’t mean other member nations have to cooperate with you outside of NATO related activities. So yes no NATO members need to join, and no NATO member has to support the US (even if just by allowing to use the air space) outside of NATO missions it exercises.

If Putin knows NATO is a paper tiger, why is he complaining about countries joining it? Why does he complain about NATO member countries on Russia’s borders? Surely a paper tiger isn’t detrimental to his interests? Why did they claim Russia is fighting NATO in Ukraine?

Total disconnect from reality

He’s just preparing for an out, in a week or two he can tell on TV that Iran agreed to all demands and as such, the US gets out. Won’t work most likely, but maybe he’ll try.

That or he seriously believes this has happened because someone told him. Who knows! Or he might just contradict himself.

Debian systems have optionally collected this kind of data way before systemd existed via adduser.