@JethroImpulseK@NoxothPrime@OtakuEspiritu Thanks for confirming two things.
a. You're incapable of reading properly and responding without an AI chatbot.
b. That you're a bot.
@messatsou@NoxothPrime@OtakuEspiritu Come now Yuri, making bad faith statements like they mean something is a bad look for you. Real people are stating real arguments for their points of view you sound like a bot, do better
@JethroImpulseK@NoxothPrime@OtakuEspiritu Whoo, the mental gymnastics and the lack of reading comprehension that you're showing is almost Paralympic level at this point.
@NoxothPrime@OtakuEspiritu Her controlling surface level anger is exactly her point, their anger are different and Bruce was trying to project his anger onto hers to train her( which is a valid thing to do in his case) but Jen didn't need that type of anger management training. Again you understood her
@TonBueno25@Grummz That's fair. He expressed his opinion.
And several people disagreed with it and expressed their own opinion that the dude's opinion aged like milk.
We don't have to agree with everybody all the time.
At 40, Franz Kafka (1883-1924), who never married and had no children, walked through the park in Berlin when he met a girl who was crying because she had lost her favourite doll. She and Kafka searched for the doll unsuccessfully. Kafka told her to meet him there the next day and they would come back to look for her.
The next day, when they had not yet found the doll, Kafka gave the girl a letter “written” by the doll saying “please don’t cry. I took a trip to see the world. I will write to you about my adventures.”
Thus began a story which continued until the end of Kafka’s life.
During their meetings, Kafka read the letters of the doll carefully written with adventures and conversations that the girl found adorable.
Finally, Kafka brought back the doll (he bought one) that had returned. “It doesn’t look like my doll at all,“ said the girl.
Kafka handed her another letter in which the doll wrote: "my travels have changed me.” the little girl hugged the new doll and brought her happy home.
A year later Kafka died. Many years later, the now-adult girl found a letter inside the doll. In the tiny letter signed by Kafka it was written:
“Everything you love will probably be lost, but in the end, love will return in another way.”
You can't take the final confrontation between an honorable mentor and the monster his student has become, and have them jumping around on floating lava platforms like Mario. You just can't.
NEW: Las Vegas judge shoots down petition to lower murder charge against a man accused of killing an 11-year-old boy in a road rage incident.
The rejection comes as 23-year-old Tyler Johns allegedly laughed at the victim's family in court.
Johns is accused of shooting 11-year-old Brandon Dominguez-Chavarria on the 215 Beltway last year.
The man allegedly fired his weapon when he and Brandon's stepfather were jockeying for position on the freeway.
During a court appearance this week, District Judge Jacqueline Bluth was seen grilling Johns about an accusation that he smiled and laughed at Brandon's family in court.
"I don't know what happened... I was told you were smiling at the family, laughing at the family, and calling them names," Bluth said.
"If it did happen, it will never happen again."
@sonnyc_usa@CollinRugg Agreed. The father should be fined and ticketed for indulging in road rage.
And Tyler Johns be put away behind bars for life for murder.
It's only fair.
@CollinRugg The 'father' of that young boy needs to be charged as well! He put himself, his 'son' and wife in harms way by engaging in 'road rage' with that other driver!
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[Beilan Island Emergency Shelter Broadcast] Episode 13 is now released! Let's check out what Mo has to share about the latest patch!
Nothing feels better than having a bunch of Depp fans being pissed off at you. Like you keep supporting that rapist boo. It shows what you’re like as a person xx
JUST IN: The Strait of Hormuz is open. It has been open every day since February 28. The IRGC never closed it. What the IRGC did is convert 21 miles of international waterway into a permissioned gate with a toll booth, a vetting process, and a guest list. Traffic has collapsed 70 to 80 percent. But the handful of tankers that transit each day do so with IRGC clearance, paid in yuan or USDT, at $2 million to $4 million per vessel.
The process is now documented. A tanker operator contacts an IRGC-linked intermediary. The operator submits vessel ownership, flag state, cargo manifest, destination, crew list, and AIS transponder data. The IRGC runs background checks: no US-linked ownership, no Israeli cargo, no flagging to aggressor states. If approved, a toll is negotiated. Payment is executed in cash, Chinese yuan, or USDT on the Tron network. The IRGC issues VHF radio clearance with a specific time window and route through Iranian territorial waters near Larak Island, where IRGC Navy performs visual confirmation. The vessel transits. No physical escort is provided. The “protection” is the removal of the interdiction threat. You are safe because the entity that would attack you has decided not to.
China passes. India passes. Pakistan, Turkey, Malaysia, Iraq, Bangladesh pass. Shadow fleet operators aligned with Russia pass. Not all pay the full toll. Some receive exemptions through government-to-government arrangements. Some pay reduced rates. Some pay nothing because the geopolitical alignment is payment enough. The system is not a blockade. It is a membership club with a cover charge denominated in currencies that are not the US dollar.
And here is what nobody is covering. Lloyd’s of London and the international insurance market have withdrawn standard hull and machinery coverage for Hormuz transits. War-risk policies now carry premiums of up to 5 percent of vessel value, $5 million for a $100 million tanker, per voyage. But the actuarial models that price those premiums now incorporate IRGC vetting status as a risk-reduction variable. If a vessel can prove it has paid the toll and received VHF clearance, the probability of loss drops from above 20 percent to below 5 percent. The same models that price hurricane risk and earthquake exposure are now pricing IRGC compliance as a safety factor.
The insurance industry has done something no government intended: it has formalised IRGC authority over the strait in actuarial mathematics. A tanker that pays the toll is insurable. A tanker that does not is stranded. Dozens of vessels sit outside the strait right now, unable to transit because no underwriter will cover them. The insurance withdrawal is not a market reaction. It is a structural enforcement mechanism that makes IRGC permission the prerequisite for commercial shipping.
Every toll paid in yuan is a barrel that settled outside the dollar system. Every USDT transaction on Tron is a 3-second settlement bypassing SWIFT and sanctions. Iran’s parliament is drafting legislation to formalise the toll as “security compensation.” If that bill passes, ad-hoc extortion becomes sovereign law, and the precedent for chokepoint monetisation enters the international legal framework.
Gold watches from the side. Spot prices muted at $5,000 to $5,400 by dollar strength and rising yields, while central banks in China, Russia, and India quietly accumulate on every dip. The short-term safe-haven has not fired. The long-term de-dollarization trade is loading.
The strait is open. The molecules move. But only for those who pay the toll, in the currency the toll booth accepts, after the vetting the toll booth requires. The rest wait. The clocks tick. Saturday arrives.
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