You can fix this problem by always going to bed at 3:30am. That's the point where the tiredness gets louder than the ghosts of the past.
It's not that simple for Slovakia...
Firstly Fico risks isolating Slovakia now that he doesn't have Hungary as an ally to protect him from any disciplinary actions from the EU.
Secondly, the EU has developed a bilateral loan system from individual member states that doesn't require a unanimous EU vote.
Thirdly, there's also a "enhanced cooperation" system now that allows groups of countries to proceed without unanimity.
Fico is going to have to balance the benefits he gets from doing Putin's bidding with the blowback he is going to get and the consequences that will generate for Slovakia.
...and with him goes the most significant and consistent opponent to funding for Ukraine within the EU. Good.
He's out of moves basically. This is just a toddler holding his breath now. What a sad clown.
That's just such an Epstein files thing to say. How can a President Epstein files those words and expect the world not to Epstein files in revulsion. To be brutally Epstein files he seems a little desperate. These are not the words of a sane Epstein files.
A battery icon feels like an odd choice as a container of anxiety. A ball of squiggly lines or some lighting bolts that disappear gradually would make more sense to me but hey, it still conveys the message.
This raises an interesting point actually... I have a new Win11 machine but my old Win10 one is just being kept around for low level, non essential tasks. I don't have any essential apps left on there really now. I signed up for that extra year of Microsoft support that was offered but when that runs out I guess what a perfect time to have a play with Linux and see what all the fuss is about.
There's a simple way to stop that happening! You won't believe me, but some of you will try it and those lucky few will indeed know the joy of efficient, non-wasteful wetwipe extraction.
Just take a hairband and wrap it tightly around one end of the packet. Pull the wipes out at an angle away from the end with the band. They will come out one at a time with no clogging.
Happiness.
Starbucks feels like the Blockbuster of the quick-stimulation market. Once there were no alternatives, now there are loads, often cheaper and better. Without constant customer flow, it’s suddenly just vast amounts of premium real estate that need paying for. And unlike smaller competitors, it doesn’t have much room to pivot. Watching how that unwinds will be interesting.
The TL;DR is that this is more about some dude wanting to fill time with vague ideas about learning lines that never get smarter than "repeat them a lot" than any actually useful advice.
I've done a ton of line learning for plays and musicals and I can tell you there is one actually useful system that never fails. I call it the first letter system. You could learn an entire play with this in very little time. You just reduce your text down to just the first letters. So, for example, Hamlet's "To be or not to be" 259 word soliloquy would look like this:
T B, O N T B, T I T Q: W 'T N I T M T S T S A A O O F, O T T A A A S O T A B O E T. T D, T S, N M; A B A S T S W E T H-A A T T N S T F I H T: 'T A C D T B W'D. T D, T S; T S, P T D. A, T'S T R: F I T S O D W D M C, W W H S O T M C, M G U P. T'S T R T M C O S L L. F W W B T W A S O T, T'O'S W, T P M'S C, T P O D'D L, T L'S D, T I O O, A T S T P M O T'U T, W H H M H Q M W A B B? W W F B, T G A S U A W L, B T T D O S A D, T U'D C, F W B N T R, P T W, A M U R B T I W H T F T O T W K N O? T C D M C O U A, A T T N H O R I S O'E W T P C O T, A E O G P A M
W T R T C T A A L T N O A.
Then you just play a game of how many letters can you guess in a row. Gamifying the process is genius because it doesn't feel like a boring chore. Also the brain naturally uses anchors for memory so each letter becomes an anchor and you'll retain so much more that way without the stress of endless repetition.
Pretty soon you'll be able to do the whole speech word perfect just looking at the first letters and then all you have to do is make the game about trying to say whole sentences just by looking at the first letter of each sentence. It's a truly incredible system and now you know it without having to listen to some guy being vague for 10 minutes.
So the last time Cuba got nervous about the intentions of the US we ended up with the Cuban missile crisis. What's different this time?
Any of you read the article that OpenAI wrote? Here's a quote: "The operation sought to exploit and amplify existing public concerns about energy prices and local impacts of data center development, but we found no evidence of meaningful breakout beyond its own activity ." So it's less "China is making you hate data centers" and more "they tried but it didn't work".