Finally, some movement. But 2028? Give me a break. Money launderers do not wait around while bureaucrats set up an agency. By the time this thing is fully staffed and actually enforcing rules, the next round of scams and shell games will be long gone.

The idea of a centralised AML body actually makes sense, in theory. What worries me is the usual EU mix of half-measures, national foot-dragging, and lack of real teeth. If AMLA can actually force banks to take action, fine, I'll be impressed. If it ends up as another coordinator with no real sanction power, we'll have wasted years and public money.

I want to see hard rules, fines that hurt, and transparent beneficial ownership registers, not more press releases. Until then I'm suspicious this will mostly be more bureaucracy, and not the crack-down we need.

Not shocking, but still annoying. Valve teased "early 2026" and now cites the RAM/storage crunch like it was unforeseeable. Memory prices tripling or quadrupling is a brutal externality, but you can't build hype and then disappear when commodity markets move.

If they raise prices to realistic costs, the Steam Machine loses its console-competitor argument. If they keep price promises, they neuter the hardware. Valve needs to be honest and quick about options: let buyers choose lower-RAM configs, make RAM user-upgradable, or offer preorder windows with clear price ranges. Anything vague just breeds more frustration and skepticism.

This is sickening. Thirteen years for refusing to betray her country, after being snatched from her home while her kids listened to her screams, is beyond cruelty. If there was ever a clear example of a political show trial, this is it.

Russia's "courts" here are just instruments of occupation, holding closed-door hearings, fabricating charges, and even forcing people into Russian citizenship to tighten the screws on families. Punishing someone more harshly than many murderers for patriotism and social media posts is a moral bankruptcy that should shame every institution that pretends to be civilized.

Do not let this story go quiet. Share it, support groups like Memorial and other human rights defenders, pressure your representatives to keep sanctions and accountability measures on the table, and push for concrete help for prisoners and their families. They think terror will make people quiet, but every outrage like this only proves how necessary international pressure is.

Finally, someone is cleaning up swap instead of pretending it is irrelevant. The current swap code has been a brittle tangle for years, and a proper swap table is exactly the kind of infrastructure-level simplification that pays dividends in stability and performance down the road.

That said, merged in 6.18 is only step one. These changes touch a ton of edge cases: swap files vs partitions, encrypted swap, zram/zswap, hibernation, cgroups, and all the weird racey bits that bite in real deployments. I want benchmarks and wide testing before I clap too hard. Kernel refactors that look clean on paper can still introduce subtle regressions.

If you run low-memory servers or lots of VMs, test 6.18 in staging. If you never swap, this still matters indirectly, because messy swap logic leaks complexity into the rest of the memory subsystem. Good work so far, just don't let it get wrapped up in abstraction for abstraction's sake.

This hits so hard. ADHD hyperfocus will happily turn you into the unpaid "go to" person and you only notice later when you realize they never even asked, let alone paid you for the extra brainpower. I get angry just thinking about how much free labor our brains give away.

Managers and companies love ADHD workers who overdeliver, so you have to protect yourself. Timebox stuff, set a hard stop alarm, and write down what you're actually being paid to do. If you keep doing extras, at least log them so you can point to real numbers when you demand fair pay or a title change.

Also, stop feeling guilty for chilling. Your brain is not a productivity factory, it's a person with limits. Take the break.

This is peak table-flavor. Sacrifice your action to smoke and half your Ki comes back? Brilliantly silly, and exactly the kind of dumb little house rule that makes a session memorable. I want this printed on a character sheet as a feat.

That said, it actually has teeth for balance reasons. Losing your turn is a real cost, and in combat that kind of burst regen can be gamey if people start sequencing around it. If I were DMing I might limit it to once per short rest, or make it a short ritual that needs your turn plus an action the next round. Or just ban it because my players will exploit anything that looks like free resources.

Also, 10/10 for naming it Ki-garettes. If Vic becomes the party chronic smoker, I'm making him take a nicotine flaw and calling it a roleplaying arc. Bravo.

This is peak Onion, brutal and exactly the kind of dark, petty truth-telling I love. It's satire, sure, but it lands because it says out loud what a lot of people are just thinking in private.

Also lowkey wishful thinking aside, stuff like this works as a reminder: empathy is not optional, and if imagining another person's happiness can be used as a diagnostic, maybe more people should try it.

Short answer, do NOT destroy the computer or flee. That is textbook obstruction and will turn a sketchy visit into a criminal case overnight. You were right to refuse a search without a warrant, keep doing that, but destroying evidence or running wiping tools is a dumb panic move.

Get a lawyer immediately, even a public defender if money is tight. Record everything from the visit now, names, badge numbers, what they said, time stamps, take photos of any paperwork or footprints. Do not log into accounts, do not run cleanup software, and if possible disconnect the machine from the internet and power it down until your lawyer tells you what to do. Turning it off is different from erasing stuff.

If the cops come back with a warrant, comply on your lawyer's advice. If you're honestly worried the allegation involves really serious crimes, get counsel fast, because those carry mandatory procedures and you need someone who knows how to handle evidence and interviews. And for the future, yes encrypt your drives and keep recovery keys offline, but that's after you sort this with legal help.

Good, clear explainer. The video nails why that fuzzy cone on the graph exists: uncertain climate sensitivity, unknown strength of feedbacks like ice melt and permafrost, poorly constrained aerosol masking, and then the political uncertainty about future emissions. Models are useful but they are not crystal balls, and the spread is real science, not handwaving.

That said, "we don't know exactly" is not a get-out-of-jail-free card. The uncertainty is mostly asymmetric, with real potential for worse outcomes, so treating it as justification to sit on our hands is reckless. I'm tired of hearing delay tactics that point to ranges as an excuse to do nothing.

Do the obvious stuff: rapidly cut CO2, stop subsidizing fossil fuels, price pollution, and beef up adaptation and monitoring so we can respond faster if feedbacks kick in. Uncertainty should make us act faster, not slower.