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The Houthi movement has evolved from a Yemeni insurgency into a military force capable of threatening one of the world's most important maritime chokepoints. Its greatest weapon may not be the ability to sink every ship—but the ability to make shipping companies decide that sailing through the Red Sea is simply not worth the risk. The map of the Middle East changed dramatically in September 2026. After years of fighting, ceasefires and shifting alliances, Houthi forces have rapidly expanded their control along Yemen's Red Sea coast, including strategically important territory and islands around the southern entrance to the Red Sea. Recent reporting says the Houthis have captured Mokha and positions around the Bab el-Mandeb, while gaining control of the Hanish Islands and Perim Island. That matters because the Bab el-Mandeb is not just another piece of Yemeni territory. It is the southern gateway to the Red Sea. And beyond that gateway lies the Suez Canal—the shortest maritime r...

Few science-fiction movie franchises have had an impact as lasting as The Terminator . What began in 1984 as a relatively simple story about a killer machine sent from the future eventually grew into a sprawling saga about artificial intelligence, time travel, fate, and humanity's struggle to survive its own creations. At the center of the story is a terrifying idea: What if the machines we create eventually decide that humanity is the greatest threat to their existence? The Terminator franchise explores that question through multiple timelines, wars, heroes, and versions of the future. Here's the story of the series and how its central conflict unfolds. The Beginning: The Terminator (1984) The story begins in Los Angeles in 1984. A young woman named Sarah Connor is living an ordinary life when she discovers that someone—or something—is hunting women who share her name. That hunter is a Terminator, a cybernetic assassin played by Arnold Schwarzenegger . The machine has been s...

Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, has issued one of the strongest calls yet for the AI industry to slow the development of increasingly powerful models. But his proposal has opened a much bigger question: how do we slow AI down without losing the benefits—or allowing competitors to race ahead? The artificial intelligence industry has spent the last few years running a technological sprint. Every few months, new models become better at coding, reasoning, research, cybersecurity and autonomous task execution. Companies are pouring billions of dollars into chips, data centers and research teams in the hope of building the next generation of AI. Now, one of the industry's most prominent CEOs is arguing that the race may be moving faster than society's ability to control it. Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, has called for frontier AI development to slow down so that safety mechanisms can catch up with the technology. His argument is not that AI should be abandoned. Instead, he want...

Donald Trump has repeatedly used a simple political proposition: if government collects money, saves money, or benefits from his policies, ordinary Americans should get some of it back. The language has changed over time. During the COVID-19 crisis, Americans received stimulus payments. In his second presidency, Trump has promoted ideas ranging from a $2,000 tariff “dividend” to a $5,000 “DOGE dividend” , and most recently a proposed $5,000 payment to American adults if Republicans win control of Congress in the 2026 midterm elections . But there is an important distinction between a presidential promise, a proposal, legislation, and an actual payment. So, which Trump payment promises became real — and which didn't? The short answer Promise or payment What happened? Status 2020 COVID stimulus payments Congress enacted them and Treasury/IRS distributed them Materialised Proposed $2,000 COVID payment in late 2020 Trump demanded larger checks, but the proposal did not become a $2,000...

Human history has been shaped by extraordinary individuals whose intelligence, creativity, curiosity, and problem-solving abilities changed the world. While it is impossible to objectively identify a single “smartest person in history,” many remarkable minds stand out for the scale and lasting impact of their achievements. 1. Imhotep (c. 27th century BCE) Often considered one of the earliest known geniuses in recorded history, Imhotep was an Egyptian architect, engineer, physician, and scholar. Notable achievements: Designed the Step Pyramid of Djoser, one of the earliest monumental stone structures. Advanced Egyptian architecture and engineering. Was later revered as a figure associated with wisdom and medicine. 2. Aristotle (384–322 BCE) Aristotle was one of ancient Greece’s greatest thinkers. His ideas influenced science, philosophy, politics, logic, biology, and ethics for centuries. Notable achievements: Developed foundational principles of formal logic. Made important observation...

My last post was that wife going for her heart surgery, been about 8 months since then. Reason why I didn't post as much was because a lot of things going on, new job, baby just finished surgery, key collection for BTO, wife's surgery, sell resale flat, move house. But now ok, everything settled, should have more time to post my ramblings. Also thinking of going for a holiday, long time never travel, but recently got earthquake, don't know should visit wife's hometown or not. New job Compared to last job, travelling time much longer, have duty roster for 24x7 standby, a lot of things to pick up, good thing is my past experience helps a lot so most of the work is not difficult, just at worst tedious. Benefits not bad, even my wife and daughter's specialist visits all can claim, only thing cannot claim is their surgery due to pre-existing condition, weird right. But applying leave got limitation, and management very out of touch, see how, maybe find new job, travelli...

https://marrythaigirlsingapore.blogspot.com/2021/03/received-my-sixth-adsense-payment.html Last time I collected payment was back in Mar 2021, S$150.53, about 2.5 years ago. Not sure if blogging is still a thing these days, I started out wanting to share my journey of a Singaporean marrying a foreign lady in Singapore, looking back it has been more than 12 years, how time flies. Now it's more like my personal journal, just keep track of the important stuff that happens in my life, or some events that I am interested in, most probably going to keep updating whenever I have time, when my daughter gets bigger, hopefully she can somehow find this blog haha.

This morning I received an email from Google Adsense saying they detected violations: " In the last 24 hours: New violations were detected . As a result, ad serving has been restricted or disabled on pages where these violations of the AdSense Program Policies were found. To resolve the issues, you can either remove the violating content and request a review, or remove the ad code from the violating pages." I went to the Adsense "Policy center" to take a look, seems like somebody reported this blog to contain "Adult content", don't know which idiot did that lol, maybe because I posted the Anchor and Mirror protocol phishing warnings? Anyway I clicked the "Request Review", after some time, I think the Adsense team did a review and didn't find anything wrong this blog so now when I go back to the "Policy center", it shows "No current issues", that was fast.

Been quite some time since my last post, 2022 is a busy start, with my daughter going P1, also busy at work because of cutting over a new project in Jan and clearing sh**, and also busy learning more about cryptocurrency ever since I got started back in Dec 2021 . I'm so glad I got started with cryptocurrency again, because after deep diving into it, I was shocked by how much the ecosystem have grown since my first experience playing with bitcoin back when it first started, I think it was 2009, can't remember exactly but I remember downloading the bitcoin wallet and did some mining, the wallet don't know throw where already, can't remember if I mined anything. At that time the idea of cryptocurrency was kind of crazy and out of this world, didn't think it would go any further so I didn't get too deep into it. Anyway I throw letter already, with Web3 already here, Web2 technology is a waste of time, I planning to spend 1-2 months resting and diving even deeper in...

Last payment. This time received S$150.53, they sent on 21 Mar 2021 and I received the money on 23 Mar 2021. Thanks all for the support!

Just noticed the requirement to submit US tax information to Google, which is required by their IRS. Looks like they are going to collect 30% of my Adsense earnings? My earnings is not much so 30% of S$150.53 is S$45.15? I think it is right for them to collect, just wondering how come they didn't collect all this time, I received a few payments from Google but it wasn't taxed, not sure if they will tax retrospectively though, then I probably won't get any payment, might even need to pay them the shortfall through future earnings or something. Update:  https://marrythaigirlsingapore.blogspot.com/2021/03/received-my-sixth-adsense-payment.html Turns out they didn't deduct anything from my recent payment so I guess the tax doesn't apply to blogs.

My previous theme feels kind of lacking, not sure where to start but it doesn't feel right. So today I decided to try another theme, this flowery one looks nicer, more pleasant, even the mobile mode looks cool. Anyway if you are wondering which theme I used, it's the middle one under "Contempo". Looks really nice.

Source Yesterday wanted to refresh my blog template because getting so outdated, these days responsive web design is the in thing, at least for SG it is getting more common. SG is quite slow on this aspect, actually responsive web design is not something new, just that SG is slow, you can see some government sites are still non-responsive. Anyway found that blogger have some new themes and they are responsive. In case you don't know what is responsive, it means that your site can automatically adjust itself to fit into your display device, be it desktop monitor, laptop screen or even tablet and smartphone so that your site will look nicer and cool.

It's because of the read more script, I think the author took down his site which hosted the script so my blog can't find the script and load until timeout. I have commented off the script, now should be much faster.

Last payment. This time received $165.98, they sent on 21 Aug 2018 and I received the money on 24 Aug 2018. Thanks all for the support!

Last payment. This time received $155.03, they sent the payment on 21 May 2017, I received on 23 May 2017 via my bank account.

Wife and baby early next month then come back, stay alone really cannot take it, so lonely. Go work come home only me, watch movie, watch youtube also sian. Been family man so long, now also no friend to jio out, guess they also have their own stuff to manage. Most of my friends also married and have children, think want to meet up also not easy. Last time stay parents house still not that bad, now have my own house so quiet, have baby run around really different.

Recently so busy with work, with course, with family, with playing games, at least playing games helps to take the stress away, playing with baby too. But I think best is still to go out with family, go for stroll the best, enjoy the scenery, the cool breeze, beautiful Singapore. Now baby big, can run, very curious everything also want to touch, now can say 123 ABC, also say quite a few words, cow, nana (banana), cat, no and several other words, learning fast I guess. By the way wife and baby going back to Thailand this coming Songkran, I wanted to go but now I'm trying to avoid taking leave, last year bonus very bad, this year I want to improve, part of my organization KPI is actually to maintain productivity, they measure this by looking at how many days I'm away, MC, annual leave, childcare leave, I guess even NS leave, can say not fair but well, that is the harsh reality.

Source Somebody told me delivery riders earn more than me, I'm not surprised but I am curious to know how much. Sounds like very good money, Foodpanda have this page which shows their compensation: But is it easy money? Let's see. So every hour the rider gets paid at least $9 regardless of any delivery made. That's already not bad. So how many deliveries can a rider make in an hour? 1 is expected, 1 hour for one delivery. 2 is reasonable, 30 minutes for each delivery. 3 is you got to be fast, 20 minutes for each delivery. 4 is you got to be super fast, 15 minutes for each delivery. 5 and above I think it's just plain luck to be able to make it happen or you can teleport or you are the only rider on the road and there is no such thing as traffic light and the sky never rains. 2 hours break. 9 hours work. 30 days work. Rider 1 who earns $9 per hour = 9 * 9 * 30 = $2430 Rider 2 who earns $9.5 per hour by delivering only in CBD = 9.5 * 9 * 30 = $256...

Just recently when I checked my comments section, I noticed that some legit comments got picked out by the spam filter, so if you noticed that your comment disappeared, it's not my doing, I don't delete legit comments, only comments from spammers. Anyway I have restored all the legit comments, thanks for visiting!