Leader vows to repay the ‘young martyrs’ who died as North Korea intensifies propaganda glorifying troops deployed to fight for Russia North Korea has said it completed a new housing district in Pyongyang for families of North Korean soldiers killed while fighting alongside Russian forces in Ukraine, the latest effort by leader Kim Jong-un to honour the war dead. State media photos showed Kim walk...
Leader vows to repay the ‘young martyrs’ who died as North Korea intensifies propaganda glorifying troops deployed to fight for Russia North Korea has said it completed a new housing district in Pyongyang for families of North Korean soldiers killed while fighting alongside Russian forces in Ukraine, the latest effort by leader Kim Jong-un to honour the war dead. State media photos showed Kim walking through the new street – called Saeppyol Street – and visiting the homes of some of the families with his increasingly prominent daughter, believed to be named Kim Ju-ae, as he pledged to repay the “young martyrs” who “sacrificed all to their motherland”. Continue reading...
The "Swipe Era" Has Forever Reshaped How Couples Meet Tinder forever changed the landscape of online dating when it introduced the swipe function in 2012: left to pass, right to like . The result was a gamified experience that felt frictionless and addictive. Other dating apps copied it, and then the "swipe era" ignited. Before that, online dating was mostly on boring websites, like Christian Ming...
The "Swipe Era" Has Forever Reshaped How Couples Meet Tinder forever changed the landscape of online dating when it introduced the swipe function in 2012: left to pass, right to like . The result was a gamified experience that felt frictionless and addictive. Other dating apps copied it, and then the "swipe era" ignited. Before that, online dating was mostly on boring websites, like Christian Mingle and Farmers Only , that felt closer to digital classifieds. Matches were more local and delivered in slower batches, and users worked through profiles and messages to decide whom to meet. The process is now largely automated by an algorithm and resembles a game, with matches presented in rapid succession. Tinder and other dating apps have forever changed how heterosexual couples in the U.S. meet, overtaking introductions through friends around 2013 , according to a recent survey. The chart below shows how online dating was fundamentally transformed by two waves of technology : first, the online web's takeoff in the mid-1990s, and then the smartphone era after 2007. The rise of the iPhone and Tinder in 2012 helped propel the second wave, with roughly 40% of heterosexual couples in the U.S. now meeting online. That figure was in the low single digits in the mid-1990s. " We find that Internet meeting is displacing the roles that family and friends once played in bringing couples together ," researchers Michael Rosenfeld, Reuben Thomas, and Sonia Hausen wrote in the 2019 paper. Online dating hasn't rewritten love - it's just greatly expanded the pool of potential partners. It also shows how an even larger share of human life now happens online . Remember during the Covid-era when Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg aggressively pushed the metaverse as a way to move more of daily life online? Beyond the metaverse's failures, online dating has also been running into headwinds lately , as younger people reduce screen time and choose to meet in the real world again. According to Adjust.com...
onurdongel/iStock via Getty Images Comstock Resources ( CRK ) presented during the conference call solid proposals to decrease Western Haynesville costs. This should have been expected. But it may have taken the market somewhat by surprise. Additionally, the company added three rigs and completion crews because natural gas prices have rallied quite a bit from the previous fiscal year. All of this ...
onurdongel/iStock via Getty Images Comstock Resources ( CRK ) presented during the conference call solid proposals to decrease Western Haynesville costs. This should have been expected. But it may have taken the market somewhat by surprise. Additionally, the company added three rigs and completion crews because natural gas prices have rallied quite a bit from the previous fiscal year. All of this is going to change the overall numbers in terms of adding reserves. Keep in mind that the Western Haynesville acreage is still being evaluated. That evaluation process overwhelmed the earnings report in a big way. The company has 4 rigs in the Western Haynesville. Therefore, there is likely a solid profit opportunity that is not yet apparent to the market. During the conference call, management was confident that the natural gas costs for the Western Haynesville would continue to decline. This is a normal situation for much of the current upstream business. Management discovers a potential find and then takes a few years to optimize the development plan. We really will not know the final costs for developing the acreage for some time. Last Article The last article noted that the company raised cash by selling noncore areas. Then the company got lucky because winter temperatures have aided natural gas prices to the point where the company posted a fourth quarter that was not predicted during the fiscal year until recently. The first quarter might be even better depending upon how the winter finishes. Now the midstream company that is helpful for the Western Haynesville apparently will go public in yet another strategy to remove the preferred stock while decreasing the necessary profit for the midstream profit to be adequate. Preferred stock can be expensive capital. A successful going public attempt could therefore materially lower overall costs. The biggest change from the last article is the various strategies that should result in tangible cost reductions throughout 2026....