@carpathianfriendly your favorite ching chong

FREMONT- Ian Miles Cheong was revealed to be the first recipient of Elon Musk's Neuralink brain device implant thanks to the inherently low risk that drilling into his brain would damage anything functional anyways, company officials and doctors said today via a press release.

Nadia Samson, a spokesperson for Neuralink spoke about the ground-breaking first human test subject.

"All of the preliminary scans showed very little overall activity, so the whole thing seemed pretty low risk," Samson said. "Of course, we didn't realize he was actually a citizen and resident of Malaysia. We figured he was based in the US because of the sheer amount of posts about American politics, but once we had that little wrinkle ironed out, getting the paperwork done was simple enough -- no doctor seemed to care."

Musk, who was reportedly heavily involved in the process of selecting Cheong as the first patient, had a somewhat different reason why the online commentator made for such a good test subject.

"You need to start with someone whose brain is working perfectly. Right? Not just a little bit -- like, really working perfectly," Musk said. "This guy responds to all my tweets with the best stuff. Pictures of me, memes of me, endorsements of me, quotes from me. This guy's brain is functioning at maybe 110% capacity honestly."

Musk offered more details on the exciting next step in the tech startup's achievement.

"Ian's been a good test subject. He didn't freak out about the pile of bloated chimp corpses or ask about side effects like everyone else did," Musk said. "Those chimps went woke and now they're broke. At any rate I assured him we have a separate mass grave prepared for all our human test subjects should it come to that."

Cheong himself spoke about the chance to be the world's first Neuralink recipient.

"If Elon is behind it I know it's going to be brilliant, so there was no real hesitation on my part about whether or not I wanted to do the procedure," Cheong said. "Heck, I started drilling the hole myself before I even got the email back that they would take me."

At press time Elon Musk and a team of engineers were working diligently to understand if Cheong's recent rapid fire, unanswered Twitter replies to Musk all about how great the billionaire looks in a cowboy hat were a sign of the implant malfunctioning or just Cheong being himself.

https://9gag.com/gag/aKErzvO#comment

@Xena-5214

Boring hole bump

SINGAPORE – A man lost his appeal that only 50 per cent of a three-room flat owned by him and his mother before she died should be included in the pool of matrimonial assets to be divided upon his divorce.

Even though splitting 50 per cent of the flat's value was what he and his former wife had agreed on, a district judge earlier ruled that 100 per cent of the flat's value should be counted in the pool of marital assets to be divided.

The husband appealed the decision.

The man and his mother bought the flat seven years before his marriage in 1989, and he became its sole owner after she died in 2022.

In a judgment on his appeal which was released on Dec 27, 2023, High Court Senior Judge Andrew Ang said that the flat is the couple's matrimonial home where they lived and raised their only child. As it was their matrimonial home, he ruled that the entire value of the flat would be counted in the pool of marital assets to be split between them.

Justice Ang said that the couple's agreement is but one factor in the overall assessment, adding that “it remains critical for the court to consider all the circumstances of the case when determining the proper weight to be given to such an agreement”.

The judge also rejected the man's argument that the 50 per cent share of the flat he inherited after his mum's death should be excluded from the marital pool, as it was an inheritance.

While a section of the Women's Charter that defines matrimonial assets provides an exception for assets that are inherited, this exception does not apply if the inherited asset is considered a matrimonial home, Justice Ang said.

The couple's flat is considered their matrimonial home, and hence, their matrimonial asset, the judge said.

The couple lived in the flat through their union, which lasted about 30 years even though they led separate lives for the bulk of that time, and raised their daughter there.

The property at the heart of the case is a three-room flat in Chai Chee that the man and his mother bought in 1982 for $40,500.

The flat was bought under joint tenancy, which means all the co-owners have an equal share in the property, regardless of the individual's contribution to the purchase.

In 1989, the man tied the knot and the newly-weds, together with the man's mother, moved to live in the flat. The couple's names, ages and occupations were not stated in the judgment.

A year after their daughter was born in 1993, the marriage fell apart.

Justice Ang wrote: “Parties (referring to the couple) took to sleeping in different rooms owing to constant arguments and ceased all physical and emotional intimacy and development.”

He added that the pair kept communication to a minimum, such as when it was necessary and regarding matters pertaining to their daughter's care, education and health.

In 2019, they filed for divorce.

The couple had agreed that the husband and his mother each owned 50 per cent of the flat, which was fully paid up and worth $305,000 at that time.

And they agreed that only the husband's share of the flat, or 50 per cent, would be counted in the matrimonial pool of assets to be divided.

Justice Ang said the man's argument that the flat was bought before the marriage is “irrelevant” once the flat became the matrimonial home.

“Indeed, matrimonial homes are subject to the court's power of division upon dissolution of the marriage, even if they were acquired before the marriage,” he added.

The judge said the couple had not thought about what would happen should the man inherit his mother's share of the flat if she died after they had reached an agreement.

The couple had decided to split only the man's share of the flat, as they arrived at an agreement before his mother died.

Justice Ang said: “To therefore visit upon the wife the consequence that she is entitled to share in only 50 per cent of the matrimonial flat notwithstanding the fact that the husband has since become entitled to 100 per cent of the property by way of survivorship would, in my view, not be just and equitable.”

Mr Lim Chong Boon, head of family law and litigation at PKWA Law Practice, explained that matrimonial assets encompass all the properties acquired during the course of a marriage.

Typically, properties that are obtained before the marriage are not considered a marital asset, unless they are regularly used by the family, among other criteria.

Likewise, assets that are inherited are not automatically classified as matrimonial assets, but there is an exception to this inheritance rule if an asset is used as a matrimonial home.

The law makes it very clear that any property that is inherited will be considered a matrimonial asset if it was used as a matrimonial home, Mr Lim said.

Ms June Lim, a director at Focus Law Asia, said that the type of ownership of a property does not impact the court's power to divide the property in a divorce.

A person may have bought a flat before marriage in his or her sole name, or with another person like his or her parents, but the status of the flat as a matrimonial home makes 100 per cent of its value subject to division under the Women's Charter.

PKWA's Mr Lim noted that a private agreement, as in this case, on the division of marital assets is highly persuasive, but it is not binding and the courts have the final say.

He said that to ensure that an agreement, whether it is a pre-nuptial or post-nuptial agreement, made by the couple becomes ironclad and binding, it has to be turned into a consent court order.

Lawyers typically submit draft consent orders for the court to approve and issue.

He said: “The consent court order becomes binding on both parties, and it becomes extremely difficult to change it.”

Hole bump

The Thai food was so good

!leafs is this revenge for having too many people over there?

I think they anticipated a huge crowd but it's pretty empty

Can they beat daddy Starbucks?

Lol I remember back then the top EM1 class got the "cars" and bicycles, everyone else were pedestrians.

Our school allocate by the most recent test result. My result was usually quite bad but for that day miraculously was good enough for bicycles.

However, when trying out the bike at the park, I was so short that I have to tip toe when stationary on the bike and wasn't very stable. The person in charge thought I was scared and didn't allow me to ride. Very sad :(

In hindsight, it was probably for the better because I was so blur that I didn't even know how to read a map then and had to follow a classmate that could.

I remember getting rammed by my classmate in the pedal car while I was riding a bike. 10/10 realism

I never really liked this park, I remember the bad memories when in Primary School, we had a field trip. And when I was role-playing as a pedestrian, one of those "die die must follow the rules" prefects gave me a fine for "not raising my hand when crossing the road".

First of all, frick her. And second of all, frick the automobile industry for trying to brainwash children using the park to serve as peasants to the vehicles (brainwashing children to raise their hands when crossing the road innit?)

And yes, for those wondering, the park was built with the support of oil and gas companies, why else did y'all think Shell allowed a replica of their petrol station to be built there?

most sane /r/frickcars poster

Maybe 2022 was the outlier with "patchy rain" (still rain I guess) but after just getting caught in the fricking heavy rain (the big-butt gay umbrella I was using didn't work because the rain was relentless) I seemed to remember how every Christmas was the same shitty weather every year so I decided to check if I was right and

Maybe if we had freezing weather I'd be seeing snow here

Source: https://www.worldweatheronline.com/singapore-weather-history/sg.aspx

I know the end of the year is the monsoon season here but that's still quite the record

And I left my home when it was so sunny and hot out fricking tropical weather

Anyway have a blessed and happy Christmas dramatards, just ranting because I'm soaked

I snorted at "temperate climate" and "balmy weather" 😂 since when are we a temperate country and Singapore winds aren't cooling.

But please, I need some suggestions, what are you guys doing for Christmas?

For context the guy in the photo is Dee Kosh who was an influencer that was convicted of being a p-do: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dee_Kosh#Sex_crimes_conviction