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Case in point: the Roy-Keeley-Erin love triangle, the No. 1 offender in episode six — a kind of bottle episode that gathers most of the show’s characters in one glammed-up location to ring in New Year’s Eve aboard Zelda’s boat. Ahead of that, Roy winds up hospitalized (again) after a jump-around to House of Pain’s “Jump Around” with his old frenemy and teammate Jamie Tartt ends in injury. Then, in a twist pulled from a dozen other sitcoms and dramas, eavesdropping Keeley overhears the wrong part of his profession of love, walking away just before a drugged-up Roy can finish the sentence with “Keeley” instead of Erin’s name.

It’s a lazy trope we’ve seen so many times before, and unfortunately it isn’t the only one in this episode, which has Rebecca pining for Matthijs only to end up in a heart-to-heart with none other than Tartt, now shilling his Old Testament-themed hooch. There’s a brief will-they-won’t-they that’s impossible to care about, since Rebecca and Jamie ending up romantically entangled would make little sense and likely cause a fan revolt. So it amounts to a “what if” fantasy that almost sees the two kiss at midnight (such high stakes, right?).

The Lady Greyhounds, gathered and glammed for the night, finally had a chance to reveal more of their lives, and the writers teed up an opportunity to create new plotlines that could propel the season forward. As with the episodes so far, though, we’ve been handed only snippets and small gags to define these women — here, swings at humor and character development (Lizzie sneaking ham from the buffet, Alice discovering the team doesn’t hate her after all) pale next to what the show did with the rich, perfectly sentimental storytelling around the men’s team in its first three seasons.

So we have a series that sets out to confront the inequity between men’s and women’s sports and falls directly into the same trap — leaving its women underdeveloped and lacking support. It’s a shame but the series still has time to fix it — but it had better come fast: Season four is fading, and it won’t be a memorable return for Mr. Lasso if it doesn’t turn things around soon.

Speaking of our titular hero: he spends the episode away from his team, down at the pub with his ex on New Year’s Eve, talking through their history. Some revelations about Michelle and her therapist follow, and she eventually nudges him to join the team to ring in the New Year. Then comes the reveal of who kisses whom as the clock strikes 12 — but for many of us, at that point, it was time to kiss this episode goodnight. %!s()

I recently interviewed Roger Clark for a YouTube video about how Arthur Morgan from Red Dead Redemption was crafted. During our lengthy conversation, I was able to ask him something I've always wondered: How taxing is it to pretend to violently cough like Arthur does? According to Clark, it's actually not that bad — and in some cases, he wasn't even pretending.

"It's not as bad as you'd think, because I had five years to spread it out," said Clark. "If ever there was a really bad coughing scene, we'd always save it for the end of the day. So, it wasn't as bad as you might think. I had five years to space it out. In five years, there's plenty of colds. There was a lot of data we got that was pretty damn genuine. [...] I'd be like 'Hey, I've got a cold, let me get in there.' And they'd be like, 'Okay.' [...] Nice good bit of phlegm."

There's really no better way to act than to actually experience the scene in your real life. Arthur Morgan is almost partially defined by his coughing; the character contracts Tuberculosis early on in the story after beating a man to death for some money. It's almost a cruel karmic punishment for the life Arthur has led and, depending on the player's choices, they can attempt to redeem the cowboy by helping out others.

As the game goes on, Arthur's coughing gets worse and worse. The player isn't initially aware of why Arthur is so sick, until he starts hacking up his lungs, passes out, and is dragged into a doctor for a proper diagnosis. It's a unique direction to take a game in, and it's part of what makes the story of Red Dead Redemption 2 so memorable.

Cade Onder

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Spain’s lower house of Parliament on Thursday approved the legislation 168-31, with 145 abstentions.

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The bill still requires Senate approval before becoming law.

The text grants Spanish nationality to Sahrawis born before September 29, 1977 and to their children through naturalisation, even if they never resided in Spain.

Although the exact number of beneficiaries is unknown, Sahrawi groups estimate that between 70,000 and 120,000 people could benefit from the legislation, which supporters described as addressing a “historical injustice” by colonial Spain in the Western Sahara.

Tensions with Morocco

The vote comes at a particularly sensitive time for Madrid’s historically delicate relations with Rabat due to the migration crisis in Spain’s north African territory of Ceuta, and the mass arrival of at least 70,000 migrants from Morocco in July.

Spain’s leftist government has avoided blaming Morocco – which does not recognise Spanish sovereignty over Ceuta and Spain’s other North African territory of Melilla – but the right accuses Rabat of orchestrating the surge for political motives.

Morocco claims sovereignty over Western Sahara and began asserting control over the territory after Spanish ⁠rule ended.

The Algerian-backed Polisario Front independence movement seeks recognition ⁠of an independent state called the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.

Many Sahrawis live in refugee camps in Tindouf in western Algeria, or elsewhere abroad, while others remain in Western Sahara.

Against this backdrop, the initiative to grant Spanish nationality to Sahrawis has divided opinion in Morocco but not prompted condemnation from the government.

Moroccan media quoted Ramadan Messaoud, a member of the Royal Advisory Council for Saharan Affairs, as saying in July that Rabat had “no problem” with Sahrawis obtaining Spanish citizenship. Others had done so “over the past few years”, noted Messaoud, who is also president of the Sahrawi Association for Human Rights.

‘Restoring’ identity

Western Sahara was a Spanish colony until 1975, when Spain relinquished its administration under agreements with Morocco and Mauritania.

Spain’s ruling Socialist Party and its junior left-wing partner Sumar, which filed the initiative, were among those who supported the bill, ‌while the opposition conservative People’s Party abstained and far-right Vox voted against it.

“With the adoption of this legislation, we are restoring – and I emphasise, restoring – the Spanish national identity card to those Sahrawis who once held it and from whom this state took it away,” said Tesh Sidi of the leftist Sumar coalition, the first woman of Sahrawi origin ⁠to serve in Spain’s Parliament.

The bill will now go to the Senate, where amendments are expected, before returning to the lower house for final approval. %!s()

Oracle shares moved 4% higher in extended trading on Thursday after the software vendor issued stronger-than-expected quarterly results.

Here's how the company performed relative to LSEG consensus:

• Earnings per share: $1.92 adjusted vs. $1.74 expected
• Revenue: $19.35 billion vs. $19.14 billion expected

Oracle's revenue grew almost 30% year over year in the fiscal first quarter, which ended on Aug. 31, according to a statement. Net income of $4.68 billion, or $1.56 per share, was up from $2.93 billion, or $1.01 per share, a year ago. Adjusted earnings exclude stock-based compensation expense.

For the fiscal second quarter, Oracle called for $1.85 to $1.93 in adjusted earnings per share, with revenue growth between 30% and 34%. Analysts surveyed by LSEG were looking for $1.89 in adjusted earnings per share, with $21.20 billion in revenue, which would indicate 32% growth.

Much of Oracle's expansion is tied to data center growth, as the company tries to become a bigger player in the artificial intelligence boom. But Oracle has a weaker cash position than hyperscaler competitors and a lower credit rating. The company now sits on $125 billion in debt, and negative free cash flow came in at $5.4 billion, compared with negative $362 million a year earlier.

Capital expenditures in the fiscal first quarter soared to $28.50 billion from $8.50 billion last year. During the quarter, the company said it delivered 850 megawatts of data center capacity.

Oracle shares have dropped 22% this year as of Thursday's close, while the S&P 500 has gained roughly 11%.

Cloud revenue soared 62% in the quarter to $11.61 billion, topping the $11.51 billion consensus among analysts polled by StreetAccount. Revenue from cloud infrastructure more than doubled to $7.4 billion, beating the $7.09 billion consensus estimate.

For the 2027 fiscal year, Oracle now sees $8.10 in adjusted earnings per share on at least $90 billion in revenue. The LSEG consensus called for $8.07 earnings per share and $89.76 billion in revenue. Guidance on capital spending for the full year is unchanged, Hilary Maxson, Oracle's finance chief, said in a briefing with reporters.

Heading into the results, analysts were looking for information on hiccups in Oracle's data center buildout, after Bloomberg reported that a natural gas pipeline for a New Mexico data center was running behind schedule.

"Nothing that we know today would lead us to believe that New Mexico or any of our other sites are delayed relative to the schedules that we included, for example, in our fiscal '27 outlook," Maxson said in the briefing.

Oracle is working to acquire an air permit in New Mexico, CEO Clay Magouyrk said on a conference call with analysts.

The company's software category contributed $5.55 billion in revenue, down about 3% and lower than StreetAccount's $5.61 billion consensus.

At the end of the quarter Oracle's remaining performance obligations stood at $664 billion, above StreetAccount's $630.6 billion consensus. The sum includes contracted but unrecognized revenue, deferred revenue and uncollected invoices.

"We closed more than $30 billion of additional AI contracts in Q1 without requiring additional capital from Oracle," Magouyrk said.

During the quarter, Oracle announced AI agents for human resources teams and obtained a Pentagon contract worth up to $7 billion over a decade.

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While the executive order does not call out Can-Am by name, the description of banned vehicles seems specifically written for its models that are made in Canada. From the executive order annex:

Motorcycles (including mopeds) and cycles fitted with a reciprocating internal-combustion piston engine of a cylinder capacity over 800 cc

This leaves out the Origin and Pulse, both because they are electric and because they're made in Mexico, according to ADVRider. That still leaves the Ryker, but a spokesperson at BRP, Can-Am's parent company, did not mention it in a statement to RideApart:

We acknowledge the measures announced by the U.S. government on some Canadian goods imported into the U.S.

On the basis of the information available at this time, we can confirm that our Can-Am Spyder and Canyon models produced in Valcourt, Canada, will be excluded from importation into the U.S., starting September 29, 2026. The impact of these new U.S. measures are expected to be limited on our fiscal 2027, as the vast majority of production and shipments for the current season are completed.

Nobody wins a tariff war

This ban is anything but random. It is direct retaliation for the 50% tariff Canada placed on American-made motorcycles, right down to the description of an internal combustion engine over 800cc, that took effect on September 8. That applies to all Harley-Davidson and Indian motorcycles made in the U.S., though not models built elsewhere.

The ban also includes other items that Canada had slapped retaliatory tariffs on, such as dairy products and most Canadian alcohol. Despite this, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney still refuses to back down. From the Associated Press:

"The most fundamental issue is that the cumulative U.S. demands revealed that they wanted us to become even more reliant on them, not less," he said. "In too many areas, they wanted dependency, not a true economic partnership."

Canada is now looking to develop partnerships elsewhere, particularly with the European Union. It says a lot that our next-door neighbor feels the need to find reliable friends on another continent because it can't trust us anymore, despite decades of cooperation between our countries and the industries that depend on it, particularly the automotive industry.

Meanwhile, everyone is stuck paying higher prices for everything or, thanks to the Trump Administration's latest escalation, not being able to get things at all. The ban is set to take effect September 29, so if you've been on the fence about adding a Can-Am Spyder or Canyon to your garage, act now while supplies last. %!s()