u/amennkhannn

So guys, I bought an off plan 1 bedroom apartment in JVC back in 2023, with a promised completion date of mid 2024. Now fast forward to mid 2026 and the building is barely at 75% progress according to the dubai rest app the developer keeps sending generic emails blaming supply chain issues and shifting the completion date every few months. I’ve paid 60% of the purchase price into the escrow account already. Under rera / dld rules, at what point can a buyer legally terminate the spa (sale & purchase agreement) and claim a full refund plus interest? do I have to file a formal dispute at dld first, or can a lawyer file straight to court to freeze the escrow payments? would love to hear from anyone who successfully got their money back from a delayed developer

My partner and I have been talking about taking our young children to Alaska next year. We can afford the trip without touching our emergency savings, but it would use most of the money we normally keep for entertainment.

We would probably have to cut back on takeout, subscriptions and things like bcg for several months. My partner thinks we should wait until the kids are older because they may remember very little of the trip. I keep thinking they might not remember every place, but they could still remember seeing whales, riding a train or simply spending that much time together.

For parents with older children, did your kids remember trips they took when they were young? Looking back, did you feel the experience was worth the cost?

Because half of Spain's are Barça and none are from Real Madrid, when Spain won the World Cup, the online opinion wasn't really favorable for Real Madrid. And even if Argentina ended up winning the World Cup, that would mean Messi would be a two-time winner, which would greatly boost the attention on Barça

Jayden Adams has died at 25, only weeks after representing South Africa at the World Cup. The official statements have not confirmed a cause, so the online guessing really needs to stop. He played a part in South Africa reaching the knockouts for the first time and should be remembered for that, not turned into another rumor thread. Thoughts with his family, teammates and everyone around Bafana Bafana, far too young.

I’m starting to think public watch spots are massively underrated for knockout football.

Watching at home is comfortable, but quarterfinals feel different when there are strangers around reacting to every shot, every replay, every weird little pause before a VAR check. Even if you don’t know anyone, the whole crowd somehow becomes one nervous organism for 90 minutes.

Rockefeller Plaza in NYC has been showing matches on a huge outdoor screen, and the setup honestly feels made for this part of the tournament. You get the city noise, random fans in jerseys, tourists who accidentally become football fans for an afternoon, and everyone staring at one giant screen like it’s a final exam.

For people who can’t get stadium tickets, this might be the closest thing to that shared pressure. Anyone else prefer public screens for knockout games?

2 hours and 17 minutes, That's the number that annoyed me more than anything all week.

So I tried the oversized duvet trick because I wanted that fuller hotel-bed look. king insert, queen cover, all of that. Visually, it worked, the bed looks softer and more finished, and it hides the frame way better than my old thin blanket did. The problem is that I sleep hot, and the extra density is making the bed feel warmer than I expected. Not unbearable every night, but enough that I keep waking up and kicking the covers off around 3 or 4am turning the thermostat lower helps a little, but then the room feels too cold before I even fall asleep.

What is the best cooling comforter for hot sleepers if you still want some volume? I'm not expecting one blanket to magically fix everything, but I’d love something breathable that does not look completely flat on the bed. Has anyone found a comforter or insert that keeps a puffy look without trapping a ton of heat?

This is one of those games that makes possession stats look like a prank. Turkey had around 78% of the ball, 32 shots, 12 corners, played against 10 men late, and still lost 1-0. Thats not domination. That is just owning the ball while the match slowly laughs at you. Paraguay scored early and then basically turned the game into a survival drill. It was ugly, stressful, and probably exactly what they wanted after the goal. Turkey, meanwhile, looked like a team confusing pressure with control. Lots of passes, lots of crosses, lots of shots that never really felt clean. Now they are out, and the USA game is just pride. Brutal way to learn that having the ball does not mean you are actually controlling the tournament.

Scotland getting three points against Haiti was huge, but this is the one that probably tells us what they actually are.

Morocco are not Brazil, obviously, but they might be a worse matchup for Scotland in a lot of ways. They are calmer on the ball, they have fullbacks who can push you back, and they already showed against Brazil that they can live in uncomfortable games without panicking.

For Scotland, this is the annoying bit. A draw would not be terrible. A win would make the group suddenly look very different. But if they sit too deep for too long, Morocco have enough technical players to make it feel like death by a thousand passes.

I do think Scotland can make this ugly, and that is not an insult. Tournament football rewards teams who know exactly what they are. The question is whether ugly is enough against this Morocco side.

Maybe im overrating Morocco a little, but this feels like a very uncomfortable 90 minutes for Scotland.

Is this Scotland’s chance to actually change the story, or does Morocco’s control win out eventually?

Everyone talks about unbeaten runs in terms of games, but what about time? New Zealand could be the record holders, after their draw with Iran, their world cup unbeaten streak stretches back to 2010, when they finished as the tournament's only unbeaten team. That's 16 years unbeaten if measured from the start of the run, or 44 years since their last world cup defeat in 1982.

I'm not talking about huge life-changing problems, more like small things that come up over and over. The kind of thing where people assume technology probably solved it already, but in reality it's still awkward, unreliable, or way more complicated than it should be.

I've been thinking a lot about products that are built around assumptions most people never notice.

What's one everyday task that still feels harder than it should?