The town of Agde on the Mediterranean coast may be known for its beautiful sandy beaches and year-round sun, but it’s also got a reputation for wild sex parties.
The town is home to Europe’s biggest swinger community. Tens of thousands of couples head to the town from across Europe every year to swap partners.

But right now, the town is reeling from an entirely new scandal which has the rest of France shaking its head in collective bemusement and amusement.

It concerns a local fortune teller and the town’s mayor, Gilles d’Ettore, a former secret service officer and police officer.

Both are now in jail while under judicial investigation. The fortune teller, Sophia Martinez, faces charges of embezzlement, while the mayor is accused of corruption for spending lavish amounts of taxpayers’ money on her.

Ms Martinez had a reputation for being able to speak to the dead. According to Mr d'Ettore's lawyer, when the mayor asked her to put him in touch with his deceased father, she succeeded. While performing séances, her voice would suddenly appear to change and take on the tone of the mayor’s father.

Over the past four years it is alleged that she manipulated the mayor in person and by phone with remarkable ventriloquist skills.

He received thousands of mysterious calls from “voices” of the dead including angels, some of them urging the mayor to help the fortune teller.

And that’s where the corruption comes in.

The mayor is alleged to have paid for lavish holidays for Ms Martinez and her family, including to Polynesia and Thailand, all using public funds. It’s alleged that the “voices” persuaded him to hire several members of her family to work for the town council and also renovate her home. Local businesses with connections to the mayor did the work for free out of fear of losing future contracts with him.

With all of the attention, the mayor’s lawyer Jean Marc Darrigade has been turned into a minor celebrity overnight.

“It’s a crazy story,” he tells me at his office in nearby Montpellier. “It’s incredible because you have a man in politics, mayor and former MP who is very intelligent. And you discover that a man like that can be manipulated by a woman.
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“This is a woman who came into his life and said I can speak to your deceased father. She found a mental weakness in him and exploited it for personal gain. It took a long time before he accepted he had been conned,” Mr Darrigade adds.

But Ms Martinez's lawyer, Luc Abratkiewicz, has a different view.

“She has admitted betraying the mayor’s confidence but it’s not a case of manipulation because she has owned up to what she did and other clients including doctors and architects said she had mystical powers,” he says.

“She revealed details about their lives that no-one else knew about.”

The lawyers deny it but locals said it all comes down to sex in a town with a lot of it already.

At a sun-splashed café near the town hall, one customer Jean-Max said: “I like the mayor, he has been good to me, he was tricked. Maybe he was in love with her.”

Another local added, chuckling: “For me, sex is at the heart of the scandal. Where there is money involved, then it means sex is part of it too."

"They kind of go together."

The far-right has made significant gains in this part of France in recent years. One of the mayor’s most vocal critics is Fabienne Varesano, a fast-rising local politician from Marine Le Pen’s Rassemblement National party. She has called on the mayor to resign.

“He can be generous, in love with lots of different women, that’s his personal life. But using taxpayers’ money, that is a different story,” she says.

“He has made a mockery out of our town."

A judge is keeping both the mayor and fortune teller in custody to prevent potential witness tampering. Ms Martinez has been moved to solitary confinement after being assaulted at her women’s only prison wing with inmates accusing her of witchcraft.

Sex work is the oldest profession, and that is certainly the case with the internet where online pornography has been equal parts innovation driver and bogeyman. The importance of online erotic content was perhaps never more evident than at the height of the pandemic, when many of us were stuck working and playing from home and staying at least six feet away from, well, everyone. While porn can still be a welcome relief even as the pandemic is waning, consuming it can also put your privacy (or at least your dignity) at risk.

A quick side note: Beyond any personal moral objections to pornography anyone may have, there is also the issue of exploitation. Given how frequently and easily content can be recycled and reposted online, it can be difficult to tell if the people appearing in pornography have consented to have the content released or were fairly compensated. That's not to mention the trafficking in images or videos of child sexual abuse. I don't touch on these issues, but it's important to be aware of them. I encourage everyone to report abuse and exploitation wherever they see it. I don't have the space for it here, but web site Mashable(https://mashable.com) has an excellent deep dive on how to find ethical porn.

Now here's how to enjoy pornography without putting your privacy (or your reputation!) at risk:

1. Go Incognito to Protect Your Privacy While Watching Porn.

One of the easiest ways for your pornographic preferences to become public is the auto-complete self-own. Most browsers and search engines try to be helpful by guessing what you're typing based on what you've done in the past. This can save time, but it can be the source of some embarrassment. If you frequent pornsite.xxx, your browser might "helpfully" fill in that URL when you go to show someone to search for best VPN roundup. This is bad enough if someone is looking over your shoulder, but in these days of working from home and screen sharing in Zoom meetings, you’re likely to multiply your embarrassment by the number of people attending your meeting.

"People who use their devices in public for presentations, demos, school, and work should at least use Incognito mode to make sure porn website addresses don’t get stored," said Bogdan Botezatu, Director of Threat Research and Reporting at Bitdefender. I however, would recommend that any porn partakers use Incognito mode to protect themselves from embarrassment.

While useful, it's worth noting that Incognito mode has limitations. "Your searches, pages you visited, login details, and cookies will not be saved on the device after you close your private windows," explained Daniel Markuson, digital privacy expert at NordVPN.

"However, Incognito mode doesn’t hide traffic from third parties, and it doesn’t secure traffic from hackers or other attacks and vulnerabilities. Your browsing data can still be collected by your ISP, your employer, and any other third party that can track your IP address," said Markuson.

2. Defend Yourself Against Data Theft While Watching Porn.

A more dramatic threat is data theft, which is unfortunately common in all industries. A data breach from an adult website might contain, "private information such as chat conversations, transaction history or even video content preferences," said Botezatu. "This is likely to create a nightmare similar to what happened when Ashley Madison got leaked—people learned about the online whereabouts of spouses, employees, and public persons, causing an unprecedented meltdown." If info from a dating app (albeit one focused on cheating) can cause such a ruckus, imagine how much more sensitive data from porn sites is?

A savvy attacker may not even need to steal your data to profit from it. "Porn watchers might experience some blind blackmailing attempts where they receive messages claiming that hackers have gained access to the computer used for porn-binging and that they also managed to record the victim via the built-in webcam," said Botezatu. "This is a common claim and all similar messages should be immediately deleted."

A variant of this kind of scam is called "sextortion," where the attacker blackmails the victim into providing explicit images of themselves. These can then be used to further pressure the victim. While scammers may be bluffing, it's a good idea to keep your webcam covered when not in use, and to use local antivirus to guard against any snooping software.

In some places, what would be considered legal pornography in the US is outright banned, and accessing it could lead to complications with law enforcement. Even within the US, new age verification laws are making it harder to access pornography. In those situations, a VPN would be a useful tool, but we must stress that we are not advocating breaking any laws and must caution that doing so can have serious consequences.

Mass data collection is big business (in fact, it's pretty much the only big business online, apart from affiliate sales), and incentivizes the collection of enormous amounts of highly detailed personal information. In the US, the list of organizations hungry for your data includes your internet service provider (ISP).

3. Use a VPN to Watch Porn.

The pornography you consume doesn't need to be anyone's business but your own, and in this sense, a VPN is extremely useful. "A VPN reroutes internet traffic through a remote server and hides the IP address, preventing websites from seeing the visitor’s original IP or location," explained Markuson. "A VPN also encrypts traffic exchanged between the internet and your device. This means that nobody, including your ISP, can see what you’re doing online."

A VPN may be more necessary than ever, depending on where you are. Recently passed legislation in Louisiana requires citizens of that state to provide websites with distressingly detailed personal information to access pornographic content. Using a VPN to spoof your location to anywhere else in the US would protect you from having to hand over this information.

A great way to protect your data is to simply never provide it. Privacy services like Abine Blur and others let you create disposable email addresses, phone numbers, and even credit card numbers on the fly. The disposable email addresses are particularly useful since you can generate a new, unique address for each service, making it much harder to tie accounts back to you.

Similarly, disposable credit card numbers are harder to link directly to you and are effectively a one-time-use payment. Additionally, you use Abine's address as the billing address, meaning you'll never have to hand over this sensitive information to a porn site. "They can also facilitate cancellation, which many adult sites make intentionally complicated to retain customers and can be a source of embarrassment for consumers," said Rob Shavell, Co-Founder and CEO of Abine. "Since, really, who wants to explain why you’re disputing a questionable charge from your favorite adult site?"

Websites can track you across the web in a variety of ways, but the method is largely the same: find (or assign) a unique identifier to a visitor, and then wait to see where else that identifier turns up. Tracker blockers break the cycle by preventing ads and sites from IDing you, making it much harder to follow you from site to site. Stand-alone tracker blockers, such as Avast AntiTrack or the EFF's Privacy Badger, are excellent, especially when paired with the privacy tools found in some browsers such as Firefox.

Note that these tools can sometimes break site functionality, particularly custom video players. Privacy Badger, for instance, lets you toggle specific trackers on and off, which can usually fix the issue. Firefox has less flexibility but can likewise be tuned for specific situations.

More than using particular tools, Shavell encourages people to take the time to understand what privacy settings exist in their browsers. "Most have tools to block javascript, pop-ups, and to flush cookies every time you close [your browser]. Basic practices like this go a long way to improving overall browsing safety."

Phishing sites are another avenue of attack. These are malicious websites that prompt you to enter personal information, and then use it for nefarious ends. A common tactic is to disguise a phishing site as a bank login screen, thus tricking victims into parting with their financial login information. A phishing site can also masquerade as a pornographic website, harvesting credit card numbers and personal information for fraud, or contact information for spam. Most web browsers are fairly adept at detecting phishing sites, and antivirus software even more so. If your browser or your security software says that a titillating URL is dangerous, it's best to listen.

4. Why Porn Consumers Need Antivirus.

Even if a pornographic website takes great care to protect its users, it can still become an unwitting vector for attack. "There are some cases where malicious advertisements are bought from small advertising companies and displayed on porn websites," said Botezatu. He explained that this is an issue not just for porn sites, but any place that sells ad space. "Unfortunately, users can’t immediately tell when malicious activity takes place on the respective websites, and this is why a security solution running in the background is highly recommended. "If anything malicious is hosted on the respective page, it will automatically be blocked."

Most people are probably confident in their ability to avoid malicious files and don't see the use of antimalware software. Unfortunately, it's exactly these kinds of people that keep attackers in business. The best security software will identify files and malicious sites before they can cause any damage and can even protect against insidious threats like ransomware.

"When looking for explicit content, users might end up on phishing sites or may click on ads that lead to downloading malware or ransomware," warned Markuson. He advised that users avoid downloading pornographic content, and instead stream it (via a VPN, naturally).

5. Stick to Trusted Porn Names and Sites.

Beyond societal shame, there's a reason why pornographic websites have a spotty reputation. "In the wild-west days of the early internet (late 90s-2000s), there was an explosion of adult sites, many of which were quickly slapped together and were just trying to make a quick buck any way they could," recalled Shavell. "This included implementing outright scams, such as distributing ransomware, viruses, or adware that sent your browser into endless click-generating pop-up cycles."

All the experts we spoke to for this story told some variation of the same tale, concluding that, in general, adult sites are safer now than they used to be. Still, the shady tactics used in the early days of online adult entertainment remain red flags to watch out for. Opening numerous windows or leading you down endless trails of links to access content, for example, is a bad sign.

Many of the experts we spoke with warned against small, "fringe" sites peddling pornographic material. They advised sticking with well-known names in the industry, which are more likely to take care when handling personal information. Things like contact information, a business address, and a privacy policy can be signs that a site is on the up and up.

Shavell also warned against using logins for pornographic sites that might be shared on forums or elsewhere. "These simply tend to be teasers to lure people to the worst sort of scam sites."

Markuson points out that any website could be dangerous, so use the same scrutiny that you would for a pornographic site. "Users should check if the URL of the website begins with HTTPS and has a padlock icon next to it. If it’s just HTTP, the site is not secure."

6. Avoid Risky Behavior.

It's also essential to keep a cool head, even when handling hot content. "Many consumers of pornography exercise poor judgment while browsing because they’re in an excited state. Biology takes over and users overlook risks they’d normally pay attention to," said Shavell. The checkered past of pornographic sites can also set a dangerous expectation that customers should expect some level of shadiness. Shavell recommends being extra cautious and listening to warnings from your computer or browser if it detects something untoward.

Lastly, consider your context. Browsing pornography on a work computer, or while using a work-provided VPN—even if you're quarantined at home—can land you in serious trouble. It's also not a good idea to involve other people in your private fantasies, without their express consent and in an appropriate way. Basically, don't slide into random DMs or be creepy with your colleagues, and be respectful to the sex workers whose content you consume.

A Dutch court has convicted a man for removing his condom during sex without his partner’s consent, marking a landmark change in how to deal with the act of "stealthing."

"By his actions, the suspect forced the victim to tolerate having unprotected sex with him," the court said. "In doing so, he restricted her personal freedom and abused the trust she had placed in him."

The unnamed 28-year-old man sent the victim texts after they had sex, including one that insisted she would "be fine" after learning of the act, the AFP reported.

"Stealthing" has become a greater issue for courts as they tackle how to best handle cases that can expose a sexual partner to sexually transmitted diseases and unwanted pregnancy.

The Dutch court in the Dordrecht district acquitted the man of a rape charge, however, because the court ruled that the sex was consensual.

The judge found appropriate "agreement between the suspect and the complainant about the sexual penetration."

The court sentenced the suspect, who is a Syrian-born resident of Rotterdam, to a three-month suspended prison sentence and a 1,000 euro ($1,073) fine for damages.

The case marks the first conviction in the Netherlands for such an offense. Another case involving a 26-year-old suspect saw the defendant acquitted after the court decided it could not determine if the man had intended to force his partner into unprotected sex.

"As soon as sex takes place, and it is not against someone else's will, then there is no coercion," said attorney Mirjam Levy, who represents one of the suspects. "If someone finds out afterward that the conditions have not been met, it does not mean that there is coercion."

Instances of "stealthing" have increased in recent years, leading to the creation of a Dutch website, Stealthing.nl, which is run by a 2017 "stealthing" victim...

The website operator told that "people have already been convicted of rape by stealthing" but that the Netherlands remained less familiar with the act.

Tracking such cases can prove difficult as authorities generally categorize them under rape charges.

In the U.S., California banned "stealthing," requiring verbal consent before removing a condom. But the state has yet to update its criminal code, instead relying on a civil code change so that victims can sue the perpetrator for damages.

Massachusetts State Auditor Diana DiZoglio backed a bill in 2021, when she was a state senator, to ban the act in her state, telling the Boston Globe that it is "an important issue that needs attention from our legislators so we can take a stand with survivors."

A police officer was convicted of sexual assault in a 2018 case in Germany and received an eight-month suspended sentence for "stealthing" and ordered him to pay 3,100 euros ($3,329) in damages.

The United States Food and Drug Administration has authorized the use of ONE Condoms during anal intercourse to reduce sexually transmitted infections. This is the first time the agency has approved a condom specifically for use during anal sex.

“The risk of STI transmission during anal intercourse is significantly higher than during vaginal intercourse,” says Courtney Lias, director of the FDA’s office of GastroRenal, ObGyn, General Hospital, and Urology Devices in a statement. “The FDA’s authorization of a condom that is specifically indicated, evaluated and labeled for anal intercourse may improve the likelihood of condom use during anal intercourse.”

Condoms need to have less than a five percent failure rate for authorization, and earlier studies have shown higher failure rates, writes the New York Times’ Pam Belluck.

A clinical trial in 2019 tested the effectiveness of ONE condoms, manufactured by Global Protection Corporation, in 252 men who have sex with men and 252 men who have sex with women. ONE condoms have previously been approved for use during vaginal sex. Condom failure was defined as slippage or breakage, per the study, which found a 0.68 percent total failure rate for anal intercourse and 1.89 percent failure rate for vaginal intercourse.

The gap in effectiveness may have been because of differences in lubricant use. Lubricant was used for 98 percent of anal sex during the study, while it was only used for about 42 percent of vaginal sex acts. The study instructed men having sex with men to always use lubricant, while men having sex with women were instructed to use lubricant as needed or preferred. A secondary analysis using data only from participants that used lubricant showed similar failure rates for both anal and vaginal sex, per the study.

“There have been over 300 condoms approved for use with vaginal sex data, and never before has a condom been approved based on anal sex data,” says Dr. Aaron Siegler, lead author of the clinical trial, in a statement. “This is despite two-thirds of HIV transmission in the United States being linked to anal sex. Having condoms tested and approved for anal sex will allow users to have confidence in using condoms to prevent HIV transmission.”

A previous study led by Siegler found that 69 percent of men who have sex with other men were likely to use a condom more often if it indicated FDA approval on the label.

Despite a lack of authorization, people have long used condoms for anal sex; the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention even recommends it, per the Agence France Presse. However, condom companies were only allowed to market their products as safe and effective for vaginal sex.

“It’s a great thing if the package inserts could indicate anal sex because it might create an incentive for the companies to do more marketing,” Dr. Kenneth Mayer, the medical research director for Fenway Health, who was not involved in the study, tells the Times. “You don’t see condom ads on gay social media, for example, so this would incentivize that as part of the conversation.”

Dr. Will DeWitt, clinical director of anal health at the Callen-Lorde Community Health Center in New York City, tells NBC News the FDA approval is long overdue.

“Here we are in 2022, and we are only now getting condoms approved for anal sex,” DeWitt tells the outlet. “It’s a little frustrating that it’s taken this long to have this kind of official endorsement.”

It started last month, when a Toronto man intentionally drove his van into a crowd. His ideology? The incel movement — a politically radicalized form of misogyny in which “involuntarily celibate” men envision taking vengeance on the virile “Chads” and shallow “Stacys” they believe are contributing to their sexual poverty. (It’s the same movement, fomented on internet discussion forums like Reddit and 4chan, that inspired the 2014 Santa Barbara shooter, venerated in incel circles as the “Supreme Gentleman”). How, various media outlets wondered, could we combat such a radical, toxic ideology, one that had already racked up a high body count?

Out of this reaction came a modest proposal. George Mason University economist Robin Hanson published a blog post seemingly advocating for “sexual redistribution”: a subversion of the sexual marketplace in which sexual access was state-sanctioned and state-organized. The government, in other words, should intervene to provide incels with sex. “One might plausibly argue that those with much less access to sex suffer to a similar degree as those with low income, and might similarly hope to gain from organizing around this identity, to lobby for redistribution along this axis and to at least implicitly threaten violence if their demands are not met,” he wrote.

It’s not the first time the image of the sex robot has entered mainstream public discourse. Now, as in the 19th century — the heyday of what we might call a “sex robot panic” — the image of the sex robot is a cultural specter of the way an increasingly capitalist, increasingly technologically advanced society tends to commodify human beings. The idea that “incels” might (or should) seek companionship from sex dolls is not a new one in incel discourse, particularly as sex robot technology gets increasingly advanced and sex dolls more lifelike. But it hit the mainstream on May 2 when New York Times columnist Ross Douthat published a controversial column called “The Redistribution of Sex.” The article concluded that “the logic of commerce and technology will be consciously harnessed, as already in pornography, to address the unhappiness of incel.” Douthat wrote that “the left’s increasing zeal to transform prostitution into legalized and regulated ‘sex work’” combined with “the libertarian (and general male) fascination with virtual-reality porn and sex robots” will lead to people agreeing that there is a right to sexual access. Douthat’s column has since pushed sex robots to the forefront of the conversation. The contrarian conservative UK magazine the Spectator, for example, published a piece directly advocating for sex robots for incels.

Sex dolls (or sex statues, or sex robots) have been around, as a trope, for millennia. The idea of a man falling in love with, and copulating with, a created woman dates back at least to Pygmalion’s Galatea, a narrative reproduced in the ancient Roman-era Metamorphoses by Ovid and elsewhere. European sailors in the 17th century made their dame du voyage: masturbatory aids for long naval journeys. But the origins of the sex robot as a cultural phenomenon date back more recently, to 19th-century Paris. Paris in the 19th century was a chaotic place. Described by philosopher Walter Benjamin as the “capital of the 19th century,” Paris was a place of intense cultural change. The old city — a city of medieval alleyways and labyrinthine streets — was, from 1853 onward, gradually being bulldozed under Emperor Napoleon III’s chief architect Georges-Eugène Haussmann. This gave way to a city of wide boulevards, electric gas lights, and (a new invention), department store shopping. Newly industrialized, with a burgeoning middle class who could, for the first time, afford the mass-produced luxury goods technology had made possible, Paris was also, for many, a source of existential anxiety. “Old Paris is no more,” lamented the poet Charles Baudelaire, “the form of a city changes more quickly, alas! than the human heart.”

Culturally, too, things were in flux. Increasingly secular, Paris’s cultural milieu was dominated by “positivists” like the writer Émile Zola and scientists like Jean-Marie Charcot, who believed not just in the supremacy of scientific progress, but also in the idea that human beings were fundamentally explicable. They believed that by, metaphorically speaking, taking them apart and analyzing them, you could understand everything about them. (In The Experimental Novel, Zola described his novelistic technique as being like a doctor at an operating table.)

Meanwhile, a reactionary right embraced radical forms of nostalgia: from an aesthetic obsession with the medieval era to deeply conservative Catholicism to misogynist occultism.

It was in this heady atmosphere of competing and contradictory cultural influences that the sex robot became a popular recurring trope. Some of our first references are in the diaries of the novelists and social chronicles the Goncourt brothers. In May 1858, they reported going to a brothel where they heard a rumor about another brothel whose robots were indistinguishable from their humans.

These rumors remained in the seedy underbelly of Paris’s sex trade until 1884, when the eccentric novelist and dandy Louis-Auguste Villiers de L’Isle-Adam, published his book L’Éve Future.

That Eve of the Future was not a flesh-and-blood woman but a robot (Villiers was the first to use the term Andreïde, or “android,” in fiction). Created by a not exactly fictionalized Thomas Edison as a replacement for the boring lover of his impassioned friend, Lord Ewald (it’s a very weird book), “Hadaly” is presented by Edison as an example of the triumph of the false, man-made, and scientific over the merely biological.

Throughout the novel, it becomes clear that Villiers, a reactionary ultra-Catholic monarchist, is using L’Éve Future not to praise but to critique this mentality. Villiers uses the robot woman not just as a misogynist device — fake women are “better” than real women — but as a critique of a culture that treats everything, even people, as commodities.

Robot women and doll characters abound in late-19th and early-20th-century media. There’s the living doll Olympia in the 1881 opera The Tales of Hoffmann. There’s the unnerving real-life case of poet Oskar Kokoschka, who — after his beloved Alma Mahler left him in 1918 — had a sex doll made that resembled her. There’s the false Maria, a robot designed in part to stave off a communist uprising, in Fritz Lang’s 1927 German expressionist film Metropolis.

In each of these fictional cases, the image of the robot woman or sex doll was used to explore wider ideas about the uncomfortable ways that capitalism, dehumanization, and sexual desire intersect. Later robot women stories have also tended to come during similar resurgences of the capitalist aesthetic, like Ira Levin’s 1975 novel The Stepford Wives.

“Sex robots,” therefore, have always been about more than sex. They’ve been a cultural repository for wider uncertainties in times of social change: a literalization of the fear that all human beings are fundamentally replaceable. They represent everything we most fear about what Walter Benjamin, writing about that era in Parisian history, called the “commodity-soul.”

Bottom line is as Douthat and Hanson alike predict sex robots as an inevitable part of our future, incels are bringing a different kind of sex robot into discourse. The word “femoid” has become the preferred incel term for (human) women, on the grounds that all women are basically robots anyway.

Meanwhile, some of the Goncourt brothers’ 150-year-old anxieties are coming true. A sex doll brothel has, in fact, just opened in Paris.

A resent survey of software developers and their habits was released last month by Stack Overflow (https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2017).

The report found that 74% of the 64.000 developers who responded from 213 countries - identify as web developers. The next most common were desktop application developers (29%) and mobile application developers (23%).

Diversity among software developers is up, with women representing 10% of the developer workforce in the USA, up from 6% last year. Women were less like to be DevOps or systems administrators, and more likely to be data and graphic designers. One side note: more women than men reported they have been coding less than 1 year. Interestingly, 2.6% of respondents chose something other man or woman when asked to check of their gender.

A big focus of the survey was to see how software developers go about finding jobs. 27% said someone they knew contacted them about a position, and 18% said they were reached out to by someone at a company. Another 13% said they went through a headhunter to find a position.

What do software developers find most important in a job? Ongoing learning and the opportunity for professional growth and that even beat compensation. Another important factor for software developers was the ability to work remotely. Some 53% of those who work remotely reported a higher job satisfaction than those who were in an office.

How much do software developers love their work? 75% of software developers said they write code as a hobby. Can you imagine finance guys getting from work and then doing finance as a hobby?