Right its crazy.

We have diesel for Aud$2.42 a litre where I am.

A week ago it was $1.84

I repair the machines that unload boats at the port, some of those hold 12000 litres of diesel and use 3/4 of it unloading a container ship.

Just that volume alone will effect the cost of shit

And much of the world's fertilizer is shipped out of the strait of hormuz,and it's currently spring, when fields would be getting fertilized right now. So food prices will jump too, and crop yields will be Lower

I used to work for Anthroplogie (kinda bougie clothing store). We sold bound copies of On Bullshit, marketed largely because the title is funny and would look good on a coffee table. One day, while it was slow, I started reading it. In case folks don't know, it's actually a guy's doctoral thesis for his philosophy degree and aims to establish "bullshit" as a philosophical category. It's brilliant and completely changed the way I see things.

See, philosophy is battle between truth and falsehood. The author argues that bullshit is a greater threat to truth than a lie. This is because a lie needs the truth in order to be effective, whereas bullshit does not care one way or another. What we're seeing now is not the US government lying to people. It's the US government spouting bullshit. So yeah, they don't care if the lie is good. Because they're not lying. They're bullshitting.

EDIT: Apparently there are now two books with that title! The one of which I'm referring is by Harry Frankfurt (and is available online as a PDF if I'm not mistaken).

Some people just want to believe I guess. Like they could start pushing lies that trump cured cancer and there would be some people that believed it with no credible evidence even as they died from cancer. The media would spin words to make it not sound like complete fabrication but rather everyone being misdiagnosed, and then appease some moderates by stating cancers are all different issues really, so they don't really have cancer but a more acutely defined illness and at the end of the day 30% of Americans would answer polls that Trump cured cancer, 30% say he didn't cure cancer and 40% didn't know how they felt or if their head was infact in their ass at that very moment. Because yes, several of them look around and only see shit.

1984 ass

If only this wall could have been prevented. Sadly that was impossible since the US started it for no reason at all, oh wait.

Once again posting this chart because when you realize which age group has the most enthusiastic Trump supporters, and you recognize the correlation between their behavior habits and the neuropsychological symptoms of lead poisoning during childhood development, everything starts to make way more sense.

Huh. I haven't seen a picture of Khrushchev recently, but I rewatched Enemy at the Gates the other day, and I guess Bob Hoskins did a surprisingly accurate portrayal (with kudos to the makeup department, too).

Wait, do people really believe that Trump is the culmination of a 70 year Soviet and Russian campaign, and all of America's mistakes leading up to today are the result of this? Seems a little far-fetched imo

Trump and the US's current target is the Soviet oil reserves as it has been from day one. The conflict in Ukraine was a result of Western oil companies trying to meddle with Soviet Era oil blocs in the Black sea, a fight that is still ongoing today. The US already controls Arabian oil, not Iran's, and if they can successfully replace Iran's government with a puppet, then it will be easier to break into the Soviet Union from the Southern Asia boarders.

We certainly didn't hear about Epstein the past couple of weeks so yeah, mission accomplished

Ah, but you see that's a problem for future people.

In the next couple weeks, demand is going to go down as the weather warms up. After that, they have all summer to to work on shifting production to renewables as much as possible and shifting fossil fuel suppliers to ones that don't need to use that strait.

Well funding for those data centers are getting blown up... literally in the case of Amazon's data center. So we might get to see that AI bubble pop that we have all been hearing so much about. That should help a little bit. Too bad Trump is offsetting that by cancelling all renewable projects though.

thats probably due to the AI slop datacenters hogging all the juice.

Oh they tried this, admin offered to pay oil companies for damages and move it themselves. Little catch there is tanker ships take half a decade or longer to build. The companies cannot afford to roll the dice on losing one, even if they'll get reimbursed for the ship. They lose capacity ($$$) waiting for the replacement.

It’s not just normal insurance cost either. These ships take years to replace. They also have to insure against the multiple years worth of profits and loss of market share.

Insurance companies won't touch it.

The Shahed-136 uses a MD550 engine, spec sheet says that's 50 horsepower. An actual horse has a peak output somewhere between 10 and 15 horsepower[^0] so it should only take 4 or 5 horses to match/exceed the Shahed's strength. Seems reasonable enough to me, it's simple math.

[^0]: Stevenson, Robert & Wassersug, Richard. (1993). Horsepower from a horse. Nature. 364. 195. 10.1038/364195a0.

Also, the US lies about what it is going to do all the time.

In fact, there is a big fat lie right in this article in which the US claimed to have already escorted a ship through despite the fact that they simply did nothing of the sort.

Would you be willing to stake the economic future of your company, the lives of your staff, and millions of dollars of equipment and product on the promise and competence of these guys?