The US uses about 21 million barrels of oil a day. China, about the same.
We have 10 days of joint US-Chinese consumption. Less than a month if just counting the US.
I support rapid, forced movement off oil.
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I wake up every day and some new country has joined the (not yet world) war.
But what is the long standing clash between Thailand and Iran?
The entire world’s oil supply is currently under American embargo or monopoly in some way.
And China floods the market with renewables.
I look away for three hours to have a very personal, very intimate fight with a SIM card and a new fresh hell is unleashed.
All wars are stupid but this one failed an attendance quiz.
Welcome to the resistance, Claude.
You are absolutely right.
I love the smell of constitutional crisis in the morning.
Really looking forward to the “welcome to the resistance John Roberts” moment in a month as the dollar trades at parity yo the yen.
So with tariffs struck down, we can see a trend I’ve noticed for a few years. The new swing votes on the Court are Barrett, Roberts and whichever of Gorsuch or Kavanaugh woke up with a conscience that morning. It’s a court with a veneer of deliberation but five mavericks is actually chaos.
notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich
You shall not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.
They’re real but they’re not at Area 51 and he hasn’t seen them.
Genuinely the funniest way to reveal alien life would be for Obama to say “I’ve never seen them because the presidential extraterrestrial telephone was made in 1946 and doesn’t have video.”
I have been pretty ignorant on why the Starlink thing was a big deal until I realized that Russian use and integration of the tech predates Trump’s return as president.
Plus the US is literally attacking shadow fleet tankers. What is going on?
After the Summer Olympics showed the Deadly Sin of Lust, it seems the Winter Olympics is the Deadly Sin of Greed.
I had my money on gluttony but oh well, it was hard to predict.
I am truly astounded by the memory holing. An American city is invaded by American security forces and then, one weekend, the elite apparatus decides we had all been concerned enough and it was time to move on.
Minneapolis still stands.
Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.) If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.
A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:
“i m th sen=t=“
-sent from my iPhone
“exc ord=66”
- sent from my iPhone
Helping someone sign up for selective service and, uh, there’s a “how did you hear about us” dropdown?
I’m going to go out on a limb here but it may have been threatening unemployment for life if born male that made us aware of this form’s existence.
I know nothing, not an expert on anything.
But I think everywhere should start studying how Minneapolis is beating ICE. Because it is taking a ton of work and courage and that didn’t just happen overnight.
Tactical retreat on one side is not strategic victory on another.
ICE has to regroup and reassess. They are doubtless picking a new target that they think will be less well organized and less resilient.
They are not defeated.
10 inches and 3 shoveling runs in, my neighbor and I heard the sound we had been bracing for all weekend: the tinkling malice of sleet.
But we have to have a national program of change to actually accomplish anything.
We need to strip the President of the unconstitutional immunity from Trump v US.
We need to end Citizens United.
We need to end the culture of gun violence.
But all of this is only possible with a new constitution.
We are not yet in a civil war and hopefully we never will be. But those of us angered by state terror must have something to present as an alternative to the current dystopia. Many, many people are offering a new vision of world. We see it in the community based self governance of Minneapolis.
Will this bring Alex Pretti, Renee Good, George Floyd all back from the dead? No. But it will curb the domestic abuse of power that lead to their state executions without trial.
We need to imagine and implement a wholesale change, not an incremental reform, that will stop the bloodshed.
We need a new constitution. Pass an amendment to the old one saying the new one is now in force.
And get rid of qualified immunity.
And get rid of most of the President’s domestic power.
And implement a parliamentary system with ranked choice.
And a lot of other changes.
The more I work with modern “AI”, the more I understand why the Tusken Raiders gave up interstellar civilization to scream in the desert.
The only thing I know for certain is America is being fed this morning by band kids, Eagle Scouts and the regional managers of Walmarts who made oopsies with their produce orders and if anyone ever makes fun of any of those groups again I will fight them.
That’s the value of their gdp for one year. Let’s take this at face value. They would be taxing themselves 10% in tribute for…what?
The magnitude of the Democrats’ win yesterday shows the rhythms of US democracy are still very much alive. The race against authoritarianism is clearly not lost yet.
At this rate the 2026 Dem meta will be running dead-eyed CIA officers whose campaign ads are just them graphically describing what war crimes they will do to Republicans
the entire twitter and group chat poisoned elite of American society who decided Trump winning an election by 1.5% heralded a thousand year reich may have miscalculated a bit