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by fakedang 7mo ago
But until that happens in India, the country's freight is still dependent on oil prices.
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by fakedang 7mo ago
India agreed to capitulate on the Iranian port investments before the US-Israeli invasion, when Trump was playing the tariff games. If a growing economy can be subverted and forced to act against its interests, is it really a superpower at
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by fakedang 7mo ago
Yay, we got one ship to cross the straits! VS We could have an entire Indian-owned port, outside the straits in question, with an attached O&G pipeline that we paid for, connected directly to the oil and gas fields in Iran. Not to menti
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by fakedang 7mo ago
There's currently a gas crisis in India. A country that had a $10 billion investment in an Iranian port to trade oil and gas directly with them, except they decided to become America's bitch and halted the project after American s
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by fakedang 7mo ago
Trump and Co. have already mentioned they have no interest in changing the regimes from the party bodies, either the communists in Venezuela or the IRGC in Iran. He has repeatedly stated that he prefers an insider. Too bad, in Iran's c
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by fakedang 7mo ago
Apart from the demographic counter you put out, agree on all points. The Hasids vapidly oppose any participation in the military, and are already contesting and protesting it in the courts, which are hearing none of it, much to their chagri
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by fakedang 8mo ago
But the fact of the matter is, in the event the US does invade North Korea, Rocketman has the option to launch nukes at the US - something that the US knows, hence it won't do anything about. Nukes also give NK more optionality, inste
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by fakedang 8mo ago
They don't need to deal with Israel when Israel itself is a ticking time bomb. This war and this presidency with their kompromat on Trump was their only shot at becoming an expansionist regional hegemon. Israel is facing a demographic
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by fakedang 8mo ago
> I’ve personally traded oil in euros and know people that trade it in pounds daily. Don't equate spot market buying with what countries do for national supply. When countries buys from Petro states, they're not buying on the s
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by fakedang 8mo ago
Parent company in Delaware only for VC funding from US VCs. Final setup in Estonia for cost, Netherlands for ease of doing business and Switzerland for prestige or some intangible shit. If you're not going for VC funding from the US, y
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by fakedang 8mo ago
Bro forgot that Christian universities exist in the deep south. Heck, BYU and TAMU are feeder schools for the CIA.
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by fakedang 8mo ago
> Then we had about 20 years of politicians who thought the soft power stuff was all you needed Actually, about 9 years. Then Afghanistan happened, followed by Iraq. Hard power was back baby! > The security concerns haven't chang
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by fakedang 8mo ago
You can't buy them off the bat from a petrostate. Heck, even China had to enter multi-year special negotiations with Saudi Arabia to even get a batch of oil sold in yuan terms. Gaddafi and Saddam Hussein were the two proponents of sell
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by fakedang 8mo ago
Doubt. Western governments sure, but not Asian governments, who are the majority buyers of Middle Eastern oil.
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by fakedang 8mo ago
The point of nukes for NK is not about being able to use them to attack its neighbours. The point of nukes for NK is to ensure that they don't get invaded themselves. That's why NK makes a big deal about nukes that can reach the U
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by fakedang 8mo ago
> because in no earthly circumstance will I ever be able to pay it back. Well at that point, all hell breaks loose - that's the Weimar story all over again. The minute the US isn't able to project power globally, and the minute
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by fakedang 8mo ago
Anything that has steady value - land, gold, real estate with global appeal, manufacturing for the global market, etc.
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by fakedang 8mo ago
Is Persona an IdP or does it request you to verify with personal information every single time?
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by fakedang 8mo ago
> I think it's more likely that the US was going off of outdated intelligence. While Israel has enough intelligence to track where the Ayatollah is hidden away after the initial strikes on Iran. Does that sound believable to you? Ei
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by fakedang 8mo ago
Banff is much better than Vail or Jackson Hole though. I would even say better than Tahoe, if not for the lake.
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by fakedang 8mo ago
I'm not Canadian, and I usually visit the US for business. While being a Muslim often means enduring the humiliation of being singled out because of my name by CBP, I'm comfortable enough that I could travel private for my US trip
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by fakedang 8mo ago
> Given the significant increase in returns on a large treasury, we think it's worth the small amount of effort. Isn't that the point he was making though? It's a large treasury in aggregate, which is why it makes sense fo
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by fakedang 8mo ago
> outsourcing of all blame to Israel is just excusing the mistakes of American leadership. Isn't it really the other way around? Israel is literally outsourcing its war and its war crimes to the US military (the strike on the girls&
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by fakedang 8mo ago
The only way unification can ever happen will be with Chinese blessing, with or without democracy. That would mean a full exit of US forces from the peninsula, and substantial pandering to the CCP and influence in Seoul. Which isn't th
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by fakedang 8mo ago
Is it possible to acquire used refurbished laptops over new Chromebooks? A lot of companies tend to swap their corporate laptops every few years or so, and those usually happen to be solid Dells or ThinkPads with no faults whatsoever. If yo
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by fakedang 8mo ago
Explains why my laptop turns into a makeshift toaster when the Claude app automatically runs in the background. Even many games don't run that intensively in the background.
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by fakedang 8mo ago
Would be good to provide clarity to the trenches though.
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by fakedang 8mo ago
I wonder how exactly is social media managed at larger companies. I never found an enterprise type login for Facebook, and the only way to log in is by first creating a personal account?
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by fakedang 8mo ago
Seems like his successor does not have much of a plan either. > In another internal email addressing staff, the new Microsoft Gaming CEO Asha Sharma gave some hints as to how the future of Xbox will look. She outlined three commitments:
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by fakedang 8mo ago
That makes it a perfect use case for AI, since now you don't need a dev for that. Any devs doing that would, imo, be effectively performing one of David Graeber's bullshit jobs.

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