The US would already have been in recession if it wasn’t pumping hundreds of billions into the hugely unprofitable AI bubble.

This recent blockade at Hormuz is another move to pump the US economy, since the US produces a lot of oil, and is also selling at the very high market rate.

That regular people are paying for it is just annoying details.

Partly. But he also just realized that all his buddies sell oil at market rates, and market rates just skyrocketed. Every company producing oil in the US is making an absolute killing right now.

Rumours? The US is already reneging on deliveries because it’s stockpiles are depleted. Launching billions upon billions of dollars of hightech missiles at Iran punched a huge hole in the US stockpiles, to relatively little effect.

The Iran war had the same problem as Vietnam. You can’t use a million dollar weapon to take out a ten thousand dollar weapon and expect long-term success. So the Trump government did what they do best, and tried to solve the problem by making the same mistake more rapidly and at greater scale.

Roman style torso armor for 99 dollars? That’s a bargain! I’ll take a half a dozen!

Both of your examples fared incredibly poorly under external pressure and collapsed. Which is pretty much what happens with every poorly aligned group of people.

What’s that echo I’m hearing?

Nothing quite like the mutual desire to not be french for making friends.

But dulce de leche is brown… Both of these are white.

I do have a uterus, and I agree with you so much that I spent a fair bit of money and pain, and a LOT of effort on making sure I won’t get pregnant.

Wow congrats. The straight was never closed to heavily armed military vessels. It’s closed to unarmed transports hauling petroleum products and crude. Iran doesn’t give two shits how many destroyers you sail through.

But… Islam is monotheistic?

I can handle being dead, and I won’t even complain about it, but dying sounds like it sucks.

I can do (some of) the maths, but I definitely can’t explain why any of it is like that, or how it works.

I have had a concussion as an 11 year old, and have absolutely zero memory of what happened or how. It probably involved my bike, since that was outside when I somehow stumbled back home (which I also don’t remember).

My brain goes from two or three days pre-concussion, to having the absolute worst time with my parents waking me every hour at night for no clear reason and my arm being broken. I think I have some vague delirious memories from that, but none of them make sense, and maybe I inveted them afterwards.

It was not a fun time, and a helmet would have probably prevented that. There’s no permanent damage, i think, but that was extremely lucky.

Funfact: not all windows laptops let you choose what happens when you close the lid.

My previous laptop had options for shut down, sleep and hibernate. And if you wanted none of those, you could go fuck yourself (or install not-windows, which didn’t work for the shitty niche software I need)

NATO is a specifically a defensive alliance, unless Trump says otherwise. Or at least, that’s what I’ve read on Facebook and Twitter.

The protestant church as an institution isn’t exactly destitute either. It’s just not in gold.

They’ve made a free, state-owned, anonymous age-verifcation API for this purpose right? They’re not requiring Meta to confirm your real identity, riiiiight?

Protestants when they walk into a Catholic church and remember the first two commandments (or just the first, depending on who/when/where). Or the sermon on the mount. Or the part where Jesus says to sell your possessions. Or the parable of the poor widow. And probably a dozen other places that I can’t recall off the top of my head.

They didn’t randomly decide they didn’t like gold, they do have a few reasons for it.

Also make brain go quiet after a day of thinking for a living, make back not hurt, make sports more fun and make moving around easier. Also makes partners very happy, though ymmv on that last one.

And if none of those, burn more calories, so you can eat more tasty things.