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I suspect that Iran isn’t going to significantly target water infrastructure in Israel unless things get dire, because Palestinians also rely on that infrastructure. Through its destruction of any Palestinian infrastructure, they are able to use Palestinians as human shields against anyone would both realtaliate against the cancerous state and who cares enough about Palestinians to reconsider the ramifications of destroying water infrastructure.

Don’t you know that the news mega considers drug cartels the proletarian vanguard?

The Age of Men is over. The time of the Mole Men has come.

The US government just signed a huge deal with OpenAI, who is absolutely trailing Anthropic, and the other big AI ally of the admin just went IPO.

They tried to previously, they just didn’t get all of them. Their targeting and evasion has gotten better since the start of the war, probably from a mix of actual wartime experience, using newer weapons with better technology, and mostly likely outside air from more advanced militaries.

There’s a movie in here somewhere about an election coming down to one guy who got to vote late for some reason.

Chuck Schumer furiously trying to figure out how to call Trump “Taco Trump” after he does the thing Schumer has had a hard-on about doing for years.

Jared will shoot him with the heart attack gun first. He fucked up putting all these Zionists in his cabinet.

I somehow feel responsible for this, in that, sometimes when debating socialism with people who I know are not doing so in good faith, I troll them by saying I am talking about universal basic ownership and not socialism.

What is the pitch with this “UBC”? The public “gets a share of the profits” in certain companies without any actual voting rights/power to influence said companies? And it just so happens to be capital in companies with dubious financial performance whose early stage investors are looking for a bag holder?

Some portion of the Pentagon probably wants to kill the latest NDAA that integrates the IOF into the Pentagon.

Bitcoin mining doesn’t use GPUs. The bitcoins mining computers are custom built to do only bitcoin mining. They use what are called application-specific integrated circuits, which is a fancy word for a microchip that is designed specifically to do one task.

Good news: Bitcoin is down ~25% in the last 30 days.

There was a halving event in April 2024, and the price basically always crashes after each event. The last 3 halving events prior to 2024, the price has consistently hit the low within 25-30 months after the last halving event. We are at month 26 right now since the 2024 event.

I was about to look at getting out of any index funds that would be required to buy SpaceX. I have to imagine the funds were getting calls from a lot of other people asking about or trying to do the same.

So do we call is the Musk Meat Shortage or the Trump Treat Catastrophe?

Saudi check cleared

Oops no distillate marine fuel

Incredibly common in western economics circles, especially among “academics” who specialize in financial economics, have not studied how commodities markets actually work, or have never actually worked in industry. One of the initial things that ended up radicalizing me was working “in the real world” after college and seeing just how little of my economics education took the concept of power into consideration. They can shout about supply and demand all they want, but if someone shoves a gun in your face, the guy with the gun is setting the price, not the market. The way economics is taught in most of Western academia really is more akin to religion than science.

World’s most anti-social and duplicitous assholes incapable of building functioning community of like-minded individuals.

I don’t personally see many paths right now to bring this conflict to a more complete halt.

The first is somehow managing to shut down the BTC pipeline. Israel isn’t substantially hurt by the blockade of Hormuz because the majority of their oil doesn’t transverse it. But Iran can’t attack Azerbaijan without stoking a more dangerous ground war with Azerbaijan and likely Turkey, and Turkey has yet to grapple with the contradiction of its “pan-Turkic” relationship with Azerbaijan against he fact that it’s supposed client state is actively fueling the war machine of a country that is now saying “Turkey is next”.

The second is somehow getting South Africa to stop sending coal to Israel. For all of its work with the ICJ, South Africa remains one of the main suppliers of Israel’s most needed fuel source for electricity production: coal. If Israel starts having rolling blackouts in the middle of summer, or they have to decide between domestic fuel consumption or fuel for the war machine, I think the domestic situation gets increasingly untenable in a way that could force Israel to the table.

The third, most powerful and also seemingly least likely, is China realizing that they are going to have to actively get involved and throw their economic weight around if a deal is to both get done any time soon and actually be enforced such that this war doesn’t immediately start up again. That likely involves a Chinese embargo of Israel or at least severe economic sanctions, plus making some tough threats and ultimatums to some of Israel’s regional and weaker global allies. Its been my opinion for a while that China could end this entire conflict in a few months by using their economic leverage, but it’s strategy the country seems to want to avoid at all costs to maintain their current foreign policy strategies.

Maybe there is enough strain on the American capitalist class to force Trump’s hand, but I have trouble seeing it right now.

Seeing the amount of “leftists” in places like the Hasan sub saying things like "Neither Trump nor Kamala are going to stop the genocide, so we should vote for Kamala to ‘preserve the progress we have already achieved’ and to ‘make it a better environment for organizing’ has me on the brink of turning into an unironic JDPON Third Worldist. I probably owe J Sakai an apology, he was clearly more right than I thought.