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@HansMokeNiemann without a doubt open.spotify.com/show/44DE64rRp…

What is the best podcast in the world?

@Bigdaddyvinz_ villains should be payed the same as lead protagonists

He played the role so well, it affected him in real life and also destroyed his acting career

@Clip_Master__ duck around find out

If parents don't educate her, nature will.

@mountbellyache +who's not into crypto

how it feels to be a leftist AI hater on this app

@it_unprofession AI is coming for consultancy first. Worlds gonna be a better place!

We hired a consulting firm to tell us why our profits are down. They sent three 24-year-olds wearing vests. They spent two months interviewing us about our own jobs. Then they put our answers into a PowerPoint presentation. They charged us $250K for this privilege. During the final readout, one of them used the phrase synergy optimization without blinking. I looked around the conference room. Our CEO was nodding like he just received the Ten Commandments. The grand conclusion was that we need to increase revenue and decrease costs. I could've told them that for a gift card to Panera. But nobody listens to the guy who works here. You only listen to the guy who flies in on a Tuesday. I'm updating my resume to include synergy optimization. It feels like the right move.

@Denkjewel gast dit moet toch gewoon uitgezocht worden?

Een totaal zinloze Kamervraag kost de belastingbetaler ook weer € 3.750.

@DefensieMin @kon_marine Even naar de film.... €100.000

Tijdens het bezoek aan Zr. Ms. Evertsen stond de bemanning centraal. Het was goed om met de vrouwen en mannen aan boord te spreken en onze waardering en steun over te brengen, namens het kabinet en alle Nederlanders. Ik wens de bemanning een behouden vaart en goede thuiskomst.

@HDHeutink het kabinet Gl/PvdA 1 bedoelt u?

Hoever moeten de benzineprijzen nog stijgen voordat GL/PvdA de mensen thuis gaat helpen?

@RenierCast Same! He's got killer instinct and is on the rise

Who will win the Candidates? My bet is Sindarov.

@LFCLaurie If they win no price and dont qualify for Champions League, theyll sack him soon enough

Sadly, I 100% believe this. We'll do a data review that shows despite a difficult season, there have been tough circumstances to deal with. We'll give him another chance and then when we're sitting 9th in October, he'll get the sack, and Alonso will have already gone elsewhere.

@alifarhat79 trump and dump

What do you call this pattern?

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@chrismartenson everything before the comma can be deleted

If nobody goes to jail for this, we've entered the 'every man for himself' stage of empire decline.

@TeamMbappeXtra France should play with -1 player odds

Not sure any country’s defense can stop this France attack at the World Cup.

@DiscussingFilm What happens when the IP is too expensive

A sequel movie to the ‘LORD OF THE RINGS’ trilogy is officially in the works. Plot synopsis — 14 years after the passing of Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippin set out to retrace the first steps of their adventure. Meanwhile, Sam’s daughter, Elanor, has discovered a long-buried secret and is determined to uncover why the War of the Ring was very nearly lost before it even began. Stephen Colbert is co-writing the script.

@marysia4 Er staat er ook al jaren een in Spanje. Geen idee hoe het ermee gaat torresolenergy.com

Ik had nog nooit gehoord van zo’n zonnetoren. Hierdoor halen ze 24/7 stroom uit zonlicht, zonder batterijen. Nu hebben wij geen woestijn om zo’n ding te plaatsen, maar het klinkt alsnog erg cool.

@dz_ajacied heeft sinds corona geen pinch meer gehit

Zijn ze dit allemaal vergeten ofzo? beste pinchhitter van Nederland

@ClockworkOranje 'Xavi isnt in good form'?

It's crazy given he's only in his first full season of senior football, but I think there's a chance Kees Smit starts at the World Cup. Grav isn't a good match for De Jong, Reijnders & Xavi aren't in good form, Kluivert is injured, and Koeman has made it clear he LOVES Smit...

@shanaka86 The Petrodollar is dead. Long live the PetroYuan

BREAKING: The Strait of Hormuz is no longer closed. It is no longer open. It is something the world has never seen before: a permissioned corridor run by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, priced at $2 million per vessel, payable in yuan. Three ships transited in the last 24 hours. Three. Out of a pre-war average of 60 per day. Total throughput: 310,000 deadweight tonnes. Three percent of normal. Four hundred vessels are waiting outside the strait right now. One hundred and fifty tankers. One hundred and twenty bulk carriers. One hundred and thirty others. Waiting for permission from the IRGC Navy to enter a 5-nautical-mile channel between Larak and Qeshm islands inside Iranian territorial waters. This is how the gate works. A vessel operator contacts approved intermediaries with IRGC connections, submitting full documentation: IMO number, ownership chain, cargo manifest, destination, crew list. The intermediaries forward the package to the IRGC Navy’s Hormozgan Provincial Command for sanctions screening, cargo alignment checks that prioritise oil over all other commodities, and geopolitical vetting. The toll is approximately $2 million per tanker. For a VLCC carrying 2 million barrels, that is $1 per barrel. Preferred currency: yuan. If the vessel passes, the IRGC issues a clearance code and route instructions. Upon approach, VHF radio hail, AIS verification, patrol boat escort. One ship at a time. Through the narrowest channel of the most important waterway on Earth. Iranian crude is still flowing. Approximately 1.1 to 1.5 million barrels per day, mostly to China, at near pre-war levels. Iran’s own oil transits the strait it controls. The blockade applies to everyone else. Iran is simultaneously the gatekeeper and the primary beneficiary. The toll funds the IRGC. The IRGC maintains the gate. The gate generates the toll. The circle is self-sustaining. Now look at what is NOT transiting. Fertiliser. Gulf nations supply 49 percent of the world’s exported urea. Ammonia requires the natural gas that Qatar declared Force Majeure on and that Iranian strikes disrupted at South Pars. Effectively zero fertiliser vessels have received approval through the permissioned corridor. The IRGC is prioritising oil because oil generates revenue. Fertiliser does not. The molecules that feed four billion people are trapped behind a gate that only opens for molecules that fund the gatekeeper. The yuan preference is the structural shift that outlasts the war. Every tanker that pays in yuan instead of dollars establishes a precedent. Every precedent weakens the petrodollar architecture that has governed energy trade since 1974. The IRGC is not just blocking a strait. It is building an alternative payment rail under live fire. The $2 million toll in yuan is not a fee. It is a proof of concept for a post-dollar energy settlement system, stress-tested in the most extreme conditions imaginable: a three-front war with the world’s largest military. The world’s central banks are trapped by the same strait: the Fed cannot cut, the ECB is hiking, the BOJ is tightening. Six countries are rationing fuel. Japan’s 10-year yield hit a 27-year high. Slovenia has QR codes at the pump. South Korea is barring government vehicles one day per week. And behind all of it, 400 ships wait outside a 5-nautical-mile channel for a clearance code from the IRGC Navy, payable in a currency that is not the dollar. Twenty percent of the world’s oil supply. Controlled by a VHF radio call and a yuan transfer. The strait did not close. It changed ownership. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

@GordonDarroch The wrong man at the right place

The only thing burning away faster than Iran’s oil facilities at this point is Mark Rutte’s reputation as a global statesman.