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@michaelpatron0 @Seanfrank I have eaten Brain Flakes. If Sean really loves Ridge, he would eat them.

If @Seanfrank is a real CEO, why hasn't he made a video of him eating a Ridge wallet?

@thedimitri @jesusfuel Not fair to group Malcolm X with the others. He admitted to doing those things before finding religion and achieving power, after which he disavowed them and credibly stopped.

> Harvey Milk fucked an underage homeless boy > MLK cheated on his wife and was allegedly present during a rape > Malcolm X pimped and beat women > Gandhi slept next to teens to "test his willpower" > Cesar Chavez raped young girls Is there a single civil rights icon who isn't a sexual predator?

An obvious underestimate

The people who sew your clothing earn $200 to $300 per month and they don’t need electricity. It’s going to be a little while before $100,000 robots are even close to cost competitive, never mind that they lack the manual dexterity to sew.

@AJA_Cortes I almost replied that to you earlier. Volatility benefits the nimble.

To be clear; this is the absolute best time imaginable to start this company and all geopolitical changes and industrialization efforts are working in my favor

What I thought world war would be like: “Omg this is horrible!” “We need to stop this!” What world war is actually like: “You’re overreacting bro.” “You see the game last night?”

@anasalhajji Had no idea that insurance was so powerful in maritime shipping.

Saudi Arabia granted Syria several crude oil shipments. The first shipment, shown below, travels around Africa to Syria as indicated by the the pink line. 🩸Why not send it from Yanbu on the Red Sea, as shown by the blue line? 🩸Why avoid the Red Sea? Detailed answers are in @attaqa2's report below. Click the link, change your browser's language, and read the details.

@AB84 Fear. Someone who is afraid of being fat is more likely to succeed in losing weight than someone who desires to be thin.

People who lost a lot of weight, what was the one small daily habit that actually changed everything for you?

@FajrCoded Not good for that generation. This war will, at least, damage the region economically for 5-10 years.

@Molson_Hart It’s wild because we don’t know when this will end as every day there’s a new escalation whereas the kids think it’s an adventure: no school, no exams, free promotion to the next grade 🤓

Many interesting parallels between this brewing energy crisis and Covid. 1. Underestimated at the start. 2. Because of fuel inventories, there is a time lag between identifying the problem and its effects. 3. Countries that didn’t test didn’t have Covid. Countries that are subsidizing fuel purchases or releasing reserve supplies don’t have an energy problem. 4. Work from home mandates to stop the spread. Work from home mandates to stop the surge (in gas prices). 5. Shut down in international air travel. 6. Looks like it’ll only be a problem in Asia. In reality fuel is being diverted away from the rest of the world to Asia, so the rest of the world will certainly be affected. 7. No appreciation for severe second order consequences eg summer of 2020 riots. When the price of food and transport shoots up, people get mad. Massive amounts of money will be printed. Governments will fall. And much bigger things can happen. 8. Once Covid finally was accepted as a problem, it resolved itself much faster than expected. I predict this will go similarly. The world is underreacting now and will overreact later. Energy is too important; we will find a way.

@CharlieTTEcon Thank you

@Molson_Hart Agreed. Really good post, thanks

@loporium It’s not. It’s a net exporter of refined petroleum, net importer or oil. Also because it’s a global market.

@Molson_Hart Why would this be a problem in the US, which is a net exporter of oil?

@FajrCoded Wishing you and your family safety Smh cannot be fun

Work from home, exams cancelled, people who are abroad have been exempted from working for the next three months, supplies are incoming via Saudi Arabia but at a slower pace, the government locked in the prices for the next month for food and medicine, no outdoor unnecessary gatherings so resembles Covid. It felt like it’ll end over the weekend but now we are on 50+ wave of attacks

@tphuang Yes in the countries with less reserves or who were really dependent on China which blocked exports Obviously gas prices up affects everyone

@Molson_Hart is this already affecting daily life in Southeast Asia?

@ChefMiew war ends, infrastructure is rebuilt, and lots of new production comes online

@Molson_Hart How do you see this resolved?

@Thebuckestmofo9 Afaict tanker wars were less disruptive than this, uae continues to get its infrastructure hit, and yanbu east to west pipeline doesn’t make up for the supply lost, but could be wrong + fog of war

@Molson_Hart Don’t think it gets even remotely close to this level. Even during the tanker wars it didn’t get this bad. And a lot of production has already been re routed Saudi, uae.

Global supply chains are beyond complicated. 1. Designer born in Asia 2. Studies in Europe 3. Designs a stuffed animal in the USA 4. Oil is extracted from the Middle East 5. Oil becomes various plastics in China 6. Shipped to Indonesia where its molded into plastic bottles 7. Plastic bottles recycled, becoming plush filling in Indonesia 8. Other plastic becomes fabric in China, shipped to Indonesia 9. People sew it all together in Indonesia 10. Shipped to a free trade zone in China 11. Combined with products from China and Vietnam 12. Shipped to Xian in Western China by truck 13. Goes on a train to Europe via Central Asia 14. Stock split between Germany and UK (perhaps by sea, or via the underwater tunnel) We take this stuff (and this is the simplified version!) for granted, but it's a wonder of the modern world that we can do this.

The best way to convert from centimeters to inches is to multiply by 4 and divide by 10. The best way to convert from inches to centimeters is to multiply by 10 and divide by 4.

@anasalhajji In a space? IME if people are getting emotional when you’re talking about facts, they’re wrong about something important. Be careful, people can go really dark from innocuous things said on this app. Have learned both these things the hard way.

I allowed some people to vent at me today. I chose not to block them because they might not be able to reach their psychiatrist on Sunday, or they could have run out of their meds. I got four messages from friends asking me to block them. The above is my response. Thank you for all those who defended me. 😍