Robin Schaefer

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Trump just waived the Jones Act for 60 days. That's the 1920 law requiring American-built, American-crewed ships for domestic port-to-port shipping. The U.S. had the oil, had the refineries, but had an artificial bottleneck moving product between its own coasts. That bottleneck just disappeared. The entire global tanker fleet can now service American ports domestically. China is burning 1.2B barrels of reserves trying to get sanctioned cargo through a war zone. America just opened its own internal supply chain. One country needs the Strait of Hormuz. The other one just proved it doesn't.

@CorbinSchuster Yep. I think 90% of Venezuelas oil went to China & 70% of Irans. (Or could be visa versa) was a very calculated move.

@RobinMSchaefer Also explains why the US went after Venezuela first, to secure an oil supply in the event the Middle East is disrupted

Normally when the price of oil goes up by $1 per barrel this equates to a $0.01 increase in our fuel price. In my mind these posts are starting to explain some of the reason our fuel prices have gone through the roof

Hi guys. The reason that Middle Eastern cash prices for near-term delivery barrels are extremely high is because they really need oil on the right side of the map. WTI and Brent are on the left side of the map. It takes time to get the oil across the map.

Wow!! That’s insane.

🚨 SHOCKING: MIT Media Lab just hooked people up to brain scanners while they used ChatGPT. What they found rewrites everything we thought we understood about AI and learning. They call it cognitive debt. And unlike financial debt, there may be no way to pay it back. Here is the setup. 54 participants. Three groups. Four months. Real EEG headsets tracking brain activity in real time across every session. Group one wrote essays using only their own brain. Group two used Google. Group three used ChatGPT. Same prompts. Same tasks. Same time limits. One pattern showed up so consistently it became impossible to ignore. ChatGPT users had the weakest brain connectivity of any group. Not once. Not occasionally. Every single session. Regions tied to memory formation, semantic reasoning, and critical analysis all showed measurably lower activation in the LLM group compared to the other two. Then the researchers ran a recall test. Participants were asked to quote lines from essays they had written just minutes earlier. 83% of ChatGPT users could not recall a single sentence from their own writing. They wrote it. It passed through them. Nothing stayed. Brain-only users remembered what they wrote. Google users remembered what they wrote. ChatGPT users produced the work and retained none of it. Then came the finding that changes the conversation entirely. In the final session, all ChatGPT users were told to write without AI. Their brains did not recover. Their neural connectivity was still measurably weaker than people who had never used AI at all. Not weaker than their own baseline. Weaker than people who never touched the tool. The tool was removed. The cost remained. Meanwhile something quietly remarkable happened on the other side of the experiment. Brain-only users who tried ChatGPT for the first time in the final session showed higher activation, better prompting, and stronger recall than the group that had been using it all along. Their brains were strong enough to use AI as a lever. The ChatGPT group had been using it as a replacement. The researchers also ran NLP analysis on the essays themselves. Every essay produced by ChatGPT users on the same topic looked almost identical. Same structure. Same named entities. Same patterns. More facts. More dates. More surface detail. Less original thought. People using ChatGPT produced generic output while believing they had written something personal. The ownership felt real. The thinking never happened. MIT named this cognitive debt. You borrow the model's processing power today. You pay with your own cognitive capacity tomorrow. And the repayment terms are not in your favour. The researchers are careful to say this is not a study about whether ChatGPT produces good essays. On surface metrics the output was fine. It is a study about what happens to the brain that produced nothing. The question that stays after reading this paper is not whether AI is useful. It is what you are training your brain to do every time you hand it the thinking. Students who use ChatGPT to write their essays look productive. Their output scores are intact. Their ability to think without the tool is quietly eroding with every session. And by the time anyone notices, the debt is already compounding.

We are certainly living in interesting times.

Well worth a read to understand what is happening in Iran

@LIamaOfDoom @oster_huey Sadly not really happening much in Australia yet. Definitely a thing in the USA though.

@oster_huey @RobinMSchaefer Coles, Woolies, Qantas, Macquarie group, Telstra. All called "Woke" at various stages, all not broke. Can you name some Australian companies who have?

The media tried to indoctrinate the masses that people wanted to eat fake meat, but good to see customers have rejected that indoctrination

Whether you are new to the Great Awakening or been absorbed for years, listen and save.

For ten years the MSM promulgated the notion that Trump will lead us to WWIII. Now, 2 NATO nations are giving nuclear weapons to Ukraine. Deep State trying to force Trump’s hand …this will not go well.

Big Bang Theory actors, then and now. I have to say I kind of like how they did this one.

The media needs to wake up and prioritize this bombshell: The Epstein documents lay bare what may be humanity's gravest atrocity—the staggering reality that 8 million children vanish globally each year. How on earth is this not dominating every headline and broadcast?

So who really pays our politicians?

Hillary Clinton speaks to some local schoolchildren... Teacher: Class, please welcome Hillary Clinton today. She will answer your questions. Hillary: Hello, class. Who has the first question? *Johnny raises a hand* Johnny: My name is Johnny. I have 3 questions. Why did you lie about Benghazi? What was in those emails you deleted? And does your pattern of corruption mean we can never trust you? *The recess bell rings, and the children return 40 minutes later.* Hillary: Ok. Where were we? Who has a question? *Kid raises hand* George: My name is George, and I have 5 questions. Why did you lie about Benghazi? What was in those emails you deleted? Does your pattern of corruption mean we can never trust you? Why did the bell ring 10 minutes early? And... uh... oh yeah. Where's Johnny?

I remember watching this in 2020, if you haven’t seen it, it is a much watch given what is happening now.

IT WAS ALWAYS A SCAM Climate Scientist Anika Sweetland explains how she went from Climate Advocate to Climate Sceptic

History always repeats itself