
Chris Okonkwo
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Chris Okonkwo
@mrchrisok
Texan American


My friend just shared his first unsupervised Robotaxi ride in Dallas, TX!


🇺🇸🇮🇷 Between U.S. and Iran, neither side has yet hit its breaking point. Here's why: Both the U.S. and Iran still have room to absorb pain without collapsing domestically or strategically. Iran's playbook right now: The regime closed the Strait of Hormuz again today after briefly reopening it yesterday. Gunboats fired on commercial ships. Khamenei is vowing "new bitter defeats" for Iran's enemies. The IRGC benefits from sustained tension. It rallies hardliners, pressures negotiators to hold firm, and turns the strait into a high-stakes bargaining chip for sanctions relief and nuclear concessions. Iran survived direct strikes in 2026, still exports oil through workarounds, and has China and Russia providing diplomatic cover. The regime has outlasted tougher sanctions before. Trump's calculus: He wants a big, visible win on Iran's nuclear program without triggering a full-scale war. The naval blockade is squeezing Tehran, but escalating further risks spiking global oil prices and pulling in Hezbollah, the Houthis, and other proxies. So he keeps the pressure on while staying publicly optimistic about a deal, although that optimism makes him seem a little weak. And if he hasn't closed any deals, he's forced to stay in anyway. The real sticking points: How long Iran suspends uranium enrichment and what happens to existing stockpiles. Who controls the strait and when the U.S. port blockade lifts. Iran's regional proxies, missile program, and the Lebanon ceasefire terms. Nobody is desperate enough yet to fold on any of these. Both sides are calculating they can outlast the other. Until that calculus changes, the war stays in this grinding, high-stakes limbo.





Robotaxi now rolling out in Dallas & Houston 🤠








Your statement is true if goods & services output doesn’t rise dramatically due to AI/robots, but false if it does. In a normal economy, issuing more money simply increases the dollar price of the existing output of goods & services, meaning people do NOT get more stuff. If AI/robots massively increase goods & services output, then you actually MUST issue dollars to people or there will be massive disinflation. Prices are simply the ratio of goods & services output to number of dollars.



















