There are people with stupid ideas everywhere, but the concentration is unusually high here thanks to the fact that it's the entire basis of our economic system.

I'm clinging to the extremely slim hope that people are going to get fed up and there's going to be a housecleaning.

Just one of the few human beings on the planet who can launch a nuclear strike getting mislead by ai generated engagement bait, normal functional empire hours.

I'm torn between "Hahaha, get wreckt" and "oh god this is means that there's demand and it's going to justify the insane investment in infrastructure buildout even longer"

Yeah but it'd be easier for middle class white women to get abortions so please be silent about Mammon's tithe.

Oh no, the make-work program for political dynasty failsons has fallen to AI!

"Really, you should be thanking us for going out and making enemies on your behalf."

Someone send him on a boiled boot leather cruise pls.

Hey so what happens when the US becomes a pariah superpower? Asking on behalf of a friend who was too dumb to emigrate.

I'm playing In Stars and Time. So far I'm not really seeing what made everyone give it such high reviews. I'm not sure if I need to give it more time or if it made more sense when it first came out.

The April 21 options expiration is the key. May 2026 WTI crude futures and options expire on April 21, 2026. The US‑Iran ceasefire is also set to expire on April 21 (OPEX is on the 21st EST, ceasefire is on the 22nd IRST). That is not a coincidence. The US has been trying to tank the futures market by selling contracts into the rollover period; they want to pin prices lower ahead of the May contract expiry. But Iran is letting them do it.

I'm not quite following here, can you elaborate? I get the part where the government is trying to keep prices low by building up a large short position, one that pays off if they're able to permanently reopen the strait and oil prices drop and results in catastrophe if they can't and prices shoot up. But I don't really get how oil options trading works - if you're short at close, do you have to physically buy and deliver oil? Essentially the opposite of that one time prices dropped into the negatives because storage was full and people who accepted the negative contracts discovered that they suddenly had to find a place to put a bunch of physical oil.

We must maintain our fighting force's maximum effectiveness in the war against the very basis of our existence

be me
have bad teeth, bad eyes, and a small mental illness starter collection that I'm still seeing a therapist for almost weekly at the age my dad had me
somehow manage to find a partner: "yeah, I know what pregnancy does to the body and I'm not a fan, what if we got a cat instead"
forced to buy into the Giant Scam Machine, the bottom of which might fall out at any minute, in order to have a hope of retirement
cat is the most adorable thing ever
study climate change adaptation and policy
struggle to find a job despite a gazillion college degrees
boomers are currently selling their houses for prices that can only be paid via dark bargains with rumplestiltskin
houses in question require a lot of work thanks to the all the deferred maintenance
yeah no I think I'm going to pass on the amazing opportunity to continue the human lineage, sorry ancestors