Wakmrow
@Wakmrow@lemmy.world
- Comment on Is Anon the asshole? 1 week ago:
You’re all over this thread and you’re a jackass.
Yeah I play. Yeah I had the shittiest beat up guitar when I was in my youth. I took it all over the world because I didn’t care what happened to it. Loved it while I had it and if someone had “fixed it”, that would have destroyed what it was to me, jackass.
And yeah now I have “better” guitars and I don’t have that 25$ guitar anymore.
- Comment on Is there a point to the Straight Of Hormuz? What is the difference between the Iranians having it than the US? What does it mean for the average joe in either country? 1 week ago:
You know, I got ten minutes before my meeting and all these answers are pretty poor so I’ll give you a rundown.
About 20% of the world’s crude oil pre war flowed out of the gulf using tankers through the strait of Hormuz (SoH). Crude is not all created equal. Refineries have to be built to process different types of petroleum products and different grades. I’m not a chemist but a few examples are Venezuelan and Cuban crude. These have different particulates in them that make them much more expensive to process. The crude oil out of gulf states has “sweet crude” which refineries, particularly in the US are tuned to process. There are other petrochemicals produced and shipped out of the gulf as well. For example, Qatar produces something like 20% of the world’s natural gas and quite a lot of fertilizer byproducts come from this process as well.
It’s really quite complicated but simply: these extraction processes cannot be stopped and started on a dime. The refineries and plants take weeks to start. Furthermore, pipelines and alternative shipping routes are not exactly viable. Pipelines take decades to build and are vulnerable to missiles. They also need constant flow to function properly. Shipping through the red sea goes through the suez which has size limitations. Going around Africa also risks attack from Ansrah Allah and Yemen.
Ok. So what? 20% isn’t the end of the world, right? Prices go up 20% everyone suffers and blames Iran and they become a pariah, right?
No, not really. From my lay understanding of these refinements and logistics. First, energy is an inelastic good. There aren’t many consumers who will exit the market for energy even if the price skyrockets. A hospital cannot simply say “oh we won’t power our nicu incubators until prices come down”. And second, the petroleum products are substitutes in the refinement process. You can have diesel or you can have f22 fuel from that barrel of crude but not both. So the pain is felt at the bottom of the market–you’ve got to go to work and filling up your car is non negotiable but at a certain point it won’t make financial sense to do so. The US government is going to fuel those jets no matter the cost, though.
Energy and fertilizer are inputs into the global economy. There already wasn’t slack in the pipeline, so to speak. The repercussions are yet to be seen. The US has been dramatically drawing down it’s strategic oil reserves to keep refinement going but speculation is that the reserves will not hold out at the current rate of consumption over the next few months.
That being said, the affect on regular people on the ground in Iran? I mean. They’re getting bombed by the US. An existential global economic threat is being used to stop that bombing. So. Probably better for them.
- Comment on The Dangers of Socialism they warned us about... 3 weeks ago:
Here let me help you.
Capitalism is when the people with capital make decisions for society.
You don’t get to vote on what happens.
- Comment on The Dangers of Socialism they warned us about... 3 weeks ago:
Democratic capitalism lmao.
Anything can be true when you make shit up
- Comment on Did Iran really strike first without a reason or is it BS (like I think it is) and the US is saying they struck first? 1 month ago:
It’s more complicated than “the other direction”. They are Arabic sources so they are at least not parroting hasbara propaganda. But they are funded by Qatar, a US vassal state actively participating in the war on Iran.
As with any news outlet, one should analyze the perspective from which they are reporting. They are not going to be great on Iran at the moment but still not to be discarded.
- Comment on Did Iran really strike first without a reason or is it BS (like I think it is) and the US is saying they struck first? 1 month ago:
Just FYI al Jazeera and al mayadeen are qatari funded. They are not without their biases and qatar has been hit by Iranian ordnance.
Still much better than like cnn though.
- Comment on How it feels shitting in the school bathroom 1 month ago:
Lol white
- Comment on He's an arborist 2 months ago:
It’s critical the cylinder not be harmed
- Comment on oh no guys theyre gonna report us to the FBI 3 months ago:
What does objective mean to you
- Comment on oh no guys theyre gonna report us to the FBI 3 months ago:
There is no such thing as objectively illegal.
Given the first amendment and the supreme courts stance on originalism one could make a compelling argument that this type of speech is legal. As an example. One could further point to any example of the current administration or the police or examine historical injustice codified into law. Or, just look at Israeli actions.
Laws are enforced by power. And are dictated by societal pressure. They are not objective in the slightest. There’s an entire profession dedicated to the subjectivity of laws.
- Comment on oh no guys theyre gonna report us to the FBI 3 months ago:
I don’t think the first statement shouldn’t be tolerated.
- Comment on 4 rules of firearm safety 3 months ago:
Also I was making a joke about the p320going off without a trigger pull
- Comment on 4 rules of firearm safety 3 months ago:
They all do lol
- Comment on 4 rules of firearm safety 3 months ago:
Sig gang
- Comment on American workers are tired of waiting. 3 months ago:
A vote for third parties is a vote for Trump?
- Comment on Mother Sarkeesian 3 months ago:
Ok but commissioned by kkkontrapoints
- Comment on American workers are tired of waiting. 3 months ago:
PSL was write in only. I wanted democrats to for certain count my vote.
- Comment on American workers are tired of waiting. 3 months ago:
I watched a person with a garbage bag full of children’s body parts funded and directed by democrats. I am empathetic to your problems but I will not under any fucking circumstances support that.
Also I don’t care if you’re legal or “illegal”.
- Comment on Most could work on anyone really 3 months ago:
Jimmy?
- Comment on American workers are tired of waiting. 3 months ago:
I voted green then too but I feel you
- Comment on Most could work on anyone really 3 months ago:
HAVE YOU CONSIDERED IF I CALLED WOMEN FAT
- Comment on American workers are tired of waiting. 3 months ago:
I voted for Stein
- Comment on Most could work on anyone really 3 months ago:
Return_of_chippy in this thread:
- Comment on American workers are tired of waiting. 3 months ago:
I’m so American I own lots of guns.
Fuck the democrats
- Comment on American workers are tired of waiting. 3 months ago:
I voted for Stein
- Comment on American workers are tired of waiting. 3 months ago:
Lol I voted for Stein
- Comment on American workers are tired of waiting. 3 months ago:
I sleep extremely soundly about my vote for Stein
- Comment on Four Palestine Action Activists Found Guilty of Criminal Damage 3 months ago:
It’s fucking darkly hilarious they made that argument.
What does Elbit systems make? And what is the purpose of their product?
- Comment on American workers are tired of waiting. 3 months ago:
Didn’t vote for genocide? Smugly wow look at your “moral superiority”.
- Comment on John - it's a trap! 3 months ago:
What doesn’t work well in the Apple ecosystem?
