If you use more than you produce, you are going to run into shortages.

The rest of the world can produce enough oil to make up for the oil lost in the straits, but they can't ramp up quickly. It would take years.

btw the biggest fear right now is that Pakistan might give nuclear missiles to Iran. It's something they've talked about in the past, and if I were Iran, I would be using all my persuasive power to get one from Pakistan.

If the missile works, if the missile still exists, if it gets past missile defenses, if mine sweepers don't clear up the mines, etc.

A treaty needs to be ratified by the senate to be legally binding.

Note that Ukraine has caught on to this trick, and is now insisting that any defense treaty make it through congress. Earlier we promised to help Ukraine, but the Budepest Memorandum wasn't ratified by congress.

The Iraq war only affected Iraq.

Closing the straights affects oil from Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Oman, and Saudi Arabia.

As an American, I'm still just hoping we don't end the Trump presidency in WW3.

The real question is, how will the government abuse this?

We've seen that every time we give the government power, they abuse it. This will be the same.

This would not be a problem if it weren't for war.

We should work towards world peace.

If your point is that vaping is bad, ok, I can agree with that.

If your point is that cigarettes are better than vaping, no you are wrong. Smoking is much worse. The mechanism is well understood.

Switching to vape from cigarettes will give you immediate health improvements. If a dermal patch works for you, then do that. If vape works for you, then do that. But stop the cigarettes.

I've been looking since March 2024. Having no reasonable options in sight, have reopened https://informationr.us/

The anthropomorphizing in this headline is irritating. Nature is not a sentient being, and it's not molding anything.

"Human Genes Are Changing" that's all you need to say.

Vaping is better than smoking because cigarette smoke has acetaldehyde, which literally turns one of your genes into a cancerous gene in the lungs. That's why cigarettes are more likely to give you cancer than marijuana.

The lawyers for the LLM companies deigned to respond to the lawsuit, unlike Anna's Archive.

It's also not clear if the LLMs are legally OK. They may end up having to pay after the lawsuits are all settled out.

The biggest problem with this treatment is that you are more likely to die from the treatment than from AIDS (even if you already have AIDS). Up to 40% of bone marrow transplant patients die within the first year.

In this job search, Linked In and Dice- but MOST of my LinkedIn devolves down into one of the above quickly. The number of scammers on Linked In is truly awesome.