Yeah, as noted above .. people read stuff like this like it's his money. It'd be nice if they taught how screwed up this level of wealth disparity is in schools.

At his wealth, you can put tons of others people's money where ever you damn well want, for any reason, just because you have a hunch (or for vested other interests)

You dummies buy the sockpuppets hook line and sinker.

1. Fertilizer is made from methane, so that's also stuck there. This is a HUGE problem for countries like India.
2. Poor countries are already switching to 4 day work weeks to save fuel.
3. Iran is letting ships whose balances are settled in Yuan leave. That means the power of the petro-dollar is under serious threat.
4. Countries that can no longer get Iranian oil are now buying non-Iranian oil, which drives the price of ALL oil up. There's speculation that it will hit $200/barrel. That's more than 3x what it was over the last few years. That will affect the price of literally everything. All transportation costs go up, so costs for all goods go up.

At some point, the price will get high enough that some countries won't be able to buy it at all, they'll give up. At that point, some interesting things might happen, since the demand drop-off vs. the price drop off will cause a wobble in the price. People will start looking elsewhere for energy.

Solar and small-battery vehicles (e-bikes, e-scooters) might start taking off even more. You might not be able to buy petrol for your car, but your e-bike charges quickly and can still tow a few hundred pounds worth of stuff. Maybe BEVs adoption will become even MORE popular, since it's one less way you have to directly pay for petrol.

But this war is all con. 100%. Like, Trump didn't even fill up the oil reserves before going to war. China's been buying oil for MONTHS at low rates now, so they're actually the least impacted here, despite the fact that they get a lot of oil from Iran. That means they have zero impetus (not that they had much previously) to do anything about this. This is purely punishment for the USA. Those are expensive weapons being wasted on Iranian targets (in some cases, planes that are actually just paint on the ground). It might be possible for the USA to open up the strait again, but the second they leave, Iran can just close it off again. This might be the most forever of the forever wars, or it might just be an outright defeat for the USA.

This whole thing is such a mess on so many different axes. I didn't even get into how Israel is driving a lot of this, and it's all because Netanyahu is a corrupt warmonger. He's firing in all directions, and he's relying on the USA to protect him.

It wasn't just to maintain value for their corporate properties, it's because they love seeing people in the office, doing their bidding. They'd be able to save so much on capital expenditure if everyone worked from home, but they keep people in the office because they looooooove to see who they're oppressing.

Yeah, there was just fuel rationing and it FUNDAMENTALLY changed the car industry for decades? Big cars went out of style and Japanese econoboxes became a thing because people wanted to spend less on gas?

I get it, you were a KID in the 70s, so you didn't really understand what was going on and what the challenges were. But you could go and read about them now if you want--you're probably north of 50, I think you're ready to learn the truth.

Reading is difficult.

I mean, what would it be?

"that only a sufficiently educated and credentialled person could possibly overlook."

that's a funny self-own if I've ever read one

Wow man, so you're like saying .. there's some kind of ... cost/benefit analysis that can be done? Whoa dude. You should write some kind of like, business book, or something.

why don't you take the 2 seconds it would take to find out

Uhoh, I hope Meta doesn't lose track of which site is full of posts by bots and which site is ... oops, full of posts by bots.

Neither side apparently said anything about the agreement in court on Friday, which Judge Arun Subramanian said today was âoeabsolutely unacceptable.â âoeIt shows absolute disrespect for the court, the jury and this entire process,â he said.

With this admin, nobody should be surprised. Corruption is standard operating procedure.

So chances are there are photos of your home out there

It doesn't bother me at all. The camera comes out, it's obvious that the camera is there, and is being used. I can ask people not to use it, if I so choose. (I don't because I honestly don't care that much if there are photos of my home "out there".)

What bothers me is a platform that enables video recording covertly. I'm not bothered by the fact that people can bring phones into my house, and elect to take pictures or record video. I *would* be bothered if somebody came in and dropped a secret camera sending video wirelessly in traffic that doesn't go over my network. Glasses with videocameras in them commoditize that capability. Just because covertly recording video inside my house is *technically* possible today doesn't mean it's stupid to object to the proliferation and normalization of a commodity device that makes it easier to do.

Any of these can be activated without your knowledge.

They can't get traffic out of the house without my knowledge, which amounts to the same thing. These platforms tend to be widely scrutinized. What they are *not* are devices other people are bringing in to my home, and then recording me without my knowledge. At least a phone camera needs to have the phone out, generally facing in my direction

some people will even get out the phones while sitting on the toilet

Again, it's much more difficult to record me without me noticing. The whole "but there are cameras everywhere" argument treats every camera as the same thing. They are not, the differences int he platforms and formfactors that contain them matter.