Benn Herrera

NYT: Iran War Live Updates: Oil Tops $100 a Barrel as Attacks Spread Across Middle East [[Global oil prices surged despite pledges from the United States and other countries to release reserves]]. Airstrikes shook Beirut and Tehran, and more ships were attacked in the Persian Gulf.

They surged despite promises from the US?
It's... it's almost like they don't trust the US government! How could this possibly be?

Re-sourcing the Mind The Convivial Society: Vol. 5, No.

theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/re-sourcin...

Fantastic article with another take on exactly this. Writing is thinking that employs instruments outside the skull in addition the one within.

Epstein had two key aides - why do they still control his money and secrets? Richard Kahn and Darren Indyke administer Epstein’s estate - court filings allege complicity in his crimes.

Long article, worth the read.

This ain't going away.

Next, he'll make them dance.

NYT: How Trump and His Advisers Miscalculated Iran’s Response to War In the lead-up to the U.S.-Israeli attack, President Trump downplayed the risks to the energy markets as a short-term concern that should not overshadow the mission to decapitate the Iranian regime.

I don't even know where to start here.
Miscalculated implies any calculation at all, which ain't what happened.
They just started 💩💩ing munitions and hoped for an outcome aligned with their aims.
Spoiler alert: it wasn't freedom, justice, or a 1/2 price Happy Meal

November is coming.

Indeed, worth the read.

This deserves way more love!

Remember this? When Schumer and Dem Senate leadership had the leverage to demand real changes on the ground and then pissed it away?

I wonder if we'd be in the middle of an illegal shit show of a war right now if those Vichy Senators had actually held the fucking line.

The moment the Schumer and Dem leadership ok'd separating DHS from the rest of the budget they lost all leverage to affect the situation on the ground. It was capitulation masquerading as principled resistance.

I did not see that coming. JMFC. If I had seen that as a kid I have no idea what that would have done to me.

I don't even know where to start with this, so I'm just not gonna.
Read my post history to get a sense of where I stand.
If you feel the need to block me, do what you gotta do.

Two things:
1. Where did you see me claim 100% innocence or raise any defense for crimes? Read my post history.
2. The responses I'm seeing are not someone who wants to engage on the topic, they want to assert they are right and I'm wrong, full stop.

I'm bowing out of this conversation.

That's a lot of assumptions.

I have family who have served on the sharp end and in the hospitals where the casualties come back.

Is there an ounce of 'rah rah' jingoism in anything I wrote?

Blanket statements about everyone in uniform is venting, not discussion. Which is fine if you need to vent.

People are (understandably) charged and angry on the topic. If this is the "I need to vent and don't give a shit" thread, that is a legit usage for social media and I'll just back away slowly.

Dude, you're way smarter than this. I've been following you and reading your comics. Love your stuff. This reads as 'too angry to actually mentally engage with the topic', which I totally fucking get.

I'm not saying there's no culpable service members, but you're trading in simple absolutism here.

Nice. Way to be reductionist about this. That is how you get blocked (like you just did)

I absolutely despise the orange drip of shit and his cronies, but can't agree with this.

The vast majority of those in the military didn't choose to serve this regime and the position they are in is more complex than a satisfying polemic can address.

Note: ICE is being used to do what they won't.

NYT: Here’s the latest. Oil prices fell and U.S. stocks rose Monday afternoon, after President Trump told CBS News that the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran “is very complete, pretty much.” Mr. Trump, who had predicted a duration of four or five weeks, said in a phone interview with the CBS reporter Weijia Jiang, “We’re very far ahead of schedule.” His comments appeared to ease market fears of a prolonged war, and the resulting oil price spike and trade disruptions, that could badly wound the global economy. The international benchmark oil price, which had topped $90 on Friday, briefly jumped to almost $120, then fell after the Group of 7 wealthy nations said they were considering intervening to bring prices down, and fell again after Mr. Trump’s remarks, ending the day below $90. The war has all but halted ship traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, the conduit for about one-fifth of the world’s oil.

The "lalalala everything is normal" crew are writing the war news.

Quoting incoherent, data-free babble and covering it as if it were an acceptable statement of unremarkable quality is collaboration.

It is already a hard year and will get harder, but this is the year we topple the regime.

Kessler syndrome - Wikipedia

Increasing that satellite population that much would be a colossally bad idea even before stuff falls back to earth.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler...

It could down human access to space for generations.

www.google.com/finance/beta...

There it is - I was looking at the wrong index.

Interesting. CNBC is a credible source. I wonder if updating the google data stream is part of the circuit breaker protocol (or some other innocent error) or if Alphabet is pulling the covers over it for as long as possible.

Thank you for the link.

Hang Seng Ticker for Mon, Mar 9 (Asia) with min loss -3.19%

not seeing down 8%.

www.google.com/finance/beta...

Dipped to -3.24% - is there some other source for the claim?

I'm fully expecting fiscal chaos, but not seeing this stat for today.

I hate everything about these fucking things.

Neal Stephenson, a million years ago, wrote about a similar tech in Snow Crash, and the users of it were social outcasts called 'gargoyles'.

I'd love to see that 'social outcast' prediction play out in reality.

Right?!

So... Fallout is going to slide from fiction to documentary just like Idiocracy did?

www.forbes.com/sites/simone...

I wonder if Jax is going to update her lyrics. She'd do a great job ripping him (another) new one.

youtu.be/F9K5IS-inHs?...

That Salem's Lot gif basically recreates what lived in my head for like 10 years after seeing that movie as a kid.

Kristi Noem Survived Many Crises. Then She Crossed a Trump Red Line. President Trump, who values loyalty, has at times tried to distance himself from his administration’s own actions when they become politically toxic.

A journalist won the arm wrestling match for the one.

Noem wasn't fired for the things that will get her an economy ticket to The Hague. It was for mildly discomfiting her boss.

The midterms cometh. Tick tock, motherfuckers.

Dammit, good pun. Now I'm jealous.

I wonder how many cronies and donors got a hot commodity investing tip last Friday.