A scenario where the US stops its war on Iran but Iran continues to retaliate and keep oil prices high would truly be a nightmare, and not an unlikely one
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A scenario where the US stops its war on Iran but Iran continues to retaliate and keep oil prices high would truly be a nightmare, and not an unlikely one
Google, AWS, Oracle, Nvidia, Microsoft offices & data centers are on Iran's response plans.
Jim Cramer suggests on CNBC that Trump could “bomb Tehran into the Stone Age” until Iran reopens the strait, citing U.S. bombings of North Vietnam in the 1970s. Carl Quintanilla points out to him that Hanoi won that war.
Billionaires’ % share of federal election spending in:
2008: 0.3%
2024: 19%
@nytimes.com #GildedAge
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Seems like incinerators could be a bit cleaner to the local community than they are, but overall they're better than the landfill for a lot of reasons.
If you live in Montgomery county MD, plant based trash bags (like those from Inwaysin) require less oil to manufacture and release less greenhouse gas on disposal than plastic trash bags.
Mostly because Moco incinerates trash rather than let's bio waste decompose anerobically in a landfill.
“War is a sociological safety valve that cleverly diverts popular hatred for the ruling classes into a happy occasion to mutilate or kill foreign enemies.”
~ Ernest Becker, American cultural anthropoligist (1924-1974)
I understand that there are a lot of folks on the left who instinctively recoil from religious language, and with good reason given its use by the right.
But please listen to this, and focus on how he's trying to realign "Christian values" so they align with and advance progressive policy goals.
For the love of God stop moving the clock and just pick one. The number is arbitrary, it doesn't matter which one you pick. Just stop messing with it.
The kids and the dogs are very confused. Id say the cat too, but let's be honest, it doesn't care.
Just noticed that my microwave oven miraculously is showing the correct time again.
Traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has ground to a virtual halt, unleashing the most severe energy crisis since the 1970s. on.wsj.com/4rhSXCo
"the Shaquille O'Neal of girls' basketball" scored 40 points going 18 for 20 against UMD.
Incredible story about some ill wager a lot of people wouldn't expect this story to be about just looking at pictures.
Change your idea of what's possible and the impossible starts to happen.
Just realized that the Iraq War (2003) is as far in the past for my youngest son (b. 2023) as WW2 was when I was born.
When Anthropic announced the start of testing on Friday, security vendors, and the markets, sat up and took notice. But is the panic warranted?
www.csoonline.com/article/4136...
For those of you who'd like to read it, instead of shaking your fist at half the title, here you go:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Had to doublecheck the date on this
Based on reading one (1) book about Iran and looking at a map of the region I have questions like “what happens if a civil war spurs a refugee crisis spilling over into Pakistan? Could that trigger a coup in a country with nukes? How would India react to that? What about Israel?”
Sidebar but I am reading about India/Pakistan partition and boy religious nationalism leads to some really bad places, probably should stick with liberal pluralism.
Without Trump’s trade wars since 2017, US exports to China would have been nearly 60 percent higher in 2025, or roughly $90 billion annually.
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Republicans screamed to high Heaven about the U.S. not evacuating friendlies from Afghanistan, but today Americans, and not just diplomats, are trapped in-theater while we wage war on Iran because nobody made a plan for them.
I know that the people who need to read this aren’t here, but here goes:
Rules of engagement aren’t for the enemy. They’re for you. They’re for your soldiers when they’re captured or wounded. They’re for your civilians when they’re in range of the enemy. They’re for your allies, to reassure.
Seems bad
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I understand media is a tough business. All too well. But the problem of paywalls is serious -- good information is often behind the wall and the lies and disinformation are free. (Not counting public media obviously.) So if you want to help inform your fellow human? POST. THE GIFT. LINK. 😘
We are officially doing too much. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/u...
The Whooping Crane Recovery Shows What We Stand to Lose www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/o... #endangeredspecies
“It’s a little bit like asking, when the Archduke Ferdinand got killed, what the macroeconomic consequences would be, and having no idea what was next,” Mr. Rogoff said. “When World War I started, everyone thought it would end in a month.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/b...
"The US-Israeli operation that killed Iran’s Supreme Leader has done what 4 years of Russian budget planning could not: push the price of Russia’s crude oil back to the level Moscow needs to fund its war against Ukraine."
