So sick
So sick
No biggie... just perhaps a working fundamental physics model of the universe.
Couldn't find an economy thread so whatevs.
what kind of record profits are we expecting from the gas companies after they don't lower the price of gas to reflect this? I mean, if I'm paying more for a gallon of gas than they do for a barrel then I had better see some hefty profits and stock value increases!
Good point, I was only looking at it from the consumer standpoint and not about the people who actually have to live with the price of the barrel. Man that sucks. I hope it turns around for you guys soon.
It won't. To make the oil here actually profitable (in terms of extraction and shipping for refinement) for us it needs to be around 75$ ... This, of course, is the fundamental problem with a "Boom or Bust" economy. Which, while we may not have been able to avoid we sure as hell could have mitigated the effects of through diversifying the economy any time in the past 40 years (OPEC crisis on forward). Good thing all those skyscrapers and condos were built with the hopes that people would, you know, rent or buy them. Our downtown was a ghost town before COVID but this is kinda ridiculous.
Now trading in the negatives.
Good analogy I saw (and since that tweet came out, it's now down to -37)
Let's imagine you're running a bar and you've got steady supply of customers so you make contract with brewery. They will deliver you 500 gallons of beer every week no matter what. Suddenly most of your customers are gone, but the beer kegs keep piling on. You fill the storages you have, there's that. Can't fit more in cleaning cabin or the bar.
But trucks bringing new kegs will keep pouring in. It's more expensive to cut the contract than to keep the kegs coming, so you just stack the kegs outside and tell people to come and take it. The problem is that there's really no capacity to take all the beerkegs anywhere.
Now, the cops walk by and see 1000 kegs outside your store and tell you you gotta get rid of it or you're gonna get fined and maybe shut down. Meanwhile another delivery arrives. You're desperate now.
You have to call people up and offer to pay them to take the kegs. Unfortunately, you find out other people also filled up all their storage with kegs too, and nobody wants to come take your shit, even if you pay them $10, $15, $20.
You are now standing on the street corner offering to pay literally anyone to take the kegs... and you're offering $20 (more than what you paid for it) for someone to god damn please come take these kegs I'll freaking pay you absolutely anything I swear to god! YOU! Take this keg! I'll give you $35! COME ON! PLEASE GOD DAMNIT!
Now that Trump has denied reports of Kim Jong Un's health as "fake news", I'm pretty sure he is, or was, in critical condition at some point.
Sure, why not?
May snowstorm 2020: Historic weather could hit Northeast
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/weather...-gl5WfLFHI9BZg
Yeah Chicago and Detroit etc. are under a freeze warning tonight. Which isn’t THAT unusual, actually. We’ve always been taught not to plant until after Memorial Day. Snow storm, though, that’s wacky.
I mean I probably could have put this in the @twitter thread but I think this is far-reaching enough to be seen by more than the handful of people who go that deep in the forum
also that was me if you've gotten a twitter follow request recently and your tweets are protected. not naming names, just friendly alert.
Go ahead and click through. See anything unusual about the tweet?
The tweet is set so that no one can reply?
So basically it was just a childish tweet?
Kind of doing your critics' work for them, twitter.
Hopefully this'll be a good thing to help cut down on the unsolicited bullshit.
Ohhhhhh, wait. So, users might have the option of turning off comments, like on IG?? Cause THAT would be fucking rad.
Edit: Yup, you’re right: https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/20/2...-conversations
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If Twitter wants to do this right, they'll make the feature unavailable to elected government officials at all levels, from small town mayors up to the Rage Tweeter in Chief.
The last American to collect a Civil War pension has died: https://www.washingtonpost.com/histo...outputType=amp
Try wrapping your head around that one. She was born in 1930 to a Civil War soldier who was 83 at the time. Because she was disabled, she qualified for a lifetime pension as the child of soldier.
Human remains found at crazy lady's new husband's house!!
https://idahonews.com/news/local/rex...-daybells-home
I respect your elucidation regarding this matter, you are far more informed than I am. Although I do agree in principal regarding this specific example; I remain cautions and alert in general to unwise reactions which attempt to make history more comfortable. It's just something I am quite sensitive to.
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