The New Coffee Room

Interesting ‘pressure index’ created by Deutsche Bank doing a kind of technical analysis on the TACO trade. [image: 1774489362923-img_1226.jpeg]

Interesting. So the cars you make can't run on the oil you harvest. Could cars be built to run on refined oil you harvest? I mean, some cars run on waste chip fat. Or perhaps I should ask, could refineries be built for your car production? Will your light crude oil run generators, or oil heating systems? Or does it have to be mixed with heavy crude first. Thank goodness we invented the battery/electric car around 1940 or the international petro-chemical industry might still be taking advantage🤪

I thought about that but I’m sore that’s a multi hour wait too from all the people who figured out they can feign a broken foot and ‘skip’ the line. I’ve gone through the wheelchair method before when I was really sick. It was pretty slow overall in normal circumstances even through you skip the security line. You go to a waiting area, wait in line for a clerk who enters your info into a system, then sit and wait for your guide. Can’t imagine how busy that system is during these times.

https://x.com/hilzfuld/status/2036812648696688657?s=61

I’m not a kinder gentler guy when on the road.

It means you bring up some really dumb rebuttals.

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I worked for a truly awful boss for what was an extremely long 10 years between 2003 and 2013, and so I'm willing to cut people a little slack. After he'd gone I realised I'd been suffering with fairly significant anxiety issues for over 5 years. Other people had got it worse - some quit, at least one had to take medical leave. We still talk about him now. His resemblance to the Lundberg character in Office Space was genuinely uncanny. [image: 1774262971039-828d87af-8482-452c-8282-fd7e4e810005-image.jpeg]

@bachophile said: and welcome to your new homeland, dont overdose on Fregola I find it quite tasty but will heed your words of warning from a man who surely knows the dangers of overindulging Israeli couscous . So much to learn in this new Old Mediterranean world.

Damn that's talent. https://x.com/BiancoDavinci/status/2035424038097448987?s=20

You know, I was watching the airport footage again. There are a full 8 whole seconds between when the firetruck began to cross the runway (and the truck/s behind it all stopped btw...) before the plane hit it. Yes the truck behind it completely stops (like they should at a stop sign), probably because they saw the plane. As much as they got the clearance to cross, this sure seems like it's 90% the fault of the firetruck driver for crossing without looking first for crossing traffic...the size of an airplane. https://www.reddit.com/r/airport/comments/1s1nhdm/air_canada_lga_crash_footage/

@89th said: Now it's hard to know which platform any given movie is on. I use Plex. It's a "free"--with ads streaming service. I don't think I ever watched a movie on the service but if you plug in the name of a movie you want to watch in its search engine it will tell you on what streaming service (if any) you can find it along with the year it was made, who was in it and a brief description. If there are more than one version of the movie it gives you them all (I recently looked up "Hamlet" and there were 30 versions.) It's a pretty handy feature.

Not sure about you but I think everyone uses a shithole, just sometimes it's nicer than others.

Oh yes, his head image on the small coins is awful. But there is something very distasteful and vulgar about this big bling image of him, leaning aggressively forward with clenched fists.

Awesome! I love it when we actually spend time irl with our friends from the forums.

@jon-nyc said: Sweet. Congratulations! My Baldwin should be here the beginning of May at which point we both shall be ready for you to come and forget the word bosendorfer

heh. https://x.com/RichardHanania/status/2036101728832270698?s=20

@Klaus said: [image: 1773944098852-pxl_20260319_112545987.mp-resized.jpg] Another angle with a stronger hint Great pics!!

And miss out on the fascinating detail?

@jon-nyc said: I witnessed it in India. Same. I would have thought India would be higher, but 5-10% of 1+Billion people is still a lot.