The New Coffee Room

I wonder what price of oil is required at equilibrium to destroy 10% of global demand. And 20%, etc.

I have a cheap digital scale from Etekcity which connects to an app which connects to Apple health app. So as long as I have the scale sync app open when I weigh myself it flows through to Apple health automatically and immediately. The graph I posted came from Apple Health.

He’s putting his name on all the currency.

Someone on Twitter pointed out Trump started out the year talking about affordability, then with the Iraq war, made one of the few policy decisions Trump could that would simultaneously raise gas prices and mortgage rates.

It could also be that they thought the Iranian Delcy Rodriguez would come from there so they spared it for some time.

I see this breaking news and my first thought is, how does it still exist one month in?

Not that I don’t trust the two militaries to prioritize targets, but still I’m surprised it didn’t rank high enough to be destroyed yet.

IRGC Joint Staff HQ under U.S. Israel Attack

Nate is tracking support for the war. He says that by and large Americans don't support the war unless they're MAGA voters (notwithstanding the loss of some of the influencer population per @horace). So that 39% is probably maga+neocons for the most part.

At some point even many of those against the war will see the need to carry on.

BlackRock CEO Larry Fink: "If the war stops but Iran remains a threat… we could face oil above $100, even near $150 for years."

I wonder if it still counts as revenge if he liked it.

I’m sure he did, the question is whether he remembered it.

In my experience in the US most hotel gyms (of the chain type) have dumbbells up to 50, a lonely bench or two, a tall pulley machine for doing the myriad things you can do with one of those, and a long line of treadmills. I usually see most people on the treadmills, maybe me and another middle aged guy using the weights. Unless I go in the afternoon, then it's just me.

Some of the higher end hotels that are huge AND near large city conference centers have really impressive gyms. They look like a regular gym without the barbells (must be a liability issue). Vegas hotels also have some impressive gyms.

I visited some German friends decades ago when they lived in Treviso (they long since moved back to Germany). It doesn't get a lot of tourists, and they took me to a lovely restaurant that had its own vineyard. My buddy said the first time he went there he ordered a coke and they practically kicked him out. The only beverages they had were water, wine, and grappa. That's when I first had grappa. I had it a few times on that trip but I don't think since.

Yeah, I don't approach if they're chatting. More common here is people taking unreasonably long phone breaks between sets. When I nicely ask 'how many sets do you have left'? that usually speeds them up. It certainly does speed me up.

True, that.

@Mik said:

Yeah, I wondered about the travel. Makes it tough.

I generally try to keep up my exercise when traveling. For example with the boy on the west coast, I purposely chose hotels over Airbnbs so I could have gym access (I don't always do this but given the weight loss I wanted to this time). Of course their gyms sort of suck usually, but they're better than nothing.

Tomorrow I'm off to Thailand and my Bangkok hotel has a gym. We'll spend four days at a resort in Krabi that doesn't but they do have bikes and I'll go for long brisk walks in the morning.