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Seems to me to be too early to say but that is certainly the risk.

So Yanbu is THE major Saudi export hub for oil that doesn’t rely on the strait. So yeah.

Trying to figure out how much hyperbole there is in his concern.

On the one hand, Saudi and even Qatar are not dominant players in gas. On the other hand (I just learned from an Odd Lots podcast on the subject) NG is far more expensive to transport and the logistics are very sticky due to pipelines and long term contracts. It’s not as much as a ‘one global market’ as oil is.

I don’t know this guy, but he’s a macroeconomist who is followed by some respectable people and JD Vance.

Just Asking Questions about whether Charlie Kirk was assassinated to facilitate the Israeli desire for war with Iran.

So is this Iran accepting the ultimatum, but phrasing it as their own ultimatum to sound better?

Wow.

The dude got his first star before TNCR existed and was a four star in 2007. How young would you expect him to be today?

@Renauda said:

So now a robot will micro inspect for any and all regular wear and tear blemishes that just might occur while a person rents a vehicle. It will ensure that no one will ever again just pay the rental fee without incurring extra charges on return for what the robot determines is damage to the vehicle.

I’ll keep an eye out for any unexpected credit charges.

I think Caligula became emperor on this day too.

Saw these together.

Both I’d say.

They’ve installed machines that looks like a small automatic car wash when you drive in (by size and shape at least) that uses AI to record your exit and entry and apparently looks for damage and compares how it went out to how it comes back.

You don’t stop in it but there are a pair of speed bumps inside it which make sure you go slow.

Here’s the only picture I could find online. In the wild the metal enclosure is deeper - deep enough to get a 360 view of a large car, pickup, or van. And they are installed outside in the lot, not in a garage (at least at RDU).

In NC it was $3.70 for regular and $4.50 for 93 octane (rounding up the decipenny)