China stands as the largest importer of crude oil in the world, with nearly a fifth coming from Russia in 2024.
Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, these imports have increased from around 15.5% between 2018 and 2021. Beyond Russia, countries in the Middle East largely fuel the country’s oil demand.
China imports more crude oil from the United States than from Venezuela.
Okay, but if we post this shit it gets upvotes. And I crave online attention and validation.
The fact that nobody watched the damned thing but everyone seems to want to talk about it should say something about the state of American politics.
Users who aren’t verified as adults will not be able to access age-restricted servers and channels, won’t be able to speak in Discord’s livestream-like “stage” channels, and will see content filters for any content Discord detects as graphic or sensitive.
Shrug
I’m not using discord for porn, so I’m not going to lose sleep. Will simply live with a “teen” account until my groups migrate to a better service.
But you’ll get my biometrics from my cold dead hands.
They will also get warning prompts for friend requests from potentially unfamiliar users, and DMs from unfamiliar users will be automatically filtered into a separate inbox.
GOOD
Crazy they didn’t implement this years ago. Discord is bloated with fake user spam.
The S. irmelindicaprioae is named after Leonardo DiCaprio and his mother Irmelin Indenbirken.
They get you coming and going.
Gonna trade this life of fortune and fame
If I show up at this thing, I’ll need to change my name
Nobody wants to hear from a bunch of washed up hacks
When Bad Bunny’s tunes are bringing Ricky Martin back
Maybe try again latter when Don’s poll numbers aren’t in a pit
But for now, Kid, you’re on your own. Good luck with this shit.
American liberals spent YEARS fighting anyone who suggested racism was still alive in america.
The standard line was that racism was a Southern trait, while Northern and Western liberals had somehow expunged themselves of the habit. At the same time, you had liberals from the Carter era onward bemoaning failures within the African American and Latin American communities to integrate properly. It was always the minority’s fault for failing to conform. It was never racism among liberals that widened the divide.
Even to this day they won’t attribute racism in explaining ice’s actions. In fact most didn’t care how many people died at ice’s hands until white people got shot in the face.
You can run this all the way back to the LA Riots, easily enough. Nevermind the anti-Muslim racism of the post-9/11 era, the Obama-era backlash to civil rights movements during Occupy and then again during BLM. It’s always and forever the minority’s fault for objecting to oppression. People of Color are never sufficiently civil. They don’t respect the norms. They want special favors. They can’t be trusted to argue in good faith. They’ve got dual loyalties. They’re not real Americans.
Even when you have Obama or Harris on the fucking ballot, you need them or their proxies effectively apologizing for their blackness and denouncing anyone of color who doesn’t agree with their neoliberal politics.
In summary, americans, and yes american liberals are deeply racist, selfish and uneducated people.
I don’t think they’re uneducated. All too often, I’ve seen racism taught - implicitly or explicitly - as justification for the modern social order. They’re educated in bigotry. They’re trained to think like this.
TIL, my grandparents were white.
Petroleum? Oil’s at a five year low. The dollar could stand to be a bit firmer.
I heard Reza Pahlavi is wildly popular in Iran right now and Iranian locals are enthusiastic about seeing the Shah returned to power. Is this true?
What’s the lie about Ukraine?
Yaroslav Hunka scandal leaps to mind. But farther than that, it was the same old “it’s not going to be a quagmire”, “it’s not just about propping up the US arms industry”, “we have to fight them over there so we don’t have to fight them over here” line we’ve been hearing in every international theater.
Even the bit about Trump being “Putin’s Puppet” falls apart on any amount of historical interrogation. Trump was selling anti-tank missiles to Kiev as far back as 2018, three years before the Donbas invasion. He’d laid a bunch of sanctions on the country the first year he took office.
Then, as soon as Biden took office, he’s the one weak on Ukraine, according to the GOP.
Both parties egged their own supporters on by insisting the other party wasn’t Pro-Ukraine enough. Both parties insisted the other faction was “Communist”. Both insisted the other was a fifth column, trying to disarm the US from within. It was always and forever bullshit.
Why not both?
You’d absolutely need to do both, unless you wanted all sorts of malformed incentives.
Generally speaking, the revenue from a pigouvian tax needs to be spent mitigating the problem that generates the revenue. Otherwise, you end up with something of a Cobra Problem, wherein excess consumption is seen as a revenue driver that the state subtly promotes.
Isn’t this article about UK?
I’m just speaking from personal experience.
If you want to talk shit about the UK, you can always point to HS2. Cancelled out of spite by the outgoing Conservative government. Chronic mismanagement of the rail network has been a lead weight around the British economy for decades.
How is the Loonie still losing to the dollar? The Euro is running laps around USD. Carney, get your shit together.
Even then, a 37% markup on $37k is only CA$50.7k
I mean, alternative means of mass transit would be the most effective policy. But we can’t even get a rail line between Houston and Dallas, despite the airspace maxing out and there existing an enormous profitable and general economic benefit to its construction.
Taxes keep the marginal participant out of the market. But the real goal should be to move people and cargo at maximal efficiency, not just to hobble lower income travelers with a consumption tax.
If the pricing was similar and one airline had a lower carbon print
Price and emissions tend to track one another, as the price of fuel is heavily baked into the cost of the seat. And everyone flies the same aircraft models. It’s not like there’s a “Low Emissions Boeing” or “EV Airbus” you can select.
If I have a choice between two flights A and B, based exclusively on CO2 emissions, the only thing my selection changes is my body weight/luggage added to the flight. But the emissions calculation (as I understand it) is the total anticipated CO2 of the flight divided by the number of seats. And the bulk of those emissions come from lifting the plane itself, not the individual passengers.
The plane still flies whether or not I’m on it, though. So my choice of flight does not really impact emitted carbon.
I guess heavy luggage might impact emissions marginally. But do you really believe the flight is staying on the tarmac because you didn’t book a seat?
Mitsotakis is not Cypriot.
He’s the President of the government that claims the Greek-Nationalist occupied end of the island.
Greece pinned its hopes to normalization with “longtime NATO ally” and regional bully to a europeanization of the relationship
How do you Europeanize your relationship when you refuse to see your neighbor as European?
Berkshire Hathaway is heavily invested in this technology.