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There are minimal buffers, regardless of the part of the cycle. Crude may need to be refined, but its just enough crude to refine just enough into gasoline just in time.

Even the “strategic reserves” that they released cant meet the demands beause those systems cant process the cached oil fast enough either. The US can only process something like 1 million barrels reserve/day, so its not comperable to a 15 million barrell/day disruption either.

Even the “safety system” cant keep up because Its just cut corners all the way down.

Because most system are run on a “just in time” model of logistics that means you dont store enough stock to cover emergencies, because storing extra stock costs money and may depriciate in value. So instead you get only the exact amount you need, when you need it.

Since every system is basicslly optomized to this cutthroat, zero reduancy way, we cant really just “take the hit” when 20% of oil/food/etc disapears overnight. It would be like telling people to “just eat 20% less” or " just drive 20% less." Both good advive, but we are creatures of habit that build routines around systems, so when someone fucks a system over, it causes rippling chaos. So what happens when 20% of a daily resource goes away in our global, market economy? All prices go up up! Then people have to break habits, and/or start breaking politicians. Well, we are in stage 1 and barely in the bad polling/protest stage of 2.

Past the first generation of Leafs when battery chemistry was kooky, it looks like EV batteries are lasting long term really well. With the moving parts reduced from something like 850 in a ICE car to something like 35 in an EV, its entirely likely EVs last way, way longer.

Its accurate. Home sales are public information. All the retalor sites pull from the same data.

Any non embedded link? Id rather watch this in a different format.

Likely just a factor of using a modern cellphone camera for the latter shot. They apply various “enhancements” on their own.

Bill hicks had it right.

You can likely sue them in small claims court. Many states let you file for a couple hundred dollars and will give you 3x damages if you win.

The most likely outcome is they settle when the court date approaches or dont show and you win hy default.

Back when I was riding regularly, I would start weaving back and forth in the lane whenever a car got to aggresive or started tailgating me. Just a gentle side to side bob.

People get suprisingly far away from you when it looks like youre going to lose control of a 600lb projectile a couple of feet in front of them.

We use these for soup:

https://www.soupercubes.com/products/silicone-food-freezer-trays?variant=45179217969378

Pricey for glorified ice cube trays, but really convinent to have the soup portioned to size.

Especially when one of the apps payment models is a monthly subscription. I hope most people have cancelled by now, but subscriptions tend to be sticky, which is partly why buisnesses like them so much.

Unfortunantly, the number 1 reason most safty things dont happen is cost. Red paint on a curb is way, way cheaper than a concrete bump out or other physical barrrier, and it occasionaly generates ticket revenue. Win win from a city budget perspective.

Its why bike lanes are often nice cheap white lines, or in exotic US locals pretending to care, slighlty less cheap green paint paths.

It was some wacky jurisdiction thing between the city, the market stewards that run the whole market, and individual car brained shop owners. The city has basically wanted to end customers entering for decades, but the market corporation was always resistant, probably due to dumb vendors.

Turns out wow, like literally every other shopping district that opens up space for bikes and people and reduces cars, foot traffic and sales are way up. This experiment, which has been tested 10s of thousands of times and always repeats the same positive results, did it again. The car brained vendors making more money still don’t like it, but whatever.

Hmm, my client Summit doesnt pull the AI tag over, but im seeing it on the web browser. I recall the AI feature being discussed, but thought it was mainly for self tagging. Nice to see mods/admins able to use it too.

Well thats disheartening. Thanks for the tips.

I dont read him as an LLM, just someone verbose. A couple accusation in thread isnt enough to prove it either way.

Is there some other evidence Im missing?

Likely some variety of hops they use in that beer. Cilantro apprently share some flavor compounds with hops.

Your taste buds also dull over time, so strong flavors get weaker.

The above is just modern network security. The model is called zero trust.

Zero trust assumes there is no implicit trust granted to assets or user accounts based solely on their physical or network location (i.e., local area networks versus the internet) or based on asset ownership (enterprise or personally owned). Authentication and authorization (both subject and device) are discrete functions performed before a session to an enterprise resource is established. Zero trust is a response to enterprise network trends that include remote users, bring your own device (BYOD), and cloud- based assets that are not located within an enterprise-owned network boundary. Zero trust focus on protecting resources (assets, services, workflows, network accounts, etc.), not network segments, as the network location is no longer seen as the prime component to the security posture of the resource.

Google pionerred it in the 2000s I believe, but its very normal now. A commom deployment will have an always on vpn agent on each device, which will then use mesh vpn tech like wireguard to do peer to peer connections between the client and server. There is no need for a central vpn controller. At most their is a dns-ish directory service that runs to let each agent queiry to get public keys for the other agents. Access is gated with RBAC and ACLs.

Tailscale is well known name that provodes this model. Netbird is a FOSS example.

Yup, its predictable. “No ads for money,” then “no ads for money and light ads for free” then “no ads for lots of money, light ads for money, unbearbale ads for free” is literally always the model these fuckwits push too now.