Quote from: RE on Oct 03, 2026, 10:29 AM

Quote from: TDoS on Oct 03, 2026, 07:47 AMI have no evil intent.

It's not Intentional, it's Inbred.

RE

Well, while I admit to having been raised in the midst of the classic Appalalchian 'holler, I know who both parents were, and they weren't related. So no, no inbreeding that I know of going back at least 3 generations. And by then those folks were mixed eastern european and Irish, so unlikely any inbreeding that far back either.

And again, assigning "evil intent" to someone who just studies, postulates, does the science and builds econometric models that benefitted by being right in the exact moment when the peak oilers were at their apex...hey....it is only fair I can kick back and coast on my well earned professional reputation at this point.

Quote from: K-Dog on Oct 03, 2026, 09:05 AMTHIS PAGE, look at the top of this pay and refresh a few times.  There are only a few banners in rotation, 4 or 5.  And you have watched this page load at least 100 times.

GOT IT!!! Well there you have it. I hit one of these forum pages and go right to the text. Never even noticed that Surly reference at all.

I HAVE watched the page load more than 100 times....I just don't pay any attention to the top. Why would I? My intent is simple...."are there any new posts AFTER my last one". As there are only the 3 of us kicking around, anything other than that is irrelevant. I've got reddit for full-scale wide band doom of all kinds, including Surly's aggregation.

Quote from: K_DogSo it appears you are a robot who just busted yourself.  No tokens for you.

Good to know! You are not real.

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RE

Damn, music to code by 😀

Same reason the FSoA hasn't gone bankrupt yet.  Unlimited credit.

The Saudis are sending 100,000 Grunts to take the coast back from the Houthis.  That's a mighty big molehill.

RE

Quote from: TDoS on Oct 03, 2026, 07:47 AMI have no evil intent.

It's not Intentional, it's Inbred.


RE

Quote from: TDoS on Oct 03, 2026, 07:47 AMAs for Surly, I pay no attention to your front page.

There you go, I really don't have to argue with you, you trip over yourself all the time.  Really, all I have to do is wait.

THIS PAGE, look at the top of this pay and refresh a few times.  There are only a few banners in rotation, 4 or 5.  And you have watched this page load at least 100 times.

So it appears you are a robot who just busted yourself.  No tokens for you.

Good to know! You are not real.




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Quote from: K-Dog on Oct 02, 2026, 05:58 PM

QuoteYour claim of "trust" is just a polite way of saying anyone  outside your approved political lane should be dismissed on sight.

When their intent is evil, absolutely.

There is no excuse for you not to know that Surly is linked on the top of the page.  Is this your way of trying to pull on me what they tried to do to Jack Smith?  That would be so if I let your oversight pass.

I have no evil intent. Never have. My clinical observation of folks who have interesting..... perspectives....has been discussed before. I haven't thought of the title to any paper I might write some day when I'm bored...don't know if it should lean peak oilers specifically, or the doomer niche at large. <shrug> I've got a to-do list that will last until I die, who knows if it rises in priority or not.

As for Surly, I pay no attention to your front page, I just beam in to the forum. I have SEEN your front page, the only thing of note was the CO2 tracker, I liked that. But the rest of it? Wild color schemes, topics of minor interest at best and seemingly a unidirectional doom scroll. Sort of like Surlys I guess. I prefer his organization of it is all. 

Quote from: RE on Oct 03, 2026, 12:11 AMNo, because the War between Yemen & Saudi adds to the war between Israel & Iran, and the Yemenis are allied with the Somalis across the straight in Africa, bringing another continent into the expanding conflict.That conflict hooks to the Ruskie-Ukie war in the Caspian Sea, while NATO countries are getting incursions by Ruskie drones as well.  In Africa you also have conflict growing in Ethiopia and Kenya.
RE

I see. Best described as "make a mountain out of a molehill" theory of geopolitical doom. Or butterfly wing effect, instead of hurricane in the GOM, but a super-region war.

I think you had a better chance a decade ago at being right about Elon going bankrupt on Tesla. I'll go with the current hypotheisis being far less likely than that one. 

No, because the War between Yemen & Saudi adds to the war between Israel & Iran, and the Yemenis are allied with the Somalis across the straight in Africa, bringing another continent into the expanding conflict.  That conflict hooks to the Ruskie-Ukie war in the Caspian Sea, while NATO countries are getting incursions by Ruskie drones as well.  In Africa you also have conflict growing in Ethiopia and Kenya.

RE