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#91
Global heating / Central Japan cities hit 40 C,...
Last post by RE - Jul 23, 2026, 06:47 PM
Central Japan cities hit 40 C, officially marking first "kokushobi"
Three cities in central Japan on Tuesday reached 40 C, officially marking the country's first "kokushobi," or "cruelly hot day," since the weather agency introduced the term earlier this year to warn the public of extreme heat
New Motto: Land of the Burning Sun. 😎
I actually like this term. Much more pithy than "Hotter than Hell" or "It's like an Oven out there".
Wondering how the various Kokushobis are playing out with the Rice crop this year, combined with the fertilizer shortages? What will the harvest be like this year?
Tik Tok, tik toc...
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#92
Coping skills / Bemusements
Last post by TDoS - Jul 23, 2026, 05:00 PMQuote from: RE on Jul 12, 2023, 03:17 AMI don't have the same interests as when I was 18. I don't have different interests either. I no longer have interests. lol.
Well, ok, but admittedly you are more limited than in the past, and when limited, an interest can pass by. Like me, bum knee, would like to ski....but not about to ever.
Quote from: REFor lack of a better word, what I have now in place of interests are bemusements, the things around me which baffle me. Generally these things are related to human behavior or beliefs people have which defy reason or common sense and sometimes don't even have any purpose.YES!!! EXACTLY RIGHT!!!! DAMN has this been happening to me the day I discovered peak oil. Human beliefs that deny reason, common sense, hell SCIENCE!
Quote from: RE1) Like an Andy Warhol painting of a soup can being sold for millions.
2)Or Air Jordan sneakers selling on ebay for 1000s, when you can buy equally good sneakers without the name brand for a couple of hundred and quite good ones for $50.
3)Why do people like rap music or Sylvester Stallone movies? Why do they care about Kim Kardashian's divorce?
1) Because people with money need to make up stuff to pretend is important? Anyone can buy matching Mercedes Benz to show off, but lets see who can bid up a silly painting to the stratosphere!
2) See #1.
3) REALLY good bemusement. I like Stallone movies, some of them anyway, because they had underdog type hero themes. I have gotten over them since then as they became repetitive. Or any celeb and what dumbshit they are involved in any given week.
Quote from: REBemusements keep me going.
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Not me. Once a bemusement has been settled (people are stupid, repetitive movies are repetitive etc etc) I move along. Bemusement at peak oil amd its "experts" went way beyond just being bemused. It was absolute confusion on my part, no different than if Colin Campbell had declared 2+2=5 back in 1990 with great fanfare when he started the ball rolling, marking the beginning of the modern peak oil era.
#93
Peak oil / Shortsighted stock market can ...
Last post by RE - Jul 23, 2026, 04:55 PM
Shortsighted stock market can no longer brush off war: ‘It’s too hard to ignore $100 oil’
While the U.S. has conducted strikes against Iran 12 nights in a row — sending both oil prices and Treasury yields higher — domestic equities had mostly brushed off the idea of the war between the two countries heating up again, staying flat while oil jumped.
"Investors" live in the La-La land of the Ultra Rich. Remember, the investors who drive market prices aren't J6P with his IRA. They are the TBTF Banks, Hedge Funds, Sovereign Wealth Funds and Institutional Investors that control 90% of FSoA "wealth". These folks are still living inside thhe AI Bubble, convinced like Dot Com & Tulip buyers of yore that this amazing toy will perform the age old miracle of Making Something from Nothing. Ignore the P/E ratios, Ignore the Deficit, Ignore the people no longer listed as in the workforce, ignore the $25/lb Ribeye at the supermarket and follow Elon down the Yellow Brick Road and everybody will be rich beyond their wildest dreams!
TIME TO WAKE UP & SMELL THE COFFEE!
"In the short term, the elevated spike is more meaningful to the headlines than client portfolios," Tanney said. "If we have a sustained price above $120, that's the breaking point where you'll see serious trickle down effects."
No Michael, it doesn't take $120 Oil to have "trickle down" effects, we have been trickling here for months already, buffered somewhat by irrational exuberance and stockpiles of Oil just about emptied out. What you will get at sustained $120 Oil is GUSHER DOWN EFFECTS and many, many unhappy Konsumers in Amerika and Starving Children across all of Africa and South America.
If we're extremely lucky, nobody will blow off a "Nuclear Device" before the ball drops in 2027. Past that we're living on borrowed time.
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#94
Against War / Sane voices in an insane world
Last post by TDoS - Jul 23, 2026, 04:22 PMHoly Cow is that the Chris Hedges dude? The one that got tagged with plagarism and whatnot? Surprised he is still kicking....does anyone know what extra steps are taken with his work nowadays to make sure he isn't like....you know....most of the folks who do internet work nowadays and just seem to...SAY stuff.....?
#95
Peak oil / Oil supply
Last post by TDoS - Jul 23, 2026, 04:15 PMQuote from: K-DogSince you won't identify who you are, we could never send you any money for your sage advice. There's your tautology.
I recently responded to a post about the infamous Dan Jarvie, in which you certainly seemed to believe such a person was lurking right here on this website!
Are you saying you didn't mean to imply this person was here?
As far as me not identifying myself, that is just common sense! This is the internet after all, and Haniel did personally warn me about RE during the great "revealing" exercise. When I met RE, I didn't find him all that objectionable in person....more just....quirky. Nothing wrong with quirky.
#96
Against War / Sane voices in an insane world
Last post by K-Dog - Jul 23, 2026, 01:37 PM
The Darkest Hour Before the Dawn: On Collapse and Resistance
The key question isn't what are we going to do. We're not dealing here with a broken car engine. We're dealing with a spiritual being called the human, so the key question is: how are you going to live your life?
#97
War / US and Israel carrying out str...
Last post by K-Dog - Jul 23, 2026, 06:07 AMI saw one of these pictures yesterday, and I had to click away quick before I lost my shit.
POLITICO.COM • 2026-07-22
Trump's Saudi nuclear deal risks igniting a Middle East arms race, lawmakers warn
The agreement, which could let Riyadh enrich its own uranium within a decade, is sparking warnings that Turkey, Egypt and others could soon demand the same deal, unraveling years of U.S. nonproliferation policy.
So the country that flew jets into the Trade Towers and started the war on terror which completely changed the fabric of American life gets to have nukes. The same regime that cut Jamal Khashoggi into chunks small enough to put into a Safeway shopping bag gets to have nukes.
Do I have this right?
While another country with advanced medicine and who makes their own cars can't have nukes and must be Annihilated from the face of the earth because, if they had nukes it is a known fact they would let one of their nutcases use them.
Do I have this right?
The bullshit excuse to invade Iran no longer is needed apparently. That makes sense since Trump does not have a way to stop the war an excuse to keep it going is not needed.
And the Iran war is now old enough that most of America can be convinced that Biden started it anyway.
Those fucking Dems.
Trump's Saudi nuclear deal risks igniting a Middle East arms race, lawmakers warn
The agreement, which could let Riyadh enrich its own uranium within a decade, is sparking warnings that Turkey, Egypt and others could soon demand the same deal, unraveling years of U.S. nonproliferation policy.
So the country that flew jets into the Trade Towers and started the war on terror which completely changed the fabric of American life gets to have nukes. The same regime that cut Jamal Khashoggi into chunks small enough to put into a Safeway shopping bag gets to have nukes.
Do I have this right?
While another country with advanced medicine and who makes their own cars can't have nukes and must be Annihilated from the face of the earth because, if they had nukes it is a known fact they would let one of their nutcases use them.
Do I have this right?
QuoteWashington has spent decades enforcing severe economic sanctions, kinetic strikes, and intense military pressure against Iran specifically to dismantle its domestic uranium enrichment capabilities and block any path to a weapon. The official U.S. stance has long maintained that allowing regional states to master the nuclear fuel cycle introduces unacceptable proliferation risks.
The bullshit excuse to invade Iran no longer is needed apparently. That makes sense since Trump does not have a way to stop the war an excuse to keep it going is not needed.
And the Iran war is now old enough that most of America can be convinced that Biden started it anyway.
Those fucking Dems.
#98
War / Why would Trump agree to the S...
Last post by RE - Jul 23, 2026, 05:03 AM
Why would Trump agree to the Saudi nuclear deal?
Revelation of the Saudi deal comes as the Trump administration is trying to persuade Congress to fund a deeply unpopular war that it had no say in launching. Defense secretary Pete Hegseth says it has cost $37.5bn so far. That is about what it would cost for, say, a year’s rental assistance for 2.3 million low-income people, or to enable about 7 million people to maintain their health insurance.
EVERYBODY KNOWS the answer to that question. Just follow the $MONEY$ !! 🙄
Chump knows at best he only has 2 more years to grift as much money as he can from the FSoA Taxpayer and other corrupt Dictators he is pals with. He'll make any deal that will in some way transfer $BILLIONS$ into his pocket before he leaves the WH. He's jealous that so far Elon holds the record for most successful grifter of the FSoA Taxpayer and wants to catch him before leaving the Oval Office.
Far as the Saudi Nukes go, I already mentioned how it effectively Torpedos any justification for not letting the Iranians have their own Nuke program. You can kiss off Nuke Non-Proliferation, everybody and his brother is gonna want their own Nukes now. As I've mentioned before also, there's nothing secret or technically that difficult about building a Fission bomb. Anybody with a degree in Theoretical Physics from a decent University knows the principles and the engineering isn't very complex. Main problems are getting enough Uranium and Heavy Water to do the enrichment without accidentally starting a chain reaction during the processing.
Besides the Saudis and Iranians, folks currently without Nukes who could start building them who I'm sure have the technical wherewithal to do it right now are the Germans, Italians, Japanese, South Koreans, Brazilians, Argentinians, Egyptians, South Africans, all the Scandinavians and Baltics, Poland, Czechia, Australia and possibly Turkey.
I also could easily see a non-state actor with good financing producing a Turnkey "Suitcase" Nuke Prefab where all you need to do is Add U-235 and it's Ready to Blow. Not big enough to vaporize a whole city, just say lower Manhattan below Canal Street. lol. Pick up the Suitcase for $1M from an International Arms Merchant and another $1M for the Uranium. Or Plutonium, once somebody builds a Breeder reactor and wants to make extra money on the side.
Anyhow, one can only hope this Deal Fuckery by Dimwit Don is the final nail in the coffin and the Repugnants get thoroughly DEMOLISHED in November and lose both Houses of CONgress by a wide margin. Not counting on it, but one can only take a deep drag off the Hopium Bong.
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#99
Peak oil / Oil supply
Last post by K-Dog - Jul 22, 2026, 08:14 PMQuote from: TDoS on Jul 22, 2026, 06:37 PMQuote from: K-Dog on Jul 12, 2026, 08:08 AMAlso: If we can't afford your hourly rate, we don't want it.[/color]
Somewhat of a tautology isn't it? It isn't "don't want it", if you can't afford my hourly rate by definition you can't have it.
If you charge yourself some money, maybe you will come up with an answer. But it does not matter anyway. Since you won't identify who you are, we could never send you any money for your sage advice. There's your tautology.
#100
War / War with Canada.
Last post by K-Dog - Jul 22, 2026, 07:59 PMTrump likes to blow up bridges so don't be surprised.
MEDIAITE.COM • 2026-07-22
Bridge Too Far: Canada Cancels Border Crossing Ceremony After Surprise Trump Tariffs
A planned joint celebration between the United States and Canada to mark the opening of a new bridge named after hockey legend Gordie Howe was put on ice after President Donald Trump’s surprise 50% tariffs on America’s neighbor to the north.
The golden haired orange sage has declared that global heating is a liberul conspiracy, and a plot by the Dems. With assistace from Canada
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Therefore Canada must be making too much money off milk and cheese. They are heating up their own forests to induce combustion as a personal insult to embarrass his Trumpness. Sending the smoke south knowing it will make his eyes red.
Tariffs 50%, take that you Canukes.
Bridge Too Far: Canada Cancels Border Crossing Ceremony After Surprise Trump Tariffs
A planned joint celebration between the United States and Canada to mark the opening of a new bridge named after hockey legend Gordie Howe was put on ice after President Donald Trump’s surprise 50% tariffs on America’s neighbor to the north.
The golden haired orange sage has declared that global heating is a liberul conspiracy, and a plot by the Dems. With assistace from Canada
.Therefore Canada must be making too much money off milk and cheese. They are heating up their own forests to induce combustion as a personal insult to embarrass his Trumpness. Sending the smoke south knowing it will make his eyes red.
Tariffs 50%, take that you Canukes.