[K-Dog]

And now the Communists have forced labor camps for the Uyghurs

Following ethnic rioting, and a series of deadly terror attacks within and outside Xinjiang which Beijing blamed on Uyghurs, President Xi Jinping launched a "Strike Hard Campaign against Violent Extremism" in 2014 that framed Uyghur identity as a security threat.

Seems that their supreme leader is responsible for their camps.  Communism would not have a supreme leader.  Communism has soviets.  Or are you just going to say you never asked a question about Uyghurs now.  As you seem to not know the difference between authoritarianism and communism that would be your next move.

[TDoS]

Granted, my sense of humor is somewhat idiosyncratic and not appreciated by everyone.  The reason I don't remember you is probably because you didn't laugh at my jokes and said nothing worth remembering.

Both of those conditions are likely to be true, you didn't tell any jokes, just threw out those little laughs on occasion as though you had, and I didn't say anything worth remembering.

I was there to see if the money you were investing in that little SUN exercise had any chance of being something. You did put significant resources into it if memory serves. After it was all over, the videos of your drunken scooter/ebike excapades, the commentary on the size of the liquor bill for the sales pitch on local political "intelligentsia" (otherwise known as "southern crackers" perhaps?) all seemed a bit...pricey for the final result.

Wendy gave me the impression that the entire exercise was designed to find support for a theme park showing people how great it would be to live Amish or something similar. As though taking a trip to Amish country wouldn't suffice?

I do remember vaguely meeting a somber little man in disheveled clothing I though might be a homeless schizophrenic off his meds and discussing electric scooters.  He didn't identify himself though, I figured he couldn't remember his name.

I've got a solid 6-8 inches on you, and probably 100# at that point in time. And you never asked me to identify myself, I certainly wasn't about to hand you a business card knowing your propensity for cyber stalking. Although Haniel was gone by then I believe and you hadn't found a tech replacement to do your MIB routine on Diner members.

[TDoS]

Or are you just going to say you never asked a question about Uyghurs now.  As you seem to not know the difference between authoritarianism and communism that would be your next move.

Can't say I've asked many questions about Uyghurs, no. As far as not knowing the difference between communism and authoritarianism, well, we all have our specialties. Political distinctions are interesting to some I suppose, not sure why, but to each their own. My specialty pays quite well. Do you get paid well for knowing nuances of various political definitions/organizations, or is it just a hobby to one-up other politically involved hobbyists?

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I've got a solid 6-8 inches on you, and probably 100# at that point in time.

Must have been someone else then.    I don't remember talking to any 6'2" Fat Guys, so if I talked to you, it wasn't very memorable.  Can't say for sure whether I told a joke or not, but it's irrelevant.  You don't recognize my jokes without clues, and I don't hand out clues, especially to fat trolls stalking southern redneck town fairs incognito.

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My specialty pays quite well.

Bragging about how much you get paid is a violation of the CoC.  3 Days in the Cooler.

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[TDoS]

I've got a solid 6-8 inches on you, and probably 100# at that point in time.

Must have been someone else then. I don't remember talking to any 6'2" Fat Guys, so if I talked to you, it wasn't very memorable.

More like 5'10". You are quite short. And I told you, there wasn't supposed to be anything memorable. I'm really good at what I do, if only demonstrated by the quality of my diet not changing at all in these hard times. Why did Wendy think you were setting up an amusement park to demonstrate how cool it was to be Amish? And you are pimping the idea in FARM country...to the LOCALS?

You just seemed to be there to entertain folks with that electric scooter thing.

Can't say for sure whether I told a joke or not, but it's irrelevant. 

I don't think you told any jokes. You just said stuff, and then gave that random laugh as though you did. Again, as I said before but perhaps you missed, it shows up all over the place in your videos as well. And when you talk. No jokes needed.

You don't recognize my jokes without clues, and I don't hand out clues, especially to fat trolls stalking southern redneck town fairs incognito.
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I don't recognize random laughter for whatever it is a symptom of either. And I was fat then. Lost 50# in the past 2 years though.

How long before you vast experience with suits and 3D printers is going to deliver the real world result of better tasting protein and more quantities of it?

[RE]

You are quite short.

Either you can't add or you're a poor judge  of height.   I'm not Joe Pesci.  I'm the same height as Tom Cruise. 😀

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[TDoS]

You are quite short.

Either you can't add or you're a poor judge  of height.   I'm not Joe Pesci.  I'm the same height as Tom Cruise. 😀

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Whatever you say. I am making my estimate based on how short you were compared to me. The 12 year old who came up and asked about your little electric skateboard thing was about your height, so my estimate seems pretty reasonable. 

[RE]

Whatever you say. I am making my estimate based on how short you were compared to me. The 12 year old who came up and asked about your little electric skateboard thing was about your height, so my estimate seems pretty reasonable. 

I was sitting on the scooter, dimwit.

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[TDoS]

I was sitting on the scooter, dimwit.
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No. You weren't. You had to get on the thing to show the kid who wandered by that you could do feats of daring do with it. All dressed in black, sort of like a small Johnny Cash. And how would you know anyway? You are the one claiming you don't even remember me being there and soaking more than half an hour of your time? And then I talked to Wendy, noticed Dave and Monsta sitting near her tent, and John explaining something undoubtedly bamboo-ish to others. Collected some literature. And then I left.

It was quite illustrative, in terms of getting a bead on who I had been dealing with.

[RE]

He said, she said. 🙄

At the time, I COULDN'T stand up without having something to  brace myself against, and even then only briefly.  Certainly did not stand talking to a boring fat man.

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[TDoS]

He said, she said. 🙄

Not at all. One of us has already described the events because we remember them. And the other has claimed no memory of said meeting. Your statement is contradicted by your previous claim of not remembering me at all. Tsk tsk.

At the time, I COULDN'T stand up without having something to  brace myself against, and even then only briefly.

Well, the "briefly" could certainly be less than 30 minutes or so, as for a minute or two you were wobbling around demonstrating the toy like nature of that little electric scooter thing was when you weren't standing.

Perhaps you were still loaded from all the partying that weekend, and you can explain being able to stand as you were half in the bag?

Certainly did not stand talking to a boring fat man.
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Like I said, you can't claim to remember something when you've already claimed not to. I can only relate the facts of the matter. Facts are handy when working as a scientist. And they are easier to have when not half baked from a party masquerading as a sales pitch for a Amish park of some sort.

How well did your memory hold up after those cocaine partys you've described back in your Wall Street days? Any better than just boozing it up all weekend with friends?   

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How well did your memory hold up after those cocaine partys you've described back in your Wall Street days? Any better than just boozing it up all weekend with friends?   

It works just fine.  It is selective though.  With people, I remember all the really hot women I ever met and anyone who had interesting ideas to chat about.  Anybody else is mostly a crap shoot, except for rude, fat, boring, stupid, anonymous and ugly people who I nearly always forget.  More than 1 of those attributes increases the chance you will be forgotten.  If the person also has interesting ideas besides being ugly for instance, it increase the chance I remember them.  So it's no surprise you didn't get a storage bin in the archives.


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CNN.COM 2026-06-15

US emergency oil stockpile tumbles to lowest since the Reagan administration

“We’re raising alarm bells right now,” Sommers told CNN’s Phil Mattingly on The Lead. “We’re getting to levels where we are starting to be concerned.”  Lipow said he thinks SPR releases may have to slow once the Trump administration is done releasing the 172 million barrels it pledged in March to release.

Meanwhile, the price of Oil is currently at $75/bbl.  This of course because now that Chump & the I-a-toldya have electronically signed an MoU that nobody has seen and millions of barrels are now streaming out of Hormuz on their way to Happy Motorists aaround the world, right?  I seriously doubt this.

What is much more likely is that Demand Destruction is beginning to set in, growth has slowed to a snail's pace and a recession is now being priced in to the futures trade.  Oil is selling at $74 because they're not finding enough buyers even for the restricted amounts now currently available at prices of $80 and up, so they have to lower the price.  This also why they are slow to invest in drilling new wells and ramping up production.  The price won't crank back up until real physical shortages start appearing in markets that can afford to pay the high prices, like the FSoA.  Supply & Demand.  This is still a ways off.  How long?  Maybe our resident expert can make a world class analysis.  Ideally, skyrocketing prices and physical shortages will show up in October, a month before the elections.  That would seal Chump's fate, if the elections aren't rigged or cancelled.

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[K-Dog]

What is much more likely is that Demand Destruction is beginning to set in.

Suppliers need a bargain since current energy prices can't be supported.  You are not going to pay a lot for something you can't sell at a high enough price to cover your costs.  The question is, is this a lagging indicator of economic conditions or is it a leading indicator of market expectations.  Or both.  It looks to be both.

Sort of like telling the waitress you will wait for the fresh pot of coffee.

Looking at the graph it looks like the demand destruction was manifesting as a straight line down.