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The Houthis have now seized control of Bab al Mandab cutting off the supply of oil and gas from Saudis to world markets...and potentially - cutting off global trade via the Suez canal.
Will USA expand its war to take back control of this shipping route?
The bizarre thing is that the internationally recognised government of Yemen is aligned with ISIL and AL Queda who fight the Houthis alongside the government.
If USA goes in there they will be fighting alongside ISIL and AlQueda.
@coffeebadger and @Cje95 - what should the petrodollar emperor with no Interceptors TACO Trump do?
Send in the SEALS to fight alongside ISIL and AlQueda?
$10/gallon gas prices in time for the Mid Terms?
Suez-Hormuz-Bab al Mandab
End of the Zionists petrodollar puppet empire.
It's a new day, it's a new life.
"Don’t just go with the flow like most people do."
My youngest didn't get to ride in the cybertaxi #1570731 and he wanted to relate his adventures:
Life's pleasures: health, family, money, and this thing:
I can't stop snacking on roasted sunflower seeds, so good.
Shelled?
I used to be a smoker, and the oral fixation of opening the seed is really the only thing that compares to it. Get me going and I can fill bowls with the shells.
I get them with the shell, can't escape the dopamine reward loop. It doesn't help that they basically taste like potato chips (oil).
They're a good reminder that I'm not a great multi-tasker, as they quickly hijack my focus if I try to eat them while doing anything more than listening to or watching something.
I made carmelized onions again today. The amount of time required makes it easy to forget how good they are.
Did you add a sweetener or just use the natural sugars from the onions?
100% natural sugars from the onions. It takes 4 hours and 5 pounds of onions reduces to 1 cup of carmelized onions.
I skipped the effort and purchased a carmelized-onion-apple-brie danish recently. It kicked ass.
What did you make?
We made a BOC - bacon onion and cheddar sandwich. I just wanted to have some around. we’ll probably add them to eggs and stuff for the next week or so
That sounds delicious.
Did not know that the "b" in wei dai's b-money stood for "burn"
source
All this time I thought there was an a-money whitepaper that I hadn't read.
https://twiiit.com/weidai11/status/2099239704184943077
teaser
SNZ #70 is complete
Find web version up on github
however I'll be posting the order link tomorrow
once I'm ready to receive your orders for prints!
Houthis taking over Yemen and blocking Saudis oil and gas exports via Bab al Mandeb.
US military over stretched due to Trumps support for Zionists Greater Israel Project.
TACO Trump Trashing the Petrodollar Empire.
$10/gallon gas by November Mid-terms?
@coffeebadger is crying in denial.
Hope is not a strategy. If you wanted the US to have higher gas prices, you should have given Venezuela better anti-air defense.
Good luck with Venezuela and getting around their Constitution.
Even Chevron are not going in there.
You're not going to red-tape your way out of this one, commie.
Daily ~Designer Quote #0018
Challenging the Petrodollar Hegemony
Twitter and nostr embeds are too unreliable. Might be time to find an alternative means of embedding or stop embedding them.
njump is injecting cloudflare trackers on the embed:
That one can probably be handled with a local caching ws client instead of the 3rd party one.
X... is one big tracking fest. Could snap an image and serve that though.
for nostr, use bxrd.app /note or /user
only gotchya is WoT gating on the indexer, so new accounts with no reputation may not be indexed
ugh.
That's what I've been wanting to do.
Would probably have to snap nitter - although we pay for X's api for posting to the
stacker_newsaccount so we might be able to just cache the data and render it ourselves.https://github.com/zedeus/nitter
I was about to experiment with a custom nitter embed and I just found out that nitter got a cease and desist from X. Last week they updated the
READMEsaying that the nitter project could continue but the repo got archived a couple of days ago ...Also TIL that you can only publish screenshots of tweets on Substack.
In that case...
Finally, spam got silenced. In both cases the boost now outperforms the downsats, yet there's no trace of the posts in LIT anymore.
Thanks k00b?
Expect this to be the half-life algo
Yes, the downzaps are newer than the boosts.
Do downzaps have more weight now, depending on when they have been delivered?
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Alby hub send and receive wallet failing for me.
What's the error?
Receive:
ERROR[alby]failed to create invoice: timeout after 20s ```' Send:[alby]
payment canceled by system
This can as far as I can tell be caused by:
If it worked the past 3 days it's unlikely to be a bug on the SN side
It worked fine the past few days. I can use the alby go wallets connected through the hub to send elsewhere.
When you retest send/receive now, do they pass? Or also time out?
Timed out. I'll be driving for an hour. I'll check later.
In the meantime, I checked some NWC connections through relays like
nos.loland those work. The only SN-side thing I can think of is when the SN worker processes would all get banned from all relays that you have in your connection string.(makes note to self that, despite not really wanting to and it being a bit risky, it would be helpful for me to run alby hub myself in production)
I'm backing up family photos on a new server and I just uploaded the Halloween 2008 folder. Damn, I looked young the day the white paper was published!
hahaha
I feel this every time I shave, which I totally slack on because I only work remote and I stopped going to events. My white beard is making me look ancient and I don't feel that.
I have the white beard thing going too, and being retired, I don't tend to it much either.
I was retired! I'm such a fuckup, lol.
At least you are forced to look presentable once in a while.
It's all tradeoffs in the end!
Back-to-school blues aggravated by the fact that I had to take care of my first-grader’s son’s stuff first. Forced him to empty his bag, clear the staples and whatnot, sharpen his colour pencils and generally get everything in order. But before I could yield to rest, I had to rush to the photography studio to print out a photo of my four-year-old daughter. Upon reaching home, I had to help her make a photo frame so that she could submit her home project. Only then could I get ready for school.
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Really good vid talking about how parents' addiction and consumption have affected their children. It aligns with my concern for young girls and boys, and it's already happening in some countries.
Cologne for babies made me want to cry. Where are we headed?
This is what we used to worry about with social media, e.g. the data patterns from your child's YT or IG doomscrolling addiction was probably the most profitable thing you could extract from kids, until now, because now the brand loyalty thing is probably beating that.
thank you for sharing this. it's quite scary.
if we don't help build low time preference for the next generation, we're doomed. i came in with a solution, spent a lot to boost it, yet @k00b and his gang keep downzapping me.
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Yesterday's Most DownZapped posts
"A pile of shit can sometimes hide a gem. Keep looking, you might find one."
@Author22 posts downzapped in total. Check the full list https://stacker.news/top/posts/custom/r/06bc1a977d?by=downsats&from=1789189200000&to=1789275599999.
Total amount downzapped: https://stacker.news/rewards/2026-09-12