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Why would any producer in the US sell it locally if they could get more by shipping it?

The real question then is how quickly export ban can be implemented?

About as quickly as the Canadian Oil patch would be flooded with money. All that would do is push oil investments out of the country, and your surplus would become a deficit in the drop of a hat.

Oil is not a single good. Different types of crude produce different products at various grades hence why diesel is so expensive in the US compared to something like natural gas

Since oil companies will make good money from the price hike and exports, I guess they’ll lobby against an export ban?

Why do you think Republicans would institute an export ban? Trump has been touting every export deal he can (especially promises to purchase petroleum), he has even been measuring import/export levels as if foreign countries are cheating the U.S. if they export more to the U.S. than they import from it.

I am not confident that the Democrats would even implement such a ban, as they get pretty big campaign donations from the oil industry as well.


It also wouldn't work. The US has refineries which can only run on various foreign import grades of oil.

The US produces oil which goes to foreign refineries for the same reason.

The effect of "banning exports" is non obvious.

Conversely not starting a war with Iran had some really obvious benefits that every previous administration recognized.


Bourdain worked for them after that

He did it because he had principals.

OpenAI the opposite.


He had principals, while OpenAI had agents?

More likely it's because a million dollars one way or the other won't make a difference in the hole they are digging / mountain they are building.

It likely cost them more than a million in compute to solve it…

We know that it did.

most of my group chats have moved to signal.

Lucky you. I've only managed to move my family to Signal, but everything else is still on Whatsapp.

You can ask the same question of the US. They're the only ones to have actually used them (and they try to justify it still).

For all those who are about to reply saying it was justified because it saved American lives, why didn't you use it Afghanistan or Iraq?


Almost nobody today was alive when the US used nuclear weapons. We can ignore them at this point.

Judge the current US policy by the current US.


>Judge the current US policy by the current US.

Then it is obvious we need to preemptively nuke the USA right now.


Are you for real? That was 81 years ago, which is actually less than some US states average lifespan.

There are roughly 12 million Americans over the age of 80.


They were still children at the time. Maybe a handful were adults, but even then just barely.

> Almost nobody today was alive

I guess children aren't alive.


US lost 2500 soldiers in Afghanistan between 2001 and when Trump betrayed his country to appease Putin.

Okinawa alone cost 12,000 US soldiers. With 100,000 to 150,000 civilian deaths.


My wife has gone through a large number of iPhones in the past 14 years, where as I've had a total of 2 android phones. Way easier to repair, and add software well past the end of life date.

Why has she gone through so many iPhones? I’m typing this on my iPhone 12 from 2020. Before that I had an iPhone 6s from 2015. I’m considering upgrading this year, but I could hold off for another few years if I wanted to. My phone still runs like it did when it was new. I get through most days with 60%+ battery remaining.

The biggest problem with my phone is modern software bloat. I only have the 64gb model. Modern software - especially iOS itself - has gotten ginormous. Every time a patch comes out I’ve gotta delete a bunch of stuff in order to update. And running unpatched software seems pretty dangerous right about now.


They were slowing down to the point of unusable.

I had a Galaxy S3 from 2012 to 2024, then got a hand me down Galaxy S9 for free.

I don't like that I can't remove the battery, but it's got a SD card so I don't have to worry about storage ever and a headphone jack, so I don't have to worry about my headphones running out of batteries.


Trump supports Russia, and their policies (war in Iran, opening up oil purchases again) support it even more.

just make sure you get paid in cash before it rolls over.

Banks are known for running mainframes which handle dates differently and will not be rolling over. The ones that use unix are likely to 64 bit systems that won't roll over.

They were competing with the biggest advertiser in the world who put an ad about their own browser on the front page of the biggest search engine in the world. Not sure it was entirely their own doing.


Wasn't something in their new ToS that turned many of us against them? I don't think advertisement was the issue


That turned off a fraction of a fraction of users. And I believe i was largely misunderstood. There are also Firefox forks of somehow that was a bridge too far. I don’t understand how the answer would be to jump to chrome as if they have a better ToS.


It's not "us" that matters, assuming that means very on-the-pulse power user types. We're a tiny fraction of users. Over 99% of users have probably never even spared a thought for the ToS.


Nah, it's all malware. Some just for your brain.


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