Gold is fluctuating wildly in price. It is meaningless to talk about measuring commodity prices in gold.

along with depleted inventories

Well, what do you think is causing the depleted inventories? Surely the lack of foundry availability.

a) is it BS

The tobacco plant is a model plant, the go-to for genetic engineering experiments. So often when scientists want to test creating a bio-factory, they will try to modify a tobacco plant.

I am knowledgeable in ethnobotany and psychedelics and I cannot see what this might produce other than nausea and delirium.

The idea is not to smoke the resulting tobacco plant with some funky mix of psychedelics. But to extract and purify the compounds from the bio-factory. Resulting in a better production chain than however the compounds are typically made today.

Please tell us where your window is - how can we avoid climbing through your window, if we don’t know which window we are not supposed to climb through.

Being convicted of insurrection is not a requirement. The only reason Trump was not kept off the ballot was because the Supreme Court intervened, and effectively annulled the 14th amendment.

How little the founding fathers knew…

In Russia, Navalny was falsely declared the equivalent of a felon by Putin’s corrupt judge. Preventing Navalny from running against Putin. Not having any formal requirement for President is absolutely the democratically correct choice. It is just that US voters are idiots.

There has been a disproportionate amount of “fuck windows” chatter on social media recently. It could be real.

Linux users on Steam used to be a rounding error. It is relatively massive.

This is a reminder to all AMD fans that NO company gives a damn about any of us.

Foundry costs have gone through the roof, because demand is greater than supply. So AMD’s production costs have surely increased.

So while companies are not our friends, it is surely quite reasonable for AMD to raise enduser cost, when AMD’s production cost increases. And not necessarily some conspiracy against the user. Right? Cartels and illegal monopolies are absolutely a thing that can happen, but you have to actually argue that is the case here, before saying AMD is acting badly.

What you say is completely true. But there is actually another law which should have prevented Trump from running in 2024.

Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, known as the disqualification clause, bars anyone from holding federal or state office—including the presidency—if they previously took an oath to support the U.S. Constitution and then engaged in insurrection, rebellion, or gave aid or comfort to enemies of the U.S…

Jan 6 2020 was an insurrection by Trump.

Ford pardoned Nixon, and Ford lost the next election. And the pardon probably played a part in Ford losing. So the system still sorta worked then, if imperfect.

Is Mimi the cat’s servant? In that case yes, it is valid to question “Mimi thinks she owns the place”.

Since posts on Truth Social are per definition called “truths” (like “tweets”), I guess they are per definition not lies? Unimpeachable logic.

Checks and balances doesn’t work if one party is in charge of everything.

Nixon could not have been convicted without Republican votes. But Nixon resigned, because he knew Republicans would vote to impeach and convict him. So the system can in theory work, even if the system depends on policing its own.

It is in fact quite normal across democracies, for stuff like this to depend on the votes of the party in power.

The problem here is that Republican representatives are traitors to their oaths. And more importantly, that Republican voters are not demanding their representatives to not be traitors.

So Republican representatives simply know that they only get reelected if they act tribally Republican. Note that this is generally not a problem with Democrat voters.

The news media has been overtly incompetent here. As you say, it is not a blockade.

If it was a blockade, then the Russian ships would be stopped. Since it is not a blockade, only an idiot would expect the Russian ships to be stopped.

And after the media circle-jerking each other into falsely calling it a blockade, the media is surprised that the ships are not stopped by the “blockade”.

Iran is stealing money from third parties, if Iran is going to toll all ships. There is no moral argument for Iran’s actions here. “US was mean to me” is not an excuse for Iran to be mean to other people.

The tweet is linked, but doesn’t give any details. So we don’t know - and it might well not be true. What can be asserted without proof, can be rejected without proof.

when trump’s a corpse and his admin is in jail, the strait will open the same day

So you think that the terrorist mullahs Iran are just the nicest of people, who don’t care about the $billions of revenue from strait tolls, but just want Trump gone to help the world?

You don’t need to eat food which needs fertilizer? Or you don’t care if your food costs more, because the fertilizer transit had to pay Iran a toll?

And even if you don’t personally care about yourself, you don’t care about the poor indian worker, who pay a significant part of his income for food?

I am guessing he can’t throw Vance under the bus for it since he’s probably on record for saying it was a bad idea. Miller or Hegseth maybe?

As far as I can tell, Trump’s mental decline is so advanced that he can no longer create coherent lies. Some of the messaging around the Iran was has been mindbogglingly and transparently stupid.

So I don’t think Trump will be limited by small details like blaming someone who is “on record for saying it was a bad idea”.