bluto
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Rrandom shit pile of analysis from seemingly knowledgeable folks…
The forgotten barrel but not anymore
1⃣Fuel oil is what comes out of the refinery, all the bottoms, unloved, heaviest stuff. Majority of this fuel oil goes into bunker fuels, which is essentially the gas for ships.
2⃣What ships are we talking about? Container ships, oil ships,Huge implications to this:
US has determined Iran could retrieve the highly-enriched uranium stored at Isfahan.
There is now an active debate over whether to deploy US troops to seize the uranium.Iran Could Retrieve Uranium at Site U.S. Bombed Last Year, Officials Say (Gift Article)The fate of the highly enriched uranium and the options for securing it have become critical issues for the Trump administration. -
20 minutes ago, KYHorn said: Huge implications to this:
US has determined Iran could retrieve the highly-enriched uranium stored at Isfahan.
There is now an active debate over whether to deploy US troops to seize the uranium.Iran Could Retrieve Uranium at Site U.S. Bombed Last Year, Officials Say (Gift Article)The fate of the highly enriched uranium and the options for securing it have become critical issues for the Trump administration.Between that and the world energy/hormuz block really hitting home… dark shit on the horizon and both sides running 100mph at a wall without helmets.
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2 hours ago, KYHorn said: Iranian drone hits Dubai international airport on Saturday morning, briefly suspending operations. Emirates has resumed flights on a limited schedule.Iranian president claims Tehran fired on neighboring countries happened because there was disorder in the wake of Khamenei’s death.
Says he hopes Iranian forces will “probably” stop attacking any countries not planning to strike them back.The guy is mostly irrelevant but it's worth noting
WSJ says the US is running out of munitions for the Iran campaign. The bottleneck isn't missiles. It's chemistry. BAE-Holston, a chemical plant in Kingsport, Tennessee, is the only US producer of RDX and HMX, the explosive compounds inside nearly all U.S. warheads andWSJ says the US is running out of munitions for the Iran campaign. The bottleneck isn't missiles. It's chemistry. BAE-Holston, a chemical plant in Kingsport, Tennessee, is the only US producer of RDX and HMX, the explosive compounds inside nearly all U.S. warheads and propellants. At peak production in 1944, Holston shipped over a million pounds of explosives per day across 10 production lines. Today it runs 2. The Army gave BAE an $8.8 billion contract in December 2023. Output went from 8 million pounds a year to 15 million a year in 2024. That's still less than 5% of what it was in WW2. Meanwhile, China has been mass-producing next-generation explosives since 2011. America simply can't make them. In 2023, the Army found over 100 single points of failure in the munitions supply chain alone. If that's what it looks like for explosives, imagine the rest of our chemicals supply chain
So one Iranian nutjob in a plan or controlling a drone stateside could essentially end our entire explosive manufacturing?
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2 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said: Might help an unjust enrichment claim.
That's one of the problems too, without something setting out the tariff charge passthrough, the seller could argue that it was just a price increase that you agreed to pay.
Text msg from the seller to me below. Admittedly a paltry sum in grand scheme but illustration of the predicament across the economy
“Price for the item is $775 & there is a $70 tariff but i am splitting that charge, so $35 to you ….”
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4 hours ago, KYHorn said: My understanding from an npr report is that the school had previously been a part of the base but more recently a section was repurposed into a school. So what probably happened is that it was tagged by intelligence years ago as a military base and that intelligence was not updated or verified before the attack. A massive mistake likely in no small part due to the sudden, haphazard, and improvisational nature of this war.
At least on the sudden aspect, that’s bullshit. And it’s what Trump has trotted out there. We were prepping for a solid 6 weeks if not longer. Sudden wouldn’t allow for a floating city to sail the Atlantic and setup off Israel coastline.
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thinking more on Paxton/cornyn… they’re kinda fucked either way. Not saying JT will win but we all know the issues with Paxton and how that could be hammered vs squeaky clean record of jt.
But there’s a contingent of gop who will just sit it out if cornyn gets the nom. The vast majority we all know will come home, but there’s a chunk who will tell maga to F off as it peels another layer away.
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Dman I didn’t see him coming around on that. still serving rest of the term.
as for Trump Texas fafo’ing, I’ve seen a bit of chatter that the backlash he got when cornyn endorsement got floated caused major hesitation. Enough so to snag him 6-1 odds to win the nom bc I’m degenerate (really just banking on him sticking in the race and first big wave of polls showing that it’s a coin flip).

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2 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said: This is Stitt's last year in office, so I suspect he's seeing if he can appoint himself in Mullin's spot.
1 hour ago, tantric superman said: God I miss Jim Mattis, Rex Tillerson and Jeff Sessions.
I read Oklahoma has some weird law where if the gov has to appt a fill in, that person is ineligible to run in upcoming election.
And the way some of those guys (Barr/esper/milley) just absolutely dunked on Stephen miller, just continuous locker stuffings, must’ve been something to behold. They fuckin hated him. And now Stephen miller survives another round with Noem taking the Minnesota heat.
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Do I get to start the James Talarico thread?
in Cloak Room
Well supposedly cornyn secually assaulted a dude per insider news today. And calling anybody’s sexual activities out would be an interesting choice by paxton