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"you might want to get some in case it catches on" - Satoshi

inflation keeps not bein a thing.... 📊 **Truflation Update - April 10, 2026** **US CPI Inflation:** • Truflation: **1.69%** (+0.03) • US Govt. reported: **2.40%** **Other Indexes:** • PCE Price Index: 2.44% • Producer Price Index: 3.40% • GDP (YoY): 0.50% (-3.90) • BLS CPI: 2.40% **Biggest Movers:** • SORCE Expected Nonlabor Costs: +66.67% • SORCE Employment: +57.14% • Challenger Job Cuts: +25.49%

I don’t have a short attention span—I just… oh look, a squirrel!.

A yawn is just a silent scream for coffee

robots and self driving cars cars don't imply robots are coming soon. The main goal of a car is 'touch nothing - that is an accident'. So when they take car software and stick it in a robot, the best thing the robot can do is dance. That is why all the videos of humanoid robots on the internet is a bunch faggoty assed dancing cartwheeling robots. What i really want is a fucking robot that will wash the fucking windows, or clean my pool, or spread the mulch. Or maybe button those buttons on my sleeve that drive me crazy (admittedly it is a short drive - as my Daddy used to say) When you do see robots interacting with the world thru touch, they are mainly picking up foam rubber chickens and stuff. Things that are easy to grip. Real, useful, humanoid robots are a long way off. Prove me wrong. I'd like to be wrong.

Why not Iran charge of passage fee through the strait of Hormuz, similar to the Panama canal and then they would have an interest in robust global trade and no one would b**** as long as they kept the fees reasonable.??? Clever idea, but several structural problems make it unworkable: **Sovereignty is split and contested** The strait is 21 miles wide at its narrowest. Iran controls the northern side, Oman the southern. The Panama Canal has a single sovereign — you'd need a binding joint authority between two countries with very different interests and no history of cooperation. **Iran's incentives aren't purely economic** Tehran has repeatedly used Hormuz as a coercive tool — threatening closure during sanctions pressure, seizing tankers, harassing vessels. Their leverage *comes from* the threat of disruption. A fee-for-passage regime would actually reduce their coercive power by legalizing and normalizing transit. They likely prefer the threat. **The legal framework doesn't allow it** Under UNCLOS, the Strait of Hormuz qualifies as an international strait used for navigation — which grants all nations "transit passage" rights that cannot be suspended or tolled by bordering states. Iran disputes this, but the rest of the world doesn't. Any fee regime would require either rewriting international maritime law or the world accepting Iran's framing. **Who enforces "reasonable"?** The Panama Canal has a neutral operator under US-backed international norms. Iran setting its own "reasonable" rate with no enforcement mechanism is a very different thing. Rates could be weaponized against specific flags or nations. **The analogy breaks down geographically** Panama is a narrow land bridge — there's literally no alternative. Hormuz has expensive but real alternatives: the Saudi East-West pipeline, UAE's Fujairah bypass, potentially expanded Oman routes. This weakens the toll-collection leverage anyway. The underlying logic is sound — give stakeholders an economic stake in stability. But Iran's strategic calculus values disruption-as-leverage more than toll revenue.

This too shall pass. - Persian proverb

Gm Where is the coffee