Sri Lanka is hoping to utilise ‌a ⁠temporary sanctions waiver by the U.S. available until June 17, primarily for crude oil from Russia to run its sole refinery, but it is also open to buying refined products from both countries, Karunathilake said.

Bribing Donald to Buy from Vladimir

Can Boeing still even make KC-46s anymore? A bunch of their planes are on comedic levels of backorder because they can’t deliver anything.

Booming exports have been shielding China from the fallout of the Iran war even though the adverse consequences of higher oil prices are playing out on factory floors as manufacturers cope with surging raw material costs.

Yehaw

Hard to pack an entire national economic plan into a pithy two paragraph hypothetical.

But the baseline - all labor has the value of the hours allocated to it - forces a model that values human capacity for productive surplus over value of capital accumulation.

That’s a strong premise for whatever you want to build on top of it.

Word is just a shitty application for text.

It’s fine. People love to shit on the app because Microsoft Bad. But it’s living at the rough midpoint of application quality, at least in it’s modern incarnation.

PowerPoint, likewise, is a shitty slide show application.

As a slideshow app, it’s another perfectly fine piece of software.

What’s disgusting about PowerPoint isn’t the app but the LinkedIn psychos who use it

Active Listening is generally well-received, in my experience. Engaging with someone, asking follow-up and clarifying questions, maybe even going on a verbal detour when you want to hear more about something specific - tends to make for a good conversation.

YMMV. Some people just want a silent audience to consume their own personal podcast. Others get angry if you’re not the one carrying the conversation. But when you click, you can go back and forth like this for hours and feel like no time at all had passed.

Sorry. Natural Gas Liquids. Some combination of methane, ethane, isobutane, and propane, which are compressed/chilled to a liquid state for transportation and used to power electric generators.

I think we’ll eventually see folks migrate to Jupiter Notebook style data entry and management. But they’re relatively new and not well-integrated into modern workflows.

For the time being, people are brought into offices and trained on Excel, get comfortable with Excel, and continue to use Excel because that’s how they spend the bulk of their hours. You’ve got networking effect and priors cementing these apps as the go-to for an entire generation.

Business friendly energy hungry state with enormous plots of undeveloped real estate does the logical thing.

News At Eleven

Incidentally, NGL plants are being built out rapidly in Texas for a tangential reason. Unlike with coal, an NGL plant can turn itself off and on quickly and easily. Consequently, when the sun is shining, NGLs can turn off rather than selling electricity into a cheap market. And when it is night/overcast, they turn on to make up the difference

She learned Spanish at an early age from her long-time nanny, Maria Turrion Borrallo, who hails from Palencia, Spain.

I wonder if Borrallo ever got her UK citizenship, or she’s working under threat of deportation like so many others.

we had a choice put before us

We did not. Primaries were cancelled and the general was rigged.

You can bring all kinds of other conjecture

Nothing about this is conjecture. Dems dismantled the machinery that moved people to the polls. Then they lost. Republicans did the opposite and won.

Blaming the little old grandma whose mail in ballot never arrived, the freshly minted teenager who was told they couldn’t vote on their college campus, and the perennial Dem whose name got purged from the voter rolls - nevermind the million plus voters in DC who have never been enfranchised in the legislature - that they failed to elect a candidate neck deep up Liz Cheney’s asshole because they’re bad people isn’t going to save your party next election any more than it did last time

Your employer doesn’t want you unemployed.

I’ve been through enough layoff cycles not to believe that

It would have been nice if everyone showed up to vote too

Democrats dismantled one of the most effective GOTV operations in the Midwest because of an obvious psyop by a college drop out.

That was the beginning of a long and miserable series of defeats at every level of government for the next 18 years.

Gotta wonder what you are supposed to think about a party that won’t fight for the VRA, won’t fight for the courts, won’t fight for DC statehood, and won’t fight for the wildly popular anti-war and pro-health care policies that they campaigned on.

At the very fucking least, Biden could have delivered on a prosecution of the Trump administration, rather than telling his voters that Trump had done nothing illegal.

Impossible. Markets were up this week because Trump promised the Straight would be opening soon

I’ve lost track. Is this guy a Evo stan or one of the American crooks we’ve been trying to install for the last 20 years?

Crazy that you can’t get a fair election in a country captured by American corporations.

Idk about that. I know a few Wife Guy types IRL and they seem pretty satisfied. Admittedly, their wives are about 10-20 years younger than them…

talking with Americans, specially Catholic, is useless

Well, there it is folks.

Anyone want to guess this guy’s opinion on Muslims?