The planting season is happening right now

Which means the planting supplies were lined up months ago. This will be a next-year thing if it cannot be corrected for in time.

The LNG plants are going to take years to repair

One section of one country’s exports in a global economy. And that’s ignoring the fact that the Straight isn’t shut down for everyone. The IRGC is negotiating passage for a bunch of unaligned states. Pakistan is going to get their fertilizer. China and Russia will get their supplies. Italy and Spain will be fine. It’s the US-Israel block that’s in trouble. And given how much fertilizer the US produces domestically, not even that much trouble.

However, some developing countries will have genuine shortages.

The biggest threat to developing countries is western intervention. The famines happening along the Horn of Africa are the direct result of US, Israeli, and Qatari backed military interventions.

There’s almost certainly going to be a farming crisis

Over a long enough timeline, sure.

We’ve already seen egg prices skyrocket thanks to bird flu and beef production sag due to drought and Texas Cattle Fever. I have no doubt we’ll continue to see agricultural productivity drag as ecological conditions worsen.

But the fixation on the Straight of Hormuz as a but-for cause to a global agricultural crash jumps the gun for a host of reasons. The most notable of which is that we heavily overproduce agricultural goods and end up subsidizing their wholesale prices. The biggest problems populations have with famine in the modern era is of storage, distribution, and financialization, not raw productivity. A hiccup in the supply of nitrogen rich fertilizer isn’t going to empty anyone’s shelves.

dissentdaily.com

Just looks like a click farming site that targets left-libertarians.

She stands in a supermarket aisle, looking at the price of baby formula.

A notification flashes on her phone. Headlines about Trump. Iran. Threats. Escalation. She reads it quickly, almost without thinking.

Then she looks back at the shelf.

Her mind starts connecting things.

Like, this isn’t journalism it’s prose

Idk, did they list their pronouns or open the briefing with a reading from Marcus Aurelius?

quietly

Stop putting “quietly” in your fucking headlines, you hacks. This wasn’t “quiet”, it was very publicly announced.

Don’t think that plane is going to rise again in three days.

Well, but that’s impossible. In China, he won’t have any freedom. He needs to stay in the United States where he can pursue research into biology and medic- door bang

shouts of military police

repeated gunfire

screams of terrified research assistants

confused orders from multiple officers at once

more gunfire

moaning from injured civilians

more gunfire

radio chatter from officers

“Yeah, they were armed. Looks like syringes and a bunson burner. Yes. All illegal. Yes, we’re cleaning up now. No need to report this up the chain, they already know. Signing out.”

Americans have wanted to invade Iran going back to the Reagan administration. Trump’s just so zooted up on his own supply that he thought he could make it happen.

That’s okay, though. We’re going to invade Cuba next. We can stop blaming Zionists and point the finger squarely at Florida Billionaires going forward.

We get to pay for that.

Can we even build these planes anymore? The C-17 was produced by McDonald Douglas, a company that went bankrupt back in '97 and had to be acquired by Boeing. Now Boeing is way behind on orders, because they’ve outsourced themselves to the hilt in the same way that ruined Douglas.

This isn’t just an issue of the fiscal costs. The US literally cannot produce airliners reliably anymore. Boeing is increasingly just booking orders it cannot fulfill. Even if Hegseth gets a blank check from the Treasury, this equipment isn’t going to be replaced any time soon.

Pete Hegseth going over to his emergency appropriations request and adding another zero to the back end.

Shock Doctrine was a fantastic piece of work.

Idk if she’s moderated, per say. Might just feel that way as the rest of the public has been radicalized

“Huge study reveals ibuprofen doesn’t eliminate pain, just the sensation of it”

Oh okay, I guess I should stop using it then?

“Well, maybe… We need to do another Huge Study to confirm”

That‘s just how Chinese propaganda operates

A KGB spy and a CIA agent meet up in a bar for a friendly drink

“I have to admit, I’m always so impressed by Soviet propaganda. You really know how to get people worked up,” the CIA agent says.

“Thank you,” the KGB says. “We do our best but truly, it’s nothing compared to American propaganda. Your people believe everything your state media tells them.”

The CIA agent drops his drink in shock and disgust. “Thank you friend, but you must be confused… There’s no propaganda in America.”

Sucks to be in Texas, the Silicon Valley alpha testing hub of the US.

Washington has been aware of the problem for months. One US official told Semafor, “It’s something we expected and anticipated"

The same official stressed that the United States is not facing similar shortages and retains significant interceptor reserves. The comment comes amid growing concern that a prolonged war with Iran could rapidly drain missile defence supplies.

Israel: “Our plan is to ally with a bunch of fascist evangelical antisemites and conquer the Middle East”

America: shoves Israel in front of a barrage of ballistic missiles

Israel: “Who could have predicted this?!”

America: “It’s literally in the Bible that you get destroyed. Duh.”

within three to five years

That’s tech speak for “never”

The technology, developed by Borui Kang Medical Technology (Shanghai), is designed to restore hand-movement capabilities in individuals suffering from paralysis.

Specifically, the system targets patients with quadriplegia resulting from cervical spinal cord injuries, enabling them to regain hand-grasping ability through the use of a specialised glove.

Incredible technology, nonetheless.

But crazy to think this would be a commercial public service any time soon

The devil Putin Made Me Do It

Isn’t that just a modern Tesla at this point?

5 minutes to get it to 70% capacity, with a battery that drives several hundred miles on a charge.

But if you’re at the mall and there’s a charging station, you can plug it in and refill it while you do your shopping.

They’re fully in thrall to market forces. Those forces simply dictate that they lobby for protected markets. It’s far cheaper to buy off a lobbyist than to build a cutting edge battery factory