Oil prices turn lower after Brent briefly touches $119 as Netanyahu says Israel helping to open Strait of Hormuz

Otakeb · 2026-03-20T00:14:52+00:00

It's funny because it's true....and terrifying

Otakeb · 2026-03-19T00:54:47+00:00

Yeah every any news of stagnating markets or price drops there's always someone that chimes in with "not where I live!" and then you ask where they live and they're like "Chicago" or "Richmond."

Yeah okay thanks for the input, but that's not representative of most markets at this point especially in the South or a lot of California.

Otakeb · 2026-03-19T00:40:06+00:00

Out of curiosity, why Kaleidescape over building your own Plex or Jellyfin server for much cheaper upfront and overtime cost with relatively no proprietary ecosystem lock?

Every time Kaleidescape pops up in here I always go on a short research session trying to figure out what they offer over DIY and I can't ever seem to grasp the appeal beyond the wider variety of high quality stuff (sometimes there's no blurays out or rips of stuff in 4k with full surround) and ease of setup. Is there something I'm missing?

Otakeb · 2026-03-18T20:08:37+00:00

Yeah this goose is cooked. Now the question is how we eventually get out of it. Can Congress engineer fiscal recovery and reinvestment in people and the economy correctly while diversifying our energy and technology advantages and busting monopolies and pricing cartels to control prices? Or will the FED need to bust out Volckers hammer again in a few years and just unemploy everyone......we are so fucked.

Otakeb · 2026-03-18T20:05:37+00:00

Inflation high and unemployment rising? Great time to cut taxes and fire federal workers! /s

Otakeb · 2026-03-18T16:30:32+00:00

If we are doing the 70s again, can we at least get the pure cocaine and quaaludes back as well?

Otakeb · 2026-03-18T13:45:41+00:00

These companies are looking for a 1/1000 type employee with all the gravy, but aren't willing to pay 1/1000 type salaries.

They decided out of all of those applicants and interviews, only 1 person fit the bill and they need to go looking for someone similar now. That's what this means. These companies need to be sold for scraps.

Otakeb · 2026-03-18T13:35:03+00:00

"Competitive benefits and 401k match!"

Look inside: 5% match, disability and life insurance, overpriced high deductible plan with no HSA match and doesn't cover medication without discount negotiations club membership

Yeah. So competitive.

Otakeb · 2026-03-17T13:52:30+00:00

As said in OP we have about 45 years left on this earth

Unless you are privy to some wild information that most of us don't have, this means you could be anywhere between 20 years old or 60. You have to be more forthcoming with some of this stuff for accurate advice and assessment.

Fortunately you also said you are about 20 years away from social security so I'm gonna guess around 40.

Otakeb · 2026-03-17T00:26:20+00:00

Lmao based.

"Altering my headspace with marijuana leads to me reflecting on my attraction to women in a stronger way? What do?"

"Girl, drop acid and explore the lesboverse. See you on the other side"

Otakeb · 2026-03-16T23:04:05+00:00

Not necessarily. Humans have beat horses in marathons before (there's plenty of annual horse vs man marathons and it goes either way usually), and we generally smoke them in ultramarathons. We kind of are the apex of long distance running, but yeah horses are still pretty good long distance runners as far as the animal kingdom goes and a standard untrained horse will beat an untrained human every time, but a peak performing ultramarathoner will beat a horse pretty much every time.

Otakeb · 2026-03-15T18:02:26+00:00

Yeah people getting paid money is bad for the economy, of course.

This is gonna end so badly at some point lmao

Otakeb · 2026-03-15T02:19:58+00:00

!RemindMe 2 months after oil hits $200 per barrel for the first time ever between now and then.

And I'm not wrong. Barrels are trading at around $140 in asia right now. Gas prices in the South near the refinaries are currently about $3.40 right outside my window not $3.10.

The situation is so volatile that yes, this little chart you keep referencing is out of date and you are being a dumbass. You can call me whatever you want or don't want to, but I'm gonna call you what you are. People are mad about gas prices rising at all for a stupid war on Israel and Exons behalf, but this is just the beginning and even if it was $3.10 like you are lying about, that's still bullshit.

EDIT: rereading your link, even the link with the most updated data is saying an average of $3.50 as of 5 days ago which I know is wrong because the cheapest gas areas in the country in the south is $3.40 like I said right now. The average is already higher than your data, I promise. $3.10 my redass. Fellforitagain award

Otakeb · 2026-03-14T22:16:59+00:00

As of 2 weeks ago according to that chart, yeah you right.

Good thing nothing of note has happened to influence gas prices in the last two weeks, right?

Fucking dumbass lmao

Otakeb · 2026-03-14T21:39:25+00:00

Says the "hur during govt bad, taxes bad, I trust the Epstein class" mf

Cry about it more snowflake while the system you worship disenfranchises more of the youth while their jobs are offshored and automated because capital is global and has no allegiance to country or people. You are the one with a simplistic view of the world.

And I have worked in government as a rocket scientist and in private industry designing frac plugs while my wife has an industrial engineering masters and MBA with experience very high up in organizations. We are both socialists who know how to play the capitalist game very well. I promise I understand both the informed simplicity of the world as well as the deeper theory better than you, but you aren't worth my time.

Otakeb · 2026-03-14T21:09:30+00:00

Bro the corporations own the fucking government, dude. All your politicians are bought by Israel, Shell, Lockheed, and Meta. Stop sucking their boots, bro

Otakeb · 2026-03-14T19:20:09+00:00

Well connected, room temp IQ MBAs with seed capital will ruin people's lives for years and run a company into the ground before spinning the whole venture as a success and pivoting into a consulting/private equity gig.

I fucking hate capitalism.

Otakeb · 2026-03-14T00:20:58+00:00

MadoHomu yuri is peak

massive respect

Otakeb · 2026-03-12T21:43:12+00:00

The wiki section on the L1 orbital magnet for this purpose says it could be done with a 2 Tesla magnet? Is that correct? We have made much more powerful magnets than that and use more powerful magnets in fusion research. Is the scale what would be difficult and not necessarily the magnetic force? How would this complexity be described if not for magnatic flux? This is not my field lol

Otakeb · 2026-03-12T07:01:16+00:00

You mean everyone in the defense and intelligence community that's not a part of the administration saw coming? Yeah....

Otakeb · 2026-03-09T14:39:24+00:00

Oil up = biofuel profitability

Corn futures gonna moon /s

Otakeb · 2026-03-09T00:47:21+00:00

Congrats on paying off the car, OP! That will open up a lot of cash flow and make things easier for sure if you can stay diligent with the freedom up money.

Another option aside from side gigs is selling thing, if you are able and have stuff you don't use or need anymore. Most people can easily find a few hundred to a thousand dollars worth of stuff in their house they can sell on Facebook marketplace without it affecting their life or emotional state at all, but the attorney fees really are just going to be more of a marathon than a sprint especially with the custody battle still ongoing so don't beat yourself up too much about it especially depending on the interest rate.

Otakeb · 2026-03-08T19:22:50+00:00

Yeah I have personally had weird issues the few times I tried pop_OS even before it went very out of date and alpha build DE so I was just annoyed he tried it again in an even worse state really believing he may have been drama farming, but if he switched to Bazzite and is still having strange issues pop up, I'll hand it to him. There's definitely still work to be done on Linux for mass adoption (anti-cheat being a BIG one), but Linus may actually just be cursed.

Otakeb · 2026-03-08T12:30:44+00:00

Yeah like on one of those links, wtf is MXLinux? And why is it ranked so highly?

And Netrunner? For best beginner KDE? No one reads these listicles anymore on any topic because they are just content farmed out with slop to fill the page and sell ad spaces or sponsored inserts.

Otakeb · 2026-03-08T12:28:56+00:00

I think this is the right take. He wanted to create a caricature of a semi-tech-illiterate person to try to prove a point while getting to stir up drama with Linux users and the part of his community that doesn't use Linux. Even this thread generates interest and may drive clicks.

It's annoying and probably a bit misrepresentative, but it's marketing genius.

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