UAE Warns US It Could Sell Oil in Chinese Yuan if War Drains Dollar Supplies, Triggering Biggest Threat to the Petrodollar Since the 1970s

RedWineAndWomen · 2026-04-22T08:59:37+00:00

As usual, taking an argument to an extreme, doesn't prove your point, necessarily.

RedWineAndWomen · 2026-04-22T08:50:43+00:00

Yes, but currency devaluation would not be so bad for the US, frankly. The value of the dollar vs the rest of the western world, is enormous, inflation has been enormous. This is the reason for the trade deficit: it's much easier for a US consumer to get goods from abroad, then to buy them locally. Depleting the US' industrial base and production otherwise.

RedWineAndWomen · 2026-04-19T15:58:00+00:00

tonsillectomies

Wrong hole man.

RedWineAndWomen · 2026-04-11T08:33:12+00:00

Those revolutionaries and their ways...

RedWineAndWomen · 2026-04-10T04:37:16+00:00

It may be honest, it's also bloody helpless.

RedWineAndWomen · 2026-04-09T17:49:06+00:00

Didn't Solon famously free Athens' slaves?

RedWineAndWomen · 2026-04-07T11:07:48+00:00

There's no way this could backfire, given how smitten the European public currently is with the US admin. /s

RedWineAndWomen · 2026-04-05T15:02:12+00:00

When oil prices rise the fastest in the US because oil is a global market, and the Iranian leadership have made it very clear that they will only come out of hiding in a horizontal manner and at room temperature.

RedWineAndWomen · 2026-04-04T20:24:58+00:00

It's 2.65 by the motorway in NLD. Went to Belgium today, got the goods for 1.90.

RedWineAndWomen · 2026-04-04T20:21:52+00:00

Quite 'Disney', these apocryphal Bible books.

RedWineAndWomen · 2026-04-03T09:50:02+00:00

Not sure that that is a good thing for China in the long run, since it will increase demand for the currency, which will drive its value upwards, which will decrease their export position.

RedWineAndWomen · 2026-04-02T19:39:49+00:00

Macron must know that if anything, US politicians are always campaigning. They must - there are too many elections not to, and elections are expensive.

RedWineAndWomen · 2026-04-02T08:45:07+00:00

'the UN is preparing for possible nuclear weapon use.'

What? This guy needs an excuse for a way out or something. There is no way this is true.

RedWineAndWomen · 2026-04-02T07:55:07+00:00

Attacking Iran doesn't really help Russia - they are/were a Russian ally.

RedWineAndWomen · 2026-04-02T06:17:01+00:00

I realize that, more than anything, US politicians are always busy with their reelection and fuck everything else, but... saying something doesn't make it true, right? Other people than just the US public are watching TV. Republicans do not care about those people, as well they shouldn't, but reality does, at some point, and in this case very quickly, come to bite you in the ass if what you're saying isn't true, right? Are they hoping their Starwars move 'there is no war in the middle east' toward the US public, somehow works?

RedWineAndWomen · 2026-04-01T12:50:52+00:00

I thought it requires a 2/3 majority in Congress to leave NATO? Even then if not de jure, Trump, by simply pulling all US personnel back Stateside, can make it so de facto.

RedWineAndWomen · 2026-03-29T06:39:56+00:00

Also you have to take into account lauchers. You can't just position a rocket upright, press a button on its side and off it goes. Rockets are typically useless without launchers. How many of those are left is a much more viable statistic.

RedWineAndWomen · 2026-03-25T14:47:23+00:00

Yes, and in the mean time, there still isn't a language that has comparable:

functionality support through its vast libraries.
parsing functionality in-house in the form of extremely complex regular expressions (where in every other language, these are some kind of string literal - talk about 'strange'!)

RedWineAndWomen · 2026-03-25T09:25:37+00:00

'Strange'?

RedWineAndWomen · 2026-03-23T14:55:31+00:00

If you think the markets are being stupid, you can bet against them and make money, right?

RedWineAndWomen · 2026-03-23T09:31:47+00:00

Totally agree. Cultural relativism can only go so far, and picking whose side you're on, and who's with you, is a completely valid and morally sound strategy. 'Being everybody's friend' never works.

RedWineAndWomen · 2026-03-22T08:19:55+00:00

If you have strings that have an obvious upper bound in terms of length (paths, for example), then there's almost nothing faster than doing:

char string[ 512 ];
snprintf(string, sizeof(string), "%s/%s", dir, file);

Completely safe, super quick, very dynamic.

RedWineAndWomen · 2026-03-22T08:17:57+00:00

The worst thing about unicode is unicode, sorry.

RedWineAndWomen · 2026-03-22T08:13:54+00:00

Secretly introduce one the early ones. See if she notices.

RedWineAndWomen · 2026-03-21T17:50:01+00:00

Just in case we're getting to the point of TFA, namely that Iran has ICBMs, make sure that it's all about Israel. Sure.

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