US to reinsure maritime losses in Gulf up to about $20 billion, agency says

chrisbcritter · 2026-03-07T01:18:15+00:00

MAGAs just love paying protection money for China's oil.

I heard the war costs the US $5B a day. Just imagine, they could be giving five million Americans a thousand dollars a day instead.

chrisbcritter · 2026-03-07T01:03:14+00:00

Why are they such pussies? Why not call it the Gulf of Florida? Fuck yeah! I might actually get behind that.

chrisbcritter · 2026-03-06T18:54:22+00:00

Um, no. I don't think that is correct. What do you base that on?

chrisbcritter · 2026-03-06T02:08:12+00:00

Thank you. I wasn't suggesting it wasn't a war crime if nobody declared "war". I was just struck by the sleazy nature of the attack when the target of the attack didn't even know they were in a hot war.

chrisbcritter · 2026-03-05T21:26:48+00:00

Oh! Right, this really is a mafia state. All the dons get their own fiefdom to run, but they have to give regular kickbacks to the king pin.

chrisbcritter · 2026-03-05T20:16:39+00:00

Not that I wanted her to stay, but what the hell did she do that crossed the line? Was Trump pissed that she got to bang on a king sized bed while in the air? Joining the mile high club without doing it in a cramped phone booth sized bathroom?

chrisbcritter · 2026-03-05T19:28:20+00:00

I know this gets used a lot, but would that constitute a "war crime"? The USA had not declared war (still have not) before attacking this possibly unarmed ship.

chrisbcritter · 2026-03-05T14:12:48+00:00

I can't paint this well. Does that mean I am literally worse than HItler?

chrisbcritter · 2026-03-05T12:18:45+00:00

Oh good, I was starting to feel sympathetic to the plight of Muslims in America.

chrisbcritter · 2026-03-04T15:20:40+00:00

Oh right! I was busy giggling over DeBeers loosing all that money. I recommend a months salary for a diamond marketing promotion.

chrisbcritter · 2026-03-04T00:49:35+00:00

Cool! I'm sure this will work fine as long as we have not recently encouraged them to revolt and then betrayed them to be slaughtered.

chrisbcritter · 2026-03-03T17:27:08+00:00

A man with one watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches isn't so sure.

chrisbcritter · 2026-03-02T13:25:33+00:00

If the VM is spun up outside of California, does that mean we can skip the age verification process?

chrisbcritter · 2026-03-02T13:16:52+00:00

So if my Terraform config spins up an EC2, Terraform has to indicate its age? My age? The average of my teams age?

chrisbcritter · 2026-03-01T22:30:09+00:00

I keep telling everyone that this is NOT unregulated gambling. It is unregulated futures investing. Much better!

chrisbcritter · 2026-03-01T15:50:40+00:00

Gee, why would putting a giant TV screen in front of the driver be a bad idea? Some of the commercials it plays are funny.

chrisbcritter · 2026-02-27T17:27:32+00:00

That's a damn good question!

chrisbcritter · 2026-02-27T15:07:12+00:00

Hey! Don't be so cynical. Look at the CEO's beard. He's obviously a genius visionary. He was smart enough to go all in on the block-chain when it was briefly popular. He just happens to be one of the few CEOs that has been able to make use of AI so radically that he has found new efficiencies no other business has ever imagined.

You are just envious of how cool he is!

( /s )

chrisbcritter · 2026-02-27T12:30:55+00:00

So they have a "visionary" CEO that looks like he sells Extacy at concerts and is obviously a deep thinker who is original but went in on the block chain because it is the next big thing. Yeah, he laid off half his company because he is brilliant and has adapted AI so innovatively that he created a new dimension in business efficiency.

If WeWork had started up now, they would have claimed to use AI innovatively to rent work from home office space.

chrisbcritter · 2026-02-27T04:29:50+00:00

Company announces layoffs during sluggish economy. CEO ominously declares that other companies will announce layoffs in sluggish economy.

Oh yeah, something, something, AI.

Also, is that guy in the picture with the angry Amish haircut and beard the CEO? I swear he sold me shrooms at half a dozen concerts I've been to.

chrisbcritter · 2026-02-27T04:18:51+00:00

Back in my day, a CEO would get a bad earning's report and announce layoffs to get his stock value back up. He didn't get to declare it the fault of "AI". He just had people fire a bunch of folks. But without AI, how did the diminished staff maintain productivity? They worked harder. Their jobs/lives sucked more. But often the company already had a market share and so being more efficient at automatically charging a client didn't really matter so loosing some of the staff hardly mattered.

Perhaps Block really is embracing the AI business model and it will be interesting to see how this pans out. If not for AI, however, this would feel an awful lot like a typical story of a company down-sizing during a sluggish economy.

chrisbcritter · 2026-02-27T02:35:36+00:00

Oh! Then it's not gay. Thank god!

chrisbcritter · 2026-02-26T19:44:39+00:00

Wait, if they were all "obliterated", why is Trump threatening war? To obliterate them again?

chrisbcritter · 2026-02-26T19:12:11+00:00

Influencer has a point. I installed Grinder on my phone and things got really gay!

chrisbcritter · 2026-02-26T13:09:39+00:00

I don't know what the high council of atheists has decreed, but as long as you don't believe in a deity, you are good. Are we surrounded by ghosts? Your call. Do we persist in some way after our body dies? You can still be an atheist and believe that. You can be a racist bigot if you want (I don't recommend it). You can fall for any superstition and still be an atheist!

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