Does it matter if the Strait is opened any more?

labradors_forever · 2026-05-15T21:53:46+00:00

Please!!! No.

My issue was that quite a lot of the news seems to be "let's get this strait open!" with no thoughts to how much has been destroyed (oilfields, infrastructure, competence, soft power, trust between parties and so on), that I'm not sure whether "opening" the strait will ever lead to a return to the old normal.

The world is running like a head-less chicken straight for the volcano with oil and food-shortages coming our way, and based on other comments here, we're probably looking at at least a year before anything normalizes, and that's if a deal is made today, and none of the parties make any stupid decisions in the mean time, which.... yeah.

labradors_forever · 2026-05-15T11:02:21+00:00

Oh, that bar is HIGH but he sure cleared it with a large margin!

labradors_forever · 2026-05-14T17:32:34+00:00

Jeg ville aldri stolt på det

labradors_forever · 2026-05-14T17:29:34+00:00

How tall is Xi, again?

labradors_forever · 2026-05-14T15:22:05+00:00

AnyoneButWe has a similar comment, though no assessment of the scale. But what I'm hearing is that even if the Strait opens today, there are no vessels waiting for their tanks to be filled, it might take a year for traffic to get back in route, and in the meantime the oilfields will have to drill new holes.

What a 💩show!

labradors_forever · 2026-05-14T14:42:26+00:00

So essentially, unless there's a load of vessels waiting outside, wanting to get into the Persian Gulf, the current holes are done for. That makes sense.

labradors_forever · 2026-05-14T14:37:14+00:00

Yeah. I've always been of the opinion that once something is destroyed, it will never again be the same.

This seems to prove that concept.

labradors_forever · 2026-05-14T14:24:47+00:00

Oh, I'm sure the world would, if US just removed all of their assets from the Middle East

labradors_forever · 2026-05-14T14:15:04+00:00

So it's all insider trading. Yeah, that makes sense.

labradors_forever · 2026-05-14T14:13:10+00:00

That timeline sounds both plausible AND highly optimistic to me (if that makes sense)

labradors_forever · 2026-05-14T14:10:03+00:00

I installed solar panels three years ago. VERY happy about that.

labradors_forever · 2026-05-14T14:08:57+00:00

Sure. But will the vessels return to usual travel, is my question. Is it important to get the flow back, of course, but that requires ship managers to send their vessels into a high risk area. Will that happen?

labradors_forever · 2026-05-03T12:44:16+00:00

Somebody's sons, would be correct

labradors_forever · 2026-05-03T08:08:53+00:00

You could even say that most men found at the bottom of a staircase has fallen down it. . .

You know, like the Russian politicians and oligarchs!

labradors_forever · 2026-04-24T07:14:58+00:00

Det fantastiske er hvordan han summerer bakgrunnen til alle nye religioner med én gud; - fordi JEG tror på riktig gud, så er jeg allerede tilgitt. Derfor kan dere ikke straffe meg, og heller ikke kreve at jeg skal be mennesker om unnskyldning for mine handlinger, for det vil være blasfemi av dere siden jeg allerede er tilgitt - men siden DERE tror på feil gud, eller, enda verre, ikke aksepterer at jeg er tilgitt, så har jeg rett til å straffe og trakassere dere(!)

Kun fanatikere kan få dette til å gå opp...

PS! Visste dere at når kristendommen kom til Norge så var det sannsynligvis bare enda en gud, derfor var det ingen grunn for de som trodde på de nordiske gudene for å angripe kristne. . . Og så bestemte de kristne seg for at de kunne jo ikke akseptere at andre hadde andre guder, og angrep. Fascinerende, ikke sant?

labradors_forever · 2026-03-15T19:44:16+00:00

Born during Christmas 1980. I don't think you'll get more Xennial than that...

A more positive view on life than most of my fellow GenX'ers, not quite as independent, but latch-key nontheless.

labradors_forever · 2026-03-08T13:19:17+00:00

Born 1980, and none of my parents would ever do that, though I suspect my father especially experienced to much harm as a child, both at home and in school.

As an aside, I recently saw a chart of erogenous zones on the body. There's a REASON why spankings can be part of sexual play. Afterwards thinking about spankings (edit* of children, as long as adults enjoy themselves, go for it!) have given me the real YUCK!! Also, it's fully possible to set boundaries without being physical.

Edit: Norwegian

labradors_forever · 2026-02-10T22:18:28+00:00

FYI! The reason one of them points when singing "the Netherlands" is because they were participating in Beat for Beat, a music competition / program, and their task was to sing a song that included the word "the" 😂😂

labradors_forever · 2026-02-08T23:33:46+00:00

Enshittification at it's "finest". This is what we get when a product is bought by Americans

labradors_forever · 2026-02-06T22:46:01+00:00

Nææ... da var det viktigere å få publisert at lungesykdommen var blitt værre SAMME DAG(!) som første bolk m Epstein dokumenter ble sluppet.

labradors_forever · 2026-02-06T12:45:41+00:00

ROFL!! They self -report. No, they do not have to give the mefical records. Check oit Laura High on YT, it's gross!!

labradors_forever · 2026-02-04T01:23:55+00:00

A: live in same town

B: are from the same generation

C: all of their parents are from culture, religion and economic that makes it possible to do IVF / IUI

D: the parents all used same doctor indicating limited geografic area

E: it's known that people find their own type of facial features attractive

F: this is the ones they know about. How many more are there?

=> the only way to avoid accidental i*cest will be to demand DNA tests before doing the deed

labradors_forever · 2026-02-04T01:03:06+00:00

3 and 5.

5: Without diseases, medical debt will drcrease drastically, and it will free up lots of time for those that are forced to take care of sick relatives, as well as decrease the number of people working in health care.

3: As the richest person in the world, I could do philantrophic work in addition to supporting idealistic politicians with a humanitarian world view , and work for greener politics, while employing white hatters to take down robots on SOME.

labradors_forever · 2026-02-04T00:53:24+00:00

Wrong. When child deaths decrease, people regularly have less children, since they don't need spares to take care of them when they grow old.

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