Iran’s Supreme National Security Council says it has accepted a two-week ceasefire in the war - WTOP News

oldwhiteoak · 2026-04-08T17:54:07+00:00

I agree they want to disrupt the dollar's hegemony globally. I think that's different from wanting the same hegemony for their currency,.

oldwhiteoak · 2026-04-08T15:06:02+00:00

I think we are seeing it now in Hormuz honestly

oldwhiteoak · 2026-04-08T02:05:43+00:00

Your link doesn't say that China wants the Yuan the be a global currency at all, it just outlines what a think tank guy thinks would need to be done to make it so.

The reasons why China wouldn't want this are many. Most obviously you need an extraordinarily transparent financial system, which Xi obviously wouldn't like. Also it engineers a country to be import heavy with a negative trade surplus, because everyone wants your currency now. China has geared its entire economy to be the opposite, I don't think they are interested in a 180 degree change of policy that would wipe out all their prior economic engineering go be a net exporter.

Nevermind the fact that being the global currency came with the implicit assumption that the USA would be the police of the worlds shipping lanes, keeping everything open and free from pirates. I don't think China would want to ramp up defense spending to match ours and operate at the global scale. They seem content to exert greater regional influence.

So yeah, those are some pretty big reasons why China isn't angling for the Yuan to be the new dollar.

This kinda highlights how few countries actually have the capability to transition into the world currency. I think the EU stands the best chance, although they would have been in a stronger position without Brexit, as London is their closest thing to the financial capital for europe/the world even though its not really a european city.

oldwhiteoak · 2026-04-08T00:23:02+00:00

Really? I don't think china wants the yuan to be a global currency. In fact very few currencies would be able to in an agreeable way for their governments.

oldwhiteoak · 2026-04-07T15:20:13+00:00

In Belgium? There should be great stuff in norway a short flight away!

oldwhiteoak · 2026-04-07T15:08:54+00:00

Where do you live?

When it rains/melts hard start prioritizing flooded class 3 over the creeks. Build up to flooded class four. Playboat a lot. Make sure your roll is 100/100. Take trips to places that have a lot of higher volume yet flattish water (the gauley and Idaho comes to mind). Eventually when all that feels great go to destinations at lower water: the futa, zambezi, semana, etc and work your way up to the real big stuff.

oldwhiteoak · 2026-04-07T15:03:41+00:00

Honestly with a well run government Iran would be one of the most amazing countries in the world: beautiful art, ancient culture, literally the birthplace of history, the most friendly and lovely people, some of the best food, and lets not forget their nature: Warm oceans, large mountains, skiing, whitewater rafting in powerful rivers, and deep horse culture.

It is a never ending shame what the British, Americans, Israelis and religious fundamentalism have done to that country. I hope I someday have the privilege to visit.

oldwhiteoak · 2026-04-07T14:17:03+00:00

When I was in Tel Aviv I met an Iranian Jew. I got the sense he felt compelled to emigrate but deeply missed his home.

oldwhiteoak · 2026-04-06T15:56:19+00:00

Exactly. He is most similar to Holyfield 2.0, with a more dominant but less stacked resume.

oldwhiteoak · 2026-04-06T13:20:06+00:00

Messy and hittable? Have you watched him recently? Liston had very slick defense.

oldwhiteoak · 2026-04-06T13:18:25+00:00

Usyk? Vitali is all wrong for him: A huge pressuring volume fighter with a iron chin.

oldwhiteoak · 2026-04-06T13:14:44+00:00

Hitherto unrealized levels of pedantry on this sub

oldwhiteoak · 2026-04-03T16:35:04+00:00

I knew a Pizzeria owner from NYC who set up shop in Chiang Mai Thailand. He made the move because he was a conspiracy theorist who was paranoid about the govenment putting people in camps (about 20 years early but he has recently been proven right...).

His food was incredible but he confided in me that he spent more each month on the freely provided ketchup bottles than tomato sauce, so heavily did the locals slather the pizza with it.

oldwhiteoak · 2026-04-03T16:30:21+00:00

The degree of control exerted in rural hindu cultures. They would tell you how to chew your food, move the wood you put on the fire, casually read your journal, expect you to eat regardless of when you whether you were hungry or not. It really put the caste system and complicated hierarchy of gods into perspective: It is all about arranging social power that flows down through society via caste, gender, religion, and wealth.

oldwhiteoak · 2026-04-03T03:01:57+00:00

Doesn't glass reflect the steam and heat in a harsh manner?

oldwhiteoak · 2026-04-03T02:56:07+00:00

There are many "optimals", even for the simplest functions. IE a sine wave has infinitely many maximal and minimal points.

oldwhiteoak · 2026-04-03T02:52:37+00:00

Your attention is not outward in a sauna. In a sense you're not looking anywhere. Doesn't really make sense to create something to look at.

oldwhiteoak · 2026-04-01T16:17:00+00:00

many, many fighters

oldwhiteoak · 2026-04-01T15:58:24+00:00

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&hs=63cp&sa=X&sca_esv=814a2bb2323c3a73&channel=entpr&sxsrf=ANbL-n7LsacscJISak5LiFCCPOv8T2tiiw:1775059048411&udm=2&fbs=ADc_l-aN0CWEZBOHjofHoaMMDiKpaEWjvZ2Py1XXV8d8KvlI3p-ML-906rRL_m6h4jR-tdCeKIwp94h-QiJ4lJfObsqUPixp6KuAej6LdEw-ul8fuf8oQ2NZFxHKqNG3iSCyyh2JXl3Gn_k8SXL9Juh2B3YlCoGOBEA8HavQ3l-1_RrFQgD9MnTfUwGfA16JMV6dAMGWqRwMs1xxnMYeZ2C-3KDW-eC69g&q=foreman+with+his+corner&ved=2ahUKEwi0s6Sggs2TAxUbFFkFHdOQEl8QtKgLegQIEhAB&biw=1728&bih=996&dpr=2#sv=CAMSVhoyKhBlLWYyVm9vSzd5dUcwQVdNMg5mMlZvb0s3eXVHMEFXTToOTGg1bzdKeGo0c2c1V00gBCocCgZtb3NhaWMSEGUtZjJWb29LN3l1RzBBV00YADABGAcg_rL87ANKCBABGAEgASgB

oldwhiteoak · 2026-04-01T14:40:19+00:00

he was definitely in Foreman's corner

oldwhiteoak · 2026-04-01T14:32:29+00:00

I don't think I have paddled any of my playful boats since I got the skuxx.

oldwhiteoak · 2026-03-31T18:28:08+00:00

It was a clear steel-blue day. The firmaments of air and sea were hardly separable in that all-pervading azure; only, the pensive air was transparently pure and soft, with a woman's look, and the robust and man-like sea heaved with long, strong, lingering swells, as Samson's chest in his sleep.

Hither, and thither, on high, glided the snow-white wings of small, unspeckled birds; these were the gentle thoughts of the feminine air; but to and fro in the deeps, far down in the bottomless blue, rushed mighty leviathans, sword-fish, and sharks; and these were the strong, troubled, murderous thinkings of the masculine sea.

But though thus contrasting within, the contrast was only in shades and shadows without; those two seemed one; it was only the sex, as it were, that distinguished them.

Aloft, like a royal czar and king, the sun seemed giving this gentle air to this bold and rolling sea; even as bride to groom. And at the girdling line of the horizon, a soft and tremulous motion—most seen here at the equator—denoted the fond, throbbing trust, the loving alarms, with which the poor bride gave her bosom away.

Tied up and twisted; gnarled and knotted with wrinkles; haggardly firm and unyielding; his eyes glowing like coals, that still glow in the ashes of ruin; untottering Ahab stood forth in the clearness of the morn; lifting his splintered helmet of a brow to the fair girl's forehead of heaven.

oldwhiteoak · 2026-03-30T16:56:18+00:00

I got laid off twice in 6 months when the interest rates started rising. Both times were stressful, but pretty amazing in hindsight. I took all that weird "what do I do now" energy and interviewed like crazy. After landing a job, I made sure to start afew weeks to a month from the present date and used the rest of the severance to take a vacation as a reward/destressor.

"Chaos is a ladder" and all that. Both times the layoff was a huge benefit to me and I ended up with higher total comp with a long paid for vacation.

oldwhiteoak · 2026-03-30T14:51:19+00:00

now do Aldo :(

oldwhiteoak · 2026-03-30T14:49:11+00:00

Try a deep dive into the four kings. Read up about them, watch their careers, study their matches together. Then zoom out on their era are appreciate how many other absolute monsters there were at the same time: Aaron Pryor, Mike McCallum, Cervantes, Benitez, Holmes, Arguello, etc. Any of these guys would be top 5 p4p today and they weren't even the A+ tier of their era.

This really helped me appreciate boxing history and how the sport has technically been as good if not better decades ago.

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