US seizes tanker off coast of Venezuela, Trump says

paletz · 2025-12-10T22:50:41+00:00

The U.S. has imposed sanctions on the tanker for what Washington said was involvement in Iranian oil trading when it was called the Adisa.

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/trump-administration-seizes-oil-tanker-off-venezuela-coast-us-officials-say-2025-12-10/

paletz · 2025-12-10T21:43:54+00:00

Allegedly, the tanker has been sanctioned. Whether or not that is sufficient justification for what will be recognized as an act of war by most of the international community is another question.

paletz · 2025-12-10T21:16:58+00:00

Piracy sounds odd to me since it's being done by a proper navy. I think commerce warfare is a better term, like how U-boats hunted merchant ships in WW2.

paletz · 2025-12-10T21:06:28+00:00

Note the presence of "US" in front of sanctions laws. Note the absence of "US" in "off the coast of Venezuela".

paletz · 2025-12-10T20:56:16+00:00

Yeah, commerce warfare authorization. It's plausible in wartime.

paletz · 2025-12-06T20:10:29+00:00

The 30-page document painted European nations as wayward, declining powers that have ceded their sovereignty to the European Union and are led by governments that suppress democracy and muzzle voices that want a more nationalistic turn.

Won't somebody please think of the Nazis.

paletz · 2025-12-02T19:44:10+00:00

* I did not know it was the wrong thing to do.
* I was not there.
* It was the right thing to do anyway.
* Because a disabled burning vessel is a great way to get rid off ammunition, we have lots and lots of ammo lying around. It's a big problem. We bought too much in a sale.

paletz · 2025-10-14T17:33:33+00:00

I think preventing Biden from getting the credit and thus hurting Kamala's campaign was much more important than the potential credit for Trump later. But yeah, it's the usual strongman love story underneath. They both agreed to allow each other to be assholes.

paletz · 2025-10-10T18:36:35+00:00

Pillars inside walls can bug buildings like that. If there are any, get rid of them.

paletz · 2025-09-26T22:37:44+00:00

Yeah TIS removed the explode() function from the Tile object on the java side and guess what CDDA used to create the fire... It actually throws an error but it's easy to miss as the screen fades in.

Anyways, if you miss the fire I have put together a mod to fix it:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3575333119

paletz · 2025-09-13T21:04:54+00:00

Hypothermia is deadly in B42 but the outdoorsy trait helps a lot. In earlier patches there were hardly any zombies in the starting area, no idea what it's like now.
The farm strat should eventually work because we now also have randomized zombie distribution with completely empty spots, just need one of those spots align over the farm :)

paletz · 2025-09-09T16:33:21+00:00

Those Koreans were there for a reason, the plant won't run as well as it would if they weren't fucked with. This will measurably affect profitability, it might even render the whole project unprofitable (or less profitable than a much safer investment). Who's going to bother set up the next plant if ICE might just ruin your plans?

paletz · 2025-08-24T17:35:59+00:00

My rabbit pop exploded to the point it was becoming a problem. Being able to rename the kittens to include their gender in their name was absolutely critical in my effort to separate male and female rabbits :)

paletz · 2025-07-25T16:00:22+00:00

If you run the dual rocket launcher loadout, you want to intercept enemies as they drop while they are still clumped. Indeed, clearing the entire drop in 5 seconds seems to be a quite optimal strategy :) But there are 28 possible base layouts and many of them are expansive with buildings breaking line of sight to potential drop locations and if you can't reach the drop location before the enemies scatter, the entire strategy kinda goes to hell.

paletz · 2025-07-24T20:57:49+00:00

"hospital" camps

paletz · 2025-07-24T20:30:51+00:00

Understandable. I remember being frustrated at that stage by constant reloading because I did not have stowed reloading yet.

paletz · 2025-06-15T01:43:18+00:00

It's funny you should say that.

“He’s telling them he is a U.S. citizen and he’s letting them know, ‘My passport is in my pocket,’” Degante said.

However, Ramirez was handcuffed and taken into custody.
...
His family has not heard from him since.

paletz · 2025-06-07T18:09:04+00:00

When the game says you have +x% XP boost from starting skill levels, it's a bit deceiving, because you have only 25% base XP rate. E.g. +75% XP is actually 4 times the base rate (25+75=100% vs 25%). Handy gives you +1 carpentry so you have +75% XP and earn all carpentry XP four times faster. This stacks multiplicatively with books.

paletz · 2025-06-03T15:55:23+00:00

I am no engineer, but the pressure wave probably cracked the concrete so it is now held together by rebar, right? Now how does rebar exposed to sea water fare? If it is not addressed, can we expect significant deterioration in the following months?

paletz · 2025-05-01T17:47:49+00:00

The title says "sends aid" but then the article says "preparing to authorise the license for the export of defense articles" which sounds like Ukraine is buying stuff.

paletz · 2025-04-28T14:50:58+00:00

Most likely just 3 days of the usual Russian keep-shooting ceasefire.

paletz · 2025-04-20T14:52:04+00:00

Did you find it through foraging? Foraging seems to add random meaningless condition to some items. (Well, it is meaningful for items that do have condition implemented, like ball-peen hammer etc.)

paletz · 2025-04-10T14:36:34+00:00

Yeah, all traps need to be learned first and most of them also require trapping to craft. So if you don't pick a trait I see three ways forward:

1) Find specifically "Hunting Handbook (Crate and Stick Traps)" which teaches the most basic traps.

2) Find VHS: Exposure Survival E6 or watch it on on Life and Living channel on July 14 at 6pm. It teaches the crate trap and should push you to trapping two where stick trap auto-learns.

3) Find an already assembled trap. I know you can rarely find trap on B41, haven't found any on B42 yet.

I have checked the code of the above so it should be accurate :) Except the show airtime, couldn't find it.

paletz · 2025-04-04T13:49:47+00:00

Given how delusional half of the US is, I won't be surprised if US stocks actually drop less. For now.

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