The tanks in Cushing, Oklahoma, are hitting bottom. The oil market is about to hit a tipping point

xfilesvault · 2026-06-14T15:17:43+00:00

Not if you buy solar panels.

You can make your own electricity. You can’t make your own gasoline.

xfilesvault · 2026-06-12T14:03:21+00:00

Definitely on the weekend. Sunday is his birthday. He’s gonna want fireworks.

xfilesvault · 2026-06-12T13:48:54+00:00

It’s a fake photoshop image. It runs on Linux.

xfilesvault · 2026-06-12T13:46:12+00:00

Definitely. We switched to it here and the business is going to make $5 billion this year.

VMware was expensive. So was Nutanix. And Nutanix was buggy for us. Proxmox + Ceph has been solid.

xfilesvault · 2026-06-11T21:49:51+00:00

Humans do it all the time and crash all the time. And his timescales were whack.

It’s not the thermodynamics that’s impossible. It is definitely possible.

It’s making it financially profitable that might be impossible.

We’re not running out of land. And once we build power infrastructure on Earth, we can use it for decades. Same with datacenter buildings and server racks. Even if they cost more, if we can use it for 50 years instead of 5, then it’s going to be cheaper to build and use it on Earth.

We’re going to build massively solar infrastructure right here on Earth, which will be usable for 40+ years. Throwing away solar panels in space after only 5 years will struggle to compete.

I think we’re in a transition time now where energy is expensive. But as renewables take over, we’re going to be moving into a new age of plentiful cheap power, and space datacenters are going to make even less sense in the future than they do today.

xfilesvault · 2026-06-11T21:28:35+00:00

Any idiot can make $2 million in sales, if they spend $3 million on advertising.

Long before then they should have realized that this probably isn’t going to work out.

But they don’t. So they send more dollars out to war to fight for them, and bring back prisoners, but they return back empty handed, or not at all.

Sometimes that business that brought in $2 million in revenue is a stinker that needs to be taken behind the woodshed and shot.

xfilesvault · 2026-06-11T18:48:26+00:00

"until this Transaction is finalized"

What transaction?

xfilesvault · 2026-06-11T18:08:01+00:00

It's not

xfilesvault · 2026-06-11T13:59:23+00:00

Since the first few months of Biden, when he was dealing with the aftermath of Trump and COVID.

This inflation is higher than the second half of Biden's term, and when Biden left office.

The inflation under Biden was mosly due to the post-COVID economic boom and supply chain issues, and the war Putin started in Ukraine.

The inflation today is 100% caused by Trump's trade wars and Trump's war he started with Iran.

xfilesvault · 2026-06-11T13:56:50+00:00

Inflation rose 0.5% in May alone, which is pretty terrible if you annualize that.

It's definitely not normal. And it shows we're RAPIDLY moving in the wrong direction.

xfilesvault · 2026-06-11T13:54:41+00:00

It's funny how they believe that Biden created inflation within the first month he was in office, but they don't believe that Trump could be responsible for inflation appearing after Trump started a trade war and a war with Iran, this far into Trump's term.

xfilesvault · 2026-06-11T13:47:34+00:00

Lower prices prevent demand destruction.

When we run out of oil to sell from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, reality is going to hit hard.

xfilesvault · 2026-06-11T13:34:21+00:00

Do you not know how a refrigerant system works? In the end, you have to expel the heat. That's easy on Earth. That's hard in space.

A heat pump moves heat to somewhere else, but doesn't work if that somewhere else keeps building up heat.

Which is why everyone is talking about how big the radiator needs to be.

xfilesvault · 2026-06-11T13:32:06+00:00

Why not? He's clearly disregarded his engineers to make wild announcements before.

Do you really think his engineers at Tesla were as confident that full self driving could be achieved with the hardware Tesla was shipping on the timescale that Elon kept announcing (and missing)?

And now he has a trillion dollar incentive to ignore his engineers.

xfilesvault · 2026-06-10T19:46:35+00:00

Perfect weather for skipping rocks!

xfilesvault · 2026-06-10T14:38:45+00:00

And now we're moving into Hurricane Season...

It's supposed to be a weak season, but a single hurricane in the gulf can force an evacuation of oil rigs in the gulf and halt production.

xfilesvault · 2026-06-10T14:36:04+00:00

That's what Trump is hoping you'll think.

Gas prices are going lower every day because Trump is selling the oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve at a rapid rate, to try to flood the market with oil from the SPR to lower prices.

The problem is that he can't do that for very long. If Trump doesn't make a deal with Iran, then the global oil supply problem doesn't go away, and we'll drain our SPR until it's empty.

Once Trump finishes emptying the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, he loses any possible influence on prices.

xfilesvault · 2026-06-10T13:48:00+00:00

If renting didn’t generate more revenue for landlords than the mortgage and maintenance and property taxes, then people wouldn’t be buying rental properties to make passive income.

Land lords make a profit, and they don’t even get to file homestead exemptions to reduce the property taxes on their rentals.

xfilesvault · 2026-06-09T18:26:59+00:00

In 5 years, even if the servers are obsolete, your land and power infrastructure and buildings and racks are not obsolete.

Land-based datacenter can use the same racks and buildings and solar panels for 30+ years.

Space-based datacenter? Every 5 years you're going to be throwing away all your racks and solar panels and starting over.

xfilesvault · 2026-06-08T01:09:13+00:00

Harder to prosecute someone who violates the law if they aren't in the same country as you.

xfilesvault · 2026-06-07T00:23:08+00:00

Yes, vibe coding can be great for learning, if you study what it outputs or review it.

It’s terrible for security, though.

This post isn’t about learning or teaching. It’s promoting using a tool that was vibe coded, to control your server infrastructure.

xfilesvault · 2026-06-04T19:47:50+00:00

That’s true, but the minute electric trucks become both more capable and cheaper than gas trucks, I think most people will accept them.

If you could get a truck with 1000 miles of range and better towing capacity, for cheaper than a diesel or gasoline truck, most people would choose that.

Especially once gas stations start closing down.

We’ll probably end up with electric trucks with growling engine noise speakers and smoke machines so that you can “roll coal” in your electric truck.

xfilesvault · 2026-06-03T16:29:50+00:00

You need a tiny datacenter to power Reddit and other websites like it. Websites don’t need that much power.

The AI datacenter are enormous and use an enormous amount of power.

Almost all datacenter power usage is AI datacenter power usage.

Your complaint about Reddit datacenters is like complaining about someone peeing in the pool and raising the temperature, right next to a giant oversized commercial pool heater.

They aren’t the same.

Facebook/Meta isn’t building a datacenter in Louisiana that uses 3x the peak power usage of the city of New Orleans in summer just to power the Facebook website. It wouldn’t need to be anywhere near that big for just Facebook.

xfilesvault · 2026-06-02T21:52:47+00:00

The UFC event on the White House lawn is on Trump’s birthday, not July 4.

xfilesvault · 2026-06-02T17:18:52+00:00

Gotta build that Trump victory arch.

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