Apparently in addition to Trump probably producing a recession and thus clobbering oil demand, OPEC decided, for some reason, to increase production.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/oil-extends-sharp-drop-surprise-061831274.html

Oil’s rout was triggered Thursday by US President Donald Trump deluge of tariffs, which threaten the global economy and energy consumption. Hours later, OPEC+ tripled a planned output hike for May, in what delegates called a deliberate effort to lower prices to punish members that were pumping above their quota.

West Texas Intermediate futures have fallen about 14% in just two days — settling near $61 a barrel in a move similar to steep losses seen during the pandemic — while Brent also ended the day at the lowest since 2021. The declines were exacerbated on Friday by China’s retaliation against the US duties, including a 34% tariff on all imports from the US starting within a week.

Both are bad news if you’re a major oil exporter.

It will most likely make Europe, along with the US and most of the world, poorer than would otherwise be the case.

With elementary math, consumers could easily calculate battery life by dividing watt-hours by power consumption.

I mean, for something like an LED, maybe, but a lot of computing devices can vary power consumption based on what they’re doing.

I do agree that it’s pretty ridiculous that anyone is selling a power bank without a watt-hour rating.

I mean, that splitter device cannot be USB compliant, if it’s giving more than 5V to a device that never negotiated more than 5V.

I’d also guess that if it’s just silently feeding the second device from what the phone has negotiated, it’s probably not compliant in that it’s probably drawing more from its power source than the phone has negotiated – USB devices are responsible for indicating what they’ll draw.

You could make that multiport device USB-compliant, but it’d require having the splitter be a DC-DC power source and having it negotiate some PD draw sufficient to power both devices.

We, the continent-born of the Enlightenment, the revolutions, the renaissance of nudity on canvas, in stone and on film - we have allowed a country that bottles cheese in cans, of all things, to tell us what is ‘moral’!

No more prudish double standards!

Europe: symbolized by naked chick who gets raped by a bull.

OP: Europe is morally-constrained in aesthetics, must cast off these constraints.

It should be interesting to see where this goes…

There’s an already-extant ground-based vessel navigation system, Loran-C, though I’m sure that it’s possible to improve on it and I have no idea how much of the receiver hardware is still out there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loran-C

The introduction of civilian satellite navigation in the 1990s led to a rapid drop-off in Loran-C use. Discussions about the future of Loran-C began in the 1990s; several turn-off dates were announced and then cancelled. In 2010, the US and Canadian systems were shut down, along with Loran-C/CHAYKA stations that were shared with Russia.[2][3] Several other chains remained active; some were upgraded for continued use. At the end of 2015, navigation chains in most of Europe were turned off.[4] In December 2015 in the United States, there was also renewed discussion of funding an eLoran system,[5] and NIST offered to fund development of a microchip-sized eLoran receiver for distribution of timing signals.[6]

The National Timing Resilience and Security Act of 2017, proposed resurrecting Loran as a backup for the United States in case of a GPS outage caused by space weather or attack.[7][8]

I’m sure not, but even without looking at any technical details, it will have at least a couple benefits:

• First, it’s short range. GPS satellites are in geosynchronous orbit, which is a pretty high orbit. Wikipedia says about 22,000 miles away. For GPS, the jammer is going to be far closer than the legitimate signal.

• Second, I’m guessing — though we’ll see — that this is going to be a civilian system, and I suppose that they could even try to mandate that militaries not use it. GPS was, from the beginning, a military system, and there are weapons being used in Ukraine that use it for guidance. Unless you’re solely out to be a dick — which isn’t impossible — probably not a lot of benefit to stomping on civilian-only frequencies.

which is vulnerable to jamming

This has, in fact, been a serious problem in the Baltic region, as Russia’s military has been jamming GPS there for some time, and it dicks up navigation for ships and aircraft there.

“How did a Trump-hating editor of The Atlantic end up on your Signal chat?” Laura Ingraham asked.

“You know, Laura, I’m not a conspiracy theorist,” Waltz replied. “But of all the people out there, somehow this guy who has lied about the president, who has lied to Gold Star families, lied to their attorneys, and gone to Russia hoax, gone to all kinds of lengths to lie and smear the president of the United States and he’s the one that somehow gets on somebody’s contact and then gets sucked into this group.”

Honestly, I really hope that the next administration, regardless of which party it is, dispenses with the constant and unending stream of bullshit. I really don’t want this sort of thing to become established as the new normal.

It’s not even over a significant issue here; it seems like an insane thing to use credibility on. Like, Waltz could say “I clicked on the wrong person”, and I don’t think that anyone is going to wig out about it. The fact that they were on Signal in the first place, not to mention using poor operational security while on it is the much more concerning issue, but he’s not denying that.