Not shipping it would be cheaper yet, though.

I don’t think there’s a misunderstanding here, exactly. You want to shit on pipelines, and that’s okay, but I’m more interested in the how this all fits together economically.

Yeah, Canadian crude is mostly heavy. Do you know where the Americans are sending their light crude (and why they don’t just refine it themselves)?

Hmm. Canada doesn’t really have much refining capacity, and you subsidise yours (or so I’ve been told) which is why we send it all down there.

Interesting that your exports are around the same. Where are you exporting to? That might help solve the mystery.

Why would it be more profitable to do it the less efficient way? It costs per mile/km to build pipe.

Original source.

I’m guessing it’s just because there was fighting again and people weren’t expecting it to end so quickly, and started hoarding.

Cold wartime, maybe. For sure we’re not at the “assess tolerable casualty percentage” stage of conflict yet, which is what that means to me.

The computer you’re using is made out of particles. You have to be more specific.

Hell, if it’s a newer device, it’s a series of switches operating on nearly-single electrons.

I’m actually not sure it’s a cultural universal. I mean, snapping has seen use even in some subcultures within the West. I’ve seen stomping used for a similar purpose, as well. The point is I guess just to make noise communally.

Fun fact, the kiss might not be universal depending on who you ask, either.

I think you’re worried about the deck chairs on a sinking ship, at this point.

And now Trump will do it, because some of the people in his party openly want Palestinian genocide (just as long as they can use other synonyms).

Which parts do you really like?

Yeah, it’s a continuous scale, which is something people miss sometimes. When you talk to people with millions of dollars they have a tendency to say they’re not that rich, and point to some guy they know with tens of millions. They’re not wrong per se even if they’re dangerously out of touch; that extra digit changes a lot.

The bullshit is just that that scale goes way, way too high, as well as way too low. Human ability is normally distributed, and human worth is often held to be inalienably equal. Wealth follows a completely different distribution, for reasons.

A good guess. I’m not sure how Evangelical he is, but he sounds like a fellow traveler having worked with Reagan and inflicted abuse on people from other faith groups.

I said a Christian author just because most people are over the Protestant vs. Catholic thing, and Chinese communists are a particular favourite bugbear of theirs.

My bad. Uuuuh… Indianapolis infrastructure, according to a quick search. Speaking of cities that get bomb reviews…

LA is aggressively overrated from everything I’ve heard. NYC prices, Kansas City Indianapolis infrastructure, Manilla tidyness. The weather is nice, I guess.

There’s a history of it meaning some kind of magical personality replacement thing, though. IIRC it was a Cold War excuse for why US soldiers defected sometimes. Cults exist, but the techniques they use to pressure people are a lot more mundane and take time to really take root.

Edit: Yup. More info here.

Two options, if you’re shilling for billionaires:

They’re intrinsically 10,000x better than you and me and deserve to be 10,000x richer.

It’s just theirs. It says so somewhere, no backsies.

Pure trickle-down had it’s day too, but it’s it’s a joke again in modern times, for the most part. You may object that these are all weak arguments, but basically, you and what army?

Edit: “We need a remote chance of becoming a billionaire for anyone to go to work” is kind of a blend of trickle-down and argument number one, but I suppose I should mention it, just for the sake of completeness

Some of them literally have their money in Euros and European companies, which the US does not control. I’m not going to whine if you wanna revolution, that’s understandable, but be factual on the way.

What book is that? Brainwashing basically is not a real thing, so I advise you to check who the author is. (By the sound of it, I have my money on a prominant Christian)

Never was. (End humblebrag)