Random Thought Thread

Moorik said:
Today I finally got my delivery, and there were also packets with scales for a couple of blades in it.

The packet that the 'nuclear instant regret' came in looks suspiciously similar to the one the scales come in 😁
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Blues Blues will be along shortly to cite you for a foot-fault penalty on this photo. 😲
 
In case you haven't heard yet, USPS is adding a 8% fuel surcharge for package deliveries effective April 26th.

This affects:
  • Priority Mail Express
  • Priority Mail
  • USPS Ground Advantage
  • Parcel Select
This surcharge is supposed to end on January 17, 2027 but, like taxes, tolls & other fees, I assume that once they're imposed, they're NEVER going to be rescinded.

See: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...el-surcharge-iran-war-gas-prices/89342211007/

UPS & FedEx reportedly have already raised their shipping rates by about 6-10%.

See: https://logisticsstrategies.substack.com/p/2026-rates-are-out-and-no-its-not
 
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Crisis, guys.

And by the way, this isn’t one that will pass as quickly as COVID.

Because this one is real, it’s energetic.

Right now, all countries will try to save their currencies.

Japan will probably go first.

This will trigger an even bigger market drop, and that risk will be passed on to product buyers. Anyone.

Who needs 12 tons of Kit-Kats anyway?

They’ll just go bad.
 
Moorik said:
Crisis, guys.

And by the way, this isn’t one that will pass as quickly as COVID.

Because this one is real, it’s energetic.

Right now, all countries will try to save their currencies.

Japan will probably go first.

This will trigger an even bigger market drop, and that risk will be passed on to product buyers. Anyone.

Who needs 12 tons of Kit-Kats anyway?

They’ll just go bad.
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I wish that more Americans really REALLY understood more about the exorbitant privilege that the USD enjoys (enjoyed?) being the world's reserve currency and also the Petrodollars which in 1973 became the benchmark of all oil trades woldwide, when Henry Kissinger made that famous deal with the House of Saud after the initial 1971(?) oil shock by OPEC. The more that citizens understand about how crucial these two factors are, for the financial wellbeing of this nation and the wealth that it affords people (to some but sadly not all) to create opportunities for themselves, the more we will value our fiat currency USD, instead of inadvertently having our privileges to be to be supplanted and wasted, which is nothing more than what BRICS countries wish to see come to fruition.

Japan has been waking up, raising the yields on their own government's bonds while CCP is naturally sitting back watching this SS. Oh and effing Putin is just laughing all the way to the bank 🤬
 
Re: Tungsten prices

Beside being a commodity tightly controlled by one large Far Eastern country, it is also a war materiel. Reuters link: https://www.reuters.com/markets/com...urning-through-us-tungsten-stocks-2026-03-23/

The Iran war, coming on top ‌of Ukraine - now in its fifth year - is draining stocks not just of missiles but of the metals that make them so lethally efficient.

Replacing what has been used will be challenging. The tungsten market was already struggling before China tightened its export controls in February 2025 in response to U.S. tariffs. Now it is in crisis.
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Also remember that depleted Uranium penetrators in NATO munitions were replaced by tungsten after the first Gulf War. It's about time we started to mine for tungsten again here in the US. There are deposits in the western states.
 
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