That was fascinating, thanks!

Sorry missed this, been mostly on Piefed the last week or so.

Sauce: https://ofac.treasury.gov/recent-actions/20260312_33

Found one in one of my pix that I didn’t even see!

In NO way defending that orange shitstain, but people keep reporting he lifted oil sanctions on Russia (and Iran).

This is not true: he only said it was ok to buy the dark fleet’s barrels that are at sea now. Fun fact, no one is actually doing this that wasn’t already buying from the dark fleet (well, technically from the people who hire the dark feet).

It’s the second and third order effects people will start to feel in six months regardless of when this stops that are going to really hurt.

Time to plant a garden, I suppose. At least it’s early spring in the N Hemisphere.

Um, two of their missiles reached Diago Garcia, which is a 1,000km further than Berlin (give or take, depends where in Iran they launched them.)

Lovely. Next you’re going to tell me Proton mail went evil. (Thanks for the explanation though! I’ll have a look at Kagi).

What happened to magicearth? I haven’t used it much, just one of the google alternatives in my “maps” folder.

All true, but it generally shows you search results in a reasonable order and including reliable sources. Like a fine-tuner for Google that doesn’t feed them your data. At least not that we know of…

Thanks I was just about to look it up.

I’m a C1 Dutch speaker (barely, technically) and before I understood how evil LLMs are, I played around with some of them to have them tweak things I wrote in Dutch into different styles. It was pretty eye opening.

I had to very, very grudgingly but rightfully apologize to one of my traders for using an LLM to translate some Vietnamese financial accounts to English. I read to fast and missed the part where he said he used it for translation. I still worry the actual financial ratios are off, so I’ll have my other guy do that, but yeah, ok I hate these things but they are good at translation.

Damn that was good - did you write it yourself?

We are all still cool with Proton though, right? That was where I was planning on heading.

Looks at Brent over the last 24 months, looks at massive oil tankers offshore everywhere with unsold crude.

Yep, 'bout that time.

Not in NL. If you have any high demand skill, you can be eligible for the 30% ruling.

Our king is ok. Just wants to fly jets.

Indeed, this would be a key metric, and probably someone has already done this work. If my hedging guy (who also covers our EUA/ETS biz) in London has this data, I’ll post it.

A small nitpick about the 40% figure: different type of oceanic shipping are “counted” different ways. Crude/products (and bulks) are counted by deadweight (DWT) while container shipping is counted by twenty foot equivalent units (TEU). Passenger ships by people, RoRo/PCTCs by lane miles, etc. There are other more esoteric examples as well.

EU owns twice as many treasuries as anyone else in the world…it’s be mutual suicide, but their economy would die in a fire.