The point is that banning the export of US oil would cause oil to stop being a globalized commodity (in the US.) US production and US consumption have not changed since the Iran war started. But US prices are up since US production is being shipped to places where their supply from Hormuz is cut off.

Other responder said that US refining can’t refine US oil, which would be extremely odd and I hadn’t heard that before but if true would indeed destroy my logic here.

Trump could ban US oil export. That would bring the price of gas down here.

He won’t do that.

Automakers have billions of dollars in brand new EV manufacturing equipment and lines sitting around doing nothing since the new administration changed all the regulations and incentives.

When he says anything will happen in 2-3 weeks, he means the next news cycle in 2-3 weeks should distract you from his total failure to do what he said.

If he was on trial for an unsolved murder he could have plausibly been present for, and the murder relates to the description he wrote in his book, yes absolutely the fact he wrote about similar murders should be presentable to the jury. Of course it should! How would that not be relevant?

I would not think that it would be enough to convict on its own but absolutely it could be supporting evidence.

Had he not already been acquitted, OJ Simpson’s book “If I Did It” should absolutely have been admissible as evidence against him in the murder trial even though he put the word “If” in the title

A defendant’s statements should not become inadmissible in court just because they are expressed in the form of rap lyrics.

I find it very unlikely the US could keep a lid on 200 deaths and saying it’s six. Not for more than a week or so. People’s families are going to wonder where their loved ones are. Hospital workers, morgue workers, life insurance companies, flight crews, people are going to talk, and share pictures.

I started watching a lot of home-improvement type videos on YouTube, and suddenly since then all the ads now assume my dick is horribly bent and doesn’t work, and that I uncontrollably shit and piss myself.

It’s so pervasive I can’t even watch YouTube on my living room TV with my young kids around because I would have to explain way too much to them.

Cuba also grants political asylum to US fugitive cop killers

I deleted Facebook maybe two years ago. One of the last things I saw was a very obviously AI generated image of six or seven soldiers that had lost the same leg and all had it replaced with a prosthetic at exactly the same point, with some caption about “let’s get some likes for our wounded warriors!” Followed by dozens of comments in support, I assume all were bots.