The cost of diesel, the lifeblood of the U.S. economy powering freight and manufacturing, also pushed past $5 a gallon this month, marking the highest rate since 2022. Experts have warned that the elevated price of diesel, made from crude oil, will trigger knock-on effects on groceries, shipping and construction.

Around 80% of Americans live in cities, where there is nowhere to grow realistically self-sustaining quantities of food. If people can’t buy groceries because it’s no longer economically viable to ship food products to stores, what’s the point of anything else?

Don’t forget the uncontrollable farting.

It delays the problem for six more years, and it also gives me the satisfaction of pirating testing the only decent version of Windows free of Microslop bloat and vibe coded react.

Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC is supported until 2032 and free to activate.

Hegseth prays at service for violence against ‘those who deserve no mercy’

“Grant this task force clear and righteous targets for violence. Surround them as a shield, protect the innocent and blameless in their midst, make their arrows like those of a skilled warrior who returned not empty-handed. Let every round find its mark against the enemies of righteousness and our great nation,” he continued, speaking to uniformed military personnel and civilian employees.

“Preserve their lives, sharpen their resolve and let justice be executed swiftly and without remorse, that evil may be driven back and wicked souls delivered to the eternal damnation prepared for them.”

How indescribably evil and pathetic is the man who must pray to god to murder children for him?

While this sets a good precedent, congress passed the Rescissions Act of 2025 which strips 1.1 billion from PBS.

Donate to your local station or write your representatives.

As the war in Iran continues, petrol and grocery prices soar and chaos continues at US airports as a partial government shutdown endures, Vance appeared on the conservative Benny Show podcast, released Saturday, to promise that he would spend time looking into what he called his “obsession” with UFOs and extraterrestrial visitors.

This is a standard deflection job where the chronic magical thinking of the electorate is leveraged to distract from the real problems representatives cannot solve - Hypernormalisation.

If we’re dead from famine, drought, climate change, and war, do Aliens and Demons really fucking matter?

“We’re negotiating now, and it’d be great if we could do something, but they have to open it up. They have to open up the Strait of Trump — I mean, Hormuz. Excuse me, I’m so sorry, such a terrible mistake,” Trump said.

“The fake news will say he accidentally said — there’s no accidents with me, not too many. If there were, we’d have a major story,” he added.

“If I don’t get the Nobel Prize for peace, nobody will ever get it. I didn’t get it. I’m not surprised. The person that got it was shocked — she’s a wonderful woman too, by the way,” he said.

This is completely incongruent with reality. Trump has lived his hyper-privileged life speaking the things he wants into existence, and that privilege has now reached its limit.

These are not the words of a sane person.

Can I get a full list of features on the Iran war after all these cryptic posts?

Windows 10 IoT Enterprise is maintained until 2032, de-bloated, and free.

Ooh, new USCSB video incoming soon.

I tried this with my Kia Forte and destroyed my priceless Fabergé egg collection. I’m ruined!

That would be barbaric. Instead, we let them die of sepsis or bleed to death from their genitals.

Direct quote from the video:

“The president of the United States, Gavin Newscum admitted that he has learning disabilities, dyslexia… everything about him is dumb.”

The way he says it doesn’t make it sound like he’s stating it in a possible future tense.

The president also expressed surprise in the interview that US allies in the Gulf have been targeted by Iran. These countries “got shot at unnecessarily”, he told NBC, describing Iran’s decision to target them as “the biggest surprise I had of this whole thing”.

The fact that he is admitting this off the cuff as if it’s a good reason proves unequivocally that Trump has absolutely no fucking clue what the fuck he, or anyone else in his “administration” is doing. This is precisely the tactic that has deterred the US from daring to launch a full scale war on Iran for decades, and it is playing out exactly as foreseen by every military leader, president, and politician the came before now.

Trump’s extreme narcissism belies a deep and crippling incompetence that has plagued him his entire life, and this statement is the perfect example of how his ego and frankly insane immunity to consequences prevents him from possibly even discovering that he may be committing grievous errors.

The chaos sown by the spoiled sons of rich and powerful men is a problem that has plagued humankind of millennia, except now they have nuclear weapons.

“The incident occurred in friendly airspace during Operation Epic Fury, and rescue efforts are ongoing,” a release from US Central Command said, using the operation name the Pentagon has given to US operations against Iran. “Two aircraft were involved in the incident. One of the aircraft went down in western Iraq, and the second landed safely. This was not due to hostile fire or friendly fire.”

Sounds like a collision during refueling.

I did not realize that! Given how sensitive America voters are to gas prices, I guess they’re relying on voter suppression.

Who exactly does benefit from closing the strait other than Iran?

These are great points and are important to consider for mental and sexual health. I also think that the risks accompanying age verification’s mass surveillance and capitalism’s exploitation of America’s institutional sexual repression have a far greater and more harmful impact than porn and masturbation.

Of course, it’s not a bad thing that there is support for people in the form of this app, but I fear that legal policy is expanding to suppress sexuality without consent. For example, data from period tracking apps has already been used to persecute women who seek abortions. If the extreme religious right in America gets their way, could data from anti-masturbation apps or age verification services be used to help prove you accessed “illegal” pornography?

It sounds insane, because it is, but I believe this is where we’re headed in a fascist, sexually repressive America. :/

Some context from the end of the article:

But Matthew Buckley, a former U.S. Naval aviator who spent considerable time serving in the Middle East region in the 1990s, told The Independent that the U.S. air campaign against Iran is likely executing long-held plans that would negate the need for the minesweepers by eliminating Iran’s ability to lay mines.

“When I was flying combat sorties off to Abraham Lincoln in the mid 90s, you know, we were doing operation Southern Watch no fly zone missions over Iraq. And guess what we were doing during our downtime? We were strike planning Iran … and one of my big strikes that I had planned was against an Iranian mine facility deep in the middle of Iran,” he said.

He added that the Avenger-class ships would not necessarily be readily available to clear any mines that might be laid because they’re “not built for a dynamic environment.”

“Obviously the LCS does have its issues, but it does have a lot of weapons on board, and it is more designed for actual combat and littoral … mine sweeping,” he said.

The mine sweepers in question are four decommissioned wood and fiberglass vessels from the Desert Storm era whose capabilities are being replaced by littoral (giggity) combat ships.

It’s hard for me to believe that this operation wouldn’t include priority strikes on sea mine facilities. Just the specter of mines in the strait is enough to make shipping insurance infeasible. If Iran is successfully mining, what happened? Was this war so hastily planned that this was overlooked? If the strait is so vital to shipping, you’d think they would want every minesweeper available.

If the US military (who are acutely aware of Trump’s openly hostile disrespect towards service members by the way) are actually listening to Trump’s logistical advice, he’s going to run them into the ground faster than his Vegas casinos.