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Oil Futures are traded on the NY Mercantile Exchange, they trade 23 hours a day (but not on weekends). So any announcement make Friday evening won't hit the futures market until it opens back up late Sunday.

As I recall, the part of the strait that large tankers can actually use is very narrow. As a result, the tankers have to navigate the strait slowly and they are easy to intercept.

On top of that, Iran has several islands in perfect position to be used as naval bases. So, they can go out and put patrol boats (smaller, so not limited in where they can navigate, and well armed) in the way of ships, and threaten to sink them if they disobey orders to go no further.

As to why Oman doesn't object, I can only assume that Oman doesn't have enough naval power of its own to put up a serious fight against Iran. So, when the Iranians come and threaten tankers, whether it's in international waters or Omani waters, Oman probably can't do much about it.

We don't have to imagine it, we made it! It looked like this:

https://www.howtogeek.com/661871/the-web-before-the-web-a-look-back-at-gopher/

Graham was the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman, he (along with McConnell, who was majority leader at the time) was directly responsible for the Republican takeover of the SCOTUS. Merrick Garland never got a confirmation vote because Graham never scheduled hearings. He made up some bullshit excuses for that, and then when RBG passed, he made some bullshit excuses to do a total 180 and get that pick approved before Trump left office.

He is just as responsible for the state of things today as Mitch was.

Unless SC has weird rules like KY does, they will probably just hold the special election at the same time as the general, with the same candidates, since the general election is so close. They might be able to consolidate the two elections into the same ballot line, but maybe they can't, and there will be two lines the ballot for the same job.

So someone will be appointed to the job soon. Then, that person will get the job until whoever wins the special election is certified, probably mid-november. Then, whoever wins the General Election will take over whe the term officially begins in January.

Since SC is a safe Republican seat, though, the current Republican nominee will probably get appointed to the seat, and win both elections, so he will keep it until 2032.

Edited to add: ah, it looks like Graham was already the nominee. This will put SC Republicans in a bit of a time crunch to select a replacement. Because of that, it's possible they appoint a caretaker to only take the job until November, so that they can take the proper time to find a replacement on the ballot....

In any case, there is zero chance a Democrat can get this seat in SC. Even if Republicans can't pick a replacement in time for the election, SC would still elect a dead Republican over any Democrat.

Filibustering his own death is definitely fitting for him

I'm surprised they're still the Virgin islands after Epstein did his thing

We finally have something in common

(Obsessing over his death, that is....)

Since it's a Republican doing it, I guess not.

There is a school of thought that says that 1000+ years ago, clean water may have been hard to come by in some areas, and it was actually safer to drink beer than the local water.

It turns out, though, that much of the benefit comes from boiling the water as part of the beer making process - if those people had simply boiled their water before drinking it, it would have been just as effective.

The beer they drank back then was also much weaker than beer today. So nobody was getting drunk on it regularly, and it was not quite as dehydrating as modern alcoholic drinks.

The Royal Navy famously gave beer and rum as part of their rations while at sea, because the alcohol served to kill microbes. They could dilute it with water before handing out the rations for the day, and the alcohol would kill any microbes in the water, essentially helping them to stretch out the life og their water rations as well.

Scientifically, yes. But legally, governments control who can broadcast over which frequencies. The FCC has jurisdiction in the US for transmissions between 8.3kHz and 275 GHz., because those are most useful for communication.

Visible light is a much higher frequency. And when you think about it, it would be bonkers for a government to regulate visible light as if it were a radio emission, because the Sun already emits a ton of it. I'd like to see some government try to license Sunlight....

I disagree with the premise of the article also, but for different reasons. The Democratic Party does have a base, a large one. But, much of that base is indifferent to politics. They simply don't care, because they think they're screwed no matter who's in charge. (Of course, your average poster here is an exception, but let's face it, I can count every single one of us if I take off my shoes and use my toes along with my fingers).

Couple this with our system that partitions off the country into safe, gerrymandered seats (where the primary election that hardly anyone votes in is the critical one), and you get a system where a minority of attentive people can win elections against a majority of apathetic people. And if there's is one thing the Conservative Cinematic Universe does well, it's holding their people's attention by spreading attractive, convenient lies on the TV.

Ultimately, the problem with today's Democrats is that they value truth, and sometimes the truth isn't all that interesting. They will always be at a disadvantage when the other side can lie with impunity, and their voters not only dont mind, but ask for more lies because they validate their worldview.