He’s either a fucking moron or trying to drum up publicity for something.
Not necessarily mutually-exclusive possibilities, I would note.
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According to the article, he did, but then Trump didn't release the Epstein files, so now he says that he doesn't like Trump.
The QAnon shaman would also print a one-ounce gold coin, valued at $40 trillion, to pay off the country’s debts.
QAnon shaman sues Trump for $40 trillion
This is a man with a lot of enthusiasm for $40 trillion.
In the lengthy complaint, Chansley states that he is the “true” American president and that America should only have two laws: the Bill of Rights and the original U.S. Constitution.
In QAnon shaman dude's defense, if you figure that Trump is in the business of saying outrageous stuff as President to keep people focused on whatever he's saying rather than actual policy, this guy sounds like he might be better at it.
I wonder if that's because they're exporting gasoline rather than making it available there.
kagis
No. Apparently a few days back, the Kremlin also banned exports.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/25/world/russia-export-fuel-ban-ukranian-drones-intl
Kremlin bans fuel exports until the end of the year as Russia’s supply is disrupted by Ukrainian drones
So I assume that they can't actually even produce enough for domestic use at this point.
EDIT: Nah, the shortages are specific to Crimea, so it's probably a logistics breakdown there. Looking back over the article:
As The Bell notes, Crimea is also facing additional challenges due to severe weather conditions near the Kerch Strait, further complicating supply lines and exacerbating the fuel deficit. This is the first time such restrictions have been imposed on fuel sales to private individuals in the region.
This was from a month back, saying that at that point, they had a 20% margin and that if there was actually a domstic shortfall, then they'd expect rationing:
https://carnegieendowment.org/russia-eurasia/politika/2025/08/russia-war-gasoline-problem?lang=en
On top of this, annual gasoline production in Russia exceeds domestic demand by up to 20 percent...
If the worst comes to the worst, a crisis measure would be gasoline rationing.
You'd expect nationwide rationing rather than just rationing in Crimea in that case. Has burned through their supply for export, though, or they wouldn't have cut that off.
Yeah, came here to say this. East Asia has a whole collection of sauces based on fermented fish that taste amazing and have no offensive smell when cooked, but dear God, the smell of the stuff before it's cooked is horrifying.
EDIT: I guess I should clarify, for anyone who hasn't had it. It's not so much that fish sauce itself tastes delicious alone, but it has a ton of umami flavor. Same sort of stuff you get from, say, powdered boletes mushrooms or MSG. It makes savory dishes just taste way better when you add it to them.
Ah. Thanks for the context.
Well, after they have product out, third parties will benchmark them, and we'll see how they actually stack up.
Just 1 in 4 Brits think the UK is viewed positively on the world stage, with most wanting their country to play a large role in international affairs, exclusive poll shows
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American
view the UK positively in international affairs, but frankly, if you're comparing the UK to its recent history:
The UK itself has grown, but a lot of international influence came from the UK being, globally, at the leading edge of the Industrial Revolution. That's a discovery-of-fire level event, a pretty rare situation in human history.
That was a major part of the Great Divergence; the UK was highly developed, and pulled wildly more than its weight in per capita terms.
If the bar that a Briton is setting is relative to the UK's international role over the past couple centuries, that's a high bar to set, because the UK had extraordinary influence in the world in that period. That's not because the UK's economy has become weaker, but because the world has been economically converging; less-developed countries have been catching up. I'd say that the UK definitely punches well above its weight in population terms internationally today, and is probably relatively-engaged. Could it do more? Well, I'm sure it could. But I don't really think of the UK as especially isolationist. Name another country of 70 million that independently has as large an impact internationally.
If these news organizations cannot fix that embedded video behavior, then just download the clip, credit the poster, and cite the link at the bottom of the page. It’s public domain when it’s posted, so I don’t understand why that’s not the standard.
Posting something does not place it in the public domain.
Yeah, I saw, but it's an interesting topic.
Is your concern compromise of your data or loss of the server?
My guess is that most burglaries don't wind up with people trying to make use of the data on computers.
As to loss, I mean, do an off-site backup of stuff that you can't handle losing and in the unlikely case that it gets stolen, be prepared to replace hardware.
If you just want to keep the hardware out of sight and create a minimal barrier, you can get locking, ventillated racks. I don't know how cost-effective that is; I'd think that that might cost more than the expected value of the loss from theft. If a computer costs $1000 and you have a 1% chance of it being stolen, you should not spend more than $10 on prevention in terms of reducing cost of hardware loss, even if that method is 100% effective.
Mantraps that use deadly force are illegal in the United States, and in notable tort law cases the trespasser has successfully sued the property owner for damages caused by the mantrap. There is also the possibility that such traps could endanger emergency service personnel such as firefighters who must forcefully enter such buildings during emergencies. As noted in the important American court case of Katko v. Briney, "the law has always placed a higher value upon human safety than upon mere rights of property".[5]
EDIT: I'd add that I don't know about the "life always takes precedence over property" statement; Texas has pretty permissive use of deadly force in defense of property. However, I don't think that anywhere in the US permits traps that make use of deadly force.
Trump was claiming that the reason that he wanted to stop minting the penny was because the metal was worth more than the value of the penny (while true, that's not where the real cost of the penny comes from; it's rather from the handling and processing costs). I assume that that was to pander to someone, so I'm wondering if maybe there's a segment of the MAGA crowd that's obsessed with the metal value versus face value of coins.