You not understanding the term "reason" and conflating it with "thinking" is the only problem here. "Reason" is literally what algorithms do. It's literally baked into one of the standard definitions of this word. You don't even need to have LLMs or AI to do it.

They did not. China's rare-earth supply was perfectly steady in price right until the US started a trade war with them. If you think that was a rug-pull I'll bet you were the sibling who cried to mummy "but he hit me back!"

The idea that this is a rug-pull is born from the minds who failed basic economics class. China subsidises their car industry for their own gains. Their own people need cheap cars. The fact that this industry built huge economies of scale and exports around the world is secondary. You can't rug-pull by fucking yourself over.

It's more complicated than the headline admits. There is no "Europe" jet fuel. Jet fuel is highly localised. E.g. Schiphol airport gets it's fuel from Rotterdam via pipeline. Rotterdam refineries are showing zero reductions in utilisation due to getting precisely no fuel from that area of the middle east. Port-Jerome is also running at full utilisation so that's Europe's two largest airports having precisely zero impact on jet fuel supply.

Now here is the kicker, Airfrance-KLM is one of the airlines implicated in TFA. They are in fact cutting flights. Why? Because the oil price caused a retail fuel price spike due to speculative trading. The flights being cancelled are being done so not because they are out of fuel, but because the pre-booked and paid for flights can't be flown at a profit given the cost they purchased fuel for.

Europe isn't out of fuel, it's out of *cheap* fuel. The entire world is.

Turns out trains don't travel across the oceans. Unless we've invented some new tech that I haven't read about. I know Americans don't understand the concept of travelling beyond one state over but much of Europe does.

By the way I just arrived home from the Airport. I came back from Alicante, a 2.5hour flight, or a 20 hour train ride along some of the best high-speed rail networks in Europe (France and Spain). Please tell me you're not as dumb as I think you are.

This war has literally reverberated effects around the entire world. I mean fuck look at the first word of the fucking title on of this story.

There's nothing "Just in time" about this. The mechanics of storing a metric fuckton of oil (as opposed to imperial fucktons used in the USA) are complicated in every possible conceivable way. It's a major hazard. It's an environmental problem. It's expensive to build the facilities. And the market volatility is such that due to the price variations between buying and selling and bringing to market the entire industry uses a completely different accounting system from normal companies (Replacement Cost Operating Profit rather than Net Profit).

There is virtually no difference between how we're storing oil now than when we were in the early 1900s. And countries also maintain a pool of strategic reserves, literally the opposite of JIT purchasing.

Gnome developers disagree with you.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

hex1 /hks/
North American English
noun
a magic spell; a curse.

You really needed to phrase that in a different way. Between Clarke and the Oxford dictionary, yes.. it is beyond people's grasp.

Horseshit. The technical reasons were pushed by *us*, the nerds on Slashdot, the ones who for some reason conflated NAT with firewalls, the ones who bitch and moan that IPv6 addresses can't be remembered. The world was full of greybeards, tech-heads, and IT geniuses who rallied *against* the adoption of IPv6.

It was the law of unintended consequences, MBAs had nothing to do with the sad state we're in now.

They literally do. I've never come across a router that doesn't have IPv6 enabled by default if it is presented with an IPv6 address from it's WAN connection. The problem is the latter part. I finally got IPv6 last year (my ISP sent me a new modem). In 2025 some. 30 years after the standard was written.

Everyone being as good as Comcast. Vodaphone user here, I don't get an IPv6 address on my phone despite it being supported by Android.

Fun fact, globally rail control and safety systems have reliability requirements equivalent to operation of nuclear reactors. That's typically 2-3 orders of magnitude more reliable than something like the ABS system in a car, or most safety systems in a typical refinery or chemical plant (actually a full order of magnitude more reliable than the highest rated safety systems recognised by international standards for the process industry).

When things go wrong in a train they go very wrong. It's an insanely interesting system to work on from a reliability point of view. It just doesn't seem like it because people have in their heads that these things used to be lever operated steam driven things that a driver had to get out of and manually switch.

Funny enough it's the "friendly" and "helpful" nations that seem to be our biggest threat right now. But yes good work conflating yet another irrelevant issue. Ever been tested for ADHD?

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