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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Know thy enemy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The lack of investment in the types of oil refineries to refine US oil domestically isn’t as much for optics purposes. But that relative to the amount of investment required to build new refineries to compete with the current foreign ones isn’t a good return on investment relative to the up front cost and the existing profits of the current arrangement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Know thy enemy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, it is true. It is not the quantity of oil infrastructure, but the grades and types they are. The US crude is mostly light sweet crude after the shift to oil shale. The refinery infrastructure was originally built for heavy crude with high sulfur content. Thus the US imports the type of oil our refineries were built to handle, and exports the portion of the oil that is domestically produced, but the wrong type.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Russian warships arrive in Cuba in show of force⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Showing support to a nation embargoed and impoverished by US aggression.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨degree in bamf⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not as confrontational, but had a similar experience with a collaborator. Due to the PIs’ old habits, our collaboration meetings were telecons (telephone landlines, rather than zoom or other video conferencing). So at a conference, I see a poster from a member of the collaboration, having never seen the faces of many members, and go over to introduce myself. This other grad student was in poster presenter mode, so as I approach he immediately asks “So you are interested in [collaboration project], how much do you know about [project]” and I point to my name on the author’s list and say “well, I am that guy”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Caesar⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t listen to that Frank, it’s a bunch of Optimate bullshit.