🌐 Reddit Catchall — June 24, 2026

[1 pts] Most movies are shot on 35mm film. Lawrence was shot on massive 65mm film. Think of it like a camera sensor: the film canvas was three to four times larger than normal. This captured an overwhelming amount of detail, depth, and clarity that digital or standard film can rarely match. The vibrant colors come from an old process called Technicolor Dye-Transfer. Instead of normal chemical developing, the colors were literally stamped onto the film using pure, rich dyes (like a high-end printing press). This created deep, saturated colors and ink-black shadows that don't fade.

[1 pts] There are multiple reasons why the movie looks so clear. One would be that it was shot in 70mm film which means it has a very high "resolution" (in quotes because film doesn't actually have pixels). Most modern movies were filmed with 35mm which is ~3.5 times less area than 70mm. In addition they used very high quality lenses and film color transfers. What you see with today's excellent 4K digital scan is most possibly still less detail than the original film contains. Whereas 35mm film is more or less equivalent to 4K.

[1 pts] It was amazing quality with amazing direction and camera work and on location and it was filmed in an analogue medium. So every new advancement of digital can draw more quality from the film stock. But if you want to compare it to modern film, they film as neutral as possible so special effects and changes can be done after the filming. So they use neutral colours and light, hide the shadows, whatever they can to make post filming easier for the digital effects. There are even actors on the latest Marvel stuff who are unsure what they were even shooting, they just spent a week in a green screen reading random dialogue and the post filming will simply stitch a story together. The design of modern movies it to give control to the editing in post, directors make everything as general as possible to faciliate this. Look at a Wes Anderson movie, the color is good, the visuals can be amazing, and if you watch his filming he is very intentioned of what he films, there are few left like that. Then look at your standard stuff they either build ridicious sized sets or expect to do it all with green screen or even use "the volume" which I think Star wars is finally moving away from.

[1 pts] Weirdly enough, there's also the fashion effect. The black colour wasn't widespread and uniform until less than a century ago, when it became a symbol of status and sophistication following the oil boom.

[1 pts] No idea if this is true but I read somewhere it’s because black fabric can be thinner and still be opaque for modesty.

[1 pts] A full black Burka is relatively rare across the entire Middle East and North Africa (and other Muslim nations). Most Muslim women wear hijab and a full cover up is super optional. However, I grew up in Saudi Arabia and it is fairly common to see Muslim women wear full black burkas. This is because it used to be legally mandated (not the case anymore). Also the prevalence of air conditioning in buildings and cars everywhere makes it easier to wear it outside. Plus the material of the Burka is actually very thin and breathable from what I’ve seen. During summers, when it’s too hot to live a second without AC, most people including women simply don’t go out as much. In case your question is more historically focused, burkas have not been black at all for the most part. Each Middle Eastern nation has its own unique culture and the Burkas therefore are adapted to such cultures. Therefore the Burkas are often made in a variety of colors and from very soft cloth. A lot of Middle Eastern Muslim women also don’t wear full burkas and just Hijab on most days. Edit: Added clarification because multiple people were confused about what I was trying to say.

[1 pts] Yes. Our brain capacity to comprehend sounds has nothing to do with the mechanics of waves. Actually its easier to damage the membrane with loud sounds that you can't hear because your bran has no safeguard to them

[1 pts] Sound is air pressure and propagates in waves. Whether it's in the normal hearing range (about 20Hz - 20kHz) or not, it'll damage your ears if it's too "loud". Anything above 85dB can be damaging.

[1 pts] Yes. It's the intensity that matters. It's a mechanical effect, not a perception issue. High intensity sounds can still damage the ear structure due to pressure waves and stress. But it is easier to damage your ears from sound you can hear as our ears are designed to be sensitive to those sound frequencies.

[1 pts] The true answer is a little goofy but let's walk through it. One thing not often considered is there are units involved. If we're getting the standard deviation of some length measurements, then technically the mean might be "17 cm", not just "17". So if we get the mean of the squares, we might have "169 cm^2". That's why we have to take the square root. It converts that unit back to the original unit since our square operation changed it. Why don't we just use absolute value? Well, there is a technique that does called the Mean Absolute Distribution. What we don't tend to like about it is it doesn't tend to produce a normal distribution the way Standard Deviation does. It creates a different distribution called the "Laplace Distribution" that is pointier and not as useful for giving us probabilities about the deviation from the mean. It has uses and is used for some things, but those are not as broadly applicable as the standard deviation. **Edit:** (Below here there are some inaccurate parts. People have raised valid points that I misrepresent how "invertible" absolute value may be. Ignore those claims. The core idea of the answer is true: if we consider *all* of the techniques statistics uses it includes Calculus, and the way absolute value makes a "pointy" graph is very very inconvenient for Calculus and the "smooth" graph made by squaring numbers is more convenient. Explaining *why* involves understanding what "differentiation" are and doing an ELI5 of that is a whole different story.) The goofier part of the answer comes down to when you're doing much more advanced things than just dealing with a list of observations. Algebraically speaking the absolute value operation is tough to work with. It doesn't have an inverse like squaring a number, so it's harder to simplify or abstract equations that use it. So it's *preferred* to use a mean of squares because if we're doing some kind of calculus-based higher analysis there's more of a fighting chance we can make that easier. When you're operating at the level of a highly-paid statistics professional you'll often try many different distributions to help explain the situations you analyze. But if you're a person with a high school or one-semester-of-college level of training, Standard Deviation is the *most useful* one of these measures to know. The thinking there is if your job requires different analyses you'll know enough to be trained to use them. Standard deviation isn't one-size-fits-all, but it fits an astonishing number of cases.

[1 pts] The true answer is that it is kind of arbitrary. It has some nice mathematical properties, but it's not the only way and not necessarily the best way to measure deviation. What you are talking about is called MAD (mean absolute deviation). It emphasises outliers less than standard deviation, but it's not necessarily worse.

[1 pts] 1. Squaring makes everything positive. \-2\^2=4 and 2\^2=4 2. It penalizes large deviations more heavily. A value of 10 units from the mean contributes 100 while a value of 1 contributes only 1. 3. The math becomes much nicer Squared deviations have properties that make probability theory and much of statistics work elegantly.

[1 pts] Anaesthetist here. We can, and sometimes do draw from \*any\* good vein we could find. Traditionally though people do default to first try to draw from the vein from the elbow, partly because that’s where the big veins normally are, where they are the most superficial and often less mobile (not always). The other potential reason is what you presume are “tiny veins” and the “obvious veins” are not exactly “small” and “large” veins respectively. Sometimes visible ones are quite small and less visible ones are quite large, and you can only tell their true size by palpating them.

[1 pts] I had a problem with a blood draw a few months ago. The phlebotomist stuck me in the elbow like normal but we had to stop midway through. When she went to put the needle in again she couldn't use the same "normal" vein she had been using, and after some exploration she decided to use the vein on top of my bicep. It worked beautifully, needle went in no problem, and filled the vial faster than ever. Then when the needle came out blood started spurting all over, and we had to put a lot of pressure on to stop the bleeding. I had a dark thumb-shaped bruise on my bicep for a week. Also my mother is a Chemotherapy nurse and they often intentionally use smaller veins when they can because there's a risk of collapse with the drugs, and if there's a problem they want to make sure there are "good" veins still available for medication and other purposes.

[1 pts] I’m a nurse. You always work your way up from your hands until the elbow crease. If work your way backwards, you risk blowing your vein and everything below becomes less usable. Also just because you can see it, doesn’t mean we can draw blood from it reliably. All veins (except the pulmonary veins) are deoxygenated. You almost never draw from an artery unless specifically needed (arterial blood gas).

[1245 pts] companies are becoming more powerful than governments, we are heading into a very dangerous future for humanity and no one seems to talk about it. Palantir needs to stop operating

[192 pts] There are a lot less birds and bugs.

[327 pts] It's getting warmer

[63 pts] Cheat on their partner.

[43 pts] They become a doormat. My sister in law is very kind and empathic person. She suffers a lot for that. People dump her work load on her, she says nothing. People use her as atm, she says nothing. She says nothing even if she suffers alone.

[40 pts] I have seen a kind, caring person completely cut off a lifelong friend over a misunderstanding and never give them a chance to explain.

[128 pts] Got written up for not answering a teams message while I was on my lunch break.

[112 pts] I was a pizza delivery guy. The shop was owned by a husband/wife pair. Wife gave me the wrong address. Then tore up the ticket to hide that, and had her husband fire me instead of getting mad at her for screwing up.

[216 pts] Got written up for logging in a minute late. Worked at a company that required you to sign in via thumb print between 8:55am and 9:00am. You'd badge the door, vacuum your shoes, thump print to sign in, badge the second door, and then you were in the offices. There was always a line out the door to get in because you were not allowed to thump print in before 8:55am. That day the line was moving slow and even though id been there before 9:00am, I wasn't logged in till 9:01am. Wasn't even the last few to sign in. Every one of us got a write up. Still ticks me off to this day.

[265 pts] Video evidence

[88 pts] I believe strongly that in the next 10 years some piece of media (book, song, painting etc) will go wildly popular and we'll learn later it was made by AI and people will be very angry about it

[42 pts] By far the most important thing that *will* be ruined by AI (because we're already seeing it happening in real time) is critical thinking. People just ask the AI and take the answer for granted. Researching and evaluating sources will be a thing of the past. It basically halts our ability to evolve as a species. This is the best we humans will ever get. And that's really sad.

[110 pts] Having access to dentists in childhood.

[61 pts] Not having to worry about war directly affecting your life and livelihood.

[70 pts] their health

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[27 pts] It can be counted as cardio.

[16 pts] Cardio

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[7 pts] Here's a wild but true thing in my family. Whenever the spouse of people in previous generations died, that was it. They stayed single for the rest of their lives. Sometimes just maybe a couple years. Sometimes, like in my dad's case, it was 20 years. And in my grandmother's case, it was 40 years. That used to be the thing in my family. You loved one person like that your whole life. And then if you were single the rest of your life, whatever, you felt what it was. That kind of generational thing, that kind of old school way of being, man, that's just not around anymore.

[6 pts] Not at all .. had a great dating life , as I get older I just don’t want drama .. if that means being single so be it ..

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[8 pts] Making friends is pretty much the same playbook in any situation. Find a shared interest, then go for meetups for that interest and talk to the people there. Then let repeated exposure and the shared interest drive things forward. If you cannot move out of your small town then make friends online

[5 pts] Start tiny and repeatable. One online group, one local class, one volunteer thing, whatever feels least impossible. You don’t need to become social overnight, you just need a few places where people can slowly get used to you

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[8 pts] Don't let other people colour your flags for you, hun. You do you - find peace where and however it suits. 🙏

[4 pts] No. Just do you.

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[7 pts] Since you guys are already close, try: "What’s something you’re currently trying to figure out about yourself right now?" It gives them the green light to be vulnerable if they want to, or keep it light if they aren't in the mood.

[5 pts] These are good. 36 Questions - How to fall in love with anyone http://36questionsinlove.com/

[1 pts] The way I do it is just, if the headlines seems interesting I'll open the article and maybe read the first few lines because occasionally the headline is just plainly not with the article says. If the article and the headline agree then I'll try to find the source and look at the study publication instead

[1 pts] Step 1) Assume the editor has no understanding of the subject material and has changed the headline to generate more clicks. Step 2) Assume the article was spawned from a small-scale study or mathematical quirkiness and not any kind of plausible or practical real-world application of anything. Step 3) Read the article as a skeptic. Step 4) Continue to doubt the article until further reputable confirmations (not just other news sites running their own version of the same article). Step 5) Seek out the source if the topic is interesting enough to me.

[1 pts] >A practical way to read science headlines without over-trusting them First know that bad science is NOT science. Suggest: **Science Fictions: How Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth** by Stuart Ritchie; 2020.

[8 pts] The Oceangate Titan made a dozen or so trips to the sea floor (4000 meters) before its implosion, and it was made of titanium and carbon fiber composite. Assuming that the gravity (and therefore pressure per unit of depth) is close to that of Earth, then a submarine with a sufficiently thick titanium hull should be survivable to at least ten thousand feet without cracking, barring a very heavy collision or explosion damaging it. That said, when the hull does crack, unless the water can rush in fast enough to equalize the pressure, the hull is going to buckle like a car in a crusher and crush the occupants. If the pressure does equalize before they are crushed, then you have the issue that a nitrogen/oxygen atmosphere becomes narcotic around ten atmospheres (100-ish meters depth). You could get around this if the cabin uses helium/oxygen instead—saturation diving with helium is endurable up to 100 atmospheres of pressure (a kilometer deep).

[5 pts] Any crack would cause instant danger whether the vessel imploded or didn’t. If it imploded obviously death would be nearly instantaneous. But even a small crack would leak fluid at extremely high head pressure and would begin to equalize the outside vs inside pressure, compressing the gaseous atmosphere inside the sub to a small high pressure volume. Which would kill the occupants just as dead.

[3 pts] It depends on the size of the crack. See e.g. the de Havilland Comet which was the first ever commercial jet liner. Poor design led to several catastrophic failures mid air but obviously not every single Comet fell apart while in service, and they all flew at similar altitude.

[372 pts] We live in an area that will see more rain. (The gulf coast) if this is any indication - with the torrential rain we had a river beat its previous crest record … by three feet. Three.

[2068 pts] I've lived in western Europe since 2016 and this is already the biggest heatwave I've ever experienced in a temperate climate.

[702 pts] I’ve watched a few climate experts and all came to the similar conclusion that this is new territory that we’ve never experienced or have any data. That said they can only predict from previous El Niño data. They kinda edged on ‘we just don’t know’. Hmm

[2138 pts] Because astrology is way older so it got first dibs

[678 pts] At the time when they both coexisted, they were both legitimate sciences with different scopes: astronomy was about celestial bodies themselves and generally the faraway parts of the celestial sphere, while astrology was about their impact closer to home. While astrology is almost definitionally pretty kooky these days, it wasn't always the case: the sun and moon have an obvious physical effect on the world, and so studying the impact of the heavens on earth was pretty reasonable. But the serious stuff has now been folded into other fields, and so astrology is just left with the nonsense.

[125 pts] Ology is the study of the subject... Onomy is the study of the rules or physics or the reasons why of the field... Astronomy has the onomy because the word comes from the ancient Greek words astron (meaning star) and nomos (meaning law or system of rules). Put literally, it means the "law of the stars" or the "arrangement of the stars" Conversely, most of the sciences or pseudo sciences with an ology are heavily geared towards a study of how to use that info. ology" was simply used to denote a methodical, systematic way of talking or reasoning about a specific subject. Comparing to other sciences like  geology that have an ology instead of an onomy... Geology is an observational science primarily concerned with describing and understanding the history, composition, and processes of the Earth, it is a "study" ( -ology ) rather than a system of rule-based management or rigid classification ( -onomy ) So in short. Astronomy seems to understand the rules and science and laws and governing principles of the movement and composition of the stars and orbits and such. Astrology is an observing of these same things and a desire to understand them (too) but focuses less on the rul s or laws or reasons why the mechanical aspects or the physical aspects. A long time ago, both astrology and astronomy were the same thing but then they split apart into a science and a pseudo science.

[1371 pts] The trades pay well for jobs that don't require a college degree. Lower-level healthcare jobs (CNAs, home health aides, etc.) and early childhood education jobs do not pay well, in part because they are female-dominated industries. "Go to trade school and you could make $50 an hour or run your own business someday" is a pitch you can make; "Become a CNA and you can make about the same you'd make at a warehouse job, while also cleaning up vomit and dealing with violent patients" is much harder.

[235 pts] I agree that we should encourage more men into early childhood education. I remember having my first male teacher in year 7 and really connecting with him. My parents would talk about how much happier I seemed at school and were grateful for him. On healthcare then I think there's already a lot of men in the field. The old stereotype is the male doctor and female nurse working under him. So I don't really see your point in that respect.

[77 pts] We do. There's mentorship and scholarship programs to entice men into Healthcare.  The American Association for Men in Nursing SSACI Male Nursing Scholarship Florida Nursing Students Association recently launched a campaign to attract more men to the nursing profession Men in Nursing at RUSH University College of Nursing and RUSH University Medical Center

[3805 pts] This is literally one of the philosophical questions of the movie - is it better to stay blissfully ignorant or to be hurt but know the truth? The movie takes the position that it’s better to know the truth, but it *is* presented as a question. 

[437 pts] (OP is Cypher and I claim my $5) Some people think freedom and the truth is more important than safety / comfort. Some people don't.

[624 pts] That's the whole point. It's a philosophical question. You're supposed to think about it.

[1733 pts] They want the men there to be able to buy drinks. That's where the money is. An eighteen year old dude is taking up space and time with women who a twenty-one year old could be ordering tequila shots to impress.

[407 pts] Girls getting in free is creepy too when you think about it. If you're not the customer you're the product. 

[185 pts] Clubbing culture is awful.

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[934 pts] This strikes me aa theatre for the midterms. In reality he is not going to do a thing as oil industry has been one of his biggest supporters. He even has an oil executive for energy secretary.

[114 pts] He's getting ahead of what's coming. The US has been draining the strategic petroleum reserve to keep prices low, and I assume that has to end. Worse, it's going to need to be refilled. But by far the biggest problem is something that Trump can't control. China did the rest of the world a solid by draining their own strategic reserve and drastically reducing consumption. China will eventually reverse course on this, and the prices will spike.

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[1366 pts] It's very easy to identify the causes: We completely killed anti trust regulations, we have monopolies over monopolies allowed to perform any monopolistic extraction: Auction base prices, full dynamic pricing to do perfect price discrimination. No one realizes that with AI this is going to become a complete consumer surplus collapse. This was allowed by: 1. Ignorance, most of people doesn't even understand what I'm talking about. 2. Regulatory capture due to fundamental flaws of democracy.

[52 pts] Markets have to governed because they need parameters within which to operate, just like anything else. Rational expectations and supply side economics, as the Rand followers continue to spew, are bunk. But the moneyed classes pay a lot to have schools of economics continue to push this drivel. It seems none of them have actually read Smith, and those who did are deliberately misusing his work. Conversely, a lot more people have read Ayn Rand, a talentless, tedious idiot whom the rich have picked as their leading philosophic light. She wasn’t even a philosopher, her books hardly sold în her lifetime, and she ended up a pauper living on Social Security (something she theoretically opposed, but was more than willing to bend her morals.)

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[303 pts] And why exactly would this NOT have been the case all along ? it is truly amazing these companies claim they cant do anything without all kinds of tax and cost breaks ! Amazing that billionaires and trillion dollar companies are the biggest welfare queens in the history of the world !

[85 pts] Let me get this straight... If I use enenergy I get a bill and have to pay it. If AI data centers use energy, we need congressional approval for these companies to pay for what they use? Is this not the dumbest shit you have ever heard of? Why the fuck, is it even possible that regular folks should pay for the "privalage" of just living near one massive data center.

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[127 pts] Exxon stock is at $135, that’s the same price it was in January, more than a month before the war started. We are down a billion barrels of lost production with tons of infrastructure damage. Madness. 

[98 pts] No no, this cannot be. I was assured by many redditors today that demand for oil has cratered, which is why price is coming down. If price is decreasing then we must have surplus supply, so we wouldn't need to be extracting more crude from our reserve inventories. Surely you are mistaken, sir or ma'am.

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[222 pts] *Initial optimism that Trump would be a good ally to this region, built in part on its business-friendly and steady reputation, had faded for many.* Perfect match for an erratic scam artist who’s famous for bankrupting businesses.

[47 pts] Wait! What? How is this possible? Donald Trump seemed like such an outstanding person and citizen. Your trust in him was misplaced? How could you have possibly known? if there were only some clues to suggest that he might not be a stand-up guy. It’s not like there were any clues… Or 100,000! 🙄

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[1 pts] [An interesting Meduza article about the Wagner mutiny, interviewing many ex Wagner personnel.](https://meduza.io/en/feature/2026/06/24/we-re-no-mutineers-three-years-after-yevgeny-prigozhin-s-march-on-moscow-wagner-veterans-still-can-t-agree-on-what-it-meant) Nothing too revelatory about the war’s current state but it’s interesting to get the ground level view from ex Wagner people about it all and what they were doing. A lot about the general sense inside the organisation, and how Prigozhin was apparently very well regarded, to the point there seems to be a somewhat widespread belief that he is alive in Africa.

[1 pts] [Reuters](https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/moscow-oil-refinery-hit-by-drone-attacks-is-unlikely-resume-production-this-year-2026-06-24/) is reporting that the Moscow refinery hit recently, which provided a large chunk of local fuel and diesel, will be offline for at least 6 months minimum. > "It will take at least half a year to repair," one of the sources said of the damage to the Moscow refinery. This is, in all likelihood given the severity of the strikes, a lowball number. Safety checks alone will take months, let alone the repairs assuming Russia has the parts and knowledge not currently sanctioned to them. If they require outsider expertise and parts for some of these strikes, they are in far worse trouble than 6 months.

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[38 pts] [Reuters reports - ](https://www.yahoo.com/news/world/articles/uk-france-germany-raise-alarm-081101500.html?ncid=redditnewsus) Britain, France and Germany raised the alarm on Wednesday over recent Chinese activities off the east coast of Taiwan, where ‌China has mounted coast guard patrols, saying they threaten regional stability and freedom of navigation. China, ‌which views democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory, earlier in June sent coast guard ships into the waters off the island's ​east coast for what it called a "special maritime traffic law-enforcement operation", angering Taipei. China said the operation was in response to an announcement by Japan and the Philippines that they would begin formal talks on their maritime boundaries, which Beijing viewed as involving Chinese waters off Taiwan. China has also been sending maritime survey ships into ‌the same waters. "We have noted with ⁠concern novel Chinese activity in the waters east of Taiwan," the de facto British, French and German embassies in Taipei said in a rare joint statement. "These actions ⁠threaten regional stability and the freedom of navigation and safety of international shipping. We reiterate our opposition to any unilateral change to the status quo, particularly by threat or use of force or coercion," they said.

[30 pts] The situation is simple: nobody cares what happens to Taiwanese fishermen in these waters, which they have depended on for their livelihood for decades. These waters were originally under the de facto control of Taiwan, tacitly approved by the Chinese authorities. Chinese mainland fishermen neither fished there nor conducted any scientific research in the area before all this. A few weeks ago, Japan and the Philippines proposed the delimitation of the maritime boundaries, which the Taiwanese authorities said they were aware of. Then the news came in, and the Taiwanese authorities were forced to intervene, given the growing protests from the Taiwanese people. Meanwhile, the PRC made their move. Europe's statements simply mean that, in any case, they do not want these territorial waters to belong to any one of China. Otherwise, they should condemn those who initially attempted to harm ROC fishermen. Yes, this is not the first time Japan or the Philippines have harmed the Taiwanese fishermen. That is why the Taiwanese public reacted so strongly.

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[20 pts] **From The Telegraph:** Sir Keir Starmer is considering a plan to sell sanctioned oil seized from a Russian shadow tanker to fund the war in Ukraine. The Telegraph understands ministers could hold an auction to sell off the 100,000 tons of Russian crude oil on board Smyrtos, which was stopped by the Royal Marines in the Channel on June 14. The ship, which was part of Vladimir Putin’s shadow fleet, was operating in breach of UK sanctions law by trading illicit oil. Since the seizure, the ship has been anchored off the coast of Weymouth under the control of the Ministry of Defence. Ajay Pant, the captain, who is an Indian national, has been charged with sanctions evasion. Whitehall sources told The Telegraph Smyrtos would eventually be released to travel freely back to Russia, once detectives from the National Crime Agency had concluded their investigations. However, officials believe the 98,000 tons of Ural crude oil on the ship now legally belongs to the UK, and can be used or traded by the British government. It is understood that ministers are considering proposals to sell the oil, which has a market value of around £35m, and use the money raised to fund Ukraine’s war effort. The plan, which is at an early stage, could see the money transferred directly to Ukraine or used to fund equipment sent to the front lines. **Read more here:** [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/06/24/oil-from-seized-russian-tanker-sold-benefit-ukraine/?WT.mc\_id=tmgoff\_reddit\_russian-tanker-sold-benefit-ukraine/](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/06/24/oil-from-seized-russian-tanker-sold-benefit-ukraine/?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_reddit_russian-tanker-sold-benefit-ukraine/)

[12 pts] That can buy a lot of drones

[-20 pts] That's quite interesting, as seized oil from the shadow fleet still legally belongs to someone, and democratic states can't just expropriate someones property without paying them.

[72 pts] “There is a condition that can befall small states kept too long under the protection of great powers,” Yonatan Touval, a foreign-policy analyst, writes in a guest essay for Times Opinion. “When the protection is generous enough, they can become both militarily formidable but also strategically undisciplined. They grow fluent in force and illiterate in consequence. They acquire the manners of sovereignty without its restraint, because the costs of that sovereignty are borne elsewhere — in arms shipments, guarantees, Security Council vetoes and the patron’s diplomacy. Over time, strategy atrophies. In its place comes the belief that force can substitute for statecraft. Israel suffers from such a condition. Its attack on Iran, carried out alongside the United States, was meant to restore Israel’s command of the region. It may instead be remembered for exposing its limits.” Read the full piece [here, for free](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/24/opinion/israel-iran-palestinians-us.html?unlocked_article_code=1.slA.vISH.uvPR5aqg3_rR&smid=re-nytopinion), even without a Times subscription.

[91 pts] Israel is a country of 9 million. Even with nukes, without the US, it could never take 'command of the region'. Yes, most of the ME are new-ish nations carved out of old empires or are failed states. But Turkey and Iran exist, and they are just too big and populous, too much history and with strong militaries. The region could never be taken over by Israel itself.

[8 pts] This reads like eloquent copium. If Israel didn't have America's support things probably wouldn't be that different for Israel. They'd just be more reliant on spies to stop Iran's bomb.

[1 pts] I think Westerners often personalize movements they struggle to explain. It’s easier to say Putin wants this than to ask how much of Russian society, its institutions, and its political culture sustain it. That preserves the comforting assumption that every society ultimately wants liberal democracy and peace if only the right leader were in charge. Four years into this war at enormous cost it’s difficult to deny that the conflict has been sustained by more than one man. That doesn’t make every Russian equally responsible but it does suggest the West has often underestimated how much social and institutional support or at least acquiescence the Russian state commands.

[1 pts] weighing responsibility fairly means distinguishing between those who actively cheer the war and those just trying to survive under an authoritarian system that punishes dissent

[1 pts] Can ordinary Americans be blamed for the Iraq and Iran war? Or Ordinary Brits for joining the Iraq Coalition? How about blaming an average European for slave markets in Libya after the fall of Gaddafi? Ultimately what people want or don't want is irrelevant when people at the top want something that will increase their wealth and power. It doesn't matter if it is a dictatorship or if democracy and the media is free or controlled.

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[36 pts] >The war with Iran has demonstrated several of Washington’s advantages. U.S. Navy battle groups were operating within range of Iranian missiles, and both China and Russia were attempting to track American ships and pass the information to Iran, yet in the nearly six weeks of fighting before the April 8 cease-fire, no long-range missile struck an American ship. Beijing must now be wondering how effective its own missile systems would be against American warships. The copium is off the charts with these people lol. How are you trying to twist exposing a shit ton of military operation intel to be a positive. Like, no shit, Beijing is wondering how effective their missile systems are, the new info just helps them make them more effective. The firepower between Iran and China isn't even comparable as well; Trump was forced to visit China just because they didn't want China providing weapons to Iran (with MANPADS too, not even the good stuff).

[28 pts] Why should China rush into a risky and costly invasion of Taiwan now whilst the balance of power in the Western Pacific steadily moves in their favour in the coming decade? China is aiming it having 6-9 aircraft carriers in service by 2035 according to a Pentagon report. They currently have 3 conventionally powered carriers at the moment, including the new Fujian with EMALS, to gain institutional experience at catapult launches and coordinating multiple carrier battlegroups. The next generation of Chinese carriers, the type 004, will be nuclear powered and larger in displacement than the Gerald R Ford class. The first is already under construction at Dalian. That's not even considering the sheer amount of tonnage they're launching annually in destroyers, frigates, amphibious assuakt ships and submarines. Their J-20 and J-35 jet production volume are also ramping up. Meanwhile China is also reducing its energy dependency on the Malacca Strait via renewable energy, EV and nuclear energy expansion. Unless the US somehow gets bogged down in a large ground war in Iran, there is little incentive for China to make a move on Taiwan now.

[35 pts] 1. You can’t just “make more wings”. You also have to make more chicken breasts, thighs, etc. And a lot of chickens are optimized for breast meat. You’re not going to see much (if any) increases in supply from changes in prices; and it’s unlikely there is going to be a wholesale (and permanent) increase in demand for chicken. Tastes and preferences. 2. If there are relatively rapid swings of price (like in 2021), you are going to see more product released from cold storage; not an increase in supply. [https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/charts-of-note/103459](https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/charts-of-note/103459) 3. Model this like a Leontief demand function. You can then see why it’s unlikely to spur “demand induced supply”, but is likely to have a price impact. Demand for Wings = a\*M / \[(a \* Price of Wings) + (b \* Price of Breasts) \], where M is income, and a and b are the fixed proportions of the product. 4. This is a good read from experts on chicken broilers. Yes, they exist. Yes (my good friend is one), they tend to be weird. [Market Complication: Chicken Wings Come From Actual Chickens](https://agribusiness.purdue.edu/consumer_corner/market-complication-chicken-wings-come-from-actual-chickens/) Edit: 5. I answered not the top line question, but the after title text question. These prices can and do decrease. For instance, wings and thighs often move in negative directions month-on-month.

[7 pts] yes it does in theory, and in the real world aswell however there are nuances for example; considering that the supply of both products is in different markets (i.e the wings are sold in one county and the excess breasts are shipped to the other) the supply within the market of the wings is the same, there is a reduction in price however it's not in the market being observed (i.e the wing market) These are called complements in production and Ceteris paribus the rise in the supply would definitely lead to a reduction in price.

[5 pts] I seriously doubt your question accurately describes how chicken farms look at the issue. They don't sell chicken wings they sell whole chickens. So if demand for chicken wings goes up it will put some pressure upward on the the selling price of chickens. But if there isn't enough demand for the rest of the chicken that will put a downward pressure on the whole chicken. But the price that matters to chicken producers is the price of whole chickens not the price of the parts.

[23 pts] You can compare mode, mean, and median earnings, and look at the distribution of earnings more explicitly. Perhaps you can model this as a log-normal distribution and the scale parameter (sigma) indicates what you're looking for. Larger sigma implies a more right-skewed distribution.  One relievant terminology for this idea is "the long tail." A distribution where a small number of people make a huge amount of money is said to be a distribution with a long tail. 

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[11 pts] I expect an economic historian to have at least undergraduate exposure in macro / micro and some graduate coursework in core economics, or at least applied metrics. Shouldn’t your graduate training cover this? Why are you relying on self-learning? Below is the work of a well-rounded economic historian, who publishes both in good history journals and good economics journals. Pick an article of interest if interest to have an understanding of the level of required mathematical fluency. https://kevinhorourke.com/publications/ As for efficient learning, start with calculus, then pick a standard micro textbook. Undergrad macro can be read leisurely but it’s really nothing like real macro. Econometrics will challenge you no matter the entry point.

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[33 pts] 1. Per capita recreation services have seen an increase of nearly 200% since 1997 in nominal terms (in real terms, nearly 65%). [Per Capita Personal Consumption Expenditures: Services: Recreation Services for United States (USPCEPCSRECSRV) | FRED | St. Louis Fed](https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/USPCEPCSRECSRV) 2. Outside of the housing bubble that started the GFC, homeownership rates (in the U.S.) are nowhere near historic lows, and appears to be near the high point pre-GFC. [Homeownership Rate in the United States (RHORUSQ156N) | FRED | St. Louis Fed](https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RHORUSQ156N). Similarly, median home sizes are about 800 feet larger than they were in the 1960's, with significantly more amenities. [How American Homes Vary By the Year They Were Built](https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/programs-surveys/ahs/working-papers/Housing-by-Year-Built.pdf). In fact, inflation adjusted price per square feet data shows that housing prices only appreciated 17% since the late 1970's (lower after other hedonic adjustments). [Real Estate Affordability Hasn't Changed Much in 40 Years - SuperMoney](https://www.supermoney.com/inflation-adjusted-home-prices) 3. Edit 3: Between 1979 and 2019, 10th percentile real wages grew at 6.5%, median wages by 8.8%, and 90th percentile real wages grew at 41.3%. [Real Wage Trends, 1979 to 2019 | Congress.gov | Library of Congress](https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R45090). Since 2019 (to 2024), real wages grew fastest for the lowest income workers (but grew for everyone). [https://www.epi.org/publication/strong-wage-growth-for-low-wage-workers-bucks-the-historic-trend/](https://www.epi.org/publication/strong-wage-growth-for-low-wage-workers-bucks-the-historic-trend/). In 2025, only the bottom decile saw real wage contraction. [https://www.epi.org/blog/low-wage-workers-faced-worsening-affordability-in-2025/](https://www.epi.org/blog/low-wage-workers-faced-worsening-affordability-in-2025/)

[8 pts] Home ownership is not particularly low. The reports of vacations are largely based around future plans. IE, Americans, when surveyed, say they expect to take fewer vacations in the coming years. Vacation spending remains relatively high. Note that vacation spending has increased quite rapidly from Covid lows, so it is possible that some pullback will appear at some point, but at present, we are still seeing strong earning reports from vacation centric companies. For instance, Royal Carribean just hit over 16x it's covid stock valuation. This is not particularly negative.

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[185 pts] He's the world's first ex-trillionaire

[76 pts] One scaramucci. 

[48 pts] What a loserrrr

[11 pts] Not an investment banker. Bot

[2 pts] Not for littering, for stealing a bin. Stupid bitch.

[17756 pts] One of the best quote under this video which i liked was: "He did it because there was no one to tell him that he couldn't"

[1511 pts] I was bouldering with some friends last week and I said that I'd like to be able to do a backflip... My friend said I should simply do it, so I did and landed it while my sister got her phone out and recorded - good memories and a new skill unlocked. Edit: Here's [the video](https://imgur.com/a/penUEd1) I added to a comment further down.

[417 pts] Looking at the technique, it is far from his first backflip

[1021 pts] My grandma and specifically my grandma, nobody else’s, is responsible for this. Not your grandma, mine.

[1589 pts] Gam gams is definitely talking about segregation though.

[688 pts] "Young **men (under 30) supported Donald Trump by 16 points**"

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[8464 pts] I like it when grown ups play along with kids and make them happy.

[2499 pts] We're looking for a person 18-25 with 10 years experience

[5243 pts] 5 o'clock already? See you tomorrow, Larry. Don't forget your lunch.

[1259 pts] https://preview.redd.it/oxucz288689h1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6d2713085a273c8e8fecde5b55839b34a844ca42

[515 pts] My dog does this. It’s why we had to get an invisible fence installed. Physical barriers causes her to become extremely reactive and agressive. Take the barrier away and she calms down. 

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[413 pts] And it's not yet august

[1667 pts] HVAC guys: learn French and prosper.