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The Art of the Deal

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Fuel has very inelastic demand, and thus relatively small changes in supply can create big changes in price. The reason this won't do shit is actually because it's not changing the total global supply. And we aren't getting a special price anyway as far as I know.

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When am I?

"The clock says three. But there's light outside? What the fuck is going on with the clock? Am I late for work or can I sleep a little longer?"

-me at 3 PM on a Sunday after waking up from a post-lunch nap

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My phone is set to 24 hour clock, but my alarm clock isn't. I think it may have actually been checking my phone for astronomical anomalies in the news that made me notice it was 15:06 and not 3:06, but my brain wasn't really recording very effectively at the time so I don't really know

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Context is for people that read US news

It was a skull and crossbones and he got it converted into a celtic knot with dogs on it, very quickly. Then eight billion bots tried to tell me he was a homophobe because he said "All officers are gay, and not in the fun dick-sucking way" on Reddit in like 2012. I really didn't buy that, and it primed me to get pretty dismissive of the noise pretty quickly.