No specific topic or genre. Just what may be on your playlist this evening... The thread link is... Capital Cities - Safe and Sound, live at Lollapalooza Brasil 2014
Elon Musk seems tired and cranky. On Thursday, he took the stand for the third day in a four-week trial stemming from his lawsuit alleging that OpenAI abandoned its mission and should be blocked from taking the company public later this year. read more
The world's largest container carrier plans a new service linking Europe with isolated Middle East ports, using trucking across Saudi Arabia and smaller vessels in the Persian Gulf instead of transiting the blocked Strait of Hormuz.
From watching too much Nordic noir, I have learned the key lessons to Scandinavian safety: Stay out of the deep woods, avoid all "rustic villagers," flee every solstice or equinox ritual, and run screaming from any creature (human or otherwise) wearing antlers in the wrong anatomical location.
More than two months into a conflict that has failed to deliver a decisive military or diplomatic win, President Donald Trump faces the risk that a standoff with Iran will drag on indefinitely and leave an even bigger problem for the U.S. and the world than before he launched the war.
OK, one from the Imagine Dragons before they became the IMAGINE DRAGONS ...
Imagine Dragons "It's Time" Peak Performance (2012)
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How often do you see the drummer of a group play the violin in a song?
Trump Wants to Be One of History's Great Men'
politicalwire.com
... "Though Trump has long compared himself to America's two greatest presidents, we were recently told by two people who are in a position to know such things -- a senior administration official and a longtime Trump confidant -- that the president had, in private conversations, begun thinking about himself less as a peer of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, and more as an addition to Hegel's immortal trifecta."[emphasis mine]
Said the confidant: "He's been talking recently about how he is the most powerful person to ever live.
He wants to be remembered as the one who did things that other people couldn't do, because of his sheer power and force of will."
"The tendency to self-aggrandize is as fundamental a feature of Trump as his sculpted hair and overlong red ties.
But it has become even more important in setting his priorities and steering his actions as he hurtles through his final term in office.
He no longer has to worry about the judgment of voters and can instead focus on what he's decided really matters: ascending to become one of history's so-called great men and leaving an enduring -- and, in many cases, physical -- imprint." ...
Exxon Mobil CEO expects higher oil prices due to Iran war: The market hasn't seen the full impact'
www.cnbc.com
... CEO Darren Woods warned Friday that the market has not absorbed the full impact of the unprecedented oil supply disruption triggered by the Iran war and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
The disruption has been mitigated by the large number of loaded oil tankers that were in transit during the first month of the war, Woods told investors on Exxon's first-quarter earnings call. Strategic petroleum reserves have also been released and commercial inventories drawn down, the CEO said.
One of these supply sources will become exhausted as the conflict goes on, Woods said. Oil prices will then increase as the strait remains closed, he said.
"It's obvious to most that if you look at the unprecedented disruption in the world supply of oil and natural gas, the market hasn't seen the full impact of that yet," Woods said.
"There's more to come if the strait remains closed," the CEO said. ...
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Yeah, Mr Musk seems to be less than supportive of his case as presented to the Court.