Random Thoughts Thread

[PROVOST]

Right about now is where one of those cryo sleep chambers as seen in Interstellar/The Martian/Passengers would be handy.

[ReluctantSamurai]

Saw this a little while ago:

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-52350082

Negative oil prices? Negative oil prices??

The price of a barrel of West Texas Intermediate (WTI), the benchmark for US oil, fell as low as minus $37.63 a barrel.

I suppose it might be a bit much to ask that the gas station pays me to fill up my tank...

[Montmorency]

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/e...e-an-explainer


Maybe we can chip in to rent a hundred acres of land in Wyoming, a lot of tarpaulin, and call it the Org Strategic Oil Reserve?

Edit: I figure, what, 250000 barrels should be a good start. Figure out a way to time these things so that the millions credited from accepting those barrels will offset the land, shipping, brokerage, and other costs.

[ReluctantSamurai]

Or....we could've bought an oil tanker for $17 million US, renamed it The ORG, and been PAID $41 million to take delivery of just over a million barrels of Texas light, sweet crude.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/5...gejn&site=vice

If you were very smart and perceptive, and bought in at the market’s lowest point yesterday ($-37.63), you would have been paid $40,969,323.83 to take the oil. That means you would have made enough to have bought the tanker and would have had roughly $24 million left over to figure out the logistics of getting all of the oil from Oklahoma onto the boat. Unfortunately we did not do this, and neither did you, and the moment has passed.

Damn! There probably would've been enough money to hire a crew and rent a dock in New York harbor somewhere, yes?

[Montmorency]

[Tuuvi]

I accidentally bought an $80 e-book series on Amazon kindle because I tapped "order now with 1-click" when I was trying to scroll down on my smartphone. I was able to get a refund, but I found out that Amazon won't let you disable 1-click ordering, which is bull crap. I wouldn't be surprised if they did that on purpose to take advantage of people.

[edyzmedieval]

11.000 posts.

Quite a long list.