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ing and you start your day, do other people say, I'm sure glad Ethan is awake because there's a guy who brings light and sunshine into our lives? Ethan is a person who's always looking on the bright side. Ethan — some people would say Ethan is a worthless piece of a dingleberry on the ass of life. Some would say that. Because his contribution to a conversation was so mind-bogglingly useless and ne…
← Previous segment →mand and no change in supply. So remember, all of the oil changes are just psychology about what we expect. And nobody can predict the future, so there's more uncertainty, which raises the price. So uncertainty does always increase risk, which increases price. But I don't see any reason that it can't plunge just as fast as it went up.
How fast does it take people to open up production facilities that used to be not profitable but because the prices are so high they are? It doesn't take that long to reopen a well, does it? Somebody says years. It takes years to reopen a well that's been capped. I would think a month. You know, without knowing anything about anything, I would think a month. If oil were a thousand dollars a barrel, you don't think you could drill me a well in a month? Really? Yeah, that's where this comes in. Really? Yeah. If, let's say, oil is a million dollars a barrel, you don't think you could drill me some new wells in a month? Yeah, you could. Yeah, you could. Somebody says three months. I'll take three months. But it seems to me we must already be massively starting to ramp up production everywhere in the world. I would think so. I don't think oil prices could stay high.
What do you think about the news that China is helping Russia or might help them militarily? Joel tweeted. He said, in my opinion the China helping Russia story is largely fake news narrative cooked up by anonymous quote anonymous source Jake Sullivan, who also briefed the media in 2016 about Russia collusion. He has a demonstrated history of lying to the media to the detriment of national security. That's how I say it. Now I don't know anything about Jake Sullivan being involved. That's a different question. Certainly there's reason to suspect that this fits his wheelhouse. I agree with Joel on that. But I don't think I believe that China is helping Russia story exactly. It makes sense that Russia is talking to China, and it makes sense that because they have this unlimited partnership that China might step up with a little extra trade or something like that. But framing it as China helping Russia militarily, it's a bit of a stretch. It has a persuasion feel to it as opposed to a news feel to it, wouldn't you say? Does it feel like news or does it feel like redefining news to make it into something new? Feels like reframing the news. Feels like persuasion. Feels like. But could be wrong. We'll wait and see.
I saw some people following me today on Twitter. You know, Twitter tells you who followed you recently. And I believe that at least two of the three had followed me forever and they had to re-follow me today. And somebody else had said the same thing. And this had gone away for months and months. For a long time I had not had this issue of people being automatically unfollowed from me. Has anybody been unfollowed from me automatically? I'm just watching the comments. I guess the no's don't tell me anything because most people would be in. Somebody said yes, I have. Last year. Yes, I had to re-follow when you got a new computer. That's weird. So people say yes. Somebody said it was two years ago. Yes. Now there are enough yeses going by that — do th
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ose look like people are just mistaken? Because I watched my Twitter account reach a certain level and then just plateaued. It looks like it's throttled. It certainly looks like it. I can't guarantee it, but it looks for all appearances it looks that way. Twice. So somebody had to resubscribe to me twice. Yeah, the names that I saw subscribing to me are ones that I've known and communicated with…
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