RE: https://aus.social/@jhaue/116382831038222117

Fascinating read - in a morbidly fascinating way. Add Jacob Greber’s take on Australia’s struggle to keep fuelled up and the consequences: “… because it's such a rare kind of shock — the last true global energy crisis on anything like this scale was more than half a century ago — we can't be sure that things won't start breaking in unexpected ways.”

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-11/albanese-singapore-fuel-iran-hormuz-recession-us-prestige/106552818

#ABC #AusPol #USPol #Tingle #Greber #fossilFuelSupplies #consequences #globalEnergyCrisis #unexpectedConsequences

It might be a good time to point out that the last time America tried oppressive tariffs on foreign countries, it drove Japan to find alternative sources of raw materials, especially oil — so they invaded Manchuria, & eventually attacked Pearl Harbour, bringing America into WWII.

Economic war IS war. When you back countries into a corner and threaten their livelihoods & sovereignty, their response might be completely unexpected for “just a few tariffs”.

#trumptariffs #unexpectedconsequences

File under #unexpectedconsequences: for reasons unclear, #Firefox under #Ubuntustudio 23.10 has become unusable. It is locking up for 10-20 seconds when trying to edit a URL or switch tabs, and rejecting connections Chrome deems fine (probably due to timeouts?). No indications in top or logs, but it can also lock the entire desktop for half a minute.

So it's back to Chrome until I can puzzle this out.

i do not remember agreeing to be a part of this global-scale experiment!: "Hundreds of thousands of tonnes of microbes will be released every year in all future scenarios for global heating, according to the study."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/17/microbes-melting-glaciers-bacteria-ecosystems

#Ecology #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #Consequences #UnexpectedConsequences