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Dubai has ten days of fresh food left

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/65080969

Dubai has ten days of fresh food left - Divisions by zero

Dubai has only ten days of fresh food left after the closure of the Straits of Hormuz has cut the United Arab Emirates (UAE) off from all its imports, including food. In Abu Dhabi, with the prospect of the region becoming unliveable, real estate prices are also collapsing. As bne IntelliNews reported, the Hormuz chokepoint could kill Dubai, a hub of investment and business in the region. The Gulf countries don’t have any water and don’t produce much food for their combined population of around 60mn people. Fresh products in particular like vegetables and fruit are almost all imported. The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) closed the Straits of Hormuz to oil exports on March 2, but the embargo also effectively blocked all food imports at the same time. The Emirates imports between 80% and 90% of its food, with roughly 70% of food shipments to Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries normally passing through the Strait of Hormuz on the 100- odd ships that traversed the Straits until a week ago. …

ZiggyTheZygote Mar 9

Good.

criscodisco Mar 9

Who do you think will go hungry first?

The powerful or their slaves?

ZiggyTheZygote Mar 10

Goddamnit you’re right. Nevermind. Hopefully the elite there will evaporate in a big hellfire.

Snot Flickerman Mar 10

The slaves for sure, but it also creates a situation where the powerful may not be giving enough food to their security forces, and their security forces turn on them, joining the slaves in outright rebellion.

Not that this will bring more food in, but it could result in some of those “powerful” people suddenly not being so powerful.

Avid Amoeba Mar 10

If they’re unable to reopen the strait, perhaps they can force Trump to halt attacking Iran by stopping their own fossil fuel production. Something oil embargo.

Telodzrum Mar 10

The US is less reliant on products which traverse the strait then in the other population center on the planet. It actually may be in its strongest strategic interest to continue on a course which keeps the strait closed, ignoring the humanitarian impact and loss of soft power and goodwill.

Avid Amoeba Mar 10

True but they can’t escape the coming inflation wave. As fossil fuel supply thru the strait decreases, intl buyers would seek to buy from other sources, bidding up prices everywhere. That includes American producers who’d gladly export instead of feeding the domestic demand. This could change if the US gov’t decides to move away from free markets and imoses export and price controls.

somethingsnappy Mar 10

Sounds like socialism.

Avid Amoeba Mar 10

Comrade Krasnov’s plan all along!

Zephorah Mar 10

Explain to me how this doesn’t encourage a United bombing run on both Israel and the states.

They’re starving working class plebs like you and me right now. Something about the internal class war in the states makes me livid about that wherever it’s happening. Viscerally.

A handful of guys decide to shit on one another and the rest of us are supposed to bathe in the excremental splatter and like it. Why FFS?

These same assholes are supposed to be in power for the express purpose of shielding their people from said shit.

Jo Miran Mar 10

Explain to me how this doesn’t encourage a United bombing run on both Israel and the states.

Nukes. The US has a lot of fucking nukes. We’ve used them before, when a sane government was in control. If anyone bombs the US it will literally be the end of civilization.

That’s not hyperbole. This orange fuck will absolutely let the nukes rip.

Israel also has a lot of nukes.

100_kg_90_de_belin Mar 10

And Israel has the Samson option

BigMacHole Mar 10

Oh NO! RICH people live in Dubai!

-The Media!

Chloé 🥕Mar 10

there’s also many slaves who live in dubai

i sure wonder who, of the two, will be denied food

biofaust Mar 10

Spec Ops: The Line was a very good game.

Never finished it and won’t.

Game directly tells you you can stop killing Civilians at any time by just not playing.

deepflows Mar 10

You know, that’s an interesting point. I think it can be really interesting to explore the „darker“ sites of one’s psyche through choices offered by better RPGs.

I refuse to play games which revolve around what I perceive to be normalization of and desensitization towards amoral killing, though. I simply don’t enjoy them because I can’t help but wonder what playing them does to people’s minds.

fossilesque Mar 10

The only shooter I’ll play is Hell Let Loose because it really makes you feel like canon fodder.

That’s kind of silly. I get where you’re coming from, but since it’s a video game that’s telling a story with a beginning, middle, and end, and since the people are not real people in any sense of the word, wouldn’t it make sense to just finish it to see how the story ends?

Yeah. The story is on rails. It’s not an RPG where you can choose the good path or the evil path. I can imagine feeling bad about playing the evil path in a game where you had the option not to do it. But, if you want to see the story in a linear game like that you have click the mouse in the way required to get to the next save point. Feeling superior about not finishing a game like that is like feeling superior because you read a book where the main character is an antihero, and you chose not to finish the book.

Besides, it’s “deep” for a modern AAA shooter video game, but not particularly deep or upsetting in terms of storytelling.

Yeah, it’s a cool game, but you could just read Heart of Darkness instead and prob be better off

In a city of billionaires, 10 days of food is about enough for 1 days of food for one of them.

FosterMolasses Mar 11

Haha I hadn’t even considered this.

The airports are gonna be jampacked for days with instafluencers trying to catch the first nonstop flight back to Connecticut.

I just talked to a coworker who has friends out there who spent 7 days to get home being flown ping pong all over the region. It’s quite the chaos with lots of price gauging.

i hope nobody starves but fuck Dubai

VitoRobles Mar 10

Oh don’t worry. The modern day slaves - the Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Nepali, Sri Lankan, Indonesian, and Filipino workers will absolutely suffer.

Agent641 Mar 10

Now would be a great time for these overworked and underpaid masses to do the funny thing to the besieged city of millionaires.

elucubra Mar 10

Except that they wouldn’t be obtaining the land they toil on to feed their children because the land there is a fucking desert, and their land and families are an Emirates’ long haul flight away.

Agent641 Mar 10

Pile of rolexes (blood rinsed off) would fund a plane ticket home and some home improvements back in Bangladesh.

Paranoid Factoid Mar 10

It’ll be fine. Maybe they could build a 100km long trench and call it a city, like MBS is doing in Saudi Arabia.

BigTwerp Mar 10

They have run out of money and apparently will now only build 550m of it!

Paranoid Factoid Mar 10

The property values will sore!

fossilesque Mar 10

Lmao NSFW this pls.

Aceticon Mar 10

Shouldn’t have been an ally of the US and Israel.

They’re not allies of the US nor Israel but just try to play being allies of everyone, just like Qatar, Turkey or India

gandalf_der_12te Mar 10

be dubai
build city in the middle of the desert
literally nothing grows here
we import all our stuff
trade blockade
gonna starve
mfw

Also how did people historically live there? Before desalination plants

In XVIII they lived from fishery and hunting clams. In XX they lived from port and trade. In second half of XX they lived from petroleum. Now they live from youtubers who are testing rooms and food there.

It should also be mentioned that considerably fewer people lived there back then.

Yes

WatsonCrick Mar 10

There are roads between the eastern side of the strait and Dubai and there is a cool technology called “trucks” that can be used to transport produce. Yes, it’s more expensive than boats but I read somewhere that Dubai is very rich.

humanspiral Mar 10

You need the trucks in place now, and port capacity in the off coasts. It’s fair that they can work out an alternative to starving.

AlexLost Mar 10

Have they heard of airplanes? They flew through the air and can bring food and equipment along for the ride?

Can’t they just deliver shipments on the east coast and drive it in? It’s not far

Not an expert, but if all your deliveries had short drives and now they’re all long drives; you are way short on trucks.

It’s like 1 hour 30 min max

The whole country runs on long haul trucks.

They can easily figured out a solution

Well they must just all be morons then since they live there but you solved it with no actual information about their infrastructure or logistics or anything. That’s the kind of people we need in the C suite!

How many days of “fresh food” can someone possibly have left?

Samskara Mar 11

Zucchini in the fridge will last for more than a week easy. Eggs last a month or longer. Onions don’t even need a fridge and last months.