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Strait of Hormuz - Analysis

The U.S. president can move markets with a sentence. He can hint at talks, hint at peace, hint at imminent success, and each of those hints can put downward pressure on oil. Tehran can threaten, but Trump has the larger megaphone, the larger navy, and the stronger balance sheet.

On Gimp and Photoshop

...2 years ago Miles Mathis said:

I couldn't make the diagrams I wanted of Ammonia with Gimp and don't have Photoshop anymore

Well, the free and open replacement for Photoshop is Krita, not Gimp. Gimp has always been an ugly, irrational abomination. It never worked and it drove its users to depression. I tried using it once.

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Go-pro's are trash - here is why

Is it just me, or go-pro's are very difficult? Let's look at them step-by-step. The many go-pro upgrades and changes mean that you can't change the batteries around. Not a very big deal, since I can just stay on the same type of a go-pro. For example, Almost all mine are hero 8, and all my batteries are interchangable. Thank god there are replaceable batteries! With that said, the battery runs out in no time, and is very very expensive. After-market batteries somehow don't hold the charge at all.

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