"There is now very strong incentive to develop alternatives that bypass what Iran can effect, which is exactly what’s happening. It will take a while for the infrastructure to come online, but as the months and eventually years go by, Iran will find its biggest lever for control rapidly diminishing even if the war was stopped now. Likewise, the move to EV’s will likely accelerate."

I am old enough to have lived through the oil shocks in New Zealand. It got so bad the government rolled out an alternative fuel system network of compressed natural gas. Many fuel stations had installed the tanks and pumps and many cars were converted to it. NZ has gas deposits enough to meet all its own demands.

As soon as the oil shock was over it was all ripped out and we all went back to oil.

But not in a Jeep Rubicon. Piece of junk will break down as soon as it sees water

I work in a large finance company. If rogue AI deletes databases it will take at least a week at my company to get the minimum functionality up. Backups are done daily so a whole day's worth of changes is potentially gone. This will affect 10s of billions of dollars and up to a million people directly

1) He does stuff we like that benefits us personally; 2) He is one of us and expresses our own opinions; 3) We are afraid of speaking out against him

There is also Swish for Chez Scheme https://github.com/becls/swish. About 10 years old now

Yes but Igropyr has more function

Swish seems to be written and backed by actual humans instead of just being vibe coded. That's a major advantage, even considering the claimed but unproven functionality of igropyr.