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The Strait of Hormuz is a strait between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. It provides the only sea passage from the Persian Gulf to the open ocean and is one of the world's most strategically important choke points. It has been so for centuries, with vast hinterlands rich in luxury trade goods, but no easy access to lucrative trading ports. In his memoirs, Babur, the first padishah of the Mughal Empire, recounted how almonds had to be carried from the distant Ferghana region in Central Asia to Hormuz to reach markets.
is a strait between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. It provides the only sea passage from the Persian Gulf to the open ocean and is one of the world's most strategically important choke points.[1] It has been so for centuries, with vast hinterlands rich in luxury trade goods, but no easy access to lucrative trading ports. In his memoirs, Babur, the first padishah of the Mughal Empire, recounted how almonds had to be carried from the distant Ferghana region in Central Asia to Hormuz to reach markets.
During 2023–2025, 20% of the world's liquefied natural gas (LNG) and 25% of seaborne oil trade passed through the strait annually. The strait had never been closed for extended time during Middle East conflicts (until this month) (unlike the Straits of Tiran/Bab-el-Mandeb) though Iran occasionally had threatened to close the strait (and they did), and preparations to mine it have been undertaken.
Etymology
Persian etymology derives "Hormuz" from the Middle Persian pronunciation of the name of the Zoroastrian god Ahura Mazda. Alternatively, it has been suggested that the name derives from the local Persian word Hur-Mogh 'Place of Dates'. A theory claims that the strait of Hormuz may have been named after Ifra Hormizd, the mother of King Shapur II of Persia, who ruled between 309 and 379 AD.
In the 10th–17th centuries AD, the Kingdom of Ormus was located here. Scholars, historians and linguists derive the name "Ormuz" from the local Persian word هورمغ Hur-mogh meaning date palm.
From the 15th century onward, from a strategic point of view, the geography of the strait maintained and expanded its importance with the arrival of foreign powers such as Portugal, which maintained its presence between the 16th and 18th centuries, also provoking disputes with other emerging powers such as England when it arrived in the region in the 17th century.
Navigation
To reduce the risk of collision, ships moving through the strait follow a traffic separation scheme (TSS): inbound ships use one lane, outbound ships another, each lane being two miles wide. The lanes are separated by a two-mile-wide "median"
In 1959, Iran altered the legal status of the strait by expanding its territorial sea to 12 nmi (22 km) and declaring it would recognize only transit by innocent passage through the newly expanded area.[16] In 1972, Oman also expanded its territorial sea to 12 nmi (22 km) by decree.[16] Thus, by 1972, the Strait of Hormuz was completely "closed" by the combined territorial waters of Iran and Oman. During the 1970s, neither Iran or Oman attempted to impede the passage of warships, but in the 1980s, both countries asserted claims that were different from customary (old) law.
Oil trade flow
During 2023–2025, 20% of the world's liquefied natural gas and 25% of seaborne oil trade passes through the Strait, illustrating its important location for trade.
More than 85% of these crude oil exports went to Asian markets on a daily basis, with Japan, India, South Korea and China the largest destinations. If shipping through the Strait of Hormuz were significantly disrupted for an extended period, it could lead to a major oil supply crisis for major Asian importers such as India and China.
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here enters another weekend of being broke while having hundreds of dollars of deposits waiting at my bank.
ah well, I've got spaghetti, so I'll be fine.
I discovered 6th chords + a shitload are reverb are actually kind of terrifying. Trying to decide if I could incorporate this riff into something or if it's too far outside of the style I want.
man my D&D character got absolutely ROLLED today
psychic goblin attacked me three times, like a 30% to hit, hit all three for 10+ damage. Uncanny Dodge was not enough.
I went for my turn, hoping to do the awesome wand of entangle -> manacles combo, and the gob made the entangle save, which was another ~30% chance.
I had enough HP to risk disengaging. Bad idea. Gob landed another 30% hit for 10+ damage. I retreated behind the entire rest of the party.
As an added insult, my own attack, a 70% chance to hit, missed. Then on the next turn the gob completely ignored my caltrops and knocked me down with a ranged attack.
Later on in the session though I was the only person with access to radiant damage against an undead that was weak to it. That was cool.
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I Have No Mouth and I Must Succ
"Repent Harlequin" Said the Dickcock Man
A Boy and His Hog
His famous Star Trek episode, The City that Edged Forever
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The Beatles Back in the USSR but it's Back on the SSRIs
Hey, you tried.
the old world is dying. it's monster time 
I'm not saying the US is about to collapse, but this war is the biggest material threat to US imperialism in a while. The proles (foreign and domestic) will be harmed and understand that the US and it's allies are the enemy. It's such a great time to be a communist. We have to use this opportunity to recruit as many people as possible
torn between going home and staying out a couple more hours. I've got almost the amount of money I wanted to make today, that's good enough, right?
a guy i know who just fell for a phone scam a couple of months ago rushed to tell me the ladies he was talking to at the bar were Jamaican Royalty and they're looking for a suitor for their daughter.
i had to check to make sure he didn't give them his bank info so they could deposit their fortunes to him.
You know the saying, a fool and his money are soon parted
SCAM ALERT: Stores will sell you a product called "bird seed", but when you plant them you only get flowers. I planted a whole 30 lb bag and didn't grow a SINGLE bird.
My chef still believes im 15 minute city conspiracies. He isnt, to put it mildly, an intellectual. He has thoughts that the chicken may have predated the egg, no joke. I cited the fucking neighborhood i grew up in that hasn't had a grocery store for almost 20 years cause the local chain had a deal which should be illegal that another grocery store couldnt be built on the same property for an absurd amount of time, then they closed the store and left it to rot, it recently burned down and im surprised it didnt earlier. This neighborhood has lot of elderly people, poor people, people who cant drive for various reasons, a mental care facility with varying degrees of autonomy amongst patients and some did but their own groceries and cook for themselves, a hospital and while it came in after the grocery store closed, a community college campus. Now thr nearest grocery store requires driving on a highway and while a quick drive at 100 kmph, cant be walked to. I used this not being the case as what the idea is about and he said he didnt want to live in a grocery store. He seemed to be under the impression that due to accessibility to essential goods, rent would skyrocket, like is hasn't already tripled in the last 10 years, and thst would lesd to people being essentially unable to leave, which is the situation Im already in. He also siad he's be okay with it if he could go to a farmers market outside of his 15 minute city. The famers bring their shit to the farmers market that he already can walk to in the real ass city we live in. We both live in a city, a very walkable one. Its a 5 minute city if you're anywhere near the core. Which we both live in. His mind is an enigma
My home town is a literal 15 minute city but people were pissed about it too lol. Its a 15 minute city because its fucking small, but residents demanded council issue a statement they would never be a 15 minute city
Same. Its a city, but not a big one and the suburbs do have major accessibility issues cause everything is so spread out there. I had to tske a half hour bus ride to get across town. Now its a 15 minute walk. Wow, whar a coincidental amount of time.
Feeling irritated and dont know if it's from birth control side effects or just having a rough week 
Listening to space jam does in fact make me feel like I can slam jam 
it can't imagine how ghastly it would feel to be a political right winger, always amplifying your hate, sharpening your divisions with other parts of society.
the tiniest slice of left solidarity feels sublime, and keeps me going for days. what does a nazi do? find a new minority hate? fundamentally unserious people. we never thought the dustbin of history would be filled with very interesting grains though, huh
Interesting how people are silent about Homer being a bad father but will gas him up when he (rarely) does the bare minimum
doing this in my early 20s
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My local supermarket is strange. I only buy stuff online and they send me store coupons to entice me to shop in a store. The oddity is the coupons are always shitty so it's a disincentive. An example is a coupon I'm looking at right now. It's for 50 cents off Thomas' Breads. What I always do is wait for a "buy one get one free" online sale to buy their English muffins which means I save ~$4.5.
The accounting between suppliers and retail grocery operations is really fucked up and doesn't really make any economic sense which is partly why third party coupons are all sort of pointless now.
I already knew the coupons I get the mail are worse than useless but I had a look anyway. Directly into the trash from now on.
I am not looking forward to the news tomorrow morning. Every Saturday I wake up super early for work and see terrible news.
I think there is only one hexbear user that could beat me in a tofudog eating contest. You know who you are.
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reconsidering some "common sense" i've held for a long time recently: through the war on Iran it actually seems like Iran is easier for westerners to sympathise with/support than Russia. i'm kind of gob-smacked by this
Iran has non-whiteness, anti-islam racism, 'feminist' and 'lgbt' critiques, very recent tinyman square consent manufacturing against it yet...
I'm still hearing libs/progressives defending Iran in the same breath as fearmongering about Russia. it's kind of breaking my brain. the push for Anti-Russian racism actually worked, i guess i thought it couldn't actually be that effective when you can't pick a grain of russian from a heap of europeans. i thought the world was too cosmopolitan for racism between whites to work anymore. wack
The most childish answer is most likely the correct one:
The Iraq war was a disaster and Iran is jusr one letter different.
i hate that you're a bit right. yankkkees don't know a heap from a grain
I think a missing piece of the puzzle is that Russia did in fact invade Ukraine. Iran is very clearly defending itself, but from a naive perspective it looks like Russia is just making a territorial grab.
i guess, but from the layman's view shouldn't they consider Hezbollah, Ansar Allah, and Hamas as Iran "invading" other countries?
i'm not arguing with you, the Artesh clearly haven't invaded Iraq or Syria, but it's difficult to square such uniform condemnation of Russia (which long preceded the SMO) with Iran's heap of operations and support of allies and 'puppets' not provoking a similar low-information lib response. nobody is talking about Yemen in this war, everyone was talking about the Donbass on the eve of the SMO
Guess no consent manufacturing leads to this, wheras as Russia has had 80+ years of demonization in the US. Handed dowm from parent to child to grand child.
there still has been a lot of consent manufactured against the islamic revolution, and post 9/11 tropes are seamlessly applied to Iran (i've seen people calling them arabs!)
this is part of why i'm so fucking confused. is Iran's diaspora just better placed and has better PR in the west because it's a national construction whereas anti-arab racism is not delimited to specific countries? is the US/israel facing disproportiate casualties part of it? is it literally just because a tomahawk in the first salvo of the war murdered a heap of children?
Another part of the dynamic is that the US and Isreal are the clear aggressors, in the same way that Russia has been made out to be.
Toxic masculinity puts so much pressure on guys' lives that even basic self-care becomes gap moe
it is march 13 and stalin saved the world from fascism
Had a nice break from having to see my stepbrother so naturally after I've had a long day after a long week, him, his wife and kids, and my other brother's girlfriend are all over and will be until late tonight
They'll probably dump his kids kids all weekend to avoid watching them and i had plan for tomorrow 
I know Second Thought is our boy but this is kinda funny. "Nazis keep posting Nazi propaganda, here's why".
The air-conditioning system in my house leaves a lot to be desired. If I set it to 73 - it's off so I'm sweaty. At 72 - I'm still a bit too hot. At 71 - pretty quickly I feel cold and chilly. My living room feels like I'm outside on a winter day.
Lmao someone at my job crashed out and quit because someone else said trump is a pedophile.
"Dont talk about my president like that!"
Hahahahahahaha get fucked loser
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