There's 20 days left in the strategic oil reserve, according to zero hedge.
I would think maybe China would invade Taiwan first, after having significantly weakened our ability to respond (especially after having already donated however much to ukraine). Then depending on our response to that, they'll probably just continue the slow steady rollup that they're already doing.
You can quit drinking. When people told me alcohol was a depressant, I thought it meant while you were drinking. I didn't realize it meant it would make depression creep into your life all day every day, drunk sober hungover. All the time.
It takes like a solid 2 weeks to purge it from your system and begin to feel your brain chemistry start to sort itself out.
Anyways it's not that big of a deal to exchange the short term drinking pleasure reward for long term happiness and having your shit together.
What's the deal with this bowling alley claw machine? Did the machine just take my dollar bill and then not respond correctly to my button pressing side-to-side and then forwards-and-backwards? And did the claw machine then not grip my desired miniature stuffed animal with sufficient force as to lift it into the return basket? This is a real question.
In a zero sum game the KGB would have infiltrated our govt with communist agents, while we would have infiltrated theirs with capitalist agents. So maybe theres been like a covert shift in the power structures with a net gain in either direction of exactly zero.
You have to have a very flexible brain stem to deal with this shit on a daily basis.