Venezuela has the world’s most oil: Why doesn’t it earn more from exports?

From the article:

Venezuela’s oil reserves are concentrated primarily in the Orinoco Belt, a vast region in the eastern part of the country stretching across roughly 55,000 square kilometres (21,235sq miles).

The Orinoco Belt holds extra-heavy crude oil, which is highly viscous and dense, making it much harder and more expensive to extract than conventional crude. Producing oil from this region requires advanced techniques, such as steam injection and blending with lighter crudes to make it marketable.

Because of its density and sulphur content, extra-heavy crude usually sells at a discount compared with lighter, sweeter crudes.

And Trump thinks we’re going to “get rich” from this? Sad! 🍄

You might just be in the wrong neighborhood, sunshine…

Perhaps some intrepid souls could arrange to kidnap Trump and Melania and deliver them to the Hague.

Yeah. Anyone for secession?

Good. Do it.👍

Fuck imperialism🖕Fuck the USA

https://heartsofspacerecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-magnificent-void

But with Qobuz remember to download your music immediately, or it might disappear! Bandcamp does not suffer from this limitation.

Jesus wasn’t born on December 25th. There is no birth narrative in the earliest gospel, Mark, it is an invention of later writers. I think the Romans put his “birthday” on the calendar close to Saturnalia to appease the Saturnalians or whatever.

I like to call it the Solstice (because that’s more or less what it is), with Solstice trees, Solstice cookies, etc.

Christmas, IMHO, is really for kids, not for adults. After the kids grow up, consider celebrating the Solstice by giving to their favorite charity (or better yet, your favorite open source software developer). This SNL video pretty much sums up for me Christmas as it is now for most people: an empty gesture.

I’ve been using Librera, does anyone know if its bookmarks/reading progress can be sync’d to desktop?

Have you used it? Better yet, is there a NAS you can get with it preinstalled?

I think you can make the font bigger in the settings.

Yes, yes, and yes. But will it ever happen? 🤔

Don’t mean to pour cold water on this, but wasn’t there some issue with FUTO that @cypherpunks@lemmy.ml warned us about? Might be thinking of the wrong thing, getting old here . . . 👴

I see Qobuz on there. IMHO, Bandcamp should be your first stop when buying music. If it’s not on bandcamp, Qobuz seems to have just about everything else, more or less, that someone might want. I’ve complained about them in the past for making me download my purchases one track at a time, which can be pretty annoying if you’re buying a super-duper-deluxe version of an album, but, I am pleased to say, they no longer do this; you can download the complete albums you’ve purchased in a zip file. But only once. Stuff can disappear for annoying rights reasons, and I think they even say, once you buy your music download it immediately, because it may not be there on a subsequent visit.

And what a cute favicon!

IIRC, I didn’t have best experience using T-Mobile.

Is that good or bad?

Sorry, keep forgetting I have Bypass Paywalls on.

Yeah was sort of wondering about that too…