> This is the story of the Nitrogen Trap. It is not primarily a story about war, though war is its catalyst. It is not primarily a story about oil, though Brent crude closed above $100 per barrel on March 12. It is not primarily a story about commodity markets, though fertilizer equities have surged roughly forty percent in fourteen trading days. It is the story of a civilization that optimized every node of its food production system for cost efficiency while concentrating existential dependencies in chokepoints it cannot control, inputs it does not stockpile, and insurance markets it does not regulate

While everyone focuses on oil, other things also stopped flowing through the Strait of Hormuz, and the ripple effects will only become clear in a few months

You can use `npx ccusage` to check your local logs and see how much it would have cost through the API.

The abstract mentions the researchers couldn't find causation. So a potential 4% increase, worth comparing with the 100% increase from living next to a coal plant https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11301007/

A similar study in Korea https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12889-026-26715-8 found "No consistent gradient by residential proximity was observed across sites".

Oh, nice to see KISS showcased here :) I actually started the project 13 years ago... Seems like a lifetime ago! A big thank you to all the devs that contributed and still contribute over time :)

I would just like to personally thank you for you efforts. It's rare these days to see a simple solution to a problem executed effectively. I literally use your software everyday.

Paper said "earth.however". Because it's missing a space after the period, it appears as an invalid link.

In the meantime, you can try Beeper which does that through Matrix. It connects all the apps you mentioned in a single app.

Or self hosted matrix with bridges, which is basically what's underneath beeper.

I use this ansible role to deploy it: https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy/

Had not heard of this. Got it set up relatively smoothly. Great stuff, thanks!

Amazing. Will try it tomorrow

The writes are streamed in near real time to five followers, acknowledging it near instantly. The cloudflare blog article mention this more in depth. So writes remain fast, while still having durability.

They're not large contributors to eu finance: 10th and 5th, respectively https://www.statista.com/statistics/316691/eu-budget-contrib...

France and Germany account for nearly 50% of the funding.

Perhaps the infograph I saw was per capita?

Yeah -- Ireland and Netherlands are both top contributors on a per capita basis. Though this was only accelerated recently i.e. the 2023 budget not the 2021 budget. Ireland on many occasions has be a net recipient before this while the Dutch have a longer history of being a net contributor.

https://www.icaew.com/insights/viewpoints-on-the-news/2024/j...

Perhaps you're mistaken?

Nah; Ireland's the biggest per capita contributor, and the Netherlands is fourth (after Luxembourg and Belgium).

(Not sure what's going on with Belgium; Ireland, Luxembourg and to some extent the Netherlands have rather inflated GDPs, which drives up contribution amounts, but Belgium's isn't particularly high.)

I'd like to read it!

Iain Banks's "Against A Dark Background"?

Indeed, though I was hoping to avoid posting an explicit spoiler - I'd have rot13'd it or something.

They do. For nuclear, they also include cost of decommissioning the power plant completely.