Jim Cornelius
jim-cornelius.bsky.social
Jim Cornelius
@jim-cornelius.bsky.social
Mostly harmless
It’s a terrible book. Gold had no understanding of petroleum geology.
July 27, 2025 at 5:10 PM
In the USA, many people believe crude oil comes from dinosaurs, while others dismiss this as another government lie, like faked moon landings or hidden history rtc.

Both are, of course, wrong.

The whole dino myth started with a marketing campaign by Sinclair Oil, as shown in this TV commercial.
May 8, 2025 at 5:26 PM
@pholmes8.bsky.social, @hhesterm.bsky.social , @coppetainpu.bsky.social, @explaintrade.com
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Hi guys. I am currently developing a website to document, explain, and highlight some of the issues with Trump's tariffs.
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I hope to publish it very soon. I'm doing the whole website from scratch.
April 5, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Also 70% chickens.
April 5, 2025 at 12:44 PM
8407.10: Aircraft engine
8409.10: Aircraft engine.
8411: Aircraft engine.
8412.10: Aircraft engine.
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My guess is an engine needed to be repaired.
April 4, 2025 at 10:21 AM
9801001035 for $3.4m tells us the proper code for the type of goods that were sent back to the USA.

9801001035 is much less in value. $30k, and the code for that doesn't tell us much, it's just other.

Let's look at those other codes: 8407.10, 8409.10, 8411 or 8412.10.
April 4, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Now I've got you attention, we can dive deeper. The six digit code 980100 means goods for return to the USA, but the codes are actually 10 digits.

We see two 10 digit codes: 9801001035 & 9801001045
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Let's look them up.
April 4, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Trump's list said Saint Pierre and Miquelon, a French-owned island off the coast of Newfoundland, with a pop of 6,000 has a tariff of 99% It doesn't. It had a massive trade surplus in 2024, because someone declared $3.5m worth of goods sent back to the USA, where it originated.
April 4, 2025 at 10:16 AM
November 23, 2024 at 10:08 AM
"give Africa £12b"

Boris Johnson pledged to allocate £11.6 billion to Int'l Climate Finance in 2019.

Nearly half was allocated and spend by 2022. The remainder is for 2024/25 and 2025/26.

The money for this is sourced purely from the existing foreign aid budget. So already budgeted for.
November 23, 2024 at 1:18 AM
Start with this:

"Labour managed to find £22b for carbon capture"
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That's for a period of 25 years. It's not £22bn from this year's budget.
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The Carbon Capture plan of £20bn long-term investment was originally announced by Rishi Sunak.

See:
www.gov.uk/government/n...
November 23, 2024 at 1:10 AM
Not actually true.

That’s for multiple decade projects going back to at least 2012.
November 22, 2024 at 11:42 AM
They haven’t. If you read the article you’ll discover buried in it that only 4% that is from Labour and it’s for multi-year projects spanning 2012-3031 at the least.
November 22, 2024 at 11:18 AM
Absences in red.
November 21, 2024 at 12:53 AM
FYI it is run by this guy
November 20, 2024 at 11:07 PM
Do not follow this account.
November 20, 2024 at 11:03 PM