Strait of Hormuz/Gas/Conflict Related Cancellations

Offbeat said:
I have seen isolated reports like Israel will attack Turkey or Pakistan next. These clickbaits and fear mongering are very far fetched. A major portion of Israel’s oil flows through Turkey. Despite Erdogan’s bombastic pronouncements, he has quietly made sure that oil continues to transit to Israel because it earns billions annually through that arrangement. Erdogan likes to project himself as leader of Islamic world (which itself is fragmented). It is more for his domestic audience.

Israel will have to think thrice. Turkey is a NATO member and can invoke article 5 if attacked. Israel will also have to secure its energy supplies from alternative sources. Gulf was never an option. There is no strategic gains for Israel to attack Turkey. Like Iran closed Hormuz, Turkey can halt all shipping from Baltic Sea. That will have major impact on food supplies to Africa continent and other countries.
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I do not understand the premise of the far fetched reports you are mentioning and have no interest in reading such nonsense.
Are those articles stating that Israel and Turkey are adversaries? Totally weird, because they are not.
 
dermont said:
Well, I just got mail from Lufthansa that my flight in August for Bachaturo was cancelled. Which is in line with the news that lufthansa is cancelling thousands of flight over the summer/autumn period. So there will be festivals affected.
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Lufthansa is on strike for higher pay.
 
bailar y tocar said:
I do not understand the premise of the far fetched reports you are mentioning and have no interest in reading such nonsense.
Are those articles stating that Israel and Turkey are adversaries? Totally weird, because they are not.
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There was news link at the end of the post to which I had replied. While scrolling YouTube I have seen some videos with headlines that Israel could attack Turkey or Pakistan next. Never opened them but there is lot of slop in print and online media these days.

A trick I have found some videos (even from well known news organizations) will have a clip stating something but when you open the video they are merely asking hypothetical as a question or actually swatting down the hypothesis. It is clever way to get more eyeballs or ratings. Really hard to separate factual news content and reporting from everyone after the eyeballs. In addition there are now a lot of individual news bloggers who sometimes are good but it takes time to figure that out. The news organizations also do blogging.
 
Offbeat said:
A trick I have found some videos (even from well known news organizations) will have a clip stating something but when you open the video they are merely asking hypothetical as a question or actually swatting down the hypothesis. It is clever way to get more eyeballs or ratings. Really hard to separate factual news content and reporting from everyone after the eyeballs.
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Youtube has become a cesspool of bullsh*t. As you said even videos with good content use misleading clickbait titles. It's incredible how much brainpower goes into creating this garbage (nowadays maybe AI driven, but before human brains started this). Google's idea to pay for views has stimulated the worst out of humans, bringing together all kinds of reckless or desperate souls. I wonder if Google is thinking about a new model or if they let this ship just sink until no one uses it anymore.
 
AguaDulce said:

All the airlines cancelling flights and adding costs due to jet fuel crisis​

metro.co.uk

All the airlines cancelling flights because of the jet fuel crisis

Get the latest airline updates amid jet fuel shortage fears – as flights are cancelled or reduced, airlines shut down, and prices go up.
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Looks like a comprehensive list of what airlines are planning to do.
Add: the shutdown of Spirit has prompted Jetblue to take over some of the Spriti's gates and several Latin American routes at Fort Lauderdale.

Looks like we will continue to have three airlines with direct flights from Ft Lauderdale or Miami to Cali Colombia.
 
Peutetre said:
Jetblue is also rumored to go bankrupt so the outlook for the rest of the year doesn’t look good
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True. But it would be their first bankruptcy if and when it happens. Then they recover, maybe, then go down again. So by my calculation there would still be a competitor keeping airfares competitive for another two years or so.

Fwiw, American Airlines isn't in such great shape either. Their debt load is enormous. Avianca emerged from bankruptcy after covid a few years ago.
 
MamboJazz said:
Youtube has become a cesspool of bullsh*t. As you said even videos with good content use misleading clickbait titles. It's incredible how much brainpower goes into creating this garbage (nowadays maybe AI driven, but before human brains started this). Google's idea to pay for views has stimulated the worst out of humans, bringing together all kinds of reckless or desperate souls. I wonder if Google is thinking about a new model or if they let this ship just sink until no one uses it anymore.
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It is unlikely anything will change even if incentives are taken away. Now you have whole new world of influencers. Micro and Macro. A lot of them are younger, have seen influencers since childhood and aspire to be influencer. Now there is lot of synthetic AI content (which is not bad but generated by one person) at least as far as new analysis is concerned.

What is becoming hard is to find analysis by subject matter experts. In other fields besides news, there is plenty of good content but it gets drowned out by mediocre content. May be someone can create a curate playlist of YouTube channels with good content for news, technology, medicine, sports, etc. but there is no money to be made in that.
 
Offbeat said:
It is unlikely anything will change even if incentives are taken away.
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Not entirely, but incentives stimulate people who have no good jobs to try to earn money. Stimulating interest of humans is no rocket science, so many are successful with clickbaits at least in the beginning. Incredible nonsens gets created this way.
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Now there is lot of synthetic AI content (which is not bad but generated by one person) at least as far as new analysis is concerned.
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Youtube gets flooded with AI generated content about historical periods. Seems to be very easy to generate them. So will people start creating their own entertainment movies? Like by saying to the prompt: "I'd like to see a movie tonight situated in 13th century France about a blond man having adventures travelling around." This could kill both hollywood and netflix.
 
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