JareBear

Reap what you Sow

[JareBear @hamblin_jared]

I have a 2300 mortgage on 80k a year. The problem is people aren’t willing to drive an old car but instead get a car payment, on top of student loans for a degree you didn’t need and credit cards you racked up for stupid reasons. Just be smarter with your money.

[Kyle @KyleMatovcik]

300,000$ is about a 2000$ mortgage payment. Average income in the US is about 70k.
A person making 70k a year can't afford a 2000$ a month mortgage payment.

[JareBear @hamblin_jared]

Holy shit you’re not a dog mom, you’re a pet owner

[JareBear @hamblin_jared]

Drake is trash, I really don’t see why he’s so popular

[JareBear @hamblin_jared]

This is wild, straight up fascist

[Nick shirley @nickshirleyy]

California is trying to pass a bill that would criminalize investigative journalism with misdemeanors, $10,000 fines, imprisonment, and content takedown.

The proposed bill is titled AB 2624 and was made after I exposed mass fraud by immigrant groups in America.

Under AB 2624, government-funded entities like the Somali “Learing” Daycare centers would be protected from being exposed if they operated inside California.

The enemy truly is within. When our politicians would rather protect fraudsters and illegal migrants, it’s time for us to stand up or face mass oppression from the traitors who “rule” over us.

[Electroverse @Electroversenet]

In 2004, the BBC warned the Maldives were "soon to be uninhabitable," claiming sea levels were rising 0.9 cm per year and that 80% of the islands could vanish within a century.

More than two decades later though, reality says otherwise.

The Maldives haven't sunk, they've exploded with growth: 12 new airports, expanded international terminals, record tourism of over 2 million visitors a year, and more than 170 resorts, with 7 added in 2024.

Instead of disappearing under the waves, this so-called "paradise in peril" has shown no statistically significant sea level rise since the 1980s, according to satellite data.

Here we have another 'climate catastrophe' headline completely undone by time.

[JareBear @hamblin_jared]

This is slightly misleading. America has some of the cleanest crude oil on earth. Oil from the Bakken (and others) is literally nicknamed “sweet crude” because of how easy it is to refine. Our leaders and oil companies are just to greedy to properly utilize it.

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

Everyone talks about Iranian oil in barrels. Nobody talks about what is inside them. That difference is why Western refineries have been running shadow networks through Dubai for twenty years to get it despite the sanctions.

Crude oil is not a uniform commodity. It is a spectrum of hydrocarbons with different molecular weights, and the composition of a given crude determines how easily it converts into the products refineries actually want to sell: gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, heating oil. The measurement that captures this is API gravity. Higher API gravity means lighter crude with shorter carbon chains, which means lower energy cost to crack, lower processing cost to refine, and higher yield of the light distillates that carry premium pricing. Lower API gravity means heavier crude requiring more energy, more processing steps, more capital equipment, and producing a higher share of lower-value residuals.

Iranian Light crude runs at 33 to 36 degrees API gravity with sulfur content between 1.36 and 1.5 percent. That is the refinery sweet spot. It is light enough to yield high fractions of gasoline and middle distillates without excessive processing costs, but heavy enough to produce the full range of products that complex refineries are designed to process. It is what petroleum engineers call an optimal blend crude.

Now compare the alternatives.

Venezuelan Merey heavy crude runs at approximately 16 degrees API gravity with sulfur between 3 and 5 percent. Refining it profitably requires a coking unit, a hydrocracker, and an extensive desulfurization train. The equipment exists. The economics work for refineries purpose-built around Venezuelan feedstock. It is not a substitute for Iranian crude. It is a different product requiring different industrial infrastructure.

US West Texas Intermediate runs at 39 to 40 degrees API with sulfur below 0.25 percent. In theory, the cleanest and easiest crude to process. In practice, it is so light that it does not yield the heavier middle distillates a complex refinery needs to run at full capacity. European and Asian refineries built around medium crudes cannot switch to WTI without blending it with heavier crudes to achieve the molecular weight distribution their process units require. WTI is not a drop-in replacement for Iranian medium.

Iranian oil fits where both US shale and Venezuelan heavy do not. It is the liquid that flows through the middle of the global refining system without requiring either the coking infrastructure for heavy crudes or the blending operations for ultra-light shale. That molecular fit is why it commands a persistent premium above comparable grades. It is why Indian refineries maintained Iranian crude purchases through every round of sanctions and negotiated the logistics to keep that flow moving. It is why the Dubai shadow banking and trading network that the UAE is now considering dismantling existed in the first place.

The Strait of Hormuz does not just carry oil. It carries the specific category of oil that the global refining system was built to process most efficiently. Closing it does not just reduce supply. It removes the grade of crude that the system runs best on and forces every refinery in the world to run less efficiently on whatever it can find as a substitute.

That is the premium embedded in the $82 oil price. Not just volume. Molecular weight.

https://t.co/ULBgEzZ3A8

[JareBear @hamblin_jared]

Breyers has always been trash

[HustleBitch @HustleBitch_]

🚨 AMERICANS ARE JUST NOW REALIZING THEIR “ICE CREAM” ISN’T EVEN LEGALLY ICE CREAM ANYMORE

"Does anybody know what's happened to Breyers ice cream...that it's no longer ice cream?"

A couple posted a viral video after buying a tub of what they thought was normal ice cream only to discover the packaging never uses the words ice cream anywhere.

Instead, the label says “Frozen Dairy Dessert.”

Why?
Because years ago, companies quietly changed their recipes:

• Less cream
• More air
• More gums & stabilizers
• Cheaper fillers
• Ingredients that no longer meet FDA standards to legally call it ice cream

The wife says she bought this thinking she was being “moderately healthy,” until she noticed something insane:

“NOWHERE on here does it say ice cream.”
“It literally says frozen dairy dessert."
“This was the ice cream of my childhood…now it tastes TERRIBLE."

She opens the container and immediately freaks out:

“First of all… what is this texture?”
“It tastes metallic.”
“It’s forming a FILM inside my mouth."
“This is NOT ice cream.”

Her husband jumps in:

“This used to be the PREMIUM ice cream of the bourgeoisie.”

She stops him, but keeps inspecting the tub:

“They made it LOOK like ice cream… the fancy label, the ‘Rainforest Alliance’ leaf… the Grade A milk logo… but WHAT am I actually eating here?”
“Because it’s definitely not ice cream.”

People across the internet are now checking their own tubs and realizing the same thing - half the brands in their freezer aren’t even allowed to be called real ice cream.

Did you know companies legally reclassified this stuff… or have you been eating ‘frozen dairy dessert’ without realizing it?

[JareBear @hamblin_jared]

In what world do you live in where a beater car is 10k

[bumbadum @bumbadum14]

BECAUSE
A
BEATER
CAR
IS
10,000
DOLLARS
YOU
BOOMER

[JareBear @hamblin_jared]

Why don’t we cap mortgage interest rates instead?

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) is working with Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) to cap credit card interest rates at 10%.

This is a good thing.

[Being Libertarian @beinlibertarian]

👀

[JareBear @hamblin_jared]

Racist

[JareBear @hamblin_jared]

Fuck this bitch and every other greedy bureaucrat who thinks this way, why is finding out WHERE OUR TAX DOLLARS GO so controversial?

[Mike Netter @nettermike]

Scary quote of the day

[Robert Kroese @robkroese]

"I didn't vote for Elon Musk"

Yeah? I didn't vote for the FBI, ATF, CIA, PBS, NPR, FDA, WHO, UN, IRS, Federal Reserve, EPA or CDC.

Cry harder

[JareBear @hamblin_jared]

I’ve said this multiple times and I’ll say it every time I see these fuckheads. REAL RACISTS AREN’T AFRAID TO SHOW THEIR FACE THESE ARE FEDS DON’T BE FOOLED

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

BREAKING: The far right extremist group, Patriot Front, is at March for Life right now in Washington DC.

These are NOT Feds.

They are horrible people on the far right. It’s OK to recognize that even if you’re on the right.

[JareBear @hamblin_jared]

Then why the fuck has Germany paid the Jews 98 BILLION dollars in reparations. Wanna know why? Because they’re fucking jews. You ever wonder where the saying “I got jewed” came from?

[Casual Geopolitics @Casualgeopol]

“HitIer didn’t want to exterminate the Jews”

Oh, so hoIocaust revisionism is okay when he does it?

[JareBear @hamblin_jared]

Anybody else regret not buying bitcoin when it was 1000 dollars? #Crypto

[JareBear @hamblin_jared]

More feds. Real racists aren’t afraid to show their face

[提督 Aegis @AdmiralAegis]

Well that's... interesting...

[JareBear @hamblin_jared]

IF YOU DON’T LIKE WHERE YOU LIVE THEN YOU CAN PACK UP AND MOVE THIS IS AMERICA 🇺🇸