Flicking the switch

Sci-fi action movies like Independence Day usually feature giant spaceships hovering over the Earth and blowing up cities to subjugate the human race.

But I’ve often wondered if shutting down the internet would be a more effective way to bring the world to its knees.

Computers run everything these days, without them we are toast.

I think about a lot of random stuff. I’ve also devoted a fair bit of brainpower to how I’d survive a zombie apocalypse.

Anyways, it turns out there’s something else that can totally toast us: cutting off our oil supplies.

While the people driving fully electric cars are looking pretty smug right now, it’s not going to help them in a month if they want to fly somewhere, as we don’t have electric planes.

Apparently Australia only has about 25-27 days of guaranteed jet fuel, then we’re grounded if more doesn’t arrive by ship. We don’t have the capability to refine our own jet fuel, so we are dependent on other countries.

Back at the bowser, people are petrol panic buying like the great toilet paper crisis of 2020.

DD flew back from Melbourne last night and tried to get cheap fuel from a service station near the airport. The queue was so long he gave up.

I have a full tank of petrol right now, but I’ll burn through half of that getting to Newcastle and back to see my dad this weekend.

I also have two more car trips on the horizon in the next 30 days. Best case scenario is the journeys still happen, but cost a shite ton more than they would have a month ago.

That’s inconsequential compared to what’s happening in Iran. Iranians opposed to the country’s oppressive regime hoped that intervention from the US and Israel would force systematic change. Instead they got another Khomeini, a toxic cloud of black smog after fuel depots around the city were bombed, widespread blackouts, civilian deaths and damage to non-military buildings.

With no end in sight to the battle, the delusional tangerine tyrant is chanting “We’ve won…We won — in the first hour it was over.”

Yeah. Right.

Anyhoo, thank heavens its Friday.

Hug the ones you love.

PS In unrelated news, I am presuming this ad that popped up in my Facebook feed is what happens when you sack your agency and put AI in charge. What the actual, Bunnings? This is not on my hardware store shopping list …