Just when prayers are most needed...

It's an easy equation in an otherwise complex world: if russia wins Ukraine, Israel will have to face a nuclear capable Iran protected by russia. If Ukraine maintain their territories, Iran will have to back down.

Weird world: the outcome of the WAR in Ukraine will directly affect the volatility of the Iranian aggression.

Because nothing can go wrong and at least it can't get any worse.

A method can either do a function by the orders given from the caller and end or it can do a function that change a variable that can be returned to the caller.

Method not returning: "Open a box of eggs and smash them"....Done. The End.

Method returning: "Open a box of eggs and give one to me"...Here I'm returning one egg.

Perfect timing since 2023 is about to start.

My bingo cards are lined up and ancient viruses coming back with a vengeance is on the top 20. I wonder if we can dig up some frozen cavemen to obtain antibodies and mix it with the common flu? We could have a reverse Covid, where we need to infect each other with antibodies. Sneeze party!

In case you're wondering what's on Top 1 it is... A nuclear detonation (real or test show off in 2023). Not hoping for it but the bingo cards usually don't lie. Top 2 is Yellowstone starting to rumble.

Happy New Year! Aliens are only on for 2024.

So they can't get nuked. "FRANCE may never be attacked by russian nukes, because their baguette are the eighth wonder of the World".

Actually I can support that.

But do not under any circumstances forget about the crispy croissant.

It's not any price fixing or colluding, it is simply an underlying observation by other companies that make them edgy and wanting to increase their prices "just in case and it's an opportunity". The market mechanisms of attracting customers from the competition has been diminished, because the opportunity of the mass histeria band wagon has simply become a framework to operate in. Why steal clients from the competition if we can get them to pay 50% more just because "it's those times and no one will complain". Not all price settings need a formal price fixing agreement, it can simply be an "understood market tendency".

"Everyone is raising their prices and our market analytics tell us we can do the same without losing any customers, because consumers don't really have any other choices and if they do, it will be just as costly due to.... Mass histeria".

It has become inflation histeria. It's almost as if companies that haven't raised the prices yet are feeling like they have to move with the band wagon of increases or face the wrath of the shareholders, even if some of them secretly only have minor or no extra costs.

I have had multiple increases and some of my friends in different countries tell the same story. The companies cannot really explain it, but they're trying to justify it through bs arguments. A few from my friends:

Electricity bill: way up because it was more expensive some months ago (but hey let's forget it has bottomed again, let's follow the most expensive imagined price on the global market to keep it up).

Internet: increased general costs (unspecified, but hey band wagon).

Mobile internet: We're paying more for some bs maintenance so we felt like raising it. The time is right.

Water: we're forced to increase by 20 percent. Not even an explanation, simply an increase.

Heating: of course it's up, even if it doesn't use oil, gas or electricity in any substantial amounts or is based on completely renewable energy.

Insurance: our costs are greater and we have to raise the price.

Goods & Services:

"People are buying too much from us, so we have to raise the price, not enough to go around" Supply/Demand you know.

"People are not buying enough from us, so we have to raise the price, to cover our costs" Supply/Demand you know.

Food: the price of food globally is up, so we are going to increase our prices domestically, because we prefer to follow the global market, even if the costs for transport in a hypothetical scenario where we would export it, would be very high. "You pay 50% more because the price 10000 miles away are 50% higher and we could export it to them, you know."

Renting: "Of course it is more costly now to rent out an apartment to you, even if you pay utility bills directly to the companies".

Everyone else: "our workers might want higher wages down the road, let's start increasing prices on our products to get ahead of this and fill the war chest".

Politicians: "Prepare for more Inflation!" (ok now that you said it like it's two minutes to tsunami, it definitely WILL come true).

The mass histeria will come true, because we're panicking. We're panicking due to mass histeria. Mass histeria started as a panic reaction.

"Maybe just maybe I forgot to switch some of them. You told me that some of the types of warheads have a shiny blank surface with numbers written on them and the other warheads are also shiny but don't have anything written on them.

Piotr was sick today with blyat all over and I don't know how to operate the crane, so I just removed the numbers from the warheads. Now they all look the same. I don't know which are which. Most of them are already sent far away on trucks so it's no problem no more, right?"

Don't try to fly that into Australia. Just don't.

Just wait until you get home...

Don't go directly into the bathroom on arrival...just... don't.

Right? We shouldn't use our critical thinking at all.

I always knew that those Brexiteers were behind that explosion. It all makes sense now. The evidence is overwhelming. /s