I would differentiate "the US" from the "Trumpers."
Trump and Co were warned via proper channels ... and that information was ignored. Trumpers were brave and full of bravado ... real gung-ho, until it dawned on them history's page note of this time frame, would be mostly be about the move towards serious adoption of other fuel alternatives, not anything the climate change deniers wanted to see. Though there have been shortages of crude previous pushing up the price, they probably could not have foreseen the camel's back was ready to break, one more knee jerk by the oil merchants pushing prices sky high days after the strait closed, practically no lag, the economy woke up that every little threat was going to be an excuse to hoist the price of fuel upwards and it was time to move towards a better situation. It might take decades but ...
Mineral fuel will always have a seat at the table though.
Ah sorry not in regard to that, more blowing a foot off to get an itch - so in context, ignoring all the things that would happen if they were to antagonise the region, certainly brave. There is no winning with a large population because one only needs a handful to be determined to keep shipping on their toes.
So: Ignoring international agreed laws and understandings that have been hashed out over the last half century ... becoming an economic terrorist to feather their and those of their ilk's nest ... becoming a pariah to any half educated person who knows or has experienced what malignant type personalties are ... at some point one has got to be either brave or stupid risking that if someone else (who's got a few billion spare) ignored international conventions and decided any despised economic terrorist should be dealt with in a ruthless and expedient manner.
But Trumpers have done wonderful things to further alternative fuel ideas these last few months.
Part of cultural history and insight into their daily lives might be lost, but one of the things LLMs should be good at is preserving and enabling the teaching of the language to anyone who may find they need to speak it at a later date.
I'm surprised Ubykh wasn't better documented or recorded since 1992 is fairly recent for a language to die out.
Linguists had been intensively studying Ubykh for decades by the time the last speaker died. It's rather well-documented for a language with few speakers.
I'm not a doctor so all I can do is point you to places like [1] though I've had tinnitus for 30 plus years. I worked around loud equipment with inadequate ear protection - but the defining blow was having my head beside a push bike tyre when it exploded resulting in partial deafness for a day or so.
It's different for everyone, mine is actually damage to the small hearing hairs so no cure hope at all. It takes a while for the brain to adjust and slowly ignore the noise but only to a point. Different things work and you've probably been told about white noise could could help out.
For a start my tinnitus was like standing on the tarmac beside a jet screaming its engines ... making any conversation a great deal of effort trying to ignore the loud whine. It eased over the years where I could almost mistake it for a loud chorus of crickets or cicadas at night, which strangely was more easy to think that's just what it was. Mostly though lately I can ignore it or simply forget it's going on.
The idea we can simply change land use here seems simple too, but much of the agricultural industry has boxed themselves in, applying nasty BS to the ground which used to be not safe to grow veggies for 6 - 7 years bare minimum, though there has been of late, pressure to let the limit slide downwards for the idiots who could not be told that choosing a problem chemicals over some others which took a bit more effort, was going to bite them in the bum.
I have farmed veggies, but in a dry farming situation (no irrigation) so the whole show is at the mercy of the weather. Last few years have been a no go. Many other areas find themselves in a similar situation, water either costs and arm and leg or there's not enough access to it when required.
Ironically the best areas that grew a lot of veggies were (up until 60s, 70s) along the coast up my way Queensland ... much of it gave was to roads and houses that need wet weather insurance during very wet periods ... they are are subject to flooding.
The other factor that governs growing vegetables is the price being offered (knife edge to low) and silly antics like from Queensland sending truck loads of veggies 2000 km to a central depo and then back up along the coast for distribution.
BTW, for farmers, their fuel since the beginning of 2026 has doubled in prices after fuel excise rebate, so in a few months it's going to be very interesting as to what's in the shops that's still affordable by the average worker. The supermarkets here don't miss any upward costs either, applying the real cost by some factor the public might believe is realistic.
One should try for the original source or earliest working source.
I understand not using [1] as the site doesn't play well with older browsers - line 923 of source code for me.
Alternatively [2] and [3] are a couple weeks earlier.
The trouble due to interruption of regular shipping seems amplified in regard to fuel (representing just 20%) but 40 to 50 % [4] for shipped urea around the globe really does put a squeeze on food and crop production. It means that farmers will look for cheaper options if they're replanting and if they really want to spend the fuel to prepare for a new crop. Crops ready to harvest, or require fuel to irrigate, it's just the burden of extra fuel cost -- so from a simple point of view, immediate food related issues shouldn't be knocking on the door, but rather a few months time. However some crops don't have high profit margins, unless contracted, fuels costs might see some crops stay where they are.
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