u/Levyyz

This is the first meta-discussion on the subreddit. Traffic and submissions are rapidly increasing.

This post aims to collect feedback on rules, posts, flairs, and sub moderation with guided questions which you can answer in the comment section.

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This post aims to collect feedback on rules, posts, flairs, and sub moderation going forward.

Rules

• With your input, we can evaluate the baseline rules which could be expanded upon in the future. In addition, automod has been added to support the implementation of these rules.

What baseline subreddit rules should be created?

Posts

• Free-form posts are currently allowed. Beyond banning URL-shorteners (for obvious reasons), the only current expectation of posts is that they are on topic. Not much moderation has been required here but that too is bound to change.

What type of posts should be allowed?

Flairs

• The flair system can be redesigned or improved. For example, regions/sectors/industries may be added. This will also depend on the type of posts allowed.

Which flairs should be available for posts?

Last but not least

• With Reddit being a US-centric platform, the reality of political divisions and their prevalence in discussion cannot be denied. We are looking for your opinions on what role this should be allowed to play in the posts and comments.

How should we approach moderating politics?

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The last pre-war shipments of oil products from the Strait of Hormuz have arrived at their destinations as of early May, meaning the promise of an energy crisis as a result of the Iran war is fast approaching. Leading experts are now forecasting energy disruptions ranging from rationing to severe shortages in import-dependent economies, with roughly 11% of global oil supply already offline. This leaves us with the question: even if this war were to end today, what sort of system-wide effects are locked in given the current loss in production, and what will be required of us to cope with the fallout?

In this episode, Nate welcomes back petroleum geologist Art Berman to break down the timeline of the looming oil shortages stemming from the Strait of Hormuz crisis and just how severe they could become within a tightly coupled, complex global system. Art explains why, even if the war were to end today, the inherent lags in our industrial supply chains mean shortfalls are already baked into the coming months. The resulting rise in energy prices will reach far beyond the pump, rippling out into the cost of virtually everything and confronting much of the world with conditions not seen in over five decades. Ultimately, Art sees this as a forcing mechanism that could compress decades of needed adjustment into months. The outcome will rely less on policy than on whether societies can absorb the shock without breaking.

Amid all the speculation about oil prices in the wake of the Iranian conflict, what do these numbers actually mean in physical terms? If this conflict signals the beginning of a long-term decline in energy availability, are we already past the peak of the global material economy, with the financial layer not yet caught up to the physics? And if this conflict signals the beginning of a long-term decline in energy availability, what lessons from our deep past might help us find our way forward?

Art Berman is a petroleum geologist with over 40 years of oil and gas industry experience. He is an expert on U.S. shale plays and is currently consulting for several E&P companies and capital groups in the energy sector.

Asia: 10 countries analyzed; 9.1 million people could be pushed into acute food insecurity which is a 24 percent increase.

East and Southern Africa: 16 countries analyzed; 17.7 million people could be pushed into acute food insecurity which is a 17.7 percent increase.

Latin America and the Caribbean: 3 countries analyzed; 2.2 million people could be pushed into acute food insecurity which is a 16 percent increase.

Middle East and North Africa: 12 countries analyzed; 5.2 million people could be pushed into acute food insecurity which is a 14 percent increase.

West and Central Africa: 12 countries analyzed; 10.4 million people could be pushed into acute food insecurity which is a 21 percent increase.

In a span of four days in the first weeks of the latest escalation, Israel damaged at least seven critical water sources including reservoirs, pipe networks and pumping stations that supplied water to almost 7,000 people in the Bekaa area alone.

In Southern Lebanon, where hundreds of thousands of people have been forced to flee their homes after Israel’s blanket mass forced displacement orders, Oxfam and partners are responsible for carrying out rehabilitation work at 19 important water facilities that provide clean water for up to 60,000 people. Six were damaged by Israeli bombardment in last year’s escalation.