How US sanctions are strangling Putin’s ambitions to grow LNG exports
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Arctic LNG 2 has been ready to start exports for months

And yet it sits virtually idle, the first piece of Russia’s energy complex to be halted by US restrictions

A thread 🧵

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Japan's 2023 Housing and Land Survey just came out.

From 2013-2023, Tokyo Prefecture (pop. 14MM) added 789,000 homes, net of demolitions, a 1.19% growth rate in a country with a shrinking population.

California (pop. 39MM) added 924,000 homes, or 0.68% per year.

I scored 50 out of 50 points on Dateline, The Economist history game!

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Can you do better? economist.com/dateline

A very sobering Oliver Carroll interview with Ukraine’s deputy mil intel chief. He says Chasiv Yar will fall eventually, that Ukraine is far from stabilising the front and that Russia is “generating a division of reserves” & wants to strike at Sumy/Kharkiv. economist.com/europe/2024/05…

This was really crazy. It didn't just have a lead on it - it had become the most widely accepted verb for video conferencing!

Chinese-owned media are distancing themselves from Asia's highest-profile journalism prize amid rising domestic pressure on those seen to be 'colluding with foreign forces.' #SOPA

asia.nikkei.com/Business/Media… via Nikkei Asia

Stanley Kubrick: I set my film in the most unpleasant brutalist estates I could find as a cautionary tale

Housing Activists: at long last, we can preserve the estates from the classic film Look How Horrible These Estates Are

Damn, they automated Rainbolt.

Interesting piece - but I'm not sure that there was ever a time when China needed Tesla more than the other way round!

Weird, that's the best bit

When I saw this story, about Heineken uprooting an orchard because people aren't buying cider any more, I initially wondered whether they'd felled some ancient woodland.

Then I got to the line that explained the trees were planted in 1997.
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This is the death rattle of the 'Supersize Me' era of puritan food austerity. Today, we live in the universe of the massive burger and the Ozempic offset. We are solving for the side-effects of abundance.
restaurantbusinessonline.com/food/mcdonalds…

Bakers in Singapore's East Coast area taking a keen interesting in recent developments in currency markets.