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To be fair, there's the Red Sea on the other side, that connects a lot of the oil-producing countries to the sea too.

The Encyclopedia Britannica has a great article covering this exact question:

https://www.britannica.com/place/Strait-of-Hormuz

Long story short, the strait is not just the only access point to Kuwait, but also a chokepoint to almost all of Iran, Iraq, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and so on.

There is of course the Red Sea, that too allows sea access to some of the countries mentioned above, but that features its own chokepoint strait, the Bab el-Mandeb Strait. That strait is already a conflict zone because of the Houthi conflict. It's also closer to Israel, and it's partly under Iran's control too.

And there's too little infrastructure on that side to divert enough oil from the countries in question compared to the Hormuz side.

Hmm. How would I check that? Did my instance defederate?

Edit: Apparently we're federated. Still can't see any recent posts, though.

Lwaxana, not even a contest.

Win at what?

Is that one still active? The most recent posts I can see are two months old.

There truly are no unique experiences.

Welcome back, 2007, close enough!

Reminds me of trying to place fences in Planet Coaster.

I totally want to get it now.

I found that my taste in bass-filled, rhythmic electronic hip hop music is much more mainstream than I thought it was. And that's nice! Gives me many more options.

I discovered this song via our uni radio recently:

Dominik Hartz & Frank Lotion – Turbofresh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWCrkLTrMTk

I spotted my girlfriend at the time on Grindr. That's certainly a situation.