skells @skells@qoto.org

@11112011 @kakkerel if you say so

@11112011 @kakkerel is this a hot take or a fart

@11112011 @kakkerel I suspect the Finns aren't importing and paying for Russian gas just for a laugh

@cjd that's a prediction, not a method

it seems that the severity of any given crisis is secondary upon the assumption that it is used for a political excuse to arrogate power

you then have two perspectives:

a) what is the danger of a given crisis as such?
b) what room for manouevre do the optics of said crisis allow bad actors?

tbh both seem academic if you simply focus on securing comms/money supply and personal safety/security - yet that's also a recipe for civic decay as it sort of precludes any form of politics and cedes that realm to those who would abuse it

@cjd how useful is "intent of others" on a global scale? or do we take the talebian skeptical empiricist route and focus on local exposure?

both seem a bit flaky outside of their domain, although the later seems far more robust

@cjd over the last few years I've found myself teetering about various states of conspiratorial thinking - there must be a method for decision making here and I'm not sure where to begin

@amerika I said working, not works

> Who can force Ukraine to freeze the conflict? This is a war of all Ukrainians, and if someone in the world thinks that they can dictate to Ukraine the conditions under which it can or cannot defend itself, then they are seriously mistaken.

bitching about your democracy means it's working

continue

@11112011 touché

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@11112011 deal

@11112011 fed

@11112011 turning off a pipeline reduces supply, no matter who you're plan B is

@11112011 well, turn on Nordstream 2, not the little piss stream Putin is milking us w/rn