skells @skells@qoto.org

>In March 1939, Neville Chamberlain issued a war guarantee to Poland. If Germany attacked Poland, Britain would fight on Poland’s side.

>Fortified with this war guarantee from the British Empire, the Poles stonewalled Hitler, refusing to talk to Berlin over German claims to the city of Danzig, taken from her at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference.

>On Sept. 1, 1939, Hitler attacked and Britain declared war, a war that lasted six years and mortally wounded the British Empire.

>And Poland? At Yalta in 1945, Winston Churchill agreed that a Soviet-occupied Poland should remain in Stalin’s custody.

@jcbrand @augustus @lain and he has a point
> I want to be able to be as flawed as possible while remaining antifragile
so on his own terms I'd say he's smashing it

the good thing about his methods is that they are robust to his conclusions:
https://youtu.be/gAlHjWctpLw

if you watch this and ignore his bias, keeping in mind what we're seeing in myocarditis and mysterious deaths correlated with the vaccine, the conclusion speaks loud and clear despite his opinion.

Kierkegaard didn't lift

@Pat @lucifargundam your callous arrogance is matched only by your ignorance.

I wish you good health, in all seriousness.

thinking about all the people who tried to push me to get vaccinated

yeah.

all I want rn is zizeks take on the backrooms

@lain hhnnnggg

@11112011 gotta make up that defeciiitt

@11112011 Europe, world's greatest importer of morality since WWII

@11112011 gigabased

@11112011 Germans good people, not Brussocrats

@11112011 don't get me wrong, good people but that lot in Brussels are the most ideological lot going

@11112011 easy to say from Portugal, no revolutions aye but either the Germans cry uncle or they're in for some serious pain - and they've got no idea

@why assuming the system has reached equilibrium, no

> Comic relief is provided by the fact that Gazprom can always point out to Berlin that eventual supplying problems on Nord Stream 1 – after the cliffhanger return of that notorious repaired turbine from Canada – can always be solved by implementing Nord Stream 2.