skells @skells@qoto.org

@jcbrand @orionwl @cjd I can never make my mind up whether a stronger EU would be better or worse for the world. I like the idea of them not being beholden to the Americans, but the line "We've always been at war with Eurasia" ever echoes through my mind...

@cjd yeah I had a quick rummage, looks like one would need to bodge up a crawler and a scraper for the paper/headline/text/date, then it's just some reasonably simple (famous last words) ML.

I'll add it to the painfully long list of interesting projects to dream about while shitposting

@jcbrand @orionwl @cjd

you're probably right, although...
"if you owe the bank a little money, it's your problem; if you owe the bank a lot of money, it's their problem"

Putin be all

@jcbrand @orionwl @cjd Hungary is a huge fly in the ointment, and if Ukraine joins...

@jcbrand @cjd going on past behaviour, the EU will make a big show of doing the right thing but hold some trickery in reserve for "security reasons"

the savage, dangerous optimism that makes bankers quiver and search for God

@NBS *glances around to see if anyone will hear*
"well, can't you do something?"

@AlexJones La Pen just won

@cjd even better, when does it change and with which themes?

wait

do people on twitter actually say "heckin"

@MisterRogersSnapped one assumes the women can cook

@MisterRogersSnapped when your enemies are scattered before you to the sound of the lamentations of their women

@cjd it's still a fucking rag but that's where we are

@cjd you could track the descent into journalistic degeneracy by the proportion of actually interesting world events were only reported in the mail or the ny post

@magicat @cjd internet cats gifting cryptography white papers

what a timeline

@cjd killer if they want/can do it...

how private is monero? I've heard mixed reports, perhaps more because the fiat ramp tends to be BTC.

and do you foresee BTC gaining that level of privacy in the short/mid term? taproot etc. look promising but beyond my paygrade atm

@p @Hyolobrika@berserker.town @Onecowstampede @TornadoOfTerror @TrevorGoodchild @teknomunk

I always read Nietzsche after reading Russell for any period of time; he's a fantastic philosopher imo but he was pretty dogmatic in a low-key kinda way.

His chapter on Nietzsche is both funny and revealing (in a ~confession by projection kind of way):

“It does not occur to Nietzsche as possible that a man should genuinely feel universal love, obviously because he himself feels almost universal hatred and fear, which he would fain disguise as lordly indifference. His ‘noble’ man - who is himself in day-dreams - is a being wholly devoid of sympathy, ruthless, cunning, cruel, concerned only with his own power. King Lear, on the verge of madness, says: ‘I will do such things-What they are yet I know not—but they shall be The terror of the earth.’ This is Nietzsche’s philosophy in a nutshell.”