skells @skells@qoto.org

unironically

@vriska good luck, hopefully some good news

@MisterRogersSnapped it's definitely a big list

@NBS @nwoodfine @harblinger I'm suprised there's no quick and dirty heuristic that short-circuits artificial tweaks of CPI

I've heard that prices of white goods (refrigerators, washing machines etc.) aren't bad, but however you slice it you're baking in a certain perspective - everyone will perceive inflation differently

@nwoodfine @NBS @harblinger
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thanks to modern technology i can no longer spell

> The iconic expression of these sentiments occurred at last week’s G20 meeting. The G7 leaders and their allies (10 in all) walked out of the G20, immediately as the Russian representative began to speak (virtually). The other 10 however, continued with business as usual: G20 now becomes the G10 + G10 -- the West versus the Rest. The divide can’t be hidden anymore.

https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/analysis/an-era-of-dead-wood

- Tribes Unrealised, Lisa Gerrard

Dim window purple perfume sweetly drifts upon the lake
Of shadowed mirrors in the mind buried in the wake
Of an open glass transparency, a cause to filter through
The swinging cage inherently traps and shows no clue
It sweeps across the emptiness its fortress walls of fright
Alluding hands anointed form the cradles of our fight.

To sing a secret dignity, a pathway to the stars
With strings and wheels invisible we forge the very bars
That enter into sacred rhymes that penetrates the meek
The arrogant and ignorant empower themselves to seek
An embroidery of vanity sweeps throughout this land
In denial of humility, warm blood lays upon our hands
Borne of lust, false wombs of trust to break the ancient reason
The arrogant and ignorant empower them to season.

The cage that they have tempered cast of greed and lies
They sway the unsung gatherings of tribes unrealised.

@MisterRogersSnapped