skells @skells@qoto.org
Joined Feb 2021
@why
a chart shows the rise and fall of empires
america has reached its peak, and china rises to meet it mid fall
a redneck, racking a fresh round into his AR15, glances over his shoulder at me and says:
"things are about to get weird"
A degree in Hangover Theory
@7 that's literally the Dunbar limit
skells
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the dunbar limit but it’s the number of people in a company before you’re just like, “man fuck that guy, he works in marketing”
just an outstanding product
To my noble friend Sir Ralph Hopton at Wells
Sir,
The experience I have of your worth and the happiness I have enjoyed in your friendship are wounding considerations when I look at this present distance between us. Certainly my affection to you is so unchangeable that hostility itself cannot violate my friendship, but I must be true wherein the cause I serve. That great God, which is the searcher of my heart, knows with what a sad sense I go about this service, and with what a perfect hatred I detest this war without an enemy; but I look upon it as an Opus Domini and that is enough to silence all passion in me. The God of peace in his good time will send us peace. In the meantime, we are upon the stage and must act those parts that are assigned to us in this tragedy. Let us do so in a way of honour and without personal animosities.
Whatever the outcome I will never willingly relinquish the title of Your most affectionated friend.
William Waller
@js290 I'll check it out
if anyone knows a comic routine with the same level of craft and control over the audience let me know
this is a work of genius
skells
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@kakkerel @thatguyoverthere @11112011 @0 @skells @dj They'd like you to think that.
More like right now everything is financialized. It isn't being priced based on the worth of the actual thing, it's being priced based on the likelihood that it'll continue to go up.
Until now that process has meant that these guys have made tons of money, but we're in a moment where reality is about to come crashing down. You can have all the money in the world, but as we're seeing if you can't get stuff for that money then it's worthless.
It's going to continue happening, and the people who actually do stuff people want I think are going to come out ahead of people who just move piles of resources from one pile to the other.
More like right now everything is financialized. It isn't being priced based on the worth of the actual thing, it's being priced based on the likelihood that it'll continue to go up.
Until now that process has meant that these guys have made tons of money, but we're in a moment where reality is about to come crashing down. You can have all the money in the world, but as we're seeing if you can't get stuff for that money then it's worthless.
It's going to continue happening, and the people who actually do stuff people want I think are going to come out ahead of people who just move piles of resources from one pile to the other.
@11112011 @thatguyoverthere @kakkerel @0 @dj all good, I can rebook
@11112011 @thatguyoverthere @kakkerel @0 @dj aaaand there's the money shot 
@11112011 @thatguyoverthere @kakkerel @0 @dj you shitpost on fedi bro, reality has nothing to do with ot
@11112011 @thatguyoverthere @kakkerel @0 @dj although you could make a damn good case it's much worse because they spent 14 years propping it up rather than necessity in Obama's 3rd term, after he let it all hang out his first 2
@11112011 @thatguyoverthere @kakkerel @0 @dj never said it's bad, just said you'd be a fool to award kudos to those in charge
Joined Feb 2021
