skells @skells@qoto.org

@11112011 hahah what with quarter billion freshly printed yourows on the end of the stick? not likely

@11112011 none, almost by definition

@11112011 central banking is dying, no matter what daddy says

you don't win wars with cannon fodder

@11112011 don't hold your breath bro we just ahead of the curve

@11112011 we've been through worse scrapes

this is not fun though

there is, somewhere in ancient literature, a reference to a Persian king (Cyrus?) describing the greeks as people who gathered in a particular place to lie to one another, presumably a marketplace or forum (assembly for voting...?)

my question is, how did the Persians organise their economy? I've gotten the sense that it wasn't free market, that some sort of centralised planning was going on

anyone know anything or have any sources on this?

@amerika @sim mm, there's the quote about preferring an out and out tyrant to someone who is a tyrant over you "for your own good"

@amerika @sim it's not democracy, it's the nature of power

any government is capable of seeking dominance if it has the power to do so, it's almost an organic process

@spiritsplice@pieville.net and massively anti bitcoin

@spiritsplice@pieville.net also blows my mind that Taleb is on the warpath for Snowden and Greenwald, huge influence in my thought and he is just full vaxx, pro ukraine, fuck snowden train rn

@spiritsplice@pieville.net somewhat, there's a significant minority of technical people who it has informed

I doubt the cryptographic scene (inc. bitcoin) would be as developed and motivated as it is without Snowden or someone like him

even if you assume that Snowden was nothing but a traitor in the pay of Russia... what? are Americans then supposed to be happy that the NSA spy on them?