skells @skells@social.cleverlibre.org
Joined Feb 2021
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@jk I love going to a place with an absolutely stunning set of speakers, coming out of a world class amplifier and signal chain, and playing just absolute jank lo-fi mono garbage, while talking about the Air between the notes and The Imaging.
I used to work in a hifi shop, and I would insist that people listen to, like, Sun Ra's home tapes from the 60s, while just going on about the quality of the reproduction.
Somehow, this sold equipment.
> Who can force Ukraine to freeze the conflict? This is a war of all Ukrainians, and if someone in the world thinks that they can dictate to Ukraine the conditions under which it can or cannot defend itself, then they are seriously mistaken.
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dark forces are aligning against you but it's cool because they are incompetent
bitching about your democracy means it's working
continue
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> The funny thing is Russia’s economy shouldn’t be larger than Germany’s in real terms, since most of Russia’s output is base commodities, which have the lowest value-added component of any good in a market. The whole point of a sophisticated division of labor and economic system is to build up value through each stage in the production chain.
> Cars, for example, should have more ‘value’ associated with them than the iron ore that went into making the frame.
> This tells you how out of whack the world is in terms of the diversion of capital to unsustainable activity it actually is if a commodity producer is leading a manufacturing giant in wealth generation. This is exactly why the currency shift from debt-based to commodity-based money is going to be so painful.
more bacon for a flawless victory
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFKx8ILUe14&list=PL_wv2OekqOtV_R6kfXnmly6GtZXqRjp7A
Adam Curtis really is a great storyteller
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[RT @wrathofgnon]
The summer heat continues. Let's have a look at how the ancient Romans built themselves a cool, breezy, indoor climate and supplied themselves with almost unlimited fresh, filtered, indoor water, miles from wells or aqueducts, at the same time: the impluvium.
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We should concern ourselves not so much with the pursuit of happiness, but the happiness of pursuit.
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huge shout out to all the straight women out there keeping men busy
we do a little foaming at the mouth
all narratives are a question of perspective
the question is, "which narrative is least likely to get me fucked"
sending zoomer memes to my dad purely to freak him the fuck out
Joined Feb 2021
