skells @skells@social.cleverlibre.org

this made me laugh again

@smartbrain

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”

― Upton Sinclair

Change "salary" to "livelihood" and it still works. Seems like a form of denial.

Oh no

Do you like red wine? 🍷🤔

(plz boost! 🙏)

A good little history lesson relating to the ascension of past monarchs and how Charles III is reshaping that.

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=JzzA2b8OXtE

Bitcoin works as long as its users act. And the more users willing to take risks to perpetuate and defend bitcoin, the less likely they are to need to.
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RT @SomsenRuben
"The best way to make Bitcoin fail is to believe that its success is guaranteed. [...] The big compromise in a strongly decentralized system is that it's all of our jobs to look out for it."

- Greg Maxwell
https://twitter.com/SomsenRuben/status/1570688131367837697

Sometimes I wish there was a devolved government in England, one that could care about our culture and people. I do find it a bit insulting to assume the people in London care about England as a whole. That they are representing us. These days, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales have their own devolved government. But nothing for England. Then again, I do wonder if we would at all be united if England had our own devolved government... but it's not fair that we must sacrifice for the union in this way. Either everyone gets a devolved government or the government must be united again.

It’s Friday. I’m gonna drink, smoke and make merriment.

"Yet, even so, I can hardly regret having escaped the appalling waste of time and spirit which would have been involved in reading the war news or taking more than an artificial and formal part in conversations about the war. T o read without military knowledge or good maps accounts of fighting which were distorted before they reached the Divisional general and further distorted before they left him and then "written up" out of all recognition by journalists, to strive to master what will be contradicted the next day, to fear and hope intensely on shaky evidence, is surely an ill use of the mind. Even in peacetime I think those are very wrong who say that school­ boys should be encouraged to read the newspapers. Nearly all that a boy reads there in his teens will be known before he is twenty to have been false in emphasis and interpretation, if not in fact as well, and most of it will have lost all impor­tance. Most of what he remembers he will therefore have to unlearn; and he will probably have acquired an incurable taste for vulgarity and sensationalism and the fatal habit of fluttering from paragraph to paragraph to learn how an actress has been divorced in California, a train derailed in France, and quadruplets born in New Zealand."

Ukraine war: Putin treason move was about piercing 'bubble of propaganda' in Russia | Euronews

https://www.euronews.com/2022/09/14/putin-treason-move-was-about-piercing-bubble-of-propaganda