skells @skells@social.cleverlibre.org

The ruling oligarchy loathes decentralized money, especially Bitcoin, because it will eventually wipe out their power-structure, as well it should.

But academics and self-described "hackers" desperately want to believe that they're non-conformist, even though they in reality they're so obedient they can't even form their own opinions. But this is the source of significant cognitive dissonance for them.

They hate all real decentralized money because they're told to, but admitting that they consider their Chase Benefits™ card the pinnacle of ethical money is just a tad bit too far out, even for them.

I've seen quite a few of these "decentralized money without dirty carbon evil racist blockchain" type papers. They reliably fail to recognize The Hard Problem so they don't try to solve it, instead transforming it into different forms and then assuming it solved.

It is the digital equivalent of the perpetual motion magnet motor, the motor always stops but the ideas don't.

Mom met Dad at the courthouse. Arraigment was the same day. She had just gotten an abortion. He had just bought a 30 round magazine.

It was love at first sight.

@skells heard u can smuggle coke inside ravioli not sure if acurate

@skells yeah it is, I was a little worried about the food shortage stuff (so taking a little hit on a wheat position), but I guess China has good stock so we won't be shipping much out either

I'd rather take that hit than have a famine

Metallica's early work was a bit too speed metallic for my tastes, but when The Black Album came out in 1991, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically. Their new album has a more relaxed pace, and a sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives their songs a big boost. Hetfield’s been compared to Bon Scott, but I think James has a far more bitter, cynical sense of humor.

Useful info for Americans who need prescription drugs.

@nugger translation
Ryan Gosling as the puppet Ken is a solar, strictly Mithraic hero. He has white hair, a stylish bow, bronzer all over his body. By his appearance, the solar Gosling radiates charisma and confidence. Yes, he's a fake character, a beautiful doll without soul or passion, but that doesn't stop him from seducing his lady of the heart, the same Barbie doll. Ken is the Atlantean of the consumer world, the ultimate expression of glamorous gloss, and even in the doll's sickly pink sets he exudes the aura of a conqueror of heights.

At the other end of this aesthetic pole is Gosling from Drive. There's a lot of pink in Drive, too - but it's a sinister pink, a nighttime neon. Neon is always where there is danger, underlying passion, sinister doom. Here Gosling is a dark, sublunary character, completely withdrawn from himself. He hardly speaks at all, his very work carries a great deal of danger and alienation. The neon Gosling is capable of love, but his love is not conquering. It is hidden, defensive - Gosling neon shows his true passion only in a brutal murder in the elevator. Otherwise, he is a shadowy entity, a character walking toward his curse and the inevitability of fate.

And so the struggle of the puppet Gosling and the autistic Gosling is accomplished. Puppet Gosling, the thesis, represents the dominance of the imaginary. His antithesis, Gosling the neon, is the "real human bean". A real human bean, a reflection of a real, traumatized person in difficult life circumstances.

The synthesis of these two extremes can only be accomplished in one character, the sweater Gosling, who leads a reclusive life in a garage with his sex doll.

don't threaten an Aries with a good time*

*a fight

@solidsanek simple as

came across a gorgeous melody a while ago, came from a (I believe) Chinese folk song about a woman who was kidnapped by a bandit and killed herself in order to avoid betraying her love.

there's a couple different renditions of it youtube but I can't find it, any help would be appreciated

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"Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible."

— Carl Jung

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