being on the winning side is not the same as being on the right side
being on the losing side is not the same as being on the wrong side
this is not a commentary on politics,
it's a commentary on life 🤗
the man who lies to himself can be more easily offended than anyone.
you know it is sometimes very pleasant to take offence, isn't it?
a man may know that nobody has insulted him, but that he has invented the insult for himself, has lied and exaggerated to make it picturesque, has caught at a word and made a mountain out of a molehill—he knows that himself, yet he will be the first to take offence, and will revel in his resentment till he feels great pleasure in it, and so pass to genuine vindictiveness
—(father zosima), fyodor dostoevsky, the brothers karamazov
#GM frens
i officially declare myself the winner of today's #coffeechain 🤩
hope y'all have a stunner 🤗, i'm on me 'ollibobs 😎
#dubrovnik #croatia #sunrise #gm #ga #ge #gn #pleb #plebs #plebchain
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happiness will continue to elide you
while you look for it outside yourself, rather than in
while you look for it in the future,
rather than the present.
we know they're lying,
they know they're lying,
they know we know they're lying,
we know they know we know they're lying,
yet still they lie.
— aleksandr solzhenitsyn
china took 20 years of hard work to save 3 trillion dollars
america printed 17 trillion dollars in the last 2 years
pax americana isn't just a scam
it's a crime against humanity.
the plantation didn't disappear - it went global.
wen Greenpeace/XRP campaigns claiming *AI* is boiling the oceans?
wen economist / wsj articles comparing AI's electricity usage to second and third tier countries?
or was that all just... propaganda?
thanks so much! hopefully i can get a bit of traction on the note with some reposts🤗 and maybe even help raise the profile of nostr in normy-land at the same time
...and also help make me a wholecoiner 🫶🏼🤑😝
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nursing homes are so expensive they bankrupt our parents and grandparents
yet elder-care nurses are forced to use food banks to get by
child care is so expensive it's out of reach for single parents,
barely affordable even for 'middle class' parents
yet nursery teachers live on a pittance and have to scrape to survive
there's a message here
but i'm struggling to verbalise it
can you lovelies help?
interesting thought, thanks for sharing. maybe as you say it's a sign that the lower/middle classes have become overly entitled to these once-exceptional services. appreciate your opinion - i'm always open to diverse interpretations 🤗
*the parable of the madman*
have you not heard of that madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the marketplace, and cried incessantly:
"i seek god! i seek god!"
as many of those who did not believe in god were standing around just then, he provoked much laughter.
has he got lost? asked one.
did he lose his way like a child? asked another.
or is he hiding?
is he afraid of us? has he gone on a voyage? emigrated?
thus they yelled and laughed.
the madman jumped into their midst and pierced them with his eyes.
"whither is god?" he cried; "i will tell you.
we have killed him—you and i.
all of us are his murderers.
but how did we do this?
how could we drink up the sea?
who gave us the sponge to wipe away the entire horizon?
what were we doing when we unchained this earth from its sun?
whither is it moving now? whither are we moving?
away from all suns?
are we not plunging continually?
backward, sideward, forward, in all directions?
is there still any up or down?
are we not straying, as through an infinite nothing?
do we not feel the breath of empty space?
has it not become colder? is not night continually closing in on us?
do we not need to light lanterns in the morning?
do we hear nothing as yet of the noise of the gravediggers who are burying god?
do we smell nothing as yet of the divine decomposition?
gods, too, decompose.
god is dead.
god remains dead.
and we have killed him.
how shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers?
what was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us?
what water is there for us to clean ourselves?
what festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent?
is not the greatness of this deed too great for us?
must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?
there has never been a greater deed; and whoever is born after us—for the sake of this deed he will belong to a higher history than all history hitherto."
here the madman fell silent and looked again at his listeners;
and they, too, were silent and stared at him in astonishment.
at last he threw his lantern on the ground,
and it broke into pieces and went out.
"i have come too early," he said then; "my time is not yet.
this tremendous event is still on its way, still wandering;
it has not yet reached the ears of men.
lightning and thunder require time;
the light of the stars requires time;
deeds, though done, still require time to be seen and heard.
this deed is still more distant from them than most distant stars—
and yet they have done it themselves."
-- f w nietzsche
every. single. central bank
is shitting kittens
loading bazookas
and y'all think we're going straight to 100k, 200k, 500k?!
why is everyone forgetting the big dip that precedes the parabolic phase?!?
this time is never different
history doesn't repeat, but it does rhyme
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