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Last Notes npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger Sleeping in the same bed as someone else is, I think, a more intimate act than boning down with them. You can pretend to be your insta self when having sex, but you can't when you're bleary and trying to wake up. npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger ❤️🖤 npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger People have asked me, as a pacifist, what the right move is for them when their leaders are suddenly intent on nuclear destruction. npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger No matter how awful a president we South Africans elect, no matter how despicable his beliefs are, he cannot nuke anyone. This is because we chose to get rid of all of our nuclear weapons in the late 1980s, inviting in foreign inspectors in 1991 to certify that we had no stockpile and no ability to create one. npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger I remember years ago a Russian compa said something that stuck with me. npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger I am not a psychologist but I do a lot of research on weird groups with fringe beliefs. My understanding of the psychology here is that denialism comes from a specific place: the desire to not have to take action. npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger I've been thinking about this. Mamdani took power and instantly became a cop lover. The weird ammosexuals took power and instantly stopped hating the idea of federal cops. Progressives are losing power and so are becoming less pro-cop. Communists love cops when they're in charge and hate them otherwise. Poor gay people chant "bottoms, tops, we all hate cops" but rich gay people support them. npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger I've been thinking about this and I think it has a lot to do with the way UK people see the US and want to copy it. When fascism rises over there, it also rises over here; when it falls over there, it falls over here. npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger Yeah I don't think it's about *making* people not pay attention, I don't think it's that top-down and nonconsensual. I think the people who are distracted choose to be distracted and are grateful for it, because they don't want to admit to themselves that it's happening. npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger I have been around the antifascist scene way, way too long to be surprised that yet another male Leftist hero turns out to be a sex creep. npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger I would argue that the two are related: the moral panics over things that don't matter are a displacement activity so that people can avoid thinking about the things that do. npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger If he can play the same game that Trump and Farage did (being unashamed enough to use the complaints of his enemies as free publicity, and relishing the hatred from conservatives because his base also hate those conservatives) then this might work out well for him. If he flinches and tries to appease the Daily Mail crowd, it might not. Let's see. npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger They did ask, there were leaked panicked internal Labour emails about it. npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger Me in 2007: "I'm sure the real estate market will continue to rise forever and keep the economy going with it. The age of crashes and misery is past." npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger When I've predicted things wrongly, then looking back at my opinion in the past makes me wince, and makes me want to do better. npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger "AI was basically hype until December of last year and now it's real" says person who spent all of last year enthusing about how world-changing LLMs are. npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger To the credit of Chinese leadership, a lot of the non-China drop is still due to China: they've become the main international-development funder these days. npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger @npub15t7…08hr npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger For foreigners: npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger Worse, all our political parties are coming together to agree that this is good, with the only dissent being from the MK who feel that the problem is that the troops are not expensive enough. npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger Yes, the violence - particularly in the Gauteng area where it's related to undocumented mining gangs keeping enslaved people and killing each other - is genuinely shocking. npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger Sigh. npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger London peeps: npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger Mass arrests at Wormwood Scrubs last night. People have been taken all over London. npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger Anecdotally, in my industry, when people say "AI is taking the jobs" they often mean "we have oversized our data and management functions for over a decade now, and the AI bubble gives us an excuse to cut these functions back." npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger Happy new year everyone. npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger I think this is the answer. npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger I also do this a lot, as one of the more extroverted people in a deeply introverted work team. npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger I don't even mean that it's intended as a distraction. I mean that we're looking at a nihilistic bully who likes violence for its own sake, and the nihilism scares us more than the violence does, so we reassure ourselves by ascribing motivations to him where none exist. npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger That author really is doing everything they can to avoid thinking the line "it turns out that the antifascist movement were right all along, we should have listened to them back then, we should be listening to them right now." npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger I think you're right, although the oil-based reason is an interesting aspect; I am not a petrochemical engineer but many people have been talking about how Venezuelan heavy crude is not that valuable any more. npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger I've been thinking a lot about the similarities and differences between the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq and the 2026 US attack on Venezuela. npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger Hey, this is a cool picture. Do you know who the artist is? npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger The QAnon movement got new jobs. They're out there in ICE jackets right now, being the secret government strike teams that they long fantasised about. npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger On that, if you ever want to see someone jump really quickly from descriptive to normative, point out to them how uncommon it is to wear a red poppy out of season. Very few people do it, and that observation is acutely uncomfortable to those who do. npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger (Chris, please tell me if you don't want to be part of this tangent thread.) npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger On your second point, I think I'd agree with you. I am fine with being described as an intellectual descendant of Kropotkin and Goldman. Most modern Piers Morgan fans would interpret it as an insult if you described them as the intellectual descendants of Julius Evola. npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger I'm not sure I'd agree with that, at least beyond a superficial level. There are certainly a lot of Right-wing dudes out there who are very angry that people aren't taking their ideas seriously as an intellectual tradition, but: npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger Thanks! npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger There's an Evola angle to this too, I'd argue. npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger I'm not really a jazz guy but I do absolutely love this album. npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger Throughout most of my adult life, there has been a war waged by Europeans and Americans against any brown person they could find: in Afghanistan, and for a large chunk of that in Iraq too, and then in Libya and Somalia. npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger I sat and thought about that. In particular, it stood out to me because it reminded me of how much I dislike it when people say "thank you for your service" when they learn I'm an antifascist, and I think she had put her finger on exactly why. npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger I've been mulling over the latest Morbid Zoo video (it's really good, by the way.) She talks about the distinction between soldiers and warriors, between a military culture and a warrior culture, and why a lot of modern societies crave the trappings of the latter but are in fact very far from them. npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger It only took Germans a century to acknowledge what they did in Namibia. Belgium has kinda-acknowledged what they did in Congo but not fully. Neither have made the sort of restitution that would indicate genuine remorse. Britain has not begun to discuss what they did in Kenya; there were rumours years ago of British security agents planning a coup on the off-chance that a government was elected which did begin to discuss it. npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger Boycotts aren't enough. npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger I trained as a physicist. Like many other physicists, I hold economics somewhat in contempt, seeing it as closer to theology than to science. npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger To me at least, the most urgent issue in this piece isn't the actual discussion about poverty. That's a vital discussion but we've been having it for decades without this dude and we'll continue having it for decades without him too. npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger It's incredibly cringe. It's the least self-aware piece I've ever read, and I read fascist social media so that's saying something. npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger I've heard good things about social.coop npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger If the boot isn't suitably big, they'd feel foolish licking it. npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger I would love to see this data broken down by race and income. npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger Anarchist activist hat off, statistician hat on. npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger It was invented by Simon Kuznets, who was a contemporary of Keynes. npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger I think what a lot of terves don't realise is that, outside of their weird online spaces, their politics are deeply unpopular. npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger The terf turnout today was pathetic. We didn't get a very big turnout but even as it was we outnumbered them. npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger I read a line recently which really crystallised this for me. npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger Yeah it's really good. It's a fascinating read not just from a Leftist perspective, but from an anarchist perspective, comparing various flavours of Leftism. npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger Or, for those who believe in Lord Acton's dictum: anarchism is the belief that because power corrupts, it's something that even a decent person can't be trusted with. npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger Welcome to fedi, new friends. npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger Speaking as an antifascist who spends a lot of time monitoring them: usually 5% - 10% with this sort of flagshagger crowd. npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger Thank you for talking about your feelings. It helps. npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger May I ask why you find it depressing? I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm interested in understanding it because it may help me communicate more successfully with others who feel the same way as you do. npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger London peeps. Please come. Please reblog. Please share elsewhere. npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger I found the Ireland map interesting because the two main cities on the island are both built in the driest areas - however even a dry area by Irish standards is a wet area by global standards. Possibly this means that Belfast and Dublin are where they are partially because it's dry enough for the ground to be firm. npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger It's fine to ask questions in good faith, go ahead. npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger A basic tenet of pacifism is that a supermarket is an act of violence. It's a business which gives you food if you give them money, which means that it will not give you food if you have no money, and its existence is threatened by anyone who gives you food for no money. A supermarket cannot exist without starvation. npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger Passing this one on. London peeps: npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger This is really good practise and I endorse it, especially to people who are still taking their first few timid steps away from being an obedient citizen into the wide world of being a good human being. npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger This is your gentle reminder that it's not Corbyn's party, it's Sultana's party. She's been doing all the work for it. npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger Okay so let's speak as anarchists. npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger My parents' university, in the late 70s, bought a computer. It was more powerful than they needed so they sold some processing time to local businesses to run their payroll. npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger Imagine if British politicians, decades ago, were arrested for raising their voices against a brutal, white-supremacist country which was perceived as being a valuable regional ally. npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger In a lot of these cases, we get arrested simply as a way of taking us off the street then and there. A dissident arrested may walk free the next day, but that's the next day's problem. Public order policing is all about handling that particular day. npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger "Both candidates are transphobic so you might as well vote for the one who has good other policies" is strikingly similar to the gameplan that happened about the climate, the Palestinians and undocumented people. The ratchet really does seem to move Rightwards. npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger Outside a Tube station. One drunk beating another's head against the pavement, shouting "GIVE ME MY MONEY" while the cops watch, doing nothing. npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger Zizek said that liberals do sincerely want to allow protest, but they also want to be able to ignore it and not notice that it's happening. To them, being unable to ignore it is an act of force against them, in that they have been forced to notice that people disagree with them; and they will feel emotionally justified in responding to that with actual force. npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger You're only a criminal if the government decides what you're doing is criminal. Hence, in the UK, helping refugees is a criminal act while arming genocidaires isn't. npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger To an extent I think there's some survivorship bias here: there are loads of empathyless assholes who achieve nothing in life, but we never hear about them. npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger Every hyperwealthy person in existence has been hitting "DEFECT" on the prisoner's dilemma, over and over, from the moment they became an adult. We shouldn't expect them to behave any differently now. This is what money does to a mf. npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger London peeps please boost (and attend if you can.) npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger I was struck by a recent comment that "if libraries didn't exist, then proposing them in the modern day would seem utopian." npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger I think that is what the government wants, yes - and more broadly what the Westminster consensus wants. npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger I keep coming back to the paper about LLMs being far more addictive than we thought. npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger "Criminal", to reactionaries and a lot of conservatives, doesn't mean "person who breaks the law as it's currently written" but "person who we feel should have the violence of the state used against them." This often ties into ideas of hierarchy. Trump taking bribes doesn't make him a criminal in their eyes because he's a powerful person and powerful people get to do that. Trayvon Martin not having committed crimes doesn't mean that he wasn't a criminal in their eyes, because he's a member of a racialised underclass and therefore automatically a target for state violence. npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger I still remember going canvassing for the Greens in 2019. We were a mixed group of Greens and anarchists. While walking, one of the Greens rambled about how she thought vaccines caused autism and people should instead protect themselves from disease by doing crossfit. npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger This is a good point! The "you have to check its output" argument also contradicts one of the main use cases put forward for LLMs, which is that they help inexperienced people and learners. npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger Someone has been putting long-winded terrible low-quality Nazi memes up in part of North London. I've had a fun lunchtime tearing them down. npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger In the specific case of Reform I think it's definitely window dressing - nobody who's seen Farage operate for any length of time expects him to keep his word - but also more fundamentally that the Reform view of the world is one where Fujimori's maxim applies: "for my friends, everything, for my enemies, the law." npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger I'd argue that it's not useful to see it as the Right adopting a Left position. Rather, I'd argue that the way to see it is that extremely low upper-rate taxation is a uniquely Centrist position, and when Right-wing regimes abandon it, it's a sign that they are abandoning a compromise with the Centre. npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger "The sun never sets on the British Empire because God doesn't trust an Englishman in the dark" should not have been interpreted as an invitation for the limeys to literally blot out the sun. npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger But yeah, fuck the Democrats. They're the Lenin in my Kronstadt analogy. There are many decent people engages in grassroots support for them, but as an institution and an organised party, there is no place for them in a better world. npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger I'm not going to summarise what has already been said by others. If you follow them it's on your timeline, if not it isn't. npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger There's an argument about praxis going on right now between a bunch of my mutuals and I'm not going to tag them but they know who they are. npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger You are art. We are all art. npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger @npub1703…2l86 @npub1al2…sdv0 @npub1ny7…uv57 npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger I wonder what happened 17 years ago? That headline seems to suggest that mortgage lending has returned to a state that we saw then. I hope whatever happened back then was sustainable. npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger My understanding is that it's a mixture of the two and with a third factor too. npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger I read a fantastic article fifteen years ago or so which I am certain I can never find again. It made this exact argument about pornography: pointing out that while there's more pornography being made than ever before, the ability to make a living from it has disappeared. Once upon a time you could make good money from performing. Nowadays, those who are making a living from pornography are either a few lucky performers who made it to the very top, or those who don't perform but are the managers and gatekeepers of the industry. npub1s0wrzxzf6ljuruxssskth3wnh09q9tlnfwc0x0agq0ywwn6rcnpsqn7dfq Passenger Is it not "beep beep"? Or is this a Mandela Effect thing?
