It comes across as philosophy by people who refused to study philosophy.

it is quite literally this, yes

"That's as good as money, sir. These are tokens."

someone i recently fucked for the second time

I spent January 1990 I think? reading all of Analog/Astounding from about 1959 to 1975. (It was 40 deg C all month and I stayed in with my aircon.) I loved that stuff from anthologies of the best of it, and I can assure you the original mags are extremely much the 90%.

the youtube vid is a huge hit too, everyone loves pissed off goblin lady

You can't stop the goblin. Nobody can stop the goblin.

the guy's a bit of an infosec mall ninja, so reread anything he claims in the calmest possible way

we're still sending the occasional carrier pigeon and I can assure you he's COPING JUST FINE REALLY JUST FINE

STATE OF THE SNEER

• our esteemed admin @self is offline because his fibre got cut
• the esteemed engineers of the telco are currently sucking their teeth and forecasting a fix date this millennium
• in the meantime he's living off data SIMs and he is offline for most fun purposes
• Blake and I are still here waving the mod hammer in a menacing manner
• I have ssh to the server and can thump lemmy-ui as needed
• all is well citizen! Glory to Awful! Hooray for Big Basilisk!

"$177,000" in hypothetical mark to market value, so yeah aobut $10 in practice if that

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edit: or just acting like a pointless dipshit. jfc you people