Laurens Hofabsolutely wild that the news that dutch gas prices rose by 30% in a single day did not even manage to crack the top 5 most read stories
like, how? how did we fuck up our information ecosystem this badly?
fucking losing my mind
like have we lost our connection with physical reality that much that we cannot even process anymore what a single-day 30% rise in gas prices means?
its so funny that the wider public is always looking for the 'were doomed' stories on any news thats slightly bad, and when things are indeed apocalyptically bad everyone's like 'eh whatever, itll blow over'
im pretty sure this isnt a funny coincidence but actually a structural factor on how epistemology functions and an indicator of how you can know that things are indeed really bad now
absolutely incredible scenes, WTI trading in a 38 dollar range on a single day
if you needed to have further confirmation that the problem here is that we have fully broken our information environment
