Mastodawn

Nice world economy you’ve got there. Would be a shame if someone fucked it up for no reason whatsoever.

- How’s the war going?

- Well we’ve replaced the Supreme Leader who was negotiating with us with a Supreme Leader whose entire family we’ve just killed, we’ve won hearts and minds by killing a LOT of kids, we keep calling our allies cowards and alienating them, we’re publicly shitting our pants over oil prices, and we’ve just threatened to escalate the war which has resulted in our enemy saying they’ll destroy all the oil fields in the Middle East.

- So overall, pretty good? #iranwar

RowinSpeez 1d ago

@Nickiquote The only upside in this corrupt clusterfuck is that it's so bad that it's starting to break through to people who think politics is something that happens to other people. Actual grounds for generational engagement for change.

My friend group were kinda detached joking that flights we needed to take were getting expensive, and I felt like that chasing goose meme.

Дими́трий 1d ago

oh, don't forget: we've just eased sanctions effectively giving Iran billions to keep up the good fight!

@saltywizard It’s all too much for the character limit on my instance.

Дими́трий 1d ago

lol. join the (probably not a) cult and enjoy a vast character limit along with inner peace.

@Nickiquote normal people: how about we transition the economy away from oil?
petro-pricks: sure, lemme just set all the oilfields on fire first

Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦1d ago

@Nickiquote you missed the part where they removed sanctions on enemy's oil exports.

Trump & Epstein: Biz partners.1d ago

@Nickiquote
Let's not forget...

Before his war ON #Iran is even over, he's already talking about his NEXT war: #Cuba. 🤦‍♂️
#DisasterPresidency #TooStupidToBePresident #OrangeJuliusCaesar #DistractionAccomplished
#Epstein

Kierkethumbs up convincingly 1d ago

@Nickiquote dondon and bibi are everybody’s friends

@Nickiquote @tokyo_0
TACO taco'd again today... as expected🙄

Supermoosie 1d ago

Nice amount of debt you have built up there in your AI company.

Same if someone came along and crashed the economy you are relying on for funds.

Teaceratops/GameDev Mum 1d ago

@Nickiquote I saw one take this weekend that likened the shit happening in Iran with the plot of the first Dune book, and I can't unsee it now.

@Nickiquote ok so im furiously reading this one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goliath%27s_Curse and maybe all this shit leading to a collapse is a good thing for us little people. The ones that survive, that is. But stuff crumbling around people often times resulted in better lives for them. For a while at least

Goliath's Curse - Wikipedia

Pip Gowenlock 1d ago

@Aethel @Nickiquote strong suggestion that you get to the end before you come to that conclusion.

@PipGowenlock @Nickiquote goddammit. Im clutching on to the examples right up to the middle; please dont ruin my rosy view of the collapse, thats the only hope i have left :)

Pip Gowenlock 1d ago

@Aethel @Nickiquote it isn't all doom and gloom. Excellent book by the way. Just there's a factor we have that previous collapses have not. I'll leave it there!

@Nickiquote Strait of Hormuz
20% of oil
20% of gas
33% of synthetic fertilizer
25%-36% of helium

@drgroftehauge You never knew that you needed helium for stuff until you don’t have it.

@Nickiquote I didn't know you needed it for making chips but I did know you need it for making things really cold (superconductance, most quantum stuff). There was a whole thing about how the very modern MRIs use much less helium.

@Nickiquote We had some mirrors for x-rays that were cooled using helium.

@Nickiquote Don't invest in helium yet.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-iran-war-disrupts-global-helium-supply-and-artificial-intelligence-chip/

The Iran war disrupts global helium supply and artificial intelligence chipmakers

The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has trapped a third of the world’s commercial helium, threatening the irreplaceable coolant that makes MRI scanners and advanced microchips possible

Scientific American