awt[asciilifeform]: $ticker btc usd
busybot: Current BTC price in USD: $19270.42
signpost[asciilifeform]: looks like ukraine's been getting lit up for about 12hrs.
asciilifeform: signpost: officially payback for truckb0mb on bridge
shinohai[busybot]: s/ukraine/slav alabama/g
signpost[busybot|asciilifeform]: curious what leverage's being used on the ukraine side, such that they were apparently willing to negotiate back in what, april? but not now.
asciilifeform: signpost: pseudo-negotiated from '14
asciilifeform: (see e.g. the lulzy toiletpaper minsk treaties)
signpost[busybot]: yeah, I'm referring to the incident where apparently boris johnson went and ordered them not to reach an agreement this year.
awt[asciilifeform]: Wonder if Russia will at some point retaliate against the US for sponsering Ukr terrorist attacks.
awt[asciilifeform]: *sponsoring
shinohai[busybot]: lel isn't Russia already retaliating from a financial standpoint?
signpost[asciilifeform|busybot]: awt: "hybrid warfare" is ongoing. food supply chain attacks as one example.
signpost[busybot]: shinohai: yeah, finance oligarchs on the NATO side are starting to talk about impending US bond market implosion.
signpost[busybot]: dunno that it's russians helping that along, chinese, or just us blowing our own feet off.
signpost[busybot]: plenty of all of the above to go around.
shinohai[busybot]: Putin ain't dumb like the USSA media wants to paint - they cheer how dumbfuck Biden's handlers keep the fiat printer going to support the war but feels like guy has an ace in the hole.
signpost[asciilifeform]: all he has to do is achieve defensible borders and keep selling commodities to the rest of the world.
PeterL[asciilifeform]: we just need to issue a few more "emergency relief stimulus checks" to everybody and it will all get better
busybot: Current BTC price in USD: $19214.17
signpost[asciilifeform]: going to be hilarious when a return to zero interest rates coincides with the next halving.
PeterL[asciilifeform|busybot]: !s uptime
asciilifeform fwiw not noticed any interesting effect from last halving. or the 1 before that, or the 1 before...
dulapbot: (asciilifeform) 2022-06-18 asciilifeform: not noticed any interesting macroscopic effect from halving cycles, to date
scoopbot[asciilifeform]: New post on Blog of Peter Lambert: mi sitelen e Toki Pona
signpost[asciilifeform]: asciilifeform: I still have no idea what you're talking about on that subj. there were huge price movements up in each 4 year cycle.
signpost[busybot]: although asciilifeform may win on a technicality this cycle as it's unclear whether USD in present form has enough time left to live.
asciilifeform: signpost: no.1 & no.2 obv. happened when lift was goin'up. asciilifeform not convinced of the causality tho ftr