So now everyone is doing a blockade?

[jeffreysmith@mastdn.social]

@futurebird

I bet your middle schoolers could come up with a better war strategy than the testosterone twins.

[rperezrosario@mastodon.social]

@futurebird

[tlariv@hachyderm.io]

@futurebird
If Quebec city teamed back up with New Orleans…

[just_tired@mastodon.world]

@futurebird
That's the only promise he kept.

[mxchara@seattle.pink]

@futurebird @clayfoot oh that is so adorable

[netraven@hear-me.social]

@futurebird You get a blockade, and you get a blockade, and you, and you! You all get blockades!

[kali@discuss.systems]

@Netraven @futurebird maybe someone can ram another ship into the suez canal?

[netraven@hear-me.social]

@kali @futurebird Turn every major shipping lane into a geopolitical escape room.

At this point, “free trade” just means the cargo is free to sit offshore indefinitely while insurance companies discover exciting new numbers.

The global supply chain is no longer a chain. It is a series of heavily armed queues.

Very efficient. Very resilient. Just in time, provided “time” is an abstract concept and “just” has been permanently suspended.

[icastico@c.im]

@futurebird @clayfoot

The stereo is blockaded here.

[antdude@mastodon.social]

@futurebird will s b next?

[thriftwicker@mastodon.social]

@futurebird @golgaloth Rich and intelligent are two drastically different ways of being.

[muddle@infosec.exchange]

@futurebird I hear that Adam Smith is considering changing the byline on the next edition of his Wealth Of Nations.... to Alan Smithee.

[jackemled@furry.engineer]

@futurebird How else are we supposed to increase the value of resources to capitalize more efficiently?

[wannabemystiker@expressional.social]

@futurebird
Line for declaring blockade...

[monsieur_lepetit@toot.community]

@futurebird
"The lorry blocked the road. And the corrugated iron blocked the road. And a thirty-foot-high pile of fish blocked the road. It was one of the most effectively blocked roads the sergeant had ever seen."

-- (Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman, Good Omens)