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a111: Logged on 2017-12-13 22:50
mircea_popescu: fun fact : total land area on this planet being 510 mn sqkm ; and bitcoin cap being 21 mn, it therefore follows that the absolute maximal average price for land is a dime per square km.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-13 22:28 mod6:
mircea_popescu: yeah, we've been pretty thrifty thus far.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-13 23:18
mircea_popescu: pretty much all of the mental pathology we call ustardianism directly derives from this fundamentally economic problem.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-12 23:58
mircea_popescu: <30yo females don't need a hundy.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-13 23:17
mircea_popescu: it's true that women also have the avenue of not-being-animals anymore, but this happens to have opened just as most "jobs" got destroyed. so yes that works for a 5% of them, and another 10% or so could pretend and convincingly hope. the majority however, very much confront the pork bellies are $2 problem.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-13 23:16
mircea_popescu: the fundamental problem of eg, india, where everyone aborts girls because they don't want to pay for their raising to the level where they can be married ~because the trade value of the she-cow is NOT ENOUGH~ is really the fundamental problem of humanity : yes the cost of living went up, but the price of a head of cattle, or a goat, OR A WOMAN as such didn't go up. it went down. it's much cheaper to buy an ox now, either in s
jhvh1:
mircea_popescu: жажда зеленых листьев, птица, как свинья, нет.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-13 22:30 BingoBoingo: <
mircea_popescu> o yeah, through careful management the foundation ended up with like a quarter million dollars in its coffers or some shit ? << Careful management that further attracted an especially large donation from whatshisname
jhvh1:
mircea_popescu: Error: "tr" is not a valid command.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-13 22:27
mircea_popescu: o yeah, through careful management the foundation ended up with like a quarter million dollars in its coffers or some shit ?
jhvh1:
mircea_popescu: "Votre mot, camarade Mauser!"
a111: Logged on 2017-12-13 22:22
mircea_popescu: serious about it, they'd have such things as hunter-meat-distribution services oiled and ready.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-12 23:32
mircea_popescu: LEONIDA (în luptă cu somnul): Treaba statului, domnule, el ce grije are? pentru ce-l avem pe el? e datoria lui să-ngrijească să aibă oamenii lefurile la vreme..."
a111: Logged on 2014-06-21 22:43
mircea_popescu: well yeah. but by playing hard to get you may get +10 on your average catch, but also get the guarantee you're never getting in the bed of that 0.whatever%
a111: Logged on 2016-10-03 19:06
mircea_popescu: there's some biological factors to account for this, both directly (shittier metabolism ; stronger response to neurotransmitters ; the venereal 50/5 trap etc) and indirect (through the workings of sexuate reproduction women are always vandable) ; but i'm pretty sure there's also psychological factors involved.
mod6:
mircea_popescu: fair enough.
a111: Logged on 2015-12-16 02:46
mircea_popescu: !rate TheNewDeal 2 Put a decent chunk of change into the Bitcoin Foundation back when it wasn't fashionable yet.
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: The paranoid one who wanted to put coins somewhere safer than he could keep them started with a t, will dig
mod6:
mircea_popescu started us off with 10, some guy threw in 10, I threw in 10 + a bunch of change while testing
BingoBoingo: <
mircea_popescu> o yeah, through careful management the foundation ended up with like a quarter million dollars in its coffers or some shit ? << Careful management that further attracted an especially large donation from whatshisname
☟︎ mod6:
mircea_popescu: yeah, we've been pretty thrifty thus far.
☟︎☟︎ mod6: <+
mircea_popescu> serious about it, they'd have such things as hunter-meat-distribution services oiled and ready. << fair enough. no reason to leave some of these things up to chance.
a111: Logged on 2017-05-29 18:25
mircea_popescu: do you recall that ridiculous "bunker" with 30% dedicated to "motorcycles" and a few fish tanks "For food" ? that sort of cvasi-religious nonsense is the end result -- resources are diverted towards making a show of compliance with designs that are dysfunctional by their very nature.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-13 16:53
mircea_popescu: i guess if all the "exclusive gated community" schmucks weren't so schmucky thery could have a delegated hunter, get your steak in the mail by 10am.
BingoBoingo: <
mircea_popescu> wtf is the "psychedelic" supposed to do, i never could figure out. all sort and manner of kids were into all sorta manner of "psychedleic" bullcrap, from special light-things to "interpret" the music (installed eg under car seats! made the whole experience fucking nauseous) to what have you. but... why ? << What does any idle escapism promise?
BingoBoingo: <
mircea_popescu> as a kid what i did with my time was that i ran up three flights of stairs to drink (straight from the faucet, who the everloving fuck has the time or the patience for glasses!) a stomachfull of water, then run back down and keep fucking running. << Since arriving I have been primarily drinking faucet water and coffees with occasial forays into the local bottled water and juices.
jhvh1:
mircea_popescu: turner
a111: Logged on 2017-12-13 19:30
mircea_popescu: (z80 thing when reset will munge the "videocard" such as it is, resulting in a pattern brieflydisplaying)
mod6: <+
mircea_popescu> lead imo not the best choice. << ah. one reason that i prefer lead over steel shot is that it tends to not break my teeth when I bite into one.
mod6: <+
mircea_popescu> incidentally mod6 : when you say #6 is it like 300 pellet load or like 200 pellet load ? apparently eu and us terminology manages to differ on one more thing << It looks like #6 shot pellets are .11" in di., which makes about 225 pellets per oz.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-13 00:51
mircea_popescu: i suppose this reduces the discussion to "there's two kinds of bipedals, the monkey and the human. the monkey dedicates itself to building wail groups, and the human to not needing to."
a111: Logged on 2017-12-13 19:07
mircea_popescu: item knew no competitor ; "unfathomable luxury" means that it was MAGIC, outright, plain and simple and spread on bread ; not "this is the shitty thing dad makes me fuck with because he hates me"
phf:
mircea_popescu: i started contemplating the same thing as soon as i said it :)
phf:
mircea_popescu: alley cat triggers some ~really~ old memories, i.e. i played it before i even have conscious awareness of things
diana_coman:
mircea_popescu, well, not exactly industrial city, what
diana_coman:
mircea_popescu, myeah; worked as long as there was electricity; and if you lived in a town with any big industry,there would be random blackouts meaning you'd get stuck in the lift between floors
a111: Logged on 2017-12-12 23:41
mircea_popescu: he doesn't specifically care if it's 1500s german peasant life, ie, outright medieval peonage. just as long.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-13 17:18
mircea_popescu: (and yes for MOST of us history, the us president couldn't afford to pay for restaurant meals. fact.)
a111: Logged on 2017-12-11 19:40
mircea_popescu: cut through the gringo fleecing zone, and the quicker the better.
mod6: <+
mircea_popescu> imo very much worth it for the fisherman. << yah, pretty reasonable for a guided trip. probably be a blast.
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: If the locals in old country were sane it would be
a111: Logged on 2017-10-25 18:32
mircea_popescu: but yes, timisoara has automated raw milk dispensing machines. while that lasts, which is to say until some dumb cunt "raises awareness" enough on facebook
BingoBoingo: <
mircea_popescu> i guess if all the "exclusive gated community" schmucks weren't so schmucky thery could have a delegated hunter, get your steak in the mail by 10am. << In old country missouri village of "Town and Country" licenses hunters, but only as far as reducing the traffic hazard posed.
mod6:
mircea_popescu: its quite a lot of work. i helped dress my buddies buck this year. took ~3 hours.
BingoBoingo: <
mircea_popescu> mod6 problem is, if you actually take one of those, you gotta do something with a quarter ton of meat. what, take in 6 more women ? << No where close on a deer. Large buck (deer) is usually ~100 kgs total weight/
mod6:
mircea_popescu: indeed! lot of meat on an animal like that.
mod6: <+
mircea_popescu> gotta pay attention with them << shooting things that walk on the ground -- a bit more risky ya.
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: Ah, the consultadora is a small firm. How the locals say "accountantancy", there is she there who is my primary contact.
shinohai:
mircea_popescu: link to mass messaging $item handy plz?
a111: Logged on 2017-12-13 15:32
mircea_popescu: shinohai ahaha wow. blog some selections plox ?
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: I saw a teeny bopper with a shirt that said "Acid Please" in montevideo shopping.
a111: Logged on 2014-08-30 21:57
mircea_popescu: "i dunno... maybe stop sending niggers ?"
shinohai:
mircea_popescu trb nod twattles ... perfect terminology
BingoBoingo: <
mircea_popescu> btw you ever had the soup ? << The snappers back home make excellent soup. The bigger and meaner the better.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-13 15:31
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo bingo.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-08 20:34
mircea_popescu: incidentally, can anyone recount teh helter-skelter charlie mason scenario of risk, the game of world-diplomacy and international intrigue ?
a111: Logged on 2014-02-14 17:26
mircea_popescu: ok, so school in soviet russia
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: It's near the closed zoo in Montevideo
BingoBoingo: <
mircea_popescu> i was always suspicious of this "could not" business. really, you can't ? << Well advised not to. Once started who knows when stopping happens
a111: Logged on 2017-12-12 23:35
mircea_popescu: so to get back to mr crisan quoted above : the reason he isn't sitting atop a computer/car/hairblower/starbucks coffee cup is that he doesn't yet understand HOW such item would forward / is requisite for his notion of "a republic" == usgstan. because that is ABSOLUTELY ALL he is interested in, and will give no half a spare cycle to any other consideration, period and fuck you.
a111: Logged on 2017-08-11 18:37
mircea_popescu: this is how it manages the inapproximable "whisks" of meaning that latin-style then has so much trouble noting down.
ben_vulpes:
mircea_popescu forgoing the opportunity to cane the sec? will wonders never cease!