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mircea_popescu: you can tell a shit language (html) by the fact that as it matures it goes back where it started from : infancy.
mircea_popescu confesses to being tempted by such a scheme many times past, because that way the headers would be historically accurate.
mircea_popescu also defines the grammar of languages, eg. romanian. and then "alert reader" calls him on it, and mp says fuck you, language is codified by the languagemaker, the poet and the genius generally. which is me, not you. now fix those cookbooks and laundry lists you call "grammar books"
mircea_popescu: so far we're working on whether it's, strictly speaking, a sin
mircea_popescu: howevert yuou state it, manhood can't be much of a talent.
mircea_popescu: in other words, i don't believe manhood to be much of an innate talent. there'\s good arguments for the position.
mircea_popescu: it's deeply unclear to me the acrobat, rather than the stripped that comfortably dps, is at issue here.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform complex. pretty thin middle class in btc. people > 10k or <100 , broadly.
mircea_popescu: i'd say high six figures in actual, liquid capital, should be sufficient. that's ~1k btc atm.
mircea_popescu: what capital figure did you come up with as ther threshold ?
mircea_popescu: in principle a household should be capable to intake 500 lbs of freshly slaugthered pig and craft it into food supplies worth ~1 1/4 mn delicious calories
mircea_popescu: but - on the upside, teach girl to cure meats etc, loads of fun uber valuable skills.
mircea_popescu: gee whiz, what the fuck sense could it make to interact with the very subject of your interest!
mircea_popescu: and you wish to do the same. on your own terms, sure, but the point is - the same.
mircea_popescu: and importantly, pick up makes no specification re fuck.
mircea_popescu: this is why slavery doesn't work as an educational ploy without the whip.
mircea_popescu: "bitch, get your ass to baltimore and don't come back until you've picked up a local."
mircea_popescu: perhaps it's useful, though i have no idea how it would be.
mircea_popescu: instead, i'm merely exploring the known, as found in this here endless library.
mircea_popescu: well, i'm nor one to ineptly suggest stuff. "Hey, you building house ? look into geodesic dome / $random crap!" because that's what i last read in Nature and i fancy myself a cultivated fellow.
mircea_popescu: the ones like the jew, lived in house invested by uncle, see above re cairo.
mircea_popescu: the ones like you, without uncle, fought hyena for cave. about as likely to "construct" cave as hyena.
mircea_popescu: "modestly, m'lady, i just want my spunk coming out your nose, s'all."
mircea_popescu: seems to be the dream here - if i carve the right words into immutable functional space, mega meat army pops.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, sand nigger is "intrinsically" insulting, dontchaknow.
mircea_popescu: it didn't luck out to be picked by the "identity politics" circus, so it's not an insult at all! fancy its luck.
mircea_popescu: the only question before you, mr alf-form, is : are you a jew ?
mircea_popescu: ow food or to gaze at a limitless land and call it your own, no, no. You just go on and on and on repeating this process over the centuries over and over and suddenly you make a grand discovery. You have a mercantile heritage! You are a merchant. You are known as a usurer, a man with secret resources, a witch, a pawnbroker, a sheenie, a makie and a kike! "
mircea_popescu: cloth, cut it into three pieces and sell it for three pennies profit. But, my friend, during that time you must never succumb to buying an extra piece of bread for the table or a toy for a child, no. You must immediately run out and get yourself a still larger piece cloth and so you repeat this process over and over and suddenly you discover something. You have no longer any desire, any temptation to dig into the Earth to gr
mircea_popescu: hy or an army or a land myth. All you have is a little brain. A little brain and a great bearded legend to sustain you and convince you that you are special, even in poverty. But this little brain, that's the real key you see. With this little brain you go out and you buy a piece of cloth and you cut that cloth in two and you go and sell it for a penny more than you paid for it. Then you run right out and buy another piece of
mircea_popescu: "You people? Oh, let's see. Yeah. I see. I see, you... you want to learn the secret of our success, is that right? Alright I'll teach you. First of all you start off with a period of several thousand years, during which you have nothing to sustain you but a great bearded legend. Oh my friend you have no land to call your own, to grow food on or to hunt. You have nothing. You're never in one place long enough to have a geograp
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there's exactly two ways to construct value into this world. one's to take the 1/4 * 350mn / 2 = 40 or so million currently useless refuse and turn them into women. even if you only manage a small %, it's still something. aka, uranium water filtering.
mircea_popescu: cairo, for the record, is a city ~the size of california.
mircea_popescu: but from HIS perspective, it's that you can't afford the tools.
mircea_popescu: the reason white man doesn't build the middle eastern tower may be whatever you wish it to be.
mircea_popescu: there's ONE thing the middle eastern guy has that white man can't replicate, and that is, a stable, and here i kid you not, a stable, of dozen+ pliable obedient females WITH offspring.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the question to you is, are you building a dirigible in the white man sense or in the sand nigger sense ?
mircea_popescu: for the anthropologist, god damned fascinating, they're like a family-sized snail building its conch.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the thing being, that you walk around the item and know the social rank of the inhabitants, and then look up and see the sluttery of the X chromosome baked in.
mircea_popescu: should any of the girls manage to get knocked up, the family is drafted to pour more concrete, make another "roof" ie floor, and fill brick in between
mircea_popescu: so, they do not have rooves, per se. just an unfinished floor, which has a foot or two of pillar reinforced concrete, with the rebar exposed.
mircea_popescu: the land surface of this tower reflects the importance of the clan inhabiting it.
mircea_popescu: but to this dubious race of the east, a house is not a definite item. instead, it is a tower.
mircea_popescu: see, to you, or in general to white people of the tribe that invented houses, a house is a thing, a definite item.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you familiar with the house structure as a cultural item in the middle east ?
mircea_popescu: it's either "paiont and scrub this property" or else "go to school" / "look for a job" / ruin perfectly good food "cooking" and be bitchy about it.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform like it or not, the time of about 1/4 of us female population IS worth 0.
mircea_popescu: phf so your survival mode includes what, food spoliage ? eating frozen dinners ?