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mircea_popescu: of
the people who genuinely live here and bear us passports,
the majority is
the us embassy residentura.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "expats" are generally dorks come here a week-two at a
time for
the hookers.
mircea_popescu: most of
the cr
tourism receipts are euros brought by zee germans, followed by euros brought by
the azns (who, weirdly,
tend
to use euros more
than dollars).
mircea_popescu: no,
the problem is
the unhappy meeting of a deeply rural population with
the chinese empire.
mircea_popescu: us expats are
to
the last man poor fucks.
their impact is ~0, you should see how happy 60yo is
to have
the attention of 19yo nicaraguan
mircea_popescu: much like sicilian dialect
to
this day puts
the verb in last place, "siciliano sono"
mircea_popescu: sort-of
the sicily of rome. by 2500
they'll still have
the most period-accurate pantsuit worn on
the streets
mircea_popescu: they have BRAND NAME cheap polyester chinese shirts.
thereby... VEHEMENT OPULENCE.
a111: Logged on 2017-11-23 15:20 diana_coman: ahahaha "like mircea popescu or whatever his name is, but even with him i suspect he's not anywhere near as rich as he wants people
to
think he is - it doesn't add up; poorly fitted suits, average looking hotel suites/condos, spends all his
time living in cheap shitholes which is precisely what white people who have money
to live abroad but aren't rich do)" ; from ^^
mircea_popescu: oh. well pure cotton can't be used for clothing!!! bitch...
this shirt on me, see it ?
this is 100% cotton!
mircea_popescu: "o, sure, we got
that!" dood comes back, 65% polyester, 35% cotton.
mircea_popescu: linen ? "linen can't be used for
textiles because it frays" "your mom also frays. how about cotton ?"
mircea_popescu: i'm like "silk" dude recognizes
the word, it's like i went
to fish shop in 1980. "oh,
THAT is what we don't have here!!! i know what it is! it's
the
thing
this shop doesn'thave!"
mircea_popescu: do you know
there is not.one.single.shop selling pure natural fiber shirts in all of costa rica ?
☟︎ a111: Logged on 2017-11-28 03:39 mircea_popescu: all
these idiots will be whining -- plenty of
them are already whining -- about "unfairness" and "wealth distribution".
the part where it's
the just desserts for
their own mendacity conveniently omitted.
a111: Logged on 2017-11-28 03:40 mircea_popescu: somehow nobody manages
to feel even vaguely responsible for all
the gains
they DIDN'T realize ; much like
that famous anon whore, "let me
tell you what i want in exchange for what i'm willing
to do" cuz it's like poorocracy over here or something now.
a111: Logged on 2017-11-28 03:38 mircea_popescu: aaand in other news, bitcoin getting close
to 10k means
that
the
http://trilema.com/2014/ill-pay-for-your-tits/ offer stands at just about $200 worth for a half hour's work if
that. nevertheless, something
to
the
tune of four billion females
the world over perceive, entirely hallucinatorily,
that
they have
the option
to eschew
this.
trinque: in
the absence of gossipd, using ssh with $user<->$specificCommand between nodes
trinque: relatedly, after last weeekend's work, I can actually write up how said anontits can receive
their btc via deedbot. had
to make it such
that deedbot can pass over a new acct, but reliance on deedbot ends
there for key
to wallet mapping.
mircea_popescu: somehow nobody manages
to feel even vaguely responsible for all
the gains
they DIDN'T realize ; much like
that famous anon whore, "let me
tell you what i want in exchange for what i'm willing
to do" cuz it's like poorocracy over here or something now.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: somehow if
the usg website comes up with "it's illegal
to smoke",
they stop smoking, AS FUCKING IF. whereas when
the republic orders,
they "have options".
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: all
these idiots will be whining -- plenty of
them are already whining -- about "unfairness" and "wealth distribution".
the part where it's
the just desserts for
their own mendacity conveniently omitted.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: not
to mention
the hordes of "digital artists" who hallucinate
the ridoinculous notion
that
they have
the option
to not work for minigame.
mircea_popescu: aaand in other news, bitcoin getting close
to 10k means
that
the
http://trilema.com/2014/ill-pay-for-your-tits/ offer stands at just about $200 worth for a half hour's work if
that. nevertheless, something
to
the
tune of four billion females
the world over perceive, entirely hallucinatorily,
that
they have
the option
to eschew
this.
☟︎ a111: Logged on 2017-11-28 00:21 asciilifeform:
the interesting bit is
that
the corp nominally still exists :
http://www.umt.ro , makes bmw gearboxes or what was it, in some back corner of
the massive campus full of ???.
mircea_popescu: if you look,
the brick is just cut
to a concrete arch. faux.
mircea_popescu: and
they're all inhabited,
the herd lives in
the basement usually.
mircea_popescu: the guys start building
them,
then
the money runs out.
mircea_popescu: when it fails as you want it
to fail it's called "working".
mircea_popescu: if we could say how shit fails we'd be way ahead in
the game. problem with failing shit is
that it fails as it wants
to fail.
mircea_popescu: which is why
the whole "that's not how
towers fall" experts are so laughable. bitch...
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if you fail
to maintain a steel structure for long enough, it will rust in weak spots and bend under own weight.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform:
that water
tower is epic
BingoBoingo: Many of
these in Middle West along
towns
that were formerly rail
transit hubs, architecturally grandoise for setting, but neglected and
then fall
mircea_popescu: not sold because...
they're poor and stupid, basically.
mircea_popescu: eh,
the locals are retarded.
there's a building right downtown, huge, ancient, derelict, standing
there for decade+.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform seems
to boil down
to approx discussion here.
mircea_popescu: whole point is
to light something useless by burning something useless.
a111: Logged on 2017-09-01 23:26 asciilifeform: we already established
that a hash collision is asteroid event for blockchain.
a111: Logged on 2017-11-27 20:50 mircea_popescu: only
thing
to be backed by something out of
the whole field.
diana_coman: lol;
those aren't plastic at least, are
they
diana_coman: yeah, I just can't see
the "logic" in
that "definition" but not really expecting it by now anyway; perhaps it's more of "but
this is what we know and it's been around for x years
therefore it is solid"
mircea_popescu: i'm all for it,
too. let
the pretend sovereigns pay for
the cost of circulating monetary mass.
diana_coman: eh, it's postmodernism in
the usual sense
that "this word here doesn't mean what it means anymore but something else I decided"; aka "backed" now means as far as I heard "but everyday
transactions happen still in fiat"
mircea_popescu: (but it's cracking ; for instance
the supposedly captured fmi is putting out notions of how countries should probably monetize bitcoin rather
than other countries currencies. so dixit lagarde. who, i suppose, has been raping hotel maids in new york according
to
the usg suto dept.)