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mircea_popescu: well anyway, it's from (ro) version of alice in wonderland. chestnut falls on king's head.
mircea_popescu: $google "regele pe cind mergea cu calul la pas, o castana hahaha i-a cazut in cap"
mircea_popescu: problem being by now it's the principal intellectual activity of esl adults, risibly enough.
mircea_popescu: it's a harmless thing for 14yos to engage in, and the basis of things like business tycoon games, a large chunk of what drives lego etc.
mircea_popescu: fwiw, young males that aren't entirely dumb go almost universally through this phase of "fantasy busienss" where they keep doing various coups in their heads, start a carwash then buy a shoestore with the proceeds then trade that in for a chain fo restaurants etc etc etc.
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: if only there was a way to sell their genius to patton for roubles or somesuch, they could have bought the whole russian stock exchange back before it was worth anything.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo that particular angle smacks of someone playing risk. o really, "they won ww2" ? herp.
mircea_popescu: (you could, in principle, build craft result actuarial tables just like you build resource mining maps or w/e ; then you can sell insurance in the complex sort of fx deals crafters need to provision their materials.)
mircea_popescu: wait, i thought "modern science" established that mp hallucinated miner cartel.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform explain "this". that it's the sad beach where every drop-out, burn-out, shithead who fails to understand that "running out of money" means you fail, that dropping out means you fail ends up shipwrecked on ? a sort of africa of the spirit, where you find they born of slave mothers and too weak, useless and unimportant to leave ; and they borne by free women who were too weak, useless and outright dumb to hold the
mircea_popescu: so then i can have over for dinner The Right Hon Mr. Bursuc, başıbozuk of Булучеало.
mircea_popescu: hopefully a guy by the name Bursuc (badger, ro) gets the job,
mircea_popescu: and of course the mayor's gonna be the başi-buzuk of buluk-ayres.
mircea_popescu: discussed as a joke at first with horrified girls, maybe eventually edged towards but not as a rule. what's the rush and what's the drive anyway.
mircea_popescu: last night while i was probing a butt with my own probiscus outdoors, a butterfly landed on it, and probed it with his own. prolly because sweat's so yummy to butterflies.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if you're gonna read random garbage, plox provide summaries. i'm not going to follow "bitcoin-dev" bullshit.
mircea_popescu: being part of a sovereign that doesn't recognize others ; and has the tank divisions, means that you don't need "passports".
mircea_popescu: much like how women don't collectivize because stupid ; they collectivize because if you ain't got upper body strength, the shewail is all that's left.
mircea_popescu: bug doesn't swarm because stupid ; bug swarms because at its size and so on, that's the only schelling point.
mircea_popescu: thread wasn't about bug acting on its own, thread was about "designated junkyards for this".
mircea_popescu: with the flow of immigrants they've been dumping tons around the southern shores yes.
mircea_popescu: what's next, the gators are gun getcha in the wash dc swamp ?
mircea_popescu: eh. you have the strange ideas of a petit bourgeois that never went past rouen.
mircea_popescu: early 90s, they'd just dump whores/gypsies around the danube.
mircea_popescu: siberia, for that matter, australia, the us before that...
mircea_popescu: the whole "nationality" thing means "where do we dump this fuck to be rid of him".
mircea_popescu: similarly courts won't count emancipation unless you're actually prepared to be a state.
mircea_popescu: Sep 02 20:38:38 * Obsi (~Obsi@unaffiliated/obsi) has joined #bitcoin-assets << there
mircea_popescu: oddly i dun see anything in logs, though i'm pretty sure was chatting in chan at some point in 2012ish
mircea_popescu: talking of historical "contacts" (ie, derps accidentally caught in bitcoin historically), i'm still kinda curious re obsi. i suspect was a rather fuckable chick.
mircea_popescu: and he trusts but verifies his contacts through a well oiled process of...
mircea_popescu: da fuck, every dude with a twitter and a github has "contacts" nao ? what is this, casablanca for the masses ?
mircea_popescu: i'm of course none to pleased that intel virgins use intel terms of art as if that somehow makes them experienced, much in the way obnoxious 17yo prisses talk about things.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "seems legit based on what my contacts have confirmed", ie, lew rockwell stupidity all over again.
mircea_popescu: somehow they think they may propose judgements of value. it boggles the mind.
mircea_popescu: nobody fucking asks the cows what they thing about ethics, ie, "what's best" or such.
mircea_popescu: somehow wot:nonperson has a hard time getting out of this mindset where he may actually contribute politically.
mircea_popescu: for that money, i discovered america in 864, except i forgot to tell anyone at the time
mircea_popescu: and as to the "o no, it was us in 2004"... link or it didn't happen.
mircea_popescu: anyway. the society of intelligent folk is entirely optional for other intelligent folk. he doesn't HAVE to. he may, if he wants to, s'all.
mircea_popescu: hey mod6 if you have time today to hold my hand with your T, ima move the whole "hey x plox y" thing over.
mircea_popescu: actually... consider giving someone with a bot sql access ? as per teh earlier discussions with this ?
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron if you don't mind drop a note @lzsthw with a link here, tell him he can have 0.1 btc if he shows up.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the crypto war got so fucking lost for some reason... wtf happened in 2002 already.
mircea_popescu: annoyingly enough, there's a half dozen keys for zed a shaw from 1998-2002 ; all 1kb, from arizona state onwards.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform any chance i could get freeform grep for userstrings somewhere in there ?
mircea_popescu: by now an early point when checking people is to... look on phuctor.
mircea_popescu: "This defense of the personal in open source is so bad that twice I’ve had project leaders tell me strangely personal tragic shit about them to keep me from commenting publicly about their projects. "
mircea_popescu: see, and the dept of computer corrections tried to help you with your phuctor
mircea_popescu: nah, he has better. "reading poetry is like explaining jokes, except the inane hipster is deeply attached to what he's doing"