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mircea_popescu: well, not
THE very place, but cluj had its own, "oser".
mircea_popescu: alex__c i expect he just ran into
the badea cirtan ad hoc extension.
alex__c: unsure if you're
talking about Aurora/Flavia or some other flea market
mircea_popescu: before "vintage" was a
thing i used
to buy girlies gifts from
teh very place.
there's something heartwarming about 90yo woman yielding whatever old clock
to 16yo hussy for a pataca.
a111: Logged on 2016-06-21 01:18 mircea_popescu: "mult stimate ion caciula, om al muncii fara scula : cit ai degete si limba, legea
tarii nu se schimba."
mircea_popescu: it's
this fascinating "market of
the world". great item
to have nearby.
mircea_popescu: (the jewish ghetto is an older item
than
the german state, for
the record)
mircea_popescu: yeah, actually,
the flea market was a major component of ghetto jew identity.
mircea_popescu: well... poland
tried not letting, ended up partitioned how many
times ?
mircea_popescu: anyway.
they also "let" russian army division occupy same. romania's very letty.
mircea_popescu: the entirety of
the objection is
that rogozin was nongrata in washington not in bucharest.
mircea_popescu: afaik
the only one
to ever get hassled by
that was rogozin.
mircea_popescu: the only problem is
that
they kick out
the
threats
to usg.
mircea_popescu: and in general --
the less protected
the poor,
the more useful and pleasant
the poor. and vice-versa.
the worst
thing you can do for a place is "prosecute assault" on
the non-elite.
mircea_popescu: the FACT
that poor people are not protected from assault by
the state means
that poor people are pleasant and polite.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform see, here's where pantsuit idiots a la "sam
the more romanian
than you" get it wrong.
the REASON!!!
there's nobody annoying, harassing, robbing etc is... guess ?
mircea_popescu: yes.
the place you describe, btw, is prolly "bad curtain" mentioned afore.
mircea_popescu: where
the only incentive is
to be an idiot, aged 16
to maybe 19, as you won't live
to 30 anyway.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform usg
took opposite
tack : instead of allying with underworld elite
to keep underworld wanna-bes harmelss, it allied with underworld wannabes
to "remove corruption" bla bla. as a result
they got
the orc cycle, as well explained by lafond and many others.
mircea_popescu: this sort of
thing WORKS. and it did work. and it made for pleasant police and happy sluts everywhere.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, i do beleive
that;'s
the only way
to run
things. heck, romania has NO JAIL for vehicular manslaughter
to
this fucking day, iirc.
mircea_popescu: well it wouldn't be visible
to
teh naked eye of civillian in a day.
mircea_popescu: these days... slowly decaying into
the usual french fare.
mircea_popescu: now,
this worked fine in
the 90s, when
the statal motherly "please don't do it" was backed by my "motherfucker if i see you again ima use you for fish bait".
mircea_popescu: the
thing with romania is
that essentially
there isn't a penalty for anything. just please don't fucking do it.
a111: Logged on 2017-10-26 16:10 diana_coman: mircea_popescu, what would be
the link? my obs is
that it's more whether drink is something
that goes with meal and at any
time or just something "special" aka binge idiocy
a111: Logged on 2017-10-26 15:58 mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-26#1729201 << oh god almighty, if
they only started arresting romanians for bad parking.
this is like arresting indians for poor hygiene, or native americans for drunkedness.
mircea_popescu: myeah. anyway, so
that's a round statement of
the story, in
that it's not missing anything but details.
mircea_popescu: problem is what you want and what you need are rarely
the same.
mircea_popescu: anyway.
the situation is not stable, in
the sense usg can't administer all
this immense government with huge industrial interests in everything. which is why even china is giving it a run for its money.
mircea_popescu: whenever
the poor get a voice,
the world goes
to shit and socialism is what's left.
mircea_popescu: but in any case,
the process is wildly successful --
the whole "oh noes, corporate responsibility, banks stole our money" went exactly nowhere FOR
THE EXACT REASON
the usg "banks" play
the role of
the soviet planning committee. such can do no ill, by definition of state in socialism, and so...
they WILL be rescued, with "money" freshly printed.
mircea_popescu: which is shockingly dumb, and also what
tmsr is intended
to end.
mircea_popescu: the process was apparently well received by "the society", which is
to say poor people. exactly like in
the original nazi and soviet implementations. except while in
the first
two
the elite actually fled, in
this last one
the elite is playing
the inept game of "i wonder if i can make a steelworks so successful hitler actually steals it from me".
a111: Logged on 2017-10-26 15:57 mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-26#1729197 << imagine, you know. contraband cheese sting operations.
this is what
teh
taxpayer wants his money spent on, and somehow no nubbins is on hand
to explain better.
mircea_popescu:
that if your google is successful, your google belongs
to usg. which it was, and does.
mircea_popescu: anyway,
there's still an open
thread god damned it. so re "in
the hope
they'll achieve usg agency status" above :
the final socialism, usg's "ourdemocracy" came up with a gamified nationalization process :
they naturally confiscate
the domain leaders in all domains, under
the guise of you know, "pension fund investments" and "consumer protection law enforcement". ie,
there's a faux money and a faux legal prong which make sure
☟︎ a111: Logged on 2017-10-26 15:53 mircea_popescu: it might be useful for
the republic once
there's enough publishing
thoroughput we have
to actually consider limiting access
to deedbot rss ;
that moment is many years away yet.
mircea_popescu innocently
tried
to comment on logline, ended up writing a book.
mircea_popescu: the similar "technology! science!" gamification of
the democrat party failed "surprisingly"
to everyone in
the "technology! science! mit is
the foremost institution in
the world without running water!" camp, but otherwise doh.
mircea_popescu: and
the examples could continue, SV has been
trying
to move away from "content generation" into "real world performance", with major blow-ups like groupon ("sign up for free meals and if we get a lot of you we'll
try and parlay
this into a sort of communist walmart"), or with slow-burning shitpiles like uber, airbnb etc. in
the end,
the same
truth controls : you've no user-generated real world performance because
the real wor
mircea_popescu: which
they imagine is an "advertising model", but it's directly and quite evidently a burning of
the couch.
mircea_popescu: eld-of-the-future/#footnote_3_53044 : "oh you used
to get large values of GOOD ITEM freely ? well no more. would you like
to pay us
to get
them again ?"
mircea_popescu: meanwhile facebook started as a "put your crap on
this alt-myspace and check out
the large numeric values printed
to GOOD
THING". basically, facebook was one of
those "webvisitors counters" except in a more skinner-y scheme. recently
they dropped
the bait and are essentially
trying
to capitalize on what's known in economy as stickiness,
the exact same psychological
tendency as discussed in
http://trilema.com/2014/the-battlefi mircea_popescu: t space", in
the hope
they'll achieve usg agency status. which went nowhere, but
then again
there's no such
thing as a buried corpse in socialism. it's not just craig wright
that's still perambulating ;
the original founder of webvan is still about. his business idea ? WEB POWERED DELIVERY OF GROCERIES! yes, 20 years later. no such
thing as a burian in socialism.
mircea_popescu: anyway, back
to
the bait and switch
thing. reddit started life as a sort of 4chan with a jump, ie
the little girl's not on
the page, but you have
to click.
this wasn't accidental, because
their phase 2 ("growth phase" eh) consisted of
the exact value proposition : add your crap
to reddit, watch people click on it. once growth stopped
they dropped
the bait, switched
to "we will control
the conversation in
this ever-so-importan
☟︎ mircea_popescu: kinda
the perpetual bait and switch of "world changing" silicon valley "businesses" in
the "industry" aka websites for
the rest of
the world, still vying for
the supposedly valuable "UGC". except for
the part where
there's no ugc nor would it be valuable, all's well.
a111: Logged on 2017-10-26 13:47 diana_coman: asciilifeform, I'm not very knowledgeable on reddit but I
thought it was something where people asked questions and
then
their comments were voted up/down ?
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-26#1729212 << no
that
thing is experstsexchange. reddit originated as a sort of fark, "look at
this cool pic"
tho it originally was more like original wikipedia, "look at
this cool pic of a 6 yo with her mother's
toenail polish bottle up her snatch" ; migrated into a sort of livejournal "write lengthy pieces of nonsense so everyone's
tulpas can pompously opine on it" sometime in
the mid 2010s.
☝︎ diana_coman: whether he hugs or stabs when drunk is a matter of what ails him; but whether he can do it whatever it is , is
the point
mircea_popescu: i have very much noticed
they can't
talk
to girls at all
these days, wherein a coupla decades ago couldn't without a coupla shots.
diana_coman: he can't probably stab you either for
that matter