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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform insurance co does not give you new matressess because kid pissed it ; nor new shoes because dog chewed them.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski most of your "repairs" expenses when you have kids are sadly not of this kind.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not so simple as all that, not really. what, you leave water running each week, landlord fixes ?
mircea_popescu: i was under the impression something else's discussed there.
mircea_popescu: nobody said the life on the farm ain't easier, prikoke.
mircea_popescu: "We could have and should have used the proceeds of the convertible note to get out from under Facebook’s thumb rather to invest further in the Facebook Platform."
mircea_popescu: "oh... there's no difference between that velociraptor that ate my arm, and that other velociraptor that ate my arm. wanna come play with my velociraptor ? no ? what do you mean no!"
mircea_popescu: "We exposed ourselves to a huge single point of failure called Facebook. I’ve ranted for years about how bad an idea it is for startups to be mobile-carrier dependent. In retrospect, there is no difference between Verizon Wireless and Facebook in this context."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform nice paste, for it includes the fee schedule huh.,
mircea_popescu: what was that group of idiots that died of hunger/ate each other in nevada ?
mircea_popescu: the fate of such folk, especially when unparented, is fundamentally speaking the
mircea_popescu: he has an excess of will and a shortage of intelligence.
mircea_popescu: derp ? how is "secure on its own" work when you're not actually looking at confirms ? nonsense alreadyt.
mircea_popescu: "I can even get it up to 2 or 3 block confirmation before the real network overtakes it with a longer chain. This is a risk accepted as a tradeoff by SPV clients, but not acceptable for full node clients which are expected to be secure on their own."
mircea_popescu: anyway, lulzy read for me. "what do you mean coming up with this complex theoretico-fantastico-nonsensical echaufadage did EXACTLY NOTHING ?!?!?!?!? but i thought thoughts alter reality! we rose the awareness to lilac levels!"
mircea_popescu: this is pointedly not happening. because they're bees.
mircea_popescu: the "go shoot a cop" strategy would be where bee activates her ovaries, other bees kill her offspring, she kills [one of] those other bees.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform bees are technically social media journalists. vestigially female, overweight, buzzing around for the buzz.
mircea_popescu: here's where you went wrong : power is power. you're you. figure it out already.
mircea_popescu: you can't fight power. you can think you do. and then fail and wonder where you went wrong.
mircea_popescu: fuck me... who came up with this entire "labels on things" bullshit ? and what did you think it was going to do ?
mircea_popescu: o look at that, NOW the labels on things are a good thing ?
mircea_popescu: ’re adding vanilla extract to the cake instead of arsenic.
mircea_popescu: My feelings, and the feelings of many people I know, are more hurt by the prolonged waiting for a concrete answer while we sit quietly with our feigned Chill. It is as if I’ve broken some unwritten law when I ask what they are looking for and am dissatisfied with the answer “I don’t really like to put labels on things.” But putting labels on things are how people find the exit during a fire and make sure they
mircea_popescu: "here's where we stand : until and unless you burn down the entire politico-juridistical establishment of the entire faux-free world, i ain't signing any paper with you."
mircea_popescu: "I routinely happen upon men who are perplexed when I eventually declare that I want to know where we stand. Indecision is not a noble virtue."
mircea_popescu: it's funny how this shit works - all teh victorious 4-th shitwave feminism somehow left actual females on the ground with a thicker implement with more barbs on it up their ass.
mircea_popescu: " I don’t think that it is so much to ask that I be considered a thing — at least some kind of thing — if I am engaging in emotional or sexual intimacy with someone."
mircea_popescu: that's where she's got the idea for accountability. obama's doin' aite, i guess. it's the schmuck sort-of dating her that needs more of the gel.
mircea_popescu: ur phone into the nearest volcano. Chill asks you to be like, “LOL, what volcano?” Chill presides over the funeral of reasonable expectations. Chill takes and never gives. Chill is pathologically unfeeling but not even interesting enough to kill anyone. Chill is a garbage virtue that will destroy the species. Fuck Chill."
mircea_popescu: "But Chill is not the opposite of uptight. It is the opposite of demanding accountability. Chill is a sinister refashioning of “Calm down!” from an enraging and highly gendered command into an admirable attitude. Chill suggests that young love is best expressed as competitive ambivalence. Chill demands that you see a Read receipt followed by a “Hey, was asleep” text three hours later and not proceed to throw yo
mircea_popescu: "hey... these guys put in some good sweat! briefly...."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform apparently some guy trying to inform the tardstalk ?
mircea_popescu: god damned it. /me says to woman, "just set the soup on a low fire, i'll serve myself", promptly forgets about the entire thing. soup boils patiently for 40 minutes.
mircea_popescu: 17:32:44 renart: the maximum number of operational systems continues to decrease
mircea_popescu: i suppose THAT is what the occasional derp means by sociopath.
mircea_popescu is a firm believer in "scream at the market until it alligns. and if it doesn't, burn it down."
mircea_popescu: to be next to all the famished bitchez ? mkay, then you'll live with the ikeas.
mircea_popescu: and if you aren't poor why are you renting in the poor section ?
mircea_popescu: why am i taking possession of industrial machinery by the month.
mircea_popescu: the notion you'd rent bare walls is so bizarre. is this a 10 year leasing agreement or something ?
mircea_popescu: but from experience, what passes for 'normal' furnishings (all new appliances, genuine leather upholstery, etc) in ro is "luxury" if even awailable in massachussetts.
mircea_popescu: history, density, [up until recently] cultural variety, take your pick.
mircea_popescu: which is weird, because the transportation situation idem
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the rental situation is pretty much idiotic anywhere outside europe.
mircea_popescu: for one thing, men are supposed to have loose ties with their offspring in the first place.
mircea_popescu: to teach them how to steal and how to pick bitchez, i guess.
mircea_popescu: and if you can't pick a coupla decent ones from a coupla dozen, your women picking skills suck.
mircea_popescu: should get a coupla dozen urchins during a decade to pick from.
mircea_popescu: "marriage". it's a flexible institution. seems the correct implementation of ghetto-marriage (as opposed to the middle class white same sex marriage thing they do - yes it's always two women) is where you keep 2-5 bitchez and professionally are either a thief or a drug dealer.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform obviously you'd only consider black women for marriage. what can you do.
mircea_popescu: the results are about what you'd expect out of a process designed, managed and paid for by a government, but hey.
mircea_popescu: in fairness, if you're going to raise kids correctly in the states, the govt pays for most of it.
mircea_popescu: "i got this here aileron, just like the f1 ferrarris use. on my ford truck. because sometimes five ton ford trucks take off the road under their own speed."
mircea_popescu: kids are the exact bane of flexibility. this needs no discussion, does it ?
mircea_popescu: not what was said. "the advantages of renting are mutually incompatible with the disadvantages of having kids."
mircea_popescu: if i was going to raise a litter i'd definitely buy. now it's true that if i did i'd buy in kandahar, and i would never even consider it with a single woman, but i guess these'd be details. fact remains if you're going to kids you're much better off with ownership.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: then i tell them about how if i wanted to buy real estate i'd buy a ranch in montana for the same money, they go all incredulous. because yeah they do nothing but watch us exports on the tube all day, but they don't have either the unlazy intensity to try and get complete data or the mental acuity to understand how that's done.
mircea_popescu: liquidassets he has a point, incidentally. it's not a social club per se. it's a social club for powerful rich people that do things.