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mircea_popescu: it can't be something pointful, meaningful, "i get to move satoshi's stash".
mircea_popescu: you don;t properly grok how the ustardian mind works. you see, it's gotta be meta to be real.
mircea_popescu: i didn't care for proletcult either, and somehow i don't seem to be missing having missed out on that either.
mircea_popescu: can't california just fall into the ocean already and spare me the rest of the popcult story ?
mircea_popescu: i suppose every nigger gotta add his own hardfork out there now, it's the new hip thing. you ain't nobody if you ain't hardforkin'!
mircea_popescu: it WOULD however resolve the only problem the shitheads involved ~perceive~
mircea_popescu: the irony being that bitcoin going to shit wouldn't resolve all the numerous problems all the shitcoins have
mircea_popescu: then the site bitches about how getting whatever as an answer doesn't help it select matches. what the fuck am i to do ?! care ?!
mircea_popescu: it's lead me to discover that i really don't give a shit. you gotta specify what "answers you'll accept" and 90% i'm like... whatever.
mircea_popescu: so this okcupid thing has a thing where you answer premade questions (apparently there was a feature to add questions but they scuttled it silently, over time). leaving aside the questions are almost universally fucking dumb,
mircea_popescu: now i gotta make an okcupid acct, see what the fatties are like.
mircea_popescu: or is pan there from pan trogolodytes ? she fucks chimps ?
mircea_popescu: wonder how many of the people there are kids having fun.
mircea_popescu: she's too classy, and besides : these men don't even watch cheers!
mircea_popescu: "I'm FA everywhere. When I lived in a big, glamorous city, I was too ugly and fat for anyone to even consider dating. Now that I'm in a smaller place, with lots of fat and/or unattractive people, I'm more highly educated than the vast majority of men, so I'm still FA."
mircea_popescu: why does she think feeling like a completely inferior subhuman is bad ?
mircea_popescu: "I am a downer most of the time, I'm not outgoing, not funny, not talkative. The only thing I have is my average intelligence. Being depressed makes you not want to do anything. The medication I'm taking doesn't even make me feel better sometimes. I hate that when you're unattractive or below average you have to wield so many positive traits just to get someone to like you. Attractive people get to be mediocre."
mircea_popescu: "Does anyone get positive feedback on their looks on the Internet but not irl?" heh.
mircea_popescu: "Later loss of virginity associated with significantly lower relationship dissatisfaction later on in life, higher educational attainment, and higher household income, but also lower likelihood of marriage and number of romantic relationships"
mircea_popescu: dja know enough about psychology to see what this all is or notrly ?
mircea_popescu: not that nubbins is in the poster printing business and in the self-loathing mental space, so he thinks posters are a bad idea.
mircea_popescu: and in general... the point here is that argentines are retarded, in a very palpable, amply demonstrable sense.
mircea_popescu: buenos aires, a thing worth 30x that many inhabitants, has no dedicated ad paper, and never detectably had. the thoroughput is negligible, as in not even 0.001 per capita.
mircea_popescu: some other interesting datapoints : back in the 90s, cluj, a 400k ish inhabitant city, had three dedicated ad papers, printed weekly. together ~200 pages, for a yearly thoroughput in the 1mn ads range. so like 2.5 per capita.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` wouldja stop trying to salvage the "i'm derpy from derpland and i know of things i've never seen because totallies" ? it's dead.
mircea_popescu: this is in fact how you know that you're part of the solution.
mircea_popescu: for as long as you're part of the solution, it taking a while is no detriment.
mircea_popescu: and nobody knows which gnats killed the elephant. "it was just meant to be".
mircea_popescu: they all add together and then one day, suddenly, the "old way of life" is an impossibility.
mircea_popescu: every shot policeman, every dollar embezzled, witheld from the irs, every subpar item delivered to the usg, everything.
mircea_popescu: everytime some derp is "offended" at who knows what offensiveness yet his offense rings impotent, the system dies a little.
mircea_popescu: every time you take a 19yo that'd have made someone a great wife and you make her a great whore, the system bleeds a little.
mircea_popescu: every time you leave the us, and continue to extract dollars from the us which however the usg can't tax, and spend them in kirgiztan, but so the kirgiztan also cant' tax, both bleed a little.
mircea_popescu: every time i talk to one of my chinese bankers here, moving some dollar bits against peso bits, both the argentine government and the us government bleed a little.
mircea_popescu: in order for it to bleed ions need to go against gradient.
mircea_popescu: well, in order for the system to collapse it must be made to bleed.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: ascii_field the difference between "not work for competition" and "capital control" is inexistent - the us is a centrally controlled economy just like the su. and so, the soviets couldn't leave because "the state invested in their education", right ?
mircea_popescu: ascii_field by the time that's done, my dear alf, everyone who's still asleep ain't never waking up again.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: which is why you gotta move. always go against the gradients/.
mircea_popescu: anyway, to the more general point here : i'm the only entity that can't be held hostage. "oh, we won't do X until you Y" works when I say it at others, not when others try it on me. you can't say "hey mp, you gotta do it like this", because the point isn't for me to get something done, the point is for me to change the way things are done in the first place.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> shinohai: afaik the old corpse is just that - mit is the new phoundation <<< seems that way.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field again : i expect that all arguments work both sides for me and for me only. you, you don't need meatwot can go wherever. the argentine derp, can not use internet, may not leave country.
mircea_popescu: <jurov> meeting them in flesh should overcome their problems with unusuallness or whatevs << not from experience. meeting idiots in the flesh doesn't make them less idiotic, just puts them in a better position to waste your time.
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> but i'll be the first to say that i have certifiably nfi how programmerz find work in b-a! << you mean webwork. what else ?
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> perhaps they have a trade publication where work is offered <<< you're thinking europe. think kirgizstan.
mircea_popescu: particularly because how dares this asshole to discern between useful and useless in the vast world full of possibilities which shouldn't be discriminated against or someshit.
mircea_popescu: jurov> anyway. since bsas is million metropol, there surely are some "coworking" places where exactly such art derps usually concetrate <<< yes but apparently they go in there thought the window not the door ; cant read in any case and anyway - too busy doing nothing to do soemthing useful
mircea_popescu: i understand "we"'d "all" love to be excused from the failures list, but that's not how it works.
mircea_popescu: <nubbins`> offer comments on why flyers are retarded if you dare << besides the fucking point, really. i don't think they're not retarded. nevertheless, to the people who fail to take advantage of this, that failure is just another added failure.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field no, mircea_popescu simply does not give a shit.
mircea_popescu: and none of this is going to be changed by discussing around the bush.
mircea_popescu: i need him like i need more hair. he needs me like he needs more food.
mircea_popescu: he can starve to serve me and then i might consider him. before that he can get fucked.
mircea_popescu: i won't. because i'm not spending money that way, and i don't give a shit what the needs of whatever art derp are.
mircea_popescu: <nubbins`> i've got a friend who did some 3d modelling & textures for the Ender's Game movie << and the eulora splashscreen was done by jason juta (ie, the guy that did half the wizards of the coast franchise). and yes, i could employ him (at his very reasonable rates) to do the whole thing.
mircea_popescu: he was very weirded out of whole situation and bailed out of the job << can we has detail ?
mircea_popescu: but i appreciate the "well since mom and dad filled the fridge clearly they have a responsibility to explai nto me why i should get a job".
mircea_popescu: mno. i just answer to random idiots derping on in here, because of a naive and perhaps misplaced notion that they'll learn something from the experience.
mircea_popescu: you wish to judge what i do, you'd god damned better have some footing to stand on.
mircea_popescu: this is besides the point. i am not held to justify what i do to you.