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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.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller i don't want to work with people who pay "for software" in this sense anyway.
mircea_popescu: "no, i know this because i can fit explanations ex post facto as well as alf used to can"
mircea_popescu: nubbins` i am saying that if i rouded up all the 10k or so computer art majors in town and gave them the choice of paying me 100k in cash or dying in a fire
mircea_popescu: the argument here isn't that some unrelated people are poor. the argument here is that the very fucking people in question don't have fifty pesos.
mircea_popescu: why the fuck does that make a difference ? "because all people are people" ?
mircea_popescu: i don't think you actually understand how poor these people are.
mircea_popescu: sure makes thinking one "self aware of the world" a shithell of a heck easier.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field whart do you mean not true in ba! all places are the same places! all peopel are really the same as nubbins!
mircea_popescu: nubbins` ba is a city with more population than the whole country you live in omfg.
mircea_popescu: there exist people in this world who are economically worthless because they are argentines. giving them an opportunity to starve so as to work for me, a guy that isn't economically worthless for being argentine, is a -ev play for most and a +ev play for some.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` this is where you notice that you said something dumb and realise that maybe the other things you said come from the same place.
mircea_popescu: not that that particular stupidity is too well related to the other stupidities.
mircea_popescu: taping shit to a wall has a longer history than canada.
mircea_popescu: looky, you don't get to misrepresent what you hear on the basis of how stupid the parts of it that you understood seemed to you.
mircea_popescu: you're an above-average canadina living in canada. readily granted, but the world is not canada.
mircea_popescu: the bar for "self-aware adult who lives in the world" is so fuycking high i don't think i'm necessarily there.
mircea_popescu: don't tell me YOU're the one that's fucking argentine art school majors ?
mircea_popescu: ascii_field thestringpuller allow me to drag in the stalin and other people's fat thing.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: for all you know the two are identical. in point of fact they are identical.
mircea_popescu: yeah well, then on what basis to you propose to put forth subtlety-based arguments such as that ?
mircea_popescu: so ; ascii moves because internet ; argentine shitsacks are stuck because meatwot.
mircea_popescu: let's play this game where I use the argument both ways and nobody uses the counter-argument both ways against me
mircea_popescu: when i want to hire the useless shitsacks perambulating in buenos aires, they don't need me. becuase... internet.
mircea_popescu: so wait, let me get this straight. when i want ascii to move here he can't because HE needs meatwot.
mircea_popescu: argentina is about as economically dead as you'd expect of a soy & other cash crops exporter.
mircea_popescu: yes, them. most everyone that's white and under 30. them.
mircea_popescu: they're the leah goodmans of this world. the people you think are what they wish they were, while meanwhile they starve while thinking somehow they're too good for my ten bitcents.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field none of these dudes get warm chairs of any kind.
mircea_popescu: that this shithole doesn't admit it's one step away from poland 1985 doesn't mean it isn't actually one step away from poland 1985
mircea_popescu: nubbins` a) couple HUNDRED ; b) if i taped up not a couple, a single "jeans and chewing gum" ad in soviet blok, i'd have needed the canadian mounties to keep order.