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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.
mircea_popescu: no, but it is a magical enclave where you gotta be able to find your way out of a paper bag
mircea_popescu: they simply tend to gravitate to places where their dismal means to life are sufficient to survive. "oh i couldn't live in kentucky"
mircea_popescu: just about the magical car you discuss may be at the earlierst delivered
mircea_popescu: the 22 yo beggars are "working hard" at "their social media presence" and don't have access to a car.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field you don't fuck teens alf. you have nfi what your country's like.
mircea_popescu: actually playing out a penitentiary inmate irl is a bar they have to prepare for.
mircea_popescu: more importantly, none of those schmucks is the intellectual equal of "car ownership"
mircea_popescu: nubbins` that's exactly my point. none of those schmucks has a car.
mircea_popescu: coupla 20something kids that anyone simply wants to see raped to death. they're the couch surfing, biking, "creative" minds of the tomorrow / "economies of scale of being youtube famous meaning not famous"
mircea_popescu: seen that film btw ? pretty great indictment of ustardian/white youth
mircea_popescu: ascii_field the problem with this is that nobody in the Housbroken universe actually owns a car.
mircea_popescu: let's discuss things of import! to be prepared in case a windfaul reaches us, with a game-plan! to save africa!
mircea_popescu: but hey, maybe one day germany improves enough to be russia.
mircea_popescu: iirc that ugly fat woman whatever her name is that rules his germans still hasn't obtained the slightest satisfaction for being gangraped by the ustards.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field they have a point. as far as the slave^H^H^H^H^H german is concerned, reminders of the cock up his ass are unwelcome and "toxic" to his emotional well being or w/e
mircea_popescu: considering the sad state of ba night life, it'd be a wonder if i didn't.
mircea_popescu: if every ustard < 40 did a honest day's work, china'd be so fucked.
mircea_popescu: Always remember, dear fiat craptrepreneurs : sucking republican cock is a good start, but always remember to make eye contact! That's where your submission really sinks in, to everyone (and especially to your) benefit." ?
mircea_popescu: ated time and again that they don't really have the intellectual wherewithal to find their way out of the fiat paper bag.
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mircea_popescu: because cow gotta be milked. otherwise, mastitis. it hurts.