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mircea_popescu: whenever you peel garments off a bosomy beauty it's 50-50 you'll see some sort of textile pattern embedded in the tender flesh.
mircea_popescu: speaking of buttplug signage, i'm kind-of surprised inside-of-bra advertising hasn't caught off.
mircea_popescu: social media grieving stands with grief about in the same relationship instagram pictures stand with food.
mircea_popescu: which is why the good or bad will of the army of meat carries no particular value one way or the other
mircea_popescu: never thought i'd live to see the day people miss the footnotes.
mircea_popescu: anyway gotta say that was a pretty good blog earlier punkman
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, to support r&d you need a pointedly orthogonal metnality, which is specifically divisive FOR THE MERE REASON OF BEING DIVISIVE, not as a goal-excused means but as a goal in itself ; and certainly a competitive approach.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: another path into this issue would be the concept of "adversarial individuality". hola davout. to support a large empire (large defined in the sense of, stretched at the seams of communication abilities, to the point it struggles to maintain itself, a la romans) you require a certain mentality in the subjects. let's call it, in modern terminology, "inclusive", "cooperative" and whatnot other "good" feelers.
mircea_popescu: there was a high level of pseudointellectual masturbation, sure, much like in today's us. similarly then, mit educated chitlins could not light a lightbulb, but could pseudointelligently discuss "the types" of feminism as if that were a thing, somehow.
mircea_popescu: in any case, there's no "high level of scientific achievement" in china as proposed by that wikipedia. because "social sciences" are not sciences.
mircea_popescu: just like a society that makes "the elimination of all inconvenience, from murder to doctor telling you you're fat" its goal will negessarily get raped.
mircea_popescu: yeah, a society that makes "balance" its goal will necessarily stagnate.
mircea_popescu: and even today, the only reason they're doing anything is because they're trying to copy what they perceive as superior. that's it and that's all, without europe around to direly humiliate them, china would still be pretty satisfiedly pulling carts by hand etc.
mircea_popescu: fuck, even the greeks had the steam engine and used it to make toys and party tricks. exactly like the chinese use of gunpoweder.
mircea_popescu: in particular the chinese had sketches of the helicopter in the roman times, as opposed to da vinci's re-roman times. they had alchemy plain and proper a millenium before the euros. but hey, chinese "gentlemen" are too delicate to touch earths.
mircea_popescu: the chinese, like all of asia, like all of the arab world, like fucking oceania and all the "nation of africa" assorted nobodies were, and have been forever happy to sit around and contemplate the immortality of laziness.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the principal driver of inequality between europe (not "the west", the us is not included in this discussion as it doesn't fucking matter or even exist for most of it) is the stupidity of everyone else.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the guy has a point, and szabo's theory is not merely just silly, it's a sympthom of a larger western pathology (he's basically looking for an excuse, ANY excuse, just as long as it doesn't come to *a better quality of people*, because he's nuts with this racism bullcrap like the rest of the anglos.)
☟︎ mircea_popescu: historical fact afaik. which is how they got to their present kickass position.
mircea_popescu: !v assbot:mircea_popescu.rate.naphex.-1:958c6f38e082e9a15f842d84de6ebdde3ccb9d67e9272b3e1e8f75007262228f
mircea_popescu: "All our servers are running on 100% renewable energy. By choosing green services you can help to prevent the climate change." << speaking of "idiot signal", here's an easy way to lose business : put that on your site.
mircea_popescu: apparently they got confused as to the difference between "datacenter" and "website trying to push a movie someone made in cad3d about a duke nukem modmap."
mircea_popescu: i guess maybe you're right, wannabe-paypal. unless this is this a case of hidden fees
mircea_popescu: that way they can sell "business processing" to merchants.
mircea_popescu: sounds more like the reverse. people wouldn't give out their ccv to random outfit so they "support paypal".
mircea_popescu: they own a chunk of the fed, do nightly settlement or what do you mean "themselves"
mircea_popescu: (obscure bitpay-for-paypal opines on things on matters.)
mircea_popescu: it's one thing to think "oh, there's nothing special about reddit/tardstalk/whatever. they're all like that."
mircea_popescu: they have an entire list of ... well, stuff scraped off the bottom of the web.
mircea_popescu: 1k is a cessna ; 10k is a coupla of good condition yugo jets.
mircea_popescu: actually, this would be useful for a change economics research. obviously lice agreement on lice-ing only works provided the largest lice is cutting his own throat. but by what factor ?
mircea_popescu: you and the other 1k wanna-be bankers (or rather, wanna-stay bankers) trying this.
mircea_popescu: the usg version of reality works fine for just as long nobody leans on it. like all cardboard.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> incidentally what's to stop the fella <<< last time someone tried this (not even 1k) was last week.
mircea_popescu: back in 1985 you could open a store with the stock on credit.
mircea_popescu: headed that way for a whiole now, EXACTLY under the pressure of "worthless dollars"
mircea_popescu: myahap we see a redefinition of "consumer credit" to "only real estates and worthless chinese crap. you can't buy a plane, or a shipment of cocoa"
mircea_popescu: i think by 95 every russian chick under 20 with boobs bigger than her mom and standing above 1.80 naked had sucked at least one cock in a mercedes that was acquired in just this way.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the only way you're selling that is if you drive it across the border.
mircea_popescu: errything not bolted down, really. if you can steal it, you gotta steal it.
mircea_popescu: the point remains : like in 1986 su, in 2015 us if you don't steal yourself, your neighbour will.
mircea_popescu: so then your "<asciilifeform> not even american monkeys, but ru carders " line has 0 to do.
mircea_popescu: ru carder with 10 mn is not getting 3k btc, that's for sure. nor does he want it.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: price is "300 or whatever" for nickle and dime deals which are mostly predicated on "don't make it too hard for noobs / wild eyed youths to get into bitcoin".
mircea_popescu: there is ~no relation between numbers on websites and bitcoin price.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: no, the monkeys aren't cleanning it out because mental issues. of this sort.
mircea_popescu: there was no heaven and no benefit for the mass of losers that stole last.
mircea_popescu: exactly like last legs of soviets. every screw you didn't steal, someone else did.
mircea_popescu: no ifs or butts about it. the less you steal, the more is there for your neighbour to steal.
mircea_popescu: if you can buy bitcoin on credit in the us and ARE NOT buying bitcoin on credit in the us, you are being raped by all the people who do.
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