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mircea_popescu: if you invented the cure for cancer, the government invented the cure for cancer. if you got cancer ... well you shouldn't have been smoking now should you have!
mircea_popescu: this obviously gives way to a very interesting twist : if you ever were in prison, it is the gov't's option to CLAIM that if you build a business, you didn't build a business - because you had come up with it during your stay and well, hid it from them. which should bring a fine, right ? on top of restitution, correct ?
mircea_popescu: inmates can't own copyrights of their own ideas while imprisoned because "they are in service of the state".
mircea_popescu: he reasons "people matter", and since "people are ignorant louts" ERGO "tv matters".
mircea_popescu: "Because the only truth you know is what you get over this tube. Right now, there is a whole, entire generation that never knew anything that didn't come out of this tube. This tube is the gospel, the ultimate revelation. This tube can make or break presidents, popes, prime ministers. This tube is the most awesome goddamn force in the whole godless world. And woe is us if it ever falls into the hands of the wrong peopl
mircea_popescu: im sure it is. this is actually a correct result. in other news, you wanna know how adictive "drugs" are ? CHEESE!
mircea_popescu: ice system does work,” said Judge Russell Healey at the sentencing.
mircea_popescu: Michael Dunn, 47, was convicted of killing Jordan Davis, 17, in November 2012 after he shot into a SUV of four teenagers 10 times when an argument broke out over loud music coming from the teens' vehicle. Dunn was sentenced to an additional 90 years in prison for three attempted murder convictions and another 15 years for firing into an occupied vehicle. “Our justice system works. This case demonstrates that our just
mircea_popescu: "My take on the ICO is that Lyford recognised multiple opportunities in Bitcoi" whose own take ? what the bloody hell|!
mircea_popescu: this is not news, and it's not even bad. it is terrible.
mircea_popescu: "BANX represents a thus far dividend-paying investment in BanxCapital," << dividends out of what ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: if i wanted to have more gawker fluffl i'd have bought fucking gawker.
mircea_popescu: "And yes, it'll be a damn shame if this backfires on BitShares. Their technology is extremely scalable, blazingly fast and impressively flexible on the backend."
☟︎ mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo ok this is by very far the worst thing i have ever see qntra publish.
mircea_popescu: i can't from that piece discern what is supposed to be the revenue model of the banx thing.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: wanna bet some random conclave of derpy 40yo pencildick assistants do all the "being" sumner redstone ?
mircea_popescu: in other news, Sumner Redstone still fucking exists. and nominally is in charge of things. (Chairman of National Amusements Executive Chairman of the Board of Viacom and CBS Corporation).
mircea_popescu: then one wonders why you can't buy milk chocolate in the us.
mircea_popescu: To emphasize: not simply change the ingredients, but to change the definition of the word."
mircea_popescu: "(1) Hershey's, et al, petitioned the FDA and EU to allow them to change the definition of "milk chocolate" to allow for the substitution of vegetable oil for cocoa butter. The FDA said no, but the EU thought it would be awesome idea.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: by which what they mean, of course, is "swedish government on course to be the first cashless government".
mircea_popescu: by definition : that which favours the proclivities of many with no consideration given to effects.
mircea_popescu: were THAT true, it would ironically make a move away from pervasive, entrenched gender inequality in favour of the males a deeply populist move.
mircea_popescu: how about the alternative explanation being "society as a whole thinks young males should die horribly in droves and fuck you already."
mircea_popescu: But perhaps there's a different explanation: there may be an assumption that if a guy asks such a basic/stupid question, then he's an idiot and not worth bothering with; but if a girl asks it, well, a college girl isn't held to the same standard/ expected to know as much."
mircea_popescu: The conclusion I went to first was that there is some unconscious sexual element; not that the academics thought they were going to seduce me, of course, but that they derived some greater pleasure in answering the women than the men.
mircea_popescu: "I'll add that the majority of the people I email are male; the few women I've emailed haven't been any different. I've confirmed this by waiting a long time (month) and re-emailing a different (but still simple) version as a woman.
mircea_popescu: "My observation having done this several dozen times: If I use a (fake) male email address, e.g. "petermiller@" no one ever responds. If I use a (fake) female email address, e.g. "melissamiller@" I get answers almost every single time."
mircea_popescu: i don't see the difference. obama 3rd term is probably a better outcome than trump vs hilary or w/e.,
mircea_popescu: there's a great scene in donnie brasco where newell depicts the death of john wayne as transformative for those schmucks.
mircea_popescu: arabs winning the only engagement on us soil since the brits left
mircea_popescu: that one song from that one band with the chick with the hair
mircea_popescu: uy for whom X was transformative? The only guy with an iphone?"
mircea_popescu: "You can't imagine how you, one guy, can be the problem-- the government is much bigger than you, isn't it? But there are millions of people exactly like you. One byproduct of modern narcissism's reliance on finite media is that countless other people are modeling their lives on the same template you are. You think you are unique in your thoughts and identity, turns out you are a clone. You think you're the only g
mircea_popescu: "The problem isn't the government, the problem is you. It is always you. "
mircea_popescu: five people read that thing, at most, and nobody asked them anything. he might as well have been the author of any other rejected nbc pilot.
mircea_popescu: "Wilkinson is not just another academic social policy theorist who references Marx; he is also the editor of the 2003 version of the WHO report on social justice. " ummm... aaaand who cares ?
mircea_popescu: unfortunately inhabited, but in the modern era that can be fixed.
mircea_popescu: "oh, google is a valuablke company because it has all the world's data". a) you are not the world ; b) nobody fucking wants your data, i'd rather keep footage of afids engaging in gang rape.
mircea_popescu: self-esteem education has resulted in a country that will be sold on the open market by the pound.
mircea_popescu: brazil has actual rich people. but it also has poor people who do not fucking expect to be on tv.
mircea_popescu: "oh, income equality". brazil has A LOT more of it than the us. in the us everyone is poor. i mean this, literally, there are NO RICH PEOPLE in the us. nobody is rich there. everyone is poor like a fucking dog, like the soviets were poor in 1980.
mircea_popescu: some people are fucked in the head, that's all. this isn't socieity.
mircea_popescu: how the fuck does Richard Wilkinson manage to look at the data showing that us blacks making $1k a month just for the asking nevertheless sit around poles like monkeys glaring at people ; whereas those same blacks living in brazil, making a quarter as much or less for 200+ hour work months go out and fix the swing in the park that they build for free in their spare time and decide there's something wrong "with society"
mircea_popescu: how many shows did they do anwyay? 100 hours ? 20 ? 200 ?
mircea_popescu: "As much as Sandra Bullock drives me insane I have never set fire to a trash can or impregnated a teenager because she made what is obviously way too much money for agreeing to be in the worst movies ever scripted by spider monkeys."
mircea_popescu: but it is shockingly the foremost property of the whole shebang.
mircea_popescu: which in and of itself is an unexpected result - when you think soaps you don't think "judicious remuneration of contributors" first and foremost.
mircea_popescu: it was clear to me that the amount of money he made off seinfeld (~zilch) is actually a very correct evaluation of his actual contribution to the show.
mircea_popescu: i watched five minutes of that thing, mostly to evaluate the douche's (larry) contriobution to seinfeld. i fell upon this scene where a pubescent girl rings his doorbell and then gets her first period. and he behaves like a lunatic.
mircea_popescu: no, sadly. i liked it originally. by the time i was done i squarely didn't like it anymore.
mircea_popescu: i don't either. but i did study that show, like meade studied gorilla cock or whatever the fuck she studied.
mircea_popescu: is it possible to load too much sand into your codpiece in sahara ? that's really all there is to load in your codpiece around there.
mircea_popescu: i guess you could readily say, seinfeld, baywatch, "dwfs" or whatever - i didn't look that one up, bite me - are the same thing.
mircea_popescu: elin are profiled as they raise their atypical family of sextuplets and twins." when it really should read "that boring dumbass trying to make money out of televising her sextuplets" ?
mircea_popescu: i have to google ALL his dumbass popculture references, and that is ALL i ever have to chase. somehow the medicine he knows, i know. fucking "gosselin" ? i actually have to look at a phrase going "Katie Irene "Kate" Gosselin (born Kreider; born March 28, 1975) is an American television personality. She achieved national and international recognition on the US reality TV show Jon & Kate Plus 8, in which she and Jon Goss
mircea_popescu: somehow it doesn't occur to him he really is watching too much fucking tv.
mircea_popescu: "If I was a woman of, say, 30, overwhelmed by hidden ambivalence, making next to nothing while spending next to everything, simultaneously unfulfilled by my excellent material possessions while protected from facing my actual social position; if I had to choose a direction in life but realizing that my choice probably didn't matter because the outcome had already been decided by the audience, yeah, I'd be on Abilify, t
mircea_popescu: fun fact : the private aviation airport is in a place caled moron.
mircea_popescu: (gotta remember - it doesn't snow here. consequently, their ideas of tolerance is not 3.5 to 5x)
mircea_popescu: while im pretty sure the roof will support a dozen lithe chicks seeing how i can lift them in pairs,