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mircea_popescu: the thing that actually cvasi-crystallizes if allowed to cool, and it cracks
mircea_popescu: ftr, romanian hell not being too well connected to the needs of catholicism still mostly fills the space with smoala, which is a heavy tar.
mircea_popescu: that's how the hell ended up containing half sulphur by mass
mircea_popescu: might as well be in 7 grade, "o look, jane got tits! how ridiculous jane is!11"
mircea_popescu: "o look, X discovered the tank before us. how evil is X of the tanks!!11".
mircea_popescu: he chinese of the 70s trying to pretend the usians are bad BECAUSE of computers. as if "computerization" is a bad thing in and of itself, not merely a natural evolution in which thosew guys happened to have got the drop on our guys.
mircea_popescu: and for that matter, the very amusing situation where people (including derps with aspirations of culture and intelligence a la orwell) fell for the very obvious trick of pretending that the nazi/fascist police state stuff was not merely the germans/italians being TECHNOLOGICALLY ADVANCED, ie, doing exactly what britain, the us, russia will do themselves later on, but somehow it were specific about them. sort-of like t
mircea_popescu: and speaking of these latter : i wonder how many people realise that the us complaint with spanish administration in florida was that it's TOO LAX ? as in, not oppressing the land nearly enough ? which is why they invaded.
mircea_popescu: you know, what it mostly was between the time of the lombards and the time of the spanyards.
mircea_popescu: sometimes i wonder what a world with ACTUAL 30% gross margins would look like.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile that stupid shit is 30 cents each off the boat.
mircea_popescu: i ask her if she's stupid. she pretends to not know what i'm saying. i leave.
mircea_popescu: shitty service ; old confused woman reads off a tiny script on a lined paper thing, apparently the EXACT SAME planter is 283.
mircea_popescu: apparently im expected to give a shit because we're in california-palermo or something ?!
mircea_popescu: go to a different shop, a little further. advertisement on wall, "if you want this shop to survive, don't ask for a discount".
mircea_popescu: incidentally, i had the most ustardian experience in argentina yet. so i want planters. small shop down the street, mostly closed, someone's house. finally it's open, i pick the planters, they're 90 each. i say i want 5, they only have 3. i scratch my head and leave.
mircea_popescu: note that 35 forever is actually less revenue than they made leasing old rotary phones.
mircea_popescu: "yeah baby, his daddy bought him an iphone ; i ordered this thing to hold 800 bucks. pick a cock to suck."
mircea_popescu: if i was younger and somehow the ipod thing actually put any drag on my mating, that's pretty much what i'd have done.
mircea_popescu: it's not, "money, i could do anything with". it's "money, i'll buy a toke with"
mircea_popescu: there's also nothing rightful in the unmitigated audacity of daring to not conform to the environment
mircea_popescu: there';s nothinfg rightful in not having $25 disposable to play, which is ALL this is about.
mircea_popescu: hint : people don't accept one oz in trade for 25 bux.
mircea_popescu: should be interesting to see how well teh entire "i am hoarding gold" thing plays out.
mircea_popescu: "i won't starve, i got a college education / 401k / my gold coins collection"
mircea_popescu: "i'm going to build a successful company - venture capital got my back"
mircea_popescu: at this point needing a warning that the cloud is maintained by and for the nsa is like needing a warning that if you marry an american you'll be stuck with an ineffectual narcissist, or that if you save in dollars you'll end up worse than the manic collector with alzhimers and his piles of old newspapers, or all sorts of similarly obvious stuff.
mircea_popescu: i wonder how many 4th wave feminists fighting rape on campus and what other derpage realise that their daughters... well no. their nieces will live their life naked.
mircea_popescu: gotta a) keep driving down the capital cost of pron ; b) acclimate the womenz to their nude future.
mircea_popescu: i wonder how long before a guy starts sending all the companies scam "copyright infringement" notices and invitations to pay $600 to make the embarassment go away, like those twerps trawling the noob torrent folk.
mircea_popescu: you get the tool, plug it into your linux laptop and go.
mircea_popescu: o hey, did ethereum just break through it's record low ?
mircea_popescu: i've got the best fucking weather, it's incredible. constantly 16-18ish, nice breeze, beautiful sun...
mircea_popescu: the suits in washington have more to do with jpm and gs than all of this
mircea_popescu: depends what you mean by "policeman". the legitimate job (beat cop, giving directions and taking drunks home) is gone. the paper pusher job is whatever, another social worker. the DEA agent / carl force IV thing is just a different jolly roger color scheme for the same thuggery.
mircea_popescu: for every 5mn gestapo anon reports there was a shocking 0 coups on hitler's lyf.
mircea_popescu: i heard the story also but always figured it for ethnofantasy
mircea_popescu: there's more cases of people who ate policemen than cases of people who starved in the us.
mircea_popescu: but if you do either, gotta do it with ALL the elements. you cant mix above avg x with under average y, it'll hurt.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, this system is so beautifully modelled in eulora... you can either overcraft or undercraft
mircea_popescu: if you have debts, why the fuck are you getting a payckech.
mircea_popescu: pick anabolic or catabolic. if you want a paycheck, why do you have debts ?
mircea_popescu: you familiar with the concept that you can't build muscle and lose weight at the same time ?
mircea_popescu: the way debts work since the invention of the concept is you gotta have something.
mircea_popescu: your hunger doesn't go away because "that's enough, i've been hungry for six hours now". on the fucking contrary.,