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mircea_popescu: nobel prize economist said you can never go bankrupt borrowing in your own currency and so it's true
mircea_popescu: "we don't poorly collect because intentionally, it's just hard to do!!1"
mircea_popescu: yes, it's generally how "failed states" go : the last resort subsidy is through poor tax collection.
mircea_popescu: ahaha well the federal government could of course pay them in ious.
mircea_popescu: so BingoBoingo, since cazalla's getting out, i figure 10 btc for his chunk should be good enough ? (what you think cazalla ?). you wanna go halves with me in it ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: gabrielradio it's "guide for half the oral sex". see, because two sexes ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: out of line equalitarianism is at the root of ALL social ills in the western world today, not just one or another.
mircea_popescu: which is what drives the de-professionalization of lawyers and so on and so forth.
mircea_popescu: in a world where evereyone's deemed a gentleman, you will need ~five times the population in lawyers. and it's all a colossal waste of time anwyay, only about 1% or so of the population actually gets in relationships complex enough to merit memorialization
mircea_popescu: "psychothis is underdiagnosed" is exactly like the court's idea that the population is juridically underserved. not so - you can't have things that are definitionally for the few (because the few don't benefit from the banal commonality of the many, soi they need something else to allow society to function).
mircea_popescu: too stupid to understand how things work and why, dumb enough to focus on one metric and forget about the others ("hey, engagement is hard to measure!") etc.
mircea_popescu: but to say you can't afford contracts AND YET you think you were gypped is basically juust to swear and attest you're poor. of course you'd think that, that's why you're poor : cause you're stupid.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile - there are not enough rich people around to have the same sort of "what's done" thing going. and so they must have contracts.
mircea_popescu: and this obviously only affects the poor to any degree - if antinous had or hadn't a trousseau or if he had to pay some homonymous coins, hadrianus couldn't have cared less.
mircea_popescu: so, if here the landlords rent out for 10 a month but you gotta pay 10 in advance "as guarantee" and there they rent out for 11 a month but you don't,
mircea_popescu: but it is NEVER the case that the poor are being gypped by this. whatever the law of the land is, they're getting it back in some other form.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: these are tacit arrangements, you will notice : nobody bothered to type out nicely the rousseau contract of it all, nor bothered to ask the poor to sign, or even explain it to them. because fuck them they're not worth it.
mircea_popescu: aka, pay for all our sins, as we can't afford to do it. and so you get godfathers, and get to enjoy the movie. that's his role in the community : that he pays your blodgelt for you.
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: and when inheritance changes from male only to both children, as it did in post fedual sicily, the obligation moves from her parents (as he will inherit HIS parents but not hers) to "both parents" which quickly devolves into a sort of "what rich man in the comunity wishes to sponsor this festival"
mircea_popescu: this, so as to prevent the young people from just burning the whole thing.
mircea_popescu: conversely, in lands at carrying capacity, the old dudes gotta pay the young dude for their unwarranted priviledge of having occupied a plot of land, which he can not do.
mircea_popescu: well obviously it's a trick question. in pastoral communities/other situations where the land is well under carrying capacity, the young man pays, because the old folk could have just drunk and made merry, but instead they put the effort into raising the filly / rose garden / whatever the dude's gonna enjoy. so they should get something for their trouble.
mircea_popescu: in which of these two would you say the poor are being gypped ?
mircea_popescu: in some other places/cultures, the habit is the reverse : the parents pay the young man to take her.
mircea_popescu: so, in some places/cultures, it is the habit that young men committing marriage PAY to the parents of the young bride a sum of money.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform to get to the bottom of this matter, let's approach it from a more convenient angle.
mircea_popescu: kinda lulzily parallels the entire "i'm special in my you're special t shirt"
mircea_popescu: (and amusingly, the poor pretend this is an exceptional time-and-place thing but pretend so ubiquitously and at all times.)
mircea_popescu: this is what the poor pretend it means. it never ever does.
mircea_popescu: just like, if flies won't fuck you, your opinion of what's attractive is wrong. and so on.
mircea_popescu: just like, if your mark is bad, your opinion of what you know is wrong.
mircea_popescu: if you don't have money your opinion about what you did is wrong.
mircea_popescu: if breached, the breaching party carries the cost of the whole story.
mircea_popescu: so yes, it;'s a contract like any other, it ends upon specific performance.
mircea_popescu: very funny to me/us, sure, but that's besides the point.
mircea_popescu: i just had no idea such a respectable, fetching jeune leader was under all that muck and grime and long curly hair is all +{:D
mircea_popescu: And so it goes. If you wonder why you seem ADHD or anxious, it may be that you are being told certain things are horribly important, yet you can't seem to feel it; meanwhile you are also being told the things you thought were important are trivial. \
mircea_popescu: portance of "gay marriage" in the world is not at all the important question-- it may be extremely relevant, or not at all, but that's irrelevant. Why we're stuck with "bipolar disorder" until, I don't know, the neo-analysts return with their talk of "repressed thyroid energy" or something, but emphatically not because we discover anything qualitatively new about bipolar.
mircea_popescu: But having the same guys means that we'll be getting the same philosophies, the same filters, the same phrases. We are guaranteeing not just groupthink, but we're allowing others to decide what we're going to talk about, how we'll talk about it. That's why "gay marriage" will disappear not when gays can marry but when a new set of media people get jobs and "gay marriage" isn't as interesting to them. The actual im
mircea_popescu: It is the same guys, over and over again, each in their own space, and by default we assume they are the most knowledgeable, or the most rigorous; have the most information or are best able to remain objective. Or maybe we simply hope they'll be good enough.
mircea_popescu: the name is very vaguely familiar, latapie, but i can't place it.
mircea_popescu: "Faisant fi des conseils avisés de nombre d'entre vous, j'ai persévéré avec cette personne, me disant que je dois arrêter d'abandonner juste avant la ligne d'arrivée, ne pas m'arrêter à la première hésitation, penser par moi-même et non par les autres, etc.
mircea_popescu: The DroneDefender can help protect us from those who may wish to do us harm,” said Dan Stamm, who led the research project. “It can help us in numerous settings, from the White House lawn to bases and embassies overseas; from prisons and schools to historic sites. It easily and reliably neutralizes the threat.”
mircea_popescu: no wait, it's really 1.5mb lighter that makes sense. ok.
mircea_popescu: so they at some point changed packaging to make it 10x bigger ?!
mircea_popescu: (this isn't a current file, it is a historical version)
mircea_popescu: but otherwise yes, fluffy is actually a deffect. just like blue eyes.