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mircea_popescu: i suppose kakobrekla actually made microblogging poison just for me! i see them in the log, miniarticles, good enough.
mircea_popescu: i think #b-a eats at least a dozen buds that'd have been trilema articles. but i just vent here and thassat.
mircea_popescu: yeah but the bitch is, i'm all stately and portentuous nao. back in romania i used to write about any old random shit nine times a day.
mircea_popescu: that's ok, a man your age can survive without fucking hotties just as well.
mircea_popescu: ah. you did yeah but actually lots of other ppl did too. eventually i was like... lazy won't solvethis one.
mircea_popescu: for about a year or so now. so that thing could never have popped out by just going to root. and i doubt he could have had a google string that led to it, seeing how you know, my romanian is like triplesec.
mircea_popescu: cazalla no, because trilema random rotation no longer displays romanian articles.
mircea_popescu: "how to make idiots preoccupied with our thing ? they no longer go for free giveaways" "ask to pay for their ideas"
mircea_popescu: btw, you ever saw that incredible fight where romania's best boxer was totally gutted ?
mircea_popescu: the head being actually a more advantageous place to be hit in than the liver, yeah you get hit.
mircea_popescu: this is like that except with less shot. technically a step up
mircea_popescu: lafond has a pretty good point re the "yo mamma's gonna cash out on being the mother of a got-shot".
mircea_popescu: they're still pushing it too hard. not as dangerous in running, sure. but school performance is running the 100meters in fifteen seconds, not trying for eight.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller give them a decade until all the hair bone cracks and microtorn ligaments start acting up
mircea_popescu: then pete_dushenski can take as his first project promoting the jobs board :D
mircea_popescu: trinque we need that jobs board yo, teh cup runneth fulleth.
mircea_popescu: i dun think i'd encourage any kid to play "professional" school sports. they don't get paid (no, 'scholarship' is not pay like coupons are not refunds) ; b) it's really fucking unhealthy. i mean being in shape is one thing. being "an athlete" is about as unhealthy as being a diabethic.
mircea_popescu: "Until last night when the Free Beacon contacted the State Department to inquire about the discrepancy, McGurk’s official biography on the State Department website also falsely credited McGurk with the rank of ambassador."
mircea_popescu: obama now appoints his own ambassadors, senate rubberstamp too expensive.
mircea_popescu: general population is usually zinc deprived, and as a result most infections are drastically ameliorated by a little zinc intake
mircea_popescu: in general any company is better than usg company by now, and consequently this approach, if it ever was seriously entertained, fails.
mircea_popescu: it's like "water's own weight will keep the water up".
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski you get clients, work on their projects. like anyone else.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: apparently trees standing also have something to do with the inept government.
mircea_popescu tends to remember obama goons trying to "close down parks" because hey.
mircea_popescu: anyway, it's a good model for it's market (middle america!!11), that enchanted fargo where meryl streep still falls in love with clint eastwood every late summer.
mircea_popescu: it's a sort of wikipedia meets that old women selling pots thing, i forget what it's called.
mircea_popescu: they do a sort of curated "pro-am" blog network. claim 3k new articles a day.
mircea_popescu: i'm not speedy, i'm just existing on multiple planes at the same time is all.
mircea_popescu: you don't have the same options once you're in a retirement home.
mircea_popescu: the only true drawback is that unlike real estate, this is a constant maintenance racket. everything you have at any point won't be useful in 5 years, or even 3. things move too fast. so its not one of those "do this right once it's done forever" stories like alf likes. it's more of a "hold this lamp up".
mircea_popescu: this is one of those things "anyone" could do except anyone is a socially awkward fuck and anyone lacks the focus and discipline for doing thigns more complex than microwaving.
mircea_popescu: haha time doesn't scale. but anyway, for it to exist in three years you'll be spending a lot of time on it throughout
mircea_popescu: besides, i wouldn't expect this to get anywhere within 12 months. if it does within 36 i'll be impressed.
mircea_popescu: that stuff. and besides, YOU travel now and again don't you ?
mircea_popescu: (very fucking possible, they travel on starvation budgets)
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski as to the 2nd list : you want to build raport with those people. make a habit of taking one to lunch every week, if at all possible.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo yeah, i figured he had me when he said that :p
mircea_popescu: ascii_field every circus worth its name has a flea sled.
mircea_popescu: what you want is shannonizing meatrobots, capable of pouring out more nonsense. they're cheaper than the electric type, as of yet.
mircea_popescu: nobody gives a shit about extant social media accounts. their value is not even a fractrion of the work they put in
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski no, it's more like, spend all your time on fiverr and craigslist and wherever the hungry congregate, spend a little money buying their ample time.
mircea_popescu: one could argue that jobs genius is altogether not much above this either.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski arrington's success, you have to understand, is very little more than this. it's not a difficult recipe to read or follow. it just takes the hard worker to execute.
mircea_popescu: depends for whom. why allow the pinoys to make this money ?
mircea_popescu: you know, like reddit all agreed that XT is gonna take over.
mircea_popescu: building these is not particularly difficult,. but it takes time. more importantly, it takes determination. and the sort of attitude of the guy that hey, the managers don't wanna see, but since the phone is here...
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski a pr agency is in this day and age a very simple affair, but somewhat time consuming. in principle, it can be reduced to a lone dude with an internet connection and two lists. one, longer, of useful social media derps. the sort that are willing to do the hard work of upvoting, derping on reddit, etc. the other, sadly shorter, of actual important people can talk to directly. like say "all newspaper column
mircea_popescu: and the process of her starvation was that she starved on her own devices, b-a got her a place to stay and then she ran off.
mircea_popescu: she starved doing the very scared of bombs secretary brit girl.
mircea_popescu: here's the thing in my head : b-a is by now at a stage where it kinda needs its own pr agency. and you might be just the asshole to do that, if you swing that way. do you swing that way ?
mircea_popescu: by which i mean, when you're not here/writing on your blog etc.
mircea_popescu: hey pete_dushenski, what do you do in your spare time ?