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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 ?
mircea_popescu: you have no idea how clueless people in the streets of a quaint european town are.
mircea_popescu: yes dude, most of the "investments" are that. "oops we lost the money". right.
mircea_popescu: it used to be latin, affero, where it meant to bring (ferry comes from the same fero root). it moved into french, where it meant to take over. it then slowly moved into a more figurative "to give oneself the airs of an office one does not yet have", at which point it moved into english, "to give oneself airs".
mircea_popescu: it's really not that rare. just uncommon to be speaking english.
mircea_popescu: your proposed "not pashtun" is not equal to my actual position! nor even very similar.
mircea_popescu: magda realised she's dealing with a fraud so she killed herself and her kids. logic!
mircea_popescu: bwahahaha yeah, that is SO VERY TOTALLY what happened.
mircea_popescu: According to the FBI, Steve Schneider—Koresh's top aide, who "probably realized he was dealing with a fraud"—shot and killed Koresh and then killed himself with the same gun.
mircea_popescu: i sorta feel about these like i imagine you feel about rats.
mircea_popescu: in any case, i know that if it were possible to never ever run into either an idiot or idiot droppings, i'd gladly carry cases for the rest of my lives.
mircea_popescu: it's more complicated. the benefits that acrue from living in a sane society are not directly apparent in insanity-land. best one could tell the porter of 1950 was way happier than the bill de blasio of 2010.
mircea_popescu: this is broadly missing the point, because the sides you'd know about pre aren't a good representation of the sides that actually exist post.
mircea_popescu: this is exactly like saying cca 1915 that "you don't expect to ever live to see computers and if you do you'll prolly be on the side of polishing the casings".
mircea_popescu: this is universal. if the hrt team gets blown to bits, they run off. what fucking "aerial bombardment", you think that's how it goes, someone feels like it one day and that's it, go ?
mircea_popescu: in any case, i have had opportunity to try this in the field : when i maneuvered teh demonstrators around the "security cordon", they didn't do anything. they fell back. cuz wtf were they gonna do.
mircea_popescu: you scream louder and that's the end of the fucking story.
mircea_popescu: old men put all their all into their first scream because that's all they got.
mircea_popescu: if you're thinking an ailing, falling under its own weight bureaucracy - not even this one in particular, any one - is actually brimming with the virility of youth and ready to escalate until nothing's left you're seriously from a different movie.
mircea_popescu: "areal bombardment until nothing is ever mentioned again in the agitprop press"
mircea_popescu: the likely response would have been exactly what argentina response is in similar to scale incidents
mircea_popescu: in fact anyone even survived to tell the story because these derps allowed it. could just as well have executed the entire bunch.
mircea_popescu: the funny thing is, that the "marginally retarded" (which they were) had the usg agents so badly beaten it was fucking ridiculous.
mircea_popescu: "After the ceasefire, the Branch Davidians allowed the ATF dead and wounded to be evacuated and held their fire during the ATF retreat."