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mircea_popescu: ontent to eat native grass. And never mind that there likely were more bison produced naturally on the Great Plains before farming than all of beef farming raises in the same area today."
mircea_popescu: quote of interest, "The Dust Bowl was no accident of nature. A functioning grassland prairie produces more biomass each year than does even the most technologically advanced wheat field. The problem is, it's mostly a form of grass and grass roots that humans can't eat. So we replace the prairie with our own preferred grass, wheat. Never mind that we feed most of our grain to livestock, and that livestock is perfectly c
mircea_popescu: the amplitude of pretense is to be measured at the muzzle of the pretender, tho.
mircea_popescu: well sure, for as long as a usg-pretense exists to keep bankrolling everyone's pretense, everyone's gonna keep on pretending.
mircea_popescu: im sure they're trying to stuff the bill into SOMETHING. an acquisition of some sort, vc capital somewhere, a credit card balance movement to a larger credit card. it hasta.
mircea_popescu: (btw, it is also customary for banks to continue servicing abandoned bank accounts. for the same reasons as the grass cuttings - they figure they got a claim to A THING and sooner or later will make good on it. with interest.)
mircea_popescu: who's fooled ? was rice a secretary of state ? was fiorina a ceo ?
mircea_popescu: the us got a random guy from kenya to pretend like he's a law professor ; anhd some random derp from pakistan to pretend he's a district attorney.
mircea_popescu: you might find that most of the windows with lights in them are painted cardboard in the shape of a window with a light in it.
mircea_popescu: an exercise not unlike explaining why "the green stays left in the mandelbrot set for as long as it does"
mircea_popescu is skeptical. and will continue to be so, because time ticks behind him. in a decade i'll pretend that not only am i right now, but was right all along : no better stock in that place.
mircea_popescu: that "oh, they were fired via email ? did they check make sure it's not fake ?" thing still has me lolling.
mircea_popescu:
http://trilema.com/2011/entypus/ << i also had one of those large wasps that build their nests out of chjewed sand/clay (the prev ones were "paper wasps", build the nest out of a sort of paper made out of chewed wood) and fill them with spiders they caught and paralyzed, with added egg.
mircea_popescu: 10k btc he doesn't even know about in a old directory etc
mircea_popescu: i suspect it's more of a "hopeful" case : what if bozo plugs in hdd not plugged in since 2010 ?
mircea_popescu: monsanto should ge au wasps to build houses in new mexico.
mircea_popescu: cazalla this is romania. we have 100 lb women and tiny polen wasps here.
mircea_popescu: y're not here to state their oppinions, eat doritos or drink bear. They're here to work and only work, a lot, hard and for very little money. Until they fall over."
mircea_popescu: "Teh romanians entertain the mistaken view that one can't die of hunger. One can. Not only can, will. A certain count of Romanians (as large as necessary) will die of hunger, in the closer or more distant future, because otherwise the populace does not seem capable to comprehend that the only reason Trompi dropped them in the world is so they work. They're not here to enjoy themselves, they're not here to be happy, the
mircea_popescu: i suppose if you count such procedures as manual then yes.
mircea_popescu: (sane = not expect it to succeed, understand how it tries.)
mircea_popescu: (digital cam autofocus thing is NOT able to resolve the n/p problem of "correct focus". it just tries. and fails, predictably, after missing some optimums)
mircea_popescu: but it's more to do with the fact that i understand how the fucking focus thing works and just time it in my head.
mircea_popescu: and there's this cloud of little 2mm guys jumping from where yo ustep
mircea_popescu: one of the best parts of cutting grass in like may/june was, after you cut it, the next day or w/e, you go for a stroll
mircea_popescu: i have over you the advantage that hey, corporate purchases. tax writeoff.
mircea_popescu: and i even have the exact moneyary counts. 450 lei for the item, =~ 150 bucks. 90 lei for two chord extensions (40m total), 30 bucls.
mircea_popescu is suddenly very appreciative of all the problems he never had.
mircea_popescu: and it charges at 1.5 ? how long does this take, whole night ?
mircea_popescu: if you're gonna make it heavier than a fuckable woman and steel and whatnot
mircea_popescu: i suppose you could install one of those electric bike things
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i guess unless you make your own order for 36v batteries that's not getting fixed, who the fuck wants to charge 3 items one by one etc
mircea_popescu: onbe of the foremost lost arts. there's an entire story to the job, including how to build waterproof hay piles.
mircea_popescu: why the fuck do you think scythe grass cutters insist on skill an d sharp scythe, rather than bulging biceps.
mircea_popescu: anyway sharp blade counts ^2, motor power counts like ^.8 or something.
mircea_popescu: my thing was a very respectable 600W DC thing, never had a problem cutting right through thistle and whatnot.
mircea_popescu: i somehow doubt a 36 v motor is actually in there. what, this thing weighs 60 lbs ?
mircea_popescu: i just cut in lines away from the house. cord was at no point past wherer i cut.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform when i bought a grass cutter i bought one with plug. fuck me if im going to buy any battery anything.