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mircea_popescu: no other explanation for all the third gender survival observed in the fields.
mircea_popescu: well, people of the nordic system sorta-expect nordic system.
mircea_popescu: even with the very steam-punk techno-nazis cyanide was not for everyone.
mircea_popescu: they get you for insurance fraud on top of whatever if you file later and it turns out you had moneys.
mircea_popescu: if you've not filed tax returns for past coupla years, you're still eligible
mircea_popescu: let's play the "guess the size of today's apache log for trilema".
mircea_popescu: the last "normal american" that had any value left in him was ambushed on a highway cca 2003.
mircea_popescu: or, to quote an anonymous derp, "are we comfortable with regulation introduced by a guy named bob ?"
mircea_popescu: but apparently the situation is degrading and every entry level project manager can do this now.
mircea_popescu: and this is the main problem here : for ~20 years, the president was a sort of priviledged class, allowed to burn pieces off the country.
mircea_popescu: the societal cost of that cocky 20yo handpuppet is comparable to what obama costs.
mircea_popescu: as a result, they'll be billed for a few millions, and react to it, gouging insurance prices by a few billion in a half decade.
mircea_popescu: understand the evil of a 3 party system. the user has no say. the doctor decides if it's needed or not, doesn't care about the cost.
mircea_popescu: granted it's a very difficult task because the issue is medicine (which is wordy by default) and the proposed jump somewhat distant.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform is that in a good way ? like, licking it on a cone ?
mircea_popescu: lol. btw, anyone remember the rubber duckling incident ?
mircea_popescu: "bar of silver" and big somehow don't go together. what's silver, like a pizza an ounce ?
mircea_popescu: if anyone still got an account somehow, see if he maybe wants to write for qntra ? i could read more of that
mircea_popescu: For very good reasons, XT got #REKT, and all the pretentious undergraduate Marxist pomo jargon in the universe won't help it be anything but a colossal failure."
mircea_popescu: Could you possibly be anymore self-righteous and self-regarding, while simultaneously self-pitying?
mircea_popescu: Oh right, the 1MB cap is exactly like slavery days. Got it. That's not offensive at all. And neither are your first world armchair claims of resistance against censorship. You and your exorbitantly privileged critique of theymos' moderation wouldn't last a day in China, where real censorship exists.
mircea_popescu: To the proposal of "XT?" the community overwhelmingly responded "NACK" (cite: xtnodes.com). So regardless of your fact-free preference-tailored extreme minority opinion, the debate is over, and was won on inherency take-outs + presumption (not to mention solvency and the a priori 'FUCK HEARN AND THE CORE DEV HE RODE IN ON' deontological imperative).
mircea_popescu: "Sure, go ahead and "challenge gatekeepers" with your TOR blacklists and awesome ~0% of network mining power.
mircea_popescu: i haven't read bitcointalk in like years, but hey, i tend to read stuff people link here. and in that thread, iCEBREAKER dude is fucking breaking 'em.
mircea_popescu is tempted to start whorehouse, call it people's house./
mircea_popescu: he's definitely more closely associated with the cdcr than with btc.
mircea_popescu: and no, "bitcoin" is not an acceptable answer. what's next, "hey, he was an inmate at pleasant valley and it didn't fail either" ?
mircea_popescu: this is actually a valid question to ask the muppets. "name a venture roger ver was associated with to any degree that didn't fail".
mircea_popescu: must suck to be reduced to trying to support yourself through whoring out your name, which you gotta keep telling yourself is somehow valuable. which it isn't, but desperate scammers don't have other options and who knows, really stupid noobs may not know any better.
mircea_popescu: "Mustaches and beards are permitted so long as they are kept clean and neat."
mircea_popescu: anyway, the heretical, unwelcome, incorrect, impudent, poisonous, insolent, frivolous, vulgar, coarse, brazen proposition that the poor are not lesser humans but more, in contrary of nature, obvious fact and the manifest will of any conceivable divinity.
mircea_popescu: to francis' defense, he does a lot more of the pretense of that than actuality of it,
mircea_popescu: anyway, "voice of the people" pope is a gross misunderstanding of the entire thing already.
mircea_popescu: the ordinary tools are predicated on the tool. much like i will go "do i need to pick up the stick ?"
mircea_popescu: think of catholicism as much harder programming with immutability baked in.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field that's the problem, the task is made significantly harder by previous idiots who didn't understand they were pulling the trigger.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i very much doubt there's that many people who are the intellectual equals of the task. the catholics decided that this must be so, but setting that doctrine aside, i find it dubious in practice.
mircea_popescu: this is almost exactly what the master of a harem is, for that matter.
mircea_popescu: anyway. the pope has one job and one tool. his job is to provide non-breaking answers to any questions that can't otherwise be resolved or set aside. his tool is infallibility, which is to say that if he speaks ex cathedra he can't be wrong.
mircea_popescu: banal shit, but : there's two kinds of men. there's those who assume the usg is anon all powerful ; and those who've killed usg agents after being bored to tears by their inept begging.
mircea_popescu: "Fear assumes limitless possibilities: the thing you fear has infinite power, infinite resources, infinite resolve, unknown identity. Hate comes when you know them. Cyril Connolly did not say, "if it bleeds, we can kill it." But he should have."
mircea_popescu: srsly, the odds bitcoin breaks out next month are worse than 10:1 ?
mircea_popescu: if we can have an arrangement where these peasants are opressed into the dirt by boot to the face, i'm willing to forego ipads in exchange.
mircea_popescu: <funkenstein_> the notion that britney spears did damage to music might be compared to the idea that Garza did damage to bitcoin << still, i'd pay a little for it not being possible for britney to exist. and garza idem.