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mircea_popescu: the gentlemen investors as well as the armchair financiers may find the 2nd part of ^ interesting
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel come to think about it, you probably want derive source for your masamune thing
mircea_popescu: check it out btw, almost like topless daughter of president
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform why didnt you get a symbolics box yo! then you could have fondly remembered maxima instead of derive!
mircea_popescu: they just had a retarded female-centric social system which fell over at the slightest provocation. like every other case in history.
mircea_popescu: but yes, it was by far the largest affair in the new world. because the new world sucked.
mircea_popescu: rome had been a million for nine or ten centuries by that point
mircea_popescu: fucking ur, at the time of its beheading, was ten times that.
mircea_popescu: anyway, to take that myth away : tenochtitlan had a populatiuon of 2 or 300k. in any case under 500k.
mircea_popescu: what's this mezclado of everything. we talk north american indians you derp about early mexico city, i discuss tech you derp about consumers... different things yo.
mircea_popescu: fuck him, retarded sicilian rediscovering the intellectual products of sheep herding in 1940
mircea_popescu: i do not need nor care to mention some schmucks 5000 years late to the party.
mircea_popescu: if i want to worship some iron age primitives, i got the greeks
mircea_popescu: humanity is a thrown curve. what's ok in 700bc is not ok in 2000ad."
mircea_popescu: "they had cars at the time this fuckwit was living in the dirt. do you understand ? some african monkey thinking they unveiled the sikrits of the universe AT THE SAME TIME as people doing the cern cyclotron is necessarily and by that very fact an idiot.
mircea_popescu: last fucking thing i want to see are some elders harping on about how great the iron age man was. srsly.
mircea_popescu: dude if your idea of wise elders is some twerps who worship the failures...
mircea_popescu: you don't get to go around putting labels on things you know.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform obviously. those showed some sign of sense.
mircea_popescu: obviously the white guys killed the red guys. the red guys sucked.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: you're acting like elementary points don't somehow magically exist. that pretense doesn't do anything.
mircea_popescu: you mean the protocols of the learned elves of denver ?
mircea_popescu: in point of fact as the white man put pressure on the indians, they started crossing boundries in desperate search of food. this was very successful at preventing organised resistance - idiots too busy fighting each other.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes yes. the sort of disease that kills the hungry.
mircea_popescu: but that's besides the point. being a skilled politician is never enjoyable.
mircea_popescu: yes, of the subset of skills that are enjoyable, one enjoys more the ones that are useful and he's any good at
mircea_popescu: im sure they'll enjoy it on account of "knowing how to do it"
mircea_popescu adds "teenaged californians that know how to clean toilets" to his shopping list.
mircea_popescu: why do you think the immigrants slaughtered the indians instead of persay teaching them to farm ?
mircea_popescu: allowing the common man some semblance of freedom and import for a short interval.
mircea_popescu: because their massacre makes the scant remaining life valuable,
mircea_popescu: we are however against hteir continued physical existence.
mircea_popescu: nobody is against the study of political, philosophycal, astronautical or any other knowledge defeated tribe had.
mircea_popescu: funkenstein_ a lot of talk about that. point of fact is, subsistence hunters with bow and arrow.
mircea_popescu: the various people the spanyards killed are some other discussion.
mircea_popescu: so then why do you conflate the two. the people i was talking about when i said iron age were the various twerps the usians killed.
mircea_popescu: funkenstein_ no, probably on account of electricity being too expensive.
mircea_popescu: and then funkenstein_ wants to tell me about the intrinsic worth of all bipedal mouthbreathers.
mircea_popescu: basically, argentinian : tribute band that is not a band and no tribute, in a bar that sells no drinks to some kids that are there because they got out of the rain.
mircea_popescu: you should have seen this thing. a space too small to keep a woman with her sister ; 5 dollar drinks ; buncha teenaged derps dressed like pizza delivery boys, backpacks i compris. which ius why nobody had a drink.
mircea_popescu: in other news, went on a lark to this "power dc" ac/dc tribute band in some "rock bar" here.