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mircea_popescu: much like genitalia belong, indivise, to "the other gender" as a group
mircea_popescu: i agree you're poor as per 3. you like to claim it's as per 1.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i think you two are conflating at least three things. there is 1. "not having any ability to direct the course of public affairs, as encoded in "money" in this society" ; 2. "not having 1 and perceiving one should have it" ; 3. perceiving one should not have it.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but autism is an actual thing, or you disagree with the very notion ?
mircea_popescu: you know, something not being known in 1800 is not automatic proof the something doesn't exist.
mircea_popescu: the difference between the black slave of 1815 and the black freeman of 2015 is that the former actually thinks that, to paraphrase, ", you don't get to fuck the white mistress."
mircea_popescu: (/me has known enough of the sort by noiw, to the degree he mostly points at their face and laughs)
mircea_popescu: so right now if you're a spanish speaker salt is white death still.
mircea_popescu: trinque i'll give you an extra lol. recently the source of the "salt is bad mkay", ie the ustardemia, came out with an admission of the fraudulent nature of that entire swathe of "research". this however has not yet reached the latino "scientists" who mostly exist through translating things and pretending.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: that article i did about "cheers", the sitcom is very illustrative. twerp in question imagines "class" as in, that ancient matter of a person's quality in society, is a matter of anointed. she thinks some vagabond is "high class" because she went to some school.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform only redistyributive taxation can create this situation where they who should be rich think they're somehow poor, and the poor wear alternatively idiot and imbecile clothes.
mircea_popescu: in mid july 1989 govt was pretending like romanians did useful work. by 1992 govt was out and out saying that the ~65 dollars a month you earn is barely justified by your work value.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski /me lived like that for a coupla decades, actually. ro of the 90s was a fab thing.
mircea_popescu: once people lose the ability to confront кто ты по жизни (and notice i did not say "answer"), a numeric classification system is unavoidable.
mircea_popescu: and the exact same thing is coming to an us near you. because if you let the twerps "be what they want to be", they'll want to be "creative evangelists at large" and similar randy zuckerbergianisms. which aren't things.
mircea_popescu: (the silent H in all this being : no, an argentine can't pretend to me to be X or Y or Z. because i have a schematic understanding of what he MAY be, and that is the absolute and enforced limit of his destiny.)
mircea_popescu: by the time blood solids separate out of plasm the body's long dead.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: but saying "the government wants nat'l ids to oppress people" is like saying "maggots want blood separation to kill the corpse".
mircea_popescu: the problem is - they do not. they merely are made unavoidable by the already lost individual agency. which people lose because it's too heavy t ocarry, like the late roman army shield and helmet.
mircea_popescu: and yes, i understand that the view in the us is that such schemes take away individual agency.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, it's a fine exercise in the importance of "national identity" schemes. they exist so that the actual people can make some sort of sense of the cattle.
mircea_popescu: it is the one saving grace because otherwise twerpy as they are they'd be entirely unsuable.
mircea_popescu: like, what their mother's name was and employment history and whatnot
mircea_popescu: meanwhile in daily argentinian lols : their government is deeply inept (so much so that id cards actually have chips with medical history and whatnot). takes me about ten minutes to have complete history on anyone on the basis of their identity number.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> funkenstein_: comfortable when empty but for you. << ro anecdote. many years ago /me went to pick up new slavegirl, decided on train for return trip. rented out whole compartment. upon entering ordered girl to strip and masturbate. cue VERY amazed train conductor guy checking tickets, level with and two feet away from rubbed clit.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> everyone just eats from bag, like a horse, whenever. << good enough for the pakistani's rapemeat warehouse.
mircea_popescu: take that away, having towns is a waste of everyone's time.
mircea_popescu: the entire point of having a city and cars is the endless line of half-naked farm teenagers begging for a ride, stretching out to the horizon.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> f everyone were to come by car. << the city as we know it is before that a creation of the "not everyone's invited" principle.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> mcturd costs a dollar or two. << look at how "inflation" is calculated sometime.
mircea_popescu: maybe for natural causes, but aided and abetted nevertheless.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> the other interesting thing is that the market is segmented in such a way that anyone who doesn't want mcfood ends up paying for ~all~ the alt-crackpotteries, not merely the logical ones << this is a very valid point, and the one spot where alf's ideas re meta-lizzards sound most persuasive. i do not believe the market is gerrymandered as it is by accident.
☟︎☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: <mats> the argument is often made that 'healthy food' in us is expensive <<< healthy food is expensive if you imagine yourself me but for the grace of god, and then attempt to remedy this lack of grace by papering over with money. yes you'll have to pay a lot for someone who doesn't want to, to cook at home for you.
mircea_popescu: or in the words of maggie the cat, "you can be young without money. but you can't be old without it"
mircea_popescu: once we went to a farm, and cow was being milked by girl
mircea_popescu: for a while years ago i amused myself by organising reality tours for various people from afar. sort-of like a conference i guess.
mircea_popescu: hey asciilifeform how come you live in shitington, dc ?
mircea_popescu wants transylvanian sour cream god fucking damn it all.
mircea_popescu: all cheese imported,a nd i have very specific cream and kefir/yogurt requirements.
mircea_popescu: except, perhaps, one. hardly any theo and a lot of rem in it.
mircea_popescu: about 50% of romania's foreign investment in the early 90s came from young colorful men plying that trade abroad.
mircea_popescu: i dunno, who the fuck can eat them. it literally looks like 10x my daily meat intake, and im a consummate carnivore.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile everywhere kfc is going crazy advertising a ... 5 meat patty thing
mircea_popescu is stuffed with TWO!!! homemade round breads + argentine milanesa (schnitzel really). fucking delicious.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and then, salary will be, for 50% of the population, based on the going sprice.
mircea_popescu: and now salary is, for 50% of the population, based on the mcdonalds mchappyshit
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and it's EXACTLY like, junkies COULD do something else with their time
mircea_popescu: mod6 not like the fatsos couldn't buy cheap shit and cook at home.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: if drugs were legal, the only ones left standing would be idem.
mircea_popescu: because srsly... anyone recall my argument re drugs legalisation ?
mircea_popescu: "us democracy has provedly brought the absolute worst solutions to all conceivable problems for the past 50 years. why would anyone not want it in their country!"
mircea_popescu: it works for cats, right ? so there is even science behind it!
mircea_popescu: so instead of steel bars limiting access to subway to only people that can fit through
mircea_popescu: as orwell pointed out, stupid regulations always favour cockroaches.
mircea_popescu: which is to say, yes she's fat because she won't stop eating junk
mircea_popescu: mod6 amusingly enough, the itnernal logic of all this is that sitting lkike a man IS A BEHAVIOUR, see. up to you. whereas being fat like a woman is NOT to the same degree a behaviour.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: mod6 fuck you maybe not the proper form, but "i want those season tickets back and after you've dropped them off do not say hi to me anymore."