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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."
mircea_popescu: how is coinbase going to pay for big blocks. more tax money ? more fees ? what ?
mircea_popescu: somehow nobody ever thought to ask the self-proclaimed "bitcoin businesses" that nevertheless have 0 bitcoin income signing whatever ridicuolous proclamation HOW DO TYHEY INTEND TO PAY FOR IT.
mircea_popescu: "here's your flier advertising cheaper mass transit in lieu of taxes this year. fuck off."
mircea_popescu: and if in facvt it is cheaper, that's only proof the government is taking in too much tax.
mircea_popescu: well how about fuck that. no "bigger blocks", no mass transit, no government anything.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: then it's "since you need us, here's what you must do".
mircea_popescu: 1st it's all about "why will you use something you control instead of something we control ? it's cheaper! environment! racism!"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and that's exactly how govt ploys work, ever since forever. in all cases.
mircea_popescu: to be noted, of course, that this "if you're poor enough to need to use our mnass transit, here is how you must sit" nonsense follows twenty-thirty years of "oh using cars is bad for the environment, when mass transit is just as good"
mircea_popescu: (my own interpretation of reality being that china has decided there is no need of a us in the future, which would be implemented through a slow divestment so as to extract the maximal value possible out of their holdings. now that they've actually moved on it, they're not going to change course. which means 2010s are the last decade for the us.)
mircea_popescu has redominated all his real estate leases throughout the world into usd during the past ~year, so this should be fun indeed.
mircea_popescu: CHINA DOESN'T UNDERSTAND HOW CHINA SHOULD WORK SO THE WORLD CAN WORK LIKE WE WANT IT TO BECAUSE WE'RE IMPORTANT!111
mircea_popescu can scarcely believe all the ustards have to talk about is whether men sit like this or like that
mircea_popescu: i am unconvinced by any explanation of decline that reads different from "success brought abundance which made people complacent. the end."
mircea_popescu: and i don't care how "raceis", "rapey" or whatever else the understanding of women as people is.
mircea_popescu: therre is no such thing as "creativity" in tech, and there's certainly no place for "women in tech" understood as monkeys.
mircea_popescu: reality may surprise and remain valid. thoughts may not. surprising thoughts are ipso facto invalid. which is why the destruction of engineering as an intellectual activity is covered in "creativity"
mircea_popescu: if you also know, the same way, why do you want it ? if you do not, why do you aim to be involved in this ?
mircea_popescu: who made the standard ? how did they know what to put into it ?
mircea_popescu: let me put this question in its proper framing, harking back to the scholastic disputes of a millenium ago.
mircea_popescu: why the fuck does anyone need "best business practices" ? and what do they need them FOR ?