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mircea_popescu: but in point of fact no higher learning has happened in the us in two decades at least.
mircea_popescu: i suppose the sticking point is that you for some reason project unrelated matter on it.
mircea_popescu: "I disagree that I should have to pay in bitcoin or cpu time to get what I want."
mircea_popescu: and then you want clinton to do anything but make it free ?
mircea_popescu: uhh.,... what, "and i'll spend a quarter and not have a problem" ?
mircea_popescu: "I'll ask your opinion on it again next time you have a transaction you need to process in a hurry and the mempool is 5 MB."
mircea_popescu: even if the untermenschen were all on vacation leaving the unterwomenschen behind and the doors open
mircea_popescu: they have run out of softer targets. there's no "untermenschen" they COULD conquer
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform problem being that who are they going to fire on then
mircea_popescu: otherwise, in an open market, the "activist" is middling to low tier camwhore.
mircea_popescu: for the entire nonsense to work, ordinary people must perforce perceive there is "nothing else on the meny"
mircea_popescu: but obviously it would. their entire shtick relies on the same "but seen side by side, illustrates why some go for mutilation".
mircea_popescu: "The Southern Poverty Law Center, a non-profit civil rights organization, has described the 'Oath Keepers' as a 'fiercely anti-government, militaristic group,' and St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar condemned their appearance in Ferguson."
mircea_popescu: the us has painted itself in a corner and there's simply no way out no matter how you approach the matter.
mircea_popescu: there is no way to avoid that. if I ran my platform would also include free university for everyone.
mircea_popescu: (which reminds me : i once dropped the "how tall are you ? really ?! my god, i didn't know they stacked shit that high" on model chick. great lols were had.)
mircea_popescu muchly prefers his manly women be manly intellectually.
mircea_popescu: in young people and especially young women it is how the fucxk do you say this in english
mircea_popescu: i say it today, and the conclave of derps is like "hey, mp is just silly, drugs are great mkay"
mircea_popescu: heck, the same thing was said by educated men of the opium
mircea_popescu: which were utter pieces of shit, btw, and what you said above could have been said by italian "educated man" of the time,
mircea_popescu: so - without inflation they'd still be around, derping on, as if their ideas and values are valuable and useful.
mircea_popescu: this was a convenient excuse in romania, "things went to shit because teh russians are making us do it !111"
mircea_popescu: it's not like the aliens came in and made the country stupid.
mircea_popescu: yet the continuation of his imbecility is exactly 2015.
mircea_popescu: which is the point. the "1971 educated man" does not yet know he's an imbecile.
mircea_popescu: huge profits could be driven by raping it from the future.
mircea_popescu: you understand ? the society of 1971 is just as broken as this one, but not actually raped yet.
mircea_popescu: im sure some uppity redskin proposed the steam engine, too.
mircea_popescu: the entire "apple stock could buy russia" is nothing more and nothing else than, "you could probably buy all of 1971"
mircea_popescu: much enough that it was put in fucking star trek, right ?
mircea_popescu: see, admire the beauty of it. how much would an ipad be worth in 1971 ?
mircea_popescu: chiefly through the process of, the world of 1971 not being worth two shits in the terms of today.
mircea_popescu: because the context has changed. in 1971 a lot of schmucks knew their place.
mircea_popescu: this is not unlike the idiot jews in ghetto taking jobs for germans.
mircea_popescu: yes, real estate allows them to "profit" from inflation, in the sense of being taxed at 30% instead of 65%
mircea_popescu: all one needs to do is keep screenshots over fixed time intervals. eventually the data should be indicative.
mircea_popescu: apparently there's about a dozen or two diddle "profiles"
mircea_popescu: this ain't no kind of deathray. the (incidentally : verifiable) maybe-deathray-esque parts are above in any case.
mircea_popescu: moreover, trilema is not a news rag, it's a personal blog.
mircea_popescu: shinohai maybe i don't understand crosscompilation, but a) shouldn't it work on pogo if you ever got it to compile/link anywhere ? and b) wasn't the idea to avoid compiling for the pogo ON THE POGO anyway ?
mircea_popescu: otherwise you'll get "brownstone is the best stone" and "american ideas must prevail everywhere" endlessly.
mircea_popescu: come to think about it, all the things "we" dislike about postmodernism, specifically the deluge of cultural artefacts (ideas, as opposed to [civilisational] artefacts, ie items) may well be the unavoidably necessary equivalent to inflation, to wash away the idiocy of these guys without having to beat them up/
mircea_popescu: stubbornly refusing to admit that ideological estate they once bought is not now worth what they paid for it eventually die"