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mircea_popescu: anyway, props to slate for managing to repackage the "us can't afford to host olympics, unlike both china and russia, because it sucks" into some sort of "do not want" because "notgood".
mircea_popescu: even fucking obamacare is ultimately the same "our shit dun work make it mandatory" nonsense.
mircea_popescu: whatever happens they always turn around to forced participation, it's like the baseline of libertard.
mircea_popescu: hey, people laugh at our notions of "earth sciences" ? BUILD CONSENSUS
mircea_popescu: oh, our normative ideas about gender dynamics are bs ? SHOULD BE FORCED!!1
mircea_popescu: oh, "co-ops" don't work because uneconomical ? THEY SHOULD BE MANDATORY
mircea_popescu: the former's not worth the 70 mn either, can have 500 muscle dudes for a lot less than 140k a head.
mircea_popescu: i'd rather buy the uht / utf / whatever the fuck fighting thing was called from earlier
mircea_popescu: if you live in the world where a click "is worth" 50 cents or whatever inane bs adwords experts powerpoint back and forth, i imagine it's a great deal.
mircea_popescu: basically, "paying 302mn people half a dollar each to derp on our site".
mircea_popescu: "i got a business idea that allows me to get 302 people vaguely interested while i lose 25 cents to the dollar!!1"
mircea_popescu: moreover, what the fuck does the "market" expect. what growth on 302 mn ?
mircea_popescu: which is on some level funny, considering she looks like a 13yo boy escaped from a siberian orphanage, but anyway.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "comedian", shtick mostly consisting of doing the tramp thing
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski i dunno, she looks like this clever smart pleasant chick i wouldnt fuck in hs because no accoutrements and too hairy.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know it's cocaine. and no, others live for bland.
mircea_popescu: yes. like, if you put a dab of icecream on your tongue, or if you open a creaky door, or if you catch a hare running off in the bushline
mircea_popescu: you know that feeling you get when something happens ?
mircea_popescu: which is weird, but who am i to argue with the smartest people in the world.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform some shops here sell already ground coffee.
mircea_popescu: like shit did "ufc" make dudes beating each other popular.
mircea_popescu: "oh you made it popular ? fuck you. you got no moat, drop dead".
mircea_popescu: just drop this "federation" or w/e it's called, start a new one. who gives a shit
mircea_popescu: because it's easier to play the clown, and A LOT more hitchhiker hos line up for it.
mircea_popescu: gavin does the clown, for LESS MONEY than what the headbashers get.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: you neglect to consider that for most people we discuss, this would be a step up.
mircea_popescu: this is what you casually forget, when you keep thinking everyone else's doing so much better than you.
mircea_popescu: hey asciilifeform wanna get your head bashed in for 2.5k ?
mircea_popescu: According to the released figures, a combatant with less than five fights in the UFC will make $2,500 in sponsorship money per fight
mircea_popescu: "The deal was reported to be worth $70 million over six years."
mircea_popescu: "It was an expansive decision on the UFC's part, as the promotion claimed its main interest was to legitimize the sport by removing the tacky, albeit characteristic, fight gear that had become an emblem of the polarizing sport"
mircea_popescu: then they have the gall to mock catholocs for being so-and-so.
mircea_popescu: i certainly don't expect the libertard definition of diplomatic to apply.
mircea_popescu: i do not expect the head of a headbashing federation to be "diplomatic", whatever that weans
mircea_popescu: "It was just the latest in a string of calloused comments made by UFC's head honcho -- far from the diplomatic dialogue expected of the largest mixed martial arts organization"
mircea_popescu: i have serious issues taking people named dana seriously.
mircea_popescu: or just do what i do and run a random box for the purpose.
mircea_popescu: this basic formula of yours stays vague deliberately, for the obvious reason.
mircea_popescu: which is kinda why i was encouraging stuff like "rip off vlc's asciigfx codec and make an emacs eulora client"
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i dun think it currently is possible to have an open source graphical anything.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: <phf> lizard hitler's stash <<< yeah, aka "i'll believe this outside phenomena happened if and only if, and only to the degree it, confirms convictions i held previously and independently of reality"
mircea_popescu: phf yeah, which is how snowden (1) got all the stuff in the first place.