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mircea_popescu: i guess neartly all locales in the us are fortunate i don't give a shiot about building anything there.
mircea_popescu: ima build a fucking wizard tower on my own land if i feel so inclined, and if anyone doesn't like it ima add cannons to it.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the notion of "approved" for construction is foreign to my mental universe.
mircea_popescu: in a shitty 70s suit, looking like they won the zoo lottery and it's more monkeys.
mircea_popescu: phf yeah, middle aged men looking about as sad as the nayor of mew york.
mircea_popescu: mats the kennedys never went out with a "we're better than you, so do it this way"
mircea_popescu: im all for prosecuting them AS IF THEY WERE, it's right and proper.
mircea_popescu: which is the tell tale sign of the absence of such an elite.
mircea_popescu: and charged with anything but "failing to respect the elite"
mircea_popescu: if i go up to obama and take a leak on his shoes he's going to say "that's inappropriate" isn't he.
mircea_popescu: who exactly, outside of that idiot mit kid, actually says "we are the elite and move out of our way" ?
mircea_popescu: i dunno that the us has an elite. merely a perception of such a thing does not cosntitute one.
mircea_popescu: people like that black dude in wc metro are actually helping.
mircea_popescu: now if the us could just get over itself collectively and reach the humility of chinese peasants cca 1970, the us would be all ready to be china thirty years ago.
mircea_popescu: decimation yeah. and the impression i got, from there an' everywhyere lese, is exactlly this : neat execution, uninnovative.
mircea_popescu: you can now get a 70kwh battery for cheaper than in 1995.
mircea_popescu: decimation well, hes improved the mass production part.
mircea_popescu: the more resources one throws at a wrong problem, the more thoroughly reviled.
mircea_popescu: which incidentally, since you don't ask, is exactly how love and hate works in this channel.
mircea_popescu: the problem is, idiots working on wrong problems are not a net win for humanity.
mircea_popescu: anyway. yes, electric car is a piece of shit submarine-airplane joint nonsense, specifically because there is no battery equivalent of fuel.
mircea_popescu: mats could have been lol but it lost me at "post-quantum"
mircea_popescu: "including bigger batteries and a quicker acceleration mode, called "Ludicrous." That option will take the car from zero to 60 miles per hour in 2.8 seconds. During the hold music for the online press conference, the automaker played some of Ludacris' music"
mircea_popescu: usians are going away. not to be confused with actual trends for actual people.
mircea_popescu: yes. the lightbulb scandal is the one thing to hang people for.
mircea_popescu: imo that's the top of the list of that stupid shit, and it's not even usian
mircea_popescu: or the incredibly colonialist "now that the third world can produce lightbulbs, it's time to 'move on' to a toxic 'alternative' that looks god awful and will poison the immediate environment with mercury"
mircea_popescu: well, what people do and what people mean to do may diverge, but nobody cares about the latter. the fellow who wrote it necessarily agrees, in the writing.
mircea_popescu: it has a little leg to stand on, at least. inasmuch as usg claims a mandate to regulate everything, every failure of regulation is on their head.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform from what i gather the proposition is that these aren't different.
mircea_popescu: "Roy Hollister Williams is a best selling author and marketing consultant best known for his Wizard of Ads trilogy. He is founder of the Wizard Academy institute and currently lives in Austin, Texas with his wife Pennie."
mircea_popescu: by now it's impossible to tell satire from an obama speech.
mircea_popescu: "Some people have been mailing me lately, random people asking me if their kids should go. It's expensive. Way expensive. Tough choice to make, even now, with Wizard Academy grads making anywhere from a quarter million to a million a year, while the rest of us plod away in 5-figure territory."
mircea_popescu: ascii_field in eu you can go to jail for doing that. gotta use metal.
mircea_popescu: anyone can be a terrorist for the price of a quarter dollar cigar.
mircea_popescu: nevermind that i dunno where it's even legal to store gasoline in plastic.
mircea_popescu: so the procuraderia de la nacion, which is basiucally the da's office, has this gated off entryway. in that entryway, stored two meters from the grating, eight five gallon plastic containers full of gasoline.
mircea_popescu: i personally never got a mac. best everyone knows is in the wiki, you reading that ?
mircea_popescu: ag3nt_zer0 yes you do, but that doesn't sound like a wrong directory problem
mircea_popescu: i do not have an apple account nor would be getting one.
mircea_popescu: but only if you actually can do the whole chain, i don't wish to touch apple. so if yo ucan get it into their store thing etc.
mircea_popescu: what'd cost me for you to make the eulora client into an ipad app ?