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mircea_popescu: i didn't stomp all over their stupid faces those were different faces of different anon derps. this time it'll work!!!
mircea_popescu: no wait, that must be wrong. it was... oh... uh... iot was a DIFFERENT REDDIT!111
mircea_popescu: meanwhile reddit iirc was rabidly "bitcoin must have endless blocks to be the only currency".
mircea_popescu: i thought we were the only ones left that actually believe there is a place for scrip like usd & the rest of the fiats, doing roughly the job of movie tickets and coffee coupons
mircea_popescu: These guys believe, without a trace of irony, that there will someday be no other currency than Bitcoin"
mircea_popescu: "qntra.net is a rabid bitcoin maximalist blog, run by one of the permanent fixtures in the #bitcoin-asshats tribe.
mircea_popescu: like some never grow out of the other infantile deformities.
mircea_popescu: nah, all children are born with flat feet among numerous other diformities. some never grow out of it
☟︎ mircea_popescu: (and the original reason high heels were invented. if the girl's properly heeled, you can't tell)
mircea_popescu: drive fast die young leaving a wholly pierced foot sole.
mircea_popescu: something like that. prolly phrased by original author more in the vein of "i jus dun care!11"
mircea_popescu: i know girly doing that number'd pretty much look hot regardless. but the straight me thinks it's rather disqualifying for a man.
mircea_popescu: let jurov never say i don't have anything in this vein.
mircea_popescu: i just saw "love me or live me" last night. story of fucking america retold as being being built by a sucker labouring atop a dry cunt.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if it's valuable, it's pretty sopping liquid alright
mircea_popescu: i remember some guy paying a lot of money for that sort of thing
mircea_popescu: nobody ever gave a shit. least of all the girly in discussion once she's 17.5
mircea_popescu: "oh in order to put up with what my mother puts up with i will want blabla"
mircea_popescu: the notion that future you asks past you anything at all is very 16yo-ish female in kabul sort of thought. it's not how it works.
mircea_popescu: i wonder if aiming to be a spherical chicken makes one transfat ?
mircea_popescu: yes, the best dreams start with a twisted version of reality.
mircea_popescu: that's the exact problem in discussion here. you're freely mixing cartoons and footage, for a very lsd-looking example.
mircea_popescu: did you or did you not say 10 sqkm opaque bubble, and is it or is it not 15yo cocklet-ism
mircea_popescu: you're not liable to get anywhere by simply following your own mental narrative in circles.
mircea_popescu: you know, naggum had a very unflattering piece re this approach, alf.
mircea_popescu: because if we're doing the entire "here's some random shit i came up with, do planning for it", might as well.
mircea_popescu: oh yeah, and while at it alf, compute the cost of raising ten children off three different women, also sight unseen.
mircea_popescu: there's yer ever-vaunted "social mobility", mats. the nonsensical premise that people should be in charge of their own life and make their own decisions. pure poison for everyone.
mircea_popescu: this is exactly like that one time when the alzheimer dude or w/e his name is wouldn't work with me then partnered up with keiser and started an ever-lulzy kickstarter that got together fiddy bucks and they're neither goinmg to ever mention again, because hey, internet, it's how it works.
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mircea_popescu: large country, they cvouldn't have fuxcked up all of it
mircea_popescu: the premise being that in that future of barely a thousand people, you don't really need names, and moreover, you can trivially ennumerate the list of everyone
mircea_popescu: actually there's a decent sf story in there, title it something like "986"
mircea_popescu: consequently... really, no further point. if tomorrow you wake up and there's not ten billion people but ten thousand, there won't be a notable difference.
mircea_popescu: nobody gives a shit about rockstars and genius scientists now.
mircea_popescu: one million schmucks had to kill themselves raising kids in new jersey so there could be a miss new jersey on television
mircea_popescu: then, steam power replaced muscle power, and people started playing talent lottery.
mircea_popescu: originally, people pinned women down and stuck it in them because the kids cost nothing, either fed themselves off offal or died, and then could be used, for purposes.
mircea_popescu: only thing another hundred twerps does for you is more inane demands.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: used to be, for most of human history, numbers mattered.
mircea_popescu: as empirically observed, there's not any cause or any way to build anything in a swamp.
mircea_popescu: social mobility is a nice way to say it. the other way to say it is "swimming in a shitswamp"
mircea_popescu: more like a freeranged cow for wu gang's organic organ growth farm.