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mircea_popescu: in any case : the best thing that could happen is for a whole lot of lines to go extinct. like... most of them, really.
mircea_popescu: and re the "imagine being a drone"... why do you think it's so impossible to imagine ?
mircea_popescu: they'll just carry dept to stick coins in the stereoscopic machine with the girl taking her pants off
mircea_popescu: ayway, whoredom's gonna be great business. the chinese bezzle looks like it's going to be this, a lot of small yellow beta males swarmin' around. except they won't try to go to college and get a mortgage to please the old folks.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile prostitution... i suspect whores are going to make more money this century than total up to date.
mircea_popescu: recently the airlines managed to lose more money than was made in the history of flight.
mircea_popescu: back in 1992 all ukrainian girls were dancing in leipzig.
mircea_popescu: it'll suck when your kids come of age, not next decade.
mircea_popescu: eh, you might discover that chinese honeymoon much more pleasant than usg dregs.
mircea_popescu: japan was also considering it but then... somehow they changed their mind.
mircea_popescu: Noynoy Aquino said that the Philippines is still considering to join AIIB. "We have not indicated that we are ready to join also. We are actually at the stage of studying the proposal to join this particular new entity."
mircea_popescu: next us president whoever is gonna be is going to discover a sudden fondness for russia and "move past previous difficulties", and the transition's complete : washington is now a sort of germany, in charge of a large rust bucket that doesn't much care for it.
mircea_popescu: no usable jet, not like carriers would be usable even if they had a jet, no money to back it all up with anyway even if they had a miracle cure for rocketry, and no brains to work the entire thing even if money were somehow to be found, as it's always found when there's brains involved.
mircea_popescu: cazalla it's no alternative sort of deal. the "us in south china sea" story is coming to an end this decade.
mircea_popescu: "The only great material difference between Gawker's lines on the fappening and their publication of Bollea's tape is that while photos during the fappening were released in a decentralized manner, Gawker got to publish the Hulk Hogan sex tape first. "
mircea_popescu: and who the fuck apologizes for women that look good in bikinis
mircea_popescu: generally, early discussion of later to be publicly known stuff is considered unambiguous enough.
mircea_popescu: the others didn't have the gumption tro spend a coupla years as paris hilton's foot slaves
mircea_popescu: decimation everything's ambiguous if you wish it to be
mircea_popescu: <BingoBoingo> So, LED bulbs... really excelling at exterior lighting. << so they are. also they bother the fauna, so less racoons
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> or similar 'leak' with unambiguous physical consequences. << the "unambiguous" in there is a no true scotsman. you know for a fact that leaks to date have had physical consequences of the worst kind for the twerps in question, and you know they know, and you can observe them act in consequence of that knowledge. they digested the fact they are informationally defeated.
mircea_popescu: <mats> i wonder if this is how history will remember gawker << it's certainly how i'll remember it. "that wanna-be news-livejournal thing that got destroyed by hulk hogan"
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo you have to appreciate i don't do bezzle. that "couple mil" per year was about 20k actual deductibles and the rest fluff.
mircea_popescu: the entire budget for the thing's entire existence is a coupla mil or so. this spercifically discounting all pretense.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo no way in fuck did anyone sink 1 billion into gawker
mircea_popescu: <jurov> with claim of missing deposit and much confusion ensued << nuts eh.
mircea_popescu: * ascii_field still not convinced that this is any kind of actual defeat for usg << and if i serve it cooked you still wouldn't be. it's like a religion with you :D
☟︎ mircea_popescu: not this world, but a world somewhere sometime. let's pretend it was, at any rate.
mircea_popescu: cazalla i doubt they're selling anything whatsoever at those prices, but hey. the world was made out of pretense.
mircea_popescu: "I should make it clear: we would have settled too, in the interest of fighting another day, if Hogan’s demands were reasonable and the story flawed in any way. But now that the trial is on, we intend to fight it as far as we need to and we can." = we have as much money as josh garza
mircea_popescu: also, heather clem looks made to be fucked on cam and naught else.
mircea_popescu: so let me get this straight, usg is trying its damndest to sink bitcoin by sending every washed up child pr0n dude this way ; meanwhile we're just sitting pretty while the flagship usg propaganda tool self-sinks under the weight of washed up wrestlers ?
mircea_popescu: is that some wrestler dude from back when i still did teenagers one at a time ?!
mircea_popescu: nuts dude, by now people are actually trying to impersonate the b-a dom ?!
☟︎ mircea_popescu: jurov yes. all the people that insisted and eventually got me to check it out, on both episodes, run open source stuff
mircea_popescu: nah, the one aspect of judaism that explains why judaism survived at all survived in su too :
mircea_popescu: who the shit cares ? the "citizens" certainly don't. just as long as the new, improved, electronic and digital food stamps make it on time.
mircea_popescu: which is why setbacks in the indies caused commotion in london, but also why utter rape of the us throughout all its engagements since blackpresident and perhaps before don't even raise an eyebrow.
mircea_popescu: <TheNewDeal> I'm suprised usian muggles don't even comprehend this idea << they don't care one way or another, because they aren't actually invested in the thing. it's a meal ticket. who is going to care whether their meal ticket had a good day at work or a bad day at work ? it's work, it's what it does, fuck it.
mircea_popescu: which is why all this song and dance about recessions, low rates and permanently unelevated plateaus
mircea_popescu: <decimation> if rates creep up to > 10%, usg is gonna have to print to survive << actually even 1% is unsustainable atm.
mircea_popescu: bwahaha TheNewDeal 's "anti establishment slacks" omaigerd.
mircea_popescu: the chinese have been workingon animmortality pill for 3`000 years