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mircea_popescu: nubbins` he does stand around suspiciously unconcerned
mircea_popescu: in the terms it's being discussed (cotton baller), it sucked.
mircea_popescu: i have no objection to whatever model being used, but it'd better be used consistently!
mircea_popescu: nubbins` it got prosecuted for selling cotton by the bale, ftr.
mircea_popescu: indian candy prolly has more candy laying around her place than sr ever moved.
mircea_popescu: like the TRILLIONS of dollars a derpy website "on the deep web o.O" that couldn't sell a kilo of coke is nevertheless associated with in usg paperwork.
mircea_popescu: that is a certainty. most of the loss is purely imaginary anyway
mircea_popescu: yes, he is. nobody asked fatso to pretend like he's a banker nao.
mircea_popescu: magicaltux, and you're comment as ot whether "he's to blame entirely"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: by know there's an entire generation of this office scum : their job is to "x and be nice". they do exactly as much work as any guppi
mircea_popescu: then his boss comes back, discovers he's not done any work, and george goes "consider i am in the smaller office!"
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski there's a great seinfeld episode in which that weasel costanza goes to a job interview, decides to show up to work as if he had passed it, the somewhat confused receptionist gives him a choice of offices, he takes the smaller one.
mircea_popescu: "THERE ARE PEOPLE THERE WHO EXPECT US TO MAKE SENSE AND DONT CARE ABOUT HOW THIS MAKES US FEEL!!1"
mircea_popescu: blame attaches according to sin, not according to the size of the fireball.
mircea_popescu: williamdunne being stupid and acting like you're important and should be relied on is something one gets blamed for entirely.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski the problem with not shooting retards is that they accumulate.
mircea_popescu: that's the nature of this "investment". "we can use your money"
mircea_popescu: if you're so inclined, you can find a woman on the street willing to call your bar bills "investments", and then make you some kids to invest into further.
mircea_popescu: it just calls people that if that's what they want to be called.
mircea_popescu: what sort of industrial warehouse do you run in your own house over there!!
mircea_popescu: this has been the most distant christmas in hystory, but! apparently it's coming.
mircea_popescu: if georgie ouzounian runs into you somewhere in dusty utah and you're wearing that shirt and it reads "I'm better than you" he's probably going to accost you.
mircea_popescu: anywhere you go, you're unimpressed with the local assholery.
mircea_popescu: eventually it was "fuck this shit, we make them as tough as pipes"
mircea_popescu: srsly, for about 10 years it was like "omfg world please stop cutting cables"
mircea_popescu: they're reinforced to hell precisely because of people like you.
mircea_popescu: decimation and the pretorian guard failed to help nero.
mircea_popescu: i can't eat a digital biscuit, meanwhile you go make someone shove pens in his butt, without the digital biscuit.
mircea_popescu: yeah dude, you can. and it's your choice to either feed me or eat it. how about that.
mircea_popescu: decimation you know this is what people said too ? "can't eat an iron sword"
mircea_popescu: find me a state in the history of the world that can run the sort of deficits we run.
mircea_popescu: then the industrial revolution came, and england was the size of a cumsplotch, and it didn't matter.
mircea_popescu: territory was important when the economy was based on working the land.
mircea_popescu: territory's not worth squat. bitcoin, tmsr~ does actually better than any known state PRECISELY because all its territory is virtual.
mircea_popescu: you'd think people actuaslly involved in strategic planning have enough of a tin ear to hear the sort of "o noes, things aren't like we have emotionally invested ourselves into them being, let us rehash how trhings shjould be so we don't have to change or even examine our priors" whine.
mircea_popescu: anyway, who the fuck came up with the territorial nonsense quoited above anyway ?