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mircea_popescu: btw, you familiar with the hilarious history of the scottish new world settlement thing ?
mircea_popescu: which you know... scotland's going to oh so judiciously use
mircea_popescu: well, it can't. because the one remaining hanging nail on the historical uk is the coupla nuke subs the us allows them to keep
mircea_popescu: and even WITH all that huge expenditure, scotland wants more and nearly seceded.
mircea_popescu: yeah they do, lmao, which is outright ridiculous. all good things are supposed to flow TO the city, not from it.
mircea_popescu: germany's pretty much recovered, the uk will never recover.
mircea_popescu: the uk... god help it. no country in memory sunk as bad as they have.
mircea_popescu: why do you think the empire's been going to shit for a century ?
mircea_popescu: "oh, that's because uk shithole won't help itself and won't allow foreigners to whatever"
mircea_popescu: but you see how this is entirely you calling things names ?
mircea_popescu: you can't sell in randomistan anymore than randomistan can sell in the uk.
mircea_popescu: or, alternatively, you discontinue support for israel and so the saudis no longer have what to fear so they dump your alliance.
mircea_popescu: but then putin turns around, alligns with china economically in exchange for support for his "regions of eurasia" political model
mircea_popescu: obviously, if you refuse to trade with putin, this puts "putin as seen through our trade with him" at a disadvantage.
mircea_popescu: for bluffers, "you don't get to see my cards if you fold"
mircea_popescu: but yes, the set of rules that control the game are different for hookers and bluffers. for hookers, the rules that control are "A > K > Q" etc.
mircea_popescu: rich man's bridge will collapse just like poor man's bridge will.
mircea_popescu: how would that work ? does being rich change thermodynamics or something ?
mircea_popescu: why should this matter ? play the fucking hand. you adjust to fit it, not the other way around.
mircea_popescu: because it's not what they expected / wish to play / etc.
mircea_popescu: now, if one's afore-decided they will be bluffing, a) they won't make very good poker players and b) any hand they get can "put them at a disadvantage".
mircea_popescu: to play bluffer you nbeed card inferiority, and try to trick your opponent into folding.
mircea_popescu: mkay. so take poker. a very simple description of poker is that you can either play hooker or bluffer. to play hooker you need card superiority, and try to trick your opponent into paying.
mircea_popescu: williamdunne someone without money has the disadvantage of not what to spend and the advantage of not having what to protect.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, to round off the "social marketplace" thing : if one is to reclassify slave labour as "voluntaryism", which is undoubtedly erroneous but nevertheless coherent with the presupositions proposed, then sure, i am a champion of "the northern model"
mircea_popescu: pretty much everyone in the civilised world (us and eu excluded) lives fine without ever touching those.
mircea_popescu: it's like... we're so far ahead of the curve, we will PRETEND to be playing all others' hands, too. because... w/e.
mircea_popescu: williamdunne one of the most amusing things, to me, is that the entire "black domination" subtrend in porn is driven almost entirely by white men.
mircea_popescu: justJanne don't die over b-a hon. it's eternal, will be here when you're 69, too.
mircea_popescu: williamdunne "murder". in the immortal words of butch, "if he were a better boxer he'd still be alive"
mircea_popescu: justJanne are you kidding ? switzerland is exploiting a resource
mircea_popescu: purely economic. as hitler actually pointed out : we don't have enough land to exploit. either we fight or "the way of life" has to change.
mircea_popescu: williamdunne people generally don't wish to accept that nazism was absolutely unavoidable, FOR THIS REASON
mircea_popescu: sure, if you get a shitton of oil when oil's valuable / fish when fish is valuable etc, the "nordic model" is a great way to share it.
mircea_popescu: well, you need a system that works without assumptions.
mircea_popescu: justJanne so far you've not considered the part where it is already collapsing on its own, bnecause it doesn't work, because it's strictly based on getting lucky.
mircea_popescu: if those schmucks had any idea about their important place in keeping adlai happy...
mircea_popescu: where the old woman doctrine has the nice counterpart of the freely provided fun stuff to do by the palestinians.
mircea_popescu: amusingly, the only place where that model is actually sustainable is... israel.
mircea_popescu: ESPECIALLY in societies that "Work well" by old woman standards.
mircea_popescu: justJanne if it's not worth paying for it wasn't that good in the first place.
mircea_popescu: trinque you think it's a gender issue ? i dun think she's old enough yet.
mircea_popescu: lots of pedos volunteer to be teachers. is scarcely a proof your system works.
mircea_popescu: nah, latinos mostly do c style work (figure out the least you can get away with and do less htan that).
mircea_popescu: no, not because of what you believe. because of how you proceed.
mircea_popescu: you've done what a hacker news reader would do, reading the usg piece instead of my piece and imagining "oh i read about crypto"
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo from what i hear a major battle is raging in us agriculture. monsanto vs agrobiz
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes also must give people rope to hang with, it's a tandem process.
mircea_popescu: i've known a bunch of german sluts, i don't go around assuming you're one, right ?
mircea_popescu: this gives you an opportunity to explain yourself, or to go nuts i guess.