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mircea_popescu: ascii_field 100 metres is tough. within 100 metres of me there's like 3 different theatres.
mircea_popescu: incidentally... i find it kinda lulzy that arabs etc don't go all bear. but...
mircea_popescu: kinda gamey, like a pig that grew up thinking it's pheasant ?
mircea_popescu: still, "hard to herd a herd"... you heard it here first
mircea_popescu: well what do you want to, spherical chicken in vacuum ?
mircea_popescu: ascii_field ok, but you know... kinda hard to herd a herd if you're so olfactorily intolerant
mircea_popescu: adlai i always understood it as the much more subtle "well im on the football team now, why hassle to score goals. hassle to prevent anyone from scoring more than me".
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski in like 5 jurisdictions by various people who know their job.
mircea_popescu: according to argentinian head, 200k barely buys you a cramped 500sqft apt.
mircea_popescu: lobbes you're not being personally criticized yo. you don't like it, get rid of it.
mircea_popescu: kinda why the interwebs are so popular with "the people"
mircea_popescu: "this could not possibly be a dumb idea - look! others are doing it too!"
mircea_popescu: nubbins` you know, just because your job sucked doesn't mean work sucks.
mircea_popescu: yes, but that's what he means by "theoretical physicist"
mircea_popescu: well in that manner, becoming a slave is the easiest way to increase quality of life.
mircea_popescu: "my own evaluation of variable x has changed as my measurement standards changed"
mircea_popescu: kinda how the soviets failed, people went "eh why bother, they gotta pay me anyway, and i don't make anything out of iteither way"
mircea_popescu: nubbins` it's when you stop contributing to an idiotic community and just keep for yourself.
mircea_popescu: if there IS a fire, nobody can insure the whole shebang.
mircea_popescu: not everything's insurable nubbins`. specifically : insurance works for individuals. i was discussing the country/western world.
mircea_popescu: on average, if you average them, per capita debt about 1k, per capita income about 5k, hopefully there isn't a fire.
mircea_popescu: anyway, fwiw i suppose your situation is exactly typical of "the civilised world".
mircea_popescu: "oh i just pay 20k out of my 6k a year. problem ?!?!?!"
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski he sells used chicken fingers to make up the diff.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski i mean they also happened in daytime, you know, cause the shops are closed at night. so daytime causes it ? meh.
mircea_popescu: but i still think it's at best wrong to imagine "the discussion did it"
mircea_popescu: nubbins` to the degree that one's action is prevented by organised debris in his head, then this process may clear a path he can finally act upon
mircea_popescu: which is important because "being in bitcoin country" does not anymore "make you bitcoiner
mircea_popescu: which is just another way of saying that "talking about bitcoin doesn't make you part of bitcoin"
mircea_popescu: if dude's not ready to buy nw car, he may talk of whatever with whoever, still no car. so forum didn';t DO anything.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski if someone's ready to i dunno, buy a new car, then he has specific questions which a forum might answer, and he's buying cart with our without forum. so forum didn't DO anything.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski being persuasive is like being tasteful. not a property of the painting.
mircea_popescu: no dude. they kept talking indefinitely. it's a way to pass the time.
mircea_popescu: hey, i used to write great novels, but then i got promoted and now im doing 6 teasy metaphores an hour!
mircea_popescu: nubbins` all about how and why would one go in the water, whether there's breathing, ample considerations.
mircea_popescu: and they had this conversation which went on for a while.
mircea_popescu: so listen, i was once with like half a dozen teensy chicks by the side of a pool, and some were in the water and some were on the chairs.
mircea_popescu: which should explain why people don't particularly wanna say anything on the topic. how the hell does one even know ?
mircea_popescu: which then paid off when you went and fucked with installing pogoshits
mircea_popescu: nubbins` honestly i thought you were kinda dumb for the entire interval, but in a reserved sort of way.
mircea_popescu: cuz 598986907 years ago, hunter went into the forest, whereas woman only moved fat butt from current bush she plucked once someone found a new bush
mircea_popescu: the answer in his head, prolly, was "to be replaced with what"