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mircea_popescu: Chillum a) feudalism is the most complex form to date b) democracy hasn't failed, it succeeded. like communism. turns out nobody can stand its final form.
mircea_popescu: next you're going to want to hang badly dressed women, and then where will we be.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform incidentally, this greek stuff is a fine test of the whole array of lizard hitler theory. clearly he couldn't possibly allow this, right ? when's the last time someone defaulted to the britton woods system ? when's the last time a government said fu, we're not going to do what you want us to do so we fail electorally ?
mircea_popescu: and, obviously, the "welfare of the children" is the chief concern.
mircea_popescu: so... i suppose the us, germany and whoever else has money must pay for the house where greece fucks random dudes and "raises the children"
mircea_popescu: the process took a few decades to come to roost, but now stupid countries are behaving comensurate with that.
mircea_popescu: basically, in the 70s stupid dudes in government decided to force men to pay for stupid women in the house.
mircea_popescu: i dunno who the overgrown infants think they're fooling,
mircea_popescu: you see ? a! like, there are others, this is just one of a class!
mircea_popescu: “We may have to go into a silent arrears process" << check it out, they have a word for it and everything!
mircea_popescu: THEN leave, two months late and leave dead hookers in the matresses.
mircea_popescu: not even. sign the lease, expect leasor to buy you drinks at the bar, sublet the place to a bunch of other dudes, never pay a dime in rent
mircea_popescu: ocasionally the hre would come over, the local whores (ie, married women) fucked the soldiers raw.
mircea_popescu: Chillum greece is the main example of a certain way to run a country, which is : make promises to whatever power, then not keep the promises see what it does.
mircea_popescu: "Greece no longer has enough money to pay the IMF €498m on April 9, and also to cover payments for salaries and social security on April 14"
mircea_popescu: maybe next they can leech some money off the russians for a while, making promises ?
mircea_popescu: make it possible for imbeciles to live with it, not really.
mircea_popescu: necessarily, as something becomes "popular" the percentage of imbeciles increases.
mircea_popescu: people, the sort who imagine themselves "part of the community" for no reason, not being able to pass even the minimal qual of running a node, have nfi just how heavy 1mb blocks are
mircea_popescu: jurov the idea being that putin didn't write himself a piece of paper saying "hey if i don't like you it's ok to take your stuff". or if he wrote, he didn't sign. or if he signed, he didn't publish. etc.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: sure. and maybe if the people trying to bail out the titanic were faster with it...
mircea_popescu: there asciilifeform, i found you rishonim precedent in the kotzker rebbe discussion of buffet's plight.
mircea_popescu: there asciilifeform, i found you in the rishonim discussion of buffet's plight in the kotzker rebbe.
mircea_popescu: "Just as it is the way of an ape to imitate humans, so too, a person, when he has become old, imitates himself, and does what was his manner previously."
mircea_popescu: "if wealth is a curse... well then may god strike me down with it! and may i never recover!"
mircea_popescu: hm, reading back... you probably didn't even pick the pale reference didja.
mircea_popescu: and notice he's not even really russian. imagine if he stayed in odessa.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes imagine what it's like to be his girlfriend.
mircea_popescu: "that doesn't make any sense" "But it's got you talking about it!" "only briefly" "yeah well that's a lot more than the other 93875937394 guys manage"
mircea_popescu: i suppose "innovation" in the superficial sense in current usage has come to this, that it's barely a proxy for shock value. they ran out of "innovative" alts and now are hoping for interest out of the patently ridiculous.
mircea_popescu: the part about adding things to his highlights ? or the part about shewpherd pie ?
mircea_popescu: buffett pre 2000 is very different beast from buffett post 2001
mircea_popescu: anyway, entire class of could-have-been bright young things that sound like eliza.
mircea_popescu: they could call themselves gheishas for the same money.
mircea_popescu: "Pretentious sounding word used by dejected art history and drama majors that describes their employment in order to make themselves feel better about serving coffee."