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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."
mircea_popescu: directly visible in the say "abstraction" of movements.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform honestly my first idea of socialist realism is very bad metal basreliefs.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform nah, you're thinking the almost able to stand post-20s.
mircea_popescu: with an imaginary black leader dude that caused a countrywide revolt.
mircea_popescu: im looking forward to a remake of spartacus but set in south carolina
mircea_popescu: all the unwatchable crud starting with the alt-gays (brokeback mountain) all through imaginary women that never happened, brave black slaves, what have you
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there's this thing which seriously proposes that a texas ranger who took the trouble to hunt some outlaw all the way into wherever the fuck is even talking to some snotty brat.
mircea_popescu: for the record : no child at that time would have fucking dared to open her stupid mouth for fear of a beating.
mircea_popescu: shit that only happened on planet "i'm a fat fuckhead and i will daydream an alt-history in which women actually did shit" ?
mircea_popescu: meanwhile "wtf is cogburn" "it's a reference to a film you stopped because wtf is this stupid shit."
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo "Preet Bharara's minions can be seen pleading to Judge Forrest that the terminally corrupted Baltimore investigation so how touches their investigation in no way."
mircea_popescu: apparently the neobee "brick and mortar" 17 yo financiers.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski original deal was for a dozen, you;'d prolly make it
mircea_popescu: use cockroach parts! they're great for the environment and weigh less!
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo dude dat qntra. 0.00027399 vs 0.00028991 eh!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no, i'll just end up stuck explaining why you shouldn't to angry mobs.