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mircea_popescu: "o look, the usual crutches i use to hide my idiocy don't work, now it's nude on display".
mircea_popescu: the word for this can be "civilised", but it just as well be "fucking stupid".
mircea_popescu: that's the long and the short of it. has nothing to do with people.
mircea_popescu: bs. the problem there isn't anything to do with "people". dependent cattle behave outrageously if taken outside of their pens.
mircea_popescu: <nubbins`> "a strange happened so i badded it" << quite.
mircea_popescu: i was just filling in the gaps, dunno wtf he actually used,
mircea_popescu: permethrin is this contact insecticide that is well tolerated by mammals,
mircea_popescu: actually hanbot used to feed chicken livers to this blind dog that had a helper tripod dog (one limb cut off, prolly in tram accident).
mircea_popescu: actually i used to know, many years ago, an old, 2/3 tailless , earless, blind tomcat.
mircea_popescu: exactly. my objection isn't particularly that the cat got hurt as much as it is the guy didn't.
mircea_popescu: but i guess it's because we're sociopaths, aka, idiot-intolerant.
mircea_popescu: "could a rope and an open can of tuna solve this problem ? naaah, best call the plumber!"
mircea_popescu: "gee, i wonder why the poor cat isn't scaling the wall after being sprayer with permethrin and not being fed for a week"
mircea_popescu: and all days until the one day, because it seems our fate :D
mircea_popescu: anyway, i gtg, we shall continue this argument tomorrow
mircea_popescu: imagine your daughter fails exams, now can't go to school. so what, you make her a mini university out of cardboard, and while the other girls to go school
mircea_popescu: this is what it is, and the most important dynamic since combustion engine.
mircea_popescu: derp fucked up on bitbet, it turns out bitbet is not a consumer venue, sales doubled that quarter.
mircea_popescu: cisco was caught working with usg, lost 90% of sales in onequarter.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field compare, for it is informative, cisco's experience with bitbet's experience.
mircea_popescu: whereas mykotronx can stop tomorrow, and that tomorrow is coming.
mircea_popescu: but there's nothing anyone can do to prevent s.nsa from baking what it bakes
mircea_popescu: modern weapons yo. they only work in the hands of the proper people.
mircea_popescu: one day newsweek will need to borrow and find itself unable to.
mircea_popescu: "you and i might not care or know, but someone in the capitalist club is financing the new lightbulb"
mircea_popescu: ascii_field not you and me per se. bitcoin, itself, going for 10bn dollah nao.
mircea_popescu: the plan is of course to use it extensively on anyone related to usg, starting with the press, starting with idiot whores a la leah goodman and idiot venues a la newsweek
mircea_popescu: ascii_field problem is we're rich. this can no longer work for bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: the population simply collapses at that point. think cockroaches.
mircea_popescu: i don't think any human population can be stable with lifetimes averages < 30.
mircea_popescu: trinque hastings was born before me wtf. this is a long life now ?
mircea_popescu: "all the other rags" is the proper venue for that sorta nonsense.
mircea_popescu: felipelalli if you write some apologetic pos about how toejam is an actual service it's not getting published.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: think of it in terms of particles : if muons live a second and meons an hour, and at all times 10% of particle population is muons, then what changes does a meon to turn into a muon during its lifetime ?
mircea_popescu: (% of homeless people, life expectancy of homeless people, life expectancy of general population, -> over 50% or some shit)
mircea_popescu: ascii_field i had an article about how all us citizens should have a solid expectation of being homeless eventually
mircea_popescu: expectations coming to allign with reality is a measure of emerging sanity
mircea_popescu: "get an education get a house get insurance get a wife" etc. sure.
mircea_popescu: just, you know, everyone thinks they're speshul. but if i were a natl bank governor i wouldn't allow the derps to borrow either.
mircea_popescu: AND this is for the great benefit of everyone else, because nobody is as poor as usians.
mircea_popescu: if you imagine random guy in this world can borrow for any purpose you're nuts. all banks lend to nat'l government and us government only.
mircea_popescu: it is sort-of a feature, you only get to see the noobish beginnings of people newer than you.
mircea_popescu: yeah i think you found a problem that can't actually be resolved with currently available tools.
mircea_popescu: brendafdez i thought search automatically sorts by time, descending ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, is btcjam just about cooked up enough to go belly up or does it still have thread to survive this year ?