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mircea_popescu: brendafdez depends on what lifestyle. place to throw a party. place to store a lot of books. place to practice some indoor hobby - from kendo to rockstaring.
mircea_popescu: besides, something tells me you'll salivate after the vibe of any place that's not washington fucking dc.
mircea_popescu: timisoara. it thinks itself a major romanian town, but it's more like... well... portland, basically.
mircea_popescu: the girlies that lived alone in town generally got 500 sqm apts running 300ish a month.
mircea_popescu: it came with my $7k a year two level + garden house in ro.
mircea_popescu: "For the first time in New York City, a multi-unit building will (legally) consist entirely of what the city has dubbed "micro units," which are apartments of between 250 and 370 square feet." << this is almost exactly it!
mircea_popescu: dude, shakespeare had only part of it. not only is the world a stage, but the same old play is going on endlessly.
mircea_popescu: "construction zones that only constructed themselves" fuck, that's SO DAMNED SOVIET!
mircea_popescu: i'm curious if it's going to yield some sort of ragnarok-like "the world is doomed" (seems to jive with the "austerity won't work for us so it doesn't work period" self-seeking ignorance) or some sort of ultraviolent civil war of six sides, like in japan
mircea_popescu: there's a difference between "laughing is evil" (as aptly depicted by eco) and "we are wrong"
mircea_popescu: but the us has been hating itself, quite loudly at that, for decades now.
mircea_popescu: ironically, neither group (ru, ro) selfhated pre the experience.
mircea_popescu: not that it was avoidable, but it did make for enduring hatred for both communism and russians.
mircea_popescu: five-six thousand years later you'll be launching the titanic!
mircea_popescu: incidentally : shared kitchens are absolutely the ONLY way to go high density. gotta let the women become friendly so the tribal structure re-emerges. once they're breastfeeding each other's babies you can start over with the moses desertwalk.
mircea_popescu: where they put all the peasants that went to town to work
mircea_popescu: 'The authors of a new report from the Boston Foundation, a philanthropic organization that funds local nonprofits, prefer the phrase "millennial villages," dorm-like developments that maximize space by combining smaller living spaces with lots of common areas.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform for all i care people are still paying to visit graceland.
mircea_popescu: assbot: Young Adults Are Losing All Hope of Buying a Starter Home - check it out, being a twentysomething usian kid is a worse fate than being a 20something chinese kid.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo btw is qntra making a "first static bitcoin" post ?
mircea_popescu: you can't have moral persons that have delegated their authority. everyone in the us agrees that they're obeying laws because they're laws, not because they're right. consequently, american citizens can not be moral agents.
mircea_popescu: the ridicule of this after their "austerity as only way out" consensus in the 90s is completely lost, also in typical usian fashion.
mircea_popescu: which is why, in typical usian fashion, they're claiming currently that "austerity is not a way out" in the general.
mircea_popescu: it can't stop. this is a foregone conclusion, the us has no austerity way out
mircea_popescu: how does air manage to avoid being digested by mammals ? well...
mircea_popescu: when confronted with stuff such as, you know "quite a few 'civilians' don't believe me when i explain that the 'publishers' do not edit, or - in most cases - even typeset the submissions; and that not only do authors receive no royalties, but often -pay- page costs"
mircea_popescu: strange that anyone would even for a single second propose the usg even exists as a going concern,
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: but even if it were true - still a joke. picture, full year's embargo. << i actually don't see much of a problem with this. most "science" is worthless anyway, i currently don't read it if it's less than a coupla decades old on general principle. a year's embargo wouldn't do anything.
mircea_popescu: actually clown car is probably the worst description. for one thing, b-a's not funny.
mircea_popescu: for one thing, they know it's nothing short of abuse, hence the "educational training" gauche
mircea_popescu: decimation the "at their request ... educaitonal training" is more concerning.
mircea_popescu: poor old guy. basically... you're stuck with your own history. once you're old enough, all that's left is explaining it.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i wasn't aware anyone thinks ww2 was avoidable ?
mircea_popescu: btw re the entire satoshi thing : anyone ever considered it's maybe a homage to Satoshi Kanazawa ?
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron well i certainly didn't go in as far as that
mircea_popescu: myeah, about as credible as her pretense to fame, talent et all.
mircea_popescu: lol o wait, singer-songwriter/actress/newswoman/political activist. i see.
mircea_popescu: “It’s not to say that we didn’t have the right information but the problem was being able to produce it quickly and produce it” in the format that the department wanted, Walker said.
mircea_popescu: "Mid-Continent, which first opened in 1949 but received federal student aid only for the past decade or so, caught the attention of regulators at the Education Department in 2011, according to documents obtained by Inside Higher Ed."
mircea_popescu: what's next, someone brings you half a hambuger and you pay half the price forone ?
mircea_popescu: wait, someone actually pays a college that doesn't complete the program ?
mircea_popescu: "The closure of a college often leaves students in limbo. Without being able to finish a degree, students must scramble to transfer and to figure out how to deal with the debt they have racked up."
mircea_popescu: speech can not be morally reprehensible for crying out loud.
mircea_popescu: 'To mock or joke about the tragic events of that morning is morally reprehensible and Thew has rightly been convicted and sentenced for his actions.
mircea_popescu: "hurting people's feelings", a "section 4a public order offence"
mircea_popescu: "Thew, of Radcliffe, Greater Manchester, admitted a Section 4A Public Order Offence (displaying writing or other visible representation with intention of causing harassment, alarm or distress) and was sentenced at Minshull Street Crown Court today."
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes saying they're behaving like a forumite scammer is being generous.