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mircea_popescu: wow! it actually happened that ppl complained about jurov's email thing and it actually was the case it was broken
mircea_popescu: plenty of people do just fine in positions of authority.
mircea_popescu: really, it's not about the position, it's about the scumbag. this is how you know vulgar folk in all times of places, that they're made of base metal : if put in charge they foul things up.
mircea_popescu: well... i also told the derpy organisers of some local "swinger's club" to get bent after they wanted the chick to check her clutch.
mircea_popescu: Adlai i dunno, i told a schmucky kid once to mind his own business. nothing happened./
mircea_popescu: "well... because i'm not a dickless dipsit, like you."
mircea_popescu: see, this is exactly adeuqate : these fuckwits are the exact prototype of the sterile "intellectual". they wish to matter, and they wish this mattering to happen through administrative measures.
mircea_popescu: it doesn't work in the low-density U.S., we'll try to compel people to live in higher density housing.
mircea_popescu: Second, the programs can only address needs defined by the intellectual elite. We won't provide cheaper cars; we'll force people to use mass transit. One volunteer aid group once did a study of Third World needs, concluded that one of the most pressing needs in Third World countries was transportation, then excluded automobiles from consideration because they felt that automobiles had a negative effect. When mass trans
mircea_popescu: First, the money has to be taken by force from the wealthy. Voluntary contributions don't count. Taxation at a level that the wealthy will consent to doesn't count. Any approach that recognizes the wealthy as having rights is unsatisfactory. Even worse is any recognition of philanthropy and the idea that some of the wealthy have social consciences.
mircea_popescu: Most of these folks simultaneously demand government programs to alleviate poverty and hunger, mass transit so the poor can get to where the good jobs are, and international aid to the Third World. In short they want structured, paternalistic programs that address needs defined by the intellectual elite. They are bitterly opposed to innovations that merely give the masses more goods, food, or money and leave the decisi
mircea_popescu: or in other words, they make 250 gsc for no risk, if they believe this theory whereby "people" will "update" to gavincoin on gavin's say so.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron ahem. through what sort of magic the parts summed exceed the sum ?
mircea_popescu: basically the usg is about 15 and has grown up on a gated community. in connecticut.
mircea_popescu: god forbid we think less of her unless she doesn't do the exact things that make one think less of her.
mircea_popescu: which is the ridiculousness of it all. teenaged priss kinda likes a boy, does not find it within her purview to go on knees moan for cock. oh no, must pretend this that and the other.
mircea_popescu: "give us your tired, your hungry" omits the whole picture : sure a country of immigrants is a grand way to build yourself up. but, necesarily, it's a great way to fall over like a deflated donut within a century.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron the problem with places that used to be great but lacked the social structure to support it is they degenerate essentially the same way.
mircea_popescu: otherwise, romania was in europe throughout, it was going to push industrialization through regardless.
mircea_popescu: hahaha the youtube ends on the same note. "let them do the food"
mircea_popescu: yeah well, there could scarcely be imagined a more degenerate people.
mircea_popescu: i propose this matter still needs a lot more thinking.
mircea_popescu: yeah, sure, because he couldn't be served just as well by a common bus.
mircea_popescu: would be a shitload cheaper to just rent serially. FURNISHED appartments.
mircea_popescu: you wouldn't want to live in a bob sleigh or inside your go-kart either. it's not that dissimilar.
mircea_popescu: i mean sure, as an outing, soemthing to do for a day or w/e, great. splendid sport.
mircea_popescu: you can not begin to imagine how fucking inconvenient it is. at all.
mircea_popescu: yes. well, before you expend any serious money / other resources on this, do that.
mircea_popescu: but have you ever spent, a whole day, on a sail anything, at sea.
mircea_popescu: you ever like... i dunno, ever had a friend in porn invite you to spend a while with a coupla girls on a yacht ? or generally, spent any time on a sail vessel ?
mircea_popescu: fluffypony well the results were so out of place for the venue. like... wow.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> which is what i call folks who don't need any physical plant << which is why i said i was a theoretical physicist :)
mircea_popescu: myeah. i see it. well... i feel better for having discussed it!
mircea_popescu: may explain why you're even contemplating the alien insanity, instead of just telling me i'm evil.
mircea_popescu: the reason you find it so hard to escape the gravity well is in no small part due to the fact that you;ve spent many decades making the wrong decisions and they're a bitch to undo.
mircea_popescu: yours is some sort of insane c) where it has all the disadvantages of both.
mircea_popescu: basically, you're in this space that doens't eixst, at all. there's a) real estate you own, and you like enough to own, which contains furniture of value proprotionate to that. and b) real estate you don't give a shit about, if you come back to find it ablaze you just shrug and move on.
mircea_popescu: antiques suffer from transport, and wtf do you even want to put nice furniture in a place you don't like.,
mircea_popescu: look, if you're going to fill a place with antiques, YOU SHOULD NOT BE RENTING IT
mircea_popescu: trinque i never used a chair for more than i dunno, a year ? two ?
mircea_popescu: who the fuck cares about the desk! and a chair, whatever, you just... buy a new one! that fits!
mircea_popescu: this is residential not commercial space we're discussing here.
mircea_popescu: obviously warehouses are rented empty whether you live in them or not.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so then you're muddying the discussion up by being one of those who lives in a warehouse