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mircea_popescu: in fact, as ridiculous as mormonism is, he is an exact copy. the cultural relationship between judaism and christianity is exactly the same as between christianity and mormonism : a barely literate lout ran off with a few pages and made his own, self-important "variant",
mircea_popescu: (so a bunch of idiot chicks are trying to write it, out of boring gender and race stories)
mircea_popescu: roughly about the same weight as what in europe constitutes "the humanities".
mircea_popescu: and yes, on top of that there's a web of commentary stretching out approx to the roman period.
mircea_popescu: davout well the split happened after some pretty heavy duty pruning.
mircea_popescu: "oh, people mock us for being essentially jew torrent artists ? FINE. WRITE A CONTINUATION."
mircea_popescu: "hey, suicide guy, you gonna kill youself ?" "yeah. life sucks." "wanna fuck first ?" "no, you freak!" "i guess ima have to wait for your body to wash ashore."
mircea_popescu: speaking of hats for nutjobs, always remember to wear your condom!
mircea_popescu: o wait. i thought you meant the pope's (abandoned) claim of sovereignity over teh sovereigns.
mircea_popescu: hey, technically a valid claim. all of europe exists as embezzled provinces of the roman empire.
mircea_popescu: also reaction catholicism, but more 600ish than 1800ish
mircea_popescu: the entire "every sperm is sacred" thing is more reaction-catholicism than anything.
mircea_popescu: by the way, if ne1 here has a fetlife account, i finally moved over, drop me a line.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i never saw an online comic before oglaf.
mircea_popescu: So please do not send me the following types of E-mail: "commission requests -- I just do not have the time for commissions"
mircea_popescu: coming from people who utterly refuse to admit they;d be better off in chains in someone;'s basement... well... what's to be expected.
mircea_popescu: davout daughter of the wider insanity "everything new is better" married with the patently nuts "better is what i imagine it to be".
mircea_popescu: it's a fact that beards grow after death. i wonder if women lubricate through a similar process.
mircea_popescu: beheading naked kings on the vaguest whiff of approaching even small ones -> best policy.
mircea_popescu: but economy is built on money and thus fungible. a bunch of small ones add up.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes. "bitcoin will continue to function as before"
mircea_popescu: one could never have made a bitcoin without a block reward. this, of course, means that we now have a promise to renege on. but i'm not about to start reneging on promises.
mircea_popescu: god preserve me from heresy but! so far inflaiton has actually been beneficial for bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: what that changes... ask them, not me, to borrow an alfism.
mircea_popescu: to a large degree, it was obvious that once we move from "inflation pays for it" to "you gotta pay for it" the "consumers have come to expect" were going to throw a shitfest.
mircea_popescu: mike_c like the butcher said, "i merely follow the lulzlines already present".
mircea_popescu: assbot: America’s Booty Obsession Is Another Symptom Of Social Decline << i also like ass.
mircea_popescu: it's possible, obviously, the chinese are nazi-private, but i dun really see it.
mircea_popescu: yeah in usd. still, this is like mpoe level, i very much doubt it.
mircea_popescu: davout: never heard about it, but apparently they're putting bs&t to shame with a $400mn loss, sounds doubtful << yeah srsly, sounds like pure bs.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, my measure to resolve the "police violence" thing would be a) everyone with a mental issue must wear a funny hat.
mircea_popescu: anyway, people only should hide the fact that they have a mental ilness if they wish to get shot.
mircea_popescu: more importantly, who can't donate sperm. to women. directly.
mircea_popescu: derp wants someone to pay for his surgery because one month's worth of government dole is too much for him ?
mircea_popescu: i'd expect it's exactly as full of morons as bitcoin generally, just, you have better benchmarks in that corner.
mircea_popescu thinks this entire "numismatics as an investment" thing is not unlike the "my balcony garden as a tomato farm" thing, but hey.
mircea_popescu: seems pretty obvious who's gonna crush everyone. also seems everyone knows it.
mircea_popescu: how was that line, "self serving minds have little trouble overcoming memory" ?
mircea_popescu: well if it was, then wh ythe fuck did you spend five years denying it.
mircea_popescu: attracts a particularly felonious type, too. there's this guy, who claimed he never worked with the secret police, then they found fiddy pounds worth of notes, at which point he declared that it was the patriotic duty of everyone to help the secret police!
mircea_popescu: basically, what the various "law enforcement officers" do in court these days.
mircea_popescu: "oh, your wife ? yeah she was writing weekly notes since 1972"
mircea_popescu: well the word means false police report for pay. but generally, the sort of late warsaw pact atmosphere.