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mircea_popescu: nubbins`: i suspect smoothie from the forums is kinda stupid << generally known as such. his behaviour throughout was, to quote hanbot "nothing short of bizarre"
mircea_popescu: well yes. politics doesn't work, we know that going in.
mircea_popescu: decimation sure, but on the other hand the job of politics is to avoid placing the table on the toes.
mircea_popescu: decimation i mean, if the entire objection to the mores of the black ghetto is that men don't live with the women they impregnate, and then you go demolish the one place for 500 miles where they actually do...
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes well, if you gonna do something, best know why you're doing it.
mircea_popescu: not as to racism in any sense, but as to why it's a bad idea
mircea_popescu: decimation you know i can actually see that argument ?
mircea_popescu: nubbins` that's a great way to end up in 20 years surrounded by junk
mircea_popescu: "To most, the fact that Lila called Mitch a hero for killing himself is strange. "
mircea_popescu: "Preference will be given to those who provide video of them damaging the finished piece with a dremel tool." lol ok
mircea_popescu: guy ended up falling on an inexplicable pile of bricks
mircea_popescu: i recall this grandiose commie romanian cinema thing, where "so what do we do ?! " "well... he can jump on some ears of corn" "but the camera will pick them up". pause. "not if you cover them in a brick painted sheet"
mircea_popescu: nubbins` you should fish out the shows tho, they're great. derp has the camera filming in demo mode
mircea_popescu: iirc he even apologized and errything. dun recall if privately or publicly or what, years ago.
mircea_popescu: in his defense, this later one was the saner of the bunch
mircea_popescu: was also one of the guys involved in "banker cartel" pirate bs.
mircea_popescu: ambiguous, was a pedo early bitcoin advocate with a ridoinculous hourlong webshow
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller did you submit an article or something ?
mircea_popescu: <decimation> because usg is too stupid to move to somewhere cheaper <>< nah, not how it works. wherever it moves, the bedbugs move there too. it won't stay cheaper.
mircea_popescu: of course the lord's slave mistress is what passes for upper class among the slaves. nevertheless, the actual upper class regards the favored equal to the common slave.
mircea_popescu: i've seen pics these days. half as full, everyone on gadget.
mircea_popescu: back in 2004, it was car after carful of people all reading a book
mircea_popescu: boston actually had excellent rail system. perhaps the best in the us.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well you should have seen town meetings in the 60s. "FIFTY LANES WE MUST HAS! EACH WAY!"
mircea_popescu: who here is on an economy internet package ? everyone just "give me the fattest pipe you got" "oh only that ? INTRODUCE LARGER ONES!"
mircea_popescu: we would, of course. so what the driveway cost would not be a topic of conversation.
mircea_popescu: what if we had to phisically drive to vegas, like kennedy HAD TO in the 50s ?
mircea_popescu: we meet irl once a year, and even that's extravagant for like half the people.
mircea_popescu: "it's certainly uncontaminated by any cheese", to quote cleese.
mircea_popescu: work and pleasure. solved, and much safer than actually going there.
mircea_popescu: decimation no. "working at home" , "jacking off to porn and looking at sights on pinterest"
mircea_popescu: decimation all of that used to not matter when one considered on the other side the even greater expenses of the available alternatives.
mircea_popescu: where people end up making ftp clients for firefox extensions ? because "it can be done"
mircea_popescu: decimation i never heard of anyone complain that their 16yo cocksucker costs money to upkeep.
mircea_popescu: had bush spent ALL the stimulus on making internet connecxtions of 1tbps universally available, i wouldn't be here snubbing my nose at horowitz
mircea_popescu: when it's fucking clear what to spen the money on, so clear even a govt could figure it out, keynesianism works.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes yeah, they were, back when the interstates were built. that's perhaps the shiniest example opf "govt investment in slump" mantra.
mircea_popescu: (not for fucking, mind you. so give them a work at home job where no woman can ever come and a way to score nude tumblrs and that's the new economic model)
mircea_popescu: people don't want to spend an hour driving, they want to spend that hour derping on a dating app
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski notrly, because it's not really about the gas. it's about the inconvenience.
mircea_popescu: it's only expensive because we're really done with them. otherwise, they'd be a "great investment".
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes understand : no mistress is ever pooir bnecause "of expense".
mircea_popescu: and of commutes and of the right of "governments" to decide land use.
mircea_popescu: and it's killed and dead and not coming back and everyone and everything will change to get rid of cars, and of the sprawl
mircea_popescu: well that's one thinmg, but specifically as to the car, this entire car-and-zoning-laws-and-sprawl-and-commute model got killed by the internet
mircea_popescu: merely disguises itself as "because X", like a domestic argument. in fact, it's becaue there's going to be a divorce.
mircea_popescu: it's because in the change in the future prospects of the whole activity.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski but the "idnetity crisis" is not because of the change in car noise.
mircea_popescu: look, it's dying, what do you want from it. cars are pretty fucking stupid. they had an economic niche which made us forget temporarily, but it's closed up.
mircea_popescu: "Among purists, the trickery has inspired an identity crisis and cut to the heart of American auto legend. "
mircea_popescu: dude paul anka is fucking retarded. how the fuck would a hatred of nosewoman be irrational ?
mircea_popescu: "Frank Sinatra had a terrible temper, as shown by his irrational hatred of Barbara Streisand"
mircea_popescu: eyah but you're basically assking someone in manhattan if they saw whatever cars in astoria.