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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.
mircea_popescu: well... i guess because i was mostly indoors ? only 10 or so miles away
mircea_popescu: dat dangling minipenis, a foot under the all consuming hole...
mircea_popescu: i dun think there's anything more adorkably pathetic than academics aiming for political power. sort-of like the bichon frizee trying to mount a german shepherd in heat.
mircea_popescu: so apparently this stolfi brazilian derp figures himself some sort of stragetist or something ?
mircea_popescu: It looks like he made his goal in life to be the most detestable person in the internet. (Methinks he is still nowhere near that rank, though.) However he is a precious resource, as an expert bitcoiner who enjoys kicking some of the most sacred cows in bitcoinland.
mircea_popescu: davout well geneally yes, but some voices in particular seem to hate you personally.
mircea_popescu: there's a book "luxury rotary bits management" you should read.
mircea_popescu: punkman he did it deliberately so it's artistic and unique
mircea_popescu: or whatever other random css expert gavin found on fiverr.
mircea_popescu: "the winner of world war three was a good man, right ?
mircea_popescu: you're talking of ambiguous things as if they were specified.
mircea_popescu: " do ops frantically get on the horn to get their block into the long chain?" << through that process.
mircea_popescu: in practice either whichever they hear first or whichever has better likely outcomes
mircea_popescu: i think he has been delaborately confusing us to gain time
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski nothing in particular, just the general.