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mircea_popescu: anyway, turns out this was obviously not
a serious piece, so i guess teaches me to protest before finishing an article.
mircea_popescu: and i don't think orlov even uses the latter, just,
a current russian expression ascii explained in english at some point
Duffer1: you've mentioned orlov
a few times
MisterE: not calling the whole LTC on Huobi thing
a scam just very heavily manipulated but all markets are manipulated so... The writing was on the wall for me luckily I guess.
Neil: If it gets to $76k I'm long retired on
a sunny island
Neil: mircea_popescu: And prices are down 50%. I'd have expected that to be
a damper.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, the us spends what, 100bn on defense
a year ?
Neil: Just difficulty stabilization is gonna be
a minor supply shock in bitcoin land.
chetty: Russia has amassed enough forces on Ukraine’s border to reach the dispute region of Transnistria, NATO’s top military commander told
a conference in Brussels on Sunday, Reuters reported.
mircea_popescu: this isn't supposed to be
a "milking noobs for years" thing, and it's not supposed to be either accessible to or productive for the sort of car salesman that thinks himself
a financier now.
mircea_popescu: MisterE: LTC on Huobi dump destroyed
a lot of n00bs who could have been milked for years instead of in one big dump but nobody thinks long-term << no, you don't understand. destroying scams IS thinking long term.
MisterE: was pretty harsh people coming off some things like mental health services took
a beating but it's evened out since
cazalla: almost makes you want to say fuck it, get
a payment and use it to buy bitcoins
chetty: is there actually anywhere in the world left thats not pretty much
a welfare state?
cazalla: most people take
a loan and never pay it back so it is effectively free
MisterE: naah I learned
a lot about how Austrailians think and whats really going on there from this chat
MisterE: What we really need is
a war to kill off like 10%
cazalla: bounce: you're right, i have
a whinge, jerk off and go to bed
MisterE: If there were
a real grass roots movement I would go back to the US to be
a part of it
MisterE: now it takes 2 incomes to qualify for
a home loan lol
cazalla: it was shameful to take welfare once upon
a time
MisterE: saving used to be good now if your credit cards aren't maxed you're not
a patriot
MisterE: there's not
a place I can think of to live that's not fucked one way or another
cazalla: i'm jack of it and i suspect there are
a growing number of people like me from the middle class who won't put up with it for much longer
MisterE: I had
a consulting company that paid
a lot of tax and saw it all going to fight those wars and what not, no thankyou
cazalla: hopefully hitler reincarnate will come back here, appropriate everything foreign owned, send the refugees back home (85% without
a job, still on welfare after 5 years? fuck that)
MisterE: I used to be
a crusader and activist int he US in my 20s
cazalla: i don't see how else you can unite
a people and kick out the leeches
cazalla: MisterE, when I was 20, I thought ideas like social justice, equality, peace etc etc were good ideas, now that I'm in my 30s, I find myself hoping for
a catalyst that would bring about
a nationalist party to power, that's
a big change in just
a decade
MisterE: because there's not
a ton of livable land
cazalla: depsite all that, it's
a great country :)
MisterE: Enjoy life now when you're young and can, leave
a decent looking corpse is basically my retirement plan
MisterE: burned up with doctor visits and working part-time after
a long life of toiling for the corps
MisterE: they've left you
a nice mess
MisterE: oh you got
a baby boom too?
MisterE: start running up
a debt like the US and you'll be foreced to
cazalla: every 2nd person has
a back problem or some bullshit for disability
cazalla: MisterE: welfare is
a massive problem here
MisterE: OK it's impossible to change shit in the US at the ballot box because it's corporate owned but shit you still have
a functioning democracy you could make use of
cazalla: MisterE: they don't want
a better life, they want to live in the bush as they did before the British came here, I am happy for them to do that, government is not and they keep throwing money at them
MisterE: Why are you hostile to the people who just want
a better life? You should be pissed at your representatives in Sydney who are making policy on how to handle it and I guess believe in handouts for people who can't vote?
MisterE: anyone else so comes from abroad should not be able to get benefits even if they can't show they are there legally or
a citizen
cazalla: abos are
a minority really
cazalla: meanwhile, 85% of asylum seekers here don't have
a job after 5 years
MisterE: got
a couple mates around there
cazalla: i'm sure they try to catch them but it's like finding
a needle in
a haystack
cazalla: i am finding
a lot of people my age no longer care, don't even bother voting even though it's compulsory
MisterE: cazalla:
a lot of it is because of our primaries system
MisterE: dub: thought that was
a scouser thing?
MisterE: it's shifted so far to the right that conservatives of old would not even have
a place in the spectrum anymore
MisterE: you have
a conservative government now iirc?
cazalla: tackling cyber bullying is
a big thing here nowadays
cazalla: can't even call
a guy
a nigger anymore without being arrested
cazalla: 117k alex rank, my guess would be 2500-5000 uniques
a day?
cazalla: i'm not big on gambling, only bet on bitbet because most prop bets are bitcoin related and it's
a bit of fun
MisterE: I'm good at the craps table because I play
a very conservative game, max odds and try to bet the trends, I'm up ~$15k in my lifetime and I was sort of feeling the same way abotu crypto, I'm doing OK but could all go to hell in one game
cazalla: yeah, i'm not game to push it any longer, i buy, put most into cold storage and save
a little for some have some fun with it shit bets on bitbet
cazalla: it's
a wonder i made it this far without being fleeced tbh
MisterE: Even the simplest of tricks I se often like putting up
a big wall and when the market starts moving canceling the order
MisterE: I sold at 19.5 just before it went live, I told people to buy the hype sell the news but I know
a lot of bag holders and people that got burned
MisterE: LTC on Huobi dump destroyed
a lot of n00bs who could have been milked for years instead of in one big dump but nobody thinks long-term
MisterE: indeed, if only there were an organization already in place who could take on such
a mission...
chetty: MisterE, that would be more than
a full time job
MisterE: should be
a site dedicated to vetting and tracking exchange owners
ozbot: Interacting with fiat institution,
a guide pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
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mircea_popescu: and with that i'll bid you all
a very good nuclear summer!
decimation: in
a duel, you can be certain about the death of the enemy; not so much against the nuclear triad
mircea_popescu: the ukrainians called
a general mobilisation, nobody showed.
decimation: in retrospect, that seems like
a big joke
mircea_popescu: seems more practical to just start
a facebook campaign
mircea_popescu: but fundamentally : every mile you walk adds more than
a square mile to the area you've covered.
decimation: carpet bombing with napalm would probably be far worse for the average citizen than
a nuke going off
mircea_popescu: as long as nobody uses them it's "those incredibly, exceedingly, unrepresentably powerful weapons". after
a dozen or so pop it's like... those very expensive, inaccurate things.
mircea_popescu: this works across the board, currently the biggest deterrent to nuclear detonation isn't
a bunch of fucktarded chicks that drink tea and blather like sheep. it's simply the desire on all parties that invested billions in these things to avoid proving to the general public that... big fucking deal.
mircea_popescu: if you've never been punched in the face your reptillian brain builds this thing into an endless colossus. if you have, whatever. maybe you lose
a tooth, your lip gets swollen. so what of it ?
mircea_popescu: it doesn't even have to be all that present, but human beings need experiences, and
a balanced diet thereof.
mircea_popescu: apparently you can't get
a fetish going if you get to see the actual object, in all its nude glory.