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mircea_popescu: ima try and prevail upon asciilifeform to include selections in his bitcoin book to come.
mircea_popescu: then roger ver doesn't get accepted back into the us. i tell you...
mircea_popescu: y back you into a corner and offer as a favor to you, not to him, to part with just a few feet in the "Golden Age," or the "Sarah Jane," or some other unknown stack of croppings, for money enough to get a "square meal" with, as the phrase went. And you were never to reveal that he had made you the offer at such a ruinous price, for it was only out of friendship for you that he was willing to make the sacrifice."
mircea_popescu: "I met men at every turn who owned from one thousand to thirty thousand "feet" in undeveloped silver mines, every single foot of which they believed would shortly be worth from fifty to a thousand dollars—and as often as any other way they were men who had not twenty-five dollars in the world. Every man you met had his new mine to boast of, and his "specimens" ready; and if the opportunity offered, he would infallibl
mircea_popescu: "frenzied cant" is particularly apt. if only these people living in the mid 1800s had had reddit to revolutionize their thing for them
mircea_popescu: and swarmed in again at nightfall laden with spoil—rocks. Nothing but rocks. Every man's pockets were full of them; the floor of his cabin was littered with them; they were disposed in labeled rows on his shelves."
mircea_popescu: "It was the strangest phase of life one can imagine. It was a beggars' revel. There was nothing doing in the district—no mining—no milling—no productive effort—no income—and not enough money in the entire camp to buy a corner lot in an eastern village, hardly; and yet a stranger would have supposed he was walking among bloated millionaires. Prospecting parties swarmed out of town with the first flush of dawn,
mircea_popescu: phrased it—and were in debt to the butcher. We were stark mad with excitement—drunk with happiness—smothered under mountains of prospective wealth—arrogantly compassionate toward the plodding millions who knew not our marvellous canyon—but our credit was not good at the grocer's."
mircea_popescu: Columbiana," the "Branch Mint," the "Maria Jane," the "Universe," the "Root-Hog-or- Die," the "Samson and Delilah," the "Treasure Trove," the "Golconda," the "Sultana," the "Boomerang," the "Great Republic," the "Grand Mogul," and fifty other "mines" that had never been molested by a shovel or scratched with a pick. We had not less than thirty thousand "feet" apiece in the "richest mines on earth" as the frenzied cant
mircea_popescu: "Meantime the camp was filling up with people, and there was a constantly growing excitement about our Humboldt mines. We fell victims to the epidemic and strained every nerve to acquire more "feet." We prospected and took up new claims, put "notices" on them and gave them grandiloquent names. We traded some of our "feet" for "feet" in other people's claims. In a little while we owned largely in the "Gray Eagle," the "
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes im sure they're fine. it's not like it's some sort of magical art. eight steps.
mircea_popescu: this comes from turkis, çakir. iirc bulgarian has it too.
mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> doesn't imply lots of slapping tho << from what i hear the way to educate them is to place them in the door and slam the door on em. that way they chew on the door. rather than on your intestines, while you sleep.
mircea_popescu: well... fine... so order granted then, why'd you want to be in contact ?!
mircea_popescu: so i don't get that nascar drama. ex-trophy blondie applies for no contact order against her ex. ex swears she's an assassin out to get him.
mircea_popescu: cazalla the joke was "australia is already the sticks itself,so..."
mircea_popescu: cazalla: the minute some old fuck dies around here, their house is torn down and 6 more managed to fit where it once stood << haha. same across teh bezzleworld. and they cost 10x each, and no inflation since 1929.
mircea_popescu: would be pretty cool that, "so how did you turn gay ?" "i had a woman, thought she was real, we hit a bank, she sold us out. no more for me."
mircea_popescu: i have one of those. i also have one that shoots people in the face. variety is always best!
mircea_popescu: cazalla yeah dude, totally, she does eight lines with you and your gangsta friends in a stolen truck mid bankrobbery
mircea_popescu: adolescents principally fuck at any sporty thing. of course. an' why not.
mircea_popescu: you find the holy grail first. inside it, you tear aside the shrowd of turin
mircea_popescu: but yes historically male gay pretty much meant leather which pretty much meant d/s stuff.
mircea_popescu: TomServo that's the one where kramer got bit while molesting the real jon voight
mircea_popescu: problem with not so greatly fittign crowns being they can't cut the crown so usually have to cut the opposing teeth. not so great.
mircea_popescu: this never happened to me before, go to a dentist he dun find something wrong ?!
mircea_popescu: girl examines me, and says... well... you're ok. some work in there but it's all fine, see you later.
mircea_popescu: so i go to dentist, where one of the girls goes (she's had a bunch of root canals and other work done out of 100 bux)
mircea_popescu: i dun recall if i recounted this, but i had the shock of all time here in argentina.
mircea_popescu: curious which country first has a populist candidate without much prospect that promises electorally he'll put a law in buy every citizen x bitcents off the public budget.
mircea_popescu: cazalla but that's you speaking, and you're a camper. the other perspective's, "no roof = we're camping".
mircea_popescu: not clear why you'd need a guy spend 7 years in medical school to do basically old woman advice work, but hey, what sacrifice ain't worth it to get to live "in town".
mircea_popescu: "child's not been out of your arms since tues last ? please, set it down and leave the room."
mircea_popescu: "you've not held him this month ?! of course it cries. please do."
mircea_popescu: he other half, stop therm from interacting over maximally.
mircea_popescu: half the time he'd have to make the parents interact with the kid at least minimally,
mircea_popescu: jurov yeah, back in romania i had a pedo friend (kiddie doctor = pediatru in romanian, so obviously that's the joke) who mostly did mental health
mircea_popescu: course, not the thing to get into halfheartedly. definitely not.
mircea_popescu: i meant it metaphorically... but i guess cane & freshly cut ginger's not the worst way to do it.
mircea_popescu: like a grand old wine cask. once the thin surface of stupid's breached, it flows.
mircea_popescu: jurov: idk, have it on your knees or such << there can be too much of a good thing. overhandled children develop something that looks quite like autism.
mircea_popescu: since viagra... nobody knows you're impotent anymoar lol
mircea_popescu: usually penned for use by aging wall street execs and other limpydicks.
mircea_popescu: you know it's all whalegab. i've yet to see a driven woman have trouble.
mircea_popescu: cazalla there's actually a lot of demand for real/natural domme. which is part of what makes me chuckle at all the "oh, women are oppressed majority" talk.