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mircea_popescu: thestringpuller can you imagine what the volunteer lines'd look like ?
mircea_popescu: Adlai lol you seriously blew your clearance because #b-a ?
mircea_popescu: that's what i'd do as minister of war i mean peace. fucking power suits. flamethrower in one arm, minigun in other, go for it.
mircea_popescu: if the us infantry had what's basically an android chassis, 3 or so meters tall...
mircea_popescu: it's so sad the us is wasting 1 trn to build the f35, instead of building fucking power suits.
mircea_popescu: some limit on universalizing money is better than none.
mircea_popescu: the only thing i like about honey as money is that it gives kids botulism.
mircea_popescu: but apples are nonsense as they never were value store.
mircea_popescu: Adlai why would you introduce a specific concept if you're not willing to introduce it rigurously ?
mircea_popescu: "we're powerless already in teh old system... mebbe this new thing worth a look ?"
mircea_popescu: the simplified model i'd readily think of being something more akin to "well currently, you people have some sort of control, based on contracts and fiat currency and so on. what we kids are doing is making an entirely new system of control, where you will be entirely powerless.
mircea_popescu: you'll notice discussions of the weather proceed socially on a simplified model.
mircea_popescu: seems there's other points to address first. but then again, im an asshole.
mircea_popescu: well you're never going to explain bitcoin from a dismissive position like that.
mircea_popescu: "for all the effort he's spent with me, i'd be pouring drinks if it weren't for my own work"
mircea_popescu: let them figure it out, eh ? if the 'first impression' is wrong, it's the impressee not the impressor that has to change.
mircea_popescu: you act as if the responsibility for idiocy is on the thing.
mircea_popescu: because to the common imbecile, all things are one thing and that's that.
mircea_popescu: for that matter, "violence in videogames" is EXACTLY That.
mircea_popescu: why aren't you explaining supreme court practice to them ?
mircea_popescu: of course it's important. everything they don't know is important.
mircea_popescu: if you're doing this, why not explain dungeons & dragons to random people ?
mircea_popescu: i don't go about bothering random folk about sumerian tablets, fascinating as they may be ?
mircea_popescu: i dun get why you think either conversation's at all productive ?
mircea_popescu: cazalla imo as long as the comment was made by human as opposedto machine, it should be published.
mircea_popescu: Elian11 ultra high temperature, an application of radioactivity to make milk shelf stable.
mircea_popescu: not really, unless by pasteurized you mean uht'd, which tastes like shit.
mircea_popescu: you'll prolly have to get it with the slavegirl au paquet, cuz i dunno anyone makes such comercially.
mircea_popescu: depends. milk, generally. orange juice (freshly squeezed)
mircea_popescu: what's wrongwith just going by gas, rents and blowjobs, like normal people ?
mircea_popescu: i don't think anything i eat is standard enough for such procedures.
mircea_popescu: so now that bitcoin.org is banned in russia, the real foundation is actually the only legal resource in bitcoin as far asthey're concerned ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's common for women to enjoy being pregnant.
mircea_popescu: "we wouldn't feed the shit you eat to fucking wild hogs already!"
mircea_popescu: "Never feed animals. Feeding wildlife damages their health, alters natural behaviors, and exposes them to predators and other dangers."
mircea_popescu: do you understand the breathtakingly astounding achievement to get a bunch of teenaged idiots on drugs think "it's not in the spirit" ?>
mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> b) not really in the spirit of the party <<< THIS.
mircea_popescu: Good campsites are found, not made. Altering a site is not necessary." roflmao.
mircea_popescu: "Protect riparian areas by camping at least 200 feet from lakes and streams.
mircea_popescu: no no, listen, i mean my words. fireworks. that the stuff available isn't fireworks, that's fine. still social engineering