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mircea_popescu: for one thing, you need to be conversant in their ideas.
mircea_popescu: takes a whole of a lot more than "i cursorily looked through my textbook on sciences" to meaningfully impact the past.
mircea_popescu: "Robin Williams' suicide was triggered by a horrible disease called Lewy Body Dementia ... sources connected with his family tell TMZ."
mircea_popescu: kinda unfair that he mentions oprah winfrey but not martha stewart lol.
mircea_popescu: because the ancient chinese didn't know women can you know, tablestuffs.
mircea_popescu: get a load of this... the qin envoy guy is using the example of a chinese table tennis player as highly achievementful women.
mircea_popescu: and then they died by falling out of the strawberry tree.
mircea_popescu: the "body of human science" understood as "the government employees paid to derp on a topic" enacted "slow moving schizophrenia" as a thing.
mircea_popescu: decimation coelenterata. they just float around in the sea. not their fault some happened upon a vent, not their fault the vent will go out.
mircea_popescu: the body of human science isn't derp derping about "relativity" by name anymore than the body of bitcoin is derp derping about "bitcoin" by name.
mircea_popescu: all these people whose survival strictly depends on a extreheheeemely unlikely arrangement imagine themselves like... you know, representatives of HUMANITY outright
mircea_popescu: basically "i am a worthless sack of dung. the proof of this is that if i got sent to any other circumstance i'd make a total fool of myself"
mircea_popescu: srsly, this faux chosenpeopleism is hard to get out of huh
mircea_popescu: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change indicated!!!!
mircea_popescu: "since the early 20th century, Earth’s mean surface temperature has increased by about 0.8°C." lmap
mircea_popescu: basically, dude imagines that a) he currently lives in a world where people actually give a shit what usians thing and b) this will survive time travel.
mircea_popescu: actually midden is pretty much the best approximation of culture in physical terms.
mircea_popescu: the zulus managed to start over each century moving 100 miles.
mircea_popescu: for that matter, the germans come from fucking central asia. so what of it.
mircea_popescu: iroquis also came from somewhere, but once they came, it was all new.
mircea_popescu: decimation> so your point is that the lack of egalitarianism did not foster a culture? << my point being that culture is strictly a matter of time. how people organise is irrelevant. which also means there's no shortcuts.
mircea_popescu: decimation it owned all the land, and allocated it. it owned the peasants, and regulated their life. basically think beehive with the queen unembodied.
mircea_popescu: the russians had the mir for as long as the memory goes, and yet.
mircea_popescu: kansas culture = "move to ny, for a better life" + "check out the corn!!1"
mircea_popescu: decimation point being, europe is europe because it's europe, not because some kansas kids decided to wear bedsheets once and poof.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that's hardly noteworthy. for as long as navigation was a thing, navigating without a banner meant being an outlaw.
mircea_popescu: maybe the author could be come a girl by selling lipstick.
mircea_popescu: " If we could even get ourselves down to a Western European level of car dependence, we would cut road fatalities to a third of their present value and improve our quality of life in innumerable ways."
mircea_popescu: for most of its history, the us knew better, an saw itself as a minor player.
mircea_popescu: that us libtards gave themselves and in their own mind some sort of major role in the world is novel.
mircea_popescu: consisting principally of throwing out 80 years of accumulated gunk masquerading as "reform"
mircea_popescu: ahem. yeah it's a likely source of major fucking reform.
mircea_popescu: he 114th Congress may seem like an unlikely source of major reform. With the Republicans in control of both houses and a second-term Democratic president wielding the veto pen"
mircea_popescu: which is why either he has one or his kids want one for xmas.
mircea_popescu: would be a sore loss to win without a war. instead of a solid enjoyment of rape and plunder, do not pass go, directly to the trudge of administration ?
mircea_popescu remembers a time "the line" was, you gotta raise a woman's kids to get laid and you gotta pay a hooker to get your cock sucked.
mircea_popescu: there's never anything on their side of the line is the thing.
mircea_popescu: the jeff of 1950 knew all about how computers "won't catch on"
mircea_popescu: what was on "their" side of the line keeping skirts below the knee ?
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> BingoBoingo: the great fork war is inevitable. and we know what is on their side of the line. << do tell ?
mircea_popescu: that leaves a 16 btc worth of volume, which was exactly half making a gain while exactly the other half made a loss.
mircea_popescu: that aside, mp and mike sold what was it, 5 btc worth at 3k.
mircea_popescu: that means an average lifetime price of 4k, it closed at ~3k.