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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.
mircea_popescu: anyway, my takeaway is that firmness is a quality, but rigidity a sin. the boob rule : good if made out of young woman, bad if made out of bone.
mircea_popescu: which is why distinction is so important and processes that enact it so useful.
mircea_popescu: i can also understand how half the heads populating pikes around the stronghold used to be attached to people who didn't mean to.
mircea_popescu: but no, because conservative mindset depends on random derp being the king of all creation. which works about as well as you'd expect, boring in the bedroom, offensive in the forum, etc.
mircea_popescu: fuck, maybe the people throwing away quarters know all about n answers you can't find on your own.
mircea_popescu: plenty of people manage to juggle a wife and a job and an insane government and still be here. i'm not one of them, as it happens, but that's neither here nor there : to condone jeffidiocy would be more of an insult to their otherwise unguilty face than i can stomach.
mircea_popescu: somehow you're of worse human quality than jeff is the argument here ?
mircea_popescu: the fact that the spots go on the cheetah as part of what it is saved no cheetah to date.
mircea_popescu: this is a major blindspot of the conservative mindset : rigidity.
mircea_popescu: rather than try to conjure up imaginary molehils of secure superiority to take refuge upon.
mircea_popescu: and in any effect, i most motherfucking DEFINITELY did what told, by the people who knew
mircea_popescu: cue me in 2011 going "sorry, but unless you folks do my homework for me bitcoin sucks. i got math and rom lit."
mircea_popescu: my reaction was subtly but essentialy different. it was "how do you expect this to work ?"
mircea_popescu: "thought bitcoin is some sort of optional thing like widescreen tvs or some shit"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform either take the hundred offer or go to war.
mircea_popescu: jesus, who was the electrician turned expert in physics again ?
mircea_popescu: many smart people suffer from the what's his face mental issues
mircea_popescu: so in a sense, i'm the one thing supporting this here bitcoin economy.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller actually, here's a fun notion : outside of trilema credits, pretty much everything is really just facelifted paypal.
mircea_popescu: im sure the mango is going to want to talk to the upstream enzymes about matters too ?
mircea_popescu: bitcoin is not here asking random derp some favours. no matter who the derp thinks he is.
mircea_popescu: no emotion. i am telling the sad truth just as much : adapt or die.
mircea_popescu: as a matter of policy, it will now cost these guys 10k to get any of my business, and if they ever get into the wot i'll negrate them right off.
mircea_popescu: but i'll make sure to charge a mango my digestion fees next i run into one.
mircea_popescu: cazalla did you mean to say "the article is trying to push the humorous theory" instead of "concludes" ?
mircea_popescu: i guess my idea reduces to "paint a brick black and pray to it" huh.
mircea_popescu: "public access" is a myth, of the same substance as the man-month.