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mircea_popescu: i dismissed a dumbass real estate agent earlier in the terms of "stupid bitch, i'm not a fucking tourist, i'm here to rape you not to be raped by you clueless worthless lot. get lost and come back when you've got that". she was genuinely surprised.
mircea_popescu: dumbasses here still going on about how it's either "patria" or "financial groups"
mircea_popescu: hehe you;'re young yet, and argentina's still going towards its prime.
mircea_popescu: Pierre_Rochard not really decided, maybe fcntl(O_NONBLOCK) / pipes sort of thing
mircea_popescu: or because when food is supplied in the trough there's no point to social contact
mircea_popescu: im sure they grew up to be some pretty amazing, totally unskilled twats.
mircea_popescu: "through this, my life expectancy has not changed in any way"
mircea_popescu: 'd like a "day" name as a single line between the "home | log | search | bash | stats | wiki" and "prev/next" to be settable with an assbot command
mircea_popescu: but i tell you, when you can't tell a mvp from a fake vietnamese boot the whole thing's dead in the water.
mircea_popescu: just the fucking inanity of it. i have no idea how those imbeciles think they're managing their franchise
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo thanks for pointing that out btw, hadn't been paid yet so salvageable.
mircea_popescu: here's 5 gb worth of randomly idiotic rules nobody cares about, police all that and you may earn 27 satoshi!
mircea_popescu: for the record, that "stupid human trick" is exactly how selection works.
mircea_popescu: "Or perhaps they did that stupid human trick that never fails: If you have excess funds, procreate until you no longer have excess funds, then share the funds equally until you all die." << naggum clearly "does not understand how the world works", and what everyone's "rights" are and so on.
mircea_popescu: and i very much doubt any of the bezzle-powered "entrepreneurs" will ever manage one.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo x-bt qntra article pls ? there's precious few clean closures in the space,
mircea_popescu: irl, the resilient bridges are not the rigidly immobile ones.
mircea_popescu: <mats_cd03> assuming world peace is the rightful, desirable end state is kind of silly << it's just another way to assume "immutability", because limited intellect aka ars longa, vita brevis.
mircea_popescu: this is like saying you don't like fishing because you've been in a hurricane once.
mircea_popescu: <undata> half the planet irradiated for the glory of the leader << you confuse warring kingdoms with warring democracies.
mircea_popescu: perhaps because never has it been the case that value and droves met.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> if there were a 'pepsi' alternative to usg, folks who can make any claim at value would be defecting in droves. << there is, they aren't.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller this was actually amply discussed in here, a while back.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo sounds like a decent "lsd/pot stories" series.
mircea_popescu: this earth-and-heaven xtianity thing... it really got people enthralled did it.
mircea_popescu: undata all rulers eventually burn. and all underlings, too.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i think the orgasm subtext in "comet" needs moar usage tho.
mircea_popescu: there's a reason i quote shakespeare rather than rand.
mircea_popescu: so, you're asking me to believe that the guy was going to stop the comet with his cock ? or how exactly did he get to be the ONE ?
mircea_popescu: there's very little economy in your fiction, not just this present comet thing, but the previous thing with the truck. such wasteful abuse of literary means.
mircea_popescu: listen, you were here earlier when rand was being put down for being verbose, pointlessly so.
mircea_popescu: so then what do you care about "wasted" generations whatever that may mean.
mircea_popescu: whence this expectation to be important and matter anyway ?
mircea_popescu: who mostly got eaten by wolves or w/e, or the 1000-1010 generation, that didn't even exist.
mircea_popescu: the 2000-2010 generation of usians isn't anymore lost than the 1500-1510 generation of usians
mircea_popescu: anyway, any frustrated desire is as entitled as any other. once it satisfies itself so it's no longer a desire it will have gained its rightful death.
mircea_popescu: you presently are able to feed yourself, which indicates nothing about whether you OUGHT TO be so able.
mircea_popescu: so does everyone, what, you think kaybosh hungerlice of kenya isn't trying ?
mircea_popescu: you don't like the ulterior effects of socialism, but you do like some of the premises, such as "X for all", as in, "a future for all", "a chance for all" etc.
mircea_popescu: has all the spunk that hasn't filled a vagina been wasted ? how about that's not been swallowed ? rubbed on tits ?
mircea_popescu: well, the problem with "wasteful" is you gotta specify more about the situation than you can.
mircea_popescu: about as good science as krugman's economics or obama's peace.
mircea_popescu: hmm can't find it now, but ayway, there's an entire wank niche dedicated to woman-to-cow transformations, woman-dairy farms etc.
mircea_popescu: jurov the dictator's a political institution, not a gnoseological tool.