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mircea_popescu: none of this to propose smoking is healthy or anything
mircea_popescu: keep a diet for a month, then eat all the food you didn't eat in one sitting. course you'll burst your stomach. etc
mircea_popescu: no, but the damage in smoking 700 ciggs in one go has more to do with the one go than with the ciggs
mircea_popescu: then after a month have all the radiation you missed out on
mircea_popescu: wait i've been bloggibng for longer than you've been not smoking ?
mircea_popescu: this argument is broken against smoking. it's an argument against universal health care.
mircea_popescu: well on the neutral industrial basis of it, a pack is like 20 cents or something.
mircea_popescu: the serbs been doing this for a while in timisoara. (serbia not b eing part of the eu)
mircea_popescu: you couldn't buy them in the foreign supermarkets. which romanians don't buy from anyway.
mircea_popescu: they kept derping about this in the eu. as i left romanian, proper lightbulbs were still on sale.
mircea_popescu: <nubbins`> fwiw, the US (and canada, and every other country) still allows mercury "around", you just need to put it in a light bulb <<<
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal there's this group that believes the earth is hollow inside, and stuff lives there.
mircea_popescu: speaking of which, am i the only one to find it shocking that the hollow earth crowd hasn't squeezed in on btc mining yet ?
mircea_popescu: i expect no less of a human, why would i deter this of a computer ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform honestly, i don't see the problem. let them read everything i write and make sense to me.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` more weight than you weight or more weight than you press ?
mircea_popescu: somehow the same people that know how to game google into the dirt "don't know how to target".
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal it is always the ready excuse of the manufacturer of a bad car that "people just don't know how to drive"
mircea_popescu: if i ever need a way to counterweight a guillotine i'll think of you!
mircea_popescu: yes fb, tyvm for having built a car that can't move but is a great guillotine counterweight.
mircea_popescu: to the degree even the people trying to sell them are trying on the basis of "humor", ie, complete marketing failure.
mircea_popescu: the problem with the facebook ads being that they are absolute rubbish
mircea_popescu: ear future. Thank you for your support and your laughter."
mircea_popescu: "EDIT: I’ve told this story at conferences and in bars for months and absolutely love teaching through humor, but I’ve always been extremely self-conscious about my writing. I want to thank the absolutely amazing people on the /r/marketing subreddit and those in commenting below for giving me such profound feedback and encouragement on this article. I guarantee you that there will be MANY more like it in the very n
mircea_popescu: seems the best would be, immerse penis, use displaced volume to actuate, watch porn
mircea_popescu: guy was well disturbed tho, and the puzzlement of teh authorities threw him over the edge
mircea_popescu: he didn't use it, but it was illegal. somehow, i still don't know how this worked, tbh.
mircea_popescu: well i used to be friends with this nutso who built his own.... guillotine.
mircea_popescu: "He and I became fast friends and life was rather wonderful. We were both self-employed and often worked from home together in our own little co-working space. We occasionally would hang out with friends together and one day he decided to have some fun with me." <<< WE BUILT OUR OWN CUBICAL!!1 out of materials found in every home! read the secret that has all middle managers jealous!
mircea_popescu: "for every breathtakingly hot woman you ever see, there's a cock somewhere flacid at her mere memory"
mircea_popescu: perversion is the only enduring contribution of mankind to the universe.
mircea_popescu: if i went to work for google/apple/pepsi/w/e and in the first month a hundred employees killed themselves, i'd just welcome the news, and definitely blog about it.
mircea_popescu: because if it hired disruptive, fearless folks... well... who knows what rocking the boat could do.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that's a whole swath of other nonsense built on nonsense.
mircea_popescu: hence he hates "racists", those people who say things like "it's just a fucking snail"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform his life is dedicated to their inexistence.
mircea_popescu: if i step on a snail, strictly for the purpose of stepping on the snail, he'll prolly go berserk on me just out of the need to somehow resolve the anxiety he feels
mircea_popescu: fucktard is so affraid of this world he's stuck in "empathy" and "equality" and herpy-derp because god forbid, what if!!11
mircea_popescu: there's no prizes for doing things the obvious, hard way, outside of a heartfelt obituary by an age worn woman with beautiful blue eyes
mircea_popescu: ie, one that is actually homologous with the solution, not merely easy.,
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there's a lot of value in looking for the easy way out, a point easily missed by naggum and im sure gauss, and many other very smart people.
mircea_popescu: (yes, yes, i know, bitcoins aren't inflationary etc. but the hundreds to peanuts comparison is not there)
mircea_popescu: the result being, that everyone involved with the attempt earned peanuts. just like your average gi joe today earns whatever hundred bitcoins and thinks it a big deal.
mircea_popescu: and it WAS impressive, for the time and place. because hey, the russians tried to build an utopia of empathy and equality, and failed.
mircea_popescu: at the time i was a 16yo with his own driver, my father earned an impressing $680 a year.
mircea_popescu: i don't care how deeply anchored in the core of the world it may be. it's a square inch and it's getting flattened.
mircea_popescu: i do, but you're really arguing a lot on a very narrow square inch of footing.
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal that is merely good discipline on the part of the actor in question.