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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
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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.
mircea_popescu: people often thought mpoe-pr is me, or male, or so forth.
mircea_popescu: it will work. call him your legal representative, or w/e.
mircea_popescu: much more instructive is a lever of reasonable length that sits put on its support a long time.
mircea_popescu: not that he's that much of a genius, or that much of an imbecile. but then again, to display dynamic equilibrium you aren't particularly better served by a VERY LONG lever.
mircea_popescu: rarely has the imbecile/genius duality been more pointedly on display.
mircea_popescu: it's mindblowing just how clever, on the point and far seeing reginald braithwaite is, while at the same time how idiotically fixated on "equality" and "empathy" and all the rest of that pointless drivel.
mircea_popescu: "here's a lithmus test on "good ideas": if it were applied to you, would you still think it's a good idea? in other words: if you can't imagine yourself as the vendor, maybe it's time to drop the good idea stuff, too?"
mircea_popescu: "I wish people would get more interested in _knowing_ the world they want to change. I can't keep lecturing obnoxious morons forever just because they have these wild-eyed desires that they think can be accomodated if they start a revolution or something."
mircea_popescu: just as long as you had someone to serve for you, all is well.
mircea_popescu: generally everyone produced a replacement for military service
mircea_popescu: o yeah. you were simply required to not alter the headcount.
mircea_popescu: <jurov> hire doppelganger, walk out << incidentally, you know they did this in the times of the good soldier svjek ?
mircea_popescu: business partners with the usg, god help us. what will fiction produce next, the harem of wolves, flying to the moon on own farts, mind boggles.
mircea_popescu: it's not marriage, it's not a love affair. it's an exercise in destroying everything whatsoever and mocking the rest.
mircea_popescu: in short : ditch this mentality where the other party matters, in any sense, and make a sport out of rubbing its hopes, aspirations and legitimate expectations into the dirt.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and what the fuck are you doing owning companies in own name anyway
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so ? hire ms boring to sit in that office and split
mircea_popescu: and what's more, the argentine govt doesn't have like 5 bn in usd cash, nor does it have a horrid starvation of talent.
mircea_popescu: and spanish is like alien, can't be learned by humans, unlike lisp and scheme
☟︎ mircea_popescu: kakobrekla no because argentina consists of pampas cats
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what the fuck are you doing working without a company anyway, and why is it not registered in gibraltar or w/e the fuck they do
mircea_popescu: no fucking body traveled to sit on a rfc comission unless they really wanted to visit a gf or something
mircea_popescu: pretty sure it was the superhighway something or the other
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and didn't forthwith set sail for argentina because ...
mircea_popescu: yeah, the us is a different system. it doesn't have mega natural wealth to prop itself, so it works as a "buffettlying to prevent the children of the middleclass pushing him out" system
mircea_popescu: the politico leeches sucking that fiddy cents for nothing are trilled