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mircea_popescu: good thing to do in prison, you know ? as it's requiring memory-only, no tools.
mircea_popescu: actually maybe you should write the book, except in russian. larger market.
mircea_popescu: i could prolly write a book of psychoantropology on the topic, but sadly it'd be rather incomprehensible in english without a ton of notes which kinda ruin the whole thing, and for 5 romanians able to read and write it's scarcely worth the year o' work.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, it is shocking, outrageous but also very amusing to see just how copy-pasted the final days us is from the peak of romania. it's almost as if instead of the romanian idiots copying teh superior us businessmen, the reverse happened.
mircea_popescu: give them a little now and a little later they'll be sucking the c0k and doing a good job of it for years.
mircea_popescu: that is, if you give them too much money it makes them stupid.
mircea_popescu: cheap whores aren't given expensive prizes for a very good reason
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no one said != no one remembered. ppls remember :)
mircea_popescu: but if it assumes x btc worth and shares trade in btc it should be stuck at 8
mircea_popescu: until their regime starts fucking conforming to international law.
mircea_popescu: fucking us oligarchs will end up with bitcoin community interdictions at this rate
mircea_popescu: anyway, once ethereum cracks open thiel being interviewed for his complicity in propping the scam will become a prerequsite for any further discussions re collaboration of bitcoin authorities with us authorities.
mircea_popescu: but yeah, i'd have listened to it. the shit we talk about with the slavegirls alone would make an hour of excellent show pretty much daily.
mircea_popescu: romanians are neither very litigious nor is the local fcc very tough, but to make up for it ro publishers are very very poor.
mircea_popescu: in very winchell fashion i insisted the contract include an indemnity clause tho, and well... fell through.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves i nearly had my radio show in romanian a few years ago.
mircea_popescu: "Thiel stressed the need for his programme while expressing optimism about what this year’s class could achieve"
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform>
http://www.mekanizmalar.com/desmodromics.html << i read desdemona in there for some reason, which reminds me of a story. picture youthful mp at maly, for a staging of othello, in russian. now, bearin in mind that in romanian "zdreanta" means rag or figuratively whore, picture youthful mp hearing a very decided othello burst out "davai zdreanta, desdiemona!!1" and go into incontrollable peels of laughter
mircea_popescu: this is not the case in any natural language, poetry exists anywhere.
mircea_popescu: so you have to specify the gender of the teacup in some contexts. does not equate to "speaker can not make ambiguous statements"
mircea_popescu: * asciilifeform has seen this said about more than one obscure natural language, it always seems to be a reflection of the linguist's ineptitude, in practice. << quite. it's not true of inuit languages any more it's true of russian.
mircea_popescu: prolly a lot more usability, but little fundamental revision
mircea_popescu: the notion that anything like the present usg survives not defeat in the field, but merely an unfavourable if momentary turn of events is pushing it into sf.
mircea_popescu: that thing had been opening for > 1 year, and was going to matter imminently for about as long.
mircea_popescu: decimation there's this tendency for hasing to go up significantly oct-nov-dec
mircea_popescu: kinda curious if the winter explosion takes us into e11 by new year's
mircea_popescu: so you know, telling me how strong people who temporarily became poor didn't really give much of a shit in terms of "the rich" is about as confusing as discussing pregnancy in terms of "look what people can do". tis not people, tis women and women only that can do it.
mircea_popescu: anyway, orlov misses the major point here. it's not about rich/poor as a measurable characteristic. some people are strong, some people are weak. whether the weak are temporarily rich or permanently poor makes little difference at all, money's not for them anyway, nor anything else good in life.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron the funniest part of all of this being that all the -otc derpheads that rate you have not actually and colectively traded as much.
mircea_popescu: i know multiple chicks there, none of them having ever had it.
mircea_popescu: what, you think the sultan of brunei actually fucks every girl in the 500+ strong harem ?
mircea_popescu: meanwhile poor people resent other poor people for various reasons. "she's a slut" "he's a bum" "they're too self righteous" etc.
mircea_popescu: it's nonsense anyway. the people who actually make money - and by consequence pay taxes - have little problem with limonov and a bunch of other idiots getting 300 bux a month or w/e it is they get. which is why most rich people will pick a eager young slut's rent tab & so forth. da fuck does it make a difference anyway.
mircea_popescu: (arachne, for they innocent of the classics, was a rude halfwit spinster - think modern day ceo-wannabe forum kid)
mircea_popescu: a country in which dyonisos is defeated by apollon may do well for a while. but in this case, dyonisos was defeated by arachne.
mircea_popescu: and from the fact that the idiotic population of the us allowed the tavern lobby to be broken up and replaced by the church lobby.
mircea_popescu: this may be how it survived, but no. it stems from stupid us women going to churches run by stupid irish men, back in 1950.
mircea_popescu: there should be a word for this specifically american idiocy phenomenon. derpitanism or something.
mircea_popescu: it's so provincially, mean and narrow minded puritanism it bleeds.
mircea_popescu: decimation the difference ? "poor people aren't having FUN on those foodstamps".
mircea_popescu: yes, but then again the us is chiefly known for having squandered a fortune and built up the history's largest pile of unserviced ious.
mircea_popescu: if he hadn't he should be fucking fired for being a humorless, idiotic puritan and bad for business.
mircea_popescu: yeah, there's still no substitute for petrified whale vomit.
mircea_popescu: if there was a way to save whales but it meant bottling them... if there was a way to attain immortality but you had to be an overweight, socially awkward shut-in ? etc.
mircea_popescu: i think when people talk of saving things, the don't mean save them in the sense cockroaches are saved.