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mircea_popescu: There was a young girl of Batonger who diddled herself with a conger. When asked how it feels to be pleasured by eels she said, "Just like a man, only longer."
mircea_popescu: "1) Truthiness is a truth that someone knows to be true with complete disregard for facts." << uh, that's nonsense. we already have words to describe this, and quite refinedly so.
mircea_popescu: this is more like... "let me tell you what i think about astrophysics. i think there's a painted cardboard box around the earth"
mircea_popescu: yeah but that's more like, korean media reporting it's not fair that korean football team was defeated. or that the referee cheated when he didn't.
mircea_popescu: i get pissy at the various us media "bitcoin experts", but really... that's the whole model. their climatology experts are no better, their political/financial analysts are no better, it';s just what it is. pay a monkey in sandwiches to be on tv.
mircea_popescu: the risk with showing humanity a cheaper way to do anything is that it'll fucking do it.
mircea_popescu: "come see what people who can't be employed think about things in the fields they can't be employed in"
mircea_popescu: radio died gracefully. tv however seems to die of a cocktail of venereal diseases.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony fucking hysterical. i was just reading teh romanian online press. their leads are epic, "our article x, read over 4k times!" "this poll yields a 85% result towards so and so". it's an online poll with a total of ~700 votes.
mircea_popescu: thgere's something afoot with freenode, services are unresponsive too.
mircea_popescu: even icahn noticed yellen is about as clueless of financial matters as obama of politics....
mircea_popescu: fittingly, that hungarian is going to run the dollar into the ground, after having raped the pound.
mircea_popescu: in other news, the large soros spy put now sits at 2.2 bn
mircea_popescu: reddit at its finest : "Sports Betting at it's finest - Reddit"
mircea_popescu: if i cast this wide a net i might as well import phantomcircuit.lib and email @internet
mircea_popescu: punkman ok, but his blog 2nd post is in april, "My dad died this morning, smiling up until the end. "
mircea_popescu: maybe i fundamentally misunderstand something. such as perhaps the market hates reading.
mircea_popescu: FabianB most people haven't got the memo that slovenakia is not actually a german province anymoar.
mircea_popescu: "o i know, let's get all the disadvantages of skateboards, bikes and vans into a nice tight package. tight enough to keep all the advantages at bay"
mircea_popescu: to paraphrase a famous assbot saying, i've never been as handicapped by my ignorance as when i started a betting site.
mircea_popescu: mike_c ascii. nothing has changed, i promote the same things, work with the same kinds of people...
mircea_popescu: and besides, i'd rather pay bloggers to write than spend money on "advertising".
mircea_popescu: mike_c tbh i don't care for fit past betting, inasmuch as bitcoin is the bottleneck anyway
mircea_popescu: it's really easy to forget just how shitty google has become over time, for as long as one sticks to obscure topics and generally the long tail.
mircea_popescu: i wanted to have a few reputed voices look over the berkshire bet for their audience.
mircea_popescu: im shocked there's no trilema of gambling, seriously. considering the piles of interest and the shit on tap, minimal ability would prolly earn someoine a living with less work than a college degree requires.
mircea_popescu: Welcome to the Two Plus Two Poker Blogs Posted: February 25th, 2008, by Two Plus Two o.O
mircea_popescu: hmm, any of the gamblers in attendance care to point me to a respected gambling blog ?
mircea_popescu: yeah, i don't want to buy their products myself, but i'd rather be long than short knc i think.
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal a block has to ellapse between when bet is proposed and when it's accepted. for this reason the poster's counter bet would come out in a different weight from his zeroconf
mircea_popescu: a it adds it all up ? and what, shows as inbound the most recent ?
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla technically one can make 500 zeroconf bets by sending to the same addy
mircea_popescu: you generally see two bets on the highest weight, they're the house bets. if there's three, one's the bet proponent zeroconf.
mircea_popescu: so i'm reading up on the darien scheme. while i always suspected the scottish people to be by and large a bunch of useless louts more or less on par with romanians,
mircea_popescu: i am surprised and appalled at the shocking lack of rabbits with this package on their head.
mircea_popescu: why is it under a chair in the sun ? what is this, the waldo package ?
mircea_popescu: that shot looks like the fucking "alice in wonderland corner test facility"
mircea_popescu: and why is "being taped at a weird angle to a doorknob on a door that for some reason rests by itself in a hallway at an angle" dangerous to posters ?
mircea_popescu: or does it have something to do with "proximity of icebox" ?
mircea_popescu: why is "being propped against a fence" supposed to destroy posters ?
mircea_popescu: <mike_c> mixed metaphors are the best metaphors. << "mixed metaphores are the best concrete"
mircea_popescu: The Late Sir John Ogilvy: in praise of Sir John Ogilvy, 9th Baronet, MP for Dundee. "He was a public benefactor in many ways, Especially in erecting an asylum for imbecile children to spend their days."