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mircea_popescu: "Investment banks don't like people acting in ways that make them look bad. Image is everything when your customers are rich elites. The antagonism going on with the Conformal team is not maximizing the dollar value they are being paid to do work. A cooperative effort where teams share ideas and cross-pollinate with less ego gets more done.
mircea_popescu: the bitcoin rift guild had a mumble, nobody really used it.
mircea_popescu: Beyond_Bitcoin it pretty much is a bitcoin classic yeah.
mircea_popescu: i don't recall all the others. this chick stuck because she was uniquely sensible.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski i guess now ima have to fill this hole.
mircea_popescu: <Beyond_Bitcoin> invite crypto-enthusiasts and journalists to attend the events, record in real time without paying entry fees or having to travel long distances <<< so was there an actual journalist ?
mircea_popescu: mircea_popescu: ww2. most of the better frenchmen got shot. << i thought the point of surrendering was precisely so that this didn't happen, as it did in ww1, n'est pas? <<< maybe. who's to know.
mircea_popescu: soon decided he wants to administer the place instead.
mircea_popescu: the better explanation is that continental bureaucracy went from inept to able, and so the charles that once was content to just fuck the best whores in venice as a prize for his winnings
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> or, the traditional explanation for how italy went from an interesting place to pesthold (unification. warring states - think. unified empire - stagnates) << this is not a very good explanation.
mircea_popescu: and the thing is, if police hassles you, which is unlikely in the first place, yo ucan just give them one
mircea_popescu: there's no "profession" in the real world, just skill ability and utility.
mircea_popescu: *BingoBoingo wonders as a lifelong USian what professions might exist in actual economies <<< here's one. while sitting idly after a dinner of delicious empanadas, i did the math with the girls. the profit selling them in the street (like people do)'d have been 5 to 10 pesos a pop. any one of them could have easily cleared 2-3-5k pesos a day, more than enough to live by.
mircea_popescu: (and for a needed counterbalance in all the "onoes pesos" derpage : argentinian hipster chick - mostly can)
mircea_popescu: self-projected pretense to the contrary notwithstanding
mircea_popescu: seems to me if she can't even afford to get fucked she must be pretty damned cheap.
mircea_popescu: decimation suppose you meet one of them, and you really like each other.
mircea_popescu: <decimation> the us is too poor to afford leeches who climatederp all day << they doin';t really cost as much as all that.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo the idea that there's more than one peoples reading romanian encourages me. im writing a large piece now and ima link a ton of good romanian material, all quite relevant and i imagine a lot moire instructive to teh english native than the romanian.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo inasmuch as you know that there's a phase 4, you also know your addressing didn't work.
mircea_popescu: which is exactly why union of SOCIALIST republics / chinese COMMUNIST party.
mircea_popescu: it's like, what's the difference between phase 2 and phase 4 lymphoma ?
mircea_popescu: hint : the group doesn't actually exist, not in any way meaningful on the plane where the individuals do. consequently, both these come up with pretty contorted and quickly insane misrepresentations of the group
mircea_popescu: fascism is exactly the opposite : the misguided expectation/belief that the problems of the group will be resolved by an individual.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes well, socialism is the misguided expectation/belief that the problems of the individual will be resolved by the group.
mircea_popescu: inasmuch as bitcoin is a lot more fascist than stalin ever got... i guess prepare for a helluva lot o' love.
mircea_popescu: there's no strength to be had among people whose history isn't thus described.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes but anyway, the point was that inasmuch as she's not published her cunt her education is quite appalingly poor.
mircea_popescu: (if you've not seen that film btw... you might have to. possibly worst film ever made + 10 minutes of monica belucci being raped in the dirt)
mircea_popescu: how does the french underground go from rengaine to "Irreversible" ?
mircea_popescu: decimation the white hierarchy supporting society collapsed ?
mircea_popescu: "o look how cute, he could almost say compunction in spite of his oversized lips"
mircea_popescu: yes, on a first listen. but i'm culturally rigid enough to generally regard the entire thing as you know... little more than children babbling.
mircea_popescu: "how dares this lowly individual give boeing money we'd have given it anyway"
mircea_popescu: but having someone to scapegoat is always the preferred avenue. poor abakumov.
mircea_popescu: decimation "scam" only inasmuch as boeing is tbtf anyway, so without this scam it'd have had to be a different scam.
mircea_popescu: and in the same vein : i find it amusing that folks in a quarrel with the government hire government agents to "defend" them at significant expense.
mircea_popescu: the same argument could be made by a blonde twerking ditz going "it's not that she ever ran into anything labeled physics"
mircea_popescu: it's not that when i ran into the local mobsters i immediately knew. it's that they ALSO figured it out within five minutes.
mircea_popescu: i would suspect it much depends on what you mean by "one".
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this is why stuff like 1984 are so good. the fuckwit hero actually believes that o'brien is the guy to go to for the secret book.
mircea_popescu: as an ~urban~ institution mind you. it has nothing to do with italians, other than in the sense italians were at the time the most urban ethnic group in the us
mircea_popescu: decimation that for one thing. for the other, the only way to read yarvin's definition outside of "the mob" would require absolute midwestern innocence of the mob
mircea_popescu: what's next, capitalist profit = robbery of the workers ?
mircea_popescu: um. you're playing too fast and kinda loose with the definitions.
mircea_popescu: <decimation> is professor a criminal or part of the overclass? << to be a criminal he'd have to commit a crime. what's the crime here ?
mircea_popescu: <decimation> mircea_popescu: growing up in the 90's I witnessed Brahmin culture shift from vaguely rock 'n roll to thug rap << wut ?!