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mircea_popescu: jewland too. it's just not in the cards for that continent, having civilised countries there.
mircea_popescu: i wish i could find a way to bitbet this. "sa is going to shit in a handbasket"
mircea_popescu: the us reneged about 50 billion worth of them under fdr.
mircea_popescu: and i dunno why zh is making such a big deal out of it. a bond anchored to gold. what's so strange about it ?
mircea_popescu: invent a condom package that detects eager sluts, save on all the rohypnol biz.
mircea_popescu: Vexual you saying the dorks in the photo are moles working for the international directorate of date rape ?
mircea_popescu: "An undergraduate team at North Carolina State University might have just revolutionized your make-up drawer. The four students are working to develop a"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform pity handle turns the entire thing into such a sad pro-govt piece.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i was just thinking, wow look at that, all he had to do is ask.
mircea_popescu: SuchWow a month ago you hadn't talked enough for us to know enough about you to know it'd be beneficial.
mircea_popescu: decimation i never really gas about the race politics in the us, so all this is news to me.
mircea_popescu: decimation seems you have a much stronger point than originally thought, re the 99%.
mircea_popescu: The stories all take place in the town of Gini, Virginia, with the intro sequence showing a large sign displaying: “Welcome to Gini – Proud to be a Diverse and Vibrant Community.”
mircea_popescu: if the democrat party puts up a 2nd generation korean dude for presidency, 99% of koreans will vote with him
mircea_popescu: so you're invested in what they believe whether you like it or not.
mircea_popescu: in the sense that with a 99% block you have nothing to gain, but a lot to lose.
mircea_popescu: decimation both. they doin't vote 99% for one, and if they did, their oppinions would be relevant.
mircea_popescu: SuchWow basically, the infrastructure is new, and there isn't an answer for everoyne's needs. you're a poster child for this problem.
mircea_popescu: no i was just explaining that even if you did it it wouldn't help you.
mircea_popescu: SuchWow amusingly enough : even if you were added to assbot l2 : you probably would not up yoruself every time you joined
mircea_popescu: i am guess this whole shebang is quite revolutionary. it doesn't sit well with irc traditionz at all.
mircea_popescu: SuchWow you could just read the logs on the webpage i guess
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo in fairness emily was quite adept, netiquette et all.
mircea_popescu: willy nilly bitcoin forces a lot of fiat know nothings into here.
mircea_popescu: not wish. but sometimes people need to be here that are noobs.
mircea_popescu: and i don't just mean people who don't know irc. i mean people who barely grok computers.
mircea_popescu: but instead says "sorry, this person has nothing to say"
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla how difficult would it be to have yet another assbot list and a command. if someone goes !novoice then assbot never 30min voices them again
mircea_popescu: SuchWow i guess one way to go about it is ignore assbot.
mircea_popescu: <SuchWow> i have no desire to go to that site lol <fluffypony> well then you can't have perm voice. << i like how neatly this works. army-like almost.
mircea_popescu: <RebeccaBitcoin> Although I could be an imposter, so thats not cool Although I could be an imposter, so thats not cool << impostor of... whom ? some chick on the interwebs ?
mircea_popescu: <decimation> because blacks vote 99% democrat, therefore making their opinions on any political matter void << i dun think this is true.
mircea_popescu: <decimation> bezzle finance did pretty well << insanely well.
mircea_popescu: <decimation> if that day comes I claim FDR's head << good thing to claim.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo yeah but i suspect he likes it in the way of pick up a rifle and form a picket.
mircea_popescu: The20YearIRCloud you're like, a proud ohio citizen or something, are ya ?
mircea_popescu: just because rural folk are slow doesn't mean they're immune from falling.
mircea_popescu: it's a matter of size not quality. once the pig is ripe, it gets sliced.
mircea_popescu: illinois is bigger and richer than ohio. so is california. so is ny. that is all.
mircea_popescu: only because some states have stuff to be leached and some don't.
mircea_popescu: wherever you houise it, washington or akron, they'll take a bus
mircea_popescu: inasmuch as there's a public treasury somewhere, there's going to be a troop of people forcing it open.
mircea_popescu: the current system didn't exist before it was needed either.
mircea_popescu: The20YearIRCloud trust me, new gerrymandering would be invented.
mircea_popescu: sure. but if there were no feds, the same money would still be available.
mircea_popescu: the entire "federal funds" thing has nothing to do with anything. they're not "federal" funds in any sense.
mircea_popescu: what i mean is, the porkbarrel leeches that curently push and deform washington
mircea_popescu: (maryland excepted. i have nfi idea what it's even for. without washington it'd look like detroit five weeks after everyone grew wings)
mircea_popescu: The20YearIRCloud: left to their own devices, California, Illinois, new york and maryland would implode << exactly. they're also the only three examples where a trickle of leeching happens even with the federal govt (ie, it's where corrupt politicians try to build a career state-level)
mircea_popescu: should the teasts move, within a year and a half tops the local states'd be in such a mess you wouldn't believe your eyes.
mircea_popescu: The20YearIRCloud: Most US states are run pretty well, but when you add the federal goverment into it, it becomes a huge mess << this isn't actually true. most of the rent seeking gunk is currently sucking out of washington because that's where the teats are, and so this gives the convincing but ultimately false impression individual states are better run.