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mircea_popescu: which you know, in some approaches to politics, such as would for instance be favoured by temporary figureheads elected by a democracy, and supported by an unmovable bureaucracy, is the whole of my job.
mircea_popescu: the problem is, it cost me more to win than it's worth. but i won it.
mircea_popescu: however, no pro in the world can beat someone with three queens on the table. and so he consents.
mircea_popescu: now this is actually +ev for the opponent : he probably can't beat a pro on even figures, so giving an extra gueen is not much to give.
mircea_popescu: first game starts. i tell my opponent "listen, if you let me play with an extra queen, i
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform let's model this with a game of chess. suppose there's ten of us in a room. nine are amateurs, i am a rated pro.
mircea_popescu: (cookies won't work if you get them on the wrong domain, so reset if you switch)
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mircea_popescu: that's not where it lies. stalin's externality was belly fat
mircea_popescu: this is why the soviet union collapsed cleanly, whereas the libertard union will not.
mircea_popescu: stalin's thing was reality bound. roosevelt's thing was not.
mircea_popescu: "how great would it be if we cut off everyone's legs, and hired someone to push them around"
mircea_popescu: this creates "assets" for everyone involved, and so...
mircea_popescu: yeah, the whole story works fine for as long as the expansion of debt remains unrestricted.
mircea_popescu: they can only get evicted provided their eviction costs more than it's worth.
mircea_popescu: every dollar the usg extracts from anything costs it more than a dollar as a precondition of its continued existence.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform kinda why the credit bubble is required for usg : because all extraction only works if it costs more than it extracts
mircea_popescu: they only get THAT free if they find someone to beg or steal it off.
mircea_popescu: problem is all this cost her < a hamburger (which she gets free anyway)
mircea_popescu: there's nothing "surreal" about it and it's not going away. it will have your throat slit if you persist. love, mp.
mircea_popescu: "LeGuin did tell a 911 call taker that he intended to occupy the Far North Dallas house as a sovereign nation for himself."
mircea_popescu: what i want to know is, how's eskimobob's rent a clay oven business working.
mircea_popescu: there's no need for two guys to come up with ways to test the mdma. one's enough. there may be need for three dudes to implement the testing, however.
mircea_popescu: the irrelevant and replaceable parts are the actors, not the agents.
mircea_popescu: whichever rocket is not seen... it's where the other rockets land.
mircea_popescu: alternatively, they do all 3 in different gulag stations
mircea_popescu: well it's not so much to invent, babylonians prolly invented it.
mircea_popescu: the courts can';t afford it and the das don't want it, but that is immaterial here i'd guess.
mircea_popescu: jacking off is also usually done with bots, nevertheless athletes usually can afford stripper service.
mircea_popescu: not like they have to test so many samples they can't afford a lab technician
mircea_popescu: you can test specifically for mdma clearance tho neh ?
mircea_popescu: (also author of the sec, in case anyone missed the memo on what exactly the play is "undo the new deal", should they continue unaligned.)
mircea_popescu: the ~other~ us liberal dictator, died in office, during his 4th term.
mircea_popescu: according to people who didn't read literary digest, own a car or a phone however... he stayed.
mircea_popescu: according to these, roosevelt was going out of office.
mircea_popescu: here's a funny story from the past : in 1936 (ie, after the disastrous effects of roosevelt's socialist inanity became apparent to anyone worth the mention), literary digest sent out 10mn questionnaires to all the people buying it + anyone with a car or a phone.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the point i had buried under all that failpaste is... wtf, "petrodollar scam breaking down plz send me paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr dollar instead" ?
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