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mircea_popescu: benkay "imposing your will on the environment is evil anwyay"
mircea_popescu: might as well skipped him went straight from lizzie to the kids.
mircea_popescu: lookl at the british crown : the fact that charles actually reached sexual maturity is to the detriment of everyone.
mircea_popescu: with 50+ age expectancy, this model is disastrous, basically if humans were a functional species sexual maturity'd skip a generation altogethere.
mircea_popescu: if the average lifespan (esp for males) is in the low 40s, then sticking together family is perfect : by the time father croaks, kids are just old enough to pick up the pieces.
mircea_popescu: individuation happens with hardship. the point of fambly sticking together is to control hardship through approaching it a certain way, much like a ship approaches waves a certain way.
mircea_popescu: but that aside, kids moving away is a good thing anyway.
mircea_popescu: us folk can't admit they suck andmore than classical japanese can admit emperor is a dumbass.
mircea_popescu: this nuanced view is so nuanced it's about to collapse into a nuancelingularity.
mircea_popescu: . Among the top cities that may see a surge are Austin and Dallas in Texas, as well as Denver and Des Moines, Iowa.
mircea_popescu: someone was actually doing hr for a living, lemme see here.
mircea_popescu: but in the real world of real politik, an armed opressed populace is fucking dangerous, it'll side with the enemy.
mircea_popescu: sure in an idealised, us-centric world as the naive represent thngs to be, a well armed citizenry is the guarantee and bla bla.
mircea_popescu: no wonder gun ownership is perceioved as such a problem.
mircea_popescu: would any of the people who target practice use their arms on the invaders or on the feds ?
mircea_popescu: as things stand right now, if someone could somehow be bothered to invade, the us would simply collapse and that's that.
mircea_popescu: there's a very fine equilibrium between how popular a government is and how much support it can muster.
mircea_popescu: benkay consider the reverse of this situation : during the azn crisis in the 2000s, people were queing up to donate their privately held gold to prop the centra lbank.
mircea_popescu: and the difference between real value and actual headship is how much actual value (not printed dollars) "they have" stashed away in that particular accumulator.
mircea_popescu: they measure how much of a shit your peers give under "headship"
mircea_popescu: consequently, every able bodied male in your grandfather's age group tried desperately to own.
mircea_popescu: benkay as compared to the rights and privileges ownership conferred upon your grandfather, ownership confers nothing much to you today.
mircea_popescu: basically the us has been degrading ownership over the past decades
mircea_popescu: benkay why would you be paying the upkeep of something you don't own ?
mircea_popescu: mike_c well, "Way below" in sanity land. in bitcoin... shit on havelock';s been trading 50-60% nav, so...
mircea_popescu: and no one understands it when they read their morning logs.
mircea_popescu: mike_c i took it to mean that he wants deposits flushed.
mircea_popescu: a) that you go fight in iraq ; b) that you pay for X Y Z
mircea_popescu: benkay well yes. you "own" it so here's what the govt wants from you now.
mircea_popescu: the headship count is a rough proxy for how much money the govt could steal in ap inh
mircea_popescu: this is why headship is so impoirtant in discussions of "economy" on the govt side :
mircea_popescu: basically, it's like being a parent, except for no benefit and much more upfront expenditure of skill and resources.
mircea_popescu: headship is the internalised delusion that it is worth your while to regard the world so that if a water pipe breaks you pay for it to be fixed.
mircea_popescu: five to ten young men in a living unit, three to six young women.
mircea_popescu: what headship ? millenials want to live in herds, as slaves, with a master.
mircea_popescu: "Rather, the decline is cyclical and as the economy improves, Furman said, millennial headship rates will improve, which could translate into eventual ownership." <<< ahahaha no fucking way.
mircea_popescu: i guess schiff / macaskill can claim moar bet volume than bitbet on that one lol.
mircea_popescu: mike_c this is factually true. no govt drone ever kept a secret when tits were nude on the table.
mircea_popescu: peter schif and amgi metals are worth 1 disposable btc ? lulzk.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: lots of text for 1btc. << funny how little money the vocal periphery actually controls.
mircea_popescu: artifexd: I come back from Ecuador and realize that they just banned bitcoin entirely because they're going to make their own cryptocurrency. I guess my wife was right all along when she said Correa was a dumb ass. <<< let the kids have their fun.
mircea_popescu: funny how this never comes up in discussions about "women in tech"
mircea_popescu: anyone ever is thrilled to take a taxable-income-loss.
mircea_popescu: pigeons: my stocks went down too, but the price doesn't matter, i'll just take a temporary loss and not sell. how long is temporary? << you don't understand what loss means in this context.
mircea_popescu: (bad poopies) or a mare killing their own baby because of being born a runt (bad babbeh). Abusers consist of the majority of the site Fluffybooru with Ginger_Fig, Mwike, and deathproofpony being the most notable examples.
mircea_popescu: , physical weakness, destruction of harvest, and overpopulation. Fluffy Ponies can often die from their own stupidity such as falling off a cliff when attempting to fly, getting run over by a car because they thought it was a friend, eating bad foods, etc. Some abusers often abuse fluffy ponies as if they were clearing out a vermin infestation, while others abuse them for bad deeds such as defecating at the wrong place
mircea_popescu: The fluffy pony community is divided into two communities: abuse and hugbox. Abusers are people who often write stories or draw pictures of fluffy ponies being tortured and often killed by being attacked by humans, being attacked by animals, burning to death with fire or acid, getting cut in half, drowning, etc. These abusers often attack fluffy ponies because of their low intelligence, bratty and childlike personality
mircea_popescu: chetty i dunno, i thought obstructionist is someone who opposes a process for emotional rather than rational reasons.
mircea_popescu: you know every time someone misses a tab you'll be ben instead of benkay