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mircea_popescu: but essentially... it is pernicious to everyone. and this has so far gone un noticed.
mircea_popescu: substantially, it's pernicious to the poor. and this is obvious.
mircea_popescu: why are the poor masters of their own life ? what nonsense is this!
mircea_popescu: bounce but the problem is the "they" in there. why should they turn off the telly or not turn off the telly ?
mircea_popescu: bitcoinpete it happened before. it's exactly how rome looked, 100 to 500ish ad. legionaires too lazy to wear... the helmet. the cuirass was long before abandoned, and even beforer that the shield.
mircea_popescu: the essence/substance distinction is not a matter subjective. what they think and represent has little import.
mircea_popescu: bitcoinpete this was the theory, cca 1950 to 1980s. it meanwhile failed.
mircea_popescu: and busy != entertained, because the later is self-managed, the former is not. imposing upon the poor is the essence of busywork, not just that they're occupied, but that they're occupied with other's orders.
mircea_popescu: similar to the kid that goes to college to learn vs the kid that goes to college to get the diploma.
mircea_popescu: bounce no no, what i mean is quite this : the trannies in florida get the silicone to look a certain way. the african tribesmen get the cut to be a certain way. there's a meta level of distinction.
mircea_popescu: bitcoinpete huge diff between busy and entertained tho.
mircea_popescu: generally they want to be cut for similar reasons to women wanting to be my slaves, it's an educational experience.
mircea_popescu: well yeah, which is what confounds the example that's prolly very clear cut to you.
mircea_popescu: this somehow switched, 180. and i can't find when, or why.
mircea_popescu: for as long as the british empire endured, the thinking was that the poor have to be kept busy
mircea_popescu: i mean this welfare nonsense is a) very recent and b) never seems to have been critically considered.
mircea_popescu: so perhaps the problem is that so many poor idiots are also idle.
mircea_popescu: yeah, but you know... back in 1700 there seems to be a complete dearth of bohemian peasants that sat around injecting silicone in their butts to look more like women.
mircea_popescu: “Experts say people resort to illegal ‘pumping parties,’ where customers outside a hospital or clinical setting are injected with anything from Botox to industrial-grade silicone, out of convenience or because they lack insurance or access to health care and legitimate plastic surgery.”
mircea_popescu: " as we've seen, there's a market for convenience, any convenience at all" << that part.
mircea_popescu: well no, i selected the "what to do about idiots". you seemed to say that well... empowering their idiocy through catering to their whims is a net positive.
mircea_popescu: bitcoinpete the wench brings the drinks, i bring the lolz, is it ? :D
mircea_popescu: "Played monopoly, paid his buy-in". if there was a more marginal marginal ever...
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla the dude that kept coming to derp in here ?
mircea_popescu: and only because i was just writing on this, and my conclusion was "burn it with fire"
mircea_popescu: <bounce> I don't particularly like the model, but if above assumptions hold it's not acutally an outright bad idea. << what's that then ?
mircea_popescu: there's a market for injecting raw industrial silicon in women's buttocks.
mircea_popescu: bounce are you sure that there "being a market" is a valid approach ?
mircea_popescu: punkman basically, this is the bitcoin mining "projects" 100%
mircea_popescu: rebranding the successful brand that was utterly destroyed and etc.
mircea_popescu: "Manipal University is a name to reckon with not just in India, but the world over. "
mircea_popescu: "Because of the damage incurred... Because of the fact that we are being called thieves and con-artists and frauds without having done anything wrong"
mircea_popescu: team gumpy. "we are not fly by night. no. no. no we're not. no. yes we are."
mircea_popescu: "After the events of the last couple of days, we are very disappointed. The kickstarter Montrex project was to help build the Montrex brand. Ultimately, backers destroyed the brand and the reputation of the brand and its team."
mircea_popescu: i just had to pour myself a triple drink because well... my brain knotted.
mircea_popescu: adn now are delisting the new symbol because... the inexistent officers of the inexistent company... failed to protest ?
mircea_popescu: then re-opened trading, arbitrarily, on a new symbol, with new authority
mircea_popescu: and the exchange with the panama registration that doesn't exist complied
mircea_popescu: so allegedly an alleged "compliance officer" that doesn't exist made a request (that doesn't exist) to suspend the trading of a supposed company with real assets that don't exist
mircea_popescu: <tradingloser> Well hoping for a new start. I took what looks like the remains of neobee and cryptoshitstocks over to bitcoinbourse. hoping for the best. <<< ahahah
mircea_popescu: tradingloser they're called play exchanges for a reason.
mircea_popescu just checked stats, was blown away by last...4 days user count being ~above month avg~
mircea_popescu: <benkay> hue hue hue was v. tempted to thank mp instead << DDDDOOOO ITTTT
mircea_popescu: <bounce> everybody knows by now, but the europhile eurocrats don't care; the people, even the national governments, can no longer stop it << let's bet.