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mircea_popescu: even things the russians mistake for "slav spirit" are about as chinese as it can be.
mircea_popescu: this has been china for pretty much the entire interval
mircea_popescu: buncha equal peons, and the emperor drunk out of his mind. between these, a bureaucracy, completely arbitrarily "educated" by rote.
mircea_popescu: who doesn't think farmers understand, because for shephers... c'e diverso. e con le stelle, uno puo parlare.
mircea_popescu: or in the words of tornatore (uomo delle stelle), "e il mondo vero, or solo per finta ?"
mircea_popescu: in that physicalist view you'll have trouble showing people even exist at all.
mircea_popescu: benkay no but on the naively nominalist view that "you" existed sincer forever and will exist forever. soul or w/e.
mircea_popescu: the steady state of planet earth is china being teh world empire
mircea_popescu: sure there is. the steady state of humans is being dead.
mircea_popescu: with temporary century-long interruptions due to invasions and whatnot. it always reverted.
mircea_popescu: what the us pretends for itself, china has been, for the past ~5000 years
mircea_popescu: bounce the little known fact is that china was always the world's empire.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo and the thing is, god help you if you sell the chinese golden toilets. afaik nobody got shot when it was discovered haliburton "misplaced" 1 bn in the various senatorial etc campaign slushfunds in iraq
mircea_popescu: (read that again. fine = pretty broad. jesus i fucking love myself har har har)
mircea_popescu: only one i can think of. and the definition of "fine" must be pretty... broad.
mircea_popescu: but if you can't afford what you need, isn't that an indication that you shouldn't be doing what you're doing ?
mircea_popescu: "The magazine couldn’t afford moderators, as many news organizations can’t." herp.
mircea_popescu: it doesn't have to be "real", because wtf is that real mean, but it does have to be identity.
mircea_popescu: i still think discussion is impossible absent identity.
mircea_popescu: pretty lulzy, "this newspaper closed until we can find some not-retartded people to read it"
mircea_popescu: bounce it's not trivial to actually burn down a modern transformer.
mircea_popescu: and because of ecological concerns, old style coolant mixtures that were azerotropic were replaced with new, more expensive formulations. a punctured coolant room means you have to empty, was and refill.
mircea_popescu: bounce not really. all the bullet needs to do is perforate the coolant room. anywhere.
mircea_popescu: they're conveniently forgetting to mention the ominous part where the attackers disabled the security with minimal, expert moves.
mircea_popescu: plus absurdistan ecological regulations, like being criminally responsible for birds flying into your intake vents
mircea_popescu: likely to hit the south the worst, too, which is ideal on at least two counts.
mircea_popescu: it's gonna be a long hot summer boys and girls. no better way to get the masses to believe in global warming than keeping them without ac for a summer.
mircea_popescu: in other-other news, the us preparing for electricity rationing :
mircea_popescu: fucking kiss of death, this, only commodified businesses have the time. finance is dead.
mircea_popescu: so citi conference call, all they want to talk about is how they're cutting costs.
mircea_popescu: "VCs plow $46 million more into writing community Wattpad --> it's like Youtube for stories"
mircea_popescu: benkay i'm just being steganographical. see because sometimes the things i say are in reality secret messages for uknown third parties according to secret schemes of encoding and so forth.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo you makin' a killing on this thing yet ? :D
mircea_popescu: "Is this still being mined.... I mined it when it had a coingen.io logo still and No source hahahaha"
mircea_popescu: Namworld:Depends on the sort of capital they have. Gox's name isn't what's doomed. << you gotta be kiddin' me.
mircea_popescu: are you a hot blonde with a sister whose name is alabama and was played by patricia arquette in tarantino's movie ?
mircea_popescu: bounce publish on your blog, link to the offensive thing, omfg we're creating value out of nowhere!
mircea_popescu: do you understand the difference between a good and a not so good bug report ?
mircea_popescu: artifexd: Because, seriously, who the fuck am I? << you were here at the right time lol. what the fuck do you imagine a barony is ? exactly that, review the early english history :D
mircea_popescu: bounce no, but we can still talk. either are excesses : omg can't talk to no-one except other rear admirals / omg everyone i talk to is exactly like me. middle fucking bitcoineus i say!
mircea_popescu: Here, mircea and I should not exist in the same caste. I'm just a normal dude. He's a Romanian Billionare. WITH A B! I can conceive of no reason that someone that high up the food chain would give two shits about what I think or why I think it. << it's the internet, dood. why else did you think it was revolutionary ?
mircea_popescu: Indubitably Necessarily Definitely Exactly Exactly Definitely.
mircea_popescu: (this, incidentally, has already happened numerous times in history)
mircea_popescu: or at least make such a complete mess of everything nobody'll be able to entangle it and everyone'll just move on to another language.
mircea_popescu: i am going to explain EVERYTHING(tm) before i'm done, i tell you.
mircea_popescu: dub actually romania had a seismologist who went on tv and predicted an earthquake. fucking panic ensued
mircea_popescu: srsly. this really should be part of obamacare. any woman over 30 may get her tits fixed, take the stuff out upon retirement.
mircea_popescu: at which point, your bitcoin savings become spendable.
mircea_popescu: ultimate saving device : you will take thoise out once you're old.