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mircea_popescu: (oana is top 20 frequency name for a girl, radu is top 50 or so frequency for a boy. gypsyes in the south keep calling themselves firstname-firstname)
mircea_popescu: by the way : here's dali saying romania is the best there is
mircea_popescu: more usefully : hey princessnell, to talk you write in the bar to the bottom of the screen and press enter.
mircea_popescu: "your head's very small and the brain's rattling around"
mircea_popescu: nubbins` actually you know what ? fuck! you don't need to make a quarterly \book or w/e
mircea_popescu: i wonder how long before southpark starts idling in here to crib material for furhter episodes.
mircea_popescu: modern day ambulance chasers, they mostly work injury and consumer claims
mircea_popescu: lol no, it's an actual law firm from like missouri iirc
mircea_popescu: is this a coin where every block's an orphan or is this a coin that will be "airdropped" on orphans
mircea_popescu: benkay in a sane country, maybe. in the us, he's not worth the time.
mircea_popescu: collect all the spent cartridges and have the local chicks make art
mircea_popescu: i'm with benkay. if you live in an unsafe area, just open a bar, pass free drinks to the teenaged hoodlums, watch them mow down the police if you ever need any help
mircea_popescu: apparently the need to belong beats clothing and shelter.
mircea_popescu: take a shy chick to the nude beach, she'll usually rather part with the clothing than be considered a loser by the other chicks.
mircea_popescu: it's what informs all the god-awful "pr" everyone else is doing.
mircea_popescu: but as ridiculous as it may seem, a lot of older people have serious trouble coping with the idea that well... not everybody is going to like them. no matter what they do.
mircea_popescu: as if, you know. everybody loves raymond or some shit.
mircea_popescu: to the degree they can't even write for the internet. what if someone doesn't like what they say!!1
mircea_popescu: old people are for some reason really really concerned with libel
mircea_popescu: srsly now, as an engineer, if you're any good and you got to be old, how the fuck would you actually need a salary
mircea_popescu: i usually go listen, forgot about that, it's not your job, let the girls handle it etc.
mircea_popescu: from the pr stuff. otherwise they end up moping and all indignant
mircea_popescu: it's very visible to me because i have to be veeehehery careful to insulate the older (mostly engineering) people working for me
mircea_popescu: so in a sense, it's a quid pro quo, and taleb is captive of his generation.
mircea_popescu: "how could he say i fuck donkeys in my spare time!111"
mircea_popescu: meanwhile however, they are experts at handling what's called "trolling"
mircea_popescu: we easily laugh at kids today because they're wimps, no experience with physical violence, completely unable to cope with physical reality.
mircea_popescu: JorgePasada i think this comes with the territory of being old. in the following specific sense :
mircea_popescu: <Mats_cd03> i need business to start a money << hahaha epic.
mircea_popescu: JorgePasada does have a point, he does read a little bitter.