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mircea_popescu: MisterE except the only exchange owner we know is me, and so i guess you can use trilema for that purpose.
mircea_popescu: and with that i'll bid you all a very good nuclear summer!
mircea_popescu: if the russians invade alaska the us citizenry would flock there mostly to tweet about it
mircea_popescu: the ukrainians called a general mobilisation, nobody showed.
mircea_popescu: which brings us exactly to why bitcoin is so important.
mircea_popescu: seems more practical to just start a facebook campaign
mircea_popescu: and the thing with megalopolis-oi. cairo yes, cause it's shit. but most modern people live spaced out.
mircea_popescu: so if you want to boil up afghanistan, you're looking at
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform let's play with math. latent heat for water is what, 12k, +4k per degree.
mircea_popescu: and this if you roughly know the direction. if you don't....
mircea_popescu: like the problem of finding that plane : it only flew what, 500 miles ?
mircea_popescu: but fundamentally : every mile you walk adds more than a square mile to the area you've covered.
mircea_popescu: joecool that can't be right, mostly because nuclear power is economical as compared to burning oil.
mircea_popescu: and as the countries spending billions on them like the people to continue to believe.
mircea_popescu: as long as nobody uses them it's "those incredibly, exceedingly, unrepresentably powerful weapons". after a dozen or so pop it's like... those very expensive, inaccurate things.
mircea_popescu: this works across the board, currently the biggest deterrent to nuclear detonation isn't a bunch of fucktarded chicks that drink tea and blather like sheep. it's simply the desire on all parties that invested billions in these things to avoid proving to the general public that... big fucking deal.
mircea_popescu: if you've never been punched in the face your reptillian brain builds this thing into an endless colossus. if you have, whatever. maybe you lose a tooth, your lip gets swollen. so what of it ?
mircea_popescu: it doesn't even have to be all that present, but human beings need experiences, and a balanced diet thereof.
mircea_popescu: experience, direct experience, remains the best cure for mental dysfunction.
mircea_popescu: apparently you can't get a fetish going if you get to see the actual object, in all its nude glory.
mircea_popescu: the romans had the following problem to sexual fixations in pubers : exposure.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile they play dice for a 2% house edge. that's okay.
mircea_popescu: i mean, even in the middle of an armed rebellion/invasion your chances to be plugged are what, 1% ?
mircea_popescu: what if the tootbrush gives them an evil look one day ?
mircea_popescu: there's this generation of nuts that fears its own shadow. cops ? hoprrible. the sec ? omaigawd. black kids ? HALP HALP
mircea_popescu: decimation no, as in a little fucking and public speaking is required for adults.
mircea_popescu: in any event, violence is not a "problem". it's required, like breathing.
mircea_popescu: diametric "here's how i try to inject myself in stuff that has nothing to do with me over 5k words. call me michael moore"
mircea_popescu: dub forget that part, that's easy. ever tried to talk to the beast after she's been rubbed raw on marble for half hour ?
mircea_popescu: "o ya, you're really living it large dude. the whole point of a pool table is to keep it in a cellar."
mircea_popescu: my mind boggles when i visit someone and they have shit like a pool table in the basement
mircea_popescu: black/white marble on rosy granite works especially well
mircea_popescu: hdbuck well don't forget to publish if you figure out anything.
mircea_popescu: the more likely explanation is probably that they're not actually as smart as they see themsekves.
mircea_popescu: the convenient explanation being that they're exposed scammers/shills with a bone for pr.
mircea_popescu: they all pretend like they're businessmen, it's the hip thing to claim
mircea_popescu: curious which is the first hip hop artist to make it here.
mircea_popescu: that aside, bitcoin will outlive the dollar, in which sense any arbitrary price point will be reached eventually.
mircea_popescu: my cock really doesn't taste as bad as people tell themselves.