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mircea_popescu: incidentally it is naught but shoicking how little persian exists in english translations,
mircea_popescu: for that matter : leadership and lawmaking are quite distinct endeavours.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo you know, paragraph long links look kinda dorky
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform plenty of indirect taxes tho. everyone pays.
mircea_popescu: not to mention the shit trays and medical inspections.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but why should it be allowed for cats ? it's a drug neh ?
mircea_popescu: guess what happens to lead that's washed in aciding tomato juice.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` no. this was chiefly a us phenomenon. the us at the time was poor and lazy, so most of their flatware was made of lead.
mircea_popescu: very few got the high quality trolling they were blessed with.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i kept proposing people to make catnip illegal in the us
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah. but also a lot of variation there.
mircea_popescu: cats are fine, but i've never heard of a cat like th estuff
mircea_popescu: some dogs love chocolate. some other dogs can die spontaneously from it.
mircea_popescu: anyway, there's a lot of metabolic diversity under this "all humans are humans" misguided perception. and it isn't limited to this species, either.
mircea_popescu: their liver is just not too happy with the prospect of having to cope with that load.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what i read suggested it's the presence of particular enzimatic pathways
mircea_popescu: you have like 30% chances to develop some types of liver cancer etc.
mircea_popescu: it may actually be genetic. about 18% or so of the population finds various aromatic hydrocarbons... aromatic.
mircea_popescu: huffing toluene/whatever other solvents is not that geograpghically concentrated
mircea_popescu: while by population should only be entitled to a modest 15%
mircea_popescu: what does worry me is that out of the stupidities emitted every day, said sphere leisurely owns 99.x%
mircea_popescu: people keep harping about "inequality of wealth distribution", but that fails to worry me.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform more open minded, in this context, is for instance considering the point that a severe beating is liable to be at least as effective an educational tool as speech.
mircea_popescu: this woman would chew on her own liver if she ever read these logs wouldn't she.
mircea_popescu: lmao so i made hotel reservations today, which they confirmed in triplicate, and the girl eager to impress both her boss and his mysterious business partner guy of numerous hermetic grandeurs (ie, me) broke out the special character set : "doublé rooms" she says.
mircea_popescu: Shakespeare make her kneel naked on dry beans for two hours.
mircea_popescu: bloctoc if you have the fiat collateral to post im pretty sure you'll find some. you can prolly even ask coinbase.
mircea_popescu: benkay that blockchain thing actually soiunds like a good idea. i can't believe they're past the 24h mark.
mircea_popescu: im sure that according to the fly's own onboard instrumentation, its flight is quiet.
mircea_popescu: it's like... nobody ever puts in a derp order that goes unfilled by the derpgods ?
mircea_popescu: The current digital currency narrative, while certainly attractive to entrepreneurs, venture capital, and the media, is extremely "First World" in nature. And a primary question remains -- do such innovations, as we know them today, address the needs of consumers and businesses on both sides of an international transaction?
mircea_popescu: yeah, like if you have sex with a lot of 3 year olds your hiv will be cured.
mircea_popescu: i'll tell you who. all the people with worthless cash.
mircea_popescu: "The Piraeus bond deal underscores both the continued improvement in the perception of Greece’s economy as well as the flood of cash in the financial system that has depressed returns on debt of all stripes."
mircea_popescu: that's ok, once they reach a level where they can be helped they'll make their way here.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform notrly, he doesn't have reddit comments going "reading putin's pr chick makes me physically hurt"
mircea_popescu: Shakespeare no, but matonis could pay me not to pay you...
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes, but you will notice that mpex has mpoe-pr doing a lot of fun stuff
mircea_popescu: a steady stream of "putin takes stance on making kremlin toilets use recycled paper" bs would do wonders.
mircea_popescu: this is the problem with large organisations and old people, they aren't in touch with the kids anymore, dunno how to really hurt them.
mircea_popescu: if he did more craigkate type of stuff it'd be riotous.
mircea_popescu: putin should come out of the closet as a furry or something, just to troll reddit.