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mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo yeah well afaik toyota etc is what sunk detroit.
mircea_popescu: they're not obliged nor reasonably expected to go "o heh heh bitcoin heh heh" just so random beavis feels tehy connected.
mircea_popescu: so the customs searched his bags. it's what customs do.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla honestly the thing reads to me like attentionseeking behaviour.
mircea_popescu: well because in that sense you could as well say i did it.
mircea_popescu: you wouldn't say washington wrecked detroit per se would you /
mircea_popescu: i mean... some geographical zones will just die out if trade barriers go away
mircea_popescu: romania finished 2 nucelar reactors that the soviets/local commies tried to get going for 15 years, and now exports electricity.
mircea_popescu: all these countries re-industrialised after the soviet collapse.
mircea_popescu: what examples do we have ? hungary, slovenia, slovakia, czech, poland, romania, bulgaria, take your pick ?
mircea_popescu: why can't he just make an altcoin like any well behaved scammer and fade into the bitbucket.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i'm not pro putin in any sense. it's just that most of the people ending up in my feed are english speaking propaganda agents
mircea_popescu: but it can't seriously be contemplated ukrainians'd fare better under putin than under merkel
mircea_popescu: how the hell does that work ? just because he dislikes the usg ?
mircea_popescu: maybe if they make the war 4 hours a day and everyone the same height.
mircea_popescu: people all derping around about war. if a general mobilization order issued by the ukraine is ignored so, who the fuck is going to go to war ? france ?
mircea_popescu: check that out, they only got 1% ish respond to mobilization orders ?
mircea_popescu: "The last time the Chicago Cubs won a World Series, the Ottoman Empire still existed."
mircea_popescu: Hopefully these will be the first orders of business: dissolve, disband, liquidate."
mircea_popescu: "I move that MPOE-PR be appointed supreme dictator of the Bitcoin Foundation.
mircea_popescu: fact : the ~average~ entrepreneur will not have made by age 40 as much money as the average hs floozie working the stripping joints in saget, il made.
mircea_popescu: need moar #womenintech, because currently they're not fucktarded enough to work really long hours doing relaly anyoing shit for very little money.
mircea_popescu: ction and the severity of the mutilation. Judge C. Glenn Stevens awarded the man $16,000,000 in 1993 to compensate him. To satisfy the judgment, the Midwest Rubber Reclaiming plant and equipment owned by the Monsanto Corporation was sold at auction in August 1993. The site has since been leveled with no future prospects for development.
mircea_popescu: The Monsanto plant in Sauget was also home to a serious accident in January 1992 when worker Charles Pritchett was critically hurt. Pritchett was caught in an auger used for moving small materials and shredding rubber. He was stuck in the auger for five hours while officials attempted to extract him. Pritchett was in a coma for three months and pronounced dead twice. Pritchett's leg was eventually amputated due to infe
mircea_popescu: Sauget was incorporated as "Monsanto" in 1926. It was formed to provide a liberal regulatory environment and low taxes for the Monsanto chemical plants at a time when local jurisdictions had most of the responsibility for environmental rules. It was renamed in honor of Leo Sauget, its first Village President
mircea_popescu: "if you give that fucking nimrod 1500 i'll shoot him on general principle"
mircea_popescu: just as long as they made some tenochtitlan steel sabres cca 1300
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo some argument can be brought that a relative lack of readily available iron made them kind-of stone-age-bound 4ever.
mircea_popescu: i'd much more regret the russians should they go, even as they've been unmitigated assholes their entire history.
mircea_popescu: kind-of why the only thought the collapse of the us evokes in my head is... well... good riddance.
mircea_popescu: people took 25k years to come up with... pottery ? fuck them, you don't even want that shit to survive.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo shitty cultures aren't going to survive anyway.
mircea_popescu: cazalla all that hopeful and five dollars buys you a cup of coffee.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i kinda count "Becoming something different" as survival.
mircea_popescu: so i've been reading stan's last post for the past fucking hour, becase you people are killing any shred of productivity.
mircea_popescu: copumpkin yeah it was a signed message in like... 2011 ?
mircea_popescu: aztecs made hernan cortes king. aztecs still exist today. sioux though it proper to oppose. sioux are gone.
mircea_popescu: the ones that failed to suck cock rapidly, eagerly and well are now extinct.
mircea_popescu: compare for better results the fate of various subhuman tribes encountered by europeans.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that part is true. but it was not capable of useful work.