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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.
mircea_popescu: as counterintuitive and mother-in-law-wisdom contradictory this may seem.
mircea_popescu: for that matter, the strategy of the woman that goes "i like you, fuck me please" actually beats into shit the strategy of the woman that plays the aloof wallflower.
mircea_popescu: basically, the story here is that statistically, the trustfull will fare better.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but it is not actually sociopathic to kill the trustful.
mircea_popescu: sociopath on trustless side wastes all his time being paul fucking atreides, wasting his time fighting the freemen leaders.
mircea_popescu: sociopath on trustful side easily and frictionlessly builds army, wipes other side.
mircea_popescu: simple minded sociopaths arise in both compartments with the same, god dictated frequency.
mircea_popescu: two sets of chumps, separated by semipermeable membrane. on left, trustfull, on right untrustful chumps.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves just ver & co trying to wash the foundation thing.
mircea_popescu: trustfulness is actually always positive, and much more so in stressed environments.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "It is of negative survival value in the context of financial collapse." << this is strictly untrue.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that technology would basically be... imagine if poor people had no money.
mircea_popescu: " According to the 1999 Gambling Impact Study, an estimated $80 billion to $380 billion was illegally bet each year on sporting events in the United States. This estimate dwarfed the $2.5 billion legally bet each year in Nevada"
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo amusingly, i just rewatched every given sunday earlier
mircea_popescu: course, this shit takes professionalism (of the actual kind), so there's not that much being done so far.
mircea_popescu: bitbet is so made that people can run their own line books backed on it
mircea_popescu: anyway, this is a quite legitimate business endeavour. mpex is designed so that people can make their own brokerages and serve demographics on top of it.
mircea_popescu: "so far my best investment was, buy some mpex stocks and not logging in for a year"
mircea_popescu: i'm sure you can find a buncha daytrading lokhs that know way better.
mircea_popescu: copumpkin well if you had smpoe and didn't log in for a year you prolly got a buncha divs and whatnot
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and i don't mean this stylistically. it is factually and quite mathematically exact.
mircea_popescu: line betting is essentially someone getting in between bitbet and the luser, offering "services" and other customer supports.
mircea_popescu: or alternatively i could hire twenty cocksucking "masseuses" for like 12 btc a season and have the porniest pro sports team in da werld