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mircea_popescu: "The NFL's been handing out traumatic brain injuries for decades, but the moment Disney decided it needed the women that was the end of lockerroom hijinx. But until it completes the NFL's rebranding as a kinder, bully-free, concussionless game, complete with engagement rings and Us Weekly's "Ten Hunkiest White Or Articulate Quarterbacks", it's going to have to keep broadcasting Nashville. "
mircea_popescu: which i suppose reflects the normal lifetime of fucking leather shoes.
mircea_popescu: if my passtimes required me to buy shoes 6 times a year i'd be pretty distraught
mircea_popescu: "Of the many problems that poses, none is more serious than the fact that Omidyar now has the only two people with exclusive access to the complete Snowden NSA cache, Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras. Somehow, the same billionaire who co-financed the “coup” in Ukraine with USAID, also has exclusive access to the NSA secrets—and very few in the independent media dare voice a skeptical word about it."
mircea_popescu: yeah. i think it's moire for the political press than anything
mircea_popescu: well yeah, but really it's neither me or him, it's just british.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves now that you've been here you cant stop thinking everyone's on his own -assets huh ?
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves I hope you have learned your lesson son!
mircea_popescu: wao-ender except if you dig into it, it was all soviets.
mircea_popescu: wao-ender the best part about the pando link, by the way, is how cheap it all was
mircea_popescu: someone not deserving it they could stand, but someone who earned it they could never tolerate.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` this is quite exactly why they fight his entitlements.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` didn't you canuk kooks make a 1 ton gold coin too ?
mircea_popescu: i doubt you can make a coin out of 60 dollars' worth of silver
mircea_popescu: peterl i think he actually has it superbly stated. "i dont even think about what i want til i know i want anything at all"
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves any idea what "kr," is supposed to be ?
mircea_popescu: it's not the quantum computing emulated on z80s if you mwan that one
mircea_popescu: the greek idea was that "these people say nothing meaningful, may as well be sheep, bar bar"
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves part of the problem, of course, is epitomized in the word for barbarian
mircea_popescu: i should have linked him to my epic pics of me fixing laptop board in mexico hotel room, with solder shavings, safety pin and lighter.
mircea_popescu: so you can think with head. congratulations, you should be on -assets.
mircea_popescu: unless you're in the habit of swallowing and do it 10 times a week
mircea_popescu: but anyway, there's going to be a livinbg to be earned in summarizing and translating irc and stuff for vaiours needs.
mircea_popescu: finance has always been the inside joke of some old jooz.
mircea_popescu: you don;t have to understand the whole thing to have an actionable understanding.
mircea_popescu: understanding is this fascinating beast, in that it works in parts
mircea_popescu: yeah, plenty of rabbits with money all over the forest.
mircea_popescu: somehow BingoBoingo doesn't quite manage to hate me for it, yet.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: when you could juist read the stuff on trilema and be ahead.
mircea_popescu: currently i'm shitting the bitcoin advisor market, because you wouldn't hire anyone to pay him 100x for stupid shit
mircea_popescu: anyway, it's ridiculous, just look at the volatility curve for 4-8 feb.
mircea_popescu: the result being ocasionally incontrollable deflagrations
mircea_popescu: i would say it's becoming a major problem now that people keep trying to outmaneuver me intellectually, and whereas i'm very blunt, they ascribe wallstreet-esque depths of trachery to what i do
mircea_popescu: either that or don't fucking read too deep into what mp says and go all fucking nuts just because he has to cover 10k