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mircea_popescu: then capital goods, then capital in cash. a full four degrees away from it yet
mircea_popescu: fat in the kids first, then fat in the cattle, then real estate
mircea_popescu: they don't actually have enough for any other saving to be worthwhile
mircea_popescu: france is fucked anyway, i think pretty much everyone realises this by now.
mircea_popescu: the20year i pay ~3%. i dunno where you got that 75% from.
mircea_popescu: at the rate things are going france or denmark may be tomorrow's bulgaria and ukraine.
mircea_popescu: the20year actually, romania is exactly capable of producing them, and in fact it had sold them.
mircea_popescu: so mayhap said bulgarian guy is a little... you know, confabulating.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile in the same 2004, romania was one of the 3 countries the us was suspecting might have sold inertial stabilizers and other high tech gear to the evil arabs.
mircea_popescu: and as a result, they actually had a famine, in the 90s
mircea_popescu: it worked in the ukraine and bulgaria, which mostly made pickles all through the 90s.
mircea_popescu: in broad strokes, the soviet plan was to have industry concentrated in russia and agriculture in the west.
mircea_popescu: about thirty years ago, some countries in the waszaw pact were a lot more zealous than romania in implementing the glorious directives of the eastern socialist brother.
mircea_popescu: i still use them, they're still available for sale. not in the supermarkets, of course, which happens to be great : i never used them, but now more people have direct economic incentive not to.
mircea_popescu: about five years ago romania "banned" classic lighbulbs.
mircea_popescu: the [-] has the meaning that the current trade is at a lower price than the previous trade
mircea_popescu: "We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work....After eight years of this administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started...and an enormous debt to boot!"
mircea_popescu: "This video contains content from UMG. It is restricted from playback on certain sites"
mircea_popescu: that sad moment when your favorite read of the day is a year old articlke of your own
mircea_popescu: To be buggered sore like a hobo’s whore in the Big Rock Candy Mountains.”
mircea_popescu: I’ve hiked and hiked till my feet are sore and I’ll be damned if I hike any more
mircea_popescu: I’ve hiked and hiked and wandered too, but I ain’t seen any candy.
mircea_popescu: The punk rolled up his big blue eyes and said to the jocker, “Sandy,
mircea_popescu: ony because all the ohio fuckwits and ESPECIALLY fuckwitettes flocked to ny to be
mircea_popescu: so they don't have to go back to ohio and help pick up the potato crop.
mircea_popescu: so therefore... OF COURSE they want low income housing.
mircea_popescu: basically, all the fuckwits doing the retweeting, redditing etc are people with "liberal" educations and a ton of debt, no means of sustenance and a desire to live in manhattan
mircea_popescu: anyway, from reading his comments i get now why the low income housing for free stuff is so important to these people.
mircea_popescu: perhaps at some level that happening happens because actual women that are actually competent also... happen to be more comfortable with me than with fucktards like this and his ilk. nevertheless...
mircea_popescu: sort-of like little mtgoxes scattered around the land.
mircea_popescu: moreover, fuckwits like this and whats-her-rapeface cause i forgot tend to live in their own realities
mircea_popescu: closer to leni riefenstahl on the riefenstahl-eisenstein scale of socialist propaganda.
mircea_popescu: Duffer1 it's a fine example of the us socialism. guy's an (unpaid) propaganda agent of stupidity.
mircea_popescu: First, to recap: I had about 18,000 followers of my own back in October, when I got added to the suggested user list. (Let's call these "organic" followers.) If I'd have continued my normal rate of growth, i'd have about 25,000 followers today, but thanks to being on the list, I've got close to 300,000 followers. Surprisingly though, I only get as many retweets and replies as I'd get with my organic number of followers.
mircea_popescu: i don't get why that's supposed to be a problem anyway. so he retweeted only women. i fuck only women. seems about even.
mircea_popescu: i dun think he actually has the clue to see the difference, just, the doge troop of fucktards probably haven't bought his payola whatever yet,
mircea_popescu: the fact that by starting your tweets with an @ reference you effectively limit distribution to only those who already follow the idiot in question allows one to engage idiots who otherwise you'd hesitate to engage for the last thing you want is publicise unremarkable idiots.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i gotta say there is one thing i love about twitter :
mircea_popescu: the raping that this entire establishment of nothings and nobodies is about to get all through the rest of the decade is unparallel in the history of rape.
mircea_popescu: the kind of nobody who imagines that buying 500k worth of twitter followers and going to faggoty parties in CA makes him notable.
mircea_popescu: wasn't inclined to give some VC the nod on this. On reflection, I'll be explicit: If you're a venture capitalist, and you invest in Pax's startup without a profound, meaningful and years-long demonstration of responsibility from Pax beforehand, you're complicit in extending the tech industry's awful track record of exclusion, and it's unacceptable."
mircea_popescu: "There was also a pretty dogged pitch for his startup, which will get all kinds of warm huzzahs from the intersection of MRAs, Bitcoin fans, NSA critics and Redditors. I was pretty amazed that he went for it. He flat out said that he wants his startup to be funded and wasn't sure if it'd be possible after all of his, and I replied that it realistically wasn't going to happen without the say-so of someone like me, and I
mircea_popescu: this guy is a sort of chewed gum attached to someone's boot.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo o im taking that yes. how much is your pleasure ?
mircea_popescu: anyone wanna lay odds on the fucktard actually showing ?