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mircea_popescu: i rue the day i'll end up in a car filled with buttons labeled conveniently "easy" "simple" "fun" etc for my convenience.
mircea_popescu: punkman a wonder they missed out on adding thc in there
mircea_popescu: . If it's not immediately clear to you why citizen banking is a bad idea in general, I'd suggest paying the first person you can find who can draw a flow chart of themselves, your torso, and a scalpel to perform heart surgery on you; on the off-chance you survive, the recovery time'd make for good reconsidering.
mircea_popescu: "A bank isn't something you start on a whim after drawing a doodle on a napkin"
mircea_popescu: you have significant atc holdings and the ability to make deliveries ?
mircea_popescu: you know someone in the thread was making an offer iirc ?
mircea_popescu: if somehow the entire neighbourhood goes into theft nobody complains about how the rich stoled it anymore. because fundamentally everyman's objection isn't that someone's rich
mircea_popescu: much like the entire "my neighbour is rich clearly he stole it"
mircea_popescu: obviously the entire thing was powered by the general public's jealousy
mircea_popescu: now that joe q random can happily make his own crypto-ponzi, nobody says the word anymore.
mircea_popescu: funny thing too : back before the alt explosion, the #1 "criticism" the general public had was "bitcoin is a ponzi"
mircea_popescu: like the past week, right ? it lost like 30% of value and now... it stopped.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves at least no plane's landing in that one naimean ?
mircea_popescu: unless it;s mismanagement (there are in egypt some towns developed but never occupied say)
mircea_popescu: skyscrapers are relatively new tech, economy doesn't shift fast enough to have those yet.
mircea_popescu: Namworld that's not possible for a strict reason of closeness.
mircea_popescu: Kern county has i think 100 or so abandoned settlements
mircea_popescu: squatters don't normally have money to buy anything in a shop anyway, so it's even
mircea_popescu: right. check out the litany of abandoned mining towns all through ca, az, nm etc
mircea_popescu: they may not be very big, maybe a square mile or two, but still
mircea_popescu: actually, california and generally the us west is littered in 100% abandoned towns
mircea_popescu: if your definition of ghost town allows for squatters you can probably check out washington dc
mircea_popescu: no wait wait, i'm getting the credit. it was mine. kakobrekla just implemented it badly.
mircea_popescu: (obviousl;y some research as to the more nubile forum members being i norder)
mircea_popescu: then in due time you explain that the REASON you took the time trip is because the future sucks, and you are seeking your own mother in her youth to fuck her and so in causing a singularity erase that sucky future.
mircea_popescu: you sign up to a forum, under the pretense you are a time traveller from the future. you establish this persona, more or less humorously but intelligently,
mircea_popescu: but anyway, since we're talking about recruiting, here's a ploy i invented during dinner earlier :
mircea_popescu: exercise for benkay and anyone else : let the standard deviations be calculated for one who only engages in sexual congress with members of one gender that accept as prerequisite that they may not have any say in when sex is happening nor in the choice of partners or activities.
mircea_popescu: benkay you know tons of chicks actually love missionary ?
mircea_popescu: you kidding me, i'm like the one left rock of actual straightness in a sea of you bicurious drug addled peeps!
mircea_popescu: i wonder what "champagne velvet" from terre haute, ind bottling co tasted like
mircea_popescu: Regardez sur la dune l'homme qui passe là-bas. Il est pourtant seul mais vous n'l'aurez pas.
mircea_popescu: Lâchez tous les chiens et puis planquez-vous au fond de vos cabanes.
mircea_popescu: yeah, see, then all the tinfoil hatters rant about da gubbermint.