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mircea_popescu: tbh, i always pictured you with a silly goatee and a prince albert truffles
mircea_popescu: anyway, fun fact : emergency enema is one of the best way to provide emergency fluid support for people in dire straights (massive hemorrhage etc). it's much safer than intravenous support, doesn't require sterile gear etc.
mircea_popescu: According to Claude de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, clysters were so popular at the court of King Louis XIV of France that the duchess of Burgundy had her servant give her a clyster in front of the King (her modesty being preserved by an adequate posture) before going to the comedy. However, he also mentions the astonishment of the King and Mme de Maintenon that she should take it before them.
mircea_popescu: truffles what if it were a straight woman getting things up the butt ? would you still worry ?
mircea_popescu: jurov it'd go with a "reader" that's too lazy to think. we could build trufflesenema
mircea_popescu: i provide the intellectual leadership first and foremost, wherever i go.
mircea_popescu: no i mean, let other people catch up, put in the work, master their own harems
mircea_popescu: i'm already the dictator of my own harem and that's more than anyone else seems to be doing, so. catch up.
mircea_popescu: there's no space in the medium term for democracy. it's dead.
mircea_popescu: in fact democracy is altogether tainted by its association with socialism, all over the world, and as such it is intellectually and more importantly socially bankrupt everywhere, fromn the us to switzerland
mircea_popescu: there's no inborn fear of "chaos" in dostoyevsky's soul.
mircea_popescu: anyway, not proposing some sort of grand truth here, just pointing out that the differences between the soviets and the chinese are more than the similarities.
mircea_popescu: cccp was type 1. the adventures of little boi han in tibet aren't the same bread.
mircea_popescu: yes. but some great empires have them through the heart, like austro-hungary
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ukrainian nation was born out of stalin' famine. it is distinct from the commonwealth.
mircea_popescu: the caucasus is its own thing, not a nation but a patchwork of nations, which are all factual nations, in the manner of the old "sick man of europe".
mircea_popescu: for one thing, china is extremely homogenous, with precious few exceptions. georgia and the ukraine however are both quite distinct nations from the muscovy 'rus
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that view is popular, but imo flawed, fwtw.
mircea_popescu: interesting how riot gear would be "humane". it looks rather dart-vader-esque really
mircea_popescu: someone still eats pressed duck, even if they have synthetic mayo now, and someone still hunts
mircea_popescu: i think pretty much everyone in the 20+ range active online is on yahoo here.
mircea_popescu: and is that payments processed or their own net revenue ?
mircea_popescu: for curiosity sake, other than renting cars for the day, did bitpay actually publish its figures finally ?
mircea_popescu: course, amusingly enough, if btctalk wasn't run by kids it could have become that yahoo.
mircea_popescu: pankkake a workstation only has value if you have people sitting there, working on something.
mircea_popescu: a year later, with 0 roi on all the "investment", yahoo is left as a behemoth without a business model.
mircea_popescu: revenue in yahoo fuels the impression there's a web revolution happening, which keeps the investors "investing"
mircea_popescu: TATdoesReno as graham i think summed it up, the dotcom bubble consisted of the following process : noob company bamboozles some backers for financing, goes and drops all that into yahoo's lap for advertising.
mircea_popescu: it never yet worked, but hey. we can't all be experienced ceos etc.