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mircea_popescu: is it the phenomenology of cool driving it ? like he guy with the ferrari at burning man never having trouble "renting" the bitch ride ?
mircea_popescu: well... either because i'm naive or because i've seen happy wolf men and they don't look like it
mircea_popescu: yeah, but their problem kinda is that they should be answering to someone. i can sorta see the loneliness in their actions.
mircea_popescu: it's out of that wastage that communities emerge in the first place.
mircea_popescu: in short, people rarely make the best decisions for themselves
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform they'd be even richer, work more at shit they like working at and so on and so forth if they just gave up their delusions of self importance and agency and just found some better people to submit to.
mircea_popescu: now they don't dare try for phase two of that, and so they're stuck waiting. it will probably be indefinite.
mircea_popescu: initially they thought they can buy their way into relevancy, and intelligent actors bleed them dry.
mircea_popescu: KRS1 do you see any indication this is anything more or other than a purely nominalist rebranding of their old crap that was already beaten to shit in the marketplace ?
mircea_popescu: basically, "let's make everything equal, in the sense that everything should suck"
mircea_popescu: well apparently the notion that if i pay someone 1mn a year i can afford to pay for better health care than if he barely pulls his weight at 10k a year is a mystery nao.
mircea_popescu: who would pay taxes in a fuckuntry where they actually believe random clerk has the same right to survive as a ceo.
mircea_popescu: fuck practice. how dares it pretend to work that way in theory.
mircea_popescu: unrelatedly : did anyone know that obamacare specifies it's illegal to provide better health plans for top executives than you provide for rank and file clerks ?
mircea_popescu: kinda like being the only guy at the swinger's party with a chick with total hysterectomy.
mircea_popescu: "this is the original tshirt. everyone else is just wearing copies."
mircea_popescu: i once put a shiny thing on my cock and it got bigger.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` course you could make your own holosticks and fdill the coins yourself.
mircea_popescu: the way they packaged it at the time was that womenz get scared in unfamiliar situations and therefore must "have practice
mircea_popescu: i recall from my days in highschool that teh womenz mostly wanted to do again and again the same stuff as likely to show up on the bacalaureat thingee.
mircea_popescu: you can probably train a well chosen monkey to make one
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform problem with this is the chinese would produce numerous triode valve procuders.
mircea_popescu: i wonder what % of people are in their situation by now.
mircea_popescu: anyway, how often does an onslaught against humanities constructed around the sokal hoaks end up blindised by a "o yeah ?! what about the bogdanov twins then
mircea_popescu: because i was having a dispute with some lambsy over hierarchy, truth and all that.
mircea_popescu: "All these were ideas that could possibly make sense. It showed some originality and some familiarity with the jargon. That's all I ask."
mircea_popescu: "These guys worked for 10 years without pay. They have the right to have their work recognized with a diploma, which is nothing much these days."
mircea_popescu: it's sort of like a petting zoo for the mentally challenged.
mircea_popescu: twizt they're kinda funny, in their warrior forum retardation. there was some dork coupla days earlier with his wave nonsense,
mircea_popescu: best part ? it all happened @Pomfret, which our serbian friends will love :D
mircea_popescu: in a coal fired county ?! by people who made their fortune in energy ?!
mircea_popescu: <nubbins`> and 90% of new builds use electric for the primary heat source << in canada ?!
mircea_popescu: everyone's moved on to a planned/command economy and refuse to admit it.
mircea_popescu: i don't get this bs. how can a market economy experience shortages, at all.