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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.
mircea_popescu: they do this thing where they give it @2 cents/kwh to old geezers etc. so some very passible welfare sort of hting
mircea_popescu: then again romania has excellent infrastructure, lot of hidro, lot of nuclear.
mircea_popescu: well i tell you, in general a student chick is either living in a four to the room dorm or else five-six chicks in an apartment, here. giving her her own place is a larger step up than her education would afford.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i don't think it's significantly different, tbh.
mircea_popescu: in short : breat is a poor comparison point (partly because most women being able to bake bread keeps bakeries honest)
mircea_popescu: well... what's a gallon of milk there ? it's about 7 bucks here by now.
mircea_popescu: with drugs, 90% of the population ends up costing more than it's worth, and half of what by such a wide margin even salami is a poor use.
mircea_popescu: mno. normally the population is more or less balanced, ever the marginally worthless can pull their own weight. get a job, pay the rent.
mircea_popescu: i'd be surprised if a teenager in 10 actually ever had actual drugs of any kind.
mircea_popescu: leave aside if they actually had been stealing your trash for the past 5 months.
mircea_popescu: yeah, except until the cops ransack your place and find 5 sets of opened similar packages cause your gf can't be bothered to take out the trash
mircea_popescu: the judge will warn you and let you off if its your first time
mircea_popescu: and for the cost of a drink you can send someon to bed.
mircea_popescu: if you're a dweeby teenaged male with no social circle this won't stick,
mircea_popescu: so your defense hinges on the jury buying the theory someone is stalking you.
mircea_popescu: they do, but people don't hate their neighbours inter-city.
mircea_popescu: someone with no prior contact sends you some lsd, you probably bought it.