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ascii_field: laugh, but
this is
the language most of
the actual ukr elite speaks (into
the microphone. ru at home, without exception)
ascii_field: pete_dushenski: ukr is not so hard. just learn ru and swap all
the vowels with ы !
pete_dushenski: he has
to lay
the foundation before i can build
the house
ascii_field: if mircea_popescu can help
them, perhaps he could even cure mathematicians!
mircea_popescu: you know, in my experience beauty is A LOT more isolating. i spent my fucking youth doing psychotherapy on six foot, one gallon
titted blond 17
to 22 yo beauties who wanted
to be PEOPLE
ascii_field recalls scene from 'silicon valley' where a rich fella (fictionalized steve jobs) compares his
troubles
to
that of jews in germany
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mircea_popescu: this is how
this
thing works : always better
than you expect it
to, and
the inconvenience is never quite as significant as you imagined.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field but
the important point you're not making re mexico is
that... it worked.
mircea_popescu: these fucktards already gave humanism a bad name,
they'll manage
to shit simple "human"
too ?
mircea_popescu: seriously,
that's what he got ? woulda sorted a lot of fergusson problems,
this logic.
mircea_popescu: "he could have at least apologized so i could say "hey, someone doesn't apologize if
they didn't do anything" instead of
this weak sauce "they don't get arrested if
they didn't do anything".
mircea_popescu: “Generally, if someone doesn’t do something wrong,
they don’t get arrested,” he said. “Just
the simple human aspect of it, he could’ve apologized … for doing what he did.”
punkman: "Neighbors reported seeing a bleeding woman screaming for help as she
tried
to scale an 8-foot-high wall
that surrounds
the property at
the end of a cul-de-sac"
ascii_field did not know
that
these were
today rare enough
to make nyooz
assbot: Logged on 05-07-2015 21:37:26; mircea_popescu: war means, i fear i have
to remind, spending
the next 5 years without a woman eating your belt and shitting in a hole you dug yourself.
ascii_field: to
take up guerilla arms, your life needs
to have meaning outside of
the electric grid.
assbot: Logged on 21-10-2015 15:48:08; mircea_popescu: someone, somewhere, actually
took up arms
to resist nafta. and
the respect
they're paid is, "oh, goatfuckistan". who in oregon ? who in california ? who, anywhere ?
pete_dushenski: i agree
that it doesn't exist per se in practical
terms,
too expensive
to implement, but property 'owners' are cattle
mircea_popescu: if
they really need a lot of
their agents hung we'll hung
them alright.
mircea_popescu: and if real estate holders
think pooling
THEIR moneyt is such a great idea, guess what ?
they will.
mircea_popescu: THEN we might
turn
the other way for a little
time over a little
tax leftovers
to make
the
transition smoother.
mircea_popescu: no. first,
they admit
they do not have
the right
to steal.
pete_dushenski: i can see renouncing
taxation of income and capital gains, sure, but real estate
tax would still seem
to be on
the
table, no ?
mircea_popescu: read up on
the original merchant's guilds for a broad idea.
mircea_popescu: recognition of b,tmsr~ supremacy in commercial legal matters ; personal immunity
to members,
the lot.
mircea_popescu: on
the
table : fiat sovereigns renouncing
their alleged power
to coerce
taxation.
mircea_popescu: and no bitcoin investment into "vc companies" or any other fiat bullshit is going
to happen until we get some serious structural reforms.
pete_dushenski: "VC investment in bitcoin companies dropped 41% from $145m
to $85m –
the lowest
total of
the last four quarters" << in more
than one place.
pete_dushenski: "Chinese cross-border investment in greenfield projects and in expansion of existing projects in Africa fell by 84 per cent in
the first half of
this year compared with a year earlier, from $3.54bn
to $568m." <<
the waterfall is drying up.
assbot: Logged on 21-10-2015 15:06:41; asciilifeform: sounds appealing. what does a 4GB SDRAM stick cost
there ?
assbot: Logged on 21-10-2015 15:02:33; mircea_popescu: and
to
think marlboro spent a billion on
those stupid billboards and gave
that schmuck cancer.
pete_dushenski: i hope we can still be friends and push
through
that keystone xl pipeline business ;p
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pete_dushenski: well, it's
the same
thing in
the sense
that u.s. wanted
tightly controlled and self-advantageous 'free
trade'. canada complied. argentina didn't.
pete_dushenski: actually,
the 'softwood lumber agreement' expires
this month.
pete_dushenski: canadian provinces wanted
to subsidise
their industry via 'stumpage fee' but usistan said
that
this was 'unfair' and imposed a compensatory duty on canadian softwood lumber. much fur flew but canada eventually agreed
to 'anti-dumping' price schemes.
pete_dushenski: this was
the essential dispute over canadian softwood lumber vis-a-vis regulatory jurisdiction under nafta
mircea_popescu: the way
these
things work is
that
they
try
to cover as much as possible.
mircea_popescu: someone, somewhere, actually
took up arms
to resist nafta. and
the respect
they're paid is, "oh, goatfuckistan". who in oregon ? who in california ? who, anywhere ?
☟︎ lobbes: <mircea_popescu> also, in 1994,
they rose up in armed rebellion. you know why ? << looks like
they weren't having none of
that NAFTA stuff, huh?
mircea_popescu: also, in 1994,
they rose up in armed rebellion. you know why ?
mircea_popescu: (they make most of
the mango you;ll ever eat in
the us)
mircea_popescu: thanks fucking god i had
the presence of mind
to do
that when i was 20
mircea_popescu: and no, i didn't go
there in airforce one. i went
there BY BUS
mircea_popescu: how
trhe heck would you know. fucking chiapas is one of
the best places on earth.
mircea_popescu: what do you even know of mexico ? you ever been
there ? and i don't mean fucking cancun with arizona university sluts.
mircea_popescu: and
to
think marlboro spent a billion on
those stupid billboards and gave
that schmuck cancer.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: hm, eikther i recall
this wrong or
the world has forgotten a decade later
mircea_popescu: but you aren't, and
this discussion wasn't in any sense germane.
mircea_popescu: fact is
they survive, and if asked
to discern what is and isnt a goatfuckingstan i'd
take
their word above yours
mircea_popescu: of
the 12 mn people living here, NONE owns personal reactor.
mircea_popescu: (you realise "goat country" is a proxy for disability right ? we don't call
them cruthces, we call
them mechanical mobility aids! )
mircea_popescu: i might as well ask what 12 yo virgins
think of handling households.
mircea_popescu: your ideas of goatfucking are unwelcome, in
that you don't even judge you could survive on your own in buenos aires.
mircea_popescu: shoulda
took better care of
things, by which i mean, shoulda sucked elite cock moar, dear usarmy.