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mircea_popescu: you know, over here
they stuff
themselves with "chicharron".
a111: Logged on 2019-03-15 02:14 asciilifeform: asciilifeform had entirely same 'eyes melt' experience when went
to ameri-foodstore for 1st coupla
times.
today i spend good money at shop
that loox exactly like what well-stocked one in sovok did in 1985. and not in 'dazzling variety' where cornsyrupinerrything.
mircea_popescu: bout same.
there's no substantial difference, catholics.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
they're
trained from childhood
to atrophy own sense.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Nah,
the places where
they have choices
BingoBoingo: I don't
think you've seen
the crap Latinos eat when left
to own devices
mircea_popescu: (and speaking of "luxury", romania's ex-minister woman
that
the hubbub was about recently, "Rumanas vivían entre lujos" lived in a pretty shitty apt in rohrmoser, which is a sort of... auburndale, i guess ?
BingoBoingo: So, how is orc supposed
to investigate Miama when
they have at most
two weeks?
BingoBoingo: Well, how long did it
take mircea_popescu
to go from "Imma get citizenship here someday"
to "Only coming back with spears" re: Argentina
mircea_popescu: i don't dispute
there's
the occasional
tico with some dough. but i'm pretty sure
they're saving it up and hitting
the disneyworlkd mcdonalds.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i still said hi
to evident
top
ticket items in
the street.
mircea_popescu: but judging from
the sorry state of bars / strip clubs / nightlife in general, i do not believe so.
mircea_popescu: human reproduction is precisely
the ONE non closed-cycle. even "self-sufficient" rome invited
the occasional sabine over for drinks
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i never heard of
this. if it worked, i'd run it
too. what, fuck my sister ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if
they are,
they're well hidden. let alone i never ran into one -- wouldn't you expect
they'd proposition one of my cunts at some point ?
mircea_popescu: i never saw anyone else
there, besides as i said, 40yo middle class wife buying a present or else a ranchero dood (looking just like maduro, most of
the
time in canadian workshirt and jeans) buying "occasion"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i dunno i wanna wear a
tophat. imo i'm not quite pearshaped enough for it as of yet.
mircea_popescu: anyway, all
this is a great advantage
to me (while
the fuel lasts, i guess). i'm always
the only one in
the shop, everyone's always got all
the
time in
the world, "we love
to serve",
the
taylor doesn't even need
to measure me because ~he remembers~.
mircea_popescu: so,
they end up buying plastic pret a porter sacks for whatever
they wanna spend, and me an' my remnant friend can discuss sartreria.
mircea_popescu: he dun want a bottle
to enjoy with his private, personal, wholly owned whores. he want a bottle
to drink by himself and feel JUST LIKE nigger in x movie.
mircea_popescu: ie,
there's a whole lotta aspirational buying and scant else besides.
mircea_popescu: that's not even it. whole bunch of
tards, "oh,
this bottle of champagne is great, $5000". as a factual matter no bottle of fizzy is genuinely worth
that much. not anything you'd drink, anyway. what';s worse, if i pour
that and random bottom shelf stuff
they couldn't
tell
them apart. half
the
time can't
tell bicarb fizz apart.
mircea_popescu: i hope she gets
to die with it ; honestly other
than me
the only other customers are pretentious middle aged women buying 20 bux worth of presents with credit cards and
the occasional ranchero getting a funeral suit or w/e.
mircea_popescu: i have doubts it'll survive
the passing of
the current generation,
the girlies in
the shop are utterly confused at proceedings
that seem only natural
to her and me, but what can you do.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: nah, old networks survive here. egyptian cotton still exists, peruvian cotton still exists,
there's a lot going on in
the real world, ie, outside us concentration camp.
mircea_popescu: somehow, however,
this isn't "acoso callejero". dudes poking
them
to "hey, my dick's here",
that never happens. confusion reigns.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
they do
this weird
thing where
they poke (literally, with finger) girl walking by me
to get her attention
then "omg your purse is open!!!". fucking weird as all hell.
mircea_popescu: but no, i dun own any jeans. actually, hit up
the local specialist in gentleman items (run by
this very nice old lady, whom, when she dies,
that is IT for dressing in costa rica).
two suits, four extra pairs of pants, four shirts, a
tie, a dozen socks and a pair of pijamas. all natural fiber, look fetching on me
too.
took like a fucking hour, and a brick of cash, but honestly i can't
think of a way i could have spent
the hour
mircea_popescu: (indistinctly, same applies
to
teh bois. in fact,
they have it worse, lotta difficulty involved in securing a cunt you know is
there but can't even see)
mircea_popescu: i literally believe
they feel
their cuntal purse is open or somesuch
mircea_popescu: i suspect it's some kind of psychological comfort somewhere.
the same kind of femherd cowsies keep pestering my slaves about how "they gotta get jeans" as pester
them about "omg your purse is open"
mircea_popescu: there's
this "stealing nose" kiddy interaction
trope from
the period, adults pretending
to steal kids' noses.
mircea_popescu: only
thing i see was literally,
they were afraid
their cunts will fly off.
mircea_popescu: they weren't lying,
they wanted
the shit. what for, who knows, but
there it is.
mircea_popescu: lest
their cunts fly off or who knows what's going on in
the noggin.
mircea_popescu: in retrospect,
they weren't even lying, you should see
them, 100% in
the shit.
mircea_popescu: china was net silver importer by
the megatonne, for
this exact reason, "what fucking miami, keks"
mircea_popescu: there's a ~reason~ miami "pressures" latin ameritards, but period "london" did not in
the slightest impress 1880s chinese.
mircea_popescu: so no, while in
theory appealing,
this
theoretical autarky is not at all how
things worked in
the practice we're discussing.
they had unclosed cycles galore, and
there had
to be a solution, AND
they were in no measure
to produce
the solution.
mircea_popescu: (and
this is why closed borders is a very fucktarded policy -- you obviously WANT
to let
the idiots out.
the only problem commies encountered was
that if
they opened
the borders,
the idiots'd have ~stayed~. which is already indicative of
the breakage.)
mircea_popescu: IF your autarky workls,
THEREFORE
there's no possibility of miami.
mircea_popescu: that's precisely what it is,
the measuring of
the pressure of a miami nearby.
mircea_popescu: this is
the
true measure of unclosed cycles, you understand ? if your local currency is dropping, it is always dropping under
the pressure of unclosed cycles
mircea_popescu: i don;'t mean
the black market in goods. i mean
the financial black market.
mircea_popescu: yet you can't buy
the dollar for 0.00005 btc anywhere. it's
the same 0.00025 everywhere.
mircea_popescu: by
the
time
they cut
the pig, official rate was <20:1, black market was >100:1
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it doesn't. but it is also very easy
to measure unclosed cycles : as
they leak,
the black market widens.