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mircea_popescu: i totally can't believe i had to do this once a month ffs.
mircea_popescu: the bot is going to quote under supervision for the next hour or so, trades may be reverted.
mircea_popescu: the even values will be exercised normally after which they will no longer be offered.
mircea_popescu: "because the engineer changed the engine for a bottle of vodka.
mircea_popescu: buncha people inside a train car stopped in the middle of nowhere. they ask the conductor why aren't they moving ?
mircea_popescu: like, buncha minoan pottery in mainland greece? minos conquered mainland greece.
mircea_popescu: the way "conquest" is established is look at item production and distribution sources.
mircea_popescu: if we were archeologists we'd look at the items we find and say yes it was.
mircea_popescu: Bugpowder i don't see why you think those two are categorically distinct. seems the same thing to me.
mircea_popescu: TomServo this is a theory. we have no actual history to back it yet.
mircea_popescu: Bugpowder some of the best surviving roman architecture is from right before and right after collapse.
mircea_popescu: i am pretty sure the correct model for understanding them is financial crisis.
mircea_popescu: the hittite empire collapsed completely. the hellenistic empire (larger than any other, incidentally) did likewise
mircea_popescu: germany collapsed end of ww2, soviet empire end of cold war
mircea_popescu: napoelon's france collapsed, royal france collapsed before that
mircea_popescu: the old south collapsed as such after the civil war. the british empire did the same.
mircea_popescu: TomServo the obvious one is the fall of the roman empire.
mircea_popescu: in catastrophic situations knowing the right people is most valuable.
mircea_popescu: jurov now you know why the secret service people ended up entrepreneurs
mircea_popescu: the thing is tho, human society does collapse periodically.
mircea_popescu: it was discussed in the same terms and with the same motivs in like 1400
mircea_popescu: the society collapse narrative has been a mainstay of human culture for as long as such existed
mircea_popescu: eat your girlfriends and fuck your wine for that's all you take with you!
mircea_popescu: the midwest will be mostly fine, even make a pretty penny.
mircea_popescu: jurov it will be horrible for many of the tense spots. new york, largely boston, most of california
mircea_popescu: be left with half the population maybe, and a clear point in mind. don't do that.
mircea_popescu: jurov anyone who ever worked for either the party or the state, bang. simple solution.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, it was something like Francis Biddle or whoever being Indian and going "you're a bad man, you're a very very bad man" at Goebbels.
mircea_popescu: you couldn't find five people who could actually argue a case atthe time.
mircea_popescu: the judge was prosecuting from the bench for crying out loud
mircea_popescu: wasn't on the grounds of being the wife, was on the grounds of being pretty much the #2
mircea_popescu: which i still say would have been the correct solution.
mircea_popescu: romanians for instance had a much better shot in 1989, and still we didn't round them up and shoot the lot.
mircea_popescu: lyspooner he lists picostocks. da fuck is wrong with people.
mircea_popescu: "Eichengreen's theory is that the US dollar became the world's go-to currency because of the emergence of a very specific financial instrument—the banker's acceptance."
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves well, it's an intimidation racket mostly.