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mircea_popescu: "not hosting your sigs" is therefore a low level "can't be bothered to rate but still dun like you" sorta hostility
mircea_popescu: ok, fine. about 40% of the 148mn or so land sqkm are actually farmed.that's still 60mn.
mircea_popescu: and note that the ~most used armored item (stug) ALSO fucking maybach gasoline engine
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah, i always wondered. the insanity of the eg panzer 4 GASOLINE engine still harrows my mind.
mircea_popescu: corndiesel marginal, and corn is a lot more uniform than man
mircea_popescu: it IS better soap than synthetic, but it also doesn't keep as well. so...
mircea_popescu: slave labour works in the sense of education ; not very productive as extraction.
mircea_popescu: well... 3x as many whippers as zeks. no idea where you'd get the whippers, but perhaps try china before naganting ?
mircea_popescu: fun fact : if 1960s vietcong invaded, the us could not muster a defense.
mircea_popescu: though that's an overpopulation problem ; india is stuck in a different sphere.
mircea_popescu: phf incidentally, what's the definition of tov popov ?
mircea_popescu: !~translate ro to ru foaie verde pofta-n cui, pasare ca porcu' nu-i.
mircea_popescu: !~tr ro to ru foaie verde pofta-n cui, pasare ca porcu' nu-i.
mircea_popescu: there was a brief craze with "ostrich farms" at some point late 90s, but meh. it's just not very good.
mircea_popescu: (transduction also term of art in biology, but ima stop before retyping the whole thesaurus by hand)
mircea_popescu: (neurotic here is used properly -- as the opposite of psychotic, which is to say, attempting to resolve psychological tension through self-transduction rather than reality-reconstruction.)
mircea_popescu: pretty much all of the mental pathology we call ustardianism directly derives from this fundamentally economic problem.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: which neatly sends the precious-cuntlet syndrome straight into metaphysics, "there's a thing beyond the sensible which makes me valuable, let's call it emotions and you could never understand".
mircea_popescu: it's true that women also have the avenue of not-being-animals anymore, but this happens to have opened just as most "jobs" got destroyed. so yes that works for a 5% of them, and another 10% or so could pretend and convincingly hope. the majority however, very much confront the pork bellies are $2 problem.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the fundamental problem of eg, india, where everyone aborts girls because they don't want to pay for their raising to the level where they can be married ~because the trade value of the she-cow is NOT ENOUGH~ is really the fundamental problem of humanity : yes the cost of living went up, but the price of a head of cattle, or a goat, OR A WOMAN as such didn't go up. it went down. it's much cheaper to buy an ox now, either in s
☟︎ mircea_popescu: a concern with "privacy", preoccupations with "feminism" in the ustardian sense, complete unskilled cluelessness etcetera are all great predictors of the underlying syndrome.
mircea_popescu: drives a whole class of neurotic behaviour that ultimately ensures her social marginality, economic poverty and personal dishappiness (not mere unhappiness, as the absence of happiness, but the exact constructed OPPOSITE of happiness)
mircea_popescu: girly ends up persuaded that she has a very valuable something she must take great good care of between her legs -- her precious cuntlet.
mircea_popescu: now, as it happens said behaviour is a terrible strategy in postmodernity (basically,
http://btcbase.org/log/2014-06-21#727929 ie you'll lose out on EXACTLY the long tail SV.VC can not afford to lose) ; but the remnants of a pre-modern time manifest in the lowest forms of culture -- such as disney films ; and passive socialization.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: fun fact : total land area on this planet being 510 mn sqkm ; and bitcoin cap being 21 mn, it therefore follows that the absolute maximal average price for land is a dime per square km.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: well there you go, you've got more than most foundations out there.
mircea_popescu: anyway, in other advantages of living in tiny spec of a country : i went for that steak i was considering yest. across from my table, laura chincilla (ex president)
mircea_popescu: o yeah, through careful management the foundation ended up with like a quarter million dollars in its coffers or some shit ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and yes it does mean you'll have to buy meat "you don't want". fuck you, survivalism.
mircea_popescu: especially on modern tech this could work fabulously well. 1. cross all the items you'd like ; 2. cross all the items you absolutely do not want. hunter centralizes this, goes and shoots. literally, "your steak in the mail by 10am"
mircea_popescu: serious about it, they'd have such things as hunter-meat-distribution services oiled and ready.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i swear, some of these things look perfectly apt for antisubmarine warfare.
mircea_popescu: all this discussion of hunting got me all fired up, so went to chinese store bought myself some fireworks.
mircea_popescu: anyway, im giving up on catching up with this log before lunch.
mircea_popescu: "2 you shall not count, unless in time then proceed to lathe. 4 is right out!"
mircea_popescu: ro thinks it's from "slavonian" which makes 0 fucking sense. what, old church books on lathe ?
mircea_popescu: the action is "a strunji" ; the g to j morph is very indicative of it having been imported from dalmatia
mircea_popescu: word has no familiy ; lonesome import from possibly czech