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mircea_popescu: which is pretty much the only way one can ever be prevailed upon to trade seasons in.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i like seasons ok, but the thing with this particular spot is that it's ~perpetual spring.
mircea_popescu: but this doesn't make beatings tenderness nor the howling winds of the frozen praries mildness.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i don't dispute that part. sure, necessity is the mother of invention, a proper beating whenever needed the cornerstone of domestic bliss, and so following.
mircea_popescu: whole sj valley is blessed with altitude-mediated mildness.
mircea_popescu: well, cars have them,. but then again cars go to teh beach.
mircea_popescu: the fucking definition of mild is "interval of five degrees centered on human ideal". as opposed to "SIXTY degrees intervals centered on fuck your mother, we hate you."
mircea_popescu: meanwhile there's a reason the population of eskimo lands was a) never large and b) always selected for suckitude.
mircea_popescu: that you prefer x or y has no bearing on how human femur has been the same length since before the notion of preference was invented.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i thought you meant "at standard pressure" ie as opposed to who knows what arcana you had in mind.
mircea_popescu: and so following. human life is not this novel and fascinating item. war planners have been circumscribing it for a century+.
mircea_popescu: just like the technological standard for "water spout in human habitat" is > 1galon/day
mircea_popescu: no. the technological standard for "temperature in a human habitat" is 20.5
mircea_popescu: so you don't consider the standard human temperature mild thereby ?
mircea_popescu: apparently there was a glaciation in europe while i was not paying attention.
mircea_popescu: in other shit you'll never believe, ukr chickie dun wanna costa rica because "prefers milder climates". "20 is too hot for her"!
☟︎ mircea_popescu still lulz at how these "certificates" srtill include md5.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the verification fails "for unknown reasons" tho, and it's at least nominally a comodo issued item
mircea_popescu: in other lulz : archive.is uses an invalid security certificate. The certificate is not trusted because the issuer certificate is not trusted.
mircea_popescu: i expect they want to turn as many of their cogs as possible with it. so yes, hired through manpower, mandatory-complimentary "id protection" from equifucks and so on.
mircea_popescu: watching the conclave of imbeciles "resolve" their "problems" as they understand and formulate them is the highest form of entertainment available under the sun.
mircea_popescu: "a maximum of impact with a minimum of effort" as far as the usg is concerned : trades in a worthless dead elephant for the continued attention of 10k useless schmucks it for some reason decided to put on the rolls.
mircea_popescu: so now they DO work for google, in the only sense that matters to the ustard : "being able to say so".
mircea_popescu: there's a large contingent of useless neets who can be "hired" (job creation! yay!) and who for the past decade had it hammered into them at the thanksgiving table that "why don't you work for google! that's where the smart kids and all the money is! check out their playroom!!!1"
mircea_popescu: ie, the fundamental problem of the worthlessness of ugc is being plumbed by usg at the wrong end : by abusing the power of the state to create imaginary value (a "creator" on etsy/patreon/etc might just be ye olde myspace band worth 0.00 ; but a "moderator" on reddit/youtube/etc is DOING GODS WORK and therefore how do you dare say priest time is worth 0 terrorist!!!)
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo pretty big push in the usg."tech" community to not support bitcoin. fiver dropped it, of all people. and in general, i dun imagine you'll see usgtron support it nativel.
mircea_popescu: !!withdraw 0.092419 1949t6yHTStJJYesvt8a1S86Dd8dvBzsRo
mircea_popescu: this may be erotic, but it isn't sexual. sexual is you know, with sex organs. not with substitutes.
mircea_popescu: this notwithstanding, men still prefer women 5 years younger.
mircea_popescu: aand in other lulz : the median age of kiev city is 35 yo for males and 40yo for females.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform dumb femspeak (nowadays aka "google employee") for "making it not look like what we want it to"
mircea_popescu: o sweet merciful jesus, "19. The harassment campaign(s) Defendant Herrera, and the other Defendants’, have created, and continue to create, against Plaintiffs’ are appalling, wanton, vindictive, ruthless, and patently repulsive. What’s even more nauseating is that Defendant Herrera, in conjunction with the other Defendants’, have created a thriving business based around their continued harassment campaigns, cyber mob
mircea_popescu: "6. In 2014, Defendant Herrera was relatively unknown, had a small fan base, few resources, and therefore, being included in Plaintiff’s Podcast represented a huge opportunity for him." ahahaha what the fuck, is he off his rocker ?
mircea_popescu: there should be a law that anyone filing suit for under 1mn gets caned instead, and then sold by open outcry.
mircea_popescu: well, actually, o have an idea : need a lot more material to fill text than video, so every lazy ass is trying to sell his ugly nose pimples in lieu.
mircea_popescu: maddox has this very annoying girl voice. nfi what he thought he was doing with vlogging or w/e
mircea_popescu: no, it wasn't an original idea of theirs ; they can't have such a thing.
mircea_popescu: as long as fed can keep printing, they'll keep going to "moderation college" for a "moderator career".
mircea_popescu: ~all of the pantsuit only has one economic utility left, and that is to "police" the web for anything deviating from their worldview.
mircea_popescu: well what the fuck, am i going to pay with taxed money ?
mircea_popescu: us bank account is insanity on the face, i was discussing the (at the time still somewhat sane) eurolands.
mircea_popescu: nevermind the end consumer. look into business owners / middle class experiences, the net is fulla "oh, they have this bank acct they won't let me close that keeps getting dinged by fraudsters and they charge me"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that's what you naively think ; but not in practice.
mircea_popescu: "y... me descuenta por efectivo ?", best magic words ever.
mircea_popescu: because the per-usage cost of fraud upon a credit card is like 1.5-1.8% of its total net value. meaning if your account is worth over 100k lifetime, you can't afford to use a card to pay less than a coupla k's. and if your account is worth LESS than 100k lifetime there's no fucking reason you could possibly have to use a bank for anything.
mircea_popescu: back when i had (company) cards a decade ago, i used them to cover >1k bills at large wholesalers, not $300 at the restaurant. and EVEN SO it was iffy.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo over two bucks ? take 5 more minutes and have to sign shit ? what's the per-transaction risk cost to the card, ie, if your time were free and your pen were free, how much is the maximum card value capped at to make this purchase not a loss ?
mircea_popescu: and ESPECIALLY don't try the womanly "wisdom" angle. a male that dumb has nothing to impart by the definition of terms.
mircea_popescu: if you need someone to lend you money for socks as a 50yo male you really have no excuse to be here.
mircea_popescu: i was like "aren't you ashamed of yourself" and he pretended like he doesn't know i'm talking to him. EXACTLY like clinton & friends.
mircea_popescu: i was standing in a shop to buy a ream of socks and shit, and this dork before me, ENTIRELY in the european academic geddup, including the ugly colors, the jersey, the bag over shoulder etc paid for ONE PAIR worth ~3 bux with a credit card.
mircea_popescu: plus, for an argentine any expenditure over ~40 cents requires a bank loan.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform people dumb enough to get caught in a country which requires ferry trip for disposition rarely make anything like an early phase.
mircea_popescu: i dun think most people realise how close curetage is to a really bad shave that's 2 layers too close.