mircea_popescu: it's safer to burn any dollar-denominated anything each year if you get the chance.

mircea_popescu: Alrenous riddle me this : what exactly compels a president to honor "his handlers" ?

mircea_popescu: pretty much sure ticket to being remembered forever as "that black president that killed babies and old people"

mircea_popescu: i still can't grok why the man'd have put his name on it.

mircea_popescu: wonder how the system's not leaking a trillion a year.

mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal if that's the case my mind just boggled.

mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes exactly. one is supposed to be using gpg instead of 2fa. not a matter of money. a matter of not bering the retarded son of a stupid mother.

mircea_popescu: otherwise, airfare is in the range of 1k, which immediately means...

mircea_popescu: i dunno what money you need for this.

mircea_popescu: who the fuck came up with that one.

mircea_popescu: ima try and prevail upon asciilifeform to include selections in his bitcoin book to come.

mircea_popescu: then roger ver doesn't get accepted back into the us. i tell you...

mircea_popescu: y back you into a corner and offer as a favor to you, not to him, to part with just a few feet in the "Golden Age," or the "Sarah Jane," or some other unknown stack of croppings, for money enough to get a "square meal" with, as the phrase went. And you were never to reveal that he had made you the offer at such a ruinous price, for it was only out of friendship for you that he was willing to make the sacrifice."

mircea_popescu: "I met men at every turn who owned from one thousand to thirty thousand "feet" in undeveloped silver mines, every single foot of which they believed would shortly be worth from fifty to a thousand dollars—and as often as any other way they were men who had not twenty-five dollars in the world. Every man you met had his new mine to boast of, and his "specimens" ready; and if the opportunity offered, he would infallibl

mircea_popescu: everything'd have been exactly the same,

mircea_popescu: "frenzied cant" is particularly apt. if only these people living in the mid 1800s had had reddit to revolutionize their thing for them

mircea_popescu: and swarmed in again at nightfall laden with spoil—rocks. Nothing but rocks. Every man's pockets were full of them; the floor of his cabin was littered with them; they were disposed in labeled rows on his shelves."

mircea_popescu: "It was the strangest phase of life one can imagine. It was a beggars' revel. There was nothing doing in the district—no mining—no milling—no productive effort—no income—and not enough money in the entire camp to buy a corner lot in an eastern village, hardly; and yet a stranger would have supposed he was walking among bloated millionaires. Prospecting parties swarmed out of town with the first flush of dawn,

mircea_popescu: check it out, twain knows of bitcoin!

mircea_popescu: phrased it—and were in debt to the butcher. We were stark mad with excitement—drunk with happiness—smothered under mountains of prospective wealth—arrogantly compassionate toward the plodding millions who knew not our marvellous canyon—but our credit was not good at the grocer's."

mircea_popescu: Columbiana," the "Branch Mint," the "Maria Jane," the "Universe," the "Root-Hog-or- Die," the "Samson and Delilah," the "Treasure Trove," the "Golconda," the "Sultana," the "Boomerang," the "Great Republic," the "Grand Mogul," and fifty other "mines" that had never been molested by a shovel or scratched with a pick. We had not less than thirty thousand "feet" apiece in the "richest mines on earth" as the frenzied cant

mircea_popescu: "Meantime the camp was filling up with people, and there was a constantly growing excitement about our Humboldt mines. We fell victims to the epidemic and strained every nerve to acquire more "feet." We prospected and took up new claims, put "notices" on them and gave them grandiloquent names. We traded some of our "feet" for "feet" in other people's claims. In a little while we owned largely in the "Gray Eagle," the "

mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes im sure they're fine. it's not like it's some sort of magical art. eight steps.

mircea_popescu: this comes from turkis, çakir. iirc bulgarian has it too.

mircea_popescu: you got tango in portland ?

mircea_popescu: i thought mostly women get lost at that thing.

mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> doesn't imply lots of slapping tho << from what i hear the way to educate them is to place them in the door and slam the door on em. that way they chew on the door. rather than on your intestines, while you sleep.

mircea_popescu: well... fine... so order granted then, why'd you want to be in contact ?!

mircea_popescu: so i don't get that nascar drama. ex-trophy blondie applies for no contact order against her ex. ex swears she's an assassin out to get him.

mircea_popescu: cazalla the joke was "australia is already the sticks itself,so..."

mircea_popescu: cazalla: the minute some old fuck dies around here, their house is torn down and 6 more managed to fit where it once stood << haha. same across teh bezzleworld. and they cost 10x each, and no inflation since 1929.

mircea_popescu: would be pretty cool that, "so how did you turn gay ?" "i had a woman, thought she was real, we hit a bank, she sold us out. no more for me."

mircea_popescu: did he turn gay ?

mircea_popescu: i have one of those. i also have one that shoots people in the face. variety is always best!

mircea_popescu: but as long as you ain't TELLING her nuttin...

mircea_popescu: cazalla yeah dude, totally, she does eight lines with you and your gangsta friends in a stolen truck mid bankrobbery

mircea_popescu: they just take turns slapping the dog.

mircea_popescu: adolescents principally fuck at any sporty thing. of course. an' why not.

mircea_popescu: and there she is.

mircea_popescu: you find the holy grail first. inside it, you tear aside the shrowd of turin

mircea_popescu: arguably this is no longer the case.

mircea_popescu: TomServo that's the one where kramer got bit while molesting the real jon voight