mircea_popescu: which is kind-of why the woman was so appaled when she discovered shit-for-brains niggerdongs was actually spying on her fucking phone. it's roughly the insolence of a poodle biting a bulldog.

mircea_popescu: this game was played already. on the whole, merkel is actually much better than hillary rodham, and her spies work much better than the whole us, canada, uk and australia doolitle realm combined.

mircea_popescu: "And so, to make sure that their efforts to provoke a large-scale, hugely destructive, festering conflict between Britain and Europe fail, Europe would do well to set up an anti-Britain within Britain."

mircea_popescu: the Sh C O is a good point tho.

mircea_popescu: "They took a Slavic, mostly Russian-speaking country and spent billions (that's with a “b”) of dollars corrupting its politics to make the Ukrainians hate the Russians."

mircea_popescu: it only appears as a soup because their head's barely functional.

mircea_popescu: what is this thing where faux intellectuals look at the soup of symbols their destructured intellects float aimlessly through as a sort of primal matter to be cast into random shapes ?

mircea_popescu: "• When the British got tossed out of their American Colonies, they did all they could, using a combination of import preferences and British “soft power,” to bolster the plantation economy of the American South, helping set it up as a sort of anti-United States, and the eventual result was the American Civil War."

mircea_popescu: but yes. a ministry which curates torrents.

mircea_popescu: have an explicit goal that half your population must reside abroad under fake identities by 2025.

mircea_popescu: that sorta thing.

mircea_popescu: 5. mandatory hacking classes for all men. if you can't hack your way out of fort knox by age 16, you're going to be some vamp's slaveboi.

mircea_popescu: all the way to dumping into ocean, encased in plastic bubbles.

mircea_popescu: 3. actually counterfitting bills. all of them. by the barge, not by the suitcase.

mircea_popescu: 2. political asylum to anyone prosecuted by any 5eyes country or their allies for anything that's not petty crime.

mircea_popescu: 1. ministry of torrents.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: other than 'surrender' <<< actually jump into the pool. rather than just sit on the edge and dunk toes alternatively.

mircea_popescu: ONE DAY! ONE MAN! HIS COFFEE! TWO WEEKS!

mircea_popescu: holy shit i made it to the 30th!

mircea_popescu: decimation: 16 kHz is probably the max that you will get allocated politically << by the time blockchain over shortwave, "politically" strictly means bitcoin-assets anyway.

mircea_popescu: Overand: per bitcoin.it wiki, transactions are about 500bytes, running at 7tps, so that';s ~3500 bytes/sec or (humorously) 28,000 bits per second <<< not the right math. a block is at most 1mb and there's supposed to be 6 an hour.

mircea_popescu: or for chelsea clinton to start selling nudes.

mircea_popescu: i don't think i've ever observed as much of it as since being here.

mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: there is a school for that? <<< one of the best features of b-a is its potential for culture shock.

mircea_popescu: sure, maybe you'd rather. nobody involved shares this pov : neither the game devs nor the game players.

mircea_popescu: adlai: fwiw, assuming that the fiat parasite sticks around in some form or other, i'd rather have it operate a single UBI program than dozens of badly-coordinated welfare axes << this is not unlike saying that if computer gaming sticks around, you'd rather it consists of one single game.

mircea_popescu: *: adlai wonders how many decades/centuries it'll take for speciation to start between "Homo operandus" and "Homo ignavus" << speciation takes 10s to 100s of ks of years.

mircea_popescu: decimation: kakobrekla: if your bosnia link is true, it strikes me that the most important thing to have in a 'shtf' situation is alot of people on 'your side': family, friends, etc <<< it's pretty accurate. there's no doubt in my mind the guy has first hand experience (ie, is not an internet poseur)

mircea_popescu: as clemens aptly points out, aunt polly is a sucker for the "repentant" sinner.

mircea_popescu: "Through time, action and change, I hope we can show you guys that we truly want to contribute to this community." lmao

mircea_popescu: apparently kids crying are annoying in general, but for that month it takes them to die of hunger... ☟︎

mircea_popescu: this actually is true. most of the desperate prostitution is mothers trying to cope.

mircea_popescu: "Money soon became worthless. We returned to an exchange. For a tin can of tushonka (think Soviet spam), you could have a woman. (It is hard to speak of it, but it is true.) Most of the women who sold themselves were desperate mothers."

mircea_popescu: "come be fat and stupid just like us, 54965489769474985 people like this"

mircea_popescu: im so sick of the civilisation of marauding impotence it can scarcely be put into words.

mircea_popescu: let us not get into shape but instead sit on the couch and wax poetic about what men should be doing and what the definition of womanhood is ; let us not have a clue nor try to get a clue, but instead wax poetic on what money is and what other people should be doing with it and what it all means.

mircea_popescu: just like that, they happened to be in the way. because wealth is a sort of rain.

mircea_popescu: by this logic, seeing how the total value of all assets in that city is probably south of a billion dollars, my leaving constituted a loss of more than half its wealth

mircea_popescu: then some time last year i left.

mircea_popescu: some years ago i went to timisoara, which is a tiny city in eastern europe, and fancies itself important but really it's a sort of romania's pittsburgh.

mircea_popescu: ima go stomp kittens, this shit's too much.

mircea_popescu: and velocity of money never happened. and understanding consists of daydreaming, and everyone's the same and random nitwits that never killed a man are now allowed to make moral judgements

mircea_popescu: if someone sent 10mn btc to the black hole, we'll all be even poorer as a result. because reasons.

mircea_popescu: "You begin to wonder if you should feel guilty taking all this money from the poor Congolese — who are now (you must conclude) even poorer as a result." << because that's what money is, right ? a fetish.

mircea_popescu: also known as a whore bath in the rest of the world, except joe squarejaw has never heard of the rest of the world.

mircea_popescu: but no, this never-ending american exceptionalism, where if they never wash baths don't exist and joe squarejaw invented "humidification", this process whereby you dab parts of yourself with a wet cloth.

mircea_popescu: and if you're going to worship, pick something that's at least as well designed as reality permits

mircea_popescu: if you're going to live in a house, it's generally a better idea to get a house than cobble together something which, to the best of your abilities, is a house.

mircea_popescu: you can't worship a thing that exists.

mircea_popescu: i doubt anyone could have imagined in the xixth century that anythign less intelligent than us neoprotestantism could be borne by the world. and yet... they've done it again.

mircea_popescu: but much less well read to boot.

mircea_popescu: if you must participate in the empty calorie fest of religion, at least pick something respectable rather than the neo-neo-protestant bullshit made by people that are not even less intelligent than that smith fellow with the "ancient egyptian" tablets at the bottom of his hat

mircea_popescu: that article is the exact equivalent of masturbation, intellectually : it contains nothing that can even remotely be considered a thought, while keeping the mind spinning.

mircea_popescu: adlai: this article is more thought-provoking than most drugs out there << no, it's not thought provoking.

mircea_popescu: fucking retards these people.

mircea_popescu: "Assume you can only pass two things through the window — francs and sacks of grain. Knowing that the Congo is one of the poorest countries on the planet, what strategy will you pursue in order to do the most good for their society?"

mircea_popescu: need to keep importing new turnips because the citizen turnips are too likely to understand harlan ellison ranting in his native tongue.

mircea_popescu: Somers' anguish is palpable, and his catalogue of self-effacing remarks reads like an apology. He heaps criticism on himself, his job, and his entire profession. "Web start-up companies are like play-companies," he laments. Their products are "cheap, fun, and about as worldchanging as creating a new variation on beer pong."

mircea_popescu: Most of what we’re doing, in fact, is putting boxes on a page.... We fill our days with the humdrum upkeep of these boxes: we change the colours; we add a link to let you edit some text; we track how far you scroll down the page.... Web development is more like plumbing than any of us, perched in front of two slick monitors, would care to admit.

mircea_popescu: The piece is a thinking man's struggle to understand the value of his profession. By Somers' own reckoning, his accounts are out of balance. He's paid handsomely, but the work is trivial. As he says:

mircea_popescu: "assbot: Wealth: The Toxic Byproduct | Melting Asphalt " << bwahaha ok.

mircea_popescu: in all respects the exact opposite (no intelligence, all rulebook)

mircea_popescu: well... the sort he claims he wants to hire, but then ends up with perople like altman

mircea_popescu: anyway. it'd have been a point in a world pre qe. by now it's like discussing the sow's pubic hairdo.

mircea_popescu: because it wasn't technically possible to create oscillators good enough.

mircea_popescu: they never had the problem

mircea_popescu: and it's not clear (but altogether probable that no) whether the concept of exchange works without volume.

mircea_popescu: in the exact same manner, if you allow them to oscillate narrowly enough, you break the concept of volume

mircea_popescu: the point being that the chair you stand on is only solid in the sense that the wavelength is so tiny you don't have the time to fall through, because your time's quantisized.