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decimation: but it's not just housing, food, petrol, etc, all is priced
to essentially rob most of your discretionary income
decimation: one can depreciate
the house
to $0 over 30 years
decimation: the reason why
this works out (even if
the guy is losing money) is
that real estate is favored by usg
tax code
decimation: I
thought insurance companies drop you like a hot potato if you pull
that
decimation: which is why renting is not a
thing for most folks
decimation: the general business strategy is
to spend nothing on maintenance and maximize rent
decimation: the problem with renting homes in
the us is
that 99.99% of
the 'landlords' are just some other chump with
the mortgage
decimation: asciilifeform: yeah
that's
the problem
BingoBoingo: I mean even if must live in
the bay area, Oakland is a place...
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i dunno, man. fedex delivered
to
timisoara nad
to luxor
decimation: I bet
the ohio state university library is as good or better
than maryland, but it's also not near any cheap housing
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> how many volumes in ru or de in
the
topology section of
the largest academic library in ohio? << At OSU prolly a lot and you can walk
them out
the door forever
decimation: yeah ascii I bet it's cheaper
to ship
there
than
to dc
mircea_popescu: decimation owning "revenue streams" is not so unlike owning women,
the original... stream.
decimation: right, but
then I wouingld have
to drive an hour
to do... anyth
BingoBoingo: Seriously
thoug Ohio is a place.
The20YearIRCloud does well renting mud huts in
the wastes of Ohio
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i guess it depends on whether decimation means by dependents any 16 yo kids like in
the youtube vid.
decimation: To me "independently wealthy" implies owning a revenue stream
that is sufficient for a reasonable standard of living, plus cushion
mircea_popescu: then as a sense of familiarity develops, more of
truth can be let out.
mircea_popescu: plenty of blogs start on
that basis, which assuages
the author's mindvoices long enough
to write something
mircea_popescu: pretty much every whore i ever
talked
to readily identifies it in
the field as mere pretense.
BingoBoingo: decimation: Only if you stay in income
trapzors
mircea_popescu: i have no idea how well it applies, but i have seen
this "independently wealthy" affectation
too often
to count, both online and off. it is usually
the carpace of
the shy, socialy awkward, intelligent young male.
decimation: asciilifeform: I was
thinking about
this
today, you are right. it's fantastically expensive
to feed and house yourself in
the us, especially with dependents
decimation: he might have had
the unwashed masses who followed him 'go
to his head'
mircea_popescu: i mean
the
temporary fuck you is
the exact definition of
the non-fuck you
decimation: I don't disagree with your assessment, it just makes me feel weird
to
try
to learn something
that's so esoteric
mircea_popescu: is
this like "i don't eat anything for as many as 20 hours a day, so i'm
therefore anorexic" ?
decimation: asciilifeform: I also gave a couple btc
to his pot
assbot: Unqualified Reservations:
The Mencius Moldbug Babysitting Fund
BingoBoingo thinks
TempleOS guy is best OS crackpot guy of
the crowd shipping nao
decimation: having
to learn runes
to read beowulf is one
thing, acting as some weirdo's bitch is another
decimation: plus,
the intentionally annoying 'language'
decimation: heh. I just got a destroyer, and after rebuilding
the code about 5
times I said 'fuck
this'
BingoBoingo was probably
the least
technical person
to compel Urbit
to
the gallows
assbot: Facebook pays INFINITELY MORE UK corp
tax
than in 2012
The Register
decimation: I'm sure when
they are done with 'stealth mode' urbit will be awesome ;)
decimation: he's apparently gotten himself roped into
the silly-con valley circus (again)
decimation: he put a post up a few months ago
that kinda ended it
mircea_popescu: by
the way, is yarvin still writing or lives in memory only ?
decimation: a fact highlighted daily by bureaucrats and
their media minions
decimation: one of
the few unifying opinions in
the us
today is 'the politicians suck'
decimation: perhaps
the presidency will slowly
transform into 'the official scapegoat'
BingoBoingo: <decimation> asciilifeform: maybe as a mercy gesture
the prisons stock high-mercury mackerel << Heavy metal poisoning is slow
decimation: asciilifeform: maybe as a mercy gesture
the prisons stock high-mercury mackerel
BingoBoingo: Ebama simply summons Obola
to crush dissent
decimation: well,
there's no doubt
that
there's a megaphone attached
to his lips, but what does he actually say anymore?
decimation: and will
thus fade into irrelevance like
the president and congress
decimation: that
they have neutered
themselves from making any decisions
decimation: scotus is so frightened of making another 'roe v wade' and
thus lose
their 'prestige'
decimation: yeah
they decide hard-hitting cases like
that
these days
thestringpuller: BFL hadn't even delivered at
that point,
those sales were just "preorders". Geeze.
decimation: "There's been a mackerel economy in federal prisons since about 2004, former inmates and some prison consultants say.
That's when federal prisons prohibited smoking and, by default,
the cigarette pack, which was
the earlier gold standard."
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