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mircea_popescu: "*A substantial profit. Our ageing editor needed the phrase translating." outsourced writing, too.
mircea_popescu: "here's a list of a half dozen tards who paid some scammers way too much money to be named in an inept piece in random fiat fake news outlet"
mircea_popescu: soo... does the new baby LOOK TO YOU like it's yours ?
mircea_popescu: and here's a bit of an evolutionary biology mindbomb : since the ability to distinguish one's own sons from other's sons is positively selected in males, it is altogether probable males have developed the ability to recognize their own spawn as such.
mircea_popescu: secrets are big at that age ; and especially for girlz.
mircea_popescu: teaching the kid to otp will surely give him something to blow schoolmates out of water.
mircea_popescu: that weird little thing everyone's stuck fixing their watches by.
mircea_popescu: well, it's a large country. richer than the us per capita, and certainly culturally stronger. so...
mircea_popescu: diana_coman well for his good fortune he's married to some local chick, so i expect he'd just you know.
mircea_popescu: and 1910 romanian market is NOT fucking walmart, but "that place where we have reason to suspect more other people will come".
mircea_popescu: anyway. the arguments he presents don't work -- travel is much more likely in a country devastated by war than in one stable. in the latter case people feed themselves by tending to their crops ; but if no crops, they feed themselves by... GOING TO THE MARKET.
mircea_popescu: basically, every time he doesn't use his own gut feelings, he's tolerably in the vicinty of truth.
mircea_popescu: he has the original well researched revisionist piece.
mircea_popescu: i suppose it's a case of "i came up with this theory which is mine".
mircea_popescu: but whatever, "i can't see how people travelled before they had electric cars or why would a wife benefit from the occasional beating"
mircea_popescu: notwithstanding that this is the 1900s, whereas peopel routinely travelled large distances in the cold and ate just five five centuries prior, and before that. because a) the cart of the time was intended as and functioned as a whole-family-mover, which is exactly how oregon trail happened ; and because the grain->bread and corn->mamaliga cycle permit something to the tune of 2mn calories per ton, ie enough to feed a family o
mircea_popescu: tl;dr dood who knows when automobile was invented "can not see" how 100k people could have travelled "in the cold" of early december over "long distances" and "what they would have eaten".
mircea_popescu: i don't credit the "oh, marketing is the only employee with ROI, everyone else just contributes to costs, marketing contributes to revenue". somebody's gotta make the shit you package and sell.
mircea_popescu: hey, a slim minority of the girls actually market their own produce to the point of obtaining cash for it. i see no serious problems with this situation.
mircea_popescu: this should be taught in "civil class" or w/e they call it in hs. but in any case -- don['t mary below your station, what.
mircea_popescu: actually it says that a) marriage is a corporation in which b) each spouse owns 50% and c) unless specifically excepted prior, all income of either party is assigned to it.
mircea_popescu: the whole fucking point of marriage is community property. whadda ya want
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes from experience i find the girls pick much better hookers than i do.
mircea_popescu: those circumstances being that they are so fucking touchy about woman not getting all that she possibly could alloted her by divorce court.
mircea_popescu: yes, but let the empire of Named Things carry its own struggles.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes at least name it Preemptive Asset Hiding Corporation For Use In Later Divorce Proceedings To Circumvent Governmental Attempts At Nationalization And Assorted Activist Judge Idiocy And Also To Make Sure The Dumb Fucking Whore And Her Repugnant Spawn Fucking Starve, Inc.
mircea_popescu: im kinda hoping they reintroduce the "village community". want you to buy a car, ask first the мир for permission.
mircea_popescu: apparently if you're a free market individualist without any regard for "the state", you're suspekt. news at 11 i guess.
mircea_popescu: and in other lulz of all time, a terribly bad test "for fascism" gives me 43%, ie fellow-traveller status.
mircea_popescu: i have never met in my entire life an ethnic romanian who was a competent merchant. not once, not one, not ever.
mircea_popescu: dja know that ancient joke that if you hear a hungarian speaking foreign languages you know he's a jew ?
mircea_popescu: but yes, back to it, by the time tmsr has its own isp it will have become more of an actual country than say romania. the eu member.
mircea_popescu: they "create" the "environment" for "Government digital communications". ie, like nsa issues trump a smarthphone, sms issued my mother an email or w/e.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform transylvania, all of it, is the largest part of both the kingdom of hungary and the kingdom of romania. it was part of both for about equal intervals, and also independent for a while
mircea_popescu: come to think i actually like this guy. asciilifeform see if he wants to join ? does he have a contact ?
mircea_popescu: "Therefore, it’s pretty obvious that a handful of Moldovan avitation enthusiasts were better informed and had a better grasp of the strategic situation than the entire Romanian government."
mircea_popescu: there was such a thing as a professional solider, let's put it this way. as a class.
mircea_popescu: it's complicated with a matter of relative sizes and holy roman provinces, but anyway.
mircea_popescu: venice had no standing army. charles came and as he came he went.
mircea_popescu: signed up in the way afghan signed up to use us provided weapons to defend "us interests".
mircea_popescu: there is no such thing as "signed up". greeks signed up for repaying debts when they took money, lol.
mircea_popescu: hey, the euros are retarded. they end up footing the bill for usg red pseudomilitary adventures in the middle east via hosting refugees (hey, when's the last time anyone sent 10 mn syrians to live in new fucking york, instead of germany, france etc ?) and for usg blue pseudodiplomatic misadventure in the shape of paying more for gas, selling less machinery and total real estate collapse because no more russki suckers to buy u
mircea_popescu: so an exaggeration, but not that substantial. like saying "nobody in the us uses yahoo mail"
mircea_popescu: well... the 20something hos tried in the early 2010s, which is how i ended up sucked in.
mircea_popescu: but the relation is apt, the whole drum bun is quite it, "may you make it back out" sorta thing.