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mircea_popescu: trinque sorry, it's not clear
to me. should i do something ? what ?
trinque: looks already consumed, yep. one sec and lemme fix
the caps-sensitivity
trinque: if
the
thing doesn't confirm back
to you
that
the !!pay happened, didn't
☟︎ BingoBoingo: It's a lot easier
to go around rural
train stations jacking off if your rural has
train stations
mircea_popescu: Mocky didja ever get
the BingoBoingo
thing settled or is
that distressed consequently ?
mircea_popescu: it's significantly more shameful an act
to not be powerful
than
to go around rural
train stations jacking off.
Mocky: most of my savings was lost
to my own idiocy, and my other stream of income has been delayed
mircea_popescu: and yes, when good men forego power, all
that happens is power ends up concentrated with idiots. NOTHING else.
mircea_popescu: i
think he might actually be
the least selfish guy here.
trinque: mod6: I don't mean
to
thump on you further, but you've gotta be
the least selfish guy sitting here. I encourage you
to look out for #1 a bit more. we need a sharp, rich, powerful mod6, not one running himself ragged piously.
Mocky: it was good until all my plans went awry. Had planned 3 months of normal living off savings
to find a new job. unexpectedly I'm in immediate need of income and acute rationing / mooching off family has already begun
lobbesbot: trinque: Sent 10 hours and 54 minutes ago: <BingoBoingo> Feel free
to return
the feed
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> i
think he just doesn't like schoolkids << Mostly
this
BingoBoingo: They are good people, but based on my experience shortly after landing
the whole "third language dominating all
the spaces" deal can be disorienting
BingoBoingo: Anyways mod6 if you can't hit up
the expocannabis next month,
the beach doesn't expire. You just don't have
to share it with
the Bralisero school break crowd.
mircea_popescu: im also half-thinking of hiring a coupla strippers
to do
the housework naked for
the interval.
mircea_popescu: speaking of which, i am half-considering getting a beach house here for a week or so,
to "airbnb" any republicans who might wish
to come.
this sound interesting at all
to anyone ?
BingoBoingo: <mod6> mircea_popescu: I can't
take any
time off of salt-mine, or at least, not
the kind of
time
that I would need
to drop all and head down
to BBstan. Used my
time for
this year, already. << After January 15th
the amount of ear confusing Portuguese drops substantially, and
the beaches are still here
mircea_popescu: it would be a little rich if
the
thing became "but mp, you said man -- responsibilities -- rhodesia ???" "yes well, sorry, beobachter did not list you on rhodesia list" "oh I SEE!!!"
BingoBoingo: The Burma situation is lulzy with old girl whats her name having solved whatever petty hangup stood between her and
the Junta and going from USG.blue darling
to a lesser "orange man"
mircea_popescu: but
then again, we have all
these autopilot magic flying information-superhighway
threads... may benefit from a real jungle endpoint.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Indeed. Simply pointing out Vietnam lost
the datacenter contest for
the same reason Cambodia did and not being USG.BFF
mircea_popescu: if you say you
think about it i will believe you
think about it. as i have believed
throughout, when
the fuck did i even
tell you what
to do until you started not doing it. if you say i will beleive, but mind it's not "honest confusion" a la earlier.
mod6: wrt
the salt-mine
thing, and retirement, I'm just
trying
to do
the most reasonable, responsible
thing. I
think about it everytime I step foot on
the
train platform.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> simply best-known example. pantsuit is colonial master in good chunk of
that subcontinent, but not afaik vietnam. << Vietnam lost
the rent a rack contest due
to sad "International" bandwidth
mod6: I just don't want
to use
that many coins on it,
today.
mircea_popescu: sick burn. but srsly, i don't have a problem with you using it any way you ~think~ best. but
the catch is, i fucking want you
to
think! not just autopilot into it.
mod6: I really could do
this
today.
mod6: I don't
think it'll buy back youth -- just
the
time and space
to never have
to go back
to
the mines.
To be able
to use my
time as best as mircea_popescu sees fit.
mircea_popescu: that is a definite ceiling i can absolutely place on
the bit-coin
mircea_popescu: mod6 i don't
think
the coins will ever buy back our youths.
mod6: Something like
that. When I can
take 25 coins and retire confidently. Or something of
the like.
a111: Logged on 2015-02-28 23:51 mircea_popescu: you ain't bought a license
to kill bookies, and
today i ain't sellin' any.
mircea_popescu: mod6 so
the idea here being
that currently fiat valuation of coins is "0.5x fountains of youth" and you're waiting for something more like 1.5x fountains of youth, ie, for it
to be a superunitary number of fountains of youths ?
mircea_popescu: but, asthe saying goes, you gotta drop a hand when you know it can't win, not when you figure you can afford
to lose "your" "share" of
the pot. (note -- pot is NOT SHARED, and it only has an owner AFTER, never before.
there's no suchj
thing as pot equity, fundamentally and necessarily, which is because man-things are anti-woman-"ideas").
mircea_popescu stopped going
to work altogether cca 2003, even
though it was not really "work" in
the sense modern zek imagines, and even
though "you can have your office wherever you want, yes we'll call any of your girls
to find out what cafebar
that is
today" and so on. and it was as fucking difficult a decision for me as for anyone ever, because "we need you" and "this shit won't work without you" (duh) and so on and so forth.
mod6: Then, I'd leave
that shit for good.
mod6: mircea_popescu: I'd love
to. I've got coins, but I was wanting
to wait a few years yet maybe before I sell.
mod6: Which I've done a lot of before, but it's pretty unsteady. It gets
tired having
to look for new work every 6mos
to 1 year.... although, I do
try
to switch mines every 2-3 years.
mircea_popescu: mod6 how about you stop going
to work altogether ? what
then ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform why
the fuck do you
think i even bother with all
this unpleasantness.
mod6: escape
the current salt-mine? I've been earnestly looking since last fall. Most of
the similar pay jobs have ~some~ remote work, but not all.
To go back
to basically 100% (or close) wfh
time, I'd have
to
take a pretty big pay-cut.
a111: Logged on 2018-11-15 15:37 mod6: Well, I
take
that back, not "all"
the difference, but it certainly helped. Now, I've got
to be in
the fascist-tower daily, with a 2+ hour commute every day. It sucks.
mod6: Need
the fiat. Someday, when we're at
the right levels, I won't need
to do any of
that. But
today isn't
that day, sadly.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform seems
to me just another costa rica, "nice people and here's
their coca cola"
mod6: Well, I
take
that back, not "all"
the difference, but it certainly helped. Now, I've got
to be in
the fascist-tower daily, with a 2+ hour commute every day. It sucks.
☟︎ mod6: asciilifeform: So for
the first ... 5 years of my participation here, I did have a 95% wfh job, and
that made all
the difference.
mircea_popescu: speaking of which -- anyone with a burning interest in
the rainforests of asia ? it occurs
to me it might be worth pinpointing a place by
the criterion of "pantsuit radio silence" also.
mod6: mircea_popescu: I had a super-knee jerk reaction
to
the blog-post on
the
train
that afternoon, I surely should have spent some more
time with it as opposed
to assuming
that she just picked up
the wrong one by mistake.
mod6: This year has been very hard, and I'm going
to be getting out of
the way so
that
the Republic can go on doing its good work.
mircea_popescu: but i
trust you
to ~have read~
the woman's
thing ~before~ you say it does something it does not in fact do.
mircea_popescu: and
the problem is on clear display with
the "i was sincerely confused" bit. you did
the lowest possible effort attempt
to get something out of it ; and in your case
this was elevated into an actual minicrisis because i
trust you.
mircea_popescu: but in any case, admonishments have nothing
to do with any of
this. i am stuck in
the unenviable position of parenting an infantile adult woman, practically speaking, where i have
to construct an image of committments ex post facto, from bits of pieces of silent activty. "oh, i wonder why she failed college, maybe it's because she's hooked up with some dood ?" sorta nonsense.
mod6: Anyway,
the
thoughts from
the last week are basically
that, I want
to work on some
things, but I just don't have
the capacity any longer, or
the same passion
that I once had.
mod6: I was sincerely confused as
to why she picked up 99994, just wanted
to ensure
that whatever happens
there,
that it was
the correct
thing. Yes, perhaps I should have spent more
time on
that reading
thouroughly, clearly.
mircea_popescu: mod6 from my pov, you've
transparently rotated from not being able
to add
to not being able
to read ; and should something like "alf, do not speak
to diana_coman anymore" should issue for some reason, you'll just move on
to ~same somewhere else.
a111: Logged on 2018-11-15 05:58 mircea_popescu: problem is he hunts chunks of flotsam, rock etc half
the
time.
mod6: I did do some
thinking over
this last week.
mod6: I've been
trying
to stay off of here, as much as I can
turn my attention away,
this week. But repeated admonishments for my life choices doesn't help anything.
mod6: mircea_popescu: I can't
take any
time off of salt-mine, or at least, not
the kind of
time
that I would need
to drop all and head down
to BBstan. Used my
time for
this year, already.
mod6: <+asciilifeform> mod6 pleez let me know when we can swap yours, iirc you're
the last rk fella on old disk << go ahead when ever you guys are ready.
a111: Logged on 2018-11-11 13:33 mircea_popescu:
the "sad" news, from
this perspective (though it is boldly and fundamentally
the exact opposite of sad) is
that no,
there isn't any "return
to
the grand old days" on
the
table. ~emphatically~ not. bitcoin ain't going back
to spending a summer at 2 dollars a coin ; and consequentlly you're not going back
to being
the mod6 of 2013 on
ten hours a week and lukewarm committment.
a111: Logged on 2018-11-12 15:39 mircea_popescu: and speaking of
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-30#1867509 : perhaps
this is just
the
ticket mod6 ,
take a few days / a week off whatever, ~BY YOURSELF~. so you can fucking
think. go hang out with BingoBoingo , fuck some latino whores, get drunk once or
twice...
these are
the mainstay "i'm in a paper bag how do i get out" methods since
time immemorial for a fucking reason.
BingoBoingo: Yes, if you look a an online map it will show
the street in question
touching
the "Palacio legeslativo", but
then it goes straight into abject sadness