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mircea_popescu: "He and I became fast friends and life was rather wonderful. We were both self-employed and often worked from home
together in our own little co-working space. We occasionally would hang out with friends
together and one day he decided
to have some fun with me." <<< WE BUILT OUR OWN CUBICAL!!1 out of materials found in every home! read
the secret
that has all middle managers jealous!
mircea_popescu: "for every breathtakingly hot woman you ever see,
there's a cock somewhere flacid at her mere memory"
mircea_popescu: perversion is
the only enduring contribution of mankind
to
the universe.
mircea_popescu: if i went
to work for google/apple/pepsi/w/e and in
the first month a hundred employees killed
themselves, i'd just welcome
the news, and definitely blog about it.
mircea_popescu: because if it hired disruptive, fearless folks... well... who knows what rocking
the boat could do.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
that's a whole swath of other nonsense built on nonsense.
mircea_popescu: hence he hates "racists",
those people who say
things like "it's just a fucking snail"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform his life is dedicated
to
their inexistence.
mircea_popescu: if i step on a snail, strictly for
the purpose of stepping on
the snail, he'll prolly go berserk on me just out of
the need
to somehow resolve
the anxiety he feels
mircea_popescu: fucktard is so affraid of
this world he's stuck in "empathy" and "equality" and herpy-derp because god forbid, what if!!11
mats_cd03: or, 'how
to engineer paranoia into a pleb still using facebook'
mircea_popescu: there's no prizes for doing
things
the obvious, hard way, outside of a heartfelt obituary by an age worn woman with beautiful blue eyes
mircea_popescu: ie, one
that is actually homologous with
the solution, not merely easy.,
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
there's a lot of value in looking for
the easy way out, a point easily missed by naggum and im sure gauss, and many other very smart people.
mircea_popescu: (yes, yes, i know, bitcoins aren't inflationary etc. but
the hundreds
to peanuts comparison is not
there)
mircea_popescu: the result being,
that everyone involved with
the attempt earned peanuts. just like your average gi joe
today earns whatever hundred bitcoins and
thinks it a big deal.
mircea_popescu: and it WAS impressive, for
the
time and place. because hey,
the russians
tried
to build an utopia of empathy and equality, and failed.
mircea_popescu: at
the
time i was a 16yo with his own driver, my father earned an impressing $680 a year.
mircea_popescu: i don't care how deeply anchored in
the core of
the world it may be. it's a square inch and it's getting flattened.
assbot: Knowing which screw
to
turn
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal
that is merely good discipline on
the part of
the actor in question.
mircea_popescu: people often
thought mpoe-pr is me, or male, or so forth.
mircea_popescu: much more instructive is a lever of reasonable length
that sits put on its support a long
time.
mircea_popescu: not
that he's
that much of a genius, or
that much of an imbecile. but
then again,
to display dynamic equilibrium you aren't particularly better served by a VERY LONG lever.
mircea_popescu: rarely has
the imbecile/genius duality been more pointedly on display.
mircea_popescu: it's mindblowing just how clever, on
the point and far seeing reginald braithwaite is, while at
the same
time how idiotically fixated on "equality" and "empathy" and all
the rest of
that pointless drivel.
assbot: Why You Need A Degree
To Work For BigCo
mircea_popescu: "here's a lithmus
test on "good ideas": if it were applied
to you, would you still
think it's a good idea? in other words: if you can't imagine yourself as
the vendor, maybe it's
time
to drop
the good idea stuff,
too?"
mircea_popescu: "I wish people would get more interested in _knowing_
the world
they want
to change. I can't keep lecturing obnoxious morons forever just because
they have
these wild-eyed desires
that
they
think can be accomodated if
they start a revolution or something."
mircea_popescu: just as long as you had someone
to serve for you, all is well.
mircea_popescu: o yeah. you were simply required
to not alter
the headcount.
mircea_popescu: <jurov> hire doppelganger, walk out << incidentally, you know
they did
this in
the
times of
the good soldier svjek ?
mircea_popescu: business partners with
the usg, god help us. what will fiction produce next,
the harem of wolves, flying
to
the moon on own farts, mind boggles.
mircea_popescu: it's not marriage, it's not a love affair. it's an exercise in destroying everything whatsoever and mocking
the rest.
mircea_popescu: in short : ditch
this mentality where
the other party matters, in any sense, and make a sport out of rubbing its hopes, aspirations and legitimate expectations into
the dirt.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and what
the fuck are you doing owning companies in own name anyway
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so ? hire ms boring
to sit in
that office and split
mircea_popescu: and what's more,
the argentine govt doesn't have like 5 bn in usd cash, nor does it have a horrid starvation of
talent.
kakobrekla: and you cant sell your skills, which we all know are plentiful, outside usa ? hard
to believe.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what
the fuck are you doing working without a company anyway, and why is it not registered in gibraltar or w/e
the fuck
they do
chetty: there was
that guy recently, worked for
the epa I
think, claimed he was also cia and just
took off for months whenever he wanted
mircea_popescu: no fucking body
traveled
to sit on a rfc comission unless
they really wanted
to visit a gf or something
chetty: hmm most of
the standards groups at
that
time met on phone ...
mircea_popescu: pretty sure it was
the superhighway something or
the other
xmj: Duffer1: Friday I paid a
ticket for 1km/h
too much.
Duffer1: i got a 175$
ticket for failing
to come
to a complete stop before exiting a driveway once
Duffer1: driving 1mph over limit
that's a
taxin
chetty: well
thats kinda what I meant about counting ALL
the
tax.
The property 'owner' pays
tax and passes it along in your 'rent' amount and so forth
mircea_popescu: yeah,
the us is a different system. it doesn't have mega natural wealth
to prop itself, so it works as a "buffettlying
to prevent
the children of
the middleclass pushing him out" system
mircea_popescu: the politico leeches sucking
that fiddy cents for nothing are
trilled
mircea_popescu: so you know, most people making a buck and getting by
this scheme a buck fiddy are happy with it,