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a111: Logged on 2018-10-19 09:36 Mocky: ie year one do
this, year 2 do
this...
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
they did not read/understand colon-ial history.
a111: Logged on 2018-10-19 09:33 Mocky: but
there's exactly no one here who would use a coworks. you either came here for a job, or your dad can get you a job
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-19#1863981 << one idea is, most of
these4 people prolly have a gf, who is possibly attempting
to "live independently".
talk
to whatever aspirational class girlies do
there ? "real estate agent" is it in latam ; maybe "expensive shop 5th avenue of doha" ?
thjat was ~it in bucharest.
☝︎ BingoBoingo: Or in Uruguay's case non-prison genocide because
they ate
the wrong fellow
mircea_popescu: i'm saying
they missed
the convenient doping in
the mental dielectric
to allow
the sparking of "this! what we do is
THIS!"
mircea_popescu: huge north-south difference in earth. a little like -- will find more bug residue on car windshield
than back-facing spoilers.
mircea_popescu: not
that
they did drill
that much. but
then again neither did stalin, at first.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: All
the copper's in Chile on
the other side of
the mountains
mircea_popescu: but yes,
totally -- go
to college, on entrance
test basis, 100% free, luxurios accomodations even. however at
the end of it,
the bottom half straight
to kolyma.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-28 14:27 mircea_popescu:
there is no, strictly speaking, reason
that iron MUST be provided on
the surface of a planet just like
the earth. it ~could~, very well, have simply gone
through a place poor in planetoids and ended up entirely iron free on
the surface. but it did not.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> i
think
the problem was
they permitted buenos aires agglomeration <<
The more
time I spend here
the more horrifying
the idea of a Buenos Aires is.
mircea_popescu: i
think
the problem was
they permitted buenos aires agglomeration
BingoBoingo: The dictatorship in Uruguay legalized cannabis in
the 1970's
to neuter
the hippies and by
the 1980's
they lost at
the ballot box.
BingoBoingo: Fucking Uruguay's put
themselves up for referendum! And let
themselves lose!
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo so sad all
the 70s dictatorships failed. argentina'd have been a way better place if
the junta shot 10x more students and beat ~all of
them.
BingoBoingo: Anyways, Uruguay has one jailbreak story. Back in
the dictatorship years a bunch of Commie scum (~150 NPCs) locked up in
the future Punta Carretas Shopping
tunneled
their way out.
mircea_popescu: somehow managed
to maintain bizarre
taboos, such as "not using same dishes/flatware" across sexual orientation.
mircea_popescu: anyway, what
the dudes did have was a very strangely nordic, respectful and ellaborate ritual dealing with homosexuality.
mircea_popescu: ie, guy who was gonna steal a cookie was gonna steal a cookie ;
that in
the one case where he stole it he saw some guy stealing from a jar in miami so "he was emboldened by
the sight" is entirely uncausative. he'd have stolen it because a spider climbed
the wall and similarily "inspired" his dumb ass.
a111: Logged on 2017-07-20 19:52 asciilifeform: because unlearns faster
than learns.
mircea_popescu: it's funny how
the worst
traits of pantsuitism export easiest.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: And it is inept in a way
that is alienating
the labor folk who "support"
them
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo so
they went
to all
this
trouble
to vote
themselves a ~1mn annuity ?
mircea_popescu: especially if elite
talent's stuck
there boring with it.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform competency rather
than connectivity is discussed.
BingoBoingo: And in still other local news,
the
Tranny reparations bill passed.
Trannys born before 1975 with documentation showing "persecution under
the dictatorship" (i.e. commie scum) will be getting 11.000 pesos monthly.
The estimates are 150-180 of
these
tranny reparations will be made, and I am guessing everyone receiving
them will be an FA party member.
mircea_popescu: this, incidentally, was ~always~
the case. during soviet
times, i recall older guy saying
to (friend) who worked at jail, "god fucking help you if an actual
thief ever ends up in
there".
mircea_popescu: i'd say sqft of prison floor is actually slightly more deranged
than sqft of starbucks
mircea_popescu: or
to use yest's
terminology, after years of being maintained and populated by intelligent people, carcel central suddenly ran into a smart guy.
mircea_popescu: then runs into actual human, suddenly
the whole
thing's closer
to a drawing
than anyone realised.
mircea_popescu: ioned
tend
to apply. "did
that fix
things ?" "i did what was in
the book" "but did it work ?" "what do you want from me! what i do is just a gig! it's not my life!!!".
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not necessarily
that it happened ; but you gotta understand
the interaction between massively multiplayer ineptitude and internalized castration. prison sits
there for years at a stretch without encountering an actual human being, 100% redditards spinning in
their own internalized mental narratives, incapable of finding way out of paper bag. slowly decays, under imaginary maintenance,
the sort
that
the aforement
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I'll believe
the hollywood escape is possible. All most of
the kids here eat is hollywood.
a111: Logged on 2018-10-19 09:30 Mocky: well not so 'guilded' for
the bottom
two classes, but at least
they can leave now if
they want
mircea_popescu: who was
that guy
that had a number of children with
the assortment of strippers hired
to "guard" him back in
the zone ?
a111: Logged on 2017-03-17 14:22 asciilifeform: recall
the anecdote re w. shockley's 'genius spermbank' calling feynman ? him: 'whatcha bothering ~me~ for,
talk
to my father'
mircea_popescu: much like EVEN NOW
the cost of disease still fails
to exceed
the benefit from sexuate reproduction, i suspect
the same applies
there : any other drawbacks a social system may have,
the fact it dun force you
to put woman's children in your wot is still enough
to bring it above water.
a111: Logged on 2018-10-19 09:29 Mocky: but Qataris don't mix with
the help, except
the partying 20 somethings
that don't want
to work (reportedly) and
they don't seem
to be in
their parents wot
mircea_popescu: she'd work winters in
the (at
the
time) super-hottest-spot-on-earth, some expensive & pointless UAE resort development.
mircea_popescu talking
to "party girl" at some point (ukr chick,
too) about it : "don't you find it intolerable ?" "well... i
think of it as a perpetual costume party in
the street."
Mocky: that seems
to be
the report from housekeepers. bored qataris with nothing
to do but shisha, sex and kfc
mircea_popescu: Mocky egypt is same way, except
then in private it's
topless party w/e.
BingoBoingo: It seems pretty clear
the 20 foot concrete fences are for privacy under
the pretext of security
BingoBoingo: Anyway, fishing locals by social class is a
thing.
mircea_popescu: "must be in right
time at right place" sorta deal ; otherwise LOTS of people (and a LOT more
than care
to admit) spent 60s in california looking for
the party.
mircea_popescu: Mocky it's possible
they may have a prequal system, if not necessarily what BingoBoingo describes.
Mocky: dozens of party boats
that head out for afternoon / evening party / swimming in
the bay.
thumping music in harbor at night
BingoBoingo: Mocky: Well, do
the locals go
there?
Take four of
the girls you met and lounge around with
the for a weekday evening. Good chance
that might be how you meet locals.
Mocky: the big
thing is
the party boats in west bay, wooden boats you can seen in like half
the public pics of Doha skyline.
Mocky: there are a bunch of beaches. some closes during
turtle nesting season. spread around qatar. not sure how many close
to Doha, but not like it's a big country
BingoBoingo: <Mocky>
the downtown area wraps
the bay and is maybe 10 blocks deep. I guess you could call
this 'a ring'.
the rest of
the city is basically concentric circles of rings b - f (actual street names) between which are neighborhoods of predominantly residential villas but with huge retail areas interspersed. <<
The rings sounds rather like 1900's-1950's Montevideo
mircea_popescu: and
then when i say
there's a lot of supernumerary bodies...
mircea_popescu: "so... what do you do ?" "uhm i dunno man... we just live here. it's just a gig, it's not our life. wanna
toke ?"
a111: Logged on 2018-10-19 09:26 Mocky: week
two has been wheel spinning so far like most of week 1. I've had in person conversations with 30+ people in
the last week about business and finding a local business sponsor. None of
these people are locals, none of
them knows a local in business, or even an expat in business, or had any idea what
they would do if needed
to find.
a111: Logged on 2018-10-19 09:10 Mocky: for example,
there are 12 malls in Doha. if you stood on
top of one, could see others.
mircea_popescu: it's a sad
testament
to
the age of "enlightment"
that we went from 1600s manor house
to 1800s brownstone
tenement and now
to 2000s
tallwall. dark ages ftw.
a111: Logged on 2018-10-19 08:25 Mocky: in
the 'burbs
there are sort of
ticky
tack housing communities where a couple dozen villas will share one big wall, with guard on duty at
the gate.
BingoBoingo: In other news:
The Peruana, Gloria, has passed her examinations and will be getting licensed in
the profession of vaccination.
Mocky: gotta pass a medical exam
that says if you'd survive. can keep shirt on. reportedly brusing not bleeding
Mocky: fewer lashes for
theft etc. I know
the corporal punishment sentences are handed down, but not always implemented. I don't know
the ratio of commuting
to jail
time / deportation
Mocky: finger / hand / arm chopping ... not a
thing anymore here
Mocky: it's still on
the books, 40 lashes for sex outside marriage for a muslim. i
think
they did it as recently as a few years ago
Mocky: I don't know about public or not. as part of sharia law it applies only
to muslims.
they have secular law for non muslims.
Mocky: flogging is still a
thing here
Mocky: quite rigid structure, few if any cracks
to fall into. Foreigner is
tourist, sponsored worker, or businessman. plenty of idle locals, but idle rich in nature, if not substance