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mircea_popescu: what do you think that is.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but ofcourse they do
moiety: mircea_popescu: on the inside
asciilifeform: americans won't build хрущобаs, so they're stuck doing weird in-betweens.
moiety: i knew a girl that managed to get a mortgage working at walmart, i had no chance working nhs
mircea_popescu: i suppose in its own contorted, braindamaged way, the left was preparing for the future.
asciilifeform: there were somewhat fewer of them. and more wealthy older generation to mooch from.
mircea_popescu: they were housed somewhere at the time the clinton binge begun
asciilifeform: but this too has costs.
asciilifeform: tldr version: there is a multitude of idiots. they have to be housed somewhere. or, they can be allowed to live in their own filth, like capt. aguilera suggested.
bitcoinpete: 400 million people weren't brought to North America for their shrewdness, just their escapism
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'The answer lies in the sewers'
bitcoinpete: or to tell them that they aren't men/adults/people w/o a mortgage
mircea_popescu: it is equally unfair, and quite callous, to sign up for mortgages idiots whi ocan't afford them
mircea_popescu: bitcoinpete i will take the other end of that view : it's unfair to make the blind the designated drivers of your bar hopping party
moiety: so just any laser is going to look better during an eclipse?
asciilifeform: that is, the fact that air is not perfectly transparent
asciilifeform: moiety: lasers used for circus purposes (draw picture in the air via persistence of vision) rely on 'rayleigh scattering'
bitcoinpete: mircea_popescu: the banking crisis piece is on the talebian money. history doesn't repeat itself but it does rhyme. house=louse
moiety: ok lasers, i aw a purple laser for the first time (side note of epic btw) and the site said, "comes into its own during a lunar eclipse." is there something actually in that because its purple or is that just a gimmick?
moiety: ligers are interesting, they can't breed i was under the impression
moiety: LOLOL imagine how much more confy this one would be
mircea_popescu: i only ride cats that shave.
asciilifeform: moiety: the original version of that had a caption: 'do you still want to dodge the [russian] draft?'
moiety: mircea_popescu: i thought this was real http://i.imgur.com/kvzzZn9.png it needs to be. In fact, it should replace your horse
moiety: even manul had to have been cross bred at some point
mircea_popescu: Here's something to quote at the Dr. Gregs of Bitcoin finance : "Inevitably, of course, business errors will occur and the wise manager will try to find the proper lessons in them. But the trick is to learn most lessons from the experiences of others. Managers who have learned much from personal experience in the past usually are destined to learn much from personal experience in the future."
asciilifeform: moiety: virtually all of the 'felis' genus has been cross-bred, across the board, and likewise 'panthera'
asciilifeform: moiety: which suggested that, technically, there might only be a few distinct species of cat, in the sense of 'able to cross-breed'
moiety: i know some have human blood today
moiety: asciilifeform asciilifeform I've come to terms with the giant manul not actually being giant (how did i not see that?!) .. decided we need to find someone proficient in GM to make it happen though
bitcoinpete: on a writing roll today!
ozbot: When did the 2007 banking crisis start ? How about 1985. pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
bitcoinpete: lots of good reading on thelastpsychiatrist btw. keepin' me busy
bitcoinpete: It's time to start playing grown-up
mircea_popescu: if the worst comes to worse, http://trilema.com/2012/romanian-dicelist/
mircea_popescu: bitcoinpete just generate entropy the traditional way.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it conveniently dots the screen, so no need for radio mouse
mircea_popescu: js mouse based "entropy" ? tis shitty.
bitcoinpete: Wondering if I should be trusting bitaddress.org… Anyone else use it?
the20year2: is mpoe t he best btc:usd short?
KRS-One: I think its Ozbot..not me.
KRS-One: That guy who has her in bonds totally reminds me of a friend of mine who would do that.
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [KCIM] [PAID] 2.67652000 BTC to 86`900 shares, 3080 satoshi per share
KRS-One: Heh that first bitch looks fun..And free.
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] [PAID] 2.37038703 BTC to 3`597 shares, 65899 satoshi per share
KRS-One: I try really hard.
KRS-One: teh lolpacity of the fapacity...let there be fap.
mircea_popescu: to each according to his lolpacity.
mircea_popescu: eh, let there be communism of lol.
[\]: you should start charging for invites to this channel
[\]: thanks for the lol
mircea_popescu: give each other looks and mash the phone kbds
mircea_popescu: what they'd do is what they currently do in the shitty pits they inhabit (starbucks et atll)
mircea_popescu: because, obviously, they're above it
asciilifeform: wouldn't it be neat to somehow throw these folks into the same pit ?
mircea_popescu: "You have to work if you want a share of communal food"
mircea_popescu: these are roughly the ows demo
mircea_popescu: "it's illegal to manufacture guns"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform im still digesting the earlier forum thing
mircea_popescu: thank you people finding me great shit to read!
asciilifeform: wait what. last i checked, the only planned industry was small arms.
mircea_popescu: oh this shit is so great.
mircea_popescu: "we need to go to each church and offer them contracts to not be churches any more"
mircea_popescu: o hey, we'll be just like the amish, except suckier and without tradition
mircea_popescu: "We actually hope to make a local restaurant and turn it into a national franchise"
asciilifeform: mice do so love cheese. but, afaik, this particular trap remains empty. paper chumpatron.
mircea_popescu: "and if they make bigger bunker busters, we'll just pour more concrete"
mircea_popescu: "all rooves are poured rebared concrete 10 meter thick"
asciilifeform: this particular crock of shit isn't even an especially convincing one - just illustrative of the concept.
chetty_: hey lets round ourselves up, save them moving us to the reservation (brave new world)
mircea_popescu: anyway, how would one design buildings to "withstand" direct military attacks ? use an abandoned salt mine or something ?
mircea_popescu: "we just called it the citadel because the outhouse was taken
asciilifeform: 'The Citadel is not designed to withstand any direct .Mil or .Gov attack. Nor is the Citadel, in any manner, attempting to provoke any government entity.'
mircea_popescu: except you also get the choice to make a brick-in-concrete pillars with poured concrete foundation and wood roofing house,
mircea_popescu: anyway, for the record, the same exact situation is the case in romania
asciilifeform: as far as i could tell, the thing is/was some combo of a usg honeypot and straight 'jam tomorrow, not today' chumpatron.
mircea_popescu: "Your home will be built to your specs (details available at this website) with utilities stubbed to the interior. You select the facade for the exterior of your home. You are responsible for completing the interior of your home as you wish. You may choose to do the work yourself, or hire contractors. But every single detail, from paint to tiles to counters, is your choice."
asciilifeform: afaik there's no tower, just a dirtbag with a sack of $
mircea_popescu: "i am proud of these unrelated people's feudal architecture!"
mircea_popescu: i guess the very essex-looking walltower kinda makes the point better than 10k words
mircea_popescu: someone somewhere actually believes that *us people* are anything but exceptionally stupid nao ?!
mircea_popescu: The Citadel is evolving as a planned community where residents are bound together by:
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: reminiscent of this famous crackpot gem: http://www.iiicitadel.com
mircea_popescu: that's the clincher
ozbot: Let's Build a Town, Bitcoin Town
mircea_popescu: that thread on the neoweirdos delivers.
mircea_popescu: "There are thousands of acres of in BC Canada that are owned by the Queen of England....If we squat there drill some wells and plant some trees. Do you really think the Queen is going to bring us an eviction notice or force us off the land with military force?"
mircea_popescu: and also what put the new in new york
mircea_popescu: that's how they came up with rome wisconsin
peterl: wait, no, I've been to Canada, but that's just about the same thing
peterl: I've only been places in the USA, so the rest of the world must not exist!
[\]: is there anywhere but the USA?
mircea_popescu: wait, how the fuck is us mother's day on may 11th ?
mircea_popescu: so you think.
mircea_popescu: so there you go.
mircea_popescu: [\\\] people wanted you to have a nice surprise on mother's day.
mircea_popescu: it's this mystical re-enactment of the venetian republic.
[\]: to think this whole time I got screwed
[\]: why didn't anyone tell me that I got fully repaid?