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BingoBoingo: Fuck I need a time machine
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform none of them being you know, owners of uk football clubs.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the parasites in the summary being the various u.s. 'aid' busybodies who feast on the festering corpses of countries zapped by 'international community'
mircea_popescu: only took him 30 hours to fail ?
kakobrekla: it does remind me of nefarios travel to usa though.
mircea_popescu: who dares slurry the name of Gen Pissintherhine!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and as far as parasites go... russia definitely takes the cake. their (putin's) recovery model pretty much relies on parasites
asciilifeform: 'Patton, like Douglas MacArthur, was an unfortunate mixture of personal courage, technical brilliance and toxic personality, and like MacArthur, a role model to three generations of mediocrities who equate pomp and nitpicking with excellence.'
kakobrekla: i cant judge whats true or whats not just whats written
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo yeah well afaik toyota etc is what sunk detroit.
mircea_popescu: they're not obliged nor reasonably expected to go "o heh heh bitcoin heh heh" just so random beavis feels tehy connected.
mircea_popescu: so the customs searched his bags. it's what customs do.
ThickAsThieves: "The purpose of this wallet is to provide cold storage level security with close to web wallet convenience."
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla honestly the thing reads to me like attentionseeking behaviour.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo or if they bombed japan more generouslky.
BingoBoingo: Detroit would be thriving if that false flag agent did not smash Patton with a jeep
kakobrekla: >BitcoinNotBombs co-founder Davi Barker was stopped in the Manchester, NH airport by TSA agents demanding to search is bags for Bitcoins. Barker was traveling with Bitcoin related merchandise, namely metal pins with Bitcoin labels on them, which he believes is what confused the TSA agents, who didn’t seem to understand what Bitcoin actually is. Barker was eventually allowed to continue to his flight.
mircea_popescu: well because in that sense you could as well say i did it.
mircea_popescu: i mean... some geographical zones will just die out if trade barriers go away
mircea_popescu: latvia is a very small unfortunate plot of land tho
mircea_popescu: is this a measure ?
mircea_popescu: romania finished 2 nucelar reactors that the soviets/local commies tried to get going for 15 years, and now exports electricity.
asciilifeform: i suppose it depends on what you think of as 'industry'
asciilifeform: did they?
mircea_popescu: all these countries re-industrialised after the soviet collapse.
BingoBoingo: Eh, why not pick on the polaks?
mircea_popescu: what examples do we have ? hungary, slovenia, slovakia, czech, poland, romania, bulgaria, take your pick ?
BingoBoingo: Well, it is important to remember that a lot of what made Reagan Reaganesque was his Buffet like dementia
mircea_popescu: it's not factually correct tho.
asciilifeform: orlov's view seems to be that usg/nato/allies wreck countries (near east, etc.) to retard development -> to throttle resource consumption, create captive markets a la the brits at their peak, churn mil. inventory, 'controllable chaos' to feed various parasites.
mircea_popescu: why can't he just make an altcoin like any well behaved scammer and fade into the bitbucket.
mircea_popescu: still tryin' huh.
nubbins`: wouldn't be able to take the guy seriously if he wasn't such a fucking hardass
mircea_popescu: so i tend to give them a hard time
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i'm not pro putin in any sense. it's just that most of the people ending up in my feed are english speaking propaganda agents
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Twitter you sounds rather pro-Putin IRC you sounds rather fuck everybody. Unfortunatly people miss the Trilema you fuck everybody needs to be literal
nubbins`: all under the name: Server Froze."
nubbins`: "In one case, Kelly suspects the person used in the scheme had poor English skills and, through miscommunication, wrote down what he believed was the fake name he was supposed to use, which was apparently flashing across his computer screen. This fake identity went on to have an effective credit rating, a driver’s licence, bank accounts, a telephone and an apartment (with renter’s insurance). And
asciilifeform: counter-derper: 'as the leather seats' ☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: russian derper: 'if we'd let the jerries win, we'd be riding in mercedes benz now!' ☟︎☟︎
BingoBoingo: Oh, In simple western terms mircea_popescu takes a 180 from IRC mircea
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: under merkel << time for a 'joke'
ThickAsThieves: well then
mircea_popescu: but it can't seriously be contemplated ukrainians'd fare better under putin than under merkel
mircea_popescu: how the hell does that work ? just because he dislikes the usg ?
BingoBoingo: ThickAsThieves: Maybe it is time to see what Abercrombie tastes like?
ThickAsThieves: i'm even bored with getting bored with things
ThickAsThieves: i put plenty time in during my 20s
BingoBoingo: ThickAsThieves: Building a habit takes work
ThickAsThieves: other than for the taste sometimes
BingoBoingo: ThickAsThieves: And this is why you follow AsicMiner and not things more interesting to drink to.
ThickAsThieves: but i'm from there
ThickAsThieves: i'd bet on the Red Sox
mircea_popescu: how did you think that one
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: When I wrote the electric boogaloo bet, France's boots were the ones I imagined solving it as Yes
asciilifeform: 'make w0r in your sp4r3 t1m3'
mircea_popescu: maybe if they make the war 4 hours a day and everyone the same height.
mircea_popescu: people all derping around about war. if a general mobilization order issued by the ukraine is ignored so, who the fuck is going to go to war ? france ?
mircea_popescu: check that out, they only got 1% ish respond to mobilization orders ?
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i couldn't name a tea,
mircea_popescu: lol the churkin performance at the un is pretty lulzy
BingoBoingo: As I write the noob sports betting article, I'd like to open a quick survey. What team would people pick to take the World Series this year?
mircea_popescu: clearly military brothels aren't what they used to be
BingoBoingo: And Cubs fans drink this swill called "Old Style" which isn't strong enough to be a malt liquor or palatable enough to be a beer.
BingoBoingo: And that is why I try not to travel futher north than I-70
mircea_popescu: "The last time the Chicago Cubs won a World Series, the Ottoman Empire still existed."
mircea_popescu: not wasted effort, writing things up
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Well, n00bs don't read -assets so I might as well write it for them.
BingoBoingo: Ans still try to double those ATC holding
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: not direly essential, i think i got the basic idea from your summary
BingoBoingo: And find ALL of the satoshi communications
BingoBoingo: I also have to do this paper on n00b sportbetting for asciilifeform
BingoBoingo: Eh, I don't go on Bitcointalk that often anymoar
mircea_popescu: you'll have to ask her i guess.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Does Hanna have thoughts on these developments? Other than "finally" and oter breif quips?
mircea_popescu: you two answered each other.
asciilifeform: why the hell not
mircea_popescu: Hopefully these will be the first orders of business: dissolve, disband, liquidate."
mircea_popescu: "I move that MPOE-PR be appointed supreme dictator of the Bitcoin Foundation.
BingoBoingo: Once they turn 30 some horses at Fairmount park sell their jizz for more than the floozie's going rate.
BingoBoingo: And then they turn 30
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Most of those floozies make more than the doctors that patronize them make
BingoBoingo: Cause they only make 4x what then men driving the trucks make
mircea_popescu: fact : the ~average~ entrepreneur will not have made by age 40 as much money as the average hs floozie working the stripping joints in saget, il made.
mircea_popescu: need moar #womenintech, because currently they're not fucktarded enough to work really long hours doing relaly anyoing shit for very little money.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: That East Saint Welfare
mircea_popescu: wow, more than most start-ups.
BingoBoingo: hundreds a night if she's fat and black, thousands if the ain's fat and lighter. White C cup would prolly work in Caseyville where the money is better
BingoBoingo: Depends on the tits and how not black she is
mircea_popescu: what's a working girl make there ?
mircea_popescu: ction and the severity of the mutilation. Judge C. Glenn Stevens awarded the man $16,000,000 in 1993 to compensate him. To satisfy the judgment, the Midwest Rubber Reclaiming plant and equipment owned by the Monsanto Corporation was sold at auction in August 1993. The site has since been leveled with no future prospects for development.
mircea_popescu: The Monsanto plant in Sauget was also home to a serious accident in January 1992 when worker Charles Pritchett was critically hurt. Pritchett was caught in an auger used for moving small materials and shredding rubber. He was stuck in the auger for five hours while officials attempted to extract him. Pritchett was in a coma for three months and pronounced dead twice. Pritchett's leg was eventually amputated due to infe
BingoBoingo: Well they haven't had a mayor not named Sauget in nearly a century
mircea_popescu: i wouldn't buy that shit if it was free.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Well, No one but Monsanto and strip clubs actually are in the city limits
mircea_popescu: Sauget was incorporated as "Monsanto" in 1926. It was formed to provide a liberal regulatory environment and low taxes for the Monsanto chemical plants at a time when local jurisdictions had most of the responsibility for environmental rules. It was renamed in honor of Leo Sauget, its first Village President
mircea_popescu: "The population was 249 at the 2000 census." hah
BingoBoingo: Seriously the formula should be buy a frontier league team, hire some MLB players
mircea_popescu: http://www.frontierleague.com/league/transactions/ < o look, they have a bitcoin exchange
BingoBoingo: Check the history of the town they are headquartered in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sauget,_Illinois