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mircea_popescu: while that lasts. god knows the scum are trying their best to scumify china as well ; and sadder still -- the ~only reason it exists is that it's really just an alternate pathway to scum. slightly different sort of cockroach, that's all and no more.
mircea_popescu: fact is, the crap growing in agar bottle manages to soil the bottle. permanently.
mircea_popescu: you say you worked in biolab. you must've encountered the phial not worth the washing, yes ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform remember when teh politburo shat it because they imagined the chinese'll start pouring over the border ?
mircea_popescu: its continued existence signifies the absence of interest and exactly no more.
mircea_popescu: then again, the us of today would pretty much collapse in a year of rhodesia treatment, supposing anyone could be arsed to apply it.
mircea_popescu: and the netflix scum nod along, "oh yes, terrible, terrorism, moo, moo"
mircea_popescu: TERRORISM!!!! and THE WHOLE WORLD MUST GIVE A SHIT!! AND THEREFORE DOES!!!
mircea_popescu: trinque the adventure of say rhodesia is instructive. suddenly the imbecile twitter horde is trying to play counterstrike around your borders "for democracy", while the idiots are cheering them on. god fucking forbid black dudes with machine guns start pouring over border in us, at the rate of a few thousands a year.
mircea_popescu: anyway, heuristic remains : pay anyone you can fire out of net, anyone else out of gross.
mircea_popescu: romania incidentally has a long history of just this, it's called fanarioti period. hundreds of groups over 3-4 centuries did just this, kept taking over because pissed off with insolence of ex crown. discovered worse deal to be king.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: anyway. i personally know two ... groups, let's say, that triedf the whole take over game. leaving aside the petty private satisfactions [of jailing the other trailer park trash they grew up with], economically it's been improductive.
mircea_popescu: less clean sewage, more clean sewage, just no potable water s'all.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i could think of less useful myself, or of more useful also. but i can think of no ~useful~.
mircea_popescu wouldn't take over eg romania if they paid. i can't imagine oregon or w/e is any better
mircea_popescu: but the alternative is to shoot the "democratically elected" and take over. and the sad truth of the matter is that it's actually AN EVEN WORSE DEAL.
mircea_popescu: irl, paying tax out of net is a sucker's game. you want to pay the talent out of net, like they do in holyingwood, and the criminals out of gross.
mircea_popescu: and so now you have to maintain accountants + hitmen, and neither one is sufficient, to keep enough pressure on the crown so it can't come up with bullshit.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes, but then you have to actually have the expenses. and then the inept game of "oh, disallowed extemption, we decided you owe money retrospectively plus penalties etc"
mircea_popescu: yes, but you were discussing the thing in general, so i gave you specific example of exception.
mircea_popescu: discount cost of expenses is about 6-7% depending, meaning it's not worth it to buy them straight.
mircea_popescu: suppose you have 1mn gross receipts. if you pay 3% of gross, you're paying 30k. if you instead pay 16% of net, you'll have to produce expenses worth 850k before it's cheaper that way.
mircea_popescu: (no, it's not "on top of everything". it's either of net or of gross, your option._
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes hey, i have various cos paying 3% of gross in ro. works great for high margin operations.
mircea_popescu: lmao. wtf is with the florist scene, sounds like porn dialogue.
mircea_popescu: this isn't a bad movie. it's insufferable, because it is a good movie about cockroaches that really shouldn't exist.
mircea_popescu: i've been watching it in 10 minute installments with half hour cussing breaks.
mircea_popescu: i suppose if they ever manage to adapt the fingernail rfid for cattle usage, the cows'll be tweeting about how they're testing the barn app, and act like all serious about it, too.
mircea_popescu: it's kinda funny for me to read all the nightmare stories of various ppl trying to airtravel, because i've had nothing but great experiences and well... sucks to be them i guess.
mircea_popescu: i totally would. the name of the game is disproportionate retribution. let your $100 seat savings cost you $10 mn in financing, why the hell not.
mircea_popescu: and, of course, air india is consequently losing its subsidies, because they'll get hold up in parliament.
mircea_popescu: also, i don't expect the hotel makes any money from the deal. they're giving the rooms away free. etc.
mircea_popescu: i don't get it, so india apparently sees a rider for the very first time, gets all excited ?
mircea_popescu: shinohai its position as 5th altcorn yo. not it's. its.
mircea_popescu: chainsaw bike eh. why not microwave tv and tower laundry machine dildo, while at it.
mircea_popescu: fucking cape cod style winds, i was cold in my winter gear. they were the color of liver.
mircea_popescu: anyway, cold hardness is very much developed trait. i think i told the story of the pubescent girls at the black sea playing around in the freezing water like fucking sirens.
mircea_popescu: well no because back then they had anthropogenic minnesota warming see.
mircea_popescu: tornado be like "bitchez, didn't you want flying cars ???"
mircea_popescu: me either. most obscure state! but apparently great hunting.
mircea_popescu still chuckles at the "indignant community" back when fetlife turned out to be a shithole.
mircea_popescu: trinque people vastly overestimate the importance of social media howling, also. and this is entirely borne out of stubbornly ignoring the numerous cases of it being raped to shreds.
mircea_popescu: the lazy and the stupid ganged together and convinced "everyone" ie themselves that placing blame is bad, evil, counterproductive et all.
mircea_popescu: mod6 i find that the people putting in the work end up actually being the smarter among the many.