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mod6: the U.S. has had
the draft many
times
mircea_popescu: tiberiusiv
the us had
the draft for a while
too you know.
dub: mircea_popescu: yeah
those are dealbreakers on spain
tiberiusiv: you
talking about
the slave army everyone had
to join
mod6: oh...hmm i
thought
they get rid of
that shit so people don't outright revolt
mircea_popescu: how were
they banned ? everyone got
trained
to use
them whether like it or not
mod6: lol
they always are
tiberiusiv: ex communist countries
tend
to be none weapon based
mircea_popescu: ie, "add guns" is not
the universal path
to improving safety in absolutely any circumstance, place or
time.
mircea_popescu: anyway. romania is just not a very weapon centric culture. i have no objection with
the notions of safety applicable
to
the us and its citizens, but it's not universal
mircea_popescu: dude it was nothing like
that, it was more like slapping her butt
mircea_popescu: but for my curiosity : naked
teensy chick next
to you was covered in her own vomit six hours ago at what
they call "a party".
dub: also getting boils from swimming in
the sea
dub: I remember a chick in business attire squatting down and
taking a dump in
the gutter
mod6: but
travel is amazing, and all
the americans who are
too fat or busy watching
the kardashians
to go out and check out
the rest of
the planet are dumb.
mod6: then i kinda
took it more formally later on.
mod6: i learned a lot of my spanish in mexico just
traveling around.
mod6: have you seen spanish chicks? some of em got a nice rack of
titty and are
totally
thin
tiberiusiv: on
the deposit bitcoins page i see nothing?
mod6: its a good way
to learn
the lang and exp
the culture.. just immerse yourself.
mircea_popescu: i went
to
the local uni, found
the english dept, picked up a chick wirth nice hooters
mod6: its awesome
to go new places and just chat up random people
mod6: (21:34) < mircea_popescu> i'll go
to anywhere i want and strike up a chat with anyone i want. pick up a street walker if i feel like it and go watch
the game with her. <<
the sign of a
true
travel bug
dub: did he
try
to sell any idiot being able
to arm
themselves
to
the
teeth instantaneously as a good
thing?
mircea_popescu: <tiberiusiv> youd be arrested << what i did earlier
today was
take a chick along for a nude stroll down
the riverwalk.
smickles: i'll say american area approachable, go up
to one on
thier porch with a smile and a friendly greeting in
the dark of night, 3/5
times i get a beer doing
that
mircea_popescu: it's in romanian, if gt fails horribly i guess i'll have
to
translate it myself.
tiberiusiv: americans are approachable but its mostly a business
type relationship
mircea_popescu: i'll
tell you, part of what i did in
the us was
this cross country by bus
thing
tiberiusiv: lol
that is never occuring in north america
tiberiusiv: spend most of
their days worrying about losing
the wealth
mircea_popescu: i'll go
to anywhere i want and strike up a chat with anyone i want. pick up a street walker if i feel like it and go watch
the game with her.
tiberiusiv: hence why
they build
their boarded up enclaves
tiberiusiv: mircea: ultra rich americans
tend
to be either WASPs or jewish, and neither group likes
to be around people much
mircea_popescu: i was like wtf you numnuts, what if
this was loaded and i wiped
the floor with
the lot of you nao
mod6: no wonder
the
the CO was pissed
mircea_popescu: mod6 she was not protecting her backside. i just went behind her, waited for like five seconds,
then
took her unsecured gun
mircea_popescu: (they had just introduced females into
the force at
the
time)
mircea_popescu: mod6 about a decade ago in
the cluj airport i confiscated a chick's weapon
mod6: DONT MAKE ME HIT YOU WITH
THIS!
mod6: lol,
thats almost as good as
the japaneese police with
their whistles.
mircea_popescu: the police don't get live rounds,
they just carry
the empty pistols around.
mircea_popescu: in romania you'd
take about a week
to find someone with a working firearm.
tiberiusiv: with a drivers license i can be armed
to
the
teeth in 1 day
mircea_popescu: i didn't pay a cent, but
that doesn't mean ny is free.
mircea_popescu: i mean sure, while i was in ny i had free car service and
two doods with shotguns
tiberiusiv: imported products(quality luxury items) are more expensive in RO
then US
mircea_popescu: this somehow comes out like it's 0.35% more here
than
there.
mircea_popescu: you probably get some deals over
there and you
take
that as a basis. which isn't a basis.
mircea_popescu: i
think what happens here is
that you're comparing
things wrongly in
the following sense :
benkay: less
than
ten dollars an hour
tiberiusiv: you know you can rent a brand new car in
the US
mod6: wow. what a waste of money
those high end cars are.
tiberiusiv: mod6: you can finance a ferrari in
the US for 2-3k a month
mircea_popescu: and waits for me and carries my bags and whatever
the fuck else.
mod6: not even a rental with
the insurance
tiberiusiv: considering
the monthly payments are 2500
tiberiusiv: 100 per day im driving a ferrari in
the US
mircea_popescu: i can keep
three on call and not even notice it particularly.
mircea_popescu: i happen
top not care what cars cost mostly because i hire a driver with his car and gas for ~100 bux per day or some shit
mircea_popescu: as in, you couldn't replicate what counts as a "normal" diet here in
the us without 10k a month
tiberiusiv: considering
the average salary is 1/15th of
the US
mircea_popescu: romania is cheaper for everything
that matters, pretty much.
tiberiusiv: which you have
to pay romanian road
tax on
mircea_popescu: you've successfuly railroaded
this discussion into perhaps
the most irrelevant possible corner.
tiberiusiv: dude
they dont even sell
the 220 in
the US
mircea_popescu: i've been
there, i've been here, itdoesn't figure like you
think.
tiberiusiv: the US is
the cheapest consumer good market in
the world
mircea_popescu: next he's gonna
tell me
that a limited series lamborghini costs
the same everywhere ;/
tiberiusiv: so i pay a 23% premium
to watch a poor guy paint a park bench
mircea_popescu: i
told you about a dozen, but somehow it doesn't stick.