mircea_popescu: ("if money's a curse, let god strike me down with it! and may i never recover.")

mircea_popescu: money is a terrible curse.

mircea_popescu: it's a style where you import gold by the galleon only to see rents go up and not much else.

mircea_popescu: "I found myself with a girl under each arm, a scotch in hand, dead center in the front of a crowd observing the fire dancing show taking place during the big Friday night finale of PorcFest XIII. Having ingested both MDMA and LSD1 earlier that evening, I imagined the scene took on a particularly mystical quality."

mircea_popescu: and "care este" is a typical form of uneducated ro usage, particularly favoured in the mudplains around bucharest. a sort of pop-philosophy turned verbal automatism.

mircea_popescu: but since the answer's not that readily translatable, let's delve. "x de y" is a very common pattern of early childhoold romanian construction, so much so that it's a byword for infantilism. ☟︎

mircea_popescu: "take a shot of every vodka in the house, pour in glass, stir. add twist of gin. serve."

mircea_popescu: understanding this first point is what even allows the doctor to be A DOCTOR, ie, professional. as opposed to amateur, ie, quack.

mircea_popescu: in practical terms, asciilifeform i'd say you'd be a lot more benefited by somehow retaining the loyalty and services of an old whore that knows how to negotiate rents ; than by trying to become warlord.

mircea_popescu: attempting formal immortality is a good definition of ustardism.

mircea_popescu: the model is not a matter of random implementation thereof.

mircea_popescu: otherwise you're in the position of a schoolyard lout who seeks to absolve his ungrammatical "poetry" on the grounds that shakespeare.

mircea_popescu: there isn't a "upping the milimorts". you gotta NOT CARE.

mircea_popescu: altogether a tall bar.

mircea_popescu: well - this is not true generally, thinking about it. but for me, it is way the fuck easier. and i'd expect it'd be the same for everyone who a) is familiar with the environment, and by familiar we mean that, feels at home in the ghetto and is respected in prison ; b) is familiar with the categories of education. which is different from being educated, it requires mastership of the gnosis, that position where you wrote the bo

mircea_popescu: usually easier to educate a willful person than trying to insuflate will into an educated person.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform empty and full of rubble does wonders to keep hopes down (and hope, expectation of future, TRULY is the mind eater for usians. be hopeless, you win.) and officious intermeddlers at a distance sufficient to breed actual people with some frequency. ☟︎

mircea_popescu: so basically... thank the bank. saved your life, and saved the city a grease spot removal bill.

mircea_popescu: anyway. if you run one of these you run it because you want a steady supply of whores and thugs, not because you expect roi on the rents.

mircea_popescu: what front door isn't ever a sham ?

mircea_popescu: if the question "who is this guy" forms, and the answer is not on a post-it on monitor, you're not in the demo.

mircea_popescu: they buy the stuff, run the rookery, usually make a thin profit.

mircea_popescu: ah, the demo ? usually, russian immigrants, old white guys with a history of dealing with criminals for whatever reason (pond shop owner, public defender, etc)

mircea_popescu: and forget stuff like bauxite. you can't have as much as a truckload of books delivered by printer.

mircea_popescu: not so : they'll ask where you want it delivered, you'll give a residential address, they'll drop the inquiry.

mircea_popescu: so we'll be hit by a new raft of faces with bios and empty heads.

mircea_popescu: eh, the ones that start in engineering / actual work roles usually end up "managing" a project/team, not really selected for chen minjness.

mircea_popescu: they're usually central/east asians for a good reason : the "government is all things" mentality is not commonly found outside of that shithole. there, it's part of the culture.

mircea_popescu: and to not forget the various other usg tools with a more remote, disavowed involvement : gavin andresen, emin gun sirer, and a whole list of various derps who unilaterally claim involvement : amir chetrit, anthony di iorio, gavin woon, joseph lubin etc,

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-28#1492472 << to truly round up yesterday's derp list, one has to mention the dejavu "security" team (aptly named, seriously, we've seen this nonsense more than enough times before from the sort of posturing idiots without a wot presence) : akshay aggarwal, "a passionate entrepreneur", adam cecchetti, "ceo", michael eddington, "cto", see https://archive.is/JqJos ☝︎

mircea_popescu: the stupid consist of cents and dimes, sum to a thousand dollars if that. ☟︎