mircea_popescu: which is the point here : they're not people. they're a herd.

mircea_popescu: out of an estimated 30 to 40k twentysomethings THAT VOTED for this entity, a little over 1% BOTHERED TO FOLLOW IT ON TWITTER. notwithstanding that ALL THEY EVER DO is fuck around on their phones.

mircea_popescu: a total of ~500 people FOLLOW it, which brings us home :

mircea_popescu: these are the people with the "a pili la indigna la pobreza" bullshit that i mocked. more importantly, they also have a twitter handle, which they promote insistently.

mircea_popescu: there were elections for the student representative body recently, and an entity called "FADU SUR" whatever trhe shit that is "won them", with a shattering 45%. this means many many tens of thousands of votes.

mircea_popescu: so, the architecture design and practically & indumentaria (which is how you say "dumb etsy shit" in spanish) is one of the largest and most populous colleges in this 10-20mn strong town. this, obviously, because the stupid girlies "must get a degree" and they're not going to go into law, too much reading.

mircea_popescu: in other news, perhaps a most interesting datapoint to help foreign mind comprehend local bovinity.

mircea_popescu: there's obviously no stable solution for this problem, inasmuch as it's the nonsensical issues of a bunch of parochical derps. nevertheless, i wouldn't properly call it "corewars" either, there's no core involved. periphery wars ?

mircea_popescu: consequently, the troop that got fucked (mit) is in favour of "defend this perimeter at all costs!111" attitude. whereas the rest of them (ie, cornell, stanford, etc etc) are more of a "this perimeter is not defensible, retreat and create a new one". ☟︎

mircea_popescu: there's no "corewars" per se. there's the bloodied remains of the imperial hopes and aspirations. the problem with this empire being that it's not unified under a strong crown, but run around blindly by a crowd of decerbrated bureaucrats.

mircea_popescu: if anyone still has an account do me a favour invite "r0ach" over.

mircea_popescu: e moon while liquidating shoters. Dan Larimer actually talked about attempting doing that himself once in the past when BTS was in the dumpster but he chickened out. Him and Vitalik have been speaking a bit these days and maybe he gave Vitalik the idea."

mircea_popescu: The DOA event caused a dumpocalypse on them forcing them to absorb even more losses. This single entity that controls the ETh price is underwater as fuck now and probably desperate to rid himself of some of those scamtokens. I have a feeling the only reason it made it that high of value in the first place is the Eth devs themselves sent a bunch of Eth to Poloniex, then used those coins for collateral to margin long it to th

mircea_popescu: oh in other lulz : guy ran the numbers, discovered that miss america claims to spend 50mn a year ; actually spends 500k a year in scholarships for wiminz.

mircea_popescu: buildiong a wall, what diff does it make. just as long as they die in 6 to 9 months.

mircea_popescu: but there is in fact an externality here. either "you" can go only some places, and "he" can go only some places ; or else "you" can go anywhere, but he can't. there isn't a way where everyone can go anywhere. ☟︎

mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo maybe not so tragic. the debate's all the more heated for lack of a means to quench it :D

mircea_popescu: would be epic if he won and it became fashionable and so every faggot with a "fashion sense" in california ended up wearing the toup.

mircea_popescu: not so. i actually am one, they don't think i'm a genius. trump .... isn't, let's put it mildly.

mircea_popescu: rarely has there been a more truthfully representative politician seen in any democratic race. worldwide, historically.

mircea_popescu: Bugpowder in honesty, he seems a lot more adequate to the spirit, needs and aspirations of the place than anyone else since, perhaps, kennedy. he is EXACTLY the "fake it" bullshitter americans have become. and his "figures" are exactly the "engagement numbers" of "online businesses".

mircea_popescu: well where are you gonna find a warlord.

mircea_popescu: this is such a bad plan...

mircea_popescu: that he doesn't have clinton's alleged advaqntages (to quote the baffler derp, "hyper prepared") is such a large advantage nothing ELSE the woman can do matters.

mircea_popescu: "o no guise, we were all in on it, it's been all a farce all along!1111!"

mircea_popescu: gernika designated being the key word here. like you know, elaine's moment when she realises that if she claims her rapist is her boyfriend, she's no longer the office skank but just a woman in love.

mircea_popescu: i don't think anyone's disputing the average college graduate is useless to everyone and a burden to himself.

mircea_popescu: Bugpowder see, that's the problem : if the aspie 14% ended up in south western version of auschwitz, with 3% survival rates, ~nobody with a us passport would as much as raise an eyebrow.

mircea_popescu: bucket and trowel in hand, on a steady diet of worm castles.

mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo imagine, if all the various "intellectual leaders" on the basis of the accomplishment of having been so epithet'd by the "opinion formers" of the atlantic & gawker end up having to work 12 hours a day building a wall in arizona.

mircea_popescu: yeah. but that doesn't change the fact the ~only intellectual in the entire north of the continent is that old jew talking to himself in a room. ☟︎

mircea_popescu: dude's about ten times more likely to win and send her to a work camp.

mircea_popescu: i guess if we had a bitbet this'd have gone pretty high huh.

mircea_popescu: sooo... clinton's trove of emails actually proves the us & nato deliberately destroyed lybia. you still think she's got a chance alf ? ☟︎

mircea_popescu: there isn't going to be a us academia to pay you a pension, keep that in mind.

mircea_popescu: they're closer to hens, chirping to each other to stroke a mutual feeling of safety predicated on nothing in particular ; than to people describing what they intend to do and how they intend to do it.

mircea_popescu: this means :1. illiterate and 2. mentally dim. i'm not sure 2 can be understood by anyone who has never interacted with the subhuman population of the 3rd world, but it is this bizarre situation where speech does not serve as a condensed version of the future.

mircea_popescu: BUT! you have to also appreciate that while the building was well carpeted and it hosts an estimated 10k cowsies / day for a 1-200k total, nevertheless these are argentines.

mircea_popescu: well it's a special inbox

mircea_popescu: but yes, /me has routinely answered with "3x is not a bitcoin address, fix your implementation". ever since multisig, actually.

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-21#1486413 << also. of course, "address starts with 3" is a prime target for chopping block. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: and it's not entirely a "black guerilla family brings bricks of heroin home" operation

mircea_popescu: ie, someone with a vested interest in the obsolete notion that what the army "authorises" has any sway on battlefield

mircea_popescu: mats seems more like a desperate imperial attempt to retain relevancy.

mircea_popescu: in general, all prb soft forks will be unwound, at such a time as judged most inconvenient to non-tmsr participants.

mircea_popescu: much like the us police, for that matter. lafond has the whole story of "police is useless in a defensive role, which is ironic"

mircea_popescu: but yes, you're right, us army has more and more moved towards a "thin shit line" stance.

mircea_popescu: "we're here digging a hole to china"

mircea_popescu: ascii_deadfiber certainly a majority of rounds fired tho