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mircea_popescu: because
that's what worthless money wants, most of all :
to go back an' meet its maker.
mircea_popescu: the one
thing
the germans were clamoring for, interbellum, was "for a way
to give all
this useless paper back
to
the govt".
mircea_popescu: of course. but you have
to understand, lots of imaginary money sloshing around.
a111: Logged on 2015-03-06 03:29 mircea_popescu: making money is a purely ~political~ function. if you are among
the favoured elite of
the respublica veneta, you
then may invest in
the ships, and make a profit. if not, not.
mircea_popescu: i expect
they'll get paid ;
the pot lulz is not without financing.
a111: Logged on 2018-05-13 16:25 asciilifeform: you need a ~$500k (turkeydollar) plant,
to do it
the adult way. and i suspect
that
there are not 500k of
turkeydollar between
them atm.
mircea_popescu: it's fundamentally unsustainable, but hey, for while
the "headcount is only count
that matters" delusion holds, women wanna spawn.
mircea_popescu: rather. farm life is farm life, whadda ya want. waste effort on supporting
too many children, pray
the mongols don't come
to merv you out.
mircea_popescu: epically more evident in period russia, where choice before every country bumpkin/ciolovek actually had
to decide whether stay on farm or go join bandits. and, for
that matter,
the deep reason for
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-05-08#1811354 is exactly
that, german youth deserted
the old woman "state" en masse, joined "the bandits".
☝︎ mircea_popescu: understand, mom will make paper copies of rifles for kiddy for only just as long as
the soldiers pass in
the street. once
they're gone, once
the immediate, obvious stimulus ceases,
there's other
things
to do, so why don't you go make your bed.
mircea_popescu: but once
the specific environment changed, once
there isn't a cattle farming interest
to join, well... why keep up
the pretense.
mircea_popescu: lies breaking off family bonds
to come serve
them on hands and knees ; and churchgoing uppity "homely" (=ugly) women WANTED a bunch of retards
to
think "cowboy life is dangerous, dun
take guns
to
town, stay on farm with
the sow"
a111: Logged on 2018-05-13 16:14 asciilifeform:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-05-13#1812861 << observe how ~all~ farming in usa, was put under 'soft kolhoz' by fdr ( and at exactly same
time, and for same reasons, as in old su into 'proper' kolhoz) and nobody alive
today remembers any other kind of farming
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-05-13#1812937 << farming is NOT AMENABLE
to any other kind of farming.
the pretense
to "independent farmers" is how
the pantsuit chicks got
the less able men off
the cattle growing, you understand.
the notion of "independent farmer" is a hallucination exactly like
the notion of "successful starlet", sold by
the press of a commercial concern for a commercial interest. hollywood WANTED a bunch of gir
☝︎☟︎ a111: Logged on 2015-02-25 21:16 ascii_field:
their own young. Procreation slumped, infant abandonment and mortality soared. Lone females retreated
to isolated nesting boxes on penthouse levels. Other males, a group Calhoun
termed “the beautiful ones,” never sought sex and never fought—they just ate, slept, and groomed, wrapped in narcissistic introspection.'
BingoBoingo: lobbes: Well, what is an almost purely
tourist oriented economy? If it isn't a
type of aquarium...
lobbes: 40+ yr case study right
there in .uy huh?
BingoBoingo: And
there are few "people" (cerdos humanos) more complacent
than Uruguayos
mircea_popescu: certainly "beautiful ones" look better smoked
than drunk.
lobbes: Though, I
think mr p's "aquarium performance drug"
theory is spot on re: pot. Encourages general complacency with less "action"
than alcohol inspires.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> of course it is. understand
this :
the us is, for all intents and purposes, an aquarium. someone now and again drops some food pellets in,
the fishies inside are either depressed or part of
the pantsuit club of "how
to correctly display
the beauty of aquariums for
the benefit of
the aquarium feeder folk outside". << Uruguay is
the FUTURE!!!
mircea_popescu: but it's been months,
the cigars been piling up, eventually i
turned off
the supply... and well...
mircea_popescu: for
two decades i've been smoking, maybe once or
twice a week, or so.
lobbes: asciilifeform: I posed
the same "why not
take
tolerance break" q
to
them as well.
They claim "doesn't work" but I suspect
they simply didn't wait long enough
mircea_popescu: a very brave man once braved a horrible leg-cutting bear
trap
mircea_popescu: you know
the joke with
the very brave man, went
through
the horrible leg-cutting bear
trap ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, let me simplify
this for you : pot smokers are socialist. if
their brain worked, pot'd be more of a concern, but as it is...
mircea_popescu: but why bother
the idiots with knowledge, let
them "we've done
the experiment and forgot
to publish results" until
they fall over.
mircea_popescu: lobbes, pot has a number of misfortunate qualities
that interdict its large scale usage, which is why coca civilisation existed even, but not pot.
lobbes: I will note
that some of
the moar chronic (decade + of "smoke all day every day") $potusers I know can no longer get high off of
the leaves; need
the refined "dabs". >> (+asciilifeform) [16:31:35] which one of
these , pot-growing is closer
to , i'ma leave
to
the folx who know
mircea_popescu: but
there's a fucking reason
they're "concerned" about "russian spies" rather
than chinese spies. "those aren't spies, dummy,
those are
the peopel dropping food pellets in.
they should get a good show, put out!"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, sure. and
then again
there's
this pesky algae bloom of maga, and so on.
mircea_popescu: and
this is why it started with waitresses and janitors,
too.
their job is
to PRETEND like
they're servants so
the "upper" class can pretend it's upper.
mircea_popescu: in
this sense, pot is as much a performance drug as meth is for
trucker.
mircea_popescu: as far as
the zeks are concerned,
their performance is purely performative :
they're employed at
the
task of "being americans", so
the chinese can
take pictures of authentic.
mircea_popescu: of course it is. understand
this :
the us is, for all intents and purposes, an aquarium. someone now and again drops some food pellets in,
the fishies inside are either depressed or part of
the pantsuit club of "how
to correctly display
the beauty of aquariums for
the benefit of
the aquarium feeder folk outside".
mircea_popescu: turns out
that pot mandate has extended past "the service industry" ie
the white girl job (waitress) and
the black guy job ("custodian", amirite ?) into
the neet lands.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, do you recall, incidentally,
the
trilema piece discussing
the future ?
the bit about how "if meth is legal,
trucker MUST do meth, like it or not" ?
mircea_popescu: alcohol is sedative in quantity and uninhibitor in mini doses ; pot is sedative in mini doses and psychogenic in quantity. seems evidently
the better deal.
mircea_popescu: but
that said -- seems almost a certainty
that
the pothead is preferable
to
the drunk, from
the socialist nigger's perspective.
mircea_popescu: (there are no $1000 bottles, either, it's not
THAT bad. unless for purely historical reasons, "this is
the bottle marie antoinette vaginally inserted" etc)
mircea_popescu: note
that
there's no veuve cliquot securities, notwithstanding
that is a genuinely and on its own merits $50 bottle.
mircea_popescu: now FRUIT alcohol, ie,
the $200 bottle of wine,
THAT exists. but it's also so finnicky
to actually make as
to justify
the price.
mircea_popescu: the $200 bottle of whiskey is a product of
the EXACT same process as "i have a bf, why would i be your slave" patriotism.
there is no whiskey extant
today, ever existent in history or ever
to be devises worth more
than $2 a galon. for
the very simple and strictly unassailable reason
that grain alcohol is one step above wood alcohol, and approximately equal
to gasoline.
mircea_popescu: ie, we're still comparing mud pies
to
the washington monument.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, entirely improbable. alcohol ~is even
the reason america exists~, i'll point out ;
the driver for slave
trade was sugar cane not cotton, historically, and so on.
BingoBoingo: The regular exploding is more
the lithium ion batteries
BingoBoingo: Might be related
to
the strong non-polarity of stuff
they want as a focus. Could be part kitchen lab, could be
the butane has a favorable bias as a solvent.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Per pantsuitist media reports
the Hashoilis use butane.
a111: Logged on 2018-05-13 04:52 ben_vulpes: characteristics of arbitrarium, hydrocarbon refinement byproducts of no more
than your mom) are coming
to further smear
the soi-disant independent
thinkers into precisely
the same paste
the megastate produces everywhere
BingoBoingo: I would estimate when I left old country
that in my area ~25% of nicotine users had
transtioned
to
the vapes for
the majority of
their nicotine ingestion
a111: Logged on 2018-05-13 16:12 asciilifeform:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-05-13#1812854 << afaik
the use of distilled
thc 'tar' is comparatively unpopular, vs
the raw leaf. sorta like distilled nicotine has not replaced
traditional
tobacco.
a111: Logged on 2018-05-13 04:53 mircea_popescu: cryptography is not securitizable for
the same exact reason - before we came along NOT A SINGLE ANYTHING CARED.
a111: Logged on 2018-05-13 04:10 ben_vulpes: just, not at
the prices
the farmers want.
a111: Logged on 2018-05-13 04:05 ben_vulpes: anyways
this is a solvable problem and it's being solved by
the people i
told how
to solve it by refining
the otherwise excess product into shelf-stable distillates and offering lines of credit securitized by
the refined product at market prices just like any other asset
a111: Logged on 2018-05-13 04:22 mircea_popescu: understand
the difference between pork bellies and pot : pork bellies are a)
the most closely guarded part of pigs which b) are animals
that eat
the most closely guarded part of corn which c) leaves exist
to produce.
there's
three degrees of biomass reduction at work here, pork bellies are like
tuna, not like fucking zooplankton. which is why prime
tuna costs $$$ and pressed nori sheets are in
the discount bin at
the cheap st