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Thu Nov 10 14:58:59 UTC 2016 <funkenstein_> And how about that for a nice example of the enormity of Africa.. it takes a month and a half to cross the thing - by plane.
Thu Nov 10 14:58:07 UTC 2016 <funkenstein_> Interesting zimbabwe article, much could be applied anywhere. "Predatory state" sadly seems like a redundancy these days. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7g-niDevcU
Thu Nov 10 06:53:42 UTC 2016 <punkman> think I heard a couple of these antiques yesterday
Thu Nov 10 05:04:35 UTC 2016 <assbot> Zimbabwe now a predatory state - Nehanda Radio ... ( http://bit.ly/2elxNnm )
Wed Nov 09 20:21:17 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> d00ds would sit in a pit, and they would get food only if your friends/kin came and bought some (at double price) to throw in for you.
Wed Nov 09 20:19:57 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> you do not get out of a jail simply by tweaking some numbers in spreadshit.
Wed Nov 09 20:19:07 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> but then you go to the market and a stick of butter costs 100 million.
Wed Nov 09 20:18:07 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> i was there for the last big one. in .ua, '90s. had shoebox full of no-longer-money to play with as a boy.
Wed Nov 09 20:16:09 UTC 2016 <funkenstein_> a few guys issuing themselves fiatola is hardly a jubilee
Wed Nov 09 20:15:15 UTC 2016 <funkenstein_> no reasonable standards would call that a jubilee
Wed Nov 09 20:14:58 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> usa 2008-present had what was, by any reasonable standards, a jubilee, in re the mortgage forgiveness idiocy. i am not impressed with the results.
Wed Nov 09 20:13:51 UTC 2016 <funkenstein_> well you have a point, but it didn't come with the arbitrary private issuance thing
Wed Nov 09 20:06:41 UTC 2016 <funkenstein_> it helps you like escaping a prison might help a prisoner
Wed Nov 09 20:05:02 UTC 2016 <funkenstein_> i mean a real one, ALL debts not just the 1%'s
Wed Nov 09 20:01:59 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> might take a while...
Wed Nov 09 19:57:11 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> it is imho a perfectly valid technical observation.
Wed Nov 09 19:56:21 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> iirc you are thinking of the passage where o'bryen asks winston how to know that you have properly crushed a man
Wed Nov 09 19:41:34 UTC 2016 <funkenstein_> that's not a piano it's a turd
Wed Nov 09 19:41:18 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> 'if i can lift a piano, i am strong.' funkenstein_: 'no, it means you are WEAK!!!' -- whatcha smoking, d00d
Wed Nov 09 19:41:06 UTC 2016 <funkenstein_> seems such psyche can only develop when one has given up all hope of being a person, decided only to demonstrate the archetype of failure