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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 20:14:58 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 20:13:01 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> i'm not certain why i oughta be excited about simple 'sound money', we had 5000+yrs of it
Wed Nov 09 20:07:16 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> i get to keep paying' rent.
Wed Nov 09 20:06:59 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> i dun get it
Wed Nov 09 20:06:55 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> what do i escape in this scenario ?
Wed Nov 09 20:06:34 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> as i understand it just makes so that the folks who borrowed $maxint and now dun have to pay any, can point & laugh.
Wed Nov 09 20:05:39 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> how does this help me if i borrowed 0 ?
Wed Nov 09 20:05:02 UTC 2016 <funkenstein_> i mean a real one, ALL debts not just the 1%'s
Wed Nov 09 20:03:10 UTC 2016 <funkenstein_> jubilee still 3 to 15 years away as i see it
Wed Nov 09 20:01:35 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> sleep, funkenstein_ . i promise to wake you up if usury ends, people grow third eyes, etc.
Wed Nov 09 19:59:24 UTC 2016 <funkenstein_> as long as people still willing to accept privately issued tokens in exchange for food, i see little change on the horizon
Wed Nov 09 19:58:29 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> unless i missed some major memo.
Wed Nov 09 19:53:21 UTC 2016 <funkenstein_> but seriously, if I tell you that the focus of my free will, my purpose and raison d'etre, is determined solely by another person's feelings, you would call me powerful?
Wed Nov 09 19:45:16 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> nah, those i live next to, they give ~0 fucks.
Wed Nov 09 19:42:48 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> and when i can get in the queue to drive bulldozer demolishing harvard, yale, mit.
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 19:38:53 UTC 2016 <funkenstein_> like Orwell's broken character claiming that "others suffering = i am powerful"
Wed Nov 09 19:38:00 UTC 2016 <funkenstein_> it's not the laughing i object to, it's the "taking pleasure" or somehow imagining that other's misfortune alone could mean something positive for me
Wed Nov 09 19:35:19 UTC 2016 <funkenstein_> i can dig seeking the comedy of others' failures, also even seeking learning something from others' failures