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10:01 billymg $ticker btc usd
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11:47 billymg http://logs.bitdash.io/pest/2024-02-13#1032163 << was fun to watch
11:47 bitbot Logged on 2024-02-13 14:57:29 signpost: subj of threats, I watched the putin interview yest.
11:47 busybot Current BTC price in USD: $52354.47
11:47 billymg ah, that knocked it loose
11:55 billymg apparently this is old news but don't see it in the logs, el salvador charging travelers from india and africa $1000 "airport improvement fee"
12:00 asciilifeform billymg: reminiscent of the (long gone, but existed when asciilifeform went) 'us passport tax' of argentina
12:01 asciilifeform in the latter case, at least knew why (it was a fuckyou in re us refusal to sign a visa-free treaty with subj)
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12:53 signpost lol!
12:54 * signpost planning to visit el salvador sometime, maybe this year
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13:58 asciilifeform signpost: know somebody there ?
13:58 mod6 yeah, it was like $100 or some dumb thing
13:59 signpost nope, no contacts there
13:59 asciilifeform signpost: ah, so why to go ?
14:00 signpost bukele seems to be doing a good job either of propagandizing el salvador as a budding singapore, actually doing it, or both.
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14:00 signpost want to see what's going on in person.
14:00 * asciilifeform wonders how many m^2 of salvador 1btc buys
14:01 asciilifeform iirc it's purpurtedly a kind of slovenia in re btc
14:03 signpost yep, lots of preferential treatment announced for btc holders and techbros
14:03 asciilifeform signpost: if you go there, plz do post
14:03 signpost mhm shall report if/when
14:03 * asciilifeform not been there, and not knows anyone who has
14:04 signpost billymg: you made it there yet? I don't recall.
14:04 * asciilifeform also curious re what's in slovenia, has difficulty picturing untaxed-btc zone somehow surviving in the middle of darkest eureich
14:06 signpost we actually get a proper halving out of btc again and I'm likely to shop in earnest for an exit
14:06 signpost looking good so far
14:07 * signpost has kid now, will otherwise someday ask what was wrong with my head, and what will I say.
14:07 asciilifeform inshallah
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14:34 * awt_akris went
14:34 awt_akris met with a guy helping out with immigration
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15:48 signpost awt how'd you find it?
15:53 discord_bridge (awtho) Came across my twitter feed.
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16:11 billymg http://logs.bitdash.io/pest/2024-02-15#1032247 << i recently found out singapore is based as hell, afaik the most expensive citizenship for sale in the world. zero tolerance for niggers, including, based on the bar they set for residency, yours truly
16:11 bitbot Logged on 2024-02-15 14:00:16 signpost: bukele seems to be doing a good job either of propagandizing el salvador as a budding singapore, actually doing it, or both.
16:12 signpost yup, isn't it something like a 20mil investment to get into singapore?
16:12 billymg so if el salvador ends up becoming the central american version of that, would be great to get in on the ground floor
16:12 * signpost unwashed nignog by that standard also
16:14 billymg signpost: yeah, something like that, but not just "here's the 20 mil", it's gotta be in the form of a company that employs x number of people, etc.
16:14 billymg https://www.henleyglobal.com/residence-investment/singapore
16:15 billymg ah, i guess there is a more direct, just the investment option as well
16:17 billymg signpost: not been to el salvador yet myself but i am following with interest
16:19 billymg costa rica in the past year has had a significant uptick in narco crime and violence. also keeping an eye on that and how the government here responds
16:20 billymg people and politicians here apparently point to el salvador and call for cr to do the same
16:20 asciilifeform if you've 20e6$ to burn on a banana passport, yer prolly fine even in the darkest heart of the reich
16:21 * signpost fully supportive of basedreich stacking thugs like sardines for life.
16:22 signpost CR was friendly but iirc doesn't have enough boots and guns to hold their territory if there were a serious problem.
16:24 signpost unclear what's ahead for latin america as a whole if things really churn.
16:24 asciilifeform signpost: even if you posit that no one wants the territory (afaik there aint anyffin valuable there), when reich kaput, erryone there will be living on bananas, in straw huts, at some pt
16:24 signpost this, and ass-up for whomever wants the resources
16:25 signpost venezuela and essequibo probably foreshadows.
16:26 signpost iirc brazil also going hardline commie.
16:28 asciilifeform ww3 aside, iirc cr not even comes close to the 'live like king on what'd be catfood pension in usa' line
16:28 asciilifeform so asciilifeform not knows what is the appeal
16:29 asciilifeform if yer in cr, salvador, panama, etc. and usg has 'questions' for you, you're packaged in a crate and shipped on 1st flight next morning, for instance
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16:29 signpost I mean, if abbott makes good on his grunts in re: abolishment of property tax I might have to ride TX into the dirt on principle.
16:30 asciilifeform what did he propose to tax instead ?
16:30 signpost existing business income tax (franchise tax) is booming
16:30 asciilifeform a
16:32 * signpost shelved the new hampshire idea after spending some time there.
16:34 signpost does not seem to me that the small number of libertarians who moved there are making a significant impact compared to the cucks coming from massachusetts and other surrounding shitholes.
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16:34 billymg http://logs.bitdash.io/pest/2024-02-15#1032286 << if the reich weakens and has to cede territory (in the abstract sense, such as political relations that allow for crate shipping of persons of interest), what do they give up first? cr, el salvador, and tx? or virginia
16:34 bitbot Logged on 2024-02-15 16:29:19 asciilifeform[jonsykkel|signpost|billymg]: if yer in cr, salvador, panama, etc. and usg has 'questions' for you, you're packaged in a crate and shipped on 1st flight next morning, for instance
16:35 billymg so my thinking is to be in one of the spots they write off sooner rather than later
16:35 signpost I just don't think I'm that important, really.
16:35 billymg that too
16:35 billymg lol
16:37 signpost more about as you said, making an early bet on a rising singapore, if that actually happens.
16:38 asciilifeform iirc sg imports 100% of errything, incl. mains current
16:38 billymg http://logs.bitdash.io/pest/2024-02-15#1032292 << appreciate this assessment, can cross it off the list
16:38 bitbot Logged on 2024-02-15 16:34:16 signpost: does not seem to me that the small number of libertarians who moved there are making a significant impact compared to the cucks coming from massachusetts and other surrounding shitholes.
16:38 asciilifeform i.e. only exists as a bureucratic artifact
16:39 * billymg is curious how things are in uruguay, maybe BingoBoingo will chime in again someday
16:40 signpost billymg: overpopulated with wiggers too, all of new england.
16:41 billymg signpost: after spending some time recently with my family (all hopelessly lobotomized liberals) i've realized that the most important thing for me is to simply not be around them
16:42 billymg as asciilifeform always points out, reich can get at you anywhere in the world, so would rather just be in a place with fewer crazy people
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16:42 signpost it's like canada; everywhere outside the major cities is comprised of the remnant losers who couldn't get in, and the cities are on their way on the portland/san-francisco arc.
16:42 signpost yep
16:43 * signpost blessed with relatives that have some amount of sanity, but most have fucked off to these or those woods.
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18:51 asciilifeform billymg: relocation arguably a 'scylla and charybdis' situation, with 'crazy lobotomized bonsaipeople' on 1 side and 'can't buy an m3 screw, not even speaking of roquefort...' on other
18:53 asciilifeform (before laughing at 'roquefort', recall that ~erryone had sumthing they like that dungrow in bananistans. for mp, it was tall chix, rather than m3 screws, say)
18:59 asciilifeform http://logs.bitdash.io/pest/2024-02-15#1032310 << part of the us insanity is that the relatively-sane can't (and afaik not even try) to agree on which woods to fuck off to
18:59 bitbot Logged on 2024-02-15 16:43:29 signpost: blessed with relatives that have some amount of sanity, but most have fucked off to these or those woods.
19:00 asciilifeform 'won't hang together, so hang separately'(tm)(r)(c)
19:01 asciilifeform http://logs.bitdash.io/pest/2024-02-15#1032307 << 'get' most often not means 'noriega', but rather 'they set 1 bit in a db and nao if you wanna go somewhere, gotta walk or swim, and yer bank accts == 0'
19:01 bitbot Logged on 2024-02-15 16:42:28 billymg: as asciilifeform always points out, reich can get at you anywhere in the world, so would rather just be in a place with fewer crazy people
19:02 asciilifeform fwiw.
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21:52 asciilifeform meanwhile, in misc. lulz.
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