mircea_popescu: fun fact : there was such a thing as "transylvania" in the old us ; attested for instance in the "transylvania purchase".

mircea_popescu: is there such a thing ?

mircea_popescu: i suppose in a sense i already DO make a ... hm...

mircea_popescu: i'd make a pretty decent concentration camp doctor.

mircea_popescu: actually i suppose one should be a darling and a) add VR headests to the girls and b) add lsd at the top.

mircea_popescu: and as he's hurling through the air, his doppler-effected voice can be heard going "now that's what i caaall a blooowjoooobbbb"

mircea_popescu: so moments later the boa spits it out, and the rabbit goes flying over a large arc quarter mile wide

mircea_popescu: eventually he finds some people willing to do it. so they put the little rabbit in a room with this eighteen foot monster of a snake

mircea_popescu: from a boa constrictor.

mircea_popescu: angora rabbit goes to brothel. he asks for a blowjob

mircea_popescu: the collecting of defectors, as a perceived phenomena, is imo best explained by the internal duality of the very defectors in question, fighting with their own demons.

mircea_popescu: my thinking is that this is a passive thing - the usg wasn't collecting them more than the sewer collects pearl necklaces.

mircea_popescu: and on the other hand, i don't admit that 'stealing people for the sake of stealing', whatever may mean, is either related to what we were discussing or a useful method to approach the subject matter we were discussing.

mircea_popescu: look - the blunders of usg post taliban beheading in 2001 are not more meaningful nor worthy of investigation in the direct sense than the movement of a salted snail. so i don't admit that whatever post 2001 example of behaviour or anecdotal poit of evidence may be used as part of a larger construction of ideas.

mircea_popescu: anyway, i feel dumber for having dug up into the unfunny pit of usg-ian unintentional comedy. was there a point to this excursion ?

mircea_popescu: ie, what if the black dude were a white blond girl claiming rape ?

mircea_popescu: incidentally, J.A. Parker's apology / trashing of the da should be mandatory reading for anyone on this "usg can do things in its own courts" tack.

mircea_popescu: A LOT MORE than 50k a year. right ?

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "operation merlin" was one of the countless usg ss blunders cca 1998 ; it actually did something cca 2001 ; described in a 2010 book, for which some black dude was sentenced to jail in 2015.

mircea_popescu: dude. a) 2015 ; b) things, not own asshole ; c) you pay 60k a year you get exactly what you paid for, lmao.

mircea_popescu: someone who has even an inkling of a chance of getting within 1% of succeeding here, doesn't need your piddly "what barrista makes" income.

mircea_popescu: for a nuclear physicist risking his neck. fancy that!

mircea_popescu: among other incredibly lulzy points : the guy's salary was ~60k a year.

mircea_popescu: i don't even count this sort of shit, for all you know it's a movie trailer.

mircea_popescu: iirc that was a conviction neh ?

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform aha, how it usually works, the dudette then goes to the inept-woman-chorus and they wail for a while.

mircea_popescu: but the whole nonsense is wholly predicated on the inner self-representatons of an intellect divorced from reality for a long while.

mircea_popescu: "allowed to post on reddit all day for a spell" ?

mircea_popescu: now, i can appreciate you personally wish to look at things in this "management doesn't matter and doesn't exist, so no difference should be made between gasteropode and man", but this is really nonsense. there is such difference, and it's called a spine.

mircea_popescu: no, looky. if the case is that the knowledge vessel was a jwz, which is to say all juice no politics, then the truthful rendition of the situation is, that the knowledge in question was removed from its unstable situation, to a more sensible one. otherwise, if the vessel in question is a balanced construction, the attempts to "remove" run into the age old "nsa can't hold bitcoin and stay nsa" issue as discussed in the logs.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform understand that this image "emptied, cut loose" is entirely nonsensical. knowledge is not a substance to be filled with or emptied of.

mircea_popescu: anyway, to make that obscurity clearer : sentence structure is agent - verb - object - 2nd object. agent denies to x y. the agent = the INDIVIDUAL as a "us item", aspirationally ; the verb = denied ; the object = himself. "the "su item" as a projection of his own" is a third party, 2nd object.

mircea_popescu: ie, the INDIVIDUAL as a "us item", aspirationally ; denied the "su item" as a projection of his own, himself. ☟︎

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i believe it was really the italian thing ; except in a larger system composed of (individual-su space) vs (individual-us space)

mircea_popescu: value is merely an arbitrary, coincidental property of meaning. they stand in a relation similar to the relation the question "what;s the sun's value to us" stands with the question "what's the sun's meaning for us".

mircea_popescu: less opposition to buldozing an empty frame structure than a "our home".

mircea_popescu: you're stealing the thing you're stealing, not its meaning to some arbitrarily chosen party. cunt is cunt and stays cunt, even if currently in a bored, tedious marriage.

mircea_popescu: to imagine that a horse in the barn requires a man to steal, but the same horse out in the field "is not so strongly owned so even a toad could steal it" is nonsense.

mircea_popescu: something very close to what tmsr demonstrates on a daily basis when "hey, here's a hole, who wants to fuck it" gets a hot rod ramming it within the day.

mircea_popescu: 3. you BUY all the studios, take them apart, and reform a large alien studio out of the parts. this is the end. hollywood will no longer mean anything to anyone outside of what it means to you.

mircea_popescu: 3. you create a major alien studio out of shit from the spaceship. this reduces to either 1 or 2 ; generally the mob will fluctuate and undulate and try to fuzz you out, see which of the two reductions works best for them.

mircea_popescu: 2. you invest in all the studios, and let them manage it. this will coallesce into a situation where you're "loved" in the particular way the mob loves. let's call it the marc anthony situation, why the hell not. you'll die at their hands, eventually, somehow. that's their love.

mircea_popescu: 1. you kill anyone and everything that displeases you. this will coallesce the more competent cunts around you, and unite the idiots against you. let's call it the swift scenario, for you're creating a confederacy of dounces.

mircea_popescu: now in this situation, you have a number of possible avenues.

mircea_popescu: Well, that's patriotism, the girls in this example show "love of their ghetto" and that's the thing upon which socialist Romania was built, if you're curious - a structure otherwise borrowed from Carlist Romania. Totul pentru patrie!"

mircea_popescu: ested pressed shitboard nightstand. But indifferent to all these points, they play a role to support a theory : the theory that here too, in the assghetto of shit "we got fine stuff", and a John who, even if only four letters long, is still quite as great as any Mircea come from afar.

mircea_popescu: " So we understand each other : John is some poor and kinda stupid kid from some ghetto in some indistinct townlet. One day, Mircea the Bad comes there on whatever business, sits down in the bar with his two bitches curled up at his feet and drinks a rum or something. The girls from the ghetto, for love of their country (in our example, that sad ghetto) pick John up forcibly, sit him down at the table next to mine and curl

mircea_popescu: at least in the ru privatisation, the driver was personal appetite, egotism, a will to live. that's good, no matter what the losers say. fuck the losers with a flaming spiked club.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not even a matter of sons ; the usg has no sons, nor any vigor in the seed. it's a matter of desperation - everything americans don't buy, the chinese buy, take apart and move to china. ☟︎

mircea_popescu: meanwhile 2 obama, 2 bush, 2 clinton and a bush sr back, the share buybacks were 5% that.

mircea_popescu: (ah and in case anyone wonders where the money went ? M&A market. if you don't know what this is - it's when i buy your daughter to take her to shanghai.)

mircea_popescu: and it was a lovely decade, too.

mircea_popescu: and speaking of "fed policies" : the fed created a "bull market" that was really a paper bubble devoid of any economic substance whatsoever. guess who rode it to the very peak ?

mircea_popescu: soo, chinese govt unloaded half a trillion "western world and modern democracy" (WWMD) paper in 2015, including ~300bn us treasuries. that's about 1/6 of their total exposure to usg bonds.

mircea_popescu: the human skin, unbreached, is a fantastic barrier to all this ; but like everything else it requires irrigation to function.

mircea_popescu: anyway, the margin phenomena of the human sphere are platelet agglomeration on one end ; and aerobic necrosis on the other. the former makes a scab. the latter makes what fly maggots eat. which way the wound goes is decided by how much useful blood shows up per unit time.

mircea_popescu: but sure, over time it perfuses. just, have to maintain an active lifestyle and a catabolic metabolism for years on end.

mircea_popescu: ;;later tell funkenstein_ please send me a statement of accounts thanks.

mircea_popescu: anyway ; yes, fat isn't innervated nor particularly perfused, and the more distant the less connected. which is why really fat people CAN'T actually lose weight. how would they, it is closer to a burlap backpack than a tissue. ☟︎

mircea_popescu: Framedragger "modern democracy", that's what it is. a collective of wankers posturing as people.

mircea_popescu: certainly the "ssh census" will be a valuable qntra article which you're invited to write once done.

mircea_popescu: i just got spam with an... iso image attached. that's a new one o.O

mircea_popescu: oh and re the perennial discussion of progress and "what things cost" : i'd like a pound of costards, please.

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2015-11-29#1333639 an' http://qntra.net/2015/11/clinton-found-a-turkey/ werd! ☝︎

mircea_popescu: so we proceed to install tesseract ; which has obscure notation conventions and incredible inept github page / --help ; and which can only take ".tif" and it MUST NOT be ".tiff" and closes everything witgh a segmentation fault and finally after being catered to for ten mintues declares that "check_legal_image_size:Error:Only 1,2,4,5,6,8 bpp are supported:16" which holy shit omfg.

mircea_popescu: and we proceed to discover the wonders of the web! google produces a bevy of "ocr services". as follows : newocr.com "Error! Text can not be recognized." ; ocr.space (best!!!) "Error: All images / PDF pages gave error. None of the image / page was successfully converted. Please check the errors in result area." and in that "page area", "****** Result for Image/Page 1 ****** Error:"

mircea_popescu: shinohai not so much a necessity as an utility i think.