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mircea_popescu: "At one point, the police put a gigantic piece of construction equipment out to block Heemeyer's path, but the Killdozer just fucking made that shit its bitch, tossing it aside and nearly flipping it on its back like a cheap hooker in the process." lol guy has at least one fan
mircea_popescu: incidentally, i'm pretty impressed with the readership. seriously, 200k words over a week ? that's like five books.
mircea_popescu: ok, fine. hereby is announced a 1 BTC prize for the best fanfic published on the blog of someone with a gpg key deedbot knows about.
mircea_popescu: other than for that curl, i totally beat apple's watch by like 30 years.
mircea_popescu: you know, when i asked my mom if when you invent something, do you also explain how it'd be made ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform recall the fabled watch i invented as a 3yo ? iirc was in the log somwehre.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo if he could show his wee wee to people he wouldn't have the problem in the first place.
mircea_popescu: the physical world is capped for speed and counted for energy. which is why the race is always to the cheap.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the romans studied this problem extensively. no, it's not. triarius rarely wins.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform aha. which is why "terorrism", ie, blowing them up is the only way. in elliot terms, "they brought it upon themselves".
mircea_popescu: Framedragger and have your friend read the log, presuming it's not just AFTNM. who knows, .lt anarchists get teh point afore others.
mircea_popescu: so : stop looking where the hand points, start looking at the hand's sleeves.
mircea_popescu: note that much like the elections, the bribes themselves are a null value : yeah the average american is too fucked up in the head to bribe traffic cops. yet both in america and in india, the same % of gdp travels as bribes for traffic cops. except in india it is personal ; whereas the us derps JUST TAKE YOUR CASH.
mircea_popescu: what you';re stuck doing in those places is what happened to eg poor lawsky, and others : you are stuck proving to the tools that their state can't protect them. which is why the mexican cartels spent a while beheading "high ranking police officials".
mircea_popescu: the behaviour is universally called "corruption" in the state-owned press. because they loathe it. but whenever you close an economic circle with the tools of the state against or in spite of the state, you win. which is why i always bribe trafic cops, and don't even live in places where people generally don't.
mircea_popescu: therefore actual anarchism, in the sense of "anti-statism" is exactly not what you do (ie, act in the direction and on the rails the state provides to you for its own purposes), but exactly the opposite : insulate the instruments from the alleged power center.
mircea_popescu: n and hang the lizards by their guts one day. which they know - from bitter experience, this has happened before.
mircea_popescu: what the state always tries is to leverage the impredictability of you to befear its instruments. hence all the charade of "elections". they're not there for YOU to do anything. they're there because a) you're the sort of idiots who would think they're doing something when in fact you're brownian-motioning around and b) this sickening display strikes fear in the hearts of the pretorian guard. who could otherwise easily walk i
mircea_popescu: and finally : your acts as described build towards that future. you HELPED the state gain larger control over the cops at that small preceinct. because now, whenever the state compes up with some dumb shit, the middle cop will be "we ain't gonna do this are we ?" and the older cop, thinking of you sad lot, will say "yeah we gotta, otherwise there'll be some ipad kids in here complaining".
mircea_popescu: moreover, the neighbours do not come to punch people in the street because they have work to do. raising a militia was expensive even in 1700. today it's very fucking expensive. hence the police, ie, standing militia.
mircea_popescu: the notion that "x precondition would make violence less relevant" is exactly equivalent to saying "if we had more pious women we'd have less need to defer to fucking"
mircea_popescu: the world is SO unfair, but often enough in practice experience unthinking beats naivite even should it be allied with all the wit in the world.
mircea_popescu: you want neither of these, presumably, so the right move'd have been to cheer the policeman, and insulate him from his boss/derpy kids. ie, what the drunken guy did.
mircea_popescu: the other is that it is the job of the police to distribute violence. if you don't let them beat up thieves, and cover them in red tape, they'll just get frustrated ; that frustration will keep boiling and boiling and eventually you'll end up with the us situation, which is to say no real cops (a cop is always and everywhere a BEAT cop! that's police work. naught else.) and a bunch of derps hoping to be SWAT. and again you ge
mircea_popescu: one that submission ~shouldn't~ be encouraged. so what if he didn't resist ? fuck him. if you make a difference by "did he resist", the life lesson you teach thieves (ie, everyone poor, which is how this goes) is that submission is a valuable trait. then you get unfucked women and usg-style government.
mircea_popescu: i mean good for you for standing up to things and so on ; but in general seems the effort was misplaced. not like they killed the guy. there are two important strands :
mircea_popescu: yet this kid fails at the fail! he can't even do the thing you're not supposed to be doing because "it's easy, you'll do it later, got better things to do now"
mircea_popescu:
http://log.mkj.lt/trilema/20160829/from:75/to:75#75 << no, literally, he has absolutely nothing to do with any academic anything whatsoever. back when i was going to [high]school it was considered a waste of your time, fit only for the marginally retarded, to spend your time tickling the tits instead of paying attention in class.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no no, he was all corrupt, some kid looking like he fucks ostriches said so in some rag.
mircea_popescu: apparently the most expensive thing in this world is a brain.
mircea_popescu: (also, amusingly enough, the judge wore a british garb, and the withdrawing delegate made a speech replete with angloisms. really, it is japan's purpose to "contribute to human welfare" ? as london defines it ? idiots.)
mircea_popescu: as to first, i don't think anyone can seriously argue that present day us has anything to do with the historical item that won ww2. as to second, now is flexible, 5 years,
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so japan is waking up to the realities of the current us posturers being wholly unrelated to truman, patton et all ?
mircea_popescu: Framedragger there's a mp-wp ancient script thing shinohai was massaging.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform trilema uses mysql, of course. but i'm thinking migrating wp to postgres may actually be a good idea.
mircea_popescu: let's call this a de-facto postgres-as-republic-data-exchange-interface rfc.
mircea_popescu: trinque i meant more as a philosophical point than necessarily in this implementation.
mircea_popescu: trinque you're defactoing postgress as data interface ?
mircea_popescu: but to the more general point, the system provides no incentives for acting sanely for any peculiar definition of sanity, and provides shocking, oversized downside for fucking up. this is exactly as it should be : sanity as an emergent behaviour out of defined limitations of the world. it is exactly opposite of how the empire tries to work, of course, and in the process turns everyone into a version of elliot.
mircea_popescu: and don't even fucking "oh i'll v them later". the whole point of v is to teach you how to code like a sane person.
mircea_popescu: the most important point : and if you make changes to it, V THEM
mircea_popescu: odds are he's gonna check in about an hour to vacation-ruining news. WHCH SHOULD BE A FUCKING LESSON TO ALL!!11
mircea_popescu: Framedragger ok, don't bother, i'll just re-redo the fucking references. and you'll have to re-redo them in the log itself also. but that'll be it.
mircea_popescu: god damned it. so really, aliasing won't fucking work here no matter what.
mircea_popescu: Framedragger does your url system follow the same structure as present log ?