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mircea_popescu: lmao til alecsandri (romanian poet) hated pushkin also!
mircea_popescu: much like "corruption". when derps destroy ro nuclear agency, it's fine. when derps organize booing of hilary's podium, OMAYGERD CORRUPT OFFICIALS
mircea_popescu: how exactly do they expect to not be massacred like the jews, when they behave exactly like the massacred jews ?
mircea_popescu: note the deeply pernicious nature of fiat pretenders. they'll yield, BUT ONLY TO ANOTHER ONE.
mircea_popescu: "buy enough land - get your own autonomous oblast" would be a decent deal.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the deal'd only be interesting if it came with renounciation of ru sovereignity claims.
mircea_popescu: so what, take 14k usd, go to eritrea, buy 700 women and 700 donkeys ?
mircea_popescu: ahahaha "grow open field strawberries. initial investment 1mn rubles"
mircea_popescu: 05.07.2016 Подано более двух тысяч заявок на получение «дальневосточного гектара» << lol.
mircea_popescu: it is written in teh torah, "you gotta interface with the locals."
mircea_popescu: also, a hectare ? wtf is that. we're talking by the dc, 10kmsq.
mircea_popescu: in general "get free land" sorta deal is you know, a jew-targetted thing. also how china started its rise.
mircea_popescu: i want to be a ru citizen just about as much as i want to be an us citizen.
mircea_popescu: it was an utter shock, they're so cheap and effectual i fully expected EVERY shoreline EVERYWHERE is protected by them
mircea_popescu: my #1 wonderment leaving the country, incidentally, was that ~nobody uses these.
mircea_popescu: dun seem washington has much into all of this, does it ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform anyway, the summa of the thing being that they (stupidly) decided to give the feds ten mile square ; the northerners wanted it in a big city, the slave interest down south. eventuyally hamilton managed to trade the south undertaking a share of the northern foreign debt in exchange for putting the capital down by virgina.
mircea_popescu: one pennsylvania mutiny each decade'd have kept the cancer in check.
mircea_popescu: ie, the original idea was much more a la tmsr than a la usg.
mircea_popescu: early us history is deeply against everything the us ended up.
mircea_popescu: i suspect so did the colonists. "make it shitty so nobody wants to be there"
mircea_popescu: nah, he'd be friends with bahamas. "oh look, clever guy ALSO built capital in middle of swamp"
mircea_popescu: nah. he wouldn't understand how carbon fiber catamaran "warships" work.
mircea_popescu: lucky him he didn't live these days, what a fine hitler icon they could have cut out of his hide.
mircea_popescu: the insanity of going to war in something mom croched for you however.... the mind boggles.
mircea_popescu: you know, that'd be pretty lulzy if that's how it went down.
mircea_popescu: but no, how'd ground to frame short it ? carbon fibre's a dielectric
mircea_popescu: anyway. this entire idiocy started with the triton in the late 90s. british engineering.
mircea_popescu: maybe next they build a cherry bomb shaped aircraft carrier. complete with the fuse.
mircea_popescu: basically, ustards came up with this genius idea of "build warship on form of amateur raft", everyone's copying it now.
mircea_popescu: iercer trimaran hull from, constructed exclusively of infused vinylester carbon fibre cored sandwich materials for all structural elements, with external "stealth" geometry and features intended to reduce detection. The KRI Klewang (625) caught fire because of an electrical short-circuit in the engine room during a maintenance period on September 28, 2012 and was a total loss."
mircea_popescu: "First launched on 31 August 2012 at Bali Strait, 63M Carbon Fibre Composite Trimaran Fast Missile Boat (Indonesian: Kapal Cepat Rudal [KCR]) named KRI Klewang (625) - a traditional Indonesian single edge sword, was the first stealth trimaran of the Indonesian Navy built by North Sea Boats at Banyuwangi, East Java, Indonesia. This ship combined a number of existing advance technologies into a single, unique platform; a wave-p
mircea_popescu: well, all i know on the topic is that "krypton" is a superman thing
mircea_popescu: i dunno. if a bunch of blondies decide to inspect the abandoned house in the middle of the night, what usually happens to them ?
mircea_popescu: if you find the time to read the log, the whole turkey dollars thing's discussed periodically. even recently re the linkedin "billion" sale.
mircea_popescu: covertress a) it's not actual money and b) a dying empire bleeds money. they spent some on the taliban, too.
mircea_popescu: mats i recall the last time i was in a roomfull of engineers who decided they needed concrete but didn't know how to pour it. we were about seven, playing on riverside.
mircea_popescu: so how long have you been doing the "being excited online" + "going to conventions" bit ?
mircea_popescu: fact is... you're now fucked. it's not trivial to explain to restaurant manager why abstract 4 dimensional figures can not be built down the street.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the situation here is that you're a restaurant manager doing ok, and one day a guy walks in and convinces you to go into business to open your own chain of restaurants built inside tessaract buildings.
mircea_popescu: covertress well, your attitude's lovely and all, but unfortunately a) you've bit on something you can't actually swallow and b) i see no direct way to explain this to you in such a way it'd make sense, owing to your complete lack of even vaguely related experience. what'd i build on ?
mircea_popescu: ok, so you've been out of it 15 years doing what, raising a coupla kids ? what were you doing before that ?
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller yeah, it'll take it the first step once they actually hunt something.
mircea_popescu: covertress noob founder in the sense you've not founded anything else before ?
mircea_popescu: covertress how familiar are you with the technical matters involved ?
mircea_popescu: but in point of fact constitutes an absolute bar to ever getting there.
mircea_popescu: but when it does, the peasants (ie, same azns) are quite distraught to discover that what they did with the swindler not only DIDN'T get them any closer to their intended destination,
mircea_popescu: this swindle is supposed to work in the sense that corriere della sera (ie, trilema) doesn't make it to castellamare in shitlandia.
mircea_popescu: unscrupulous swindler (ie, usg) promises the latter that he's representative of the former, meanwhile he doesn't even have film in the "camera".
mircea_popescu: the peasants (ie, here, azns) aim to go to you know, THAT place.
mircea_popescu: rome (ie, TMSR) is a famous center of culture and shining lights. because it is, but because of me not because of hussein bahamas.