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assbot: Logged on 20-08-2015 00:37:58; mircea_popescu: lots of things now the height of fashion in the us were invented by west
a-h jewz.
BingoBoingo: Last week on KMOX Illinois DepAg was talking about
a fall of 15% over last year's crop, but shit looks to have started dying really fast
mircea_popescu: lots of things now the height of fashion in the us were invented by west
a-h jewz.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: trinque you know, the austro-hungarians had much better call to think of their alcatuire as "
a singular thing"
trinque: my perspective came from thinking of the country as
a singular thing.
trinque: mircea_popescu | texans would prolly ally with the invader if the invader bitchslaped california harsly enough << this is
a fair point, and drives home all the rest.
mircea_popescu: fucking comedic that thing, should have
a surrealist film made about it
mircea_popescu: speaking of which, has ever existed
a worse failure than the GSh-6-30
mircea_popescu: otherwise what, "bravery to me is X" "oh, you mean pissing ? because X pissed at
a certain point in time!"
mircea_popescu: what am i, an engineer now ?
a scientist ? wtf is this pious fraud bs.
mircea_popescu: for
a while there you couldf even fuck one, for the asking.
mircea_popescu: you can't build yourself
a rich house as
a fiftene year old stealing from your father and fencing the stuff.
mircea_popescu: i'm sure they were all spies sent by stalin himself to lure the enemy into
a false sense of confidence.
mircea_popescu: what, "i'm
a boy from tenesee here to die for some fat bitch's right to marry her dog" ?
☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "usian" is
a population. like the argentine cattle. not
a nation.
mircea_popescu: so, walrus is fucking
a penguin. and one of those seagulls goes in front of it and exhibits itself for sexual use.
mircea_popescu: <trinque>and I would expect
a military dictatorship period directly following the fall of usg << IF you can find
a certain corporal in the army that will get badly defeated and who resents the coupla decades of peace which consist mostly of american teenagers being used as public toilets from rashapur to ankara, then yes, maybe, dictatorship.
mircea_popescu: what do you think
a military is, some sort of
a country club ? it exists to obey orders. the orders atm are on the line of "scoring officers' sensitivity to inane nontopics"
mircea_popescu: <trinque>if there is not
a single man inside the us military who can figure out something to do with even fragments of the thing, wtf? << you need to stop being racis.
mircea_popescu: <mats>militaries require competent leadership. when i say existential threat, i do not mean ISIS will march on DC << it doesn't want or need to march in dc. all it conceivably might want is to pull
a rotherham over at vassar.
mircea_popescu: <trinque>am I wrong in understanding that there is still
a considerable Russian military? << you are wrong in imagining there's any sort of continuity. present day russian military shares nothing at all with the one that ended, and is almost entirely putin's making.
mircea_popescu: <trinque>I would really like to understand this logic by which the entire US military vanishes << the "entrie us military" long ago vanished. it now consists of boys playing video games and girls playing the tomboy. that is not an army, it's
a psycho patient support group.
mircea_popescu: <trinque>we'll lose ground but there's
a vast difference there << nobody has any incentive whatsoever to be "american". it's not even vaguely an identity. you might wish to be texan, maybe, liek some soviets wished to be russian. but otherwiose, being an iowan or
a californian or
a wisconsinian or generally an american is the epitome of fair weather friends : for as long as it pays to do so and no longer.
mircea_popescu: <mats>ISIS is an existential threat at this point in time << he has
a point. isis would be the first state actually outside of us policy since soviet russia.
mircea_popescu: it makes for
a decent contrast, which i guess is what all humor comes from.
mircea_popescu: i feel kinda scammed, those !up s go for like
a bitcoin each iirc.
bitcoinfailed: and can you please get yourself
a proper tailor? those bag suits look aweful.
ascii_field: guess they decided that
a very low resistor is safer than
a dead short
punkman: "Truth is, this service never quite delivered on their promise. When my last two startups closed shop, it took shutdownify over 3 days to process the first one, and the second was still
a full two days to get up and running. At that point I could have just put together
a page myself. It didn't help that they rewrote their tech stack from Ruby to Node even as they were trying to find customers. "
ascii_field: combinatorial logic appears to have
a large effect on
mircea_popescu: give me
a cato any day, keep all your cesars and pompeys.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field well,
a man can't really ask (nor should really ask) for more than to be on the wrong side of the major battles of his time.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: they'll frame it as 'just like mining!' too. 'why did you expect to be able to use 2009 pc for
a node!111 you wouldn't try to cpu-mine,' aha
ascii_field: because screwed around with 'what if bitcoind circuit' for
a spell
mircea_popescu: the time i consider changing off rsa is
a time after i've taken
a piss on the ruins of the white house.
mircea_popescu: well... in the sense that finding
a girlfriend is cheaper than building
a submarine in the garage, at any rate.
assbot: Logged on 18-08-2015 18:45:59; ascii_field: the canonical: 'one day,
a bullet hit stierlitz in the head. "
a hollow-point, must be!", thought stierlitz, scatter-brained'
ascii_field:
a bullet's job is not to make mr kennedy's brain work better
ascii_field: was there any genuine doubt in any genuine head that the mega-blox was
a bullet for bitcoin ?
mircea_popescu: and back to the blocks issue : i've had
a number of tests on various platforms. it would seem that time to verify blocks does not in fact scale liniarly with the block size.
ascii_field: ('spam like
a pro in 21 dayz', 'make money in your sleep')
ascii_field: in usa, higher education is more or less
a straight racket
mircea_popescu: incidentally, /me does not belive "for profit" education can be
a thing. you can have for-profit amorous relaitons, something the us claims to be down on. you can't have for-profit education. it is
a fundamentally unprofitable activity.
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> and therefore have been marked for gassing. <<< the other thing is, they had been doing fraud on
a scale not seen since the credit unions.
phf: ru did quietly close
a handful of ngos, usaid being the largest of them.
ascii_field is not orlov and isn't paid by ru; hell, they won't even give him
a passport
assbot: Logged on 19-08-2015 19:50:57; trinque: china for example builds its *first* aircraft carrier, and people talk about the chinese being
a military threat
trinque: china for example builds its *first* aircraft carrier, and people talk about the chinese being
a military threat
☟︎ chetty: it just turns into this gian finger pointing thing, and in fact I dont think we have
a proper clue where those fingers should be pointed.
trinque: how much is
a stockpile of nuclear weapons worth?
ascii_field: chetty: everyone else who is commonly accused, has
a perfectly valid self-defense against anglos defense
trinque: chetty: that misses my point; I'm contradicting the claim that it doesn't still have
a massive, throbbing cock with which to do so
chetty: <trinque> it takes no self-hate on my part to observe that the us raped and murdered throughout the 20th c// please to point to
a first world country that didnt?
ascii_field: the excuse of 'if we hadn't raped this chick, somebody else would have' is
a nonstarter
trinque: and to do otherwise would itself be
a sort of exceptionalism
funkenstein_: in fact this forum is
a great example of his open source intelligence ideas
ascii_field: trinque: at
a certain point, there is
a phase transition. where life is no longer about u.s. army's 'access to necessary resources to operate' but instead col. schmuckson's access to his mansion and cocaine
funkenstein_: you know just because we can put capital letters together doesn't mean they represent
a coherently motivated thing
trinque: and isn't USM quite
a bit more capable at this game?
trinque: and you were right, immediately
a target in that environment
trinque: when in history did
a vast military power not fragment into many pieces, and instead dissolve completely, leaving no trace?
trinque: and I would expect
a military dictatorship period directly following the fall of usg
funkenstein_: trinque, it has always been my assumption that such folks
a) have the gold b) move the drugs c) controls m0 presses
trinque: if there is not
a single man inside the us military who can figure out something to do with even fragments of the thing, wtf?
trinque: am I wrong in understanding that there is still
a considerable Russian military?
mats: we'll see how committed NATO is to fighting ISIS when PMCs fail to take Mosul and
a few F-16s get smoked