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mircea_popescu: i am (i guess?) proud
to say
that ro pron party included womenz
to my knowledge. wtf is
the point without,
they jack off on
the zacusci ?
mircea_popescu: this is some of
the dumbest shit i ever heard. why not have women ?
mircea_popescu: very "conservative" and "tolerant" people,
they call
themselves. it's
true, but
the problem is
the mud fits
this definition.
mircea_popescu: the wheel
turned as well as ever ... but
the car... it didn't move.
mircea_popescu: on one of
the
trips, i had slut stop car on side of river while i
took pics. fresh mud, inexperienced offroad driver, car got mudded.
mircea_popescu: can't meaningfully interact with a dog, let alone
their wife, let alone you know, chtulhu from
the depths of
the abyss.
mircea_popescu: this is
the problem of 2, and it is as deep as it gets. mentally isolated, solitary lonely lost dorks.
mircea_popescu: think of
this for a moment -- you, joe schmoe, write something. and someone comes and changes it. and you... HAVE NOTHING
TO SAY.
mircea_popescu: but i, and on multiple occasions, rewrote
the work of LIVING AUTHORS. with
their knowledge,
that never amounted
to more
than a piddly comment on
the
trilema article in question.
mircea_popescu: i deliberately
took
to employing a classical renaissance procedure, of re-writing.
that i rewrote a bunch of classical works and
the whole set of "Specialists" did not find
themselves under a life-or-death obligation
to drop everything
they were doing and pick up
this is one
thing
mircea_popescu: but
trilema is many
things, and among
them a very pointed exercise in
this discussion.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform very much so, yes, and especially of
this worst agraristan of all, "we're still wearing same clothes as roman colonists 2000 years ago and really speak
the same language and fuck you"
mircea_popescu: there's
two prongs
that drive
to "i understand empire france by reading balzac" : 1.
that balzac writes and 2.
that
the whole fucking world buys his foilletons.
mircea_popescu: anyway,
the problem isn't creators,
that romania has.
the problem is romania itself, as dumbly impermeable as fresh clay.
mircea_popescu: this is nonsense, romania was culturally powerful before
the us was discovered, in numerous instantiations.
mircea_popescu: including you know,
the "pls halp"
telegram,
the
turning of
that war,
the strange situation of ww1,
the
taking of odessa and march on rome, it's a complicated century.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform im
trying
to condense
together a period starting in 1850.
mircea_popescu: not altogether an un-understandable or for
that matter incorrect view. moreover, owing
to romania's incredible literary sterility as manifested as a long
term sustained inability
to meaningfully write
themselves...
mircea_popescu: "fucking scary batshing insane barbarians of
tiny size and austrian palaces. NIGGA WHAT?>!>!>!!!?"
mircea_popescu: anyway.
the russian secular view of romania is a sort of balanced chechenia-japan mix.
mircea_popescu: from
there on
they forged an alliance with petru groza, a sorta-maybe left (less so
than
today's xtian democrats for instance) with some popular appeal, pretended
to have won
the election on ~43% of
the vote,
then leaned on individual ministers
to play along,
then scoured
the prisons for credible ministalins. picked gheorghe gheorghiu dej and
that was mostly it,
they withdrew.
mircea_popescu: so
they cut a deal with mihai (an amusing episode in itself, mihai was very much krammer in
that negotiation episode, "we offer free lifetime cappucinos and,,," "ILL
TAKE IT!!!1", and made a govt with sanatescu.
mircea_popescu: as a result,
the victorious revolutionaries found
themselves in '45 in a dubious situation :
they had absolutely no political legitimacy. outside of mihai, who was mentally incompetent
then as now, but whose
two aunts were very willing
to sell out ; and sanatescu, who didn't
think much of
them (for cause),
they had ~no one in bucharest.
mircea_popescu: the reason specifically
they did
that had nothing
to do with hating
the romanians or
thinking
they suck (which
they didn't, on
the contrary, germans even had german
troops under romanian command) was
that general sanatescu gave out
the whole order of battle + everything else
to
the russians.
mircea_popescu: entirely ineptly led german war effort, very poorly supplied, resulted in an untenable military situation at
the don's bend : romanian forces were out of ammunition, out of fuel, out of anything.
the russians counterattacked
the
two sections held by romanians, and killed a quarter million people.
mircea_popescu: romania got meanwhile engaged on
the eastern front by general antonescu, who was literally as he describes himself, a military man being sucked into a power vacuum and
trying
to do best could be done.
mircea_popescu: the 2nd carol was very much a redditard. he quit
to pursue his whoring interests, leaving
the congenitally retarded mihai "on
the
throne".
this is
through and
through power vacuum. eventually he returned, and
tried
to be a sort of local mussolini,
tho it didn't so much catch.
mircea_popescu: the switch happened because
the original carol didn't have children. which happened because "marriage", dumbest fucking shit ever. but we digress.
mircea_popescu: romania had a great king, carol 1st. he was a scion of carol of hohenzollern and maria murat. romania also had
three shitty kings : ferdinand, carol 2 and mihai, in decreasing order of shittytude --
the first one was like a librarian, inept but disciplined.
these come off leopold and some portuguese infanta. MUCH worse material.
mircea_popescu: you really
think
there exista another romanian scholar ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform recall when post-war commies did
the whole "you gotta
take so and so people into "your" house because it's ours and we house people
there" ? what gnashing of
teeth, what anger it caused ?
mircea_popescu: (protein is ~4, sweets ~7, alcohol~9... so if you
take a serious alcohol-only meal prior maybe reach
the .5mj)
mircea_popescu: cheap way
to evaluate
this is dietary calories (the conversion is based on ... heat capacity of water again). so basically 1 calorie is 4.2j and
the caloric value of untrimmed carcass MAYBE 1 cal/gram.
thereby... 100kgs = 420kj.
davout: and how much energy does
the burning generate once water is gone?
mircea_popescu: thereby a lowball estimate of "heat
to dispose of one" is probably in excess of 30MJ per capita, as opposed
to
the 1MJ originally estimated above.
mircea_popescu: this disregards any losses due
to
the aerogel part, which insulates, and also any further losses from "boiling is not enough", as well as passive loss of heat into your apparatus etc.
mircea_popescu: the cost of ~mere vaporization~ of
the ~mere water~ in
the "water soaked aerogel" composing a shithead is ~280kJ PER KILOGRAM.
a111: Logged on 2017-11-08 14:47 BingoBoingo: Anyways,
to make up for outgassing without floating, you'd just have
to sink
the bags deeper... if you really wanted
to
mircea_popescu: from 5km
to 10km, loses 13% of volume, gains 2x force.
mircea_popescu: davout it's a log. you are looking at
the wrong side of
this.
davout: 1L of air gets
to .5L at 10m depth, experiences mucho less force pushing it up
mircea_popescu: yes, but do
teh math! doesn't get compressed ~enough~.
davout: the gas gets compressed,
therefore moves less water,
therefore less buoyant
mircea_popescu: the reason deep
things seem
to raise "slowly" is because friction, which increases faster
than
the buoyancy force does.
mircea_popescu: the deeper a mol of gas is,
the greater
the buoyant force experienced by
the flexible container holding it.
mircea_popescu: conceivable, yes. but much more distant. gotta load and
then unload, move on land, meh.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform did you omit adding
the heat
to WARM water
to vaporization ?
mircea_popescu: meanwhile! container ship burns ~200
tons per day doing 25 knots.
this means it covers 200 knots (go and return) out of 150
tons or so.
mircea_popescu: because why,
thermodynamics is your friend and suddenly corpse isn't ~= water soaked aerogel ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform understand,
the per-kg energetic cost of incineration is > 1MJ.
this means 100
tons cost you over 100 GJ, or in fuel
terms about a
ton of gasoline. you can't be spending 1% by mass ffs.
mircea_popescu: there is no such
thing as "cheap mains current". it's expensive universally.
mircea_popescu: the correct move is
to
take
the dreamers from
the section of earth inhabited (land)
to
the section of land uninhabited (sea) with a minimum of dirt and contamination produced.
BingoBoingo: Yeah, bone meal's
this
thing used sparingly for
tomatoes
to prevent blossom end rot. Specialty stuff for picky plants. Otherwise it's just more salt.
mircea_popescu: back in ro i used ash fertilizer, it was de-boned prior
to packing.