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mircea_popescu: well, i meant in terms of industrial goods supply, not necessarily ic.
mircea_popescu: "what, am i goiung to defect now ? these muppets have it worse than we do". stanculescu in moscow, signing mig purchase, 1984.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform idiomatic, something between "kicking and screaming" and "on hands and knees"
mircea_popescu: !!rate l0de -1 yet another one of these, "uluitii pulii mele".
mircea_popescu: previous attempt of something like this was probably aafia siddiqui. it ~cost them afghanistan, in any practical sense.
mircea_popescu: the cookie didn't "walk in" the cookie jar. the cookie sat in the cookie jar where it belongs, and the future spankee stuck his hand in.
mircea_popescu: generally children end up spanked through this process where they fail to adjust their delusional ideas of the world fast enough.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: chinese fleet bombarding san francisco harbor >1% probable.
mircea_popescu: 19th centuries "wars" (in the don pacifico or agadir crisis sense) were started for less.
mircea_popescu: tw works just fine. say when you got the mtp thing, i suspect we'll have some t for you to do.
mircea_popescu: holy shit the patience i had back in 2016. and good fucking riddance.
mircea_popescu: "the republic with dead mp", as it were. i fail to see the difference between trotskite dewey, derais-ite cowley, or wtf was that lulzy irc channel...
mircea_popescu: those places are large, rich, landlocked countries with small shorelines. not poor new world/africa shitholes with more beach than real estate.
mircea_popescu: some places had success with nightly plowhing of beaches.
mircea_popescu: nfi what that has to do with anything, sandflies aren't bum driven
mircea_popescu: hey trinque, does !!register <newykey> and decripting otp work to replace old key with new ? or is it hand-cranked ?
mircea_popescu: from, eg, someone who had a fucking clue about medieval history AT ALL.
mircea_popescu: man, reading ye olde trilemas is such a pleasure. really amassed over the years.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform depending on his answer ima -1 "advertised the wrong thing".
mircea_popescu: also notwithstanding they can blow it out their ass, for all the diff it makes.
mircea_popescu: this is "attracted to intelligence", notwithstanding sophia has little to do with sepia.
mircea_popescu: some ustards read foucault in translation sometime last year, decided "they want to break free of socially-constructed sexual prison", "invented more sexualities"
mircea_popescu: "oh let's make more steel". not much of a plan, india makes most ofg the world's steel today and nobody cares.
mircea_popescu: eh, it's not so simple, su was doing pretty shittily economically.
mircea_popescu: younger scholars picked up on Brezhnev's growing popularity among certain members of the Russian population. These people remembered with fondness Brezhnev's alleviation of their or their parents' poverty, a relief made all the more striking by the extreme impoverishment experienced by many in the post-Soviet era. This reassessment may appear unwarranted to those who prize political liberty above marginal increments in materi
mircea_popescu: meanwhile in other lulz, here's anglopedia official sendoff on brejnev : "For Gorbachev and his adherents, Brezhnev came to personify everything that was wrong with the Soviet regime. The popularity of Gorbachev's program among Western specialists, and the interest generated by the new leader's dynamism after the boring stasis of Brezhnev's later years, precluded a reappraisal of Brezhnev's career until 2002, when a group of
mircea_popescu: "who can tell the difference" amirite, "a cell's a cell!"
mircea_popescu: the world has grown complex ; complex enough to support colonies of clostridium perfringens organizing parades to explain how "corpse is going fine / hemolysis normal in human bodies" etc.
mircea_popescu: aaanyway, kinda why they are corpse maggots, the "culture war" schmucktards : they ~only exist on corpses, the whole "code of conduct" / "trasnrights" / blabla is a necrosis epiphenomenon
mircea_popescu: w/e, they got "bought" by "investors" who are gonna lose every penny anyway, "might as well promote pantsuit ideals while office rent lasts"
mircea_popescu: "it's not the church that has to follow the world ; it's the world that has to follow the church" catholic dictum. romanians don't need the dictum. they live it.
mircea_popescu: romanian peasant proud continuator of rome, through the byzantium method. "we've been holding eyes closed to world for 2k years, because head does not follow reality, reality follows head!"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: rather, "the sort of brain that thinks this is acceptable, will think so many other idiocies acceptable, anything working out will be miracle rather than technology"
mircea_popescu: it's remarkable that hundred bucks peripheral predicts hundred thousand mission.
mircea_popescu: it works as shockingly fine predictor. hospital that didn't work had emergency room vitals "something3000", evidently run on java. hospital that did work had same item philips, evidently built for moon missions.