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asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: in re ye olde 'paladin' co , found a kind of bio of the late owner , apparently very frustrated vietnam war d00d .
BingoBoingo: Competing Argentine and Brasilero intervention resolved that domestic dispute. Then everyone got together and nearly genocided Paraguay as a bonding exercise.
BingoBoingo: http://bingology.net/2019/09/26/weighing-real-estate-in-montevideo-from-an-acquisitive-perspective/ << "Also transit times between Cerrito de la Victoria and Ciudad Vieja were probably shorter during the 19th century when the government of Uruguay under General Oribe in Cerrito de la Victoria held the other government of Uruguay lead by General Riveria in the old city under seige for 8 years."
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Historically the did do for ego reasons like Bush in Iraq II
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: for what argentards to invade uy ? to steal the pot-flavoured empanadas ??
BingoBoingo: Note that Brasil is treaty obligated to do the quashing of actual Argentine invasions of Uruguay.
asciilifeform: ( recall, he had 1 of those mysteriously-incombustible passports that lay , Officially, on his corpse when they napalmed the house he was in )
BingoBoingo: Consider the local Army's primary defense purpose is armed bridge standoff against Argetine forces during Peronist times, and... seems to explain why it
asciilifeform: made temporarily famous by that black policeman fella who 'postal' coupla yrs ago.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: 4-5 k $ in gringolandia typically.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Well barret prices are why the local ministry of defense buys arms for that caliber made in Uruguay
asciilifeform: if sudden infestation of elephants (or ww1 tanks) -- folx well-equipped!111
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: 'barrett' . (btw moar hits for ~this~ barrett than for the other barrett in ~all searchtrons, lol)
BingoBoingo: There's a shop here that produces a single shot .50 BMG bolt action for the local armed forces, because Ministry of Defense doesn't want to pay the tarrifs
asciilifeform: lotsa wasted joules in that fireball. the powder wants a barrel to do its thing in.
asciilifeform: similar problem with 1990 ru police favourite, the 'short kalash'
BingoBoingo: Leads to http://btcbase.org/log/2014-06-04#702645 ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2014-06-04 17:41 mircea_popescu: ;;google Desert Eagle which is a .5 hand cannon designed for shooting the idiots that made this mess, gold plated
asciilifeform recalls a great mircea_popescu thrd about a 7kg rhinoceros-calibre pistol, but sadly cannot immediately find
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: .45 ACP came about because .38 just wasn't doing the job against Pinoys
asciilifeform: ( maybe in the warm continents, where even grunts issued armours tend to throw'em out , a la vietnam -- moar relevant ? nfi )
asciilifeform: the slow, blunt 45 is moar of a police interest item than for any kinda war. there's an infamous case where 2 drunken red army sargeants had 'duel at dawn at 50 paces' w/ lendlease 'thompsons' . both scored, neither penetrated the wool greatcoat.
feedbot: http://blog.lobbesblog.com/2019/09/charting-the-charlotte-bdsm-scene-part-two-choking-on-socialist-spores/ << lobbesblog -- Charting the Charlotte BDSM Scene, Part Two: Choking on Socialist Spores
BingoBoingo: The NATO caliber standarding also happened during that time where the soft-serve consensus was the next fight will be nuclear so its possible there wasn't much concern over small arm supremacy
BingoBoingo: I suspect because more bullets fit into the supply truck
asciilifeform never grasped why nato picked up luger as Official standard rather than colt's
BingoBoingo: Sure the Olympics use .22 rimfire or after London "simulated gun" toys, but .45 ACP is a standard
asciilifeform: .45 is imho pretty good , of the historic calibers. usually subsonic right outta the box, even (i.e. silenceable)
BingoBoingo: It is used here because it's the international standard high caliber competition pistol caliber round
asciilifeform: iirc large qty was surplussed by usg in bush II yrs (gestapo moved to some oddball newfangled caliber, iirc .40)
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: this last 1 sounds likely
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: the colt acp also afaik uncommon outside of north amer
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Brasil has a big regular industry that builds to specs competitive on the international market.
asciilifeform: kinda like that samsung air conditioner, built with flammable coolant to europistani spec despite moar than half being sold in usa
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: rright but for some reason most of the brasil people build vaguely to usa spec, historically
BingoBoingo: Well, this isn't the US. Could be a Brasilero or Paraguayo product of Jungle Industry. Or could be Industria Defensa de Argentina
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: lacking the gas brake, most of salvo is likely to end up in ceiling. hasty, shoddy work.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: just about 100% a basement-built , fire-from-open-bolt design ( these are Officially proscribed in usa even when half-auto , so unlikely to be industrially-baked )
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: observe , no muzzle break, either , dollars to doughnuts 'plumbing shop' build
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I suspect home-ish made, maybe off plans from te late Paladin Press
ossabot: Logged on 2019-09-29 13:08:24 mp_en_viaje: !Qlater tell thimbronion you know your blog is still broken, click for instance on any comment or title link from http://thimbron.com/2016/08/
lobbesbot: thimbronion: Sent 6 hours and 19 minutes ago: <mp_en_viaje> you know your blog is still broken, click for instance on any comment or title link from http://thimbron.com/2016/08/
asciilifeform: dafuq is that
BingoBoingo: "se trataría de un subfusil, posiblemente Cal. 45, sin numeración ni marca, solo se distingue una impresión en el mismo con las letras CCT y contenía 5 municiones"
diana_coman: !!up thimbronion
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mp_en_viaje: i think he even says prostate.
mp_en_viaje: (approx -- these whores & cunts are bad news, only men can be loving & trustworthy!)
billymg: it's a good comic, i sent it to my pet recently when she protested that my expectations were too high
mp_en_viaje: billymg, ty!
billymg: came across the first link recently so it was still fresh in the browser history
billymg: mp_en_viaje: "I want to add here a link to that "they live meaningless lives" cartoon thing, which is already in the footnote of a relevant Trilema piece, which of course I can't find." << http://trilema.com/2014/that-aint-the-maslow-pyramid-yo/ and http://trilema.com/2014/fred-quimby-and-ancient-evils/#identifier_5_53722
BingoBoingo: http://trilema.com/2015/who-made-this/ << iirc someone was looking for this Trilema recently
BingoBoingo: And for the absence of a professional managerial class in the US
BingoBoingo: I suspect the HR departments last a bit longer than the drummers for reasons of Indian caste and tribal loyalties.
BingoBoingo: And the assorted non-profit awareness drummers about to rot on the vine when the spigot stops
mp_en_viaje: those contribute to costs.
BingoBoingo: All they have left are the HR departments
mp_en_viaje: i hope everyone got all the democrat voting they wanted to do out of their system already, because with the bidden clan gone there's literally nothing left. that was their last functional moneyraising center.
mp_en_viaje: they're doing lulzy desperations on the tv too, "historic week interviews with pelosi's daughter" and assorted festivist nonsense.
BingoBoingo: Had to get the taste of yesterday's news out of my head
feedbot: http://qntra.net/2019/09/usg-week-in-review-trump-ukraine-biden-phone-impeachment-trap/ << Qntra -- USG Week In Review: Trump, Ukraine, Biden, Phone, Impeachment, Trap
lobbesbot: mp_en_viaje: The operation succeeded.
mp_en_viaje: !Qlater tell thimbronion you know your blog is still broken, click for instance on any comment or title link from http://thimbron.com/2016/08/
mp_en_viaje: !q later tell thimbronion you know your blog is still broken, click for instance on any comment or title link from http://thimbron.com/2016/08/
mp_en_viaje: Nici Afrodita, cea in solduri lata, nici Joe cu alaiul lui ceresc nu s-au ivit din bolta instelata, ci dintr-o amfora cu vin grecesc ; voi, moralisti ilustri, ginditu-v-ati vreunul ca opere eterne, antume si postume, n-ar fi luat fiinta de n-ar fi fost pe lume femeia, treponema, alcoolul si tutunul ?
asciilifeform: the pike, the axe, the sword
snsabot: Logged on 2019-09-17 15:22:21 mircea_popescu: and pike changed society from matriarchy to patriarchy, because provided effectual control to female wail behaviour : poking with sharpened stick.
snsabot: Logged on 2019-09-29 12:00:43 mp_en_viaje: that'd be the supernova : 1. go in, 2. kill all the dudes 3. chain all the women nude to poles, let the kids crawl out of them come to terms with the megalanguage.
asciilifeform: i suspect mp_en_viaje's formulation is equivalent to mine.
asciilifeform: the imho interesting aspect was trying to pry open is, from where comes the larger items from which then decay.
mp_en_viaje: this then is uncontroversial : wind blows. on a long enough timespan, all man made things revert.
asciilifeform: of reversion to 'what fits in turnip head' mean aha.
mp_en_viaje: the natural process of reversion to the mean ?!
asciilifeform: is why even in simple man-made tooling gotta have 'written standards'. otherwise result is pythonism etc.
asciilifeform: as asciilifeform sees it, almost definitionally 'civilization' as in written , organized culture, is attempt to stall the drift.
mp_en_viaje: i'm not even proposing a closed form solution here ; but it seems to me that elementarily even english works ok in my hands, and in general the discussion will be more a matter of how you do your sampling than of anything else.
mp_en_viaje: who are you going to sample ?
mp_en_viaje: did bitcoin drift because a buncha idiots do whatever the hell ?
mp_en_viaje: if that didn't drift, why do you think this did. needs some heavy argyments.
mp_en_viaje: so then -- not drifted.
asciilifeform: fuckno (and noshit) , mp_en_viaje described this imho 100% correctly in linked piece
mp_en_viaje: do you believe "life expectancy" is better for you now than was for seneca ?
asciilifeform: in mouth of redditus, possibly aint even such a thing as 'stable nucleus'
mp_en_viaje: this neatly doubles the "great progress of ourdemocracy -- life expectancy". if you inflation-fudge the data to include babies, you get the numbers you want ; but if you don't you end up with much better everything, by letting most kids die rather than carrying them on the books pointelliottly.
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: in mouth of 'scholar' just about anyffin can be 'stable', as in your quality italians. even oddball conlangs. recall the tears of the folx who made up 1945 hebrew when their spawn started speaking it tho.
asciilifeform: in asciilifeform's model, looking only at 'stable' rather than 'better' (in whatever measure, e.g. the 1 where english is fucking ~impossible to write quality lit , not even speaking of poem, or unambiguous argument, etc. in )
mp_en_viaje: sardinian's defo more interesting than contemporary french ; and so following.
mp_en_viaje: this is amusing because the most fucked of the greeks (in cyprus) got allegedly the better greek.
asciilifeform: ( to run w/ the model -- homeric era folx, 'well-balanced', get a load of red hot 'sea men' pirate spoodge right up arse, and new 'heavier' lang forms, then proceeds to 'lazy dogs' leprosy-shed pieces, then... rinse, repeat )
mp_en_viaje: just as here : i will bring forth "elided" from the pits of "wtf, that's not even english!!!" because the phrase needs and demands it.
mp_en_viaje: though the discussion as carries elides the important point : excellent speaking helenists existed throughout the history.