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mircea_popescu: in any case it was never common, more of a rich folk giving young bride best chances sorta affair, "if i'ma spend a fortune rising this special camel it'd better sniff dead corpses" sorta thing.
mircea_popescu: people trading silk with china (ie, various arab groups) started doing something similar, 16ish century.
mircea_popescu: and incidentally, it's only called vaccination to convey the (at the time important) notation that "it's like variolation, but with cow bits". because exposure to variola infected tissue had been used for half a century or more by then.
mircea_popescu: which isn't insane in any sense, on the contrary, ~fucking reasonable~.
mircea_popescu: the perfectly sound logic being that "if we follow the proponents, and believe stuffing human with selecrted bits of beef, has medical effects of a type, why not believe it has medical effects of another type!"
mircea_popescu: though, the important part isn't of course "how insane that was", but rather ~how reasonable~. the reason it's even called "vacca-cination" is because original 1800s version preceded a good understanding of microbics, and was purely "if this done, this comes out" black boxk of human body approach. used literal chunklets of infected cow to generate immunity in humans to DIFFERENT strain of virus (ie, measles, like cowpox, same
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and all this just because women take on the personality of the cock they wrap around.
mircea_popescu: "something happened ? god's wrath!" not exactly much intellectually adherent.
mircea_popescu: yeah but the more biological horn seems more interesting to me. the other just stale dry biscuit.
mircea_popescu: (likbez : 1800s people thought vaccination will lead to cows coming out of people)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this is a futurist/urmuz-style satyre of what was perceived in ro context as my strictly insane perspective on things
mircea_popescu: turns out there's a 2010 version of "mp has spaceship wtf"
mircea_popescu: well, hour, week, what diff does it make, we live forever
mircea_popescu: might as well, seems eminently the right time and place for such testing.
mircea_popescu: previous thinking was generally that a regrind pretty much means collapsing a whole tree into a single genesis patch. but thinking about it i don't see why that has to be the case, if there's the hands to do more fine work.
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i'll take your words, it's so pure it's giving me hives, ima stop before rage.
mircea_popescu: "He used to regard our conspiratorial fussing with the indulgent air of a grown dog watching puppies at play." << which is why they were looking for "bold" taciturns. "oh look, as close to adults without adults we can get!"
mircea_popescu: "Afterward, at the next assembly, you had to recommend him and present him to the others under an assumed name. If no one objected, he became a member of the organization and joined in the common work." << how the fuck would anyone object ? THEY HAVE NFI WHO IT IS.
mircea_popescu: what the fuck is this supposed to be! the junior mint dating club ?
mircea_popescu: "Naturally he at once sounded you out about the possibilities, and you gravely and meaningfully gave him to understand that intelligent people didn’t discuss such nonsense; that the organization didn’t have any political aims. “Aha!” he would nod enthusiastically, hastening to make it clear that he too was an intelligent man and realized you couldn’t talk about such things aloud."
mircea_popescu: #1, enough gumption to go up to her and ask, distinguishes 9yo from 15 yo ; #2, criminal connections, distinguishes incel from bf.
mircea_popescu: it's basic shit test even fucking today in gringolandia. go up to girl in bar, "hey baby, wanna leave together ?" 80% or so odds she comes back with "can you get drugs" in some shape or form.
mircea_popescu: peppered with the usual "elected impotence" bs. "make sure they have no criminal connections ?!" what the everloving fuck, no male's worth two bits if he doesn't at least KNOW the local boss wtf.
mircea_popescu: i dunno why they do this stupid woman thing. the only thing this "organization" is good for is to report which shop now has flour. or w/e, "unde s-o bagat lapte", where's the cheap kid shoes, stuff of this nature.
mircea_popescu: what, you're totally going to "introduce leader to me and vanish", that's so utterly how i work.
mircea_popescu: it definitely sounds like the "neonazi" morons would have come up with, yes. bois with 0 life experience.
mircea_popescu: all the "we're project managers and this is our sikrit club" wank ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the guy has a solid point, continuing with the "soviet republic is actual republic" notions became well impossible for thinking man in the 50s. the whole trotsky thing hadn't done it, but by the time of hungartian uprising...
mircea_popescu: "tired of living" is larger concept than commonly realised.
mircea_popescu: gotta start somewhere, and it ain't gonna be the you're/your distinction.
mircea_popescu: hey, it's what hilary teaches in dem "universities" now.
mircea_popescu: it's so fucking funny tho, utterly fucktarded pantsuit moron imagining "india" is a definite reference to something, "nation of africa" style, and then, if that weren't enough, adding "armenian" to it. because yes, totally, the armenians, those indian fucks.
mircea_popescu: is this like that time kramer saved the half-man half-pig army mutant ?
mircea_popescu: by now they're pretty entertaining, this last crop of femfricans.
mircea_popescu: "all the crab kings at the times of high tide were great crabs and great kings... whereas at low tide..." "dude, you live in a tidal ecosystem!" "wut ?"
mircea_popescu: eaucratic bonacelli are icons of mental dysfunction to a bosch-like level.)
mircea_popescu: (now, all four are demented, a point unrelated to whether they rape any of the kids or w/e. that's what kids are for anyway, and besides, who the fuck cares. the problem is, specifically, that their brains don't work, and don't work in a strictly typical, almost commedia dell'arte highly structured sense. the histrionic valletti or the copacetic anyones-weird-quiet-uncle-that-touches-the-little-nieces quintavalle or the bur
☟︎ mircea_popescu: so much so as to even inform the specific choice of casting.
mircea_popescu: i dunno if you've seen p p pasolini's salo, but i always thought cataldi's role ("the bishop") was specifically patterned after beria.
mircea_popescu: demented means something akin to "this computer is waltzing the ram", not something akin to "this computer is displaying stuff not within code of conduct".
mircea_popescu: turns out... 0 items needed my attention since your last comment, on the 28th. a bunch auto-marked though.
mircea_popescu: yet conversely, he might actually be the imago of what later came to be "sluggish schizo". man went nuts in his middle age, or so they thought (or so i suspect they thought).
mircea_popescu: stalin certainly was. "designated successor" my foot, if he lived another 18 months they'd have all been decorating pikes, beria first.
mircea_popescu: for one thing, "market system" entirely meaningless in the man's context. it's like "moses let it slip he's in favour of nuclear weapons". for the other thing, LENIN came up with the fucking neps. nobody was going to be all that indignant over rehash. in short it predicates both meaning and effect projected from an outside world.
mircea_popescu: anyway, to finish k thread -- my read was that his contemporaries read him in the vein of "promising but sadly insane". this happens with some regularity, napoleon himself one thin hair away.
mircea_popescu: that's the important part there, as usual off screen : "while this was going on, dad was busy doing actually important shit -- because no, neither cat nor its spawn are it"
mircea_popescu: A MOTHER. a heroic mother, losing eye ~in performance of her unworthy of praise or much mention duties~.
mircea_popescu: imo this eminent example. kinda why we discuss orel-i-koshka in preference of whatever disney overdressed princess
mircea_popescu: aaanyway -- the korgyn fellow is remarkable (and remarkably funny) because he managed to come up with a 100% worst-of-all-worlds plan of nonsense.
mircea_popescu: "name how many heroic worker hours for this fridge! THE SACRIFICE IS RIGHT!!!")
mircea_popescu: his idea was, summarized by someone who's not retarded like they were : that if a) portions of industrial production get redirected to consumer goods and b) the state media finds a vanna white in the zaporoje countriside, then c) soviet union can turn into a large game of stakhanovist jeopardy.
mircea_popescu: then brejnev let a certain kosgyn be "boss of economy". and then they had an electoral dispute, as to who should lead. kosgyn came with the lulziest perestroika v0.1a you ever saw)
mircea_popescu: (likbez : su was "dictatorship", nevertheless, brejnev got place by talking to everyone about ousting nikita, which then happened even though the retard got wind of the plan, because he was a retard. just like in dictatorship amirite.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, you recall the lulz of kosygin's programme ?
mircea_popescu: 60s, 70s, that dude parked his pecker in more "gone to ny to be a writer" mouths than hefner.
mircea_popescu: i recall the endless hordes of pantsuit "free women" going there to whore out to him a little for a few decades. what they said at the coffin... w/e, you know how old the dood was ?