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mircea_popescu: nobody would even have any objection, if they didn't ineptly get into the way of actual people now and again. (though in fairness it's vastly in the sense of "bus got in way of old man").
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the usg lands are constructed out of idiots "making laws" and idiots "following laws". these two are interchangeable, and the system works well for the lowest common denominator.
mircea_popescu: in chickens that's rather needed w/o all they do is "fly" balistically into nearest road.
mircea_popescu: birdlogic, you know ? "why do some cats run off and some don't ?"
mircea_popescu is not a duck expert, but afaik not that much expertise to be had. you can clip their feathers.
mircea_popescu: bad genetics, bad nutrition, bad culture, who the fuck knows.
mircea_popescu: (also kinda why duck not popular with traditional household farmers -- some domestics develop flight spontaneously)
mircea_popescu: when they quack overhead, one takes off. kinda al lthere is to it.
mircea_popescu: the calling is the only way to distinguish, it's an event not a succession.
mircea_popescu: sadly it's not how it goes ; flighted duckling is not distinguished from flightless duckling by "having more flight spirit".
mircea_popescu: eh, there's infinitely better things to sad over, than the idle contemplation of the intricacies of "why this goat is not boar".
mircea_popescu: what can you do, danielpbarron decided what he wants is to "obey laws" and NOT beat women.
mircea_popescu: "we're failures and that's okay, failing makes us happy"
mircea_popescu: which is the important part of THAT kind of army, not "winning chechen war", but "here we sit in boy hut, waiting for feathers to grow on -- if they take long time, have no one to blame but self"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform usg never had army in the sense here contemplated. had "selective draft" or w/e.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron so why not just use one on the box, send nothing ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i suppose they'd host a pogo for you, but latest thinking here is that not rly worth the amps.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "yay team! we get the benefits of vicarious athelticism!!" "in the sports bar ?" "of course!" "what benefits are those ?" "FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY!"
mircea_popescu: any attempt to reconstruct this argument (yeah, but the tea -- coca leaves!!!) dies the same death, ultimately. "this nonsense could only be interesting to morons" "that's ok, we here in gringostan proud country of morons" "and how do you expect to survive on any sort of time horizon ?" "WE SPREAD AGITPROP RE BENEFITS OF STUPIDITY ALL OVER GLOBE!!! WORK PAYS LATER, LAZY PAYS NOW!!!"
mircea_popescu: if you tally up the list of "well, since we got engine with turbine we get air conditioning free anyway" on either side, usg is an eyesore, and the argument becomes "steam engine locomotive won race because could offer free tea to passenger ; whereas diesel-electric lost because who wants free electricity anyway".
☟︎ mircea_popescu: n of
http://btcbase.org/log/2014-11-24#933189 ). similarily, su books free, because. su collegiate education, free, because. su pineapple expensive, because who the fuck is paying dole its ransom ; but su milk cheap, because. and so on in this vein -- su hospital free, but does not work like gringo hospital. you know ?
☝︎ mircea_popescu: those 16 months doing pushups and fucking the mud, those happened. your dad was army grunt was he not ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: except five minutes ago it was "chronically broke". gringos were overcomfortable. su, not so much.
mircea_popescu: why shouldn't a generation reproduce the previous ? if not formally, at least the larger chunks of substance ?
mircea_popescu: main problem of historical / archeological work is to discern the coincidence from the item. (is this spec of dust or is it portion of priceless artefact ???)
mircea_popescu: wtf happened, women stopped sucking the right part of the cock ? for seven decades ?!
mircea_popescu: now, what the fuck reason, i have nfi. it's comparatively clearer with the gringos, they had been sheep-following su, went off cliff eyes wide open.
mircea_popescu: and for ~some reason~ su went dark decade-aniversay-of-stalin-death.
mircea_popescu: well, kurchatov, strictly. as per carlyle, history exists strictly as the biography of great men.
mircea_popescu: hence "you think the chain is powering your chainsaw".
mircea_popescu: since there's no saving, there's no amortization. country does or dies.
mircea_popescu: country gets a set of resources each generation, and ALWAYS SPENDS THEM. there's no option to "save", the 20yos now floating about will not be cryopreserved.
mircea_popescu: amortization is ~not meaningful~ in this context. there's nothing to ever amortize, macro-economically, that's specifically not how a country works.
mircea_popescu: the notion of "soviet computer work amortizing" is EXACTLY this sort of "naive extension". the ~very concept~ of "amortization" exactly mirrors the concept of "reproduction" in the previous step : you are using a naive notion that you're trying to extend naively.
mircea_popescu: "the notion that airplanes could reproduce through laying eggs is merely a naive extension, in the vein of 'object A has properties a and b ; object B shares property a and therefore it is reasonable ~~~on a first approximation~~~ to expect it exhibit proerty b'. nevertheless, artifacts differ from nature in that one fundamental aspect, that they're inefficient, and therefore to achieve same ends end up heavy, and in the case
☟︎☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: what is the hole in "reproduce airplanes through egg laying" ?
mircea_popescu: nevermind that part, i'll explain that in the next step.
mircea_popescu: let's take this one at a time. do you in fact understand what hole i see in "reproduce airplanes through egg laying" ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform do you understand what hole i see in "reproduce airplanes through egg laying" ?
mircea_popescu: i tell you, you've got the chain powering the saw over here.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform dude, what the everloving fuck, if tomorrow i wake up with the notion evertyone in tmsr gotta get circumcised you're gonna do it ?! brejnev was not this popular or respected, not at any point in his life.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform those formative years are eminently not "amortize" in the batshit insane nonsense of having people-of-walmart involved.
mircea_popescu: it's my considered opinion that taking "the american experience" into consideration for any practical purpose is fundamentally stupid. might as well think in terms of "hey mr wright, this bird of yours is ok, but does it lay eggs ?"
mircea_popescu: of course, the chinese don't need that for anything, but w/e.
mircea_popescu: it's a country adequate to the time and needs of jefferson, it'd make the best agrarian 1700s the world has ever seen.
mircea_popescu: they're literally 1024 chickens, inconsequentially "democratic", fighting the "corruption" of meaning.
mircea_popescu: this is the substance of my original claim. it seems to me russian man decided not to think. and this has no bearing on "cocksucker said". nobody yet has listened to the cocksuckers.
mircea_popescu: see, this is my point : at some point somewhere around the 60s, kurchatov jr decided he's gonna... ?
mircea_popescu: i mean metaphorically! wtf, that conversation happened in the 40s.
mircea_popescu: recall man who said to stalin "i suppose you could do that... but then..." ?
mircea_popescu: so your idea is that su military complex toppled thinking man into moron pot ?!
mircea_popescu: how long does chronically take ? because su was not that poor in 60s.
mircea_popescu: romania was never as broke as in the 90s, at least not since the 30s. and it never in its history gave as good answers to fundamental problems.
mircea_popescu: not because mit didn't try telling, which it did, of course, but because it's evident the telling does exactly nothing, and mit sitting about going "oh, symbolics fuckards because we told them to" exactly like inca sun priest going "sun rises cuz we told it to!"
mircea_popescu: fact of the matter, for ~these reasons~ i don't even believe mit told original symbolics&co fucktards to be fucktards.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i very much doubt it was "brejnev's bean counters" that told soviet man to be stupid ; much as i doubt it was ceausescu who told morons to be morons, and IGNORE 16 months of their own life because "didn't sign up for this", and not eat the fucking fish because "how dares owner think of us as cattle when that's exactly what we are", and so on.
mircea_popescu: point being, "technical calculus institute" still stood in 1990 for random morons (whom ceausescu DID send to mandatory military training, 16 months, taught how to fire and everyhthing) could stand on the roof of "to guard", profiled on the blue romanian skies so they could be shot from any of the surrounding hills
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well yes, i'm not discussing end results. a tiny country on the black sea isn't gonna outrun us/su, it ain't fucking finland.
mircea_popescu: and the ro made items were ~industrial automation~. the hardware at my house was "officially" being hard at work doing shit for hotels and textile mills.