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mircea_popescu: probably have a little oblast named for them in siberia, like the jews do.
mircea_popescu: should be pretty amusing to see how greece'd have looked in alt-history where CCCE dominated the small continent. "oh we won't pay".
mircea_popescu: ironically also better for yurp, a russian-run eu would have worked where the german-run eu is barely screeching around.\
☟︎ mircea_popescu: they'd have just abandoned europe like the whores that they are and under pressure they'd have stayed in a better state of preservation for longer.
mircea_popescu: punkman ironically war with russia would have been much better for the us than this crap.
mircea_popescu: i don't have a straight answer, but i will say that having been in argentina for a while now and having observed the assorted insanities they sport here, grouped for convenience under the "inseguridad" thematic, i understand a lot more of the fate of the new world.
mircea_popescu: anyway, that's a path less traveled that should be. WHY is it that redskins in the continental us HAD TO be massacred ? is it because they "couldn't fit" in its future, somehow, mysteriously ? is it perhaps because white guys wanted the depopulation to support higher wages and liberty [aka the fronteer lifestyle] ? is it perhaps because the wives of farmers "didn't feel safe" with them around ?
mircea_popescu: punkman whadda you like about this ? the christic parallel ?
mircea_popescu: the fact that they can actually jointly own it just fine is a stronger indictment of the female-mitigated insanity than anything else could ever be.
mircea_popescu: all i see is disproportionate violence (note that mcmurphy doesn't set fire to the fucking hospital - heck he doesn't even LEAVE when he has the chance, because reasons.) and disavowal (really, the voices in your head told you to, maybe, who knows ? what are you, a dumbass us girl that has to get herself drunk to be able to have sex ?)
mircea_popescu: the notion that fight club is productive in any sense is pretty lulzy to me.
mircea_popescu: to me fight club is merely a coupla stages down. "we're lost - infantilism is always a refuge".
mircea_popescu: other than this mediated sort of approach, straight book-film comparisons are pretty meaningless anyway.
mircea_popescu: the film does a better job of this as a film than the book does a job of it as a book. arguably this is because film has less space to do it in ; countrariwise, film is more of a "tower of babel" sort of artifice, so it's harder to get anything done.
mircea_popescu: way i see it both try the same thing, in their own medium : describe the doomed situation of a society which has lost male force and is now going into castration mode at the hands of the decaying female biomass. it's a failure mode of human populations, well known, well understood, amply documented.
mircea_popescu: he never actually saw it. but he hated it, because "o noes, can't touch radioactive without chief brand mask!11"
mircea_popescu: notably, he didn't hate it for any reason, other than being a vocal leader in the "book was better" chorus ; and for the director very sensibly removing the chief narrator clingwrap.
mircea_popescu: so yeah, palahniuk loved the movie adaptation ; kensey hated it.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller i dunno if you did this deliberately or not, but really, it's too smooth to not credit you with it.
mircea_popescu: i suppose all the lsd and mental hospital moonlighting are there because he's all secure in his dominion, right.
mircea_popescu: forman blessfuly caught on eventually that the personification of evil has to be familiar, not visibly "evil".
mircea_popescu: also mildly interesting, how that toothpaste-commercial-and-soap-opera extra got the nurse part.
mircea_popescu: anyway, stroke of luck mostly, god only knows what'd have happened if one of the douglas hack clan ended up with the role.
mircea_popescu: the chief narrator device is mostly there to insulate the author from tyhe material, best i can tell.
mircea_popescu: imo this is one of those situations where the better movie makes the book its bitch. yes the book is longer and goes into more detail, as a book has space to do. but this is a twin edged sword
mircea_popescu: i've just had the world's worst peach. what the fuck this tree should be ashamed of itself.
mircea_popescu: i know what you're saying, man. i fully know what you're saying.
mircea_popescu: it's a reasonable condition. iirc the bitbet thing was a straight meeting of the minds, i wasn't going to do it with anyone else as treasurer anyway.
mircea_popescu: most people don't know how to walk on two feet, meanwhile.
mircea_popescu: most people are used to getting raped by banks, and have enough respect to stfu and kiss the bloodied, dripping penis in thanks.
mircea_popescu: myeah. one classical problem the corporations were for is that usually ventures require a lot of dedication, and people got lives to live.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo damned tging nearly burned down in croatia this summer anyway.
mircea_popescu: "USS Mount Whitney sunk by russian backed syrian/ukrainian/whatever rebels"
mircea_popescu: the notion that government agents/agencies have ANY right to privacy is the highest grade of lulz.
mircea_popescu: "The Cooperative is declining to name the Illinois state agencies and buildings which will be affecting by" why the fuck ?
mircea_popescu figures in short order fucking tables will "no longer be able to cool passively".
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform recall the discussion of "philips desperate to stick its shitendrils in here before led takes over" i think
mircea_popescu: which is why the power plants don't update : they actually do the math.
mircea_popescu: but, and this general point remains, you don't get to, nor should you, exclude operational costs from efficiency calculations. after you factor in the $500 to replace your favourite pair of pants you always just so happen to be wearing at the time, plus the inconvenience at billable hour cost etc, suddenly the idea to switch to "modern, energy saving, efficient" bulbs looks a lot closer to the insanity it is.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: which means they increase draw until they explode, normally.
mircea_popescu: well anyway. mercury usually makes for negative resistivity
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ftr, where do you buy your metal-halide lamps that are ACTUALLY free of mercury ?
mircea_popescu: punkman if it doesn't get up as much as before for a few weeks the effect's supposed to go away.
mircea_popescu: well, br exposure, not the end of the world. wash the place, but at leasr you get to keep your clothes.
mircea_popescu: yes. but when they do they don't cut through the fucking glass protector and burn the floor!
mircea_popescu: punkman those aren't the kind that cut through teh glass
mircea_popescu: punkman they pretty much all have ; the other heavy metals they could have are not much better.
mircea_popescu: (incidentally, if you didn't know - this is pretty much the only thing where a vacuum cleanner that was supposed to have its bag changed weeks ago is good for - but boy is it great for it.)
mircea_popescu: expect ~1 cubic metre of assorted toxic waste per exploded shitbulb.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: remove and seal all clothing, wash in abundant water, have air in space vacuumed throw out, wash the surfaces in acid
mircea_popescu: i somehow suspect less than 1 in 500/15 young men die within 5 years.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: punkman go throught chemical exposure protection cycle rightnao.