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mircea_popescu: leaving aside
that "an italy" would have been utterly horrible,
there's no significant difference between
these in respects
that interest us. neither wanted "a holy roman empire", and so...
☟︎ mircea_popescu: also, "tmsr style" may be a misnomer.
the republic receiving
tax from
the lords voluntarily is one
thing, but
there's nowehre in statute or custom where it says lord can't grind into paste any subhuman peons it gets his hands on,
to extract whatever he extracts.
mircea_popescu: recall (part of why i even republishedf
that) -- hamilton was an original, and originally a lonely, voice in
the "to spend -- you MUST first
tax" camp.
mircea_popescu: now how is
this relating
to say hamilton in preference of say monroe ?
mircea_popescu: this is
the dark secret of gender disparity : after
the deed's done, woman gets more
than she expected, and man less.
mircea_popescu: veterans not getting paid what
they
thought was fair is an absolute part of all war.
mircea_popescu: hamilton wasn't doping centralized megastate either. it's unclear what washington wass doing, as also not idea man, but probably ALSO not megastate judging by how if he were, he'd have been
the king of united states literally.
mircea_popescu: in
this sense
the washington monument was
the proper government lol
mircea_popescu: his "ideas" if you can call
them
that are all sorta broken.
mircea_popescu: i suppose
technically roosevelt broke
the shattered remains left after monkeyboy lincoln, but still, general idea.
mircea_popescu: the usual mo is
this, very strictly antiauthoritarian, "we'll get our own schmuck emperor and
then ruin
the
thing"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
this is more complicated. original church was very much republic, much like original us presidency.
then
the socialistards got roosevelt in and broke it. similarily
to how empire meant something, before napoleon.
a111: Logged on 2017-06-21 15:10 mircea_popescu: rules
to fucking live by, you know, "by
the
time you feel like you wanna live in a submarine, it's
time
to gtfo and find a better place."
mircea_popescu: "and here's
the list of necessary steps
that lead
to it!"
mircea_popescu: ever since
the early seeds of socialism showed up in paris (not so coincidentally, where syphilis also comes from), it's been one great race
to re-construct human
thought into socialistardation.
mircea_popescu: quite on
the contrary.
that can be a pretext, if you're willing
to eat it. and if not -- others available.
a111: Logged on 2017-07-06 15:09 mircea_popescu: which is how every god damned kid
that was sexually abused
through
the process of socialist schooling (which is all of
them -- education is education, and socialist school is definitionally sexual abuse of all children involved) ends up with
the idea
that newton sat down
TO discover whatever he did (unimportant, really) and
THEREFORE he did.
jhvh1: asciilifeform:
The operation succeeded.
jhvh1: asciilifeform:
The operation succeeded.
mircea_popescu: in other words -- us schools don't work on purpose, not by accident. and like
those, everything else, nukes, embargoes, name it.
mircea_popescu: and if it
takes a little incidental mention of
the history of
thought, fine, just as long as it's a) safely bowdlerized into nonsense and b) really, incidental
to
the great story.
mircea_popescu: schooling for
the purpose of convincing as many unexamining intellects as possible
that "in
the soviet union kids get icecream". if it
takes putting
the agitprop mechanism in
the middle of
the forest cuz
that's where
the peasants go... well,
they'll mount it in a
truck.
mircea_popescu: and which is how
they end up with all
the rest of
the dumb shit.
mircea_popescu: what is important is for
the kids
to end up with
the purposes idiocy implanted in
their heads. and
they do. which is how
they end up
thinking "modern medicine" has something
to do with life expectancy changes. as opposed
to sanitation.
mircea_popescu: the replacement of causes with purposes in
this sense is
the ONLY point of "school" as
the socialists do it. it's uninteresting
to understand exactly what
the
theory of gravity is, says or does, or what a number is, or anything else of
that kind
mircea_popescu: which is how every god damned kid
that was sexually abused
through
the process of socialist schooling (which is all of
them -- education is education, and socialist school is definitionally sexual abuse of all children involved) ends up with
the idea
that newton sat down
TO discover whatever he did (unimportant, really) and
THEREFORE he did.
☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: revisiting
the above "progress" great lie of socialism : just as eg wikipedia parasithizes (see alf/naggum re how
this works)
the encyclopedia space,
turning whatever it can steal into "wearenotbegging for donations", just like github
tries
to accrete "wild" work into something
they can sell down
the road
to
the bezzlevestor, just so school in
the socialist state (as designed by
trotsky, stealing from bismarck) works also on
mircea_popescu: but by definition, naive early adopters have
their own ideas.
mircea_popescu: phf i kept
telling
the naive early adopter noobs
that gifting coin is fucking dumb.
mircea_popescu: speaking of which, very fundamentally libertard
this "framing" approach, quintessentially what "progress" is all about. here's what happened, now let me hallucinate a string of pseudocauses and outcomes which you can believe in!
phf: nah, a very naive, outsider "somebody gifted me bitcoin, i logged into coinbase recently and
the whole experience is a piece of shit, so bitcoin, shmitcoin, whatever"
mircea_popescu: next issue of fiat paper will read Ourshit Dun Work instead of
the racist/rapist in god we
trust bit
mircea_popescu: but anyway,
they'll work just as well as everything else in
the empire of stupid works. did "ourembargo" work ? sure, in
the sense shittington post wrote about how it will, and
then promptly forgot it ever happened
mircea_popescu: then
that can also handle deeding fees, and lo and behold, actual cryptoeconomy
mircea_popescu: the original plan was
to
tie in payments with deedbot payment system, and im sure
that's how it'll work once
that bit of infrastructure is ready.
mod6: can i also say
that
this whole lobbesbot
thing is a pretty great model. does auctions,
then he collects
the fees (monthly?).
mod6: i dunno. just one of
those nights i guess.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, if costa rica enlarges its airport because it gets
tons of
traffic and it HAS
TO, panama will built an even larger one!!!! which nobody really needs wants or uses. but
THEY ARE BETTER DAMNIT
mircea_popescu: dunno if you've ever seen
this in practice, 2nd born with a huge boner/inferiority complex.
mircea_popescu: teh
ticos (costa rican ethnonym) are actually very serious, dedicated people. like shorter, more pleasant californians let's say.
the nicaraguans are dorks and
the panamanians are all
to a man
this strange rendition of
the frustrated shittier brother.
mircea_popescu: they got it back up same evening. (not universally, nicaragua was still without power
the next day for instance)
mod6: maybe i imagined
that lol.
mircea_popescu: i
think i even mentioned
this in
the logs at some point. perpetual connections are unsanitary.
mod6: ah, i mean, where
the girls were carrying up buckets of water?
mircea_popescu: ah it wasn't
the power, i have it set
to disconnect at six in
the morning deliberately.
a111: Logged on 2017-06-17 19:56 asciilifeform: idea of pll is
that you can indeed see a lit match from mile away in daylight if you know 'exactly when
to look'
BingoBoingo: Well,
those are used for actually DOING
the work
BingoBoingo: Essentially an extortion racket centered around avoiding
the healthcare extortion racket
BingoBoingo: No money
to be made from Phree wet finger in OSHA "work safety" racket
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> dunno wai
this had
to be 'modernized'... << Faster!!! For
the modern jobsite!!!
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> hard
to
think of a more catastrophically useless
tool <<
There a better an worse variants of
this
tool. Pretty much only
the good ones sell for
this reason.
mircea_popescu: fiatards are a fine example of claiming
they resolved a problem by conceptual contorsion.
mircea_popescu: as if "Central authority" is EVEN POSSIBLE outside of very
temporary, geographically limited arrangements.
mircea_popescu: are you sure you read
the manual correctloy ? maybe it's supposed
to work after you grab
the hot wire.