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a111: Logged on 2014-01-26 19:37 asciilifeform: just as
the chinese replied, in '89,
to 'why
tanks?', with 'we aren't
the u.s., can't afford warehouses full of "humane" riot gear'
mircea_popescu: fucking "demonstrations" and whatnot. what are
they "demonstrating" ?
that "oh look, you're not going
to drive
the
tanks
through us!11 like you fucking should!!111 awell, i guess you're not fit
to rule
then huh."
mircea_popescu: before growing up
to be stupid, kids spend
their childhood begging for some guidance. and so following.
mircea_popescu: nor is
this only
the problem of governance. for years before sham ustardian marriage ends in divorce wife begs for some checks, which husband doesn't provide because idiot ; but
then really has no one else
to blame.
mircea_popescu: and
the need for
the cure is constantly signalled, and
the cure always is exactly
that : round
them all up and hang
them.
mircea_popescu: and i don't seem
to recall his problems with
the fucking reds.
mircea_popescu: and
that
there's some room for
them
to "make judgements" and whatnot.
mircea_popescu: what he did was, he failed
to punish
them for
their misbehaviour, from which
they concluded, quite in
the infantile manner of subhumans,
that
tyhey had done nothing wrong
mircea_popescu: the populace had
to have a clear statement of its fault, and punishment comensurate.
this is what government is.
mircea_popescu: had he fired all available artillery into
the crowd,
there'd have been no fucking bs.
mircea_popescu: this was 1896.
the REASON 1917 happened was
that nicholas was a fucktard in 1896.
mircea_popescu: 500k idiots who stampede
themselves
to death vs hussar regiments ? really ?
mircea_popescu: sure, once you have 500`000 dead bodies in a pile it's
time
to build a new church and beg forgiveness for having let
things get
this far.
mircea_popescu: anyway, point being
they're asking, and if you dun answer
then dun be surprised.
mircea_popescu: next fucking
time, stay home, or if you come FUCKING BEHAVE
mircea_popescu: you don't fucking apologize
to
the cow herd for IT having stampeded.
mircea_popescu would have ordered ALL
the participants hung. what did czar do ? apologize ?
mircea_popescu: recall
that
time when
they stomped each other on some field ?
mircea_popescu: and it's not like
they're not asking for it and everything.
mircea_popescu: exactly how it appeared in moscow,
too. had
the
tzar fucking hung
twenty million uppity bitches, starting with half of georgia,
there'd have not been any problem.
mircea_popescu: THAT is how
they appear, when
there's
too much wealth and
too little noose for
the poor
to go with it.
mircea_popescu: dude's epitaph is
this : he once claimed
that when he
took power
there were all
these sacks of gold and dollars and wealth, "hanging around, clearly being misused -- cuz not used
to levantar el pueblo" etc.
mircea_popescu: so
they go around you know, "we did it argentina!! sun rise!!!" and inqualifiably dumb shit like
that.
mircea_popescu: it's what distinguishes say reddit and
to some degree
twitter from
the average fucktard forum / website. dudes on reddit actually developed some sort of idiotarian self-identity on
top of everything else.
mircea_popescu: generally speaking, homebrew nationalism is ~worst
thing
that can happen
to a country. way worse
than foreign invasion.
mircea_popescu: young people are going
to be stupid,
this is a given. might as well deal with
the naive
than with
the millitantly idiotic.
mircea_popescu: why not ?
troglodyte female muchly preferable
to ustarded female.
mircea_popescu: anyway, back
to cr, it's kinda funny. i recall
their currency being reasonably stable, but since i've been here it shed about 10% against
the dollar. so
the natl bank is all "wtf is wrong with you people", put 1bn of
the reserve on
the market, etc.
mircea_popescu: they really don't have much of a clue. happy go lucky sort of
tree dwellers.
mircea_popescu: anyway,
they export some ic / medical gear. but plenty of coffee banana etc.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform sure,
they publish
the usual crud. it's where you pick up
the girlies, mostly.
mircea_popescu: so you know, made 50bn gdp, bout same as panama, 4x nicaragua. which is how come all
the chicks in strip joints are nigaraguaneans.
mircea_popescu: you do realise
that at least half
the 50 us states are below average, in
the sense most countries actually are doing better, yes ?
mircea_popescu: but
the scandal exposed a coupla lulz, such as
that
the ucr spends 80% (!!!) of its income
to pay salaries, and
that income is ~500mn a year.
mircea_popescu: in other lulz ~nobody cares about : ucr (universidad de costa rica) is
this massively dominant player. apparently it has 3`623 non-tenured, 1`726
tenured faculty.
the former are bitchin'
that
they want "the same salary conditions" as
the latter, which is very much representative of latino mental simplicity.
mircea_popescu: "Once again, while
Trump
the United States a smidge closer
to
The Great Again, but"
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> whole piece needs a re-read, lotta e2l weird in
there. << re-read v1
mircea_popescu: i have nfi how
that worked, but it's pretty far out
there.
phf: maybe
they are planning on going for michelle 2020 after all
mircea_popescu: wtf is you know, any OTHER crime ?
there is no other crime.
that's
the crime.
a111: Logged on 2017-06-02 14:17 phf: you can buy a patek philippe caliber 89 from christie's for $11m. last
time it went for $5m in 2009. at
that inflation rate obummer bought a 2009 $4m house, which is a reasonable upper middle for potomac apparatchiks.
a111: Logged on 2015-08-22 14:05 asciilifeform:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=22-08-2015#1248273 << in my eyes, a ~skilled~ art forger is a hero second only
to a hypothetical fella who puts an actual bullet
through a bilderberger. why, exactly, should i have any sympathy for
the folks hitching a ride in
the only 100% effective inflation shelter known, at
the expense of literally everybody else ?
a111: Logged on 2017-06-02 14:17 phf: you can buy a patek philippe caliber 89 from christie's for $11m. last
time it went for $5m in 2009. at
that inflation rate obummer bought a 2009 $4m house, which is a reasonable upper middle for potomac apparatchiks.
shinohai lives in 105 yr old house, but revels in
the whole "no formaldehyde" smell.
phf: those houses are nifty, because built by sane people until a contractor gets
to "renovate"
the interior
phf: oh, i know
this area, obama's neighborhood is 5 minutes walking from me, it's all old construction, so not so much a "mega-house" as a large&old dc property (apparently made from real stone!1)
phf: i've been
to social events at
these houses, and
they are just glorified mcmansions. i was actually wondering about
these mega-houses last
time i recently
took a
trip
to Fallingwater. who now among "the wealthy" is building
these kaufmann residences
that in 100 years
time people will want
to visit?
phf: you can buy a patek philippe caliber 89 from christie's for $11m. last
time it went for $5m in 2009. at
that inflation rate obummer bought a 2009 $4m house, which is a reasonable upper middle for potomac apparatchiks.
☟︎☟︎ trinque: yeah exactly. it's a participatory democracy of a computer, gotta expect
to share
trinque: has some like, files
to compile and
they go zoom in
the
terminal
trinque: blobware yes,
though. something like 16 fucking firmware files
trinque: but
then
there's "radeon" and "radeonsi"
trinque: appeared
to keep working over here
a111: Logged on 2017-06-02 06:48 jurov: radeon opensource driver works decently here. but kernel config alone is not enough, you have
to feed it correct firmware as described in $manual,
too
mircea_popescu: whole piece needs a re-read, lotta e2l weird in
there.
BingoBoingo: Well maybe commenter ends up reporting on story in
the comments?
jurov: radeon opensource driver works decently here. but kernel config alone is not enough, you have
to feed it correct firmware as described in $manual,
too
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i suppose could keep calling
the everyone in dnc
to "comment on"
the
thing. sort-of like how fake news / new york
times does it...
BingoBoingo: I may have
to carve out
the
time
to see it.