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mircea_popescu: the stuff you make empires with ? the substance of lookingat the east and seeing juicy fruit crawling with ants ?
mircea_popescu: what do you suppose this entire "needs immigration" "aging population" "below replenishment rate natality" etc is.
mircea_popescu: i never had to step on claymore mines when i went over to a woman's place.
mircea_popescu: maybe, at age 16, you imagine this is an idea. otherwise, it isn't. it's much better to have at least a few dozen dudes you can go drinking with.
mircea_popescu: would you srsly wish to be the only fuck-worthy individual in the entire building ?
mircea_popescu: ascii_field ok, lemme take it this way. suppose you move to a new apartment building. there's say 100 flats there. in them, unsurprisingly, 100 men and 100 women, on average.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field orly. nobody rly cares, administration's more work than it's worth.
mircea_popescu: better make less rape in campuses, that's the bigissue.
mircea_popescu: a wellsure, stalin was a pretty efficient butcher, granted. but no, efficient at ringing up the score, so to speak.
mircea_popescu: anyway, contrary to what mostly russians (perhaps in retrospect understandably) fear, nobody really gonnen nicht-s a strong russia.
mircea_popescu: colbert was efficient, not particularly charismatic. napoleon was charismatic. not particularly efficient.
mircea_popescu: these aren't the same thing. rarely the same person, too.
mircea_popescu: there's a husband thatthe wife deeply loves, and will die for ; tthen there's a husband that makes a lot of money.
mircea_popescu: he was actually below mediocre. very convincing one, but that's not the same thing.
mircea_popescu: the problem with truly efficient leaders is that unlike mediocre ones, they actually solve the problem they were up to solve. in this sense they create their own obsolescence.
mircea_popescu: nothing like that. just, dude's an excellent boss, made everyone work ass off with seriositits etc.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field i suppose. kinda waiting for putin to fall over.
mircea_popescu: a new strategic owner that can develop and push CCN.LA even further." << aka it's folding up
mircea_popescu: <thestringpuller> I couldn't deal with the anxiety related to pregnancy and child birth. << you're a woman ?
mircea_popescu: mike_c i could but meh. i know you like it, but i can't stand the post 1980 ny.
mircea_popescu: clearly all those sophism lessons paid out! i am in 7 different groups whom costed me 15BTC+ to join!
mircea_popescu can't believe that he just had a discussion about the statistics of childbirth with a woman that has kids and is otherwise a statistician and survived untussled.
mircea_popescu has learned what little ofthe craft he knows from 1900s and other pre-war derelicts and what is this laboratory bs. you diagnose by palpation!
mircea_popescu: shush i am a male, with the patriarchical doctor mindset. women are presumed fertile!
mircea_popescu: 90%+ of which on primiparous 14 yo and under gypsy girls.
mircea_popescu: depends, had a friend in timisoara, chief nurse for county hospital, did upwards of two dozen emergency c sections a day
mircea_popescu: (yes generally means "most women". but if you add the fact that only about half or so are even allowed to try to the fact that about a third (afaik ~40% but w/e) of the ones that are allowed to try fail, you come to the generally, or at least i do.)
mircea_popescu: wasn't the guy retired because lyf treats or something ?
mircea_popescu: Mike Hearn accidentally reveals that he is Satoshi Nakamoto. Shocked butters take refuge in irrational denial. (archive.is) submitted 11 hours ago by jstolfi << i lolled.
mircea_popescu: but the forceps is more of a turning/alligning instrument
mircea_popescu: on the contrary, midwife usually pushes ever so gently.
mircea_popescu: but the original point was that no, survival after c section was shockingly good even in roman times.
mircea_popescu: "Also mircea_popescu has disappear off the face of the earth. It’s time for him to pay up. He can not be found on twitter or OTC or bitcointalk. So long shit talkers."
☟︎ mircea_popescu: anyway, iirc plenty of hospitals won't even consider it, because the cost/effort of emergency c section is too high
mircea_popescu: iirc it's almost nil in primiparous women with difficult delivery ; as high as 50% in multiparous women with one difficult presentation.
mircea_popescu: diana_coman generally you can't deliver normally after one.
mircea_popescu: but comparatively, medieval bullet extraction had < 50% survival rate.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski it doesn't heal as in, restore function. but it does heal in the sense, you won'tfucking die from it.
mircea_popescu: (seriously, i am. i fucked much fewer men than most of the women i ever hang out with.)