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mircea_popescu: it's a sort of misery that masquerades as "good enough".
mircea_popescu: and i gotta learn to form my ideas in subsecond rather than subminute intervals, or else i just repeat the damned log!
mircea_popescu: yeah, doubt the 1k a pop scenario is possible, amd never had good mb support.
mircea_popescu: actually the wall thing didn't have a [single] name but it was perfectly acceptable passtime for getting the players together for a game o' football.
mircea_popescu: cazalla it's that thing where you're supposed to shoot at a small goal gate from no closer than 7 meters
mircea_popescu: drinking games mostly consist of "guess what article of clothing the boys are thinking about - if you guess right you gotta show it, if not take it off!"
mircea_popescu: as seen in amato's liceale. "Ve ho fregato perche non le porto!"
mircea_popescu: which is why independence makes sense. demand you get it anyway.
mircea_popescu: in today's fun exotism, curling means "ass I lick" in romanian.
mircea_popescu: and the proper phraseology for a challenge, "hey, can you do this ?"
mircea_popescu: literally, the most common dismissal in kid circles was, "anyone could do that".
mircea_popescu: (i am not seriously proposing there's objective hierarchy to the respectability of sports, if that's not obvious. merely recording lived history)
mircea_popescu: honestly, most everyone was more open minded than romanians throughout forever. most hardline soviets in soviet union, would have hung nikita if possible after that thing. heck, ceausescu was trying to convince gorbacev of the errors of the past in 1987
mircea_popescu: (this is what you get when the state embraces sports and you get mandatory sport in school and whatnot)
mircea_popescu: right, so volleyball and handball were the faggoty sports in that it's what the girls (and some guys) did. whereas you were supposed to play football like god intended, or MAYBE basketball. badminton was literally, healthclub fare, for old people and chicks of the third gender.
mircea_popescu: as far as anyone could imagine, russia was going the way of ex euro colonies in africa.
mircea_popescu: phf well they weren't priceless antiques yet. and i doubt many people seriously saw a putin future back then.
mircea_popescu: it wasn't even gay, like volley or what's that other thing, minisoccer with hands ?
mircea_popescu: romania was awash in chinese exports. including the "drawing sets" and whatnot.
mircea_popescu: phf wut srsly ? i take it YOUR soviet state wasn't friends with china back then huh ?
mircea_popescu: real men skinnydip in the marian trench. DURING SHARK SEASON ONLY.
mircea_popescu: two or three more twists of the difficulty knob, you'll be almost at the level of archeologists trying to read some stone they found.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski: [...] it isn't. but it doesn't help that my translation efforts are ~starting~ with post-phd-level writings THAT DON'T EVEN HAVE ACCENTS << he has a point there lol.
mircea_popescu: but you gotta live in a shitty marsh where saltpetre is found!!1
mircea_popescu: you'd have to be fucking insane to build things flammably.
mircea_popescu: come to think of it... no fucking wonder romania doesn't need fire alarms.
mircea_popescu: we had specialist "turner" (kid who was adept at turning 1/4 wire around shoelace in a corkscrew pattern making ready to go puncher for ball.)
mircea_popescu: phf what fuse, stick a length of shoelace in there, good to go.
mircea_popescu: phf yup, it was so bad at some point sports suppliers refused to sell ping pong balls to boys.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo for bomb of equal effectivity as fuel bomb, made out of your own choice of nuclear.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo do the math, you'll see nuclear's not on the table.
mircea_popescu: "the amount of engineering effort that went into these machines far outweighs what you might get in a modern computer, and that’s something i don’t think the world will ever see again" << he's wrong, fwiw. the amount of competent work that went into art as the empire got fucked in the ass exceeded the amount before.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform except they're not low tech at all. heck, fuel bombs are today state of the art even.
mircea_popescu: the whole reason we EVEN THINK of software as user-serviceable is this.
mircea_popescu: " there was also a demand for systems that could be easily introspected, debugged, and changed by individual engineers, which was something mainframes couldn’t easily do as one mistake by one engineer could bring down a system serving dozens" <<< since we're doing the entire underappreciated point thing.
mircea_popescu: mmm, the way that ONE trail looked to me was, she's firing it at a puddle of flammable something
mircea_popescu: you want the flame to be HEAVY so you can put it on the enemy from under cover by shooting an arc
mircea_popescu: two problems : the flame is "light" so it flies off and you can't get it ON things.
mircea_popescu: golden standard is this ru 8 gallon pre-pressured mix thing
mircea_popescu: i gotta teach her how to work the backpack flamethrower.