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mircea_popescu: tell you what asciilifeform, bitcoin works well enough.
mircea_popescu: that their deranged successors don't even recognise the marks of this...
mircea_popescu: the only people that ever made the airplane tank work were the 60s usians.
mircea_popescu: fucking comedic that thing, should have a surrealist film made about it
mircea_popescu: speaking of which, has ever existed a worse failure than the GSh-6-30
mircea_popescu: rinque>my understanding was that everything we did in the 20th century involved the rape of other countries << kick that dem-socialist coolaid srsly.
mircea_popescu: otherwise what, "bravery to me is X" "oh, you mean pissing ? because X pissed at a certain point in time!"
mircea_popescu: the word programmer, to me, is chiefly synonymous with rms.
mircea_popescu: in africa doctor is more or less synonymous with shaman, what the fuck light does that throw on any discussion
mircea_popescu: what am i, an engineer now ? a scientist ? wtf is this pious fraud bs.
mircea_popescu: how the fuck is it the managers get the short stick again!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i am testing out my new just in time examples webservice, built on node.js and ruby on rails!
mircea_popescu: the even reason you bother selecting people in the first place, is that.
mircea_popescu: no dude. not everyone's 14 when their battery runs down.
mircea_popescu: in the casino for the first time, and can only win, because mom had us with saint Winny.
mircea_popescu: then you get "the german people have failed and let's blow everything up"
mircea_popescu: not like you're gonna try and argue THAT bunch of degenerates were the true namesakes.
mircea_popescu: (but i can bring same argument - hey, any PROPER romanovs the reds shot ?)
mircea_popescu: unlike in the case of the romanovs, by the 1940s time had already cleansed this bunch.
mircea_popescu: the "proper" rothschilds lived in the 17th and 18th century.
mircea_popescu: for a while there you couldf even fuck one, for the asking.
mircea_popescu: you can't build yourself a rich house as a fiftene year old stealing from your father and fencing the stuff.
mircea_popescu: and generally, no involvement of us in anywhere to date has been economically productive.
mircea_popescu: merely because the ww2 cost the us less than it cost europe does not mean it wasn't costly.
mircea_popescu: <trinque>chetty: this is not what happened? << no, it is not what happened.
mircea_popescu: i'm sure they were all spies sent by stalin himself to lure the enemy into a false sense of confidence.
mircea_popescu: what, "i'm a boy from tenesee here to die for some fat bitch's right to marry her dog" ?
☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: texans would prolly ally with the invader if the invader bitchslaped california harsly enough
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "usian" is a population. like the argentine cattle. not a nation.
mircea_popescu: whole fuckthing wouldnt' work too well if you just fell in.
mircea_popescu: yeah, he would. like the woman puts up resistence. with her uterus.
mircea_popescu: but the notion the usian will put up any sort of resistence, to any sort of invader, ofany kind come from anywhere...
mircea_popescu: it had plenty of other choices, such as for instance, sitting around.
mircea_popescu: so, walrus is fucking a penguin. and one of those seagulls goes in front of it and exhibits itself for sexual use.
mircea_popescu: the firmware in question is both dedicated and ubiquitous.
mircea_popescu: where girl goes and kneels before anotehr woman's rapist to get some herself.
mircea_popescu: most teenaged girls' immune system had been massaged on more or less nothing but "boys" for millenia
mircea_popescu: <trinque>and I would expect a military dictatorship period directly following the fall of usg << IF you can find a certain corporal in the army that will get badly defeated and who resents the coupla decades of peace which consist mostly of american teenagers being used as public toilets from rashapur to ankara, then yes, maybe, dictatorship.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform mexicans are kinda lazy methinks. the arabs are more serious when they do it.
mircea_popescu: what do you think a military is, some sort of a country club ? it exists to obey orders. the orders atm are on the line of "scoring officers' sensitivity to inane nontopics"
mircea_popescu: <trinque>if there is not a single man inside the us military who can figure out something to do with even fragments of the thing, wtf? << you need to stop being racis.
mircea_popescu: all those preppy white chicks probably make excellent harem slaves.
mircea_popescu: <mats>militaries require competent leadership. when i say existential threat, i do not mean ISIS will march on DC << it doesn't want or need to march in dc. all it conceivably might want is to pull a rotherham over at vassar.
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field>trinque: the next major usg trend is 'demand destruction' << i suspect this is what 2015 stalin would have called dekulakization.
mircea_popescu: <trinque>the USA has its own oil reserves, many of which have barely been used << so does nigeria. wtf argument is this.
mircea_popescu: the future where russian military was like present day german military seemed the likelier eventuality in 1990.
mircea_popescu: much like the third reich military had no debts owed to weimar and generally was hitler's creation.
mircea_popescu: <trinque>am I wrong in understanding that there is still a considerable Russian military? << you are wrong in imagining there's any sort of continuity. present day russian military shares nothing at all with the one that ended, and is almost entirely putin's making.
mircea_popescu: neone's welcome to furnish his own skull as he sees fit.
mircea_popescu: <funkenstein_>trinque, one possibility: if no more paycheck people will just walk away, sell off the gear << exactly how it went in russia heh.