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mircea_popescu is further unimpressed with "Since joining the cult of LangSec, I've spent a great deal of time pondering" intros.
mircea_popescu is not particularly impressed with this recently discovered pop-crypto celeb. srsly, this is it, people stopped giving a shit about "music" so mpaa may die, but there's going to be a naa creating "crypto popstars" instead ?
mircea_popescu: "A Crypto Trick That Makes Software Nearly Impossible to Reverse"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: yeah, universal literacy totally was a good idea, i see it now.
mircea_popescu: what the fuck is "Everyone" going to do in siberia, upvote the snow ?
mircea_popescu remembers the early hopeful days of the chechen republic whatever it was called and that mustacioed fellow whose name, inescapably, came to "joker"
mircea_popescu: i don't disagree with the point at all, i just don't think that's what happened there.
mircea_popescu: a record made of the incident at the very list! what sort of bureaucracy is this.
mircea_popescu: for one thing, if it were bureaucracy driven, wouldn't you expect the girl be shot ? the woman dismissed ? some sort of "repercussions" ? "consequences" and whatnot ?
mircea_popescu: the real dynamic there is that the dudes are so fucking scared of actual womanhood they desperately seek, and for their sins find, an escape path.
mircea_popescu: (anyway, one girl, the only one that is overtly flirting with the men, is rejected for the obscure reason that she had a bad 1st molar. the procureress protests (in italian) that such a pretty girlie! nobody even noticed!
mircea_popescu: "una si bella fanciula... nessun' ne se h'a accorso..."
mircea_popescu: (the funniest thing about chechens is that they actually use the given name bula.
mircea_popescu: at the very least he'll be henceforth known as abdulbek the schoolteacher or something.
mircea_popescu: i'm not an authority on subcaucasian tribal customs, but my guess would be that such deeds would be a face wound for the poor guy in question incompatible with any sort of continued authority.
mircea_popescu: and the "criminal authority" has a name. also ran a hotel, which also had a name. etc.
mircea_popescu: i think he's mixing the pots, too. this story's from serbia.
mircea_popescu: "Another time, in school, a group of Chechens stormed into a classroom in the middle of a class, selected the three most attractive girls, and dragged them away with them. Later we found out that the girls were presented as birthday presents to a local Chechen criminal authority."
mircea_popescu: but hey, orlov doesn't know about india. he got a hammer an' he's a builder.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the problem is that the us never having been a nation, it can't possibly fail like one.
mircea_popescu: you're not smart to live a long time, you're smart to live well. length don't enter into it.
mircea_popescu: but teaching a boy that he should somehow cleave his intelligence from his activity is just as fucking criminal.
mircea_popescu: you know, teaching a woman that she's supposed to neglect the functioning of her head so she can focus on... the kitchen, i guess, as the puritans can't quite make the cunt point, is criminal.
mircea_popescu: and they didn't hang tyhe "local police" by the lamp posts ?
mircea_popescu: so, yeah. do that, last fucking time you ever have to "fight" the "terrorists".
mircea_popescu: the mistake is that the standing guy sought to protect himself.
mircea_popescu: you wanna win one of these wars, simply ship your guys over. by fucking bus.
mircea_popescu: problem is, armies don't actually work for this purpose.
mircea_popescu: "When I showed up, there were fifteen of them waiting for me, all grown men. I thought that they would simply kill me."
mircea_popescu: there's no way i can explain to williamdunne what he asks and there's nothing i have to ~say~ to chechens.
mircea_popescu: looky, verbal-ness is drastically overrated this morning.
mircea_popescu: how do you call that little barrel in which you keep sour cream ? putinica in romanian.
mircea_popescu: On the Russian side, it was invariably the mommy who came, and nagged her son: “You shouldn't fight! Fighting is bad!” On the Chechen side it was invariably the father who came. He slapped his son upside the head and told him: “How dare you lose a fight to a stinking Russian—the son of an alcoholic and a prostitute? Tomorrow you thrash him so hard that he pisses himself from fear any time he sees you!”
mircea_popescu: i moreover envision a situation where whatever steel's left, if there is, bands together and the shit gets buried.
mircea_popescu: and the steel particles are gonna stick with the shit ? lol, kay.
mircea_popescu: why did rome succeed "holding the barbarians at bay" for a millenium and then collapsed in two centuries ? look at what was going on in china during.
mircea_popescu: when it strengthens back, the barbarians run off west, and yo uhave "end of empires".
mircea_popescu: it just is so fucking big it causes gravity waves. when it weakens, the northern barbarians move east and you have european "peace".
mircea_popescu: btw, northern barbarians = the pakis. china's been pushing populations west since forever, and is continuing to do so. not intentionally, mind you.
mircea_popescu: globalelite = patriarchy = cis scum = jew bankers = illuminati = omfg spare me.
mircea_popescu: actually rotherham is not that badly off. kinda why i used it to derail our amiable friend.
mircea_popescu: so if you want to have a superpower, use china. the us is neither a superpower not really invovled.
mircea_popescu: and yes, china would be the main beneficiary of getting rid of all these northern barbarians.
mircea_popescu: and no, the us didn't make shipping cheap, china did (srsly - look at what they did to that market if you wanna get scared).
mircea_popescu: the pakis are there because between fifty of them they have more balls than the collected population of britons.
mircea_popescu: so no, people aren't these magical snowflakes made out of independent thought and closely held principle. that view is chiefly an economical surplus phenomena, people tend to form that view if they live for too long unchallenged. otherwise, people are lazy and small. some smaller than lazy, some lazier than small. but by and large not worth the mention.
mircea_popescu: wen't great for her, she's rapemeat, she loves it, ask her!
mircea_popescu: those dudes are going to be out before next year's out, they probably just wanted a break.
mircea_popescu: how about the references where hundreds of people were involved in raping thousands of preteens for a decade + and all the ridiculous queen's got are five convictions for less than five years a head ?
mircea_popescu: how about the references where they withdrew complaints / ran off from the da the day of testimony / etc ?