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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "but maybe it's not really from ww2, and ms doolittle's poodle shat it out"
mircea_popescu: read the logs at that time, they stand symbolic of this problem. how the fuck is one to prove the internet is broken X way when iot's consistently broken so many ways from sunday.
mircea_popescu: "maybe it's the router". "no, because isp has been sane" "well..."
mircea_popescu: yes but what's that do. i said the same at the time, it was like...mmmkay well... it dun work./
mircea_popescu: what, you mean like people pretending to be judges pretending to listen to people who are pretending to be das pretending to be prosecuting people who are pretending to be breaking the law ? the first in the hopes of selling this into a "political career", the latter in the hopes of selling this into a "career in showbiz" ?
mircea_popescu: and also have perfectly simple and so forth explanations and etc.
mircea_popescu: hello public. look at all the things that aren't happening!
mircea_popescu: yeah. but warning there's gonna be an eclypse is not quite the same as watching the eclypse over a beer, out on a terrace.
mircea_popescu: this is how the us budget is constructed, at any rate.
mircea_popescu: it often happens for very complex systems to behave in highly consistent ways with a clearly identifiable beneficiary all by themselves.
mircea_popescu: (yes, most of the ruins of roman antiquity are in turkey, not europe)
mircea_popescu: but then again - shoot all the males, keep the females under 20ish that suck it enthusiastically has always been the procedure
mircea_popescu: and who's gonna bother with training them individually.
mircea_popescu: now, will large herds of worthless schmucks be turnable into an actual population ? i grant it seems dubious.
mircea_popescu: i know from directly verified experimental fact that properly chained and beaten they DO work. the spark to work and be smart and everything's not lost.
mircea_popescu: that's EXACTLY what actual revolutionaries are thinking right now. "i wonder if there's some schmuck on a google blog with opinions. let me check!"
mircea_popescu: rotten fucking pseudo-civilisation of nothing. let's commentate commentary!
mircea_popescu: somehow the "i am not a revolutionary, here are my opinions on how that works" does not give him any pause whatsoever. "i'm a virgin, here's some songs about fucking i wrote". because why ?
mircea_popescu: "o herp, we are flooding europe with fake euros. can you break a 500 ???"
mircea_popescu: "2. Start printing Euros without authorization from the European Central bank. When accused of forgery, make the forgery harder to detect by changing the letter at the front of the serial number from Y (for Greece) to X (for Germany)." << ahaha gawd.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: from what i hear putin's been asked this a lot by the various oligarchs
mircea_popescu: let's make a russian union run by russian bureaucrats with the capital at ruxelles!
mircea_popescu: fucking russian inferiority complex. "oh, europe is doing something stupid ? we will do THE SAME STUPID THING IN OUR OWN WAY!!11"
mircea_popescu: not because it wouldn't be consistent with the piece so far, and with his verbiage so far. but why then ?
mircea_popescu: somehow orlov doesn't feel compelled to go "check out schmuckin, going over to the euro tune of human rights"
mircea_popescu: Given that the price is so high, perhaps it would be better after all if we just sat quietly, allowed the rich get richer as the poor get poorer, watched listlessly as the environment got completely destroyed by capitalist industrialists in blind pursuit of profit, and eventually curled up, kissed our sweet asses good-bye and died?
mircea_popescu: e nation. Even after many years we feel the effect of this tragedy on ourselves. We must do a great deal to make sure that this is never forgotten.”
mircea_popescu: ere raised above the main value—the value of human life, above the rights and liberties of man. For our country this is especially tragic, because the scale was colossal. Thousands, millions of people were destroyed, sent to concentration camps, shot, tortured to death. And these were primarily people who had their own opinions, who weren't afraid to voice them. These were the most effective people—the flower of th
mircea_popescu: Of course, this took a terrible toll on society. Here is what Putin had to say on the subject of “red terror”: “Think of the hostages who were shot during the civil war, the destruction of entire social strata—the clergy, the prosperous peasants, the Cossacks. Such tragedies have recurred more than once during the history of mankind. And it always happened when initially attractive but ultimately empty ideals w
mircea_popescu: go to the museum, look at the statues, then look at the people milling around them.
mircea_popescu: and the short, brown, dumbass current inhabitants have as much to do with the slender, white, original builders of the monuments as your egyptian arabs have to do with the egyptians.
mircea_popescu: yes. no difference in leechdom between italy and greece. they're exactly the same sort of zoo park. ex civilisaiton, plox baksheesh that's visible at giza
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski this may reflect your own mind more than the ground.
mircea_popescu: for the record : p is impulse. the definition of inertia is m = F/a, where m is inertia[l mass].
mircea_popescu: ask the barbarians who can fuck more soldiers than a roman matron
mircea_popescu: "let's call things thing because it's the internet of things and conviction's more important than a clue!"
mircea_popescu: "The formula for inertia is p=mv where p is inertia, m is mass and v is velocity." ahaha where did they find this fuckwit
mircea_popescu: "Proprietary code decays and devteams of proprietary code decay even faster. Just look at Google."
mircea_popescu: and if he doesn, the end result is "supersized beverages" and "britney spears, best singer ever"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: of course the proper node is "why should us resident derp have any money whatsoever", which obviously he shouldn't. disposable income belongs to the sort of people who think about the world, usian maggots really have no busienss holding any money whatsoever.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: then when i say bitcoin is not for the poor, people are liek o noes.
mircea_popescu: might as well use fucking visa rather than all this wastage.
mircea_popescu: which he buys via amazon instance > cloudflare and he spends via amazon instance > cloudflare.
mircea_popescu: obviously if he pays anyone anything that's tracked. and in his dumbass case, this includes bitcoin
mircea_popescu: if he visits any website, both amazon and cloudflare have records, which can even be compared. how's that for ECC asciilifeform !
mircea_popescu: so random schmuck today finds himself in the following situation : if he goes anywhere, taking uber, all his travel is in usg db.
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