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mircea_popescu: and yet qntra is supposed to be censoring stuff. go fig.
mircea_popescu: cazalla here's a funny : one view shows the article at 5 votes and 8 comments. the other, 6 votes, 6 comments
mircea_popescu: wasn't the guy married to some chick people were more or less jokingly proposing to be satoshi in early say 2010-2011 ?
mircea_popescu: (the three, for the studious : 1929 ; 1945 ; 1989. the ww1 was not on the list, but instead a great time for romania. unexpectedly enough. young cvountry)
mircea_popescu: once you have to start forking the thoughts tho... that's gonna be hard.
mircea_popescu: the general fate of "o noes, we will be poor" decay-of-civilisation ~small thinkers~ envisage is nothing compared. romania went through three of these in a century, was fine, will be fine. so will the us, if that's all it is.
mircea_popescu: god fucking help us if we have to fork human thought that deep.
mircea_popescu: nevertheless... this isn't, actualy, a big problem. hasn't been, for five millenia.
mircea_popescu: obviously if you restart the process of 5k years ago with the means of 5k years ago you will get the comensurate results. this is a fact, because the processors still work, and in the same way.
mircea_popescu: this is in fact a big problem, and it was a major scientific advantage. in 3000 ad. five fucking thousand years ago.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and sometimes wonders if the stars are real or the world is real.
mircea_popescu: one of the rural inhabitants of a post-war italy that looks like 1300 ad is a shepherd. and he tells, the story of sherperding, specifically, that he talks to the stars
mircea_popescu: the plot is that a guy goes through villages with a broken camera, tricking people into paying him to make them cinema stars.
mircea_popescu: and the epitome of ~that~ distinction is as far as i know best illustrated by tornatore. in "l'uomo delle stele".
mircea_popescu: moreover, the strategic problems are often disguised as mundane things. i know at least a coupla of times my clock fucking stopped right here, over apparently nothings. and what the inept represent as "big problems" is almost never a usable or even vaguely correct representation. all about 'em, their emotional conflux, stuff like that.
mircea_popescu: that's a guy "thinking about big problems". he is no different from a dog thinking about bacon.
mircea_popescu: if that 1% doesn't feel the state like a glove, the state's gone. kinda like my ancient "the state may exist inasmuch as and for as long as i can't tell it's there."
☟︎ mircea_popescu: this is a mortal sin nobody and nothing ever recovers from.
mircea_popescu: basically, the usg has managed to alienate itself from the thiny sliver of people who actually matter.
mircea_popescu: or, as the ever wise azn someguy or the other observed, "what good is your gold to you now ?"
mircea_popescu: you don't take over the enemy's things. you just make them be a burden to him now.
mircea_popescu: "see, we're not even taking their lease on hong konmg. clearly we are the empire of law"
mircea_popescu: also bought half dozen self licking icecream cones, you never know
mircea_popescu: jurov shut up this facebook autoposter is great! really needed for it simplifies my lyf!!1
mircea_popescu: not exactly trolling, not exactly wot, not exactly industrious. something.
mircea_popescu: i suppose the closest approximation of gypsy culture accessible in the us would be stuff like eve online.
mircea_popescu: contrairiwise, the irish drink quite well, russian-like
mircea_popescu: anyway. actually genetic gypsy people don't drink well. this, they have in common with the hungarians. hence the entire thing in romania.
mircea_popescu: stuff like burning man etc stand for the peak of it there, but it's just about life 101 in gypsyland
mircea_popescu: actually gypsy culture would stand out like the second coming in the us
mircea_popescu: williamdunne they're not really irish either lol. just called irish in england like they're called hungarian in some parts of romania
mircea_popescu: gypsies are a migratory sort, they're not anymore romanian than austrian, french or british
mircea_popescu: williamdunne do those statistics distinguish romanians and gypsies ?
mircea_popescu: people gotta know why their ears are nailed to which board.
mircea_popescu: decimation the particular thing that annoys me is that the fuctarded anglos traded greece for romania after ww2, because oh noes, got forbid the english "Aristocratic" fauntleroys get separated from the fabled homeland of collegiate faggotry.
mircea_popescu: i hope half the country starves and the rest gets sold into prostitution in rural india.
mircea_popescu: why, because they're too good for their shit to stink ?
mircea_popescu: williamdunne fuck the greeks. they should have bought btc for every penny they had. they did not
mircea_popescu: (real terms, nobody cares you paid your neighbour ten cents to claim you paid him ten trillion billions so you're rich now)
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes two things about chinese material research : a) american folk go "chinese have it so much better because their financing is secure" and b) they're spending about 10x more than the us
mircea_popescu: williamdunne sure. and the us was built on european gold, look into the various panics culminating wit van buren
mircea_popescu: (you may think "oh, wouldn't it be more logical to do africa first ?" and no, it wouldn't. africa's inhabited by monkeys currently, so it doesn't matter. same pattern played out in 1705 - napoleon went after europe not after the us. because in 1705 the us was africa)
mircea_popescu: and so... is no doubt in my mind the chinese are getting the us.
mircea_popescu: in general disputes over land utilization resolve in favour of the more intensive.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the chinese would farm the shit out of that thing, to the bare bedrock.
mircea_popescu: that's really the tension here : usians currently use the us like inept argentines: they huddle around the coast and pull their cocks.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: what, you think maryland's not chaos everywhere "that doesn't matter" ?
mircea_popescu: just like the us works now, so it won't even be strange.
mircea_popescu: <trinque> I can see no way in hell the south would deal with a chinese occupation << they seem to be dealing with a northern occupation just fine.
mircea_popescu: because inept governance has managed to alienate all the people who matter to cater to the people who vote.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski right. except atm those people whio would suicide bomb hate obama more than the chinese
mircea_popescu: trinque dude, the gritted dissent of the peasantry was never a notable historical fact
mircea_popescu: war means, i fear i have to remind, spending the next 5 years without a woman eating your belt and shitting in a hole you dug yourself.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: there are not 100k people able to fight a war in the us currently.
mircea_popescu: guess what ? there's some guerilla in the ukraine too.
mircea_popescu: they're currently welcoming the rights of transsexuals and the obsese. what b?
mircea_popescu: but anyway, i dun think the need for this will go away, so. take your time.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla oh and e) have it deedbot a statement gpg'd to the owner's key each month, listing their assets.