asciilifeform: decimation: as per the famous 'frozen turkey test' at airplane factories.
asciilifeform: they like to cross roads, slowly, single file, and - given their lengthy 'runway' - one might imagine that they would occasionally get flattened. but i have yet to see this.
asciilifeform: geese are pestilentially common here.
asciilifeform: you'd need an old-fashioned, 1918-style multi-sided (5+) civil war to turn usa into something thermodynamically stable
asciilifeform: (to keep real estate bezzle heated up)
asciilifeform: for instance, the petty criminals who are nurtured and catch-and-released to terrorize the white suburbanites
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: a little more complicated than this. just like quite a few folks who have never drawn a proper 'federal' paycheque are really members of usg, quite a few folks (tens of millions) in usa are in fact 'policemen' though they do not know it
asciilifeform: (the folks who like to walk into a court waving a copy of american constitution)
asciilifeform: as the 'sovereign citizen' crackpots reliably discover
asciilifeform: 'It is as though in the space of ten years we had slid back into the Stone Age. Human types supposedly extinct for centuries, the dancing dervish, the robber chieftain, the Grand Inquisitor, have suddenly reappeared, not as inmates of lunatic asylums, but as the masters of the world.'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: do not convey a feeling of falsity << ahahaha. i'm nearing the end of what must be my 5th rereading of mr o's complete output.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: impudence... he can't round up... and shoot the lot << remember michael hastings ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: b) they're all reasonably loaded (for a clerk) a) they're generally old enough, not necessarily for impotence, but to mostly lack interest.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i can't even assume that 'medcom' is really representative of the rest of the american army.
asciilifeform: perhaps mats has something to add to this.
asciilifeform: but it wouldn't surprise me the least bit to learn that today's u.s. colonels who think too much, tend to retire as colonel
asciilifeform: if physiognomy - not that different from a certain boss's boss i remember
asciilifeform: just another role, for these folks; all you need - hindbrain.
asciilifeform has not met especially many specimens of u.s. military brass, but the ones he saw alive gave the impression of being something quite like professional actors.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: any reason to think that the particular specimen was the primary whore ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'Years, decades, you've done your part to build the great progressive future... ...the work instead of imaginary devils...' << who said the general necessarily believes in anything other than the fat paycheck (not from army, naturally, but 'consulting' gigs) and cheap whores ?
