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mircea_popescu: it was misperceived by their enemies as "actual", which is how their tactics worked.
mircea_popescu: understand : the "physical concentration" of mongols was EXACTL:Y like what we do here.
mircea_popescu: nukes are, in this discussion, theatrical props. we need them like i need a prince albert.
mircea_popescu: any merely functional live thing will get its own food and shelter. it's the basis of life.
mircea_popescu: the only thing of any import in there was the cocaine.
mircea_popescu: that system works for derp force the 4th. who is, in all terms, worthless.
mircea_popescu: cunts make kids not vegetables, and things don't scale like this.
mircea_popescu: "my wife couldn't even give birth to an eggplant, what hope is there she could make me an heir"
mircea_popescu: moreover, this is entirely not related. things don't scale like this.
mircea_popescu: for that matter, she was saved from ending up in the street by someone here iirc.
mircea_popescu: this is not actually true. we could, she didn't want to.
mircea_popescu: "looky, just because we're temporarily tolerating the kulaks means nothing. this is like saying the soviets had no factories to its name, 1915."
mircea_popescu: and moreover, once la serenissima expands - A LITTLE (in comparative tersm) - what's to say it won't be able to afford this ?
mircea_popescu: does it mean they could ? no, it does not. the proposition is of the kind of "apple shares could buy all of russia". no, they COULD NOT.
mircea_popescu: does this then mean that the us generates 10 more fabs each month ? no.
mircea_popescu: so, what's a fab cost ? like 10bn or so, say ? less, but anyway. what's the current print rate ? 10x that A MONTH or so ? at least as far as documented (most monetary expansion happens in the dark anyway, it was recently rechristened as "big bank fraud" temporarily, but it is not nor ever was that - most monetary expansion is regulated by the banks)
mircea_popescu: i cope with it solipsistically, which is to say, "until it gets in my way it doesn't exist. once it does, ima burn it"
mircea_popescu: it's very funny this, they would rather want "sovereignity on windows" than "independence from windows".
mircea_popescu: the pretend-sovereigns are really not that good. that's all.
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-05-2015#1127054 << no they don't. nobody, including the chinese, including putin, has any fucking idea what this even is, because they lack both the intellectual sophistication to comprehend what matters in the world and go seek the signs, and the power to actually have good advisors that do.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: looky, just because we're temporarily tolerating the kulaks means nothing. this is like saying the soviets had no factories to its name, 1915.
mircea_popescu: like a sort of nonviolence proponent that takes it up the pooper.
mircea_popescu: "It’s hard to think of another movie since then that’s been so quotable, so memorable, so widely watched, and has even aged as well as it has." << except star wars, star trek, most of manga...
mircea_popescu: auden wasn't bad, just not good enough. runcible doom wasn't bad, just not good enough
mircea_popescu: i'm not about to give anything stupid the time of day in any sense, except perhaps to point and laugh at it if it's stupid enough.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: it progressed slightly from that, to word redefinitions in the 90s, and so on.
mircea_popescu: even before-r than that, in the 80s, all the left had was "accuse the other of bad things loudly and repeatedly. just that".
☟︎ mircea_popescu: if you care about anthropology, it's a great thing to watch, how the beast acquires skills. that was the major breakthrough there.
mircea_popescu: you know, where the usg actually gained the ability to make bad graphs
mircea_popescu: rather than because those people actually need their money.
mircea_popescu: maybe they imagine that their "rape earth sciences" program worked, and maybe they imagine it worked because it was persuasive,
mircea_popescu: course, it's how that country is run, it's how the derps "in charge" got into office, it's the only thing they're tooled to do, and so to the man carrying a bad graph and some banal word tricks...
mircea_popescu: why the fuck do they think addressing themselves to a mathematically illiterate crowd is a valid avenue is entirely beyond my comprehension.
mircea_popescu: davout the amount of herd-herding that the usg has been putting into this is so incredibly useful because a) it really can't do anything but! b) it really does expose the tools.
mircea_popescu: williamdunne nigeria was originally a booming oil economy, attracted a lot of people. then it went stale, and for a while throughout the 90s there was a large community of desperate, socially marginal young men, who took to playing internet con games. eventually there was some reaction in the shape of, "con the nigerians".
mircea_popescu: steganography is hiding messages inside images. and a crush is when a guy wants to put his wee wee in your... well...
mircea_popescu has kicked ben_vulpes for treason and undermining the national economy
mircea_popescu: davout hey, not my fault they know how to make a salmon and parmezan sammich.
mircea_popescu: (italian fashion, somehow teh usians got crazy over it at some point. like a self-flagellation tiramisu)
mircea_popescu: pretty much called rucola throughout europe, except for france.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes it's called rucola when i had it in my salmon sandwiches at that cafe
mircea_popescu: "Civilization in the New World has very deep and ancient roots." yeah, and like any case of micropenis, we gotta go digging for it VEEERY carefully.
mircea_popescu: being french -automatically-> hipster. ask anyone in socal.
mircea_popescu: and you got wild hair! wtf no hipster are you talking about!