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mircea_popescu: incidentally, the golden age of fedualism worked EXACTLY the same : while a king indisputably expended out of his purse, and amounts that were not trivial in terms of individual households, nevertheless the entire machine worked on the wilful donations of ten thousand knights, that actually lived their life in accordance with this particular model deliberately.
mircea_popescu: there's prolly going to be decades ellapsed before the immensity of just this one shift is even noticed, let alone fully discussed.
mircea_popescu: but the superiority of la serenissima over the fiat pretend-sovereigns is resplendent in all parts and throughout. here for instance : at least we don't even attempt the impossible,
mircea_popescu: 15/the-definitive-sovereign/ which are currently financed principally through voluntary donations of the citizenry, in the shape of time, know-how, expertise etc.
mircea_popescu: (and by no one can, i mean systematically. obviously one can, but only as an individual act. only ever as an individual act)
mircea_popescu: all fucking science exists as maybes, that's what it is. piles of hypotheses. just like no one can ever turn an ethic should into an engineering is, just so no one can turn a scientific maybe into an auctorial do it.
mircea_popescu: but the idea that scientists are not authorities doesn't really need much explanation, to anyone outside of the libertard coolaid club.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform for the record, osama bin laden took it upon himself to deliver a dozen jingos with shards in them right @ 1, Police Plaza
mircea_popescu: (to the more broad general point : an authority, perceived or actual, that faces absolutely no danger in case his pronouncements turn out to be wrong, CAN NOT BE USED AS AN AUTHORITY)
mircea_popescu: wtf happened to those economists, have they lost their echonomy jobs because of it ?
mircea_popescu: when we were discussiong this in january, he had talked to economists that said it's not true...
mircea_popescu: this is LITERALLY how it goes, tho they're broadly unaware of it.
mircea_popescu: you can't prove he's not a ninja, goes the broken mental process, because maybe you just didn't see iot.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform plenty. the ninja is the warrior closestly approximable by sitting on ass at computer.
mircea_popescu: davout would not work, if he still had any face to lose. but as it is, will necessarily work : has nothing left, therefore nothing to be lost.
mircea_popescu: with the victims, or as michael jackson's hologram would say, "ALLEGED!!1"
mircea_popescu: that's the entire fucking insistution of the settlement.
mircea_popescu: "LabMD wasn't the first time Tiversa's false hacks made national news," so how is it false ?
mircea_popescu: "We were a small company," he said. "It's not like we had millions of dollars to fight this and tons of employees." << yeah, the fetlife style. "we suck, but that's ok because we are small". herpy-derp, stick to twitter.
mircea_popescu: "In 2010, Tiversa scammed LabMD, a cancer testing center in Atlanta, Wallace testified. Wallace said he tapped into LabMD's computers and pulled the medical records."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform is this a "grassroots" "whistleblower" ? :D
mircea_popescu: what is this, "fell in the latrine, can't help but flail arms now"
mircea_popescu: lol they seriously still going with that stupid shit ?
mircea_popescu: neway, i invited that droid dude over, voice him if he shows up
☟︎ mircea_popescu: ancient trilema article, same idea "your country as a hotel ; or a change of perspective".
mircea_popescu: yes, but the difference between "my wife/slavegirl/twu wuv/we you call it" and "this cunt i'm fucking for the time being" is the only real difference in the world.
mircea_popescu: (maybe i'm just sentimental, i used to actually like them)
mircea_popescu: today. when it was decided that "well, we don't really give a shit about the debian-dominated gpg strong set"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform upon further meditation : the sum total of neededchanges to phuctor is, make keys introduced via web go to top of pile, while keys introduced by cutter of db go to bottom of pile. this is all, really.
mircea_popescu: just enough to have decent bread and whatnot. but mostly white
mircea_popescu: used to be a few spanish a few azn some people from africa (as opposed to us blacks)
mircea_popescu: heh. a decade or so ago it was undergoing "revival", they had all these plans to attract "artists" and gentrify the area.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the great love of beer in europe almost exactly maps to the late imperial recruiting grounds in europe.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: yo danielpbarron dun worry about it, "defo" means definitely.
mircea_popescu: anyway, egypt still has an ancient network of clean water canisters, as a public service, a day's walk away from the others
mircea_popescu: which explains exactly why plenty of people who manage to stay alive don't manage anything else.
mircea_popescu: all it takes is a will to stay alive, which pointedly includes the will to drink your blood if ity comes to it.
mircea_popescu: for one thing, newton did not have a clean water supply.
mircea_popescu: i'm not going to call it a syllogism. what if you don't know you're missing x ? what thrones of china you're missing that you never had ?