225400+ entries in 0.068s
mircea_popescu: i'm really not enough of an expert in the field to be all that confident.
mircea_popescu: there is no requirement that graph be arbitrarily traversable.
mircea_popescu: the sane were pretty much either dead under the white flag, or else involved in subverting the red.
mircea_popescu: doing what, sanely waiting for the messiah ? (the real one this time!)
mircea_popescu: the insane can either live in the camps nor not live at all, that's the problem there. sanity, not intelligence.
mircea_popescu: framing the discussion in terms of intellectual ability is completely missing the salient points. nobody ever gets offed for being either academically smart or stupid, it's orthogonal.
mircea_popescu: you know, the "wrecker" who was "trying to make the train tracks run down faster"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: brilliant guy, inescapably stupid. what are you gonna do ? can't empower stupid. off to the gulag with him.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: anyway, watching the derp go about how "we need regulation" suddenly made me comprehend why exactly von meck actually belonged beheaded.
mircea_popescu: i should prolly have one made, come to think about it.
mircea_popescu: women off to tadjikistan, milk goats in chains for the rest of their lives
mircea_popescu: honestly, my greatest regret in this life so far is that ~100k romanian ex-various state things survived the year 1990.
mircea_popescu: i fully intent to ejaculate down the cut throat of every single female involved.
mircea_popescu: tell you what, there's not going to be any "anastasias" out of the current imperial family.
mircea_popescu: by the time i'm done, it's time to start butchering the powers that used to be.
mircea_popescu: actually, hopefully we end up in prison, like the early soviet leadership. i'm gonna write a dictionary and a history of the world.
mircea_popescu: in short : those who do are dull. "i do not wish to think about these things, i have better stuff to do!!1". those who don't are insane. but who's to notice ? they themselves can't, the others can't be bothered. so... imperceptibly insane.
mircea_popescu: well... you know, the junkie is also imperceptibly addicted.
mircea_popescu: the former try to make things, the latter try to pass of their pretenses.
mircea_popescu: if i were younger and more bored (really, less involved with actual things) i might consider rewriting the history of the world from the only sane perspective : as the endless "interplay" between two types of people : the sane, and the imperceptibly mentally ill.
mircea_popescu: (well, he tried to pay in debased coinage, anyway. caused a revolt)
mircea_popescu: antonio doria, before being cut down by the french at crecy, was a rather successful genoese pirate. the pirate captain's regime collapsed over his (and others) failure to pay.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field there was this mildly famous gay boy of athens whose name escapes me at the moment, literally got a whole trireme detachment on unbacked promises of great pay (from persia iirc ?) and well... there they sat.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: if dandolo had any sense they'd have plowed and salted constantinople, and sold all the women to the turks.
mircea_popescu: moral : democracy is for the mentally ill ; the rewards of democracy are rape and arson, often enough delivered with the same stick.
mircea_popescu: V. they decide to conquer the fucking city. because by now they've got an inkling of the pure filth the greeks are. so they do, and burn it, and cauterize the place.
mircea_popescu: IV. the "crowdsource" revolts. this alters "reality" once more, their guy is promptly poisoned.
mircea_popescu: III. they take adrianople, and their presence alters "reality" as the greeks perceive it. so their guy is named co-emperor.
mircea_popescu: II.b. and further promised them the "pearl in heavens", a very classical device in greek gay drama (since at least the days of darius, this empty promises as a path to military glory. the greeks invented "fake it till you make it")
mircea_popescu: II.a. random byzantine (militarily worthless, intellectually overpowering) entity convinces them to help him "recover" his "stolen" throne, as if the byzantines ever did anything else or anyone had a valid claim, or the possibility of a valid claim even existed in their world.
mircea_popescu: so, I. a bunch of militarily powerful, intellectually naive westerners made an army to go beat up the muslims and take jerusalem.
mircea_popescu: "my being here is more expensive than the whole fucking shop would cost to build"
mircea_popescu: well... in effect we'll all get super powers. like literal gods of mythology. "if im here everything works"
mircea_popescu: and this is set to aggravate, by the way. physical presence becoming rarer and rarer and expensiver and expensiver, the necessary result of the interplay of its rarity with the above mental condition is that
mircea_popescu: chetty> UPS ships to very happy customs agents in many places << heh very much that
mircea_popescu: by the way, lemme recount the fourth crusade for the benefit of the awareness-raising crowd-sourced crowd.
mircea_popescu: and now we understand alf's real tether to the mordor lands.
mircea_popescu: samsung makes some pretty excellent ones, recent model too
mircea_popescu: amusingly : the normal cellphone "sunk". in the us. it's amply abundant and vastlyt supplied in the real world tho.
mircea_popescu: it all flows from the whole "we can't ~private~ message if we don't have a private relationship" thing. da fuck would i be doing on "online marketplace", dunno anyone there.
mircea_popescu: which is why from my point of view the whole thing is dross. i don't buy the stuff you're talking about and why wouldn't i want to be in a shop.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field similarly, the "reputation system" works perfectly for anyone not using it.