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spyked:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-22#1701836 <-- also, starting point for discussions with certain meatwot people who keep insisting that
https "just works", and "why don't you propose an alternative", despite their having tried the alternative in ~1st university year.
☝︎ a111: Logged on 2017-08-22 05:47 mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-21#1701414 << empire is not organised towards "protecting of the proles" or any other statement with the proles as a subject. the proles (understood deductively, as "all people", just as they understand govenment deductively, see prev discussion), as well as the environment generally are the objects, not the subjects of imperial discourse.
spyked:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-22#1701761 <-- well, but. "won't somebody think of the children!" this goes on and on. it never happens in fact (as the avg gyppo in the slums of bucharest -- or "banlieue", n'est-ce pas? -- can certify), but it happens in speech. hence attempt to regulation that only increases coefficient of friction in sane economic activity.
☝︎ a111: Logged on 2017-08-22 01:34 pete_dushenski: "ultimately, the only way that philanthropy is really going to be able to shed its aura of noxious elitism is if the rich give up the reins of control, and allow the poor to make many, many more allocative decisions."
<< i lolled
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-21#1701546 << when ceausescu died there was a very brief revival "we shall roar" orc thing because ~most of us ops in eastern europe got killed / the rest fled. so there was a bit of pushback, all the way to killing dudes way in chicago. it didn't last, principally because sometime mid 90s the decision was taken (by the russkis) the way forward is economical not operational. so ss went the cia w
☝︎☟︎ a111: Logged on 2017-08-21 11:41 spyked: !~later tell mircea_popescu re
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-20#1701196 <-- yah, but does protecting the "proles" from own stupidity even make any sense as a statement? sorta relates to idea on Trilema on whether the empire wanted to arrive to this point (can't find it right now). enfranchisement of the stupid directly lead to that.
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-21#1701414 << empire is not organised towards "protecting of the proles" or any other statement with the proles as a subject. the proles (understood deductively, as "all people", just as they understand govenment deductively, see prev discussion), as well as the environment generally are the objects, not the subjects of imperial discourse.
☝︎☟︎ BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> to sit down on the phorq
<< And once sat down on phork there is problem of who to talk to among the AWS sybils.
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> dumping shitforkolade is in that sense a very private work, more than, say, proctology
<< AHA, balance of bleeding!
pete_dushenski:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-04#1693691 << re "car wheel drm" can't say i've ever lost one of the "special" nuts myself but they are indeed a thing and it's not overly surprising that the shops won't sell you new ones but if you just drop your car off there, flip them a $50 or whatever, i'm sure they can take care of it. or, y'know, just know a guy.
☝︎ pete_dushenski: "ultimately, the only way that philanthropy is really going to be able to shed its aura of noxious elitism is if the rich give up the reins of control, and allow the poor to make many, many more allocative decisions."
<< i lolled
☟︎ a111: Logged on 2016-07-05 22:17 trinque: mod6: 172.86.178.46
<< deedbot
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> and BingoBoingo possibly also
<< Yes, ip available to qualified inquirers
deedbot: spyked rated valentinbuza 3
<< fierce hacker, cracker with research mindset
deedbot: spyked rated asciilifeform 2
<< voice of sane computing
deedbot: spyked rated mircea_popescu 4
<< master of three-lemmas, bludgeoner of sinners
a111: Logged on 2017-08-20 01:23 mircea_popescu: !~later tell spyked
http://thetarpit.org/posts/y03/062-greenspan-assault-on-integrity.html << the problem with this view is that the pantsuits correctly intuit that all the imbeciles they enfranchised are sitll imbeciles. consequently it would be no harm to a business' reputation to sell them iguanas on a stick and call it prime beef. they will never know ; and casual perusal of tardstalk "investor" as well as "community disc
spyked: !~later tell mircea_popescu re
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-20#1701196 <-- yah, but does protecting the "proles" from own stupidity even make any sense as a statement? sorta relates to idea on Trilema on whether the empire wanted to arrive to this point (can't find it right now). enfranchisement of the stupid directly lead to that.
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