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mircea_popescu: ("dear listeners, i tell you i have no one anywhere. not phone service, not gas distributor, not x y or z. i do not..."
mircea_popescu: literally, "n-ai pe cineva... ?" ie , "don't you have someone..."
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski the expression in romanian was " a face rost" , which meant to procure. which meant, talk to someone who knows someone.
mircea_popescu: seriously, very thin ice sheets to shade you from the sun.
mircea_popescu: the notion that "democracy", ie, an implementation of democracy without a martial population and strict limits on the franchise is even practicable...
mircea_popescu: then representatives of the democracy are shot on xmas day and you can get a beating just by saying you think communism may be a thing.
mircea_popescu: but from the inside of a "democracy", i can tell you this : people employing a wot are so much more successful than people who do not
mircea_popescu: decimation that's not even the biggest deal. arguably the biggest deal one outside could ever figure out.
mircea_popescu: make it just like the bond franchise, but with handicapped people and science.
mircea_popescu: have a senegalese man play Igor Totallyhonestlyrusynskyi
mircea_popescu: incidentally, this might make a great basis for a remake of that fabulous "le grand blanc" (which srsly was james bond only well done)
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski old joke, americans ask russians how do they keep discovering their secret agents. "you could try not sending black people..."
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and why la serenissima is not a democracy, and why no democracy can be anything but "a popular democracy", as in the popular democratic republic of <insert etnonym>
mircea_popescu: back to that "you have no rights" fisher quote for a second : it splendidly illustrates the difference between democracy and republic,
mircea_popescu: i think this is even mentioned in meanwhile declassified soviet stuff. they actually sorted the blacks by "switzerland or germany"
mircea_popescu: but somehow the geeks felt switzerland was more "technical"
mircea_popescu: decimation in fairness, they had all switched to those alcohol based swipes in the 90s.
mircea_popescu: so, yes. carrie bradshaw of philosophy writing for the toptenz of nyt has heard of cornel but not of chomsky.
mircea_popescu: note that they DO list that imbecile west. who has contributed as much to human knowledge as obama has : being black.
mircea_popescu: and this is how the carrie bradshaw selected hearing works. she'd have heard of the new york times, but not of... hm
mircea_popescu: sleep at renton's underage girlfriend's parents' place
mircea_popescu: that's the idea, generally. like going to a rave, orwhatever. sleep on the floor of a squatted building.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski if you recall the famous "conference" held in london by nefario, taaki and the rest of "bitcoinica consultancy" crowd...
mircea_popescu: decimation in fairness, california has always been past its demographic limits. people were paying more for hay there than anywhere in the world cca 1850
mircea_popescu: just like the actresses waiting tables and turning tricks.
mircea_popescu: not journalists like every other whore you fucked whenever you didn't mind getting filmy.
mircea_popescu: you know, "journalists" just like the fictional carriew bradshaw,
mircea_popescu: like hearn, like everyone else on github. like the names on social media, like the leah goodmans trying to convince you they're "journalists".
mircea_popescu: that's pretty much the life of the whore, and of the mentally ill, and of the "student" and so on. bums, the lot of them.
mircea_popescu: no fixed place of residence, some nights in a hotel, or a car, or someone's livingroom, or the park.
mircea_popescu: the "easy" situation has created this particular inferno for the underclass, that they are literally a mob now.
mircea_popescu: note pete_dushenski the guy starts by inquiring whether the tramp is "in a room tonight"
mircea_popescu: could be romania back when ceausescu was trying to play prague spring supporter just as well.
mircea_popescu: "I don't remember that," Fisher says. "But the inmates did tell me they had never eaten so good until I arrived."
mircea_popescu: because they lived there forever, and are adapted to what there *means*.
mircea_popescu: much like the same idiots have reclassified natural phenomena like wildfire as "bad", notwithstanding that coniferous trees will only open the seedpods if they get scorched.
mircea_popescu: the important part being that the pansy-ass ten year olds masquerading as adults have reclassified as "trauma" a large swath of life experiences that are exactly necessary for the woman.
mircea_popescu: re this entire "powdered alcohol" bs : why the fuck would i drink a galon of cyclodextrine slog for a quart of alcohol ?
mircea_popescu: “The likelihood of widespread Palcohol abuse — particularly among underage consumers — carries a real possibility of tragic consequences,” Mr. Franchot said in a statement, “which is why I’m so pleased by the industry’s unified response to protect the public from such a dangerous product.”
mircea_popescu: so it's done once not just at level you, but at the whole wot level.
mircea_popescu: it was pretty clear at the time the ru "sanctions" were nailgun suicide.
mircea_popescu: this is not exactly new. was discussed here back in the lead-up to the cn-ru financial compact
mircea_popescu: marginally amusing read, stuff like
http://www.kalzumeus.com/2015/03/09/announcing-starfighter/ (grep for "Sounds like BS, right. I know. I’m a generic web programmer (yay Ruby, meh JavaScript, boo low-level anything). The last time I played a CTF, written by my cofounders, they had me breaking into locks controlled by micro controllers which ran embedded assembly code.")
mircea_popescu: (you can trace Patrick McKenzie / starfighter if you feel like it0
mircea_popescu: it is kind-of fascinating for me that they were actually this unprepared for gavin getting headshot.
mircea_popescu: pretense to the contrary is just that, pretense, readily explained by the desperation in usg quarters post their loss of their main asset in here.