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mircea_popescu: (in the sense of having a miserable memory leaking low cost node)
mircea_popescu: so basically no os whatsoever builds on these things ?
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron there wouldn't normally be huge differences.
mircea_popescu: "teach the faux controversy mayhap people forget shit doesn't have tyo be eaten"
mircea_popescu: so to conflate "modern idiotic usgtronics" with "capitalism" which in turn conflates with "everything minus stone age, feudalism, and the soviets" is...
mircea_popescu: i mean shit, you can't go around conflating everything you don't know about for chrissakes.
mircea_popescu: moreover, as late as during ww2, the west thought the war is mostly about preventing exactly that.
mircea_popescu: for most of the industrial revolution, late 1600s to early 1900s, this view was exactly not held.
mircea_popescu: "A new system of economic relations was brought into being, based on money that could be generated at will, in the form of debt" << this is EXACTLY unrelated to capitalism.
mircea_popescu: the centralised state can only be a centralised state after all.
mircea_popescu: decimation that cavalry was not feudal tho. prussian military.
mircea_popescu: this may be true, but the girl's still pretty badly bloodied.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the problem with using a language is that you're stuck using it according to itself tho. this is like, orlov horribly mauled a teenaged girl and you're like "well clearly the bear thought her cunt's salmon."
mircea_popescu: perhaps an argument can be brought for places like sicily cca 1930, but it is still very tenuous.
mircea_popescu: this is like saying bows were replaced by submachine guns. well... no. at absolutely no point had people using bows encountered people using submachine guns.
mircea_popescu: but basically, feudalism and metalwork almost look as a zero sum game : as the latter develops the former fades
mircea_popescu: decimation before long you'll be looking into subtle distinctions such as between "king of germany" and "king in germany"
mircea_popescu: it was ending just as the hansa was coming into its own.
mircea_popescu: anyway. the peak of feudalism is around the peak of things like the tournoi as a public sport.
mircea_popescu: (march = marsh = border, in this understanding. strips of marginal and thus uninhabited lands)
mircea_popescu: "about half the power a count used to have back when the counts of belgium dominated france, for to protect the country borders"
mircea_popescu: decimation landgraf aka margrave aka march lord is a post-feudalist construct
mircea_popescu: "here's what i remember of this bad translation of a phenomena by some people who didn't live it, and who are so far from me culturally i in turn have no idea. let's make an infographic and educate reddit."
mircea_popescu: marsh lord, what is known as marquis, actually outranked counts at court, chiefly because being the lord of a marsh he had much more legal power than the head of settled land
mircea_popescu: dukes did not by and large exist, unless you mean dux, which was a leader of fucking cataphracts
mircea_popescu: in any case : counts as in, counts palatine, counts of the hre, etc, were sovereign.
mircea_popescu: by the time anyone cares about this feudalism was long defeated.
mircea_popescu: russia did not exist. the various duchies were not even feudal ffs.
mircea_popescu: protip : no, it's not 1550, that's the cinquecento in italy, feudalism is already dead and rotting everywhere.
mircea_popescu: i am willing to bet, on the strength of that diagram, that his disneyland notions of "feudalism" preclude him even knowing WHEN in time this happened
mircea_popescu: find a fucking count that was allegiant to a duke in the entire history of feudalism.
mircea_popescu: this is why i don't like reading orlov. the propaganda angle doesn't bother me as much, but the millitant, sheer ignorance does.
mircea_popescu: <brendafdez> No bitcoin payoutsa, however << a) nothing surprising about it and b) everyone wants to get as many btc as humanly possible before having to admit it.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> where it apparently strips flags one added manually to .config << ahahaha
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah you did say, and yeah i guess pretty much everyone honestly trying has figured out the same thing, if not necessarily apt to express it.
mircea_popescu: seriously, women want to feel like something (even cancer) would fuck em ? heh
mircea_popescu: why would anyone partake ? "i am not taking part in your kangaroo mockery. you want to either win or flip again, i dun have time for that"
mircea_popescu: amusingly, the guy they were actually there to break out had already escapeds.
mircea_popescu: buncha guys broke a coupla 17 yos out of juvenile detention. a
mircea_popescu: Pedalavo come se fuggissi, e in realtà fuggivo. Da lei, da quelle emozioni, dai sogni, dai ricordi, da tutto e pensavo che dovevo dimenticare. Ero certo che sarei riuscito a dimenticare, ma oggi che sono vecchio, che ho consumato banalmente la vita, che ho conosciuto tante donne che mi hanno detto: “Ricordati di me” e io le ho scordate tutte, ancora oggi e’ lei l’unica che non ho mai dimenticato. Malena!
mircea_popescu: trinque people always wanted to fight forgetfulness huh.
mircea_popescu: read the case in point in say henry millers' books. the guy DROVE the sexual revolution,