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mircea_popescu: conservatives don't make very good parents for that reason. kinda why nature put all the poop in the process, make sure it gets a fair shot.
mircea_popescu: then you can make comments to them about their black boyfriends and we can ostracize you and take your stadium away.
mircea_popescu: seriously, nobody run the endless reels of "woman fucks baseball bat" for the court on that one ?
mircea_popescu: what the fuck "not much reason to keep it there". what fucking reason does uninvited third party have to be in your bedroom ?
mircea_popescu: cazalla doesn't sound like much of a country does it ?
mircea_popescu: ;;google guy that crossed atlantic in a barrel died in new york, slipping on banana peel
mircea_popescu: now i understand finally the crazy shit stick on all sides of rifle bit.
mircea_popescu: cazalla "mandatory sentencing" is the most ridiculous perversion of justice ever.
mircea_popescu: davout are you intimating the bureaucracy's ineffective because it lives in its own world anyway ?
mircea_popescu: (anyone notice how those "limits" are not yearly indexed, like govt pensions ?)
mircea_popescu: course inflation'd have naturally fixed that over time.
mircea_popescu: no but seriously, someone could use 3k euros to buy a proper rifle + bullets.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i suppose the difference between "this is slightly annoying' and "this is terrorism" has long been lost.
mircea_popescu: good cause there's all sorts of instructional videos on how to defend yourself.
mircea_popescu: for that matter, suppose some asshole runs around throwing banana peels right before people. and he gets busted for "assault with a dangerous weapon".
mircea_popescu: the discussion wasn't if this is annoying or not, but whether the drone droning about weapons had a point. at least in my head.
mircea_popescu: as far as weaponry goes, let's look at you know, weaponry.
mircea_popescu: davout but it turns out, stuff like aegis cruisers don't have lasers installed to blind enemy pilots, dropped chaff isn't tiny shining laser pointers etc.
mircea_popescu: Adlai you want the same exact set of transactions to have been accepted.
mircea_popescu: Adlai i suppose he meant bitwise identical star, to be translated as, same txn
mircea_popescu: because it distracts from a discussion about how they suck, and people should fire them
mircea_popescu: when met with any novel thing, the bulk will shrug and carry on, the 19% marginals will yak about it,
mircea_popescu: this is fine as far as the system goes, it's own "democratic" logic, et all.
mircea_popescu: then bureaucrat drones are going on about weapons and whatnot, with nary a clue about anything but what could be persuasively argued to a mostly clueless public.
mircea_popescu: davout pilots did not make anything up. they say it's fucking annoying. im sure it is.
mircea_popescu: pretty much exactly consistent with what i[ve been saying last time we did this laser thing
mircea_popescu: and if maximally zoomed (looks about 16x) it very briefly shines.
mircea_popescu: but those facts don't make derpy lasers "weapons" and etc etc.
mircea_popescu: now, mind you, i'm the first to agree the lasers are fucking annyoing and the idiots wielding them need better hobbies.
mircea_popescu: no, you don't. so don't miss shit on your fucking checklist.
mircea_popescu: anyway, all this beating around the bush. here's to making the penis a dangerous weapon.
mircea_popescu: "omaigawd stuffwas illuminated, i totally lost my trtain of thought. o look, unicorns!!1"
mircea_popescu: what next, this is a legitimate car crash reason ? "police lights illuminated my cockpit your honor. let the police dept pay."
mircea_popescu: it will iluminate the cockpit less than what fucking police lights do.
mircea_popescu: davout and your windows won't protect you, because... antiglare's not been invented.
mircea_popescu: they're sort-of like turkeys, which have caused problems in the past, so planes have been shielded against them, so it no longer matters.
mircea_popescu: "These gutless and cowardly attacks have to be stopped," he said. "I am preparing a proposal to cabinet to consider making these items a prohibited weapon."
mircea_popescu: i was like omfg australia, large spiders, larger lasers.
mircea_popescu: only job to score consistently under tradecraft for security.
mircea_popescu: anyway, last fucking job you want in a conflict zone is flying the helicopters.
mircea_popescu: im sure driving a car is pretty awesome to fish, and for the same reason : "mamma mia if i crash this tank im fucked"
mircea_popescu: that in turn being because helicopters exist in the first place.
mircea_popescu: davout but then again, they don't have to be FOR something. they may well just be BECAUSE of something, that something being "we got a helicopter"
mircea_popescu: with all this digitality of modernity, it turns out the postwar mobsters were eerily before their time.
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