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mircea_popescu: i dunno if i'm the only one who saw brasil - but whenever i see that sorta thing i remember the workmen that cut the holes for the police to bust into homes.
mircea_popescu: which is a large part of what's so confounding about yours truly, in those quarters.
mircea_popescu: and in fact it goes as far as to work for a sign. does he look like he's having a good time ? he has no power.
mircea_popescu: the people who try to have a good time are generally 2nd or 3rd echelon,
mircea_popescu: else what, the world government is in gizeh, egypt ? poshest uninhabited structures on earth ?
mircea_popescu: preferably take a girl with you, can prolly get a decent price.
mircea_popescu: but, again, how many walled compounds are in wash dc holding the harems of obama, the shah of this and the bey of that ?
mircea_popescu: nttawwi, on the grounds of one man, he can do w/e the fuck he pleases.
mircea_popescu: indescript house in omaha, married, with children. about as boring as it gets.
mircea_popescu: you know plenty of how wb passed / passes his time, he's quite public about it.
mircea_popescu: "oh, the luxury of paying 48658609485609850 for a condo."
mircea_popescu: like, you ever drove by the walled compound where some general is keeping his harem ?
mircea_popescu: (the first cvasi-stalin is, of course, Donald Sterling. the second is, of course, that guy with the "women in scinece" what's his name. i'm noteven going into the story of petreus)
mircea_popescu: are you just pursuing this for the sake of the theoretical purity or do you actually hold this view ?
mircea_popescu: they don't have as much of a stalin as a uni professor that goes " all women, stand up and strip naked or go the fuck home".
mircea_popescu: in fact, they don't even have the vague approximation of a stalin where a guy says to his golddigger harpy "if you fuck another black man i'm going tyo hung you both by your toes, and if you struggle i won't let you go", and then does it when she fucks another black guy.
mircea_popescu: but i appreciate the opportunity to check this out experimentally - gangrape is fun for a majority of those involved.
mircea_popescu: if they don't let THEIR boys rape and i do, when it comes to war my boys will rape their boys and that's that.
mircea_popescu: and there are no uppity white kids in stanford running botnets
mircea_popescu: ascii_field you miss the point where they do not wish to do that, for exactly the reasons i will not hire tim swanson.
mircea_popescu: in this case, she's reading das kaptial held upside down.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field no dude, it's a simple, 5 yo would want to pretend she's a sophisticated college student like her old sister, so she does the best she can.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field it is not a secret to anyone except the completely imbecile "experts" the usg has historically and continues to "use" in it's quest to build itself as a bitcoin power independent from mpex.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field what is "Are ‘we’—the Americans I have lived and studied and worked with for years" and "who once made a living hell out of our fresh, green and naïve college days" iuf not direct translation of "we the workers" ?
mircea_popescu: lol nope. i am aware i sound more and more hruschev-ian, but no, i didn't have a bunch of muscle with clubs interspersed in the general public.
mircea_popescu: "Citizens ask for permission, expats ask for forgiveness" << maybe he should ask for a nailgun.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: brendafdez: the same happens to me with portuguese, which i walways perceive as broken spanish << to me it sounds like a bunch of russians trying to pretend they're speaking latin.
mircea_popescu: Adlai the bit was to my taste, which is why i clapped. my tastes are rather... odd, but i guess it's possibru.
mircea_popescu: so i'm having cognac and chocolate cookies for breakfast at 3pm. this can't be bad for me, can it ?
mircea_popescu: these weren't even 1k, and romanians are very herdy animals, and were more so back then.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` i once took a girl out to the very nice theatre in my home town, 1800s baroque building, and we sat in the presidential seats and at some point i started applauding
mircea_popescu: nubbins` clearly if he was applauded by a whole roomfull of people he's not a total failure.
mircea_popescu: virgins experts in dating, dependent adolescents experts in "making money", otakus writing books on how to meet and influence people, etc etc etc.
mircea_popescu: some people who don't own a history book gather on a blogspot to emit nonsense.
mircea_popescu: some people who don't own a dictionary got opinions about the usage of words.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski no but it is typical of what i'm talking about.
mircea_popescu: motherfucker, these ignorant clods. asciilifeform srsly, cluborlov is this collection of almanach-educated twerps.
mircea_popescu: "in 1972, which culminated in Nixon's historic handshake with Mao Zedong, completing China's civilizational pivot away from the USSR and toward the west. In hindsight, this dramatic opening could only be properly characterized as a swift dagger-in-the-back against the USSR"
mircea_popescu: these were fucking broken, mostly because the "Swiss company" is a bunch of poor ass niggards with delusions of grandeur.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski not the point. the point is that if you make a spy node, you have no conceivable reason to make it act outwardly in any way other than a common node.
mircea_popescu: i agree with the chinese. the part where the young girl chooses is utterly burgeois, and the part where a choice is made is definitely reactionary.
mircea_popescu: Urals Mountain-Ash” (Уральская Рябинушка), a Russian folk song in which a young girl meets two nice boys under a mountain-ash tree and must choose between them"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform : "It so happened that my aunt, then a sensitive and somewhat dreamy young woman, had stubbornly and haplessly clung to certain musical tastes which at that time in China came to be regarded as politically incorrect, being said, in the trendy ideological jargon of that time, to reflect “decadent bourgeois revisionist aesthetics.” To wit, my aunt had kept in her record collection a rendition of “The
mircea_popescu: really there was absolutely no reason (apart from their tim swansonesque contemptuous idiocy) to make the nodes visible.
mircea_popescu: but for one thing it's bullshit and for the other thing, it doesn't really wash.
mircea_popescu: i get it that everyone everywhere, say the derps on argentina, or the derps on the internet exactly alike and exactly for the same reasons identifies as this "workman" bullshit.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ironically enough, i consider myself cultural elites. cause if not that, wtf else.
mircea_popescu: nope. reptiles generally work on the principle of the wound spring in more than one respect.
mircea_popescu: alrighty cuties, i'll be off to go watch 50 shades of gray live.