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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes. wot is "level of confidence i have a complete picture of this person"
mircea_popescu: holy shit 2k lines that aren't your own are hard as fucking coffin nails
mircea_popescu: real objects can of course never be categorically anything.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i think your view of what is after all a natural process is too informed by categorical logic.
mircea_popescu: treason's only a hanging offence originally. soon enough...
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron i think it's at breaking point, that "community"
mircea_popescu: artifexd ^ i would hope you won't have that problem ? :D
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform apparently they're very insecure people, spend a lot of time wondering.
mircea_popescu: came back home "to study" 9 months in the year, hung out with husband over summer.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform at some point in the 90s knew a whole bunch of chicks who technically lived there
mircea_popescu: but children are born thus. the infrastructure if you wish. the pulmonary shunt.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i read almost the whole thing, i fail to see anything to indicate anything wrong with him.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo pity they never reg'd now it'll be damned hard to make the link.
mircea_popescu: anyway, this ssd kid is abso-fucking-lutely endearing.
mircea_popescu: i think they stole more circassians than the dutch stole africans.
mircea_popescu: you can probably make decent loot with the various brackwaters.
mircea_popescu: life's what happens while people had other plans, an' posteriority remembers what you did BESIDES paying the bills.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform russian side is a little better represented, but not much.
mircea_popescu: this merely speaks to the poor quality of english "historians". where's the new york gibbon ?
mircea_popescu: nobody has made a "Russia and the US in the 1800s : A Tale Of Twin Sisters" monograph to date
mircea_popescu: pretty much the same problems, the same solutions, the same obsession of women with french and men with german shit and so on.
mircea_popescu: at the time, in fact, the us and russia had a shitload in common : inept peripheral immense landmasses.
mircea_popescu: it's easy to recast today as some sort of nefariousness, but if regarded properly rather than anchronistically it's just exactly the same as imperial russians trying to copy prussia.
mircea_popescu: decimation in particular, the us fed was an attempt to copy germany, at the time extremely effectual.
mircea_popescu: he died iether before or soon after, and had for a while retired.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i dunno where that wb quote is, somewhere in his 70s brk letters. all poetic about how great paying taxes is because hey, being rich's unfair.
mircea_popescu: for one thing, they're too stupid to understand it, for another they don't speak the language, for the third they imagine they have political judgements to make.
mircea_popescu: an' generally, i'd be wary of trusting the current retards' retelling of century old banking history.
mircea_popescu: decimation this is entirely counterfactual nonsense that never happened.
mircea_popescu: a crown in the traditional sense is a very primitive instrument, because it purports (necessarily, but ineffectually) to hold ALL sovereignty. now the poor bearer's stuck deciding how fires are to be put out, how wives are to be kept, etc.
mircea_popescu: oh. well, no. he wore the banking crown, nobody disputed that, and for good reason.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform he was one of the three, nothing is misidentified is it.
mircea_popescu: know many dudes with 1trn in loose change knocking around ?
mircea_popescu: the cost for the 20 measly thousand the dod scrounged together (and who faced exactly the fate of crassus' host) was > 1bn
mircea_popescu: to properly grok how rich the triumvir was : he could afford to pay for ~18 million usians to go fight for tikrit.
mircea_popescu: the j p morgan bailout was essentially a "everyone come to my house!" and then "you will do like so because i say so"
mircea_popescu: the buffett-rich, the people who are not merely willing to go on the record stating "i am representative of richness, i couldn't exist outside of usg, therefore usg is EVERYTHING", but actually believe it.
mircea_popescu: tons of things "legal if you have a license we aren't issuing because we're at liberty to do this."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the price thing is amusingly at work in all sorts of ATF stuff.
mircea_popescu: decimation i had made that point, yes, but the counterpositive is not necessarily true.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform got a link to where you go "omg wtf bbq am i the only one trying to run these shitstacks"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform such trials particularly suited to electroprocess.
mircea_popescu: for that matter : sodium bullets encased in very thin metal : just thick enough to carry it through the air. once it fractures on impact, sodium released.
mircea_popescu: metallic arsenic bullets. an assassin's dream come true
mircea_popescu: if there's a way to show the cultural superiority of the 4th republic, this film in this context is it.
mircea_popescu: listen, do this : pirate it, sit the girl down one fine evening after a delicious repast, watch this thing.
mircea_popescu: lol alf's crazy gnome lab. "insert pipe here, piss in this funnel and point this end towards enemy".