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mircea_popescu warmly recommends slave labour, but i guess ben_vulpes stronghold not quite there yet
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i don't think he can find a cheaper mexican than ben_vulpes
mircea_popescu: how do you like the republican corporate environment, ho ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform afaik in texas it's "except if kid has red ryder"
mircea_popescu: the notion that anyone'd want someone else's kids is not unlike the notion someone'd want someone else's mortgage, used tp, etc.
mircea_popescu:
http://trilema.com/2009/politica-pe-inteles/ << and the final bit in this lengthy enumeration, 2009 piece on politics saying... ~same things. except "Pana cand internetul va ajunge la nivelul de dezvoltare tehnologica care sa permita in sfarsit renuntarea definitiva la sistemul reprezentativ, " (aka, "until the internet will reach the level of development that'll allow the permanent dropping of the representative system") mea
mircea_popescu: but, in fairness, mp of 15 years ago was also somewhat different beast.
mircea_popescu: which is a nice place for a good reason. this being the reason.
mircea_popescu: and ftr they're not sluts, they're just normal adolescent girls. FROM EUROPE
mircea_popescu: quit doing it but never bothered to undo the old ones...
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes if you click them ? yeah, at the time trilema had a "premium" feature, you had to pay to get full size pics
mircea_popescu: (o and btw, that trilema header of a very young me lounging in a white suit on a bench outdoors, is very much on san antonio riverwalk, cca 2005)
mircea_popescu: including a very wtf'd me at encountering gecko (which has no scales, but plain skin)
mircea_popescu: trinque pretty sure i told it before ; but let me see if i can fish any texas stories from trilema.
mircea_popescu: nuts. apparently it was a very shitty bridge, though i don't recall this being known/discussed at the time.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: southern portions of italy were always dubiously in europe. but ye olde french, austrian an' german empires still work admirably well in this base sense.
mircea_popescu: but the deep reasdon europe is tiny is because there's ~no wilderness, everything's built up, you can walk from town to town in less than a day without exception (this is not coincidental, either, but deliberate, civilisational checkmark at a time before train was "from church to church in one day", and applied as such on us east coast for instance). there's roads everywhere, they're reasonably good (certainly better than neg
☟︎ mircea_popescu: well, "short drive". 800 or so miles, which to me still counts as "one day drive". as opposed to say 2.2k miles portland-austin.
mircea_popescu: if you've never lived in yurp it's not really something to pass on.
mircea_popescu: moreover, housing much better and much cheaper than anywhere in the world, local transportation that actually works (srsly, two digit airfare across the continent sorta deals).
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i believe there's costs to sending people alone, esp if the idea is they'll be forever alone. seems to me either strengthen outposts or start new ones ~very far away~. otherwise, you know what gerrimandering is ?
mircea_popescu: should it suck, you wanna try fortressing uruguay or hk/taiwan ?
mircea_popescu: san antonio was you know, proper champagne for breakfast on the riverwalk and things.
mircea_popescu: pulled out an immense colt from her old lady purse and blew the kid's head all over the store.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: whereby the mayor was awarding whatever cert to an 80yo lady who, while the diner where she was eating was being robbed at gunpoint,
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes my first experience of texas was waking up in a small town which was having a ceremony that morning
mircea_popescu is quite curious if this transparent trinque plan at starting a genuine fortress goes anywhere.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: but anyway, dun sound like much fun, i hope you're at least making some dough out of all this.
mircea_popescu: kinda how the ideal failure mode of usg mind hooks goes : it's effectual for the intended target and meaningless for the rest. monsanto idealia.
mircea_popescu: (i suspect, incidentally, that the above template is the #1 bane of republican effort in the years to come, chiefly because the #1 impedance mismatch we encounter is between uptime and rewrite, a manifestation of the old design-reality diphoria.)
mircea_popescu: in fact, there's everything right with it : both communicates reality and provides hooks for the rest to help.
mircea_popescu: alright. there's nothing wrong with "well... item i was working to rewrite for the past x weeks and was going to have done in 1-3 more weeks decided to critically crap out today ; my choice is either to be down for the remainder 1-3 weeks or else to duplicate/waste an estimate of y hours of work to get the old shiot back up hopefully by z. god damn."
☟︎ mircea_popescu: WOOT! 29mn pop while i was bitching here! thanks god and Mocky 's bot!
mircea_popescu: precisely in the vein of "the usual imperial approach", "get emails!!!!" is on some 3 ring binder at ft meade or something, by how fixated they are.
mircea_popescu: because really, who besides usg tryna fuck up irc has any interest in collecting emails to use it ?
mircea_popescu: hanbot i've yet to meet someone who had to connect to freenode and liked it.