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asciilifeform: (2024: listed as 'S.POOJ.' ye read it here phirst.)
asciilifeform: Shakespeare: scroll up for coin-operated public impregnatrons.
asciilifeform: people told 'female police force' picture 'ilsa, she-wolf of auschwitz' rather than the more likely office plankton girl next door stuffed into a uniform.
asciilifeform: etc
asciilifeform: would routinely be killed with own sidearms
asciilifeform: they had serious problems with, at one point, mostly female police force in certain places
asciilifeform: with the burly steamroller driving girls
asciilifeform: i often wonder why u.s. 'feminists' don't parade the most remarkable 'equality' freak show - post-war ussr
asciilifeform: exactly this.
asciilifeform: proper extraterritoriality needs a genuine power, that can make it stick
asciilifeform: chetty: u.s. 'reservations' as they presently exist aren't the least bit 'extraterritorial' - they've been busted open for something as mundane as 'war on drugs' in the past.
asciilifeform: i'm waiting for the extraterritoriality zones in the u.s., where folks are permitted to behave like human beings
asciilifeform: (venetians)
asciilifeform: centuries ago
asciilifeform: the turks, if i recall, took this to a high art
asciilifeform: good money.
asciilifeform: and the girls are supposed to wear the bags, but piss on the demand
asciilifeform: recent word is that russian engineers (including girls) are happily collecting 'hazard pay' building infrastructure (incl. fission) for iran
asciilifeform: lol
asciilifeform: it'd be like liberating constantinople from the turks
asciilifeform: not sure if you could, at this point, 'separate the flies from the cutlets' (to use the rus. expression)
asciilifeform: sure.
asciilifeform: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2270619/Sharia-saw-Iran-releases-pictures-brutal-amputation-machine-chopping-mans-fingers-bid-clamp-election-dissent.html
asciilifeform: which achievements? classics? or this:
asciilifeform: hence we have what we have.
asciilifeform: english gentleman, afaik, wasn't expected to bother with translations, but to go out and learn languages
asciilifeform: 'rubaiat' and that's it, afaik.
asciilifeform: 'i gave the fool an ax, to fetch some kindling sticks; and to the mosque he went, and smashed the door to bits.' (persian, bad double-translation from rus. mine)
asciilifeform: ;;google chinese backyard steel
asciilifeform: Shakespeare: not unlike asking 'is a leader who imposes law resulting in more steel production smart' ?
asciilifeform: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/24/hands-free-sperm-donation-machine_n_1908437.html
asciilifeform: nm - chinese!
asciilifeform: i picture this hypothetical device as being a kind of topologically reverse version of the 'milking machine' japan recently became famous for.
asciilifeform: turns out that was elsewhere.
asciilifeform: damn, thought that was the post where you described automatic 'public impregnators' for japan
asciilifeform: sure.
asciilifeform: nobody pays
asciilifeform: in the town there i live, there is, theoretically, a tax on cats
asciilifeform: lol
asciilifeform: (where you will find, for instance, khat - and possibly other forbidden flora)
asciilifeform: if catnip worked on man like it does on cat, i doubt it would be permitted even in the u.s. botanical garden.
asciilifeform: a plant toxin the eater can't 'deal with' is poison, or drug, depending on dose and aesthetics
asciilifeform: the beast isn't really built to deal with plant toxins
asciilifeform: on average.
asciilifeform: obligate carnivores tend to have 'underpowered' liver
asciilifeform: 'normal' phenotype doesn't really get to smell the gasoline, he goes 'aargh' from his nose dissolving a little
asciilifeform: might just be an 'irritation threshhold' phenomenon.
asciilifeform: lol
asciilifeform: by some accounts, we have the u.s. newspapers (circa '50s-60s) to thank for the popularity of this practice.
asciilifeform: us and brits both opened donors to paternity lawsuits
asciilifeform: the anglos have fucked up even sperm donation
asciilifeform: afaik this is not a controversial position outside of the weird anglo nature preserve.
asciilifeform: why is it that only biologists are forced to deal with this
asciilifeform: how come nobody goes around telling, say, electrical engineers to be 'more open minded,' and consider devils as an alternative to maxwell's equations in explaining electromagnetic phenomena ?
asciilifeform: last i checked.
asciilifeform: they are thought to dissipate turbulence or somesuch
asciilifeform: whose purpose is unclear, but if removed, the insect won't fly.
asciilifeform: i vaguely recall that the buzz isn't from the wings proper, but from little quasi-vestigial winglets
asciilifeform: it's just the way the wings are set up.
asciilifeform: better example, buzz of the fly
asciilifeform: it's just wired to make certain noises.
asciilifeform: who was 'pravda' for? not every squeal that comes out of an idiot is intended to communicate - even to deceive. sometimes, it's just the croaking of frogs.
asciilifeform: the one inexhaustible natural resource.
asciilifeform: the fellow he pays to take photos of him hugging (or, occasionally, shooting and stuffing) large fauna are analogous to the pr.
asciilifeform: the latter has nothing the former needs
asciilifeform: putin's position with respect to the u.s. is roughly similar to mpex vs. the btc wankiverse
asciilifeform: 'into the valley of reddit rode the six hundred'
asciilifeform: 'ours is not to question why, ours is but to [wank] and die.'
asciilifeform: and then it comes out that the grl cheated with electrodes. (suppose.)
asciilifeform: lol
asciilifeform: i personally have attempted, on occasion, to make it go.
asciilifeform: yes.
asciilifeform: as always, when using a technical pidgin like english, everybody loses something.
asciilifeform: yeah something like that
asciilifeform: mr. o's problem, as it often is, is that he blogs in english.
asciilifeform: from 'майдан' (the ua square where the 'demonstration' was) and 'даун' (down's syndrome)
asciilifeform: 'майдауны'
asciilifeform: actually there is a beautiful russian name widely in use now
asciilifeform: omitting the 'nazi' would be quite like, were they to wear clown suits while doing their thing, to omit mention of said suits.
asciilifeform: it isn't orlov's (or putin's) fault that the west ua folks insist on becoming something out of a comic book
asciilifeform: i, for one, would like to read the result.
asciilifeform: it is not easy to describe, accurately and completely, the nato block's policy of nation-wrecking using something other than 'russian' terms. but you're welcome to try.
asciilifeform: and that anyone who interferes with it's doings, for whatever purpose, is to be applauded
asciilifeform: orlov's position, as far as i can tell, is that u.s. inherited the crown of idiocy worn by the old ussr
asciilifeform: sure.
asciilifeform: likewise, americans ought to - and will - dance in the streets if the port at sevastopol is conquered and the russian fleet can no longer interfere with the u.s. syrian demolition derby
asciilifeform: from the standpoint of russia, not so beautiful
asciilifeform: from the standpoint of americans, it is a beautiful thing if poland, ua, baltics, etc. are stuffed with as many missile bases as physically fit, aimed at moscow
asciilifeform: people who apply 'human morality' to the logic of empire are weird.
asciilifeform: smallholders, petty merchants
asciilifeform: who did the jerries plug at babi yar? martians?
asciilifeform: nah, marching around in ss garb makes them. you gotta appreciate how this makes them an almost physiological allergen to anyone who grew up even vaguely russian.
asciilifeform: mostly to saw into scrap and sell to the nato block
asciilifeform: they'd like to dominate the historically rus. west, and own the soviet-built factories which they had no part in creating
asciilifeform: what they want isn't to be merely left alone to run their historical (province of poland, really) agrarian pesthole
asciilifeform: this isn't even the interesting part about the west ua folks
asciilifeform: what's left is... well, this.
asciilifeform: you're quite right that the actual, historic nazis are gone.
asciilifeform: (not a russian fiction, but straight from the horse's mouth)
asciilifeform: this fellow is their ultimate hero.