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mircea_popescu: but you're not free, being alive, and in that bound system you don't actually get enough elbow room to really find out.
mircea_popescu: see, in your own imagination, which is boundless or close enough, you could.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i'll bet you you couldn't discern between a well trained and an intelligent creature.
mircea_popescu: i suppose i should say "through the carrot", for elegance of form :D
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i srsly doubt iq points measure anything useful.
mircea_popescu: yes, but because of networking effects this isn't useful.
mircea_popescu: TomServo the theory is that you don't get that advanced human in any unverse that doesn't include beating as a possibility.
mircea_popescu: i dunno what's more insulting than the plain declaration that "[i really don't care enough about you to be bothered to] ever beat you"
mircea_popescu: it's like the nukes exactly. kids that know they can't EVER get in trouble grow up with various mental illnesses. kids that grow up knowing they could easily get in trouble grow up fine, and generally don't need to be beaten either.
mircea_popescu: TomServo such wives exist only in a world where people are WILLING TO slap them.
mircea_popescu: why shouldn't people who want to stay outside of scrutiny be able to ?
mircea_popescu: no us citizen alive today is willing to sucker punch the wife if she talks back
mircea_popescu: decimation yes, but you know exactly why it won't happen.
mircea_popescu: actually kinda funny what hoover had to say abgout getting off gold.
mircea_popescu: it's their thoroughly debased and humiliated sons an' daughters that get the hitler.
mircea_popescu: those generally go fight in the trenches for five years.
mircea_popescu: anyway, it's not generally peoples wanting their "standard of living being preserved" that end up with hitler.
mircea_popescu: <undata> making pizzas << aaaand whose brilliant idea is that "we don't need industry, we can grow rich by doing each other's laundry" ?
mircea_popescu: so.. yeah, this "police will protect us" thing is going to last what, another year or two.
mircea_popescu: the us... heck, they're so fucking cowardly you can piss in their face and they'll likely limit themselves to complaining sottovoce.
mircea_popescu: BlueMeanie4 let me tell you something. they got bums everwhere here. one night, one prolly drunk dude got rambunctious and started yelling.
mircea_popescu: if tyrone's the man and you're the woman, wear the fucking cock cage and go about your business.
mircea_popescu: go suck off to tyrone, why should the state push things away from equilibrium.
mircea_popescu: solves the fake "problems" in all of five minutes, but also exposes the real problem :
mircea_popescu: and if you're unable or unwilling to stand your ground, well... you're not a citien either. go find one and hide behind him.
mircea_popescu: slaves don't get to stand their ground, they get to scurry away and seek help.
mircea_popescu: if a policeman wants to report a crime, he gotta find a citizen and get his help.
mircea_popescu: here's a simple reform idea : take guns away from police. because government employees are slaves, and slaves don't belong carrying arms. that's for citizens only.
mircea_popescu: otherwise, the country'd recover and do just fine if left the fuck alone.
mircea_popescu: BlueMeanie4 the "whole country" is only "a mess" in the sense that random idiots are inept, and the model where you run a continent as a centrally planned economy requires a lot more than a conclave of idiots in charge.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i guess it can work as glass too. the noun i only knew as woad, paint.
mircea_popescu: tl;dr : architect hired to build monastery, walls keep falling down, builds his young pregnant wife in there, walls stand,
mircea_popescu: i didn't get too far with my bloodlust in the romanian collapse,
mircea_popescu: time to jump ship, because the idiots that persist in "working for the government" WILL be hanged.
mircea_popescu: the important part here is just how weakly this old man is.
mircea_popescu: the important point here isn't that such plans exist, as they always do.
mircea_popescu: there's a bunch of aureus on your armpit hatching one regarding you, right now.
mircea_popescu: BlueMeanie4 there are numerous long, middle and short plans to break down anything standing all the time.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform how it matters obviously depends on context, but i was merely discussing the principle.
mircea_popescu: here's a pop quiz : would you say the "stricter laws" past 2001 were to the detriment of al-quaeda or to its benefit ?
mircea_popescu: <BlueMeanie4> in engineering these problems << the agenda is, "send nuland to dance naked in teh lubyanka. we didn't think the ukraine posturing was funny."