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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."
mircea_popescu: people aren't fundamentally evil, people are fundamentally stupid.
mircea_popescu: reading this steam lispo thing, howdja get so cynical asciilifeform !
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo meh. more likely, a tweetmeet with some politicos trying to be all you know, talked about.
mircea_popescu: BlueMeanie4 i doubt anyone's much interested in "getting new users". what's wrong with new users getting us ?
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> possibly author assumed that i read whatever snakepit he linked to it in. << more likely assumed you'll see it in your logs.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so why is this piece supposed to bother you ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i doubt anyone much cares bout teh master key, but anyweay.
mircea_popescu: undata there's a reason i dun want new york after all.
mircea_popescu: the only reason obama doesn't get a glass shard through the eye is that nobody gives a shit about him and his eye
mircea_popescu: ever wondered how these dudes in their very distinctive gear manage to go in and out of the roman camp ?
mircea_popescu: i know this from experience, so does anyone else in any way involved with any aspect thereof.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i don't find it hard to believe us security sucks.
mircea_popescu: "Then, God be bless'd, it is the blessed sun: but sun it is not, when you say it is not; and the moon changes even as your mind. What you will have it named, even that it is; and so it shall be so for Katharina."
mircea_popescu: undata> there must just be a class of people who are wholly programmable, who will ignore reality completely if told to do so << yes. this class of people is called "women".
mircea_popescu: <undata> what I'm stuck on is this: you can have a hole in the pentagon smaller than the wingspan of a plane << of course. why not ?
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> because you 'clearly do not know how the world works' or the like. << a sword that cuts both ways.
mircea_popescu: oh check it out, the us warcrimes list includes wartime looting!
mircea_popescu: just so, these dudes were going there because "el dorado", not because... whatever, empty space.
mircea_popescu: take woman with cock in her mouth. she's there because "the guy really respects her" right ? and "he has a great sense of humor" right ?
mircea_popescu: the ways common psychology works, the ways people motivate themselves to do things they'll do anyway...
mircea_popescu: it has everything to do with wanting to motivate euros to get the fuck there, much like the wild stories propping up the south sea bubble
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so i'd posit it has nothing to do with gold, olr with "gems" which they claimed the streets are paved with (most of which - obsydian).
mircea_popescu: im in the business of trying to form an idea of wtf happened.
mircea_popescu: im not in the business of proving to a bunch of idiots that they're wrong.
mircea_popescu: but i don't happen to favour that sort of standard of evidence.
mircea_popescu: pretending like "no X were found" is, you know, whatevs.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there's a lot of fucking debate as to whether 1000s of individual pieces are or are not electroplatred.
mircea_popescu: ", and no ancient electroplated artifacts have been identfied." << bs.