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mircea_popescu: punkman yeah im not that close to it to recall the stuff, half the time im trying to guess, and i mean wtf -v
mircea_popescu: what exactly is a source mage, and especially an elementalist ?
mircea_popescu: mats_cd03 the one thing three eyar olds have in common across language and geography is this tendency to bring you a piece of paper they took a shit on, for your admiration.
mircea_popescu: just like it's better to run a car just slightly slower than the maximum speed at which you can control a car, just so it's better to aspire to less than what one can actually do.
mircea_popescu: in any case, no amount of energy put into cutting short the ego and curbing the enthusiasm of the general population is wasted.
mircea_popescu: sure, but that's cleaved. personal experience is one thing, personal understanding another.
mircea_popescu: now, go ahead and explain this to pankkake somehow. but in such a way so it fits his preconceptions comfortably.
mircea_popescu: in short, what do we observe right before a kinetic crash ? why, a body with high energy density and low navigational control.
mircea_popescu: the pernicious idea that they matter and can do things. etc.
mircea_popescu: this is a very visible symptom of the problem of well metastasized socialism : a general sense of entitlement in the crowd of idiots. an unwarranted expectation of efficiency on their part.
mircea_popescu: the supposed fbi/gru/gestapo/etc is simply a toilet box for the public idiocy.
mircea_popescu: my point is, in a socialist system, be it us-socialist or national-socialist or soviet-socialist or anything it may be
mircea_popescu: decimation r fbi agents. they are essentially at the bottom of a gigantic public suggestion box/toilet << check this shit out!
mircea_popescu: problem is, the derps in the studio should have a) been repressed enough that they never dared think of speaking in front of the camera, let alone be allowed to do it
mircea_popescu: any cat may look at the king. sure. no cat may file a suit against the crown.
mircea_popescu: that he dares to spin this entire web where "he puts the blame" on linus is nothing short of outrageous.
mircea_popescu: and that the groups he tends to attract and promote are nothing short of malicious.
mircea_popescu: it's that poettering personally is a malignancy, that what he says is poisonous, not just for the free world but individually for people that are intellectually mature,
mircea_popescu: oh, no. it's because the internet is bad. because when you get negative feedback, you gotta blame the feedback.
mircea_popescu: it's not that poettering gets pissed on wherever he goes because he in point of fact is a poitless, middlesome imbecile.
mircea_popescu: somehow the quality of the assholes in question never comes before the debate.
mircea_popescu: "I also have no doubt that Poettering has received such attacks. Unfortunately, that comes with being a public figure on today's Internet. I myself have gotten death threats serious enough that I've turned them over to the FBI"
mircea_popescu: basically, her problem is that the people who can think have decided lying to her is okay.
mircea_popescu: and it goes right into the extraction economy discussion. you familiar with that one ?
mircea_popescu: it's that "first they came for x but i said nothing" thing, exactly. it's not in any sense a novel or a marginal idea.
mircea_popescu: without him, romania spent half a century in the warsaw shitter. with him, it'd have probably been greece instead.
mircea_popescu: the best case study for this in my view is romania in the 30s. idiot, indolent romanians allowed the worst among them (iron guard, dubious local fascist wannabe) to assassinate the best romanian that then lived, one duca.
mircea_popescu: specifically, some midgets betray some other midgets, which they need to survive.
mircea_popescu: they are really narrowed. what happens there is treason. treason never works politically.
mircea_popescu: how about "my uptime is longer than poettering's coding experience". what bootup "?
mircea_popescu: so, yes, "faster boot times". a more irrelevant metric could scarcely be devised.
mircea_popescu: compare ms-dos, still to this day accepted here as a paragon of programming,
mircea_popescu: at first they promise "jobs for everyone and cheapoer prices"
mircea_popescu: now, this is a general economic principle, and it applies jut as well to monolithic coding approaches.
mircea_popescu: soon enough you turned greenwich village into detroit.
mircea_popescu: the shops that were closed by its competition won't return
mircea_popescu: ye, the people that left in exasperation at all the sprawl won't come back.
mircea_popescu: the stool he sat on, however, will never recover from having been sat upon.
mircea_popescu: should it find a nice place to sit for a while, such as a neighbourhood, it will be fine for as long as it sits, and when that's done can walk away
mircea_popescu: think of a supermarket as if it were a giant, walking the land of midgets.
mircea_popescu: decimation yes, exactly what monoturdism usually promises.
mircea_popescu: just because your old clunker is rusty doesn't mean you should add a bamboo patio on the roof.
mircea_popescu: fizzled as one'd expect. there's a reason india was a colonial empire and not vice-versa.
mircea_popescu: this is actually a general point. i recall a few decades ago bored stupid californian housewifes and ex actresses went all crazy about how india is going to be teh great cure
mircea_popescu: Even worse would be to think that the simplicity of Africa holds some kind of answers for Western society: remember "It Takes A Village"? Trust me on this: there is not one thing that Africa can give the West which hasn't been tried before and failed, not one thing that isn't a step backwards, and not one thing which is worse than, or that contradicts, what we have already.
mircea_popescu: somehow i deduced you mean pills just don't work in principle somehow
mircea_popescu: amusingly, what the african activists willing to speak plainly say sounds a whole fuckload of a lot just like what the paternalist southern lobby was saying in the us, early 1800s.
mircea_popescu: "If a cure for AIDS was found tomorrow, and offered to every African nation free of charge, the growth of the disease would scarcely be checked, let alone reversed." i ca see this.
mircea_popescu: yeah seems the inescapble fate of the black race, extermination at the hands of the yellow.