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mircea_popescu: decimation which, you'll notice, is exactly how the roman empire went.
mircea_popescu: Adlai detroit is stable as is. in fact if it does collapse, detroit will be the new capital.
mircea_popescu: worst failed state in the history of european adventure, the us.
mircea_popescu: basically, the great federal project failed, the national project never succeeded, what's left is a sort of us of africa.
mircea_popescu: undata only if such can exist. i very much doubt it can.
mircea_popescu: once the young sluts radicalise it's the end. which is why the teenaged runaway chgicks are so important.
mircea_popescu: how is this then to be leadership ? because tradition-tradition ? mkay. only goes so far.
mircea_popescu: if you recall, back when the us functioned people went to see wtf jefferson said as their evening's entertainment
mircea_popescu: but the fact that the average person is not fascinated by congressional proceedings, let alone comprehend them at all, is a serious warning sign.
mircea_popescu: and it does really not matter what sort of an ass the rabi is privately.
mircea_popescu: the fundamental function of the rabi (which is what stalin was, practically, at the massive outskirts) is not going away.
mircea_popescu: but in the sense of, this feat where random high functrioning idiots like the kent guy quoted earier suddenly buy the common delusion of "global warming" becomes impossible.
mircea_popescu: a lot to signify, and rapidly deteriorating common language. not in the sense of english,
mircea_popescu: because unmeaning phenomena are very bothersome to simple folk.
mircea_popescu: the main thing is that this de facto promises that every phenomenon carries meaning.
mircea_popescu: this is a subtle concept. like the platonic notion of cosmos, an ordered universe.
mircea_popescu: undata ^ there you go. he didn't say anything about oligarchs. he just promised order.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform wher's the one where you discuss people driving a truck with the man's pic ? because he makes order ?
mircea_popescu: undata well, it's a lengthy matter, hard to fit in one line or w/e. but let me find you this thing about stalin.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i bet you the 20 year sergeants are pretty fucking happy with that o.O
mircea_popescu: you actually think this is what putin did ?! or russian prole thought he did ?!
mircea_popescu: undata: some guy comes along and pledges to slap our oligarchs around; after a bit economic collapse they'd eat that shit up <<< this is some massively funny shit.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes with attention! these are actually the good ones!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i never heard of a colonel that wasn't ever a private.
mircea_popescu: generally the hussies flock to the businessmen rather than the warlords. at least from what i've directly observed.
mircea_popescu: find me any army colonel that gets... cocksuckressES. plural ? gtfo.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform exactly. perversity and sanity are unsisters.
mircea_popescu: what should have kept hitler from digging the desert looking for the holy grail ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the fact that his division is valuable and the wh is meaningless.
mircea_popescu: because if you don't charge might as well shave, oil up and go to the harem.
mircea_popescu: no, i tell you, it'll be "colonel X of Y promised major Z of K delivery of m then reneged. who the fuck does he think he is ? charge!"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it seriouslt doesn't need so much defense. would be smartasses are well shy
mircea_popescu: decimation doubt it. croatian military didn't "fracture". nor did serbian.
mircea_popescu: harem does not need guarding, not in that context. btches know enough not to get messy at that juncture.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if memory is any guide, it will be more to settle wot disputes than anything.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well yes, pretty much every single gi item has fulda fucking stamped on it.
mircea_popescu: yugoslav army was not 1/6 as effectual as the same god damned units, except now commanded by the war criminals.
mircea_popescu: in fact, it wil happen not merely in spite of gas shortages
mircea_popescu: and in that redefinition it will signifcantly increase in strength.
mircea_popescu: so yeah, if washington goes or stays is irrelevant, but if the obnoxious sissy faggots currently in the general staff are all raped and hanged the army will suddenly see its mission redefined much widerly
mircea_popescu: and everyone's pointing and laughing at your apparent inability, notwithstanding immense expenditure, not leat of all of your own god damned effort.
mircea_popescu: then you end up engaged in the middle east trying to do another thing,
mircea_popescu: essentially to get "really good" at one thing you define a narrow thing to be good at.
mircea_popescu: decimation generally high efficiency is obtained at the cost of high fragility. the jit system is a fine exampel of the principle.
mircea_popescu: undata: BingoBoingo: I'll read this but to continue, the Russians sought Putin's strong voice after their collapse. << not after, honey. a decade after. that decade is important.
mircea_popescu: undata: a highly armed, extremely disciplined military doesn't just vanish because the congressmen stop coming to work << obviously not. it just starts working for me instead ?
mircea_popescu: undata: the US military is immensely capable of holding cities <<< should be interesting to hear more of this.
mircea_popescu: undata: more like giant slave and ankle-chain << this was recently in full display in the ukraine, and then later in iraq. except both ukrainians and iraquis are, as a stock, more resilient than the us guy.
mircea_popescu: decimation there's a reason civilisation is built on oil.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I'll be looking to grow my farm once qntra takes off << lol what a plan for the future.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform isn't the probability to find a metastable state roughlt linear with system energy ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: no need for the 74xx to melt - enough to 'get lucky' and reach a metastable state in one or more switching elements << for pure wankeriferious interest : wouldn't supercooling it be a pill against all this ?
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo how does duct tape get a bad rap ? i used it for a sex act earlier today!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform im running a sort of generational modelling thing i hacked together. this is my idea of fun.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform sane linuxes actually use the memory. or am i missing something ?
mircea_popescu: ahh, the beauty of 64gb memory systems is that if they allocate 46gb they still have plenty left over.
mircea_popescu: or do they both get spanked purple and "next fucking time do one thing and do it right"
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes ok, suppose the chicks ake you ojo de bife, but as an insurance policy they mix cheesekace in there.