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mircea_popescu: obviously a lot of blood, sweat and tears went into that.
mircea_popescu: the difference'd be rinduieli can be rationally defended, datini are not.
mircea_popescu: a million before the fiat inflation of human population, back when they still had hard people, and a limited supply worldwide
mircea_popescu: the bloodiest massacre in human history, a million or so killed over a few weeks.
mircea_popescu: which means long supressed passion will finally prevail, in a razing of city halls the world has never seen
mircea_popescu: the interesting thing here is that no longer is the city hall the seat of power. the irc channel is the seat of power.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> if correct solution could be applied from correct position << true.
mircea_popescu: there's little worse fate than having to take over and continue using with the present tools.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves when you confront an organised enemy, your options are two. either beat him but preserve his tools, which locks you into ruling in his stead, or else beat him and destroy his tools, which locks you into rebuilding.
mircea_popescu: seems to me he instinctively applied the correct solution from perhaps an untenable position
mircea_popescu: anyway, it's why i carry a lot of sympathy for BingoBoingo's legal troubles.
mircea_popescu: in contemporary english, it is the duty of any thinking person to be as offensive as the context will carry.
mircea_popescu: giving in and being polite even to the slightest degree just feeds the nonsense.
mircea_popescu: it only works in the first place because of a very narrow overton window achieved over decades of lazy prosperity.
mircea_popescu: the more people saying nigger and proposing rape as a solution to minute problems, the less effectual this teflon process is.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform anyway, for what it's worth, in my mind the correct approach to this problem is radical, corrosive antiteflon.
mircea_popescu: sucks for merlin, he who was here when each was born, and will be here to see them buried.
mircea_popescu: i'm still reeling over the realisation that someone, somewhere, thinks im pro russian.
mircea_popescu: by now right thinkingness has become an extremely intricate, delicately balanced piece of work
mircea_popescu: "this thing is written as if the soviet party isn't legitimate" < o noes and enough.
mircea_popescu: i mean, just a certain tone is enough, subtle subjective positioning is enough
mircea_popescu: there's a long and growing list of things you can do to a text to make it completely inaccessibl for the "right thinking" person.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there's more to this than just that. i've had an intern puit a bunch of trilema articles in reddit, across dozens of different subreddits. NONE stick. they're all "wrong", then the complainants get laughed out, then the matter dies.
mircea_popescu: it's not their cunt asking for a tending that's driving the giggling behaviour.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that's like asking girls aged 16ish to stop giggling. yeah, that's gonna happen
mircea_popescu: time to split, unless you somehow discover some passion for one side or the other and a desire to go to shooting practice.
mircea_popescu: you're probably right, it's not looking all that good.
mircea_popescu: popes don't lie, they're just infallible and impeccable.
mircea_popescu: they'd prolly flay him alive just for the cognitive dissonance
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform dude imagine for the sake of science fiction, a putin that didn't lie. like, ever. he'd be spotless like warm milk foam.
mircea_popescu: jurov you will note in my case this is not happenstance.
mircea_popescu: me mocking her for the "oh my" lulz doesn't mean i am in favour of cattle shitting in cookpots.
mircea_popescu: lemme model this. suppose we go out for a picnic, and suppose we're there with some girls, and suppose a cow comes and shits in our cornmeal pot. and suppose one of the girls goes "oh my!"
mircea_popescu: but it's not what i said. i merely remarked on a particular mental complex, wherein the western agitprop calls things they don't like and can't derride "inexistent" a certain way
mircea_popescu: how did i end up giving ~that~ impression for crying out loud.
mircea_popescu: but yes it does exist : the eu state will, under a multitude of pretexts, steal children.
mircea_popescu: of course it'd fly along with whatever the french, the english and so forth figure out.
mircea_popescu: jurov it's only nonsense in the form presented. otherwise, the eu does believe it has jurisdiction over children above and beyond that of the family.
mircea_popescu: assbot> Russia and the Menace of Unreality - The Atlantic << gotta love the english agitprop, this entire "the gauls don't really exist so clearly they couldn't be at the gates" thing.
mircea_popescu: also separated pws are shitty. no <numbers><letters><symbols> crap.
mircea_popescu: mike_c there's always ~some~ correlation. since you did the math anyway, what is it ?
mircea_popescu: well, being a 3rd world shithole is pretty bad, but not knowing it is arguably worse.
mircea_popescu: I got a receipt and an affidavit indicating the amount seized and why. I petitioned the court for the return of my money and the court denied me saying that possession of that much cash constituted probable cause of drug activity and that I should be happy not to be in jail for drugs."
mircea_popescu: I got pulled over in Nebraska and when I was getting my license out of my wallet the officer saw a $100 bill in there and ended up confiscating the $400 I had on me as suspected drug money without ever arresting me or even charging me with a crime.
mircea_popescu: "When I go on a road trip I always carry enough cash to buy gas to get to my destination should my credit card stop working.
mircea_popescu: The CBC is warning Canadians about a U.S. program where America law enforcement officers — from federal agents to state troopers right down to sheriffs in one-street backwaters — are operating a vast, co-ordinated scheme to grab as much of the public's cash as they can through seizure laws.
mircea_popescu: and if you use it like a dump in your general course of business, you're prolly fucking yourself over and not even realise it.
mircea_popescu: if it;s worth discussing it goes here. if it is not, it is not.
mircea_popescu: coupla lines should be enough, it's what anyone ever reads anyway.
mircea_popescu: i do it all the time. "he's x y z looking to k". not really that big a deal.