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mircea_popescu: (and by any measures it WAS a great nation. greater than say, that-time italy)
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo interesting poin tre appleos stuff. i never followed it any so i had no clue.
mircea_popescu: that the only point at which anyone notices this is when a bitbet mod tries to close a bitbet bet.
mircea_popescu: s a funny testament to both his and their relative importance
mircea_popescu: im going to have that as a yes, sometime tomorrow. if anyone wants to make an argument... you got about a day.
mircea_popescu: and what did they do ? they went to reddit to call him names!
mircea_popescu: the women - which, by that time, were mostly prostitutes - all hated him for it,
mircea_popescu: he was a censor, and as a censor he had the authority to forbid luxury expenditures. which he did, by forbiding some types of textile, which were very expensive, all imported, and wore quickly.
mircea_popescu: decimation re heirloom items. anyone know who cato porcius was, and why he got that name ?
mircea_popescu: decimation point being the vultures in question'd have made good money out of it.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> don't forget the machines and their vendors. various parts with high-threes or low-fours 'MTBF', periodic mandatory maintenance, etc. - churn inventory. <<< would seem to contradict asciilifeform> u.s. presidential car is an infamous laughing-stock - broke down recently in england (?) and they had one hell of a time finding a shop that would attempt repair
mircea_popescu: meanwhile over here, i ran into a chamber minority leader (they have like six) in a coffee shop by the courthouse.
mircea_popescu: said no roman emperor after caracalla, for the very reason that made charlemagne great : he was nothing much outside of the chief of the guards.
mircea_popescu: <decimation> and even though the president has very little personal authority his underlings are more than happy to throw this security party because they each get a part << quite.
mircea_popescu: supposedly this is the most striking quality of a functioning harem.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` that's not it. a buncha fuctards have to be hosted somewhere, and they don't carry tents to camp in.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo oh but i am aware. and the reason i wake up so chipper & cheerful i nthe mornings is quite a large pile of this, where the oppressed have the key to their freedom in their hand and somehow omitted to going to school the day its use was taught.
mircea_popescu: (such as, the worst thing a contemporary president can do for a disaster area ? travel there.)
mircea_popescu: decimation the point is valid, and people with a clue ocasionaly make it
mircea_popescu: i have no idea why people keep thinking of it in terms of a sort of older us without tablets. it's so reactionary in fact it'd put medieval england to shame.
mircea_popescu: for that matter, rome did not have income tax, or consumption tax. it had a capitation, and some trade licensing fees.
mircea_popescu: (he once or twice got beat up pretty bad on account of it, too)
mircea_popescu: doesn't this much unknowing throw a hole in your rome model ?
mircea_popescu: this was predicated on them not knowing who he was, and furthermore, on him not knowing who they were.
mircea_popescu: i think this may be a flaw of modelling. consider this point : one of the ways nero got a bad reputation was through going out at night and assaulting random people in the street.
mircea_popescu: ie, more context of what you plan to use that definition for.
mircea_popescu: which means you're quite stuck. but perhaps if you had a question or some statement that could be tested or something ?
mircea_popescu: hehe well yeah, here's the problem : nobody;'s written the trilema dictionary yet, and the author itself feels unequal to the task of defining the feminine, which is why i passed above.
mircea_popescu: but you're familiar enough with my thinking to be aware how dimly i view this proposition that kids should be encouraged to "guess" what "the words mean in context" rather than look it up
mircea_popescu: in parts. contrary to what the european hordes thought, aristotle holds not the answer to everything,.
mircea_popescu: what gave it away and what made you think that in teh first place
mircea_popescu: the other thing is a convention, the result of nothing but spuriousness.
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal there's a difference between form as you use it and form as used before. yours is the result of everything spurious being taken away, it's the form of livingthings chiseled in a million years of predition and ovulation.
mircea_popescu: me killing dopey-popo-plus being a fine example of exactly this.
mircea_popescu: form as used by they with a lot of substance isn't even form per se anymore.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, i'm beinf facetious for the fun of humiliating they absent third parties that believe in form and formalism.
mircea_popescu: X-Rob so you take delight in the disabilities of others ? i see how it is.
mircea_popescu: apparently nobody gave franklin the memo that said floating icebergs in the gulf of mexico = GLOBAL WARMING.
mircea_popescu: "The winter of 1783-1784. The Revolutionary War had just ended, and Benjamin Franklin was puzzling over the nation's bizarre weather. Congress had been delayed getting to Annapolis to vote for the Treaty of Paris because the Chesapeake Bay just wouldn't melt. The Mississippi River froze down to New Orleans, and ice was reported floating in the Gulf of Mexico."
mircea_popescu: There was once a girl from St. Cyr whose reflex reactions were queer. Her escort said, "Mable, get up off the table. That money's to pay for the beer."
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: 'Вместо статуй будут урны - Революции культурной.' -- vysotsky's song about chicoms <<< dja haet chinese ppls or merely suspicious of anyone with slanty eyes ?
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> china is imho the one likely candidate for the feat of having own isolated wot and 'getting away with it' long term. << nah, argentina in much better position.
mircea_popescu: holy shit look at that crapolade. "problem statement. i nthe current state of social media interaction blablablabla"
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla if it has academia in the url it's respectable!
mircea_popescu: "I'm running cimplicity on windows server 2008." "Only for "factory is going to blow up" alarms"
mircea_popescu: There was a young girl from Peru who noticed her lovers were sparse so she walked out the door in a fig leaf - no more - and now she's in bed with a very sore arse.
mircea_popescu: no wonder they're using nailguns to do in the finance muppets.
mircea_popescu: <cazalla> i had one for indian candy but she never came back <<< wait for monsoon season ?
mircea_popescu: There was a young girl from Peru who had literally nothing to do, so she sat on the stairs and counted cunt hairs : four thousand, three hundred and two.
mircea_popescu: There was a young girl from Hong Kong whose cervical cap was a gong. She said with a yell, as a shot rang her bell, "I'll give you a ding for a dong!"
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: Hearn being all butthurt << yeah it'd prolly be good if whoever links to derpchans (-otc, -dev, reddit, tardstalk, what have you) also provides a good executive summary. i dunno who has the energy to go on fishing expeditions in the sewage.
mircea_popescu: of course that happens to also be what sunk the us, broadly speaking, but hey.
mircea_popescu: forget it, be a shitty tech instead, that's still a living.
mircea_popescu: so, learn from the experience of ninjashogun and a dozen or so other nameless, meanwhile forgotten fucktards that were beheaded in this chan : you're not good enough to earn your keep as a politico. not here, not ever.
mircea_popescu: now the story here is that while both kinds of tech are actually useful and employable, neither kind of politico is. the expert politico doesn't need to be employed, of course, but that's not doing much for the vast majority of noobs, wanna-bes and untalented hacks populating that field.