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mircea_popescu: i'm making no value judgement here, merely using an example to illuminate a point.
mircea_popescu: and some other places and times, equally narrow to irrelevance.
mircea_popescu: outside of the very thin sliver of things that is north america 1980-2020ish.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski inasmuch as the married female has no rights and no recourse, pissing off her husband is pissing off the wrong guy. she quickly learns not to do that.
mircea_popescu: the mess hall being the principal argument pro-university in the classical period of universities too.
mircea_popescu: lol i find the best and most readily digested argument pro-slavery works out to "i say where we go eat. it takes all of thirty seconds. and if i say everyone gets lamb tikka masala, ordering takes thirty seconds too."
mircea_popescu: maybe the idea was that if you're close enough you're burning anyway.
mircea_popescu recalls lab where countermeasure was very large h2so4 vat.
mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> someone affiliated with those who attend burning man regularly. << sluts make a much better tribe imo.
mircea_popescu: decimation no, but it would manage to reduce mormonism to something below what its critics today perceive of it.
mircea_popescu: ironically, in engineering it usually is the best of thinkings.
mircea_popescu: inasmuch as "i dunno, make it twelve inches thick" is thinking
mircea_popescu: current guys are very tightly oppressed by budgets and there's this overwhelming delusion that "we know shit" making a lot of garbage numbers be accepted .
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes no, actually, they just had much less data and better training, so they put slack in.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes older satellites are better planned ironically. modern military shit however, especially us stuff is in real danger
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes but yes, as far as numerically approached, a major flare can do 500km.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform quite. and some people shouldn't be innocent of books, and MORE IMPORTANTLY of the written process of thinking.
mircea_popescu: upper atmosphere is constrained magnetically. disturb the field, it expan\ds/shrinks
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes atmosphere is mostly constrained by gravity, which makes the heat a major factor. if you heat it it expands.
mircea_popescu: i mean, i don't think i yet published an article without a typo or two in it, sure. but there's a difference.
mircea_popescu: it really bothers me when i see people who're supposedly detail oriented, engineers and whatnot.
mircea_popescu: people really need to figure out this affect/effect ensure/insure business.
mircea_popescu: "But I also know that by not adding my body to the count, I insure nothing will change. "
mircea_popescu: generally the masses in the democracy tend to get it nice and hard. which seems fair, if only in a very cold, distant, macro sense.
mircea_popescu: what do you mean making some bases which you then close is on the whole a net negative, putting the place worse off than it would have been had you minded your own business!
mircea_popescu: but no, because nobel-prize-whatshisface said that government spending is beneficial for the economy.
mircea_popescu: ll of the young families who lost their homes or street after street of boarded up houses abandoned to the wealthy loan companies who received government funds to “shore up” their windfall. Again, I lost my retirement.
mircea_popescu: Instead I got busy working 100-hour workweeks. Then came the L.A. depression of the early 1990s. Our leaders decided that they didn’t need the all of those extra Air Force bases they had in Southern California, so they were closed; just like that. The result was economic devastation in the region that rivaled the widely publicized Texas S&L fiasco. However, because the government caused it, no one gave a shit about a
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well iirc that thing was predicated on proton-proton fusion
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well in teh press. generally "ion engine" => intergallactic travel.
mircea_popescu: but now... it's all better. so i guess in a few more decades only northeners will be fit to go on space missions
mircea_popescu: then it became an impossible near uv, far uv, ir etc horror, to the degree i couldn't even look at the daytime sky.
mircea_popescu: and speaking of the upper atmosphere : i have had to extreme pleasure to encounter again the sun of my youth, down here. for the first fifteen or so years of my existence on earth, the sun was this warm, pleasant, narrow source.
mircea_popescu: this is the major application for ion engines, not space travel : mangement of the upper atmosphere. nobody wants to say this, for some reason.
mircea_popescu: at something like 100pa, all you need is to accelerate one ion in 100 to 100 times the average brownian speed.
mircea_popescu: * asciilifeform wonders if this could even be carried out mechanically, with something like a wirbelrohr. << you'd need a good ion engine, actually.
mircea_popescu: that means your 2k km orbit has just been degraded significantly, and you're now dragging 10x or 100x what you were a minute ago.
mircea_popescu: if it had to carry all its fuel it'd have collapsed years ago.
mircea_popescu: do you see the difference between some party declaring war (whether this is entirely in their own mind and an exercise in pure ridicule) and someone declaring jihad ?
mircea_popescu: and mike ocd is also part of something. whereas the austin guy clearly is not.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes, the process through which girls become wives and us citizens usg informants.
mircea_popescu: the only people that start throwing things are the people in a corner through a system they do not wish to continue in any circumstances.
mircea_popescu: people in a corner by ill fortune get depressed. people in a corner by misdeeds reprogram. people in a corner by having pissed off wrong people turn sluts.
mircea_popescu: i guess the j stack replica in my head flew a plane into part of my memory
mircea_popescu: i never read that guy, but i will take the challenge. show how.
mircea_popescu: too narcissistic perhaps. it just fits with experience.