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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.
mircea_popescu: well i don't know how we know, and i don't really know how i know. but i do know.
mircea_popescu: "sammy j beats his wife regularly. johnny told his wife if she doesn't stop dressing like an out of work whore he'll beat her too. sammy is on trial for terrorism nao"
mircea_popescu: i was not seriously proposing that was what happened. i was merely illustrating the disproportion between what occurred and terrorism.
mircea_popescu: re : yes, it is true, except it wasn't ivan ivanovich but vladimir vladimirovich, it wasn't a bike but a car and it wasn't given but taken away
mircea_popescu: radio erevan answers! user : is it true that ivan ivanovich was given a bike ?
mircea_popescu: mthreat some guy got pissed off at irs, flew his radio airplane into a pole across the street.
mircea_popescu: "The 2010 Austin terrorist attack" dude for crying out loud.
mircea_popescu: in point of fact, unionization of "founders" in sv is unavoidable.
mircea_popescu: guy;d have benefited immensely from a non absent father.
mircea_popescu: pankkake who';s this, the 20something ceo of great valor ?
mircea_popescu: you assumed wrong. it is the incontrovertible right of people to flush their assets down the toilet.
mircea_popescu: reddit caught a fart. does that count ? it tasted kinda ok.
mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic well at least he's still tweeting. the neobee thing he tweeted a lot about also turned to be a wallet stealing piece of crap
mircea_popescu: RagnarDanneskjol that stinks of desperation in the last degree.
mircea_popescu: moreover... suppose there's mail in transit for #11 or #13.
mircea_popescu: he knows what he's doing. apprentice wizard "consultant" does not.
mircea_popescu: except... it is obnoxious as fuck for clerks to decide the management is "a supersitious buyer".
mircea_popescu: " It’s like formally changing a house’s address from 13 to 11 before selling it to a superstitious buyer: the fact being erased is that it was once called “13”, one that will never matter for any purpose or cause material harm to anyone."
mircea_popescu: the whole us is practically speaking an engless fractal implementation of exact anti-robustness.
mircea_popescu: how the other half works : they select a subset of reality that it's not okay to lie about, then lie about all the rest, which is fine because hey, it wasn't in the holy set!
mircea_popescu: working on whatever whorley diode idiocy or whatever it is.
mircea_popescu: we're talking education as in, i've been a sex toy to the master of field x for two decades.
mircea_popescu: intelligence as an innate ability is merely a qualifier. you don't got it, you can't play. otherwise, education is 99.x% of all intellectual performance, and that x is 10.
mircea_popescu: "ebola-liberia-clashes-violence" certainly has a ring to it.