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mircea_popescu: synergy : because of wol author of that cartoon can now get a little money.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform do you see the wol banner in the oglaf site ? (ab ove) ?
mircea_popescu: we're doing ~ 1.5mn impressions/hour atm. curious if it does anything.
mircea_popescu: DreadKnight mass slow + berserk + blind on a hero with infinte mp and archers against a slow infantry -> carnage.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform happened once before you know ? how did they conquer ur ?
mircea_popescu: this would be why columbia's wearing the stripes and seeing the stars.
mircea_popescu: benkay "imposing your will on the environment is evil anwyay"
mircea_popescu: might as well skipped him went straight from lizzie to the kids.
mircea_popescu: lookl at the british crown : the fact that charles actually reached sexual maturity is to the detriment of everyone.
mircea_popescu: with 50+ age expectancy, this model is disastrous, basically if humans were a functional species sexual maturity'd skip a generation altogethere.
mircea_popescu: if the average lifespan (esp for males) is in the low 40s, then sticking together family is perfect : by the time father croaks, kids are just old enough to pick up the pieces.
mircea_popescu: individuation happens with hardship. the point of fambly sticking together is to control hardship through approaching it a certain way, much like a ship approaches waves a certain way.
mircea_popescu: but that aside, kids moving away is a good thing anyway.
mircea_popescu: us folk can't admit they suck andmore than classical japanese can admit emperor is a dumbass.
mircea_popescu: this nuanced view is so nuanced it's about to collapse into a nuancelingularity.
mircea_popescu: . Among the top cities that may see a surge are Austin and Dallas in Texas, as well as Denver and Des Moines, Iowa.
mircea_popescu: someone was actually doing hr for a living, lemme see here.
mircea_popescu: but in the real world of real politik, an armed opressed populace is fucking dangerous, it'll side with the enemy.
mircea_popescu: sure in an idealised, us-centric world as the naive represent thngs to be, a well armed citizenry is the guarantee and bla bla.
mircea_popescu: no wonder gun ownership is perceioved as such a problem.
mircea_popescu: would any of the people who target practice use their arms on the invaders or on the feds ?
mircea_popescu: as things stand right now, if someone could somehow be bothered to invade, the us would simply collapse and that's that.
mircea_popescu: there's a very fine equilibrium between how popular a government is and how much support it can muster.
mircea_popescu: benkay consider the reverse of this situation : during the azn crisis in the 2000s, people were queing up to donate their privately held gold to prop the centra lbank.
mircea_popescu: and the difference between real value and actual headship is how much actual value (not printed dollars) "they have" stashed away in that particular accumulator.
mircea_popescu: they measure how much of a shit your peers give under "headship"
mircea_popescu: consequently, every able bodied male in your grandfather's age group tried desperately to own.
mircea_popescu: benkay as compared to the rights and privileges ownership conferred upon your grandfather, ownership confers nothing much to you today.