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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform a population heavy on the young is not more stupid, it's more strippers.
mircea_popescu: basically nuclear weapons, as well as tomahawks, aircraft carriers and so on are further elements in a class of weapons inaugurated by the byzantines, with their greek fire :
mircea_popescu: some of the weak and shitty die, life expectancy a little shorter ?
mircea_popescu: second off, it's fucking difficulkt to achieve uniformity. most likely you'll have to get peaks and lows, needing even more fissiles.
mircea_popescu: what inconvenience exactly ? suppose the current level of radiation in japan becomes worldwide.
mircea_popescu: one needs to come up with very exotic avenues to realise it, now that simple coal soot isn't gonna cut it
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo not nearly as sexy. it was possible based on pre-ww2 england style industrialisation.
mircea_popescu: but sure, as the ice moves around we may get to various mineral riches in siberia, canda etc
mircea_popescu: kinda naive approach. there's nothing worse than winning with the wrong people for the wrong reasons.
mircea_popescu: This is why every successful community I've looked at knows how to exclude (shun, expel) people. Every successful community jealously safeguards its separateness from the surrounding society. This is critical to their survival and for achieving much better outcomes for their members than the surrounding society.
mircea_popescu: of course he started censoring once he didn't like what he was hearing.
mircea_popescu: fuck him. the pretense that liars & scammers, which is without exception anyone who fucking "moderates" are somehow ethically superior to actual people is morally offensive.
mircea_popescu: "Her blog's comments section is a sort of Land of the Lost: people who inhabit the comments sections of unmoderated blogs, and who are perpetually miffed that no half-decent blog will post their comments."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what the fuck is going on in this guy's head, engaging in a debate on these terms ?
mircea_popescu: "Gail insinuates that Albert Bates is an environmentalist hypocrite because he flies a lot. Albert does travel a lot but goes to great personal effort to physically mitigate carbon from his travel footprint, and this is obvious from even a cursory glance at his website. Overall, he is very much carbon-negative, while Gail goes on aimless drives through the countryside in her gigantic, gas-
mircea_popescu: ok well, i need a bunch of secretarial stuff done. you game ?
mircea_popescu: this idea that the progressive's in the driver seat is weird.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform even funnier, because well... stable is ambiguous.
mircea_popescu: i deeply care that someone fixated on how things should be pink and round dislikes my computer for being so unpink and nonround.
mircea_popescu: just like the guy i linked the other day, going nuts over someone having mocked him for wearing a gown, these idiots are so trapped in self-referrentiality that they imagine their shit is somehow universal.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i love the inanity of "carbon footprint", "gini index" and all the rest of the idiocy.
mircea_popescu: thanks fluffypony danielpbarron, i'll hit you up if this fails or next time.
mircea_popescu: sadly the words in question are pretty fucking retarded.
mircea_popescu: "let me tell you what i read on trilema six months ago, in my own words".
mircea_popescu: eventually it's gonna run out of issues, because i'm not running out of days.
mircea_popescu: it was supposed to be monday. since then, an ever endless list of various issues, which i am taking care of one at a time, at the rate of about six to ten a day.
mircea_popescu: okay, who wants to make a 20 link care package for these ppls ?
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel you bring a very good objection actually.
mircea_popescu: mike_c such as that b-a blogs thing is only half a year old ?
mircea_popescu: kinda curious what specifically went into the heckling
mircea_popescu: where's fluffypony's excellent write-up on this subject
mircea_popescu: generally people want to barge in bringing all the mud of their previous context.
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel principally, they could tell me (and others) just how stupid we are. or at least attempt to.
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel well those two cause i love the shit they wrote and often quote it.
mircea_popescu: seems your avg ceo is better of, he just needs to prevent nigger and faggot discussions. guns still ok.
mircea_popescu: just as long as he doesn't allow people to talk of guns in his presence ?
mircea_popescu: <gabriel_laddel> mircea_popescu: Who do you have in mind for this list << to answer the q, actually it's pretty open. anyone anyone cares for.
mircea_popescu: re "that kind of conversation" : what point is a boat, if one floats it on a prison lake ?
mircea_popescu: goin further on asciilifeform's very soviet public/private approach, i wonder how many peeps are creaming their pants reading this convo over tor.
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel afaik that guy's involved with some leeches "advisaing" him re bitcoin. sooner or later he'll find his way here on his own.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and kinda why i have to be so uncharacteristically dismissive of teh various pretender governments.