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mircea_popescu: decimation the solution obviously is, "make an ideology to which dissent is a self limiting condition"
mircea_popescu names decimation the new head of the secret service. order #1 : arrest all the dissenters so that the population remains > 0.
mircea_popescu: xerxes famously ordered the hellespont around, for that matter.
mircea_popescu: but the interface between sovereignity and productivity is iffy at best.
mircea_popescu: decimation so suppose i want to go down on her and she says her period started this morning. can i now order her to unperiodize herself ?
mircea_popescu: as an aside, mpex update : hardware changed and tested, os installed and failed. os reinstalled and failed. hardware retested and failed (!!!). hardware rechanged. tested, passed, tested, passed, os resintalled, tested.
mircea_popescu: decimation suppose i have a slavegirl. am i sovereign over her or aren't i ?
mircea_popescu: but mind that the eu was quite successful while it limited itself to imposing things like the euro1-2-3-4 car emission standards.
mircea_popescu: well because it's trying to solve problems that it has no business being involved in.
mircea_popescu: justusranvier lmao awww, and i didn't even get to sell any d.cbse
mircea_popescu: so you know... for all the conservative displeasure with the global government...
mircea_popescu: generally as cixi aptyl observed, capitalism is fucking loud.
mircea_popescu: decimation moreover, the market is provedly awful at allocating silence. london was nothing but a gray mist for most of modernity.
mircea_popescu: well... what if their parents didn't ? what if it's the united states of chimpanzees ?
mircea_popescu: "i don't have to beat them personaly but merely remind them of how their parents beat them"
mircea_popescu: decimation that "self restraint" is your circular way of begging violence
mircea_popescu: lemon band is playing awfully badly, so you pay them 20 mn to stfu
mircea_popescu: mike_c suppose you're in a restaurant with a chick you're trying to impress.
mircea_popescu: there's no way to resolve the silence dispute without recourse to violence.
mircea_popescu: if you don't like it you keep your pear and i keep my silver.
mircea_popescu: negotiation is, "i'll give you this silver for that pear"
mircea_popescu: and as i tell my neighbours that complain about my music, "either get lost or i'm going to kill you"
mircea_popescu: as i generally tell my neighbours that listed to the music too loud, "either turn it off or i'm going to kill you".
mircea_popescu: decimation there's no practical way to evaluate blighted skies. and the chinese don't wan to pay mongolia or w/e
mircea_popescu: they may mean well and act honorably, but they're fucking peas in the field. no way to know enough to form a meaningful opinion.
mircea_popescu: this has been known since forever as the noble lie. ie, most people have no fucking business giving their opinion in the forum.
mircea_popescu: n3 is a small consumer with a large gas plant. they picket it and it's closed. large industry down the road needs power so even further coal plant is brough back online.
mircea_popescu: neighbourhood 1 gets together to "do something for environment", blows up all the leaves with leafblowers. N2 pledges to stop eating beef so as to help reduce cowfart methane production. the importers normaly supplying them suffer a shock, a bunch of meat is discarded.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, ships are burning more and more diesel because of sulphur limitations
mircea_popescu: “The reason we can export so much is demand in the U.S. is weak,” Cohan said. Since 2005, the U.S. has lost nearly 2 million barrels a day of total product consumption, he said.
mircea_popescu: what do you mean ? both canada and mexico have been exporting ?
mircea_popescu: decimation if it does, it hadn't for 30 years or so prior.
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal nah. and besides, it's been going crazy with respect to both brent and the middle east sorts.
mircea_popescu: buncha people out singing. not like they burned a car or anything.
mircea_popescu: my flash is not good enough, but anyway. mebbe we mean different things by chaos.
mircea_popescu: btw, the song of the street here is " Brasil, decime qué se siente, tener en casa tu papa"
mircea_popescu: benkay it may have exscaped your notice, but im verbose.
mircea_popescu: if he said anything it'll be in tomorrow's summaries. i've only been talking to techs and spooks today
mircea_popescu: i've been mostly conferincing lol. gotta earn a living.
mircea_popescu: mthreat just been for a spin around 9 de julio. not *that* crazy
mircea_popescu: justusranvier i guess that's a point, i should wipe trilema twitter links huh
mircea_popescu: <benkay> how does slowing down bond purchases imply a not increase in rates? << iwannabelieve.jpg