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mircea_popescu: not to put too fine a point on it : yes slave trade ; no dubaloos.
mircea_popescu: the translation's far from terrible ; the item's important because a) it plainly discusses the slave trade (which, yes, underpinned most of the imperial economy eight years ago) and references a coin that's a.1) unatested anywhere else in the (voluminous, and pompous) imperial paperwork and a.2) isn't the official coin.
mircea_popescu: in other greats outside the walls :
https://www.jassa.org/?p=10723 << this dude ~actually sourced~ an extremely rare (online, it is in the basic toolkit of any serious medievalist, excellent late 1800s edition bei Boretius/Krause (BK)) source (Inquisitio de theloneis Raffelstettensis, BK 253) and then translated it.
mircea_popescu: apparently vietcong comparatively humane socialism, he survived that ok. actually, with great beneficially.
mircea_popescu: pretty sure mccain'd have ended up "convicted" in just such a lulz "court" if he didn't have the foresight to braintumour first
mircea_popescu: but anyways, seems the ~only contribution of the social media generation to world affairs is guaranteed lulz-"convictions" of ~any older male politician
mircea_popescu: let it be clearly stated thus, that even if it apparently works on asciilifeform as it traditionally works ~everywhere, the "oh, let me show you my wares" coy behaviour doth not work on me. what's gained for this "did 1st class work, then got sad" thing's rather low level enmity.
mircea_popescu: i do however find the stotting behaviour quite infuriating. so yes, in my book the sort of retard who "does great work for like a year" isn't scoring above the sort of retard who does no work. i'd much rather have tea with elliott than any of the historical time-limited editions specifically for this reason.
mircea_popescu: these are the sorts of theories entirely spurious for being entirely useless. whenever it's one fo those 0-predictive power nonsense & balls of yarn, "if it's true nothing's gained and if it's false the world's lost" you know you're in the presence of subconscious protection.
mircea_popescu: and if it doesn't, exactly nothing has been gained whatsoever.
mircea_popescu: when it does, you'll still have your theories as to "recluses" and "irreplaceability", aka various names for self-appointed castration, "i am unchangeable" / "the world is unchangeable" bla bla bla girlytalk to keep you warm.
mircea_popescu: i expect diana_coman 's stable will soon enough surpass all the supposed "utility" you hallucinate in the anal children (much like a demented old hoarder hallucinates "utility" in random junk) ; much like trilema in fact surpassed any
whisperer's monument, "
against odds" etce
mircea_popescu: to an arbitrary standard, my sock is an adequate replacement for the entire world.
mircea_popescu: and leaving that contemplation to the side : how do you propose to get me interested in your replacement plans once formulated ?
mircea_popescu: what replacement ? elliott had no children. like him -- legion of failures historically. how do you plan to replace elliott ?
mircea_popescu: most of the physically manifested genotypes amounted to notiong at all also.
mircea_popescu: MOST of the people who could've ever been ... were not.
mircea_popescu: the earth has been continuously inhabited by something rather like people for what, 20k generations or so ? each douche befouling the earth with his uneven gait and body odours today has thereby had 4e6k antecessors. yet the human population to date was never above 1e20, which happens to be the rounding error in that 6k.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, this is the poisonous promise of the specialisation : "oh, ye newton, jus' practice your maffs, no need to go out practicing your kissing"
mircea_popescu: instead of perceiving the imbalance as a problem, an' applying the one working bit to fixing the non working bit -- he just swung the schlong around. died bitter, reportedly.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, if you had a big cock and a small cunt, would you be a boy or would you be a girl ?
mircea_popescu: the reason's half stupid though ; and when i say that i don't mean the smart part's stupid.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, he was ~summoned~ to parliament, all he said over years was asking to close the windows because draft ; the comission he bought ~same way fox the quaker ended up in money : wealthy admirer took pity.
mircea_popescu: neways, this is the problem of our age ; and my lengthy foray into tlp (truth & fairness : only prior art extant on the topic), while unpleasant, has provided me with some insight : i dun think his diagnosis is correct. derealization, yes, a certain kind and flavour, yes. but not anymore narcissist in nature than self-loathing.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, no, actually, newton became master of mint ~precisely~ thtrough not talking to anybody.
mircea_popescu: all the way round to the archetipical anal child, sitting in his room "meditating" about "winning the lottery" -- because
might as well.
mircea_popescu: to the typical atlas,
holding up a wall on his back -- whether this be premature optimization or dependopopotamous investments, or phd-assembly line or whatever other the fuck nonsense
mircea_popescu: this is the fundamental problem, and it has quite the wingspan : from the newton who, retardedly, eschews talking to people because he is smart, and he knows he's smart, and he likes to rely on "the claw" etc -- but who then does not know people, and this includes not knowing himself, and so this puts him in the ridiculous position where he ends up investing most of the metaphysica-earth-moving-shovel time into shoveling a
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, and the japanese still showed up on the field in wood paste armor. state of the art cca death of j. gracchus.
mircea_popescu: not that the estimation's mandatory for anyone else. but, to ~my own lights~, etc.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, yet there's two kinds of problems : the problems it's good to have, and the problems it's bad to have. what i said was that this is, actually, a problem that's good to have.
mircea_popescu: some things were lost once the great man-o-wars made way for the not nearly as great clunkers called ironclads. and once people figured out wtf a sears-haack body is, planes suddenly became "flying coke bottles'
mircea_popescu: presenting the disappearance of horse&buggy as some kind of win was not, factually an' historically, disingenuos. even if trains did in fact take a while to "achieve same or better coverage in all points".
mircea_popescu: though not momentarily, long list of shit to see through.
mircea_popescu sings "He was slick but I was slicker, he drew quick but I was quicker and the table stopped his ticker Surly Joe - Yee Haw"
mircea_popescu: much like you can never be friends with the man who shot and missed -- because he can never be anything else now, besides the dood who took his shot
mircea_popescu: and so this is what happened there, the complete story : he did ~just what a saboteur would do~, because look how fucking wunderbar=ly it'd have sabotaged if it worked ; and a less-than-divine mp easily would've gotten fucked over it. so now -- we can never be friends again, i ain't getting over that.
mircea_popescu: this mirrors the above discussion re money exactly : in a certain context, idiocy can be just idiocy. but when you engage (and it does not matter how far above your paygrade the engaging is, or how coincidental -- the smoking gun dude could be retarded, iq <30, he'll hang just as well) the very hot core of the first mover in certain ways... suddely it's not no more.
mircea_popescu: chlabs.com/log/trilema/2017-12-17#1752614][]even if] "tje aliens did it"
mircea_popescu: and to properly bolster the fundaments of the foregoing terror -- it DPOES NOT MATTER whether one actually was, deliberately, working for the enemy. from my pov, phf is not "merely an idiot", but very well
saboteur anon describes NOT because he actually is, but because... again, guy found with smoking gun next to dead president is hanged, [
http://logs.nosu mircea_popescu: the problem with embryos -- you never know which set of literally three cells will be the eye and also the only shot you get at ever having eyes.
mircea_popescu: most groups tryna challenge the system of idiocy die this way, because early on they destroy some tiny thing which is actually critcal for long term survival, unawares.
mircea_popescu: r for the world early on, when "nobody" knew what's what.
mircea_popescu: when you switch from discussing "my getting enough to eat tomorrow" to "here's this island, manage it", all the tools keep the names get different powers.
mircea_popescu: the obverse of that "oh, stalin got tupolev back out of dungeon" coin is that BEFORE getting itno dungeon, cis-tupolev, the whole half million of them, had ONE DAMNED GOOD reason to get out of bed in the morning. "holy shit it's gonna happen to me", terror works. on short stretches at a time, but works.
mircea_popescu: but yes, the ~one~ good (unintentional, and unaware, but neither of this matters) 2nd order effect of attempted socialism is that in the mid phase it shook the complacency out of people.
mircea_popescu: here they sat, same #trilema as today, and preened, like these do. nothing came of it, and then one day i showed up and kicked them all out.
mircea_popescu: ~all that crawls out of cunt these days is anal children, like it or not, pretend how you would.
mircea_popescu: for YEARS /me did not give a shit, #t hosted club of (romanian-speaking, as it happens, but of no consequence past that coincidence), exactly same automatons working the same way getting the same results
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, gotta also take it easy, if one were to judge "the output" of #t on the basis of its however many first weeks...
mircea_popescu: s/pinot/wharever the fuck's fashionable nowadays after the latest pretentious film offering provincial ustards "worldliness"
on the cheap, gewurtztraminer or w/e it is.
mircea_popescu: actually, i suppose the correct example is "wine snob". yes, anyoen can tell ok wine from piss ; yes particularly talented fellows can actually tell you a lot from a sip. but the vast bulk of neglected aging "careerwomen" getting plastered pretentiously each weekend -- they couldn't tell a pinot from another if poured into milkbottoles first.
mircea_popescu: audiophile can distinguish one sound system from another. pothead can not distinguish pot from pot.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo, supposedly the golden age was back in the day where that deranged dude organised a harem out of the aparently uberabundant cali cunt, to kidnap some people / teach blacks how to rebel.
mircea_popescu: whole thing actually matches very well with empire's last days : whole thing is manufactured scarcity, "buy some expensive woodpulp home to smoke some expensive weed in" sounds EXACTLY like the end days blueprint/.
mircea_popescu: and you eat multiple pounds of bread a day, to stay poor. pot's enough even by the oz.
mircea_popescu: shamanic tradition and all that, yes ? what, you think euro ousia-driven inquiries are "fundamental human heritage" ? they're fucking euro.
mircea_popescu: it's the african racial ability, comes with the territory.