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mircea_popescu: it's an unclear intuition in their turbid heads of something that's factually there.
mircea_popescu: while the economy is in fact wholly controlled by matriarchs, nevertheless they have no legal rights.
mircea_popescu: this is why jooz mostly survived, and middle east models allow for stable populations.
mircea_popescu: Shakespeare now, getting back to your original q, economic independence is not problematic, just as long as its not backed by legal independence.
mircea_popescu: a society where women have a say in their reproductive history will produce a finite number of generations.
mircea_popescu: Shakespeare yes. a democracy can never produce art. give the plebs the vote, you've ended painting, and music.
mircea_popescu: actuially mostly female police seems to work wel lin columbia
mircea_popescu: the answer my friend (as you well know) is that feminism is not a theory, nor science, but a marketing ploy.
mircea_popescu: well sure, that's the end of it. "could a planet exist with aqueous atmosphere and oceans of air ?"
mircea_popescu: not unless by "men" you understand "they with vaginas and pregnancies"
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mircea_popescu: "you may continue to pretend you're a country just as soon as you come to terms with us being immune"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform precisely what the recent thing with the sec was all aobut.
mircea_popescu: and generally the degree to which the society is steeped in it is clearly apparent
mircea_popescu: in it, the father teaches his pubescent daughter the difference between "us" and "those people" as a matter of course,
mircea_popescu: they have this special immunity thing, they don't have to as long as they stay in the "foreigner" zone
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you definitely can, iran is more deeply split than the ukraine.
mircea_popescu: then we'll get perhaps to hear all about the arab nazis on orlov's blog
mircea_popescu: and if this is the next target for the suddenly found int'l cock of putin,
mircea_popescu: (which does not map on iran at all, and which actually in the future may be the engine that liberates the poor persians from the smelly arab invaders)
mircea_popescu: afaik the russian inteligentsia of today is developing quite a crush on persian cultural achievements.
mircea_popescu: incidentally it is naught but shoicking how little persian exists in english translations,
mircea_popescu: for that matter : leadership and lawmaking are quite distinct endeavours.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo you know, paragraph long links look kinda dorky
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform plenty of indirect taxes tho. everyone pays.
mircea_popescu: not to mention the shit trays and medical inspections.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but why should it be allowed for cats ? it's a drug neh ?
mircea_popescu: guess what happens to lead that's washed in aciding tomato juice.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` no. this was chiefly a us phenomenon. the us at the time was poor and lazy, so most of their flatware was made of lead.
mircea_popescu: very few got the high quality trolling they were blessed with.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i kept proposing people to make catnip illegal in the us
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah. but also a lot of variation there.
mircea_popescu: cats are fine, but i've never heard of a cat like th estuff
mircea_popescu: some dogs love chocolate. some other dogs can die spontaneously from it.
mircea_popescu: anyway, there's a lot of metabolic diversity under this "all humans are humans" misguided perception. and it isn't limited to this species, either.
mircea_popescu: their liver is just not too happy with the prospect of having to cope with that load.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what i read suggested it's the presence of particular enzimatic pathways
mircea_popescu: you have like 30% chances to develop some types of liver cancer etc.
mircea_popescu: it may actually be genetic. about 18% or so of the population finds various aromatic hydrocarbons... aromatic.
mircea_popescu: huffing toluene/whatever other solvents is not that geograpghically concentrated
mircea_popescu: while by population should only be entitled to a modest 15%
mircea_popescu: what does worry me is that out of the stupidities emitted every day, said sphere leisurely owns 99.x%
mircea_popescu: people keep harping about "inequality of wealth distribution", but that fails to worry me.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform more open minded, in this context, is for instance considering the point that a severe beating is liable to be at least as effective an educational tool as speech.