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mircea_popescu: because - horrible dictu - he reminds her a lot of her father.
mircea_popescu: so then suppose one day a police officer's daughter falls in love with a lowly police grunt.
mircea_popescu: suppose you're advising me as emperor of jormania in the making of my imperial police force.
mircea_popescu: decimation explai nhow this actual police force works.
mircea_popescu: finding an asshole officer was like finding a virgin in paris
mircea_popescu: i remember a time when officer was a superlative menschkeit thing
mircea_popescu: which is why sane people (ie, germans) don't have upper limits,
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves well, that reasoning doesn't work in a town (because if you go fast enough whether you run into someone or not becomes a matter of luck), but it does make sense of highways
mircea_popescu: "and then i saw a great vision of everyone's head being screwed in backwards
mircea_popescu: like you know, the state of being locked into the cake freezer seems ideal to the 9yo
mircea_popescu: decimation this only seems perfect. it's in fact disastrous.
mircea_popescu: if there's going to be a soyuz of the soviets organised within our lifetimes over there i'll possibly not be able to carry on for laughter
mircea_popescu: so... another couple of these, they're going to end up with hostage senate.
mircea_popescu: it's relatively easy living french peasants that get an easement, which suddenly makes all restraints unbearable
mircea_popescu: as per tocqueville's observation, it's not opressed peasants like the german serfs that rebel
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the problem is this : they have 6-7-8 mn people packed like sardines in there, like 5k/km2
mircea_popescu: decimation eventually someone will write the grand book of everything, just distil all the 500k lines here into a castle of words.
mircea_popescu: just, the vc circus hasn't yet found out, because we don't finance the circus.
mircea_popescu: Jere_Jones cause it keeps the nsa busy while we fuck it raw.
mircea_popescu: when i do hidden in plain sight, it's hidden. when the usg tries it, it's snowdened.
mircea_popescu: well, that i don't. however, i do understand quite well when i don't understand something.
mircea_popescu: ninjashogun i just did what i always do, told people what to do.
mircea_popescu: many things are not. basic, for instance, is eminently secure.
mircea_popescu: KRS-One i always thought it's insecure, and insecurable
mircea_popescu: KRS-One i know people who have to maintain it that are shocked on a weekly basis by both what it can do and how it works.
mircea_popescu: the guy has some very specific sexual hangups. it's all centered on rape, can't see violence, can't see submission, he's impacted.
mircea_popescu: elevant as the skin color. Not irrelevant for now, not irrelevant "until the economy improves"-- irrelevant forever. The economy doesn't care about intelligence, at all, it doesn't care what you know, merely what you can produce for it. The only thing the English grad is "qualified" for in this economy is the very things s/he is already doing: coffeehouse agitator, Trader Joe's associate, Apple customer... and spouse
mircea_popescu: When we see a welfare mom we assume she can't find work, but when we see a hipster we become infuriated because we assume he doesn't want to work but could easily do so-- on account of the fact that he can speak well-- that he went to college. But now suddenly we're all shocked: to the economy, the English grad is just as superfluous as the disenfranchised welfare mom in the hood-- the college education is just as irr
mircea_popescu: "magine a large corporate machine mobilized to get you to buy something you don't need at a tremendously inflated cost, complete with advertising, marketing, and branding that says you're not hip if you don't have one, but when you get one you discover it's of poor quality and obsolete in ten months. That's a BA.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile the us has spent more on syria than syria'd cost to buy, whole.
mircea_popescu: there used to be. herodotus or who observed that it seems ignoble and unworthy of a man to plow the field
mircea_popescu: it used to be, sure. but now it's more like a welfare programme
mircea_popescu: logofat = youthful scribe used to take down dictation of his lord and sometimes a little cock.
mircea_popescu: rather than in proper thermodynamics notions of reversibility
mircea_popescu: perhaps unobvious in the fuel analogy, because the inadvertent reader will think in terms of power
mircea_popescu: or that he regrets the ride after havin been taken for it
mircea_popescu: i mean there's no requirement that the chump don't enjoy it
mircea_popescu: for the pleasure and enjoyment of... the company. OF OTHER LOSERS LIKE THEM
mircea_popescu: as immortalised say in the romanian saying, "logofete brinza-n cuiu, lapte acru-n calimari, chiu si vai prin buzunari"
mircea_popescu: but that aside, you familiar with the *medieval* notion that a healthy young boy should learn a trade, and only phtisic good for nothing losers go to university ?
mircea_popescu: you really should, it's quite excellent literature. unlike french cheese, this is passable, and why we tolerate them in europe.
mircea_popescu: moiety yes, write down what you do. you're the only one doing most of it.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo asciilifeform actually, a university (in the classical, functional and ideal sense, no relation to us/uk "college") is the prototype of the honest chumpatron