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mircea_popescu: and really as entry level bureaucrats... how smart can they be ?
mircea_popescu: kinda sitting ducks because they're slaves to their talking points
mircea_popescu: it's kind-of becoming a fun sport these days tho, find agents twist their arms.
mircea_popescu: russia is very badly landlocked, they can't survive without ports.
mircea_popescu: because random US agent of influence in Brussels slash fuckwit says so.
mircea_popescu: notwithstanding that russia didn't send any tanks in the ukraine, either
mircea_popescu: no because the standard magically is "the us never sent tanks there"
mircea_popescu: like you know, having your idiocy made a point of public mockery in the forum is immediate license to disengage and pretent like you were slighted
mircea_popescu: and now he's going to be upset because i called him a weasel
mircea_popescu: @Mircea_Popescu Yes, it borders on the US province of Iraq. You may wish to drop the weasel act, we're adults, we can see through bs.
mircea_popescu: @SpiegelPeter Is Syria a neighbour of the US? You may want to re-read original Kennan quote.
mircea_popescu: @SpiegelPeter I don't recall US ever sending tanks into Canada. Does chasing Pancho Villa = Hungary 1956, Prague 1968, Afghanistan 1979?
mircea_popescu: @Mircea_Popescu This is pretty well equally true of the US. The EU is one of the few sane players and the US press is slamming them for it
mircea_popescu: @SpiegelPeter · 2h "Kremlin's jealous & intolerant eye can distinguish only vassals & enemies; neighbors, if they dont wish 2 be one, must be the other”-Kennan
mircea_popescu: well obviously all the nonsense barrage was destined to help them fuck some more noobs over.
mircea_popescu: like say the misadventures of those pretend-gambling guys mpoe-pr laid into a week ago
mircea_popescu: i wonder generally how many people realise that stupendously stupid "pr" actually has a marked negative cost
mircea_popescu: i hope shrem hit him over the head because had he stfu i'd have not said anything either.
mircea_popescu: pity something awful got all butthurt and humiliated and discontinued buttcoin
mircea_popescu: fucking hell i can read the original THROUGH the blackl
mircea_popescu: so this guy is going to be forever remembered as the pdf highlights tard ?
mircea_popescu: nubbins` point in case as to the "we don't deserve to run a business" thing
mircea_popescu: not proposing any of the foregoing as factual or anything, merely exploring teh theory of it.
mircea_popescu: four is an odd number of arms for a man to have, the only both odd and even number is infinity
mircea_popescu: the thought process being, napoleon was a great general, great generals are forewarned, being forewarned is like having an extra pair of arms,
mircea_popescu: they let it run overnight, among the conclusions it had arrived to by morning was "napoleon had an infinite number of arms"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "at mit, they made this self-learning machine which would try to make deductions sylogistically on a dictionary of natural language constructs
mircea_popescu: this is probably apocriphal as such, but it is reflective of various actual events. normally it's retold as
mircea_popescu: nubbins` btw, you know the "great generals" machine learning fiasco ?
mircea_popescu: i always respected that guy. occasionally obnoxious but he had what you'd need from a rector : fucking rectitude.
mircea_popescu: the rector guy was like "if you can't speak you can't be a university professor."
mircea_popescu: at the one uni where i sort-of flirted with academia, this was banned on campus.
mircea_popescu: imagine a truck driver that can't drive double clutch.
mircea_popescu: all the guy ever does is derp about in the conference freakshow, you'd expect he has at least the basics of that profession down pat.
mircea_popescu: cazalla this is kind of sad, incidentally, because it's roughly like a stripper with bad genital hygiene
mircea_popescu: i don't actually hate the guy, i just dislike him because he's very inept strategically and we kinda need to purge the stupid.
mircea_popescu: they rheally thought they're somebody worth something.
mircea_popescu: take it as a measure of just how badly hurt the foundation scamnest is by this defeat in the field