asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-08-29#1845694 << 'good shit' is not the only way to spend proceeds of plunder & theft -- can also spend like heroin addict, on staving off 'cold turkey'. which is what usg does, i.e. supplies 300M office plankton with cheap petrol, plastic house, plastic car.☝︎
asciilifeform: first kingdom where they ban microshit , where will it be ? ( and can i buy ticket ! )
asciilifeform: ( ru , persia, et al, all fail likewise this litmus )
asciilifeform: as for '5000yr wisdom of china', i'd at least consider to take it seriously if they, say, quit running microshit.
asciilifeform: general electric, for instance, is hard at work on setting up 'next fukushima' in post-sov east europistan. bulgaria, ukrs, ro, close contestants for the eventual sr90 medal.
asciilifeform: the longer the usg show goes on , the moar intricately irreversible horrors will be born. which is why i do not buy worth one shit the hypothesis of 'wisdom of forward-looking wise 5000yr china' . they're civilization of the ant, 0 values but 'wealth' of the most immediate pov.
asciilifeform: ( why, so usg can pack the debeaked birds even tighter, breed new pathogens ? )
asciilifeform: or even to share vaccine ~only for chicken~
asciilifeform: ( as BingoBoingo & mircea_popescu already noted ) anybody would have to be tired of living, to share weaponizables with usg
asciilifeform: ( would you do this, if you were gensek of cn ?? )
asciilifeform: why , i still dunget, would they do this.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: so the classical model where 'they have a box with possibly 0, but the 0 not known for certain, so they can borrow from beijing against $box' entirely off ?
asciilifeform: but if somehow item seeing sunlight would help hitler to die -- then i'd like to see it .
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i personally dun give even nanofuck whether knox contains megatonne of au, or 0, or nixon's used condom from when he was permitted inside.
asciilifeform: with the unknown 'but thought large' pile of au in it
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: iirc you were the one who wrote about that one mountain in ro
asciilifeform: evidently the derps themselves, think >0
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'than it's worth' is complicated -- how much is worth the seekret of 'usg has 0 au' ?
asciilifeform: got OR'd with BingoBoingo's line in my head
asciilifeform not been in usa army. but did work as non-liveried specialist with their medical corps, for some yrs, so got an -- admittedly coloured -- look at one organ of the beast, from inside
asciilifeform: folx like BingoBoingo's brothers or whoever.
asciilifeform: afaik not enuff mexicans to make serious diff, yet
asciilifeform: Mocky: us army is not waffen ss tho. visit a base, it's full of the typical 'i hate my job' schmuck that you meet anywhere else, construction sites, mines, wherever
asciilifeform: the only part of the system that doesn't make any sense to asciilifeform , is why the soldiers, raped raw regularly with e.g. retro-revoked bonuses, deployments to goatfuckistans with 0 strategy beyond 'clear mines with own feet', etc -- continue to prop up the inca
asciilifeform: if you send spawn to 'uncertified' school, yer a criminal, if bury parent in uncertified tomb, also criminal, if... well errybody already knows, i think
asciilifeform: all of ustardism is structured this way.
asciilifeform: bahahanope. see, just like in life ustards have 'homeowner association' that prohibits wrong colour paint of house...
asciilifeform: ( why ? apparently some co has a quasi-monopoly . how this is possible, is beyond me , but seems to be troo )
asciilifeform: normal stones, see, cost dough. 10k or so, last i saw.
asciilifeform: phunphakt, gravestones already on their way out in usa, trend is to 'envir friendly' burials, with wooden stakes, paper flags, just like the old gulag
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: zeks dun have 'owned slice', lol, thats what makes'em zeks
asciilifeform: can't exactly buy it for lolcoin ('real estate equity' and other fuffles) now can you.
asciilifeform: ( and this is the only type of inheritance that still worx in usgdom )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i dun subscribe to the model where folx who dun have a usg.'foundation' to meritwash their spawn into backdoor-inheriting meritwashed moneys, are 'shit parent'
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-08-29#1845577 << usg.mortgage is a device for separating salaried zeks (engineers, law, etc) from their 'excess' fat. not for millenial pauper to borrow against... what, exactly. (maybe organs?)☝︎☟︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: quite possibly today's 'we control the vertical and horizontal!' delusional usaf, specifically begun in the days when jp ran out of modern machines ~and~ trained men, and pacific war turned into duck hunt
asciilifeform: '...in the last half century only three U.S. Air Force pilots have become aces (five or more aircraft shot down). There may never be any more aces.'
