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mircea_popescu: nubbins` not really much bigger than what you're used to
mircea_popescu: "how come an animal has just enough guts in it to make sausage ?"
mircea_popescu: this is how people ended up religious in the first place
mircea_popescu: actual guts actually help you a lot with shaping the sausage
mircea_popescu: never had occasion to use except to fix girl's improbable cleavage clings and now to catc hgnats.
mircea_popescu: i bought a roll years ago moving in here, cause i was buying shit
mircea_popescu: nubbins` well i made one out of foil and double tape, lessee
mircea_popescu: no, see, it's just they have very specialised sensing apparata
mircea_popescu: so i left my erlenmeyer tuica glass with a little on the bottom and went to bed
mircea_popescu: translation is about 5x as difficult as writing, who knew.
mircea_popescu: it actually took a fluent romanian speaker / native english to make the first draft and half hour of my time to correct it
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo "I have met Richard Martin II though and can say he is a rather unpleasant facsimile of a human being though." << too many thoughs
mircea_popescu: in unrelated news, bitcoin's rift guild is #4 largest on teh server.
mircea_popescu: i dunno man. i am looking forward to when i'm very old someone finally figuring this shit out and writing a clever paper.
mircea_popescu: forza managed to anihilate his entire house in a generation by simply not knowing the difference.
mircea_popescu: there's shows of force and then there's shows of force. ask d'este.
mircea_popescu: basically our colonies, be their russia or the us, being a little new, still have to learn on own skin the history of medieval europe.
mircea_popescu: it did not show force in the sense of making anyone likely to not try.
mircea_popescu: it showed force in the sense of making everyone realise they must be killed.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and that display failed. similarly, in both cases, for the same reason.
mircea_popescu: war is always a game of "there's a limit of how much X you can bear"
mircea_popescu: but there's a limit on how much cost you can bear, which caps your results
mircea_popescu: the end result of a failure is not indicative of the absence of a plan more than of the poor quality of a present plan tho.
mircea_popescu: Duffer1 how'd you know if there was ? plans are usually secret.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and then how much do you pay haliburton to clean up and run the platforms ?
mircea_popescu: the equation is quite simple : you kill more bioforms, you get your convoys bombed more.
mircea_popescu: they simply did not have the ability to do any better.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you're very much mistaken. this is the us army propaganda as to why they failed.
mircea_popescu: the only place where that works is fuckland, and fuckland a) doesn't care and b) is tougher than you and will fuck you.
mircea_popescu: they rely on some very convenient separations that are no longer factual.
mircea_popescu: said weapons (if you mean the atomic bomb) are already useless.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but the direct transfer system has infinite population growth baked right in
mircea_popescu: if yo uget them rare enough courtier chicks will start adding mole stickers to their cleavage
mircea_popescu: "It may be clear to us that fuffles must be eradicated." < ha! you can't eradicate these any more than you can eradicate moles
mircea_popescu: i mean i guess it's proper in the sense of "proper fucked"
mircea_popescu: but no, he said the converse : unlike a fluffy casino, where they let you play, a proper casino takes your clothes and then makes you put out a show for their porn franchise.
mircea_popescu: obviously the consumer thinks so, clearly visible i nthings such as "bitcoin must be a sort of supermarket payment option to really exist"
mircea_popescu: haha, i wouldn't go as far as to say that the litmus for "working economy" is "consumer sector" tbh
mircea_popescu: except the politburo spent from the tontine all the damn time.