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mircea_popescu: it seems
to me a ridoinculous chunk of nonsense, "embassy was never upgraded".
tell you what -- an army is a group of men assembled
to rectify
the mistakes of diplomats.
the only item more keenly in synch with
technology is
the embassy -- step ahead of military.
a111: Logged on 2019-03-27 18:09 asciilifeform: gotta wonder re
the
thought process. door clearly marked 'If you don't know where you are, you shouldn't be here.' eh .
mircea_popescu: rando schmucks drop in here every day, fail
the
http://btcbase.org/log/2019-03-27#1905146 test with flying colors,
they could be fiat sovereign diplomatic core without skipping a bit. becauise
the pretenders factually and experimentally verifiedly are quite
that inept, yes.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: would
the republic look much like a sovereign if
that was
the average practice ?
mircea_popescu: they just fucking googled, general purpose
tool applied
to particular
task, 0 shits given.
mircea_popescu: what would you
think of a lord who actually googled for your key ? didn't have it in keyriong, something like wot.deedbot DIDNT EVEN EXIST
mircea_popescu: lassmates' phone numbers as a first step
to successful sexual congress, but not
these dorks.
mircea_popescu: moeover,
the 2nd function of embassy is
to collect data. legally, not illegally, it's not
the secret service, it's
the diplomatic service. what confidence would you as a putative ivan groznii put in data flowing
through your embassies when
these sad concoctions were manned by idiots so fucking inept,
they don't even have a black book with
the phone numbers of ~their fucking colleagues~. every 15yo boy has a book with his c
mircea_popescu: whole fucking point of embassies flows from
this, "we dun wanna lose
taxable base
through
travel"
mircea_popescu: whereas
the less
they use it,
the more
the greek state could claim
they're in fact greek merchants, and
tax
them instead.
mircea_popescu: on
the contrary --
the more
turkish merchants rely on
this service of
the
turkish state
through its embassy,
the better for
the
turkish state, it can better convince
them
to pay
taxes.
mircea_popescu: there is NO benefit for
the
turkish state
to hide
the endpoint of
this.
mircea_popescu: that's what embassy does, if joe
the
turkish merchant is in greece, and he decides he wants
to give moe
the
turkish merchant his ankara house
to manage,
the
turkish embassy in greece
takes some paper from him and sends it over.
mircea_popescu: embassy is 99% of
the
time support for local businessmen.
mircea_popescu: they gain exactly nothing from
their failure
to self-represent, exactly like a hidden mcdonalds does nothing
to forward
the aggenda of rooseveletism
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, so you make it larger, wtf.
this is like saying "if anyone who wanted a happy meal could get one, place would look like disneyworld":.
the fucking point is for it
to yes, do just
that. entire existence of
the fiat sovereigns is ~predicatged~ on people doing just
this.
mircea_popescu: the item as encountered in practice is ~equivalent
to
the sovok era "telephone receiver locked in box"
mircea_popescu: yes lol! all
they do is fuck with paperwork, literally
their job is "endpoint of X supposed sovereign in Y supposed sovereign lands"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, nevermind what i preferred, specifically. it is literally
the extent of
their job,
to be found,
this particular set.
that's all
they're for, like a mcdonalds.
mircea_popescu: it's kinda mindblowing, at least at first. "srsly,
this is how sheep world looks
through sheep eyes ?! wow."
a111: Logged on 2019-03-27 18:09 mircea_popescu: no markings are clear in modern democracy. it's written in
the constitution : everyone is
to be idemnified for all
things
they do not read.
mircea_popescu: i'm just amused at attempt
to look at it from other side.
mircea_popescu: im not saying
there's something wrong from my side, keks.
mircea_popescu: wtf, what sort of dodo brains are required for
this nonsense
to wash ?!
mircea_popescu: rather,
the fact
that
the ostrich doesn't see
the cheetah's a guarantee -- of
the cheeta's inexistence.
mircea_popescu: somehow, magically,
the fact
that
the cheetah sees
the ostrich is not a guarantee of
the ostrich's death.
mircea_popescu: "we don't know anything about you, and
this ignorance enacts you into inexistence ; notwithstanding you know everything about us,
this knowledge doesn't enact us into inexistence".
a111: Logged on 2014-03-19 20:59 asciilifeform: petent at dealing with
the human cattle : fastfood providers, supermarkets,
the government. Both as employers and providers
these specialised bureaucracies have
the necessary
tools, including cattle prods (or whatever
they’re called now, non-lethal something or
the other)
to correctly handle
them.
They have
the chemicals,
they’ve done
the research, know
the behavioural patterns, have
the walls all built
to
mircea_popescu: what
the everloving fuck is it supposed
to achieve, in
these nitwits' brains ?!
a111: Logged on 2019-03-28 17:59 asciilifeform: ( aaand of course
they marked it as 'canonical answer' , for
then google
to auto-return, etc .. )
mircea_popescu: talk about connectivity, right ? who heard of what and who knows what and "hurr durr, embassy but dunno phone numbers, not even of
the other dorks in
the same line from
the same place" and so fucking on.
mircea_popescu: her answer
to "wtf ios wrong with you" was "well, i never heard of
the others, so
they don't exist" ; but
the REASON
that was
the answer was
that ~i~ knew who
the fuck she was within
two hours, because guess what, my mother of all people actually knew her.
mircea_popescu: but
to put
the lulz of
the original
http://trilema.com/2009/doua-curve/ in context : so i come back
to romania cca 2007, and some chick is making a "top of romanians in online" which is fulla names i never saw before and contains nobody of
the people atthe
time i knew made and
turrned
the net.
mircea_popescu: aka "we don't want
to BE europe, we just want
to JOIN europe".
that's what any retarded kid not belonging in school asks misfortunate
teacher : how
to cast fireballs irl, aka how
to be rich while staying poor, aka how
to appear without being and so forth.
a111: Logged on 2015-12-22 14:54 mircea_popescu:
the fundamental argentinian-ness of
the human mind, "oh, ok,
this is what i get paid, now how could i move down what i gottaq do for it ?" really needs
the british imperial "fuck you, you don't eat" as
typified by lord newton.
a111: Logged on 2016-03-05 18:21 asciilifeform: stalin followed peter's 'colonization with
the crown as sole european' model.
a111: Logged on 2019-03-13 22:36 mircea_popescu: but yes, ceausescu's imperialist plans were obviously going
to fail by
the
time mid 70s
turned around, and were well and
thoroughly doomed in 1980.
a111: Logged on 2019-03-28 16:54 BingoBoingo: Her cause can be reduced
to
that unyielding socialist faith. "It imagined it working, why isn't it?"
a111: Logged on 2019-03-28 16:19 asciilifeform: historically, by sharp stick. at least in
the case of what's ordinarily called lottery. cuz winning dun banish from
the head
the cockroaches
that made'em play
to begin with
mircea_popescu: poor people are poor people BECAUSE
THAT IS WHAT
THEY ARE, and wealth dun fix
this.
mircea_popescu: royal fambly, supposedly. in
the sense netherlands is a sovereign, or embassies of
these papie mache constructions exist.
a111: Logged on 2019-03-25 16:40 asciilifeform: oblig : 'Всіх панів до ’дної ями, Буржуїв за буржуями Будем, будем бить! Будем, будем бить!'(tm)(r)(pavlo
tichina)(ukr)
mircea_popescu: which is quite substantially different from matters eminently of record, such as "who are,
truly,
the intended and delcared diplomatic endpoints of so and so pretend-sovereign"
mircea_popescu: because at
the very least, when alf goes
to meet bingoboingo, he doesn't start yelling at airport.
mircea_popescu: and
then
these
things flatter
themselves with (purely hallucinated) statehood. yet in any practical sense,
the
troop of retards posing as "reigning house" of
the netherlands (have you seen
them btw ?) is sitting atop something infinitely less statal
than
this here republic.
mircea_popescu: i actually had
to fall back on my own secret service background
to extract
through
THAT AVENUE
the information
that she needed in such a packaging and under such wot signaturs as i could
trust, because god fucking help me if she was gonna send shit
to random endpoints "culled from
the www"
mircea_popescu: no such
thing, chick was googling, discovering conflicting information on random webpages neglected for who knows how many years...
mircea_popescu: these
two countries are not mere neighbours, nor mere allies, but part
together of a fucking compact! and yet,
the consul has no notion of his correspondents, nor even is
their administration advanced enough
to provide its diplomats with
that most basic
tool of all : a fucking list of names and contact details of
the ALLIES!!! representatitves.