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mircea_popescu: actually 365
to 370k some of
the messiest blocks in all of
the chain
BingoBoingo: The Po-Po plug is a distant relative of
the
traditional urban American dance
the 5-0 fondle
shinohai: I was
too lazy
to alt
to
the hyphen, using my ancient droid
to irc.
shinohai hereby dubs
the 21 by BingoBoingo 's name .. PoPo plug
shinohai:
https://redd.it/3lv366 "If you
truly believe
that devices need
to be loaded with Bitcoin, why wouldn't you just print out a QR,
tape it
to your Raspberry pi, and fund it with $700 in Bitcoin?"
BingoBoingo: Round
these parts we use gate
to refer
to ungated fence openings
too
BingoBoingo: And
the gateposts can always be made
taller
BingoBoingo: It's compressible
to a point, but
the bigger point is most of
them won't make it
to
the edge of
the pen
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo
that's kinda
the
thing with
the earlier "oh,
they'll get out of
the pen, fat is compressible"
BingoBoingo: lobbes: Feral hamplanets don't run around.
They stay indoors, in bed, and get "home health" nurses
too keep
them... cleaner...
BingoBoingo: The ones
that have gone feral in arkansas have been spotted and shot at 8-9 ft long...
BingoBoingo: Just with actual pigs getting
to 6-7 ft in length are hamplanets still really
the long pig anymore?
mircea_popescu: i know i've not seen nearly enough of it yet
to suit my
tastes.
mircea_popescu: you know, like
there's relatively little research on
the
true benefits of hanging us academitards above a smoldering pit of hot peppers.
mircea_popescu: "there is relatively little research on
the
true impact of merit scholarships. "
BingoBoingo: I'm not even sure if
this is actually Marxism any more
mircea_popescu: marxism went from an overgrown cult/self help weirdo club
to
this sort of implicit agreed upon mantra.
BingoBoingo: They even work almost in USia. Just rare
to find people who get
them, because so many people got
to
the MIT-Harvard free if you aren't a Soros lottery
mircea_popescu: "Critics have said
that merit scholarships may help institutions, but don’t
truly help students (most recipients of merit scholarships have many options) or broad social needs in higher education (the merit awards divert attention and funds from
the needs of low-income students)."
mircea_popescu: in
the us, i am deeply unsurprised it would do nothing.
mircea_popescu: and
the people who know
they don't read because omfg,
that'd be giving in.
BingoBoingo: "The yield for
those who received
the $7,000 annual scholarships was 7.1 percent – a statistically significant difference" ... lol "At
the same
time,
the study suggests
that
the impact of
this kind of merit aid may not be large --
the yield rate was low even for
those receiving it."
BingoBoingo: Of course. And each new one is less relevant
than
the old one.
The old ones less relavant. More people hate
Thermos
than ever and
they aren't even
talking about his GLBSE shennanigans
mircea_popescu: fragmentation of
the masses! for gleat gloly & justic!!1
mircea_popescu: so now
there's going
to be
three-four meaningless forums + reddits + whatever else.
mircea_popescu: kinda lulzy outcome,
the stupid got left behind and
then decided
to give away
their remaining asset and split up!
mircea_popescu: anyway,
the angry jealous poor club should
take solace in
the knowledge
that i've shed more dollar value
this calendar year
than
they will ever manage
to see.
ascii_field: by - supposedly - itself. but
this is where we go back
to 'i don't have a public key for it, so what, if anything, is
to be
taken as 'it said' is a ???.'
mircea_popescu: as far as i can see
the only salient points re isis are
that a) has own agency ; b) percepibly unalligned
to usg.
ascii_field: but isis is being advertised as a conquering
thing in
the ancient sense. with
territory held, administered,
taxed
mircea_popescu: the definition of inputs into
the army camp is "plunder".
mircea_popescu: the very definition of army includes
two points : a)
that it does not support itself (if it did it'd be a stampede) ; b)
that it makes up
the difference
through plunder.
mircea_popescu: ("our
tanks photosynthesize now!!11 SUPPORTS ITSELF!!1")
ascii_field: except
that buried in all of
these are actual questions of fact
that have - somewhere - answers. such as 'does
this army fully support itself on plunder, or needs external supply, and if so, from where'
mircea_popescu: political choices are in
the end nude exercises in narrative fiction.
ascii_field: rather like nigerian petro
thieves 'cultivate'
the pipe
they drill little holes into.
mircea_popescu: so i guess
the real story here is, mujahedeen cultivated usg
to provide
them with apples.
ascii_field: has resources
that get dropped in various places.
mircea_popescu: "usg spent some items
to addresses it didn't have
the key for. isis cracked
the keys."
ascii_field: it has pieces of itself,
that come loose, like
the zombies in 'quake'
mircea_popescu: so it did exactrly nothing.
the men i nthat relationship are non-us
ascii_field: i suppose next mircea_popescu will reveal
that usg dropped stingers 'for mujahedeen' but not for
taliban.
mircea_popescu: (hint : you can't donate
to a mouse. it steals all it ever gets.)
ascii_field: stole how? crate had address 'to rebels, but not
THESE rebels' ??
mircea_popescu: your gambit is
to administratively suspend isis' agency, because you're
too enamoured with
the usg and
that requires you (also administratively) assign all agency
to it.
ascii_field: from crates dropped
to aid 'syrian rebels' daily, for a year ?
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: so where did
the arms, food, etc. come from ? fell from mars ?
mircea_popescu: because
that's
the
thing with fiction : it's nonsensical, which means you absolutely need a carefully curated set of sentences be considered
mircea_popescu: you have no better reason
to pretend "x has arms because y"
than
to pretend "x has 12yo hooker because y".
the choice of which of
these
to emphasize is
the liberty of
the scriptwriter in works of fiction.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: i might be
thick, but i entirely cannot see how
the hooker connects.
mircea_popescu: "The [Washington] Post lied
to its readers by printing stories it knew were false," mmmkay.
mircea_popescu: yeah,
totally. and if i go buy a
twelve year old hooker in
the DC, it's also
the usg
that supplied her right ?
mircea_popescu: "no, you can only make
them do
things
they were gonna do anyway"
ascii_field: i'd be surprised if usg had never
tried
to roust up rebellion among
the chukchas
mircea_popescu: the missing part of
this "textbook" is how come
there's no equivalent in say artic circle.
assbot: Logged on 22-09-2015 22:01:46; mircea_popescu: quite. "a kind of quasi-autonomous golem." === ""
these classifications
that sorta are adaptable
to suit history."
ascii_field: for all i know, new york isn't even
there any longer. been a while since i visited.
ascii_field: germany is not sending squads of mercenaries
to get own arses fed
to
them in new york
mircea_popescu: 'oh but germany couldn't, oinly us could" "how come ?" "it's part of my scenography for
this bit of fan fiction"
mircea_popescu: last i heard germany is not levelling new york with
tactical nukes either.
ascii_field: last i heard, usg was not levelling syria with
tactical nukes
mircea_popescu: quite. "a kind of quasi-autonomous golem." === ""
these classifications
that sorta are adaptable
to suit history."
☟︎ ascii_field: 'muppet' is
to be understood as a kind of quasi-autonomous golem.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field has
these classifications
that sorta are adaptable
to suit history.
mircea_popescu: so if you know nobody what are you going
to verify it against.
PeterL: didn't somebody here say
that isis is just a usg puppet anyway?