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mircea_popescu: <trinque>and I would expect a military dictatorship period directly following
the fall of usg << IF you can find a certain corporal in
the army
that will get badly defeated and who resents
the coupla decades of peace which consist mostly of american
teenagers being used as public
toilets from rashapur
to ankara,
then yes, maybe, dictatorship.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform mexicans are kinda lazy methinks.
the arabs are more serious when
they do it.
mircea_popescu: what do you
think a military is, some sort of a country club ? it exists
to obey orders.
the orders atm are on
the line of "scoring officers' sensitivity
to inane nontopics"
mircea_popescu: <trinque>if
there is not a single man inside
the us military who can figure out something
to do with even fragments of
the
thing, wtf? << you need
to stop being racis.
mircea_popescu: all
those preppy white chicks probably make excellent harem slaves.
mircea_popescu: <mats>militaries require competent leadership. when i say existential
threat, i do not mean ISIS will march on DC << it doesn't want or need
to march in dc. all it conceivably might want is
to pull a rotherham over at vassar.
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field>trinque:
the next major usg
trend is 'demand destruction' << i suspect
this is what 2015 stalin would have called dekulakization.
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mircea_popescu: <trinque>the USA has its own oil reserves, many of which have barely been used << so does nigeria. wtf argument is
this.
mircea_popescu: the future where russian military was like present day german military seemed
the likelier eventuality in 1990.
mircea_popescu: much like
the
third reich military had no debts owed
to weimar and generally was hitler's creation.
mircea_popescu: <trinque>am I wrong in understanding
that
there is still a considerable Russian military? << you are wrong in imagining
there's any sort of continuity. present day russian military shares nothing at all with
the one
that ended, and is almost entirely putin's making.
mircea_popescu: neone's welcome
to furnish his own skull as he sees fit.
mircea_popescu: <funkenstein_>trinque, one possibility: if no more paycheck people will just walk away, sell off
the gear << exactly how it went in russia heh.
mats: am curious
to see mosul.
mircea_popescu: right. worked so fucking splendidly over
that last siege
mats: idea goes: we fight moar proxy wars and don't need so much line infantry, so we'll employ doorkickers and hire out
to palantir and academi for
the rest
mircea_popescu: in no way different
than any other mental healthcare hospital, except it's larger and per-patient cheaper
mircea_popescu: <trinque>I would really like
to understand
this logic by which
the entire US military vanishes <<
the "entrie us military" long ago vanished. it now consists of boys playing video games and girls playing
the
tomboy.
that is not an army, it's a psycho patient support group.
mats: yeah seriously.
the army, for instance, is being whittled down
to nothing, which has been in
the works since rumsfeld/bush
mircea_popescu: <trinque>we'll lose ground but
there's a vast difference
there << nobody has any incentive whatsoever
to be "american". it's not even vaguely an identity. you might wish
to be
texan, maybe, liek some soviets wished
to be russian. but otherwiose, being an iowan or a californian or a wisconsinian or generally an american is
the epitome of fair weather friends : for as long as it pays
to do so and no longer.
mircea_popescu: the last light shut off is in
the office of
the guy giving free housing
to "needy" voters.
mircea_popescu: <trinque>the us military will be
the last light shut off, not
the first << looked at
the budget past decade ?
mircea_popescu: <trinque>seems about
the same size <<
the chechens are about
the same size.
the us is in no sense
the same size as
the su when it fell.
this
theory can be readily verified putting
the country
through
the equivalent of
the 90s, which is coming regardless.
mircea_popescu: <mats>ISIS is an existential
threat at
this point in
time << he has a point. isis would be
the first state actually outside of us policy since soviet russia.
mircea_popescu: trinque how do you know he means
the part about immigrants and not
the part about "the debt of
the us shall not be questioned" ?
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field>wake me up when
they close mit << what, you mean
THE PREMIERE something something INSTITUTION in
THE WORLD!!! ?
mircea_popescu: they really should, once
they're done fix bitcoin, go bring democracy
to africa or what was it.
BingoBoingo: From pr0nogra[pher,
to who uses MPEx,
to Suits
mircea_popescu: on
the other hand, we have yet another bleeting barn animal from anybarn, usa, derping impressively about
things he's heard of, via movies.
mircea_popescu: lol.
this entire "cheap suits" business has its comedic value. here's something you wouldn't know : while visiting here, ben_vulpes got
to meet my
tailor, on
the grounds
that we walked by his shop downtown and
teh old jewish gentleman ran out
to assure his dearly beloved mr popesco
that his suit will be done in
time.
bitcoinfailed: you want something with high armholes so when you lift your arms
the entire
thing doesnt lift off your shoulders
bitcoinfailed: just wanted
to point out its
time
to lose
the cheap suits
bitcoinfailed: no i dont have much
to say, i will occasionally read your musings on
trilema
mircea_popescu: i feel kinda scammed,
those !up s go for like a bitcoin each iirc.
trinque: anyhow, was just responding
to
the request for deedbotting
trinque: oh I see what
that site does.
trinque: either way,
title doesn't matter for zee bot
ascii_field: but
this particular gambit is working, mass sell floods (or simulacra
thereof) pretty much everywhere
punkman: notice
two exchanges, one on each side of
table
ascii_field: punkman: i couldn't possibly say whether it
tells
the
truth
punkman: ascii_field:
that website is doing it's own
thing
ascii_field: 'cause historical graphs for spreads don't usually have room below
the zero
ascii_field: snapshotted
the 'crossed wires' for posterity
bitcoinfailed: and can you please get yourself a proper
tailor?
those bag suits look aweful.
bitcoinfailed: you fall for doug casey's recommendation of
the place
ascii_field: guess
they decided
that a very low resistor is safer
than a dead short
ascii_field: mircea_popescu:
they're at it again. because apparently didn't have enough last
time
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the credit card scam
thing
punkman: "1) make web app claiming
to check if someone's deets were in
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punkman: "Truth is,
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BingoBoingo: In
the hallowed halls dedicated
to hallowed hall where songs were sang of songs once sang
ascii_field: combinatorial logic appears
to have a large effect on
ascii_field: of
these instructions includes AES-GCM (Advanced
ascii_field: instructions are specific
to accelerate
the FIPS Publication
ascii_field: Mode (dependent upon finite field multiplication),
the six AES
ascii_field: the CLMUL instruction set is
to improve
the performance of
ascii_field: by six AES centric instructions. While
the intended use of
ascii_field: integer quad word (2 – 64 bit integers).
This is complemented
ascii_field: CLMUL is used
to perform
the carry-less multiplication of an
ascii_field: appeared in
the 32nm “Westmere” processor in 2010.
The
ascii_field: “Perform Carry-Less Multiplication” later
that year and
ascii_field: on
the 45nm Nehalem processor was renamed
the CLMUL
ascii_field: plain sight in
the sense
that your dna is.
ascii_field: the saving grace is
that
the crud is all hidden in plain sight.