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mircea_popescu: they used
to export meat, but failed
to meet
the quotas, lost
the contracts, are now exporting soy.
decimation: is argentina going
to slide into socialist morass like brazil and mexico?
decimation: usians have mostly forgotten about it, even
though it apparently is on
the seal of
the us senate
decimation: heh
there are amusing layers here > "In 1854, when sculptor
Thomas Crawford was preparing models for sculpture for
the United States Capitol, Secretary of War Jefferson Davis (later
to be
the President of
the Confederate States of America) insisted
that a Phrygian cap not be included on a Statue of Freedom, on
the grounds
that "American liberty is original and not
the liberty of
the freed slave". "
☟︎ mircea_popescu: is
that up
top a frigian gynecologist's cap with candles ?
mircea_popescu: so once
they decided
to no longewr be inferior
they had
to do SOMETHING about
this
mircea_popescu: no, because
they had spent
their lives with
the "you are inferior because versailles" mantra
decimation: because when
the san qulot saw
the fancy paintings
they knew in
their hindbrain
that
they were inferior?
mircea_popescu: and why
the "golden
toilets" propaganda bits of contemporaneity.
mircea_popescu: and
that's why revolution -> looting versailles is such an automatism
decimation: cities pretend
they have culture, schools pretend
to education. all because some derp scribble some shit on a canvas
mircea_popescu: meanwhile,
the purpose of art is much simpler :
the mob is illiterate, and art is
the single letter alphabet catering
to all its needs : "THIS IS WHY YOU ARE SCUM".
that's
the only sentence
that needs
to be expressed.
decimation: rich folk pretend
they have
taste, 'art people' pretend
they are somebodies, hedge fund managers pretend
they are 'investing'
mircea_popescu: there is
this very ridiculous animism at work, whereby somehow "art" is objectively beautiful, and beauty is somehow objectively good, which makes it you know,
turn lions
to lambs.
decimation: the layers of pretense wrapped up in
the 'art' market are amusing
decimation: heh. well if you zoom out
to
the big picture -
there is no 'optimal' distribution of art if you define 'optimal' as 'turns peasants into people'
mircea_popescu: they've "engaged" with literature, and it was
to everyone's detriment.
mircea_popescu: it seems
to me
the height of stupidity. "people" have specifically no business "engaging" with art.
decimation: note
the difference between merely possessing and engaging - "Yeah I have a chunk of
that roman
temple, it's my birdbath"
decimation: from
the earlier podcast "Again, if you accept my proposition
that
the object of
the museum enterprise is for people
to be engaging with art rather
than for museums
to be possessing art,
then I
think all of
these questions come
to
the surface, and
that
they are real possibilities once we understand how much enormous wealth has been accumulated and isn't being put
to use."
decimation: "Referring
to
the Dogarus, Mr. Oberlander-Tarnoveanu said, "It seems
they were not very honest, because apparently a lot of members of
the family had a long judicial history."
mircea_popescu: with experts such as
these, we hardly need brutish peasants anymore.
decimation: heh
that's lulzy - it is
the 'windows fax and media viewer'
decimation: because
that's what
their fancy machines use
mircea_popescu: decimation mostly quoted for
the "A Romanian forensic expert at work in a laboratory at
the National History Museum in Bucharest." running... windows.
decimation: one cop
that could shoot accurately was infinitely more effective at 'stopping
terrorists'
than hundreds of
thousands of security bureaucrats
decimation: now
those monets can't be kept in some basement somewhere
BingoBoingo: Still God only knows if
that is
the same Vancleef who noised up here back in
the day
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: No, he linked
to articles mentioning a Vancleef who was
the same Vancleef in
the CFTC hearings
assbot: Logged on 13-05-2015 02:44:37; asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i would dearly like
to learn
the context for
this picture ^
mircea_popescu: guy, if he has any sense, will go "hey, you kill me -
they kill you."
assbot: Logged on 13-05-2015 02:39:27; asciilifeform: decimation:
the official story not only does not add up, but wtf,
they killed all of
the witnesses (own soldiers) in 'training accidents' aha.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> asciilifeform: "assumes
that usa will occupy self with same army - and same aimlessness - with which it occupied iraq.
this is not a proven fact." << lemme guess...
they have a meta army in reserve, just haven't been using it because reasons ? << Nah, most "officers" same just Iraw army aged out
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: "assumes
that usa will occupy self with same army - and same aimlessness - with which it occupied iraq.
this is not a proven fact." << lemme guess...
they have a meta army in reserve, just haven't been using it because reasons ?
mod6: have
to pick it up
tomorrow.
mircea_popescu: im pretty certain more russians identify with a femen-centered-reality
than with a stalin centered one.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform:
the sluts in question <<< doesn't change
the fact
that
the sentiment was genuine.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo just saying, once he publishes it on his blog,
that's
that, no qntra. << Sure. Maybe it is a congitive bias of myself, but I assume persona; wordfests would always get
the best
Tips and
Tricks (TM firstest)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: incorrect. from
these figures alone <<
then
they're not
terribly useful figures are
they :D
mod6: awe crap, might have missed `rc-update add local default`. aight one more
try here.
mircea_popescu: it may also be
that distinctness is a flavour of
tradition, and no
tradition survived ww2.
decimation: the wehrmacht made good use of
their 88mm guns for a variety of purposes
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> im not even sure wtf anti aircraft guns are supposed
to even do anymore <<Anti-personelle duty fron
the aim impoverished.\
decimation: mircea_popescu:
the reason distinctness and stupidity are married is because social democracy sucks anyone with half a brain out of his native soil and places him in bureaucracy
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo just saying, once he publishes it on his blog,
that's
that, no qntra.
assbot: Logged on 13-05-2015 02:08:53;
trinque: I'll just stick
the
thing on
trinque.org and
then you guys can make your own decisions re: newsworthiness
mircea_popescu: im not even sure wtf anti aircraft guns are supposed
to even do anymore.
BingoBoingo: As far as lower Korea is concerned
they beat
the Chicoms by having anti aircraft guns entrenched mostest
assbot: Logged on 13-05-2015 02:08:53;
trinque: I'll just stick
the
thing on
trinque.org and
then you guys can make your own decisions re: newsworthiness
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> is
this
the effect of
the rambo series ? << Yes
mod6: anyone know if service starts up on its own in
the uclibc version?
assbot: Logged on 13-05-2015 02:09:20; decimation: williamdunne: it's not
that I'm a hater on asian folk, just
that it doesn't have a distinct 'englishness' anymore
mod6: Alright I've got a Gentoo AMD64 uclibc hardened booted successfully. I basically just had a few minor
tweaks
to make
to
the notes; i.e., uclibc version doens't install grub by default,
there is no /etc/locale.gen by default.
That kinda
thing.
mircea_popescu: what
the fuck is it with
the koreans and killing people with antiaircraft guns.
BingoBoingo of all
things wants land in USia capable of growing serious onions, for
the only reason
that onion futures in USia are banned
mircea_popescu: questionb being "what
town is being entered and which direction"
decimation: the net effect is
that it makes rich people
think
they are big shots and strokes
the egos of
the academic idiots
BingoBoingo: <decimation> apparently
the actual valuation of art in us art museums is hilariously high << I price my iris and daisy rhizomes high because historical artifacts. FBI surrendered
to BTC once in
this yard
decimation: "Everybody in Chicago has what is--three and a half million people in
the metropolitan area and $35 billion, like
three
thousand dollar [?] endowment sitting in
the basement of
this museum."
mircea_popescu: that bitcoin isp
thread on
trilema has
turned into one of
the flat out strangest
things i've witnessed online lately.
decimation: apparently
the actual valuation of art in us art museums is hilariously high
mircea_popescu: decimation
this is strictly better
than selling
them
to
that
texan idiot
that put his fist
through em
BingoBoingo: Speaking of markets and assets, does anyone want
to buy assorted daisy and iris rhizomes for fall delivery?
decimation: becuase it would be unethical
to sell one
to a museum in grand rapids so
they could display it
decimation: so apparently most of
the monets in
the us are sitting in a vault in chicago