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trinque: why
the fuck wouldn't russia
think we eventually intend
to first-strike
them
ascii_field: ;;later
tell mircea_popescu key blaster is operational
trinque: so rolling from a defensive use
to offensive is a matter of loading ammo, not replacing
the gun
trinque: the propaganda around
this shit is
thick.
trinque: BingoBoingo: just read
that page; sounds like yeah, can be used for either surface->air or surface->surface
assbot: Logged on 06-05-2015 18:02:08; mircea_popescu:
the wachowski brothers of
the 40s, julius and phillip
trinque is going
to need
to move back
to
TX during clitler;
they'll be going apeshit over it
ascii_field: very easy
to not give a fuck about a border
that isn't
through your house.
trinque: let rama zip
through
the solar system once and
then ask me how much I give a shit what
the border of
transnistria is
trinque: from an external
threat perspective we're as weak as could be
ascii_field: eltsin died, ru spat out
the usg cock, and is
to bleed for
this, yes
trinque: imagine another one came along and saw us all with nukes pointed everywhere, and it wanted
the planet
jurov: trying
to bleed ru out, again
☟︎ jurov: ascii_field: you know what is
the only possible response
to such doctrine?
trinque: also stands
to reason
that I can lie and say my nuke installations are all merely anti-ICBM installations
ascii_field: and
that
this is perfectly pedestrian fact, regardless of whether you like usg or putin or kim jong un or hitler
ascii_field: trinque: basic idea is
that anything
that potentially
tips balance of
thermonukefest in your favour, is an act of aggression from
the other fella's pov
BingoBoingo: Now denying
the ketorolac shot, far bigger issue
trinque: "don't worry,
this is only an anti-gunman gun"
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo for sure. no such
thing as perfect health for athletes.
trinque: ascii_field: sure, and an anti-missile missile launcher can probably fire
the other kind
too, right?
ascii_field: a machine
that lets you detect other fella's rockets 5sec earlier, is really as much a lethal weapon as a nuke per se
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: Athletes compete injured all
the
time.
jurov: ru ever
tried
to ship defensive systems
to cuba?
☟︎ trinque: more like one of
those ratcheting
ties for a
truck load
trinque: doesn't seem
to be a question of "ok"
jurov: and why are defensive radar/anti-missile systems not ok
then?
jurov: ascii_field:
they do have stuff in nikaragua
ascii_field: last
time cn had major shenanigans on ru border,
there was a mini-war
ascii_field: how much would usa like ru
tank corps 'training mission' in mexican border weekly ?
ascii_field: jurov: more basic
than
this - needs
to not have u.s. nukes across
the street (ua, pl, etc)
jurov: alf some
time ago explained russia needs buffer zone between itself and eu/nato. and
that by any costs.
trinque: ascii_field: does make all of it sound like russia's
trying
to maintain form, while nato's
trying
thwart
this as it can
☟︎ pete_dushenski: who other
than vlasov's army helped germans ? and why were
they spared ?
☟︎ ascii_field: very forgiving. had
temp. moratorium on death penalty after ww2, even.
pete_dushenski: hm. stalin painted as being
too forgiving.
that's a new one.
ascii_field: all
the folks who helped
the germans do
their
thing - not one in
ten
thousand answered with his skin.
ascii_field: when demented premier moves
the map - ok. when usg moves
the map (independence 'referendum') - also ok. when ru moves - somehow not.
☟︎ trinque: ascii_field: ah right, land was gifted
to "ukraine"
jurov: and
tatars were moved,
too
ascii_field: trinque: in all cases but ua, accurate.
the bulk of ua, on
the other hand, was created by hruschev with a pencil
trinque: so
the cynic in me says
the whole nato/russia game is merely ironing out
the details of
the new russian borders, considering
the above
trinque: and russians
that migrated outside russia
trinque: after
the USSR collapse, all
these fragments of
the USSR military left outside
the border of russia
trinque: that seems
to be
the issue looking from far outside
jurov: except
they did not violate it, but
these kiev nazis
schmidty: saw a provocative looking comment about
the blocksize and i am falling down a rabbit hole now
trinque: my inclination is
to believe all
these bastards running
the largest socialist states
talk
to each other
trinque: pete_dushenski: dunno what I
think, asking
the question
though. I'm not well informed on eastern european politics.
pete_dushenski: trinque deal already made between germany and russia ? you
think ?
trinque: I could easily see
the latter
trinque: and what I wonder is whether
to expect a war over
the partitioning of eastern europe, or whether
the basic agreement on who gets what has already been made
trinque: is
this
the only political issue in
the region, whether
to be eaten by
the EU or Russia?
☟︎ trinque: ???Our country is a poor and agrarian country,??? he
told GlobalPost on Monday. ???But it???s home
to decent people who want
their country
to flourish,
to be closer
to European standards, and for it
to find its economic niche alongside
the European Union.??? << lol europe pls halp
trinque: I'm using
terminus atm with
the letter spacing cranked down a bit, works ok
trinque: re: font
thread, anyone have a monospaced font with decent word shape?
jurov: guess imma open another bugreport. i
tried what's
there in
the urwvn-fonts versio
ascii_field: what algo one even uses
to answer
this hypothetical.
assbot: Logged on 06-05-2015 19:47:33; mircea_popescu: i
think i'd have had a ball as a woman.
jurov: nope. had
to manually patch "GaramondNo8"
ttf files
jurov recently embarked on a journey
to obtain a "Garamond" which was supposed
to be publicly licensed and available
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, i just had a very bloody steak. must be because i've not yet discovered how
to make beef unedible.
trinque: nubbins`:
that's
the accepted way
to find fonts among designers
these days
mircea_popescu: "Sure, we can all agree
that
the assumptions made about
the nature of blacks at
the
time was wrong, but
that doesn't give us
the right
to condemn slave owners who didn't know any better. We don't condemn cave people for eating uncooked meat just because
they hadn't discovered fire yet, do we?"
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu upon review of scoopbot_revived's exquisite design, which includes
the
titles, nothing !
mircea_popescu: i should hope
the man's mental processes weren't as disordered in all fields as he displays here.
trinque: and after all
they're just sitting on it
pete_dushenski: jurov at least
the new premier is happy
to be a woman.
nubbins`: and danny millions sold us yet another boondoggle in
the form of muskrat falls
nubbins`: we found some oil and it went
to our heads
nubbins`: meanwhile here in
twodogland, HST just went up 2%
mircea_popescu: you don't understand how
the world works. when you're out of money, you find someone who has some and either steal or beg for it.
pete_dushenski: federal is still stepped, alberta WAS
the only province with flat income
tax.
pete_dushenski: ndp = boost corporate
taxes from 10
to 12%, increase min. wage
to $15/hr, 12%
tax rate on income between $125,000
to $150,000; 13% on income between $150,000
to $200,000; 14% between $200,000 and $300,000 and 15% over $300,000, all up from 10% flat provincial
tax