481500+ entries in 0.325s
mircea_popescu: seriously, mike hearn isn't
the slimy fucktard we all know ? he's some sort of google expert now ? allow me
to lulz for a spell.
assbot: Logged on 05-05-2015 20:42:35; ascii_field: what, srsly, is
the next step after
this idiocy, 'small blocks kill kittenz!!111!!11'
assbot: Logged on 05-05-2015 20:35:02; ascii_field:
trinque:
tx imports nothing from rest of usa ?
ascii_field does not assert
this hypothesis as hard fact. but bets on it
assbot: Logged on 05-05-2015 20:31:41; ascii_field:
trinque: it also means
that if you're on
the
throne, you gotta pander
to derps
to some extent - because
this is implicit in ruling a naturally-occurring herd containing both halves of
the 'bell curve'
mircea_popescu: im not making a different country. i'm making
THESE countries. let
the reds make "their own country", on fucking mars preferably.
williamdunne: mircea_popescu: Currently it allows you
to
trade dollars for linden dollars
BingoBoingo: Nah,
towns
that burnt
the coal got full so where
the mines were become "subdivisions" with
the vinyl siding and roads
that occasionally crack and shift
mircea_popescu: oh, wait, you people built houses on
top of an abandoned minefield ?
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Many of
the mines are shallow enough
that it's possible
to dig into some supports and
trigger some collapsing
BingoBoingo: williamdunne: Well private hosptial, but it is great at milking medicaid for its part of
the building
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo what's
the logic
there ? why no basements ?
williamdunne: They can just
tax some more
to build
the
three following hospitals
assbot: Logged on 05-05-2015 20:06:04; ascii_field: williamdunne et al: 'micronations' are interesting right up until you
try actually using
them for something (e.g., resisting usg dictate) and it gets bulldozed. so, approximately as interesting as a pistol
that is guaranteed
to explode in your hand.
BingoBoingo: williamdunne: Locally
they are building a new hospital with Obamacare bezzel in
the epicenter of mine subsidence (building rules prohitbit houses with basements in
the middle of
tornado county
the issue is so prevalent)
williamdunne: I'm sure
there would be a queer guard somewhere in
the armoury
mircea_popescu: the lad also has
to marry
the daughter of
the largest
tracts of open pigfarms in all england.
williamdunne: When I first came here,
this was all swamp. Everyone said I was daft
to build a castle on a swamp, but I built in all
the same, just
to show
them. It sank into
the swamp. So I built a second one.
That sank into
the swamp. So I built a
third.
That burned down, fell over,
then sank into
the swamp. But
the fourth one stayed up. And
that's what you're going
to get, Lad,
the strongest castle in all of England.
assbot: Logged on 05-05-2015 19:42:05; williamdunne: Liberland might actually be a cool option, although no-one recognizes it yet so no-one would criticize
the US for raiding a DC
there, no?
BingoBoingo: Federalism leads
to some discrepancies between bezzel projects across state lines
BingoBoingo: Illinois constantly
tears up perfectly smooth rural highways for repaving with proper asphalt,
the Missouri legislature debates letting
their rural highways (the letter ones) revert from crude
tarmac
to plain macadam
jurov: ah we're doing maximal price, you beat me.
they managed 75 km for 9mld.
mircea_popescu: lobbes inasmuch as anything's still maintained (kinda spotty,
this)
lobbes: usa hasn't built a highway since 1985 << maintenance surely a money-pit
though?
BingoBoingo: ascii_field: (by some accounts, he is dead. but new one will appear. it is good fertile ground for
them.) << Several, appear
to operate on clear iterative succession.
trinque: I'll convince you all
that
TX is
the future break-away state yet.
mircea_popescu: im pretty sure romania has
the most expensive highway km
jurov: corruption scandal related
to most expensive highways/km worldwide? but we're playing hockey now and must have a new national stadium built!
jurov: notrly,
there are other 2 million in
the far end
mircea_popescu: seeing how
the entire country is roughly
the size of
the
town's suburbs
ascii_field: later
tonight i might do a valgrind with 'massif' with --pages-as-heap=yes
lobbes: not sure how you'd measure black market economic activity, but
this article claims 25% of Mexican GDP is such:
lobbes: looks like
Texas gets around 102 $billion from Mexico via exports
trinque: still I
think
there's a lot culturally and economically in
tx
that's valuable
trinque: this could all very well be my own inability
to imagine how collapse occurs.
trinque: at least
the power structure I understand you
to be referring
to
trinque: also re: Mexico
their cashflow relies on USAians buying drugs, neh?
☟︎ trinque: I'd like
to find numbers on
the agricultural situation in
TX, but I know
there's quite a bit of it
trinque: ascii_field:
the prevailing politics
there pre-collapse wouldn't help, I'd
think
trinque: were
there states which were more self-reliant in
the SU
that fared better in
the aftermath?
ascii_field: su police were likewise intimidating. but
this did not stop
them from
turning free agent when central gov. collapsed.
☟︎ trinque: and also
the fact
that most (and especially
the wealthy) are heavily armed
there
trinque: and
that's speaking as a white male
that never had much
trouble with
them
trinque: the cops
themselves are already rather
terrifying
there
trinque: ascii_field: if
the gangs were a real problem in
TX I'd expect
the population
to support
treating it as military action instead of policework
ascii_field: and
then it asks for 7.62 rounds instead of benjies, at some point.
ascii_field: the fella in
the fort doesn't get beheaded, but he will notice
that
the face
that shows up
to collect
the benjies is a different color, one day,
that's all.
trinque: ascii_field: I observe
that
there is *already* a privileged class in
TX
trinque: how is
this distinct from
the kind of privilege often discussed here?
ascii_field: same
thing
they do now - ignore
the reports of poor schmucks getting beheaded, and sit pretty in
their forts
trinque: seems like a prime opportunity
to demonstrate
the failures of "give everyone a vote"
trinque: what
the political response might be
trinque: what do you
think
the massively wealthy people living in various gated communities in
tx would do?
trinque: maybe in southern california; in
TX you don't see much of
the waving of Mexican flags
trinque: and
the cops are used
to dealing with well-armed gangs
trinque: lots of military bases and equipment in
TX
ascii_field: (by some accounts, he is dead. but new one will appear. it is good fertile ground for
them.)
ascii_field: the aztlan
thing is not about communism. it is about how
there is (allegedly) an effective chingis khan operating in mexico
ascii_field: there is also 'willing
to butcher
town at a
time
to prove point'
ascii_field: cow is more 'economically powerful'
than farmer, sure
trinque: hardest-working people
there are
trinque: as for
the ratio of ethnic mexicans
there,
they're not lazy socialist
ticks,
that's for sure
trinque: for one,
texas is more economically powerful
than mexico, at least going by bullshit GDP numbers
ascii_field: where is
their demographic vector pointing ?
ascii_field: will be absorbed into aztlan in less
than decade.
trinque: there are at least people
there who would welcome
that
trinque: and along
the way it wouldn't surprise me for
that state
to grow ever-more independent of it
trinque: when
the fed falls over,
Texas may well secede
ascii_field: so far it runs
the ancient cn algo of 'sit by
the river and wait for your enemy's corpse
to float by'
☟︎ trinque: but unless la serenissima intends
to blast off for another planet, it's going
to have
to pick its battles
trinque: on
that point
there's no disagreement.
ascii_field: but
the economic reality
there - communist.
trinque: I don't
think you're appraised of
the cultural setting
there.