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hanbot: <mircea_popescu> to get a 45% result you need to include the phrase "not that there's anything wrong with that" / ftfy
mircea_popescu: it wasn't even us per se, it was more west germany than us.
asciilifeform: that massaged them for surrender for half a century.
mircea_popescu: no, they surrendered to the best wot to be had at the time.
asciilifeform: they surrendered to the one and only mega-empire of the period.
mircea_popescu: why would the us surrender to china.
mircea_popescu: russians didn't surrender to iran ffs.
asciilifeform: there's no usg wot tho << closest thing to a format usg wot may be the infamous 'plum book'
asciilifeform: why's chicom come into it ?! << example of empire to surrender to
mircea_popescu: there's no usg wot tho, is the problem.
decimation: mircea_popescu: even judges want to feel like they are in the usg wot
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mircea_popescu: hanbot: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2vjzk7/gavin_and_the_cia/ << reddit suppression brigade hard at work. cause keeping the sheep in the dark is a winning strat now. << to get a 45% result you need something like 20 votes cast, 11-9 unless my math's deceiving me.
assbot: Logged on 11-02-2015 17:34:08; ben_vulpes: i went to sleep mourning the computers my children seem doomed to use.
mircea_popescu: "i bet you mp wouldn't say the USG gets to make classified filings"
mircea_popescu: the logical segue is, "well it's a LOT better to publish the stuff on the internet than to submit it to a court"
assbot: Logged on 11-02-2015 15:54:47; asciilifeform: 'Based on the public record, the Court finds that the Plaintiffs have failed to establish a sufficient factual basis to find they have standing to sue under the Fourth Amendment regarding the possible interception of their Internet communications. Further, having reviewed the Government Defendants’ classified submissions, the Court finds that the Claim must be dismissed because even if Plaintiffs coul
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-02-2015#1015762 << this is lulzy. what it essentially says is, "this court will not protect the defendant's rights" ☝︎
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: but for remoras - the swiftest possible discipline. << eh, it's best to fix problems well after rather than well before they're problems.
mircea_popescu: for the record it's /mode #bitcoin-assets -b *!*zip55413@pdpc/supporter/bronze/kermit
mircea_popescu: jesus this is hard.
decimation: ah yes, indeed. it is good to read old logs again
mircea_popescu: incredibly, iirc this is actually mentioned in teh logs.
decimation: lol I didn't know that korolev was a zek
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell mandarin fix your bouncer
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell kermit fix your bouncer
asciilifeform: if every male in usa had been secretly wanking to chicom gurlz under his blankets since... 1920s? - then we'd have an analogous thing going
mircea_popescu: ;;google da-ma mama dupa gyury ca ma tine-n virfu pulii
mircea_popescu: the romanian folklore has the exact discussion of this behaviour, as folklore.
mircea_popescu: even the people who could readily realise it'd be them, didn't care.
mircea_popescu: also, it was plainly apparent to everyone in 88 that yes, 93 will be starving
mircea_popescu: so that's not a major driver of the behaviour.
mircea_popescu: this was a major propaganda point (soviet propaganda had the unique distinction of actually being mostly true). nobody cared.
decimation: yeah that's probably true
mircea_popescu: i mean that literally. nobody. more people were starving in new york than in russia.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: how much work to auto-kick join/part sp4mz0rz? << i occasionally do it, but meh.
decimation: eh, as long as everyone in the us has a full belly nothing is going to change
mircea_popescu: the guy who has to choose between "VC shot" and "WoT"
mircea_popescu: it wasn't the man in the street. it was EXACTLY the famished student.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but the "man in the street" in russia STILL has batyushka portraits!
asciilifeform: and as far as 'man on the street' in usa is concerned - the opposite of usg is 'mad max'.
mircea_popescu: necessity is the mother of invention. and also, stupidity.
asciilifeform: and instead crapped out - well - that
asciilifeform: decimation: mr mold had enough brains to understand that his entire edifice falls apart without the answer to this riddle, but was unable to come up with a plausible one
decimation: moldbug had a piece on this, then tried to invent some 'tarded 'antiversity' thing
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform most importantly : note that at the time they surrendered en masse, less than 1% of 1% had BEEN THERE
asciilifeform: thing is, unlike soviet 'line', usg does not have a universally (or even widely) subscribed to opposite.
mircea_popescu: so yes, the reagent is there.
asciilifeform: that it is true is about the same kind of 'secret' as the 'missing $maxint'
mircea_popescu: this is exactly true, incidentally.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform as far as they see it, because fucktarded politburo is poisonng gender relaitons.
asciilifeform: (in usa they have secondary anti-handling detonators)
asciilifeform: because they never learned to safely unscrew the detonator ?
mircea_popescu: for one thing, women are easier than ever. and they're mostly affraid of them. why ?
mircea_popescu: not that i've seen.
mircea_popescu: how they call it is irrelevant. note what they substantiall say.
mircea_popescu: notice what they express.
mircea_popescu: do the experiment yourself. ask peopel what the ideal world is.
asciilifeform: i mean, in the lands of barbarism
asciilifeform: (a largely imagined animal, you pretty much have to have been there to grok this)
mircea_popescu: well... certainly no the 1920-1970 continuum
asciilifeform: to the 'human' (vs 'orc') world where they 'know how to live'
mircea_popescu: it was belonging. to what ?
mircea_popescu: it wasn';t the levy's, not at all.
mircea_popescu: everybody drooled over THE WOT.
asciilifeform: everybody who drooled over the 'levis'
asciilifeform: everybody from schoolboy in moscow to chukchas - surrendered
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but it was centered on the aspirational class. as typified by gorby.
asciilifeform: and mircea_popescu knows this
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo what triggered me was the 8chan pic. seeing how
asciilifeform: surrender of ussr wasn't the least bit centered on the brass
mircea_popescu: mike_c: i blame both of you. thirty lashes. << o.O careful with that, sht hurts.
mircea_popescu: as i have told them to do already.
mircea_popescu: the us can surrender to the most serene republic
asciilifeform: but the illusion was convincing enough
asciilifeform: and they eagerly did.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ru folks had something to surrender to
mircea_popescu: why didn't the politburo just corvee it out ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but if your corvee theory is correct, why exactly was it that one could buy rusting cccp subs on the open market in 1991 ?
asciilifeform neither expert nor has access to the proper intel, however
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mircea_popescu: ok so dear bitcoin-assets, please advise. I'm sitting here reading http://internet.gawker.com/the-lesbian-jewish-leftist-conspiracy-tearing-reddit-ap-1684788589/+tcberman and wodering : am i completely crazy to think this is related to http://trilema.com/2015/these-fools-have-been-handed-a-technology-so-clever-so-disruptive-and-revolutionary-that-the-rulers-of-the-world-would-have-to-fully-unmask-themselves-as-ruthless
asciilifeform: decimation: mircea_popescu seems to think that this understanding will unravel if usd tanks, but i don't grasp how
asciilifeform: decimation: but they have an understanding with the specialist guilds.
decimation: asciilifeform: I'm not so sure about that. the folks you mention are not exactly used to physically compelling people to get what they want
asciilifeform: if tomorrow these things are not procurable with usd, they will be procured using direct corvee
asciilifeform: decimation: only the flow of the yachts, hookers, coke
asciilifeform: decimation: they don't give a fuck re: the flow of money
mircea_popescu: "Guy exposed a cabal of users taking over reddit yesterday, spawned a watchdog subreddit of 2500 subscribers overnight, was then banned by reddit's admins, all the subreddit's mods then banned, admins won't say why, and now they're handing the subreddit to the corrupt cabal of users who were exposed."
decimation: worrying about the flow of this money is the business of those folks in potomac
asciilifeform: it is quite obvious at this point, roughly where.
asciilifeform: the rest of us don't particularly care where the aethereum goes, as mircea_popescu put it
asciilifeform: to the folks paid to give a fuck - yes
mircea_popescu: because crediblity in the state media is desirable now.
asciilifeform: (either one is meant to conclude that the figure is wildly implausible - or - realize that patients are not walking off with 2m each, and therefore xxx, and xxx is not a subject that can be discussed publicly in usa while retaining credibility in the state media)
mircea_popescu: assbot: The Lesbian Jewish Leftist Conspiracy Tearing Reddit Apart, Untangled << this i meant.
mircea_popescu: "The amount[of medicaid fraud], just in New York, is estimated by Issa’s committee to be in excess of $15 billion, equivalent to $1.9 million per patient per year!" << ahahaha epic.
decimation: "The amount[of medicaid fraud], just in New York, is estimated by Issa’s committee to be in excess of $15 billion, equivalent to $1.9 million per patient per year!"
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