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mircea_popescu: well yes. i took narrowly missing the 90s to mean he lived last days during khruschev's tenure
mircea_popescu: you recall, guy was at the un, took shoe off banged table.
mircea_popescu: (i find it amusing how all the later day soviet saints have some shoe reference readily accessible to be retrieved by)
mircea_popescu: marrying dudes, fucking children, whatever matter of conventional behaviour is a convention.
mircea_popescu: cannibalism, also "only because... and nobody entertains..."
mircea_popescu: moreover, if you took a year's worth of court practice of your choice, listed all the inferences made in a sort of mega-AST and then sorted this list by tenuousness measured how you will, the fingerprint construct wouldn't make any sort of top.
mircea_popescu: there is no manner available currently of runing physical-space law&order without the fingerprint construct.
mircea_popescu: mats hey, usg's been trying to shitcan the whole it security thing since day one.
mircea_popescu: aaand in other news, i just managed to link TWO DOZEN trilema articles from this latest one. i think that takes the cake.
mircea_popescu was even gonna reply to his reply, then noticed the google thing and recalled why he hasn't been commenting, something /me was vaguely wondering about
mircea_popescu: i dunno about cavities ; but training commander mp would sack pilots who fail to synchronize bowel movements to "half hour before flight duty" within the first month.
mircea_popescu: at the time enemy is happy his propeller isn't cast in concrete, you can put up with tasting the fuel.
mircea_popescu: i can see the point re "birds gone by". by the time your fighter jet comes with "and don't turn left lest its jew nose cuts off engine compressor" its like... WHO DID THIS IN RAILS!
mircea_popescu: even in the 90 ie 91, i don't expect a majority of nubile collegiate sluts perceived AS AN OBLIGATION the invitation to whore out for the airmen.
mircea_popescu: most of this is attempted-preservation of the perceived grandeur.
mircea_popescu: not too bad but not too large and nowhere near "kick the tires, light the fires..."
mircea_popescu: i can understand why the people that invented swinging'd be a little bit cooler than the people that invented tech support.
mircea_popescu: not to mention various pieces of trilema refiction awaiting their literary criticists.
mircea_popescu: mquander you know eulora's been looking for coders liek forever.
mircea_popescu: rsa key is a basic tool of computer literacy anyway. like ability to write down own name basic standard of traditional literacy.
mircea_popescu: it's not practical to run independents in nato reich. they're all government agencies.
mircea_popescu: "heineken" flavoured sprite is just as toxic, of course, but because the angloworld swallows so much soda anyway, the effects are not specifically detectable.
mircea_popescu: there's a coupla "competitive" alt-flavoured soda producers (they call the swill beer for some reason), as a direct result of distilled spirits available in the anglo world beiong so fucking toxic
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes i have no deeper understanding than european alimentary tradition. fruit alcohol only item fit for human consumption.
mircea_popescu: same vat powers the "beefeather" gin as the "Smirnoff" vodka as the "walker" whisky as the everything else.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the continuator of gangster era alcohol production methids. sells of all the 40% abv crap distinctly labelled but singuarily produced.
mircea_popescu: you can be as hydrated and vitaminized as you wish, anything diageo sells is going to give you a hangover.
mircea_popescu: hey, alcohol intake will deplete water and various metabolytes in the liver, that's how that goes.
mircea_popescu: well, according to some idiots somewhere there exists such a thing as african literature
mircea_popescu: the improper wood-and-rags ooze will give you headaches, blurred vision, sickness, etcetera etcetera.
mircea_popescu: proper alcohol (which includes no grains as well as nothing ever made by any english speaker anywhere) gives you a very pleasant, mellow morning after. a fine reason to drink is not even the drunkedness but THE "HANGOVER".
mircea_popescu: then you can proceed to compare the unbeatable ro plumb distillate / fine old french wines etc with the tequilla/bisulphited california wine/random swill.
mircea_popescu: very simple rule is, drink straight alcohol (i do mean, pharmaceutically pure, 99.999%) to get an idea how your drunkedness goes.
mircea_popescu: back when usg could actually repel three dozen enemy aircraft, even libya had them.
mircea_popescu: basically, inflaiton. "this is the new currency, worth 1/10 what it was buy you deem it as acceptable substitute"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform apparently dood had a treasure trove of such lulz.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform << “He’s dead, Jim” << how do you even produce the windows quotes ?
mircea_popescu: this isn't true, incidentally, i bought sixty a few weeks ago.
mircea_popescu: (for the complete noob : actual competent, technically minded staff depicted on the left meets ambitious, cerebrally vacuous imperial legate, depicted on the right.)
mircea_popescu: waldhauser's face is worth a million unified standard dosidoes.
mircea_popescu: i dun recall the soviets ever managing such a crisp icon of "the meeting with the politruk".
mircea_popescu: anyway, back to the "weaved" sf : kinda the whole point of "3d printing", as i saw it at the time. useless wankery but who's gonna make the weaved nuclear reactor.
mircea_popescu: roughly same weight class as deep sea dome / oil sucker.
mircea_popescu: (the iss is about half that, for the curious, and dun do much.)
mircea_popescu: i expect the large sats to be actually weaved, but the materials aren't there yet (and no word on weaved nuclear reactor yet, either)
mircea_popescu: the exact same is true of... well... steel. wtf are you going to make the 850`000 ton megasat out of ? "um... poured concrete ?" "what the fuck!?" "hey it worked for bridge engineering"
mircea_popescu: "chitin is great, better than steel for sub-cm foils".