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mircea_popescu: the greeks spent
two years, and got all
the way
to indioa
decimation: why should
the powers of
today have it any other way
decimation: on
the other hand,
the romans spent centuries
trying
to conquer
the middle east
decimation: or a 100 lb girl with
the right charms
decimation: there's no doubt
that
there's a gap between 'strength on paper' and 'actual strength, if actually
tested'
mircea_popescu: yeah, something like
that. i
think
they mostly perceive it as a combined fuckhole/shithole/eatery
decimation: can be really dangerous if you line yourself up in his sights, but really easy
to manipulate
decimation: I imagine
that most countries perceive
the us as a 300 pound giant with
the brains of a 12 year old boy
mircea_popescu: it's like a retard kid who gets
told off by his imagined gf, goes away,
turns around and starts over
mircea_popescu: is
this
the same iraq
the us just got beat out of, and had
to lulzily evacuate
their baghdad "embassy" ?
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pete_dushenski_: also ozzies are sending 8 super hornets
to
tackle isis. canada's mighty cf-18s can't be far behind nao.
decimation: reading
the wikipedia I'm surprised
to find
that argentina is basically 80-90% european
mircea_popescu: they are gigantic barrios, but
the only constant is fucking.
decimation: if
the average us guy even knows where south america is, he perceives
the cities as basically gigantic barrios with constant death
mircea_popescu: if it makes you feel any better,
the media does
the same here.
there were i dunno, like five murders in a 20mn pop
town.
decimation: I guess my point is
that
the media likes
to
trump up
the crazy nazi kkk guy when
there were 415 murders in chicago last year
mircea_popescu: well...
there's a lot of merit in
that. how else could his alleged "political" oppinions be explained.
mircea_popescu: im sure
there's no libtard
that ever killed anyone. o.O
mircea_popescu: "Mayo noted
that Frazier Glenn Miller, who was a member of
the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacist groups, ran for
the U.S. Senate in Missouri in 2010. He was charged
this year in
the shooting deaths of a 14-year-old boy and his grandfather outside an Overland Park, Kan., Jewish community center."
mircea_popescu: i doubt he's all
that stable. he doesn't look it in any case.
decimation: My language was imprecise: I meant
that
that he would be
the object of common hatred
mircea_popescu: and for
that matter, people
tend
to flatter
themselves with
that word a lot. an ability
to hate is strictly realted
to spending
time in conditions not available
to
the average english speaking derp.
mircea_popescu: guy doesn't seem motivated by anything but
the usual driver of reality show attendants.
decimation: at any rate I'm sure
that
these hick canidates will be promoted so
that
their hatred can become a shared experience for
their political enemies
pete_dushenski_: mircea_popescu: and i also like
that you linked "contravex" directly
to
the
troll article rather
than
the homepage. i
take
that as a seal o' approval :)
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mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski_ i like
that you give good error reports.
mircea_popescu: do you suppose any marriage can be improved by confining
the woman ?
decimation: well, I guess I buy into
the idea
that a nation and an genetic group are closely related
decimation: this problem largely solved itself in
the past when only somebodies could afford
to
travel
mircea_popescu: i imagine at best it'd
to nothing perceptible, if you choose
the line well.
mircea_popescu: you could directly experiment with
this idea. you could draw a line in your room, and ban all crossings of
that line. see if it does anything for any variable you wish
to measure.
decimation: well, it would be cheaper for
the us
to simply ban pakistani immigration rather
than
try
to be omniscient w.r.t. pakistani
terrorism and so forth
mircea_popescu: "We eliminate
the Muslim
terror
threat by first eliminating all support for Israel and
then by additionally deporting all Muslims out of
the American nation back
to
the Arab world."
mircea_popescu: dude
the policy ideas of homebrew candidates are fabulous.
mircea_popescu: "2. We improve
the economy by attacking without mercy
the concept of globalism, eliminating all foreign aid
to non-White
third world nations, all nations controlled by Zionist interests, and first and foremost eliminate all aid
to Israel, also end all domestic aid and handouts
to non-Whites, and finally disband and dissolve
the Jewish-run Federal Reserve and overhaul
the American stock market and
the way
that has worke
pete_dushenski_: in south america i've been
to colombia and brazil. also visited most of central america, mexico, and a solid chunk of
the caribbean islands.
mircea_popescu: i've been pretty much everywhere
the empire ever went.
pete_dushenski_: and
the famous pyramid-horse pic says you've been
to egypt.
pete_dushenski_: i imagine i don't have any parts of europe
to add
to
that list.
pete_dushenski_: a ok. so we can add 2. japan, 3. china, 4. hk, 5. vietnam, 6.
thailand, 7. s. korea :)
mircea_popescu: my forays into asia have been limited
to crossing
the bosphorus.
pete_dushenski_: ok, so canada is 1. have you been
to other parts of japan?
pete_dushenski_ wonders what other corners of
the world he's explored
that mircea_popescu hasn't.
pete_dushenski_: and
turkish
toilets are still a
thing, last i checked... in
tokyo.
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Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
mircea_popescu: "don't worry about not being on
the pill, honey. i got a yellow contraceptor."
mircea_popescu: psycho fly guy got a pretty sweet setup
there. one date only.
pete_dushenski_: kakobrekla: ever used
topre ? << great! nao i kinda want one.
decimation: apparently it's 1.75 + 2 mil - probably
to fit
the shelving
decimation: again in 1992
to comply with
the 1988 public law 100-418, setting
the standard U as 44.5mm (15.9mm + 15.9mm + 12.7mm), making each "U" officially 1.752 inches.[5] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19-inch_rack
decimation: pediwiki:
The
term relay rack appeared first in
the world of
telephony.[2] By 1911,
the
term was also being used in railroad signaling.[3]
There is little evidence
that
the dimensions of
these early racks were standardized.
The 19-inch rack format with rack-units of 1.75 inches and holes
tapped for 12-24 screws with alternating spacings of 1.25 inches and 0.5 inch was an established standard by 1934.[4]
The EIA standard was revised
decimation: yeah, one learns
that it's best
to wear 'mechanics gloves' while handling sharp metal boxes
decimation: I suspect rack units acquired
their height from
the ability
to reach into
that space with a hand
mircea_popescu: i guess it means "a russian guy measured
this,
throw it away"
decimation: asciilifeform: I have one of
those folding bikes, it is pretty compact (but heavy and ungainly) when folded
decimation: it would demean women
to
treat
them as objects
to measure, rather
than measure as objects