mircea_popescu: it's a level of superficial idiocy that can't be matched outside of these double-defection situations, for which it is typical in the exact way stench is typical of filth. ☟︎

mircea_popescu: anyway, the ridiculous item in question reserved an immense space for "motorbike garage" and a tiny space for "aquaculture" in the shape of cubic foot fishtanks ; in same room, rabbit cages, same size.

mircea_popescu: "Our proprietary-engineered design makes our underground bunkers the strongest and safest on the market. We have revolutionized the underground bunker industry by placing our main structural frame on the inside to protect your family and belongings from moisture on the outside. Ghe exterior 1/4-thick steel skin is coated with Epoxy Coal Tar to guarantee your new 10 x 20 Underground Bunker will last a lifetime." this, of cours

mircea_popescu: basically, the agent defects from a to b and then defects from b back to a sort of "skeptical a".

mircea_popescu: do you recall that ridiculous "bunker" with 30% dedicated to "motorcycles" and a few fish tanks "For food" ? that sort of cvasi-religious nonsense is the end result -- resources are diverted towards making a show of compliance with designs that are dysfunctional by their very nature. ☟︎

mircea_popescu: consider the more obvious / discussed in the logs case of "nuclear war preparedness". if you model the us cca 1960 as the existence of two tribes, type a which didn't believe there's imminent risk of nuclear winter and type b which did believe there's imminent risk of nuclear winter, the fact that type b doctrine included "no need to separate from type a, we can just have some shit bolted on" allows random population member X

mircea_popescu: not altogether a stupid idea in theory.

mircea_popescu: i think now he's turned towards a slightly more self-empowered version of lafond-ism, "structured communities" or somesuch.

mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes this john robb guy, kept a blog for a while about guerilla warfare whatever ; but before that he was with forrester research, kept doing pieces that were more cogent that most. re browser wars, re social me,dia, etc

mircea_popescu: in other lulz, "Taboola adheres to the Digital Advertising Alliance Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising, a program run by the Digital Advertising Alliance and the Digital Advertising Alliance Canada with the goal of providing Internet users transparency and control."

mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo possibly a little much huh.

mircea_popescu: basically a sort of plant-for-pulsars, i guess.

mircea_popescu: and in other science fiction : imagine a xenomorph that actually lived off radioactive decay. it'd get to use the fabled hepta-dna arrangement, and obviously have very active teleomerase. then it could uptake whatever relevant radioisotope into special beryl vacuoles, and colimate it into a specially built "tunnel" made out of whatever oxidables arranged with the oxigen in. then the oxigens are knocked off, and the lifeform o

mircea_popescu: judging by the weapon, i take this was a white man opressing innocents as opposed to black man righteously punishing dnc defectors ?

mircea_popescu: and in other obscura nobody can possibly care about, helen rappaport is a fine example indeed of the "new intellectual". television starlet without work, ended up taking a job for an "academic publisher" in her 40s, once she finally understood ~nobody cares to see her. within a decade she had absorbed all the "wiswom" and "knowleshee" that'd fit, and she was writing "books" and emanating "scholarship" of her own.

mircea_popescu: and in special ben_vulpes orders : they now have a festival! http://bazavan.ro/2017/05/povestea-awake-festival/

mircea_popescu: pity they don't have a buck.

mircea_popescu: shinohai you know, if all those useless libertards that clicked the heart button gave him a buck, he could almost make mortgage payments.

mircea_popescu: but he pivots seamlessly, like duck in water, or if you prefer like textbook idiot : there's absolutely no sign whatsoever that all the time wasted on educating it left any kind of mark whatsoever -- a sad suspicion confirmed by the cyclical nature of the nonsense. so he'll proceed to defend the new half second half baked "idea" in the same manner.

mircea_popescu: as it happens, dumbalf wishes to spend all its time, and if possible everyone else's time, engaged in the following infantile game : it will spend about half a second to come up with some strong statement that's evidently false, entirely predicated on ignorance, pure nonsense. then he'll defend it tooth and nail, for hours if need be, exploring every nook and cranny of stupid shit that could be said to defend stupid shit. thi

mircea_popescu: i'd vote for a guy who beat up a redditard. how bad can he be ? he got the basics right.

mircea_popescu: anyway. the problem with wine is that better wine and expensive wine do not well correlate. for the past 40 or so years europe sat on a lake of wine. you can have perfectly fine wines for the cost of the bottling, you can also spend as-much-as-you-want for idiot veblen americana.

mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes fwiw there's a "new, better, altenrative" for everything every week. kinda what the you know, "people ready with a gameplan if they suddenly got rich" spend their time with.

mircea_popescu: or did "douchecanoe" fail coinage ? i recall all sorta sheilas pushing it pretty hard a few years back.

mircea_popescu: speaking of which, in the dinner date conversation ideas, "who'd win a fight between the greatest douchecanoe and the worst shitlord ???"