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mircea_popescu: no, gotta leave something for the industrious to gift.
mircea_popescu would be genuinely curious if this could be done. on one hand trained girl can do wonders with ass, on other hand that thing is fragile as all fuck...
mircea_popescu: "your higheness, have your favourite slave fuck herself in the ass with it!"
mircea_popescu: (and to round off the above : consider that the first metallic aluminum was shaped into a box and offered to the same person as the ironclad drawings were offered. whyssat ? cuz that's how all science flew back when people could control it.)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there's two kinds of people -- and only one of them comes back from the war to complain about the boots.
mircea_popescu: more importantly -- that the chinese DID takle over "industry", as well they should ; but that survival and prosperity depends on THIS. let them have THAT industry, it's actually a great fit for them.
mircea_popescu: and broadly speaking -- that without THIS neither laplace nor the lathe are happening, period and full stop.
mircea_popescu: and laplace existed BECAUSE OF THIS not because "i fucking love science" and "you like nerds, fuck one" ie "we want to get more science".
mircea_popescu: but the point remains that the high performance lathe was invented FOR THIS not for that!
mircea_popescu: so : the faberge egg, the original, was made in 1885 ; but it was the continuation and in a sense the crowing of a current of thought (ie, culture) and proper civilisation that reached back over a centry.
☟︎☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: so the austrian orfevres could make better movements for their puppets.
mircea_popescu: but the preoccupations of the culture at the time were such that INSTEAD he "of his own" "preferred" to solve some important geometry problemsa
mircea_popescu: dood could have been a general discussing importantly female transsexuals in the french expeditionary force
mircea_popescu: and btw, it DID discover computing! hence mechanical calculators.
mircea_popescu: hence all the clock towers with figurines, and about 50% of german lands gdp.
mircea_popescu: before europe went stupid, and blacklivesmatter all over itself, there was a major concern with making mechanical life.
mircea_popescu: entirely orthogonal tech stacks ; and wouldn't you know it that the simple man's reaction to perceptible orthogonality is to pick one and pretend the rest dun exist.
mircea_popescu: and no, none of the "three for five bux, plastic injected and happy face" is in any way competition (or god help us replacement!) for what's here discussed.
mircea_popescu: we're at the third pass of midden filtering! think about it!
mircea_popescu: that "trademark" is now owned by unilever, as you might've guessed, and it's used to sell items in qatar, as you might've also guessed. the point being that the poor rich arabs are trying to salvage whatever's left of the tsar's pile of salvaged material, today.
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: but on the significance front i asked because the principal preoccupation of the russian tsar afrter the french went stupid was to rescue as much of the old world industry stack as possible, which is how jhe ended up with swiss, austrian, french etc manufacturers.
mircea_popescu: anyway, since nobody apparently got the faberge egg bait, let's put it in the logs. so yes on the substance front i asked alf if he knows what it is because it is in fact stained glass, except with gold instead of lead and porcelain instead of glass, ie just like his properly cast key, piston-and-typeface in metal, bulk in porcelain.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo well, us "parties" history is funny in that having no proper substance of their own (let alone ideology, bridge too far) they keep osciallting throiugh the same zero both. it's like centennial switcharoo game.
mircea_popescu: way the fuck cheaper socially than my stricter "i will only have children in a society where i get to decide if they live or die"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: come to think of it, the arrangement where the woman is a slave (like every sultan's consort up to roxana) and her offspring ARE SLAVES TOO until such a time father thinks otherwise (which yes, can be coming of age, if ever) is probably best way to do it.
mircea_popescu: not enough popdensity for populism to work politically yet.
mircea_popescu: but if it's not fucking obvious that in 1800 agrarianism is another word for nonsense...
mircea_popescu: jefferson was, in truth, a bit of a lulzfest after his unseating. somewhat of an early us ron paul / jirinowski etc.
mircea_popescu: the pretention that "they have other things to do" a flimsy wrapper over the obvious "you've nobody that'd take you in"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it'd work a-ok for all the current ronin ones.
mircea_popescu: but the more general points of "rape" and "racism" were being discussed.
mircea_popescu: the particular woman in question was yes, domestic slavegirl, it's a thing, it works well.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this is a lot more common than realised, on account of accomplished adult male not having patience for the older female only mode of life (the claque).
mircea_popescu: and if they had been jewish, all her older female relatives would have gotten misty in the cobweb, "omfg he's a DOCTOR!!!"
mircea_popescu: heck, they don't wanna fuck them as it is, TODAY! look through the dating sites, two thirds of black female profiles indicate "no black males" in some manner (such as, "no gangstas" or whatever)
mircea_popescu: what exactly am i asked to believe, that woman whose name only exists because she was bought by jefferson family somehow had other priorities ? like what, sexual congress with the black males ? odds are she'd have rather fucked a donkey.
mircea_popescu: the proposition that there existed black woman in the time discussed who didn't similarily bask in "omfg, WHITE MAN!!! is scratching me between the legs" is out and out ridiculous anachronism.
mircea_popescu: all the dogs i ever met were thrilled to be scratched behind ears whenever and whichever way you felt like, the warm glow of "omfg, i am being handled BY HUMAN!!!" visibly overpowering all "thoughts" such as they had in their dog brain.
mircea_popescu: filter feeders will be you know, filters. kinda why so popular semiology sources in marine biology.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well yes, because the free strings they can get hands on were written in 1980 by gosplan as quoted, rather than in 2000 by perianne boring aspie
mircea_popescu: yeah, in the end they won the war of the sidecar bikes did they
mircea_popescu: what was that englishj lulzcar on 3 wheels, we had it in log.
mircea_popescu: i thought they were trying for the economy thing. didn't take huh.
mircea_popescu: the demographic slices lulz are best enjoyed by the traveller btw. in argentina, they ACTUALLY ADVERTISE "french technology" in automotive industry.
mircea_popescu: (maybach was an old luxury brand bought by mercedes ; maserati idem, early 1900s brand, bought by fiat ; spun off with alpha romeo and abarth recently cuz who wants a fiat)
mircea_popescu: ahahaha no fucking way, lumea s-a schimbat, hipster rapper driving lawnmower ?
mircea_popescu: im not so sure consumer crazes are part of teh gosplan
mircea_popescu: it's ~5bux a gallon in costa rica, romania, sweden, you name it.
mircea_popescu: usg petrol is half price atm, and has been for a decade.
mircea_popescu: arts actually getting kicked back, jungle taking over, he wants a MEGA INSANE DYSFUNCTIONAL ITEM (ie, he is now affraid of sense -- because all thatr sense has to say to him is "you're fucked|" )
mircea_popescu: no, i mean from the following cultural perspective : for as long as road network continues growing, the user wants massive, impressive beast of a steel machine. to show his supremacy over the attendant landscape in proper context (ie, he's affraid of the wilderness roads expand into). once expansion stops, he wants an efficient little thing, to get it over the next guy (ie, he's affraid of neighbour). and once road network st