asciilifeform: but yes my understanding is that moscow is where western wreckerz dispense the bags of moolah; ergo growth ‘with yeast’. possibly phf can add detail.
asciilifeform: ‘Legend has it that every civilization is given a certain number of saecula by the gods. The Romans lasted for 24 saecula, the Ancient Egyptians held on for 30.’
asciilifeform: many ameritards actually pictured 1980s su as 50s, ask asciilifeform re how was gulag etc
asciilifeform: phunphakt, asciilifeform's relatives dun believe the tale 'though it be told unto them', they have ro burned into rom as bucharest circa 1980 or so
asciilifeform is gonna have to buy another trunk, to carry the sov-era kidz bookz in ro, ceaucescu hat, misc. lulzolade, home
asciilifeform: but here is was hilarious how obviously filched some of the items were -- wireless 'house' phones with only handset, no base, faceplates of car stereos, etc
asciilifeform: i'd beg father to take me there every saturday
asciilifeform: early '90s odessa 'old horse market' sold from live rabbits to icbm guidance block components
asciilifeform: i was reading the citizenship rtfm talmud and it said clearly, 'threats to national serenity can be kicked out' or what was it
asciilifeform: holy fuq why haven't they thrown this d00d out !
asciilifeform: 'The guy can get his day in court if it wasn’t he who did this but I’m damned glad to see the Romanian general public take her side in this and not just laugh it off.' << waaat
asciilifeform: it's believable in the newton's laws sense .
asciilifeform: from old england , for what it was worth, to old japan
asciilifeform: and is the common thread of civilized life everywhere
asciilifeform: this notional decay, from asciilifeform's unarmed eye it is 100% notional, i went to a motherfucking tiled market thing today, bought cheese that was actually cheese, old women shoved delish samples, all in all maybe 400 grams, in my face, and put it on bread from next stall that was actually bread, and ate it by the canal side, and sat next to randos on bench, and nobody harrassed, robbed, or even
asciilifeform: hitler is giving the infinite icecream lottery winner, ostensibly exactly what he wanted.
asciilifeform: 'money as in infinite ice cream' vs 'money as in control of means of production' or how did old trilema put it.
asciilifeform: and that's all that, e.g., brin, wanted
asciilifeform: d00d whose steel works get nationalized -- gets token payoff, warm place to shit
asciilifeform: ( from 'i will get rich because fuck you and esp your daughters' )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i suspect that this switch followed inevitably from ' i just want to get rich because comforts ' switch
asciilifeform: ( 'beholder' if anyone gives a shit, i saw it by sheer accident )
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-26#1729227 << there's a 2010s pc game, where you preside over generic 'iron curtain' apartment block, and get various orders from kgb, e.g. 'root out tenants who read english books', but also had 'apples have been prohibited, storing or eating them is punishable'. i immediately pictured fda.☝︎
asciilifeform: well not a role in tmsr, at any rate. potentially as a sort of kindergarten, or slave pit, where you can see the heads and pick out promising larvae potentially
asciilifeform: and that reddits, as a class (i.e. system designed for rando-rando interaction) dun really have a role
