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mircea_popescu: roughly in
the situation of a small african country
trying
to push
this alt-geography where china doesn't exist
mircea_popescu: why
tyhe fuck do
they continue
to push all
the derpage and
try and pretend is entirely beyond me
TheNewDeal: updating
the diff change estimate
to 6.8%
assbot: imgur:
the simple image sharer
mircea_popescu: dub: but blame africa << everyone knows africans aren't pirates,
they couldn't even discover madagascar.
mircea_popescu: davout: ;;later
tell mircea_popescu liked
the hayek commentary a lot! <<
thanks!
pankkake: wow, so it was a photo of know people in
the school? and
they
thought
they could get away with it?
TheNewDeal: the black guy came out publicly stating he was not in
the photo originally
TheNewDeal: while I was going
there, my school got caught photoshopping a black person into a photo
pankkake: my first
thought was "this looks like a
typical stock photo where minorities must be present otherwise you're racist. oh wait, who's
this guy, i
think i know him"
pankkake: I wish I knew how ozbot found
the images
jurov: if everyone suspects
the deaths being staged,
then ofc
they were not well accomplished
mircea_popescu: decimation: why would
they be able
to accomplish anything "evil" well? << a solid argument, except, why does a cat manage
to break
things so well when no cat has yet produced any
thing ?
pankkake: didn't look at
the last ones. usually I don't resist, but
too much at a
time
pankkake: give her something
to eat, poor girl
fluffypony: so now I don't get any email from
them
fluffypony: I eventually just blacklisted
their domain
Apocalyptic: thestringpuller, yeah havelol spam starting
to be annoying
Mats_cd03: when
there's blood on
the streets...
mircea_popescu: "The city fell like a plane without an engine," said a Mosul businessman << what's with
these people and planes.
mircea_popescu: german serfs cca 1100 knew as much, "the day foreign armed men walk
the province, all
tax obligations are null and void"
mircea_popescu: benkay
that nobody fucking owns
title
to anything anymore.
mircea_popescu: benkay it's
the sort of desert where a car doing less
than 50 is a death
trap.
benkay: what's wrong with lease papers in
the glove compartment?
mircea_popescu: i wonder how many of
the fuckwits still have
the lease papers in
the glove compartment.
benkay: isn't
this
the kind of desert where one can simply drive around road obstructions?
mircea_popescu: cars where camels go, a bunch of redditards
trying
to pretend like
they're playing WoW irl.
benkay: <mircea_popescu>
the only rational, and
the only moral action is
to feed
them
their own entrails // learned helplessness of
the last rats
to flee?
mircea_popescu: what civillians ? "we're giving
the n billions worth of material
to al-quaeda. because fuck you,
that's why"
mircea_popescu: Mats_cd03 "arming civillians" strictly means, in
this sense, "Taking
these weapons
the us gave us and giving it
to
the people
they were
trying
to fight"
mircea_popescu: then videotape it and post it on youtube, should any other fuckwits need
training as
to
the importance of "holding checkpoints"
mircea_popescu: the only rational, and
the only moral action is
to feed
them
their own entrails
Mats_cd03: mircea_popescu: arming civilians is really
the only
thing
they can do. what, its not like
the state can secure anything
mircea_popescu: This i don't fucking understand. if you're
trying
to leave mosul and
there's some fuckwits holding a "checkpoint" in your way
mircea_popescu: Iraq's embattled government said it would arm civilians and ask
the parliament
to declare a state of emergency. <<
this is a splendid point in case.
the us-allied iraq government is going
to... arm
the civillians.
mircea_popescu: no,
the day's developments mean
that isis has now secured communication lines for its pincher of baghdad
mircea_popescu: "The day's developments mean Isis now has effective control over
three cities, including Falluja and Ramadi in neighbouring Anbar. "
TheNewDeal: I
tried betting both sides
to
the MERS, not looking good now
TheNewDeal: knocked out a bunch of mayans and others when
the conquistadors came
through
TheNewDeal: I'm just saying it happened in mexico
too
mircea_popescu: i don't imagine biological shock is going
to be much going forward
TheNewDeal: except when you infect
the indigenous population with deadly diseases
TheNewDeal: there is a booming mexican population within
the us
mircea_popescu: it'll work,
too. mexico has a better chance of ruling
the us
than either democrat or republican party in
ten years.
mircea_popescu: also a doomed hope.
the cartels will sooner or later make continued oil exports dependent on continued opium imports
TheNewDeal: regardless of saudi, mexico is ~1/4 - 1/3 of
the opec
total
mircea_popescu: i'll bet you
the us won't be buying much oil from sa by
the end of
the decade.
mircea_popescu: it's an ally of
the us in
thesense
the
tour guide of
the fat
tourist is an ally of his.
assbot: U.S.
Total Crude Oil and Products Imports
TheNewDeal: mexico is 3rd
to canada and saudi arabia
chetty: its ok Mexico is currently moving
to Arizona
mircea_popescu: and once
the withdrawal is complete by autumn i wonder just how safe any us interests in
the midwest will ever be again.
mircea_popescu: at any rate, back on
the realpolitik map, i wonder just how defensible afghanistan is w/o iraq,
Mats_cd03: i wonder if
the kurds have
the stomach
to breach doors and fight house
to house
Mats_cd03: the northern alliance was
the best bet iraq ever had for any semblance of security
mircea_popescu: funny btw,
the us overthrew ukraine,
the russian-backed syria overthrew iraq.
mircea_popescu: Mats_cd03 you know, iraq 2 mayt well
turn out
to be
the largest intl mistake
the us ever made
Mats_cd03: losing mosul
to militants is a death blow
fluffypony: "On
the other hand it was expected
that usagi will get confused and "loose"
the wallet. In general he's so confused
that he doesn't know if he's a she or she's a he."
assbot: BMF has lost access
to it's wallet [UnModerated]
TheNewDeal: mircea_popescu
true, and oil prospects are always estimates
Mats_cd03: iraq is going
to lose a fourth city
to
the fictional caliphate
TheNewDeal: I was hoping for
the bitcoin network and
the opec producers
to ramp up production :D
mircea_popescu: russia is emerging as a major ally of
the muslims, and its strategy
to energetically isolate
the west is starting
to
take shape.
TheNewDeal: more interested in
the opec production news of
the morn
TheNewDeal: we're actually losing some
time
this change, making
the 3rd change iffy
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mircea_popescu: kakobrekla
that's not a good link,
that's a bead link.