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mircea_popescu: it is ~possible~ they actually don't know what they want / don't want anything specific.
mircea_popescu: easy to condemn this as "a mistake retrospectively", especially if one has nfi what sort of demands an operational approach places on the labour pool.
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-21#1701546 << when ceausescu died there was a very brief revival "we shall roar" orc thing because ~most of us ops in eastern europe got killed / the rest fled. so there was a bit of pushback, all the way to killing dudes way in chicago. it didn't last, principally because sometime mid 90s the decision was taken (by the russkis) the way forward is economical not operational. so ss went the cia w
☝︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: your parents being rich and your friendly relations with all the elite of the town and generally your comfortable situation is a fucking baseline, not a high water mark, wtf is this, peaking in highschool like african women ?
mircea_popescu: there's no particular requirement that the person building an ironclad factory does not own the sailship drydock in town. on the fucking contrary ; the sign of the drydock owner ~being an idiot~ is their not building an ironclad factory right down the shoreline.
mircea_popescu: wtf is wrong with using an int machine like sane people and doing approximations in software, also like sane people ? "oh but it's non intuitive" "to idiots" "well yes"
mircea_popescu: heh trilema gateway blew up. should be back within hours. thanks for reporting gl.
mircea_popescu: empire is organised towards "functioning economy" ie production of goods, or "functioning culture" ie production of truths. all the subjects in imperial statements are ideals of this kind.
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-21#1701414 << empire is not organised towards "protecting of the proles" or any other statement with the proles as a subject. the proles (understood deductively, as "all people", just as they understand govenment deductively, see prev discussion), as well as the environment generally are the objects, not the subjects of imperial discourse.
☝︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: matthau being a great actor and an utterly iconic libertard imbecile.
mircea_popescu: griffith is against. matthau comments importantly that "at least he has the courage of his ignorance".
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo amusingly, the "welfare state" / entitlement program is actually discussed in the film!
mircea_popescu: i thought that was the whole slippery point of zher, that there's a hole not a line.
mircea_popescu: phf also worth bearing in mind that point re introductions in the rothbard series. people more recent than the author daring to pen introductions are the exact equivalents of herostratus ; and to be treated no better.
mircea_popescu: there was one major cultural power in the time uncultivated minds can furthest think back to, a time whose murmurs come to them through the great-grandparents, and that time wasn't napoleon 3's paris. it was vienna.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo sounds more like dood is taking a (dramatic) vacation than anything.
mircea_popescu: anyway, eliade's iron guard affiliations are very far from a little known fact. i'd wager more people know about that than ever read any of his books, let alone understood such.
mircea_popescu: phf fwiw, culianu was actually killed by the national-socialist PCR (romanian communist party).
mircea_popescu: r0nin- let's put it this way : i'll take an us author seriously ONLY AFTER he has underage porn on display somewhere.
mircea_popescu: it can't be the opposite. not on amazon, not with the stupid title, not with that schmuck from "culture wars" magazine hurr durr.
mircea_popescu: no. it is actually trying to bill itself as the opposite.
mircea_popescu: the odds of my reading amazon offerings of ustardian pantsuit nonsense are nil.
mircea_popescu: r0nin- sure, about 50% of the girls "think he's great" pre-enslavement.
mircea_popescu: that's the extent of familiarity, i had to review the god-awful prose of the interwar imbeciles as part of writing the programme.
mircea_popescu: ah. i tried to (intellectually, and financially) sponsor the "romanian new right". they weren'tr capable of digestion.
mircea_popescu: i don't get it, her solution is to not leave the house ?
mircea_popescu: !!v 8BA76455A2533D5D3F55FD051D23ECF828EC1B474B1C85D9DEA162A31E78C589
mircea_popescu: !!rate valentinbuza 1 Ro kid, studies advanced cryptographies and things.
mircea_popescu: this is like 9 yo telling you that the bath dissolved her snatch. you can't corrode just the seam, as a concept, leaving behind the item without a seam can oyu.
mircea_popescu: well since the pot is still there, how'd the seam vanish from corrosion.
mircea_popescu: the greek items can grow larger, and offer no visible seam, and so on.
mircea_popescu: but ifg you look at the 1k pre-bc greek cauldrons, the similarity to 1500 ad english castle pots is striking. just... the metal is about 100x finer in the ancient case.
mircea_popescu: anyway, funny thing re bronze : it needs tin. as far as ancient world is concerned, copper was uberabundant (cyprus) but tin was either england or anatolia
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform they had cannons, just didn't use them as cannons because no gunpowder.
mircea_popescu: the greeks had better shipwrights, better mathematicians, better everything.