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BingoBoingo: And not even an actual release on bail if he posts
the blackmail
BingoBoingo: I don't see how
the allegations are any different from using a "Game shark" on a Nintendo
ben_vulpes: lol hey check it out;
this guy gets a haul of 300kusd+ for not responsibledisclosuring and douchebags of
the world wank
themselves raw over 5K and a spot on
the altavista hall of fame
BingoBoingo: Ulbricht lets
their hamsters plea "drug war"
mircea_popescu: the problem with
this scoring approach is
that google or w/e "exciting" "tech" bs is just as drab, but optimizes for "getting people in
the picture".
Mocky: "look at our uber-drab office building with not a single person willing
to get in
the photo, it's awesome here I SWEAR!"
Mocky: re: earlier cia lulz, homepage of glassdoor.com
today has (seemingly fresh) cia job ad in rotation, "Morale is great despite of
the changing leadership"
http://imgur.com/UE7J72H mircea_popescu: way
to rob yourself of your own , hard earned benefit, usg.fetlife, usg.blue, usg.*
mircea_popescu: kinda also why
teh usgistan is so utterly unthreatening. "we never got beaten" "aaaa...ok :)"
a111: Logged on 2018-06-19 16:55 mircea_popescu: douchebag looky,
the place's not for you. you're not smart enough
to be here. what's so hard
to grok about
this ? some people are smart, some people aren't smart, you're not smart. what, you have
to be dragged out, your legs don't work, what is it ?
mircea_popescu: lottery winner is made famous by
the after effects of "whatever i might've been, now i'm
the sort of guy
that wins lottery"
mircea_popescu: there's
two kinds of i won :
the "i won because you're fucking stupid" and
the "omfg i'm so cool i won".
the latter never works out.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform see,
the explanation for spain per BingoBoingo 's bit would be... reconquista.
mircea_popescu: "humility" as
the xtian virtue, right, "love" as
the harem slave's virtue, "do not fucking flip
that bit"
mircea_popescu: it is EXACTLY what it is, "the divine order of people who imagine
they're
too cool for assrape
to happen
to
them".
BingoBoingo: Well, NATO is a club for
the
terminally bit flipped
mircea_popescu: then
they joined nato, which is no kind of victory, but
the bit fucking flipped. and well...
mircea_popescu: romanians had
this overpowering "we're
the
total shitheel losers of all
time" going 1990 - 2005ish, and it helped
them immensely.
mircea_popescu: it's
true, but
the locals have been
this exact
thing 15 y ago
too , and 50, and will be in 50.
mircea_popescu: diana's notion of
the locals was "whoa,
they remind me a lot of romanians 10-15 yrars ago, when
they had a little money and slowly getting a clue"
mircea_popescu: this may very well be it :
there's a single bit in
the bios, and
the flip state of it decides.
BingoBoingo: The victory bit in
the brain flips and
then
the legions stop carrying
their own shit, etc
BingoBoingo: But it could have gotten
to
their heads just
the same
BingoBoingo: Sure,
the subcontinent doesn't really have a strong mestizo equivalent
mircea_popescu: the brits "had" india&china in much less of a sense
than spain had el dorado.
mircea_popescu: spain was ever fucked in
the head. how did
they manage
to get
the whole new world and end up
the laughingstock
they are...
BingoBoingo: They got fat and feminized like
the Brits are going
through now
mircea_popescu: not for lack of
trying, right ? barcelona has better cathedral
than paris.
mircea_popescu: it's a complex problem, "why do peripheries fail
to
thrive". "why was hispania not gaul" etc
BingoBoingo: Uruguay
tried as well, but
they really needed a stressor from outside
mircea_popescu: in 1970s, buncha army officers rounded up all
the adlais, beat
the shit out of
them,
then shot anyone who complained.
BingoBoingo: Or
they could hve beat up on Paraguay again
BingoBoingo: Joining WWII before Brasil picked a side would have given
them a stressor of
the sort
they had been lacking
BingoBoingo: That and
the Admirald Graf Spee probably pulled into
the wrong port on
the Rio de la Plata
mircea_popescu: because
they hallucinated freedoms
they didn't have,
therefore
they went from hero
to zero.
BingoBoingo: Then
there's
the wonder material cardboard
BingoBoingo: The local
talent is very
time oriented
thing. In
the early 1900's Argentina and Uruguay seemed
to have enough of it and
then regression
to
the mean happened.
BingoBoingo: I imagine
the process begins with classical style painting which are "restored" by coloring book graduates
BingoBoingo: The churches with
the cartoon saviors also interesting
mircea_popescu: cr is
the original "omfg check out
this wonder"
though. smaller, but imo better.
mircea_popescu: Mocky latin america cemetery utterly worth visiting. very elegant, makes
the inept puritan bs from
the us shine in all its ridiculousness.
BingoBoingo: Right now I'm leaning
towards just leaving a nice shipwreck
Mocky: what's interesting at
the big cemetery?
BingoBoingo: Next
time alf's over if he has
time we might have
to venture
to
the bookstores of abandoned library scent
mircea_popescu: these days, no
trade, musty abandoned library scent everywhere
BingoBoingo: China's embassy is way out in Carrasco near
the airport
BingoBoingo: Ecuador has a sad hole across from
the parrilla
that used steak magic on ben_vulpes
BingoBoingo: Anyways, Learning a lot about national govt values from seeing embassies. US has bleak river fort. Britain has country club. Romania has modest row house. Dominican Rupublic goes months without fixing
their flag's attachment
to pole.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: No, see.
This comms system was GREAT... against
the pashtuns and maybe Baathists
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo and do you see kerry registering a key and begging us
to help ?
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo
they're so fucking hysterical,
these
tards.
BingoBoingo: Back in
the stretch of history
that spanned 10k BTC Pizza
to Satoshi Dice IPO
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i guess. dun seem like any difference
to me, write on blogspot, slideshow at conference, whatever.
then again, entomology.
mircea_popescu: and yes, i'd make
the same exact argument if fellow "wrote book" which was
then "new york
times best seller list"
mircea_popescu: and in
the minority were picked up by
the scouts anyway.
mircea_popescu: i ended up on
the main floor a
total of maybe
twice, but in general you just meet people privately ; and in
this particular context
the
teenaged bimbos desperate
to "get started" were in
the vast majority
too ugly
to meet
the bar (which, back
then, still existed, nobody paid uglies
to fuck)
mircea_popescu: i never went ; but based on my limited experience with
the few cons i ever went
to, years ago in a different life, literally nobody listens in.