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mircea_popescu: it's ~equivalent of south korea, international criminal community "miracle" / extraterritorial depot.
mircea_popescu: i dunno. somewhat of a game of chicken, lots of "valuable" real estate piled up there. saudi arabia is particularly frail, if rockets start falling in capital the whole saudi nonsense will prolly end.
mircea_popescu: "yemen's internationally recognized government" aka "usg imposed illegitimate criminal organisation based in yemen" idem "cuts ties". wtf ties.
mircea_popescu: apparently the perils of being allied with the usg is still not apparent. fucking served libya ah so well.
mircea_popescu: anyway, lulz of all time "one of 3 sovereign pretenders in libya "cut ties" with qatar". hurr really ?
mircea_popescu: besides, iran as a russian proxy seems to be ready to ship
mircea_popescu: but yes, the other problem is that "better" in the sense of hardy isn't exactly better in the sense of useful. hence the hela example, beats ~any eukariotic cells out of the water, and so what of it.
mircea_popescu: the happenstance that improvements dun werk isn't of the nature of discouraging anyone.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the idea of "better cell" is inescapable for even cursory qualified microbiologist, chiefly because cell really is a pile of accidentally functioning complexity.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform afaik "activated teleomerase" === "more chromosomes than proteins" sorta deal.
mircea_popescu: loller. is she looking for a black master to slavegirl @ etc ?
mircea_popescu: yeah but the whole mystical hallucination didn't really start till the late 30s
mircea_popescu: see ? it's a quid pro quo like that, "yes $badthing, but then $goodthing". whereas here ... it's 100% "hey, want to cut your arm off so you could have an eye gouged out???" "no bitch."
mircea_popescu: but it ALSO meant you injected strychnine into the unterwhores and whipped them till they stiffened, if you felt like it.
mircea_popescu: dude, joining the nazi purebloods did mean you gotta eat nothing but leeks for a whole saturday to hang out with the nuts at their all-mineral-water parties. ok.
mircea_popescu: "here's the stupid reich. it... does stupid shit, and it doesn't pay. wanna join ???" "um... "
mircea_popescu: no, i understand how the in-story narrative goes. i'm talking about reality for a moment.
mircea_popescu: what the fuck else is even the point. going to harvard like that is like going to the supermarket to pay to stock their shelves. ain't what a fucking supermarket is.
mircea_popescu: "sexually explicit" ? bitch, empire at zenith starts providing commoner whores IN PAIRS and SINCE FUCKING HIGHSCOOL.
mircea_popescu: sure. i'm just shaking my head in disbelief at the notion someone they'd consider would actually consider going.
mircea_popescu: lmao who the fuck in his right mind wants to go to harvard.
mircea_popescu: depends how strict you take the view that "optimizing out my checks === werner"
mircea_popescu: lobbes what's thjat mean, they match up to 1% of your income ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "oh no, but nobody could have predicted that" + "it's just a life, it's not MY life" + etc.
mircea_popescu: because why the fuck would inept contractor now in jail pick qntra ? NOBODY HEARD OF IT!!!1 and $assorted-excuses, all of which squarely come back to "hey, at least you wouldn't be in jail today".
mircea_popescu: and besides, they've successfulyl thrown the curve, ALL $item are equally shitty so whatcha gonna pick and choose hm ?
mircea_popescu: and if experience with the empire of "i just want to" lazy idiots is any guide, they're DEFINITELY not going to "get in trouble for buying microsoft". because "nobody could have predicted" and "they were just doing their job" which "hey man, it's just a gig, it's not my life!"
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: kinda how fuckgoats even got started, their we-are-idiots naming conventions.
mircea_popescu: also, imbeciles, really, they published originals ? because why, nobody owns a single fucking secretary anymore they're so god damned rich ?
mircea_popescu: awww, but i thought nobody ever tampers with usg elections and the proposition "was discredited" and etc!!1
mircea_popescu: it's a fortunate thing, then, that nobody's making you do anything.
mircea_popescu: tis a bitter pill this, "computing never actually worked. ever. period."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform don't make me dig into what "work" is!11
mircea_popescu: dos is probably the last capsulable item. and it has no broadband.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "oh, but we patch that". sure you do. and who's gonna feed the boy genius that manages all the patchcomplexity ?
mircea_popescu: i don't. there's nothing to capsule. have some lulz-debian with their epic rngs capsuled ? noty.
mircea_popescu: trinque kinda my thinking. gentoo === ubuntu, and for that matter === windows. not really better, just "different".
☟︎ mircea_popescu: that's what this whole tower of idiot boy excrement consists of.
mircea_popescu: there's no problem with the provision of "decent starts".
mircea_popescu: as i was saying, been there, done that, got no tshirt.
mircea_popescu: in theory there's no difference between theory and practice.
mircea_popescu: what's to say. the volume of shit you gotta preserve rapidly expands > the gb. the work your techs are required to do in order to accomplish this scales ~liniarily with the shithub "work" of the maggots.
mircea_popescu: i briefly tried to do that on s.mg. it... didn't work out.
mircea_popescu: pretty sure the bitching is in teh log at the time or something.
mircea_popescu: after eating however many woman-weeks as the stupid shit is wont to do.
mircea_popescu: for historical accuracy : /me had bozo bit set on the above linked item when it couldn't emerge video.
mircea_popescu: whole fucking log is a slow, grindsing field report of "united nations has an office for combatting independence, not obesity".
mircea_popescu: i thought this is what we're all trying. only to discover that whatever, xorg now no longer builds without gcc5 etc.
mircea_popescu: "proceedings in rem" and all the rest of that scandalous bullshit.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the heuristic is, "hey, this shit not owned by aparatchik ? give it to aparatchik then!"
mircea_popescu: fuyck that shit. there's no need for a "united nations office of organized crime".
mircea_popescu: meanwhile the piece of shit un is all going into overdrive with trying to get states to implement the usg-tronic "we'll just steal shit because it belongs to criminals hurr durr".
mircea_popescu: the fatsos are really offensive by now with their "oh, i have a right to exist" bullshit.
mircea_popescu: ad-hoc littoral ship vs improvised explosive device ftw.
mircea_popescu: the pretense of calling the enemy manufacture chain "improvised" is particularly lulzy coming from some people whose entire industrial process consists of impovising mixes out of chinese inputs.
mircea_popescu: nah. more likely, something about how violence is not the answer and koombaya
mircea_popescu: right ? finally fair, just add up the wordvalues of the laws, see what comes out!
mircea_popescu: of course, it only works in naive circumstances, as this shit always does. once mp/someome starts deliberately fucking with your words the whole shit goes nowhere. but obvioujsly "nobody could have predicted" etc.
mircea_popescu: but yes, this will be the enduring legacy of the ustardian "culture", such as it is : a really large attempt to calculate the sum-value of strings of words. because "the alternative is hard" and besides "this kinda works".