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mircea_popescu: (for the innocent -- the reason armstrong limit is an abolute limit on the height of the roof is because by the time it rains in your room you can no longer claim to have a roof above it.)
mircea_popescu: "i'm gonna construct an angle fiddler, it's clearly to do with the angle"
mircea_popescu: now, is there any merit to armstrong roof ~in your closet~ ? no, there fucking isn't.
mircea_popescu: point being : there's these inflection points, yes ? is there any merit to this "atmosphere indoors" notion ?
mircea_popescu: let me ask you this. what is the objective limit to the height of the roof ?
mircea_popescu: well i mean what, in the general ? of course there's merit to it, that's how... earth works.
mircea_popescu: it's a level of superficial idiocy that can't be matched outside of these double-defection situations, for which it is typical in the exact way stench is typical of filth.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: anyway, the ridiculous item in question reserved an immense space for "motorbike garage" and a tiny space for "aquaculture" in the shape of cubic foot fishtanks ; in same room, rabbit cages, same size.
mircea_popescu: "Our proprietary-engineered design makes our underground bunkers the strongest and safest on the market. We have revolutionized the underground bunker industry by placing our main structural frame on the inside to protect your family and belongings from moisture on the outside. Ghe exterior 1/4-thick steel skin is coated with Epoxy Coal Tar to guarantee your new 10 x 20 Underground Bunker will last a lifetime." this, of cours
mircea_popescu: wtf happened here, the site's still on, still SELLING the shit. what, they saw it linked from logs, and deleted it ?
mircea_popescu: basically, the agent defects from a to b and then defects from b back to a sort of "skeptical a".
mircea_popescu: do you recall that ridiculous "bunker" with 30% dedicated to "motorcycles" and a few fish tanks "For food" ? that sort of cvasi-religious nonsense is the end result -- resources are diverted towards making a show of compliance with designs that are dysfunctional by their very nature.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the space to CLAIM appartenence to type b without actually incurring any of the cost.
mircea_popescu: consider the more obvious / discussed in the logs case of "nuclear war preparedness". if you model the us cca 1960 as the existence of two tribes, type a which didn't believe there's imminent risk of nuclear winter and type b which did believe there's imminent risk of nuclear winter, the fact that type b doctrine included "no need to separate from type a, we can just have some shit bolted on" allows random population member X
mircea_popescu: an incredibly stupid idea in practice, because ~all it does is allow cheap double defection, which is pretty much suicidal in context.
mircea_popescu: i think now he's turned towards a slightly more self-empowered version of lafond-ism, "structured communities" or somesuch.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes this john robb guy, kept a blog for a while about guerilla warfare whatever ; but before that he was with forrester research, kept doing pieces that were more cogent that most. re browser wars, re social me,dia, etc
mircea_popescu: i am somewhat confused to see there's no consensus in there.
mircea_popescu: in other lulz, "Taboola adheres to the Digital Advertising Alliance Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising, a program run by the Digital Advertising Alliance and the Digital Advertising Alliance Canada with the goal of providing Internet users transparency and control."
mircea_popescu: cool. state gotta learn this "arrest" business ain't all it's cracked up to be.
mircea_popescu: "Hostilities erupted last week when the military and the police moved to arrest Isnilon Hapilon, the Islamic State’s anointed leader in the Philippines and head of an Abu Sayyaf faction."
mircea_popescu: lmao wtf did they do, retrofitted air-ground missiles on medical helicopters ?
mircea_popescu: btw mod6 kickass work with the FG auditing, i gotta say.
mircea_popescu: i think at this point the entirely scammy nature of mit is established beyond possible doubt.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo "comments on the campaign trailed followed"
mircea_popescu: like humanized rat parade, what is this, dreamworks mit lab ?
mircea_popescu: prolly, colorful from all the heavy metals / ionization going on
mircea_popescu: and in other science fiction : imagine a xenomorph that actually lived off radioactive decay. it'd get to use the fabled hepta-dna arrangement, and obviously have very active teleomerase. then it could uptake whatever relevant radioisotope into special beryl vacuoles, and colimate it into a specially built "tunnel" made out of whatever oxidables arranged with the oxigen in. then the oxigens are knocked off, and the lifeform o
mircea_popescu: and in other lulz : the fda was actually established in 1938, on the heels of ~100 people dying from diethylene glycol poisoning. they were trying to take sulfanilamide (dye byproduct), at the time (prior to penicillin) the only known bactericide.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes how the fuck they can pretend to "democracy" an' "rule o' law" without putting those schmucks in jail is anyone's guess.
mircea_popescu: ah yes, check that out. complete with "call to come together" and other she-ministrations "against haet".
mircea_popescu: judging by the weapon, i take this was a white man opressing innocents as opposed to black man righteously punishing dnc defectors ?
mircea_popescu: the notion that someone somewhere takes the rappaports & "allies" seriously is so fucking alien it fails to even register as obscene. but it fucking should, because it fucking is.
mircea_popescu: this is about two thirds of the anglo "anthropology", "psychology" and "sociology" by mass.
mircea_popescu: in caragiale's words, there are waiters who've listened in on so many intellectual conversations, they can take out your average university professor, especially if they go about it quickly.
mircea_popescu: and in other obscura nobody can possibly care about, helen rappaport is a fine example indeed of the "new intellectual". television starlet without work, ended up taking a job for an "academic publisher" in her 40s, once she finally understood ~nobody cares to see her. within a decade she had absorbed all the "wiswom" and "knowleshee" that'd fit, and she was writing "books" and emanating "scholarship" of her own.
mircea_popescu: most of her experience is in publishing those shitty "women magazine" things.
mircea_popescu: the author (simona bazavan), failed tv starlet, then went into management (ringier)
mircea_popescu: in other sads, google image search is ~useless for searching in specified site.
mircea_popescu: shinohai you know, if all those useless libertards that clicked the heart button gave him a buck, he could almost make mortgage payments.
mircea_popescu: i'm not bad, writing scathing religious tract, kinda curious if danielpbarron won't like me anymore after he reads it.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: meanwhile in other disadvantages of kissing all the random chicks / hanging out with "lesbians", i got the worst fucking cold ;/
mircea_popescu: mod6 sometimes i wish to re-read what i'm about to say, so i write it in advance.
mircea_popescu: while you were still doing new material, this was merely tedious and unpleasant ; but since you're doing re-runs these days it's simply insufferable. ima take you off ignore now, but plox to bear in mind that too much dumbalf in the mix actually makes talking to you -ev.
mircea_popescu: but he pivots seamlessly, like duck in water, or if you prefer like textbook idiot : there's absolutely no sign whatsoever that all the time wasted on educating it left any kind of mark whatsoever -- a sad suspicion confirmed by the cyclical nature of the nonsense. so he'll proceed to defend the new half second half baked "idea" in the same manner.
mircea_popescu: but then, once however many also intelligent, also with interesting things to say folks have wasted however many hours of their life showing dumbalf that indeed, dumb=dumb and stupid=stupid, dumbalf will just spend ANOTHER half second to come up with another bit of nonsense, vaguely related if related at all, and pivot to that.
mircea_popescu: s, of course, does nothing -- stupid shit is predictable and it's not going to catch smart people unprepared.
mircea_popescu: as it happens, dumbalf wishes to spend all its time, and if possible everyone else's time, engaged in the following infantile game : it will spend about half a second to come up with some strong statement that's evidently false, entirely predicated on ignorance, pure nonsense. then he'll defend it tooth and nail, for hours if need be, exploring every nook and cranny of stupid shit that could be said to defend stupid shit. thi
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the problem is this : you're an intelligent fellow that has interesting things to say, sometimes. some other times, however, you metamorphosize into dumbalf. i have no idea if it's the phases of the moon or what you ate that day or what, but the change is palpable.