asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i like to work with mircea_popescu , and would prefer to continue, but as i understand was already proclaimed a lamer, and why would mircea_popescu want to work with a lamer ?☟︎
asciilifeform: pretty sure i described the available variants. what did i miss ?
asciilifeform: 'in my country there's a problem!'(tm)(r)
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i'm at the tail end of the necessary cycle, was gonna order the irons this wk, and book the flight -- next, but would first rather find out mp_en_viaje's plan☝︎☟︎
asciilifeform: i presume that erryone who wants to, knows where to find asciilifeform when he is sacked and '!rate -10 once was someone we liked, nao for the knackers' etc. erryone who does not -- plox to write in.☟︎
asciilifeform would rather roll out gossipd, trbi, sane comp irons, etc. ~with~ participation of mp_en_viaje , and with working isp, than w/out. but may have to without, apparently.
asciilifeform: personally i'd rather put fish on the fish counters, imho the resources for this are there. but it aint actually ~my~ fish counter, i just catch fish for it ( with no boat an' no net, but with bare hands. )
asciilifeform: an' we did have a dress rehearsal, of a kind, for this, in '17.
asciilifeform: next will sack... himself? and retire to memoirs ?
asciilifeform: next will sack the remaining orchestra of folx who can't meet train station timetable on acct of slaving in saeculum;
asciilifeform: next mp_en_viaje will 'sack' the 30% of piz that snsa owns, an' take smg (the item that functions on proper schedule, like train station, where the employees actually paid and dun slave in saeculum) to heathen isp;
asciilifeform: asciilifeform will be sacked, will have to find a new place to receive 0.0000 paystubs with generous helpings of being shat on for working for a living in saeculum;
asciilifeform: sooo mp_en_viaje doesn't like running sovok fish counter circa 1991, where there aint any fish. and per the charter, owns in effect 100% of controlling shares, so entirely his decision.
asciilifeform to bed, past 0300 here and full conveyor for tomorrow
asciilifeform: esp. nao that dpb, i suspect, will not long have his fg dealership
asciilifeform would like to bake new batch of sellable goodies , after we release peh/ffa ☟︎
asciilifeform: we havent bought an' sold , correct, in this interval
asciilifeform: who gave the poison is even entirely other puzzler. ( 'mainstream' dogma btw is 'what poison!?' )
asciilifeform: re poison, the legend goes that stalin fell on floor after drinking from cup, no medical man was admitted into his chamber until well cold an' stiff, and when finally admitted -- cup gone. or some such.
asciilifeform: admittedly this leaves very little written record to work with, the usurpers knew what they were doing, burned ~errything
asciilifeform: the exact amt of 'revisionism' where 'let's subtract what hrusch et al concocted, see what remains', sorta like we subtract what gavin & co adulterated bitcoin src with
asciilifeform: dun tell me it is on same hrusch.'evidence' as his cannibalism etc
asciilifeform: harem is far from necessary moving part in this gedankenexperiment.
asciilifeform: the fella who sends away his harem and calmly swallows pistol is imho not thereby a neurotic. the neurotic is the one who dwells, and loses his mind long before loses body, on acct of dwelling
asciilifeform: it is inevitable to grow old, unless fortunate enuff to be killed. but it is not inevitable to go into neurotic arse-mouth linkage
asciilifeform: next i guess we can play the scenario where friends invite me to go but cannot go, 'eh, arthritis'
asciilifeform: if not so, then why must answer 'no' to the gurl
asciilifeform: i suppose it'd have to be 'i am old and studying for the grave, find new master' in this scenario
asciilifeform: all serious sufferers of 'acute christianosis of the cns' are flagellants. ride the highs, suffer the lows, like cocainists.
asciilifeform: i suspect it aint the one he has, fwiw, but rather the one in that jewish tale where rabbi tells man 'bring into your house the cow, goat, sheep, then chase'em out sometimes and rejoice in their absence'
asciilifeform: plenty of idjicy to consider. e.g. there was a fixation at the time on solid-powder propellants ( for obv. icbm pluses, keeps better in storage, no need to fuel ) with repeated shoddy workmanship, pressed schedules, messy fails
asciilifeform: fwiw very similar vehicles are the bulk of today's profit fleet.
asciilifeform: ( and, the folx who salivate for the miami -- nicknamed, unsurprisingly, 'elves' )
asciilifeform: among thinking folx in modern ru , 'miami usa' is often derisively referred to as 'valinor' , after the distant land tolkien's elves decamped to when shit hit the fan in their world
asciilifeform: it's a shared mythology made possible in part by expert propagandists in w. reich , hollywood et al, and by orc's desire to believe in an earthly paradise
asciilifeform: understand, congenital disease of orc, is to envy the western rome, 'where streets are clean, lifts -- unpissed, women -- as on cover of 'playboy''
asciilifeform: hrusch et al , partook in all of stalin's works, the sexy and the unsexy, and murdered successor, and pinned the 'unsexy' on him, and on the dead emperor, and 'look, western reich, we are civilized folx! let us into miami'
asciilifeform: it was not. they were waiting, patiently (or not, to this day no one ruled out poison) for the old man to die, so to claim their miamis.
asciilifeform: near as, without time machine, i can tell -- spared'em because believed that his succession would be recognized by his peers.
asciilifeform: trinque: ru history knew revolutionaries who tried to carry on the algo of 'i am seekrit hidden pseudo-murdered heir of $monarch!'. some got pretty far, e.g. pugachev, but all ended up on chopping block.
asciilifeform: old - dies, and replaced by young. the least astonishing thing known.
asciilifeform: incidentally i agree with their pov where 'do you think anything stands 4evah, idiot? all must die, men, kingdoms, worlds'.☟︎
asciilifeform: vikings had some imho quite spiffy gods. where are the vikings now ?
asciilifeform: and when switches off, 'great' goes out like lightbulb.
asciilifeform: it's what all functioning 'great' had in common.
asciilifeform: upstack -- imho the rockets flew because overseen by folx who did not take seriously the religious claptrap of 'equality' and in fact believed that the purpose of small man getting to eat is to make possible the work of the great.
asciilifeform: possibly it is possible to do without priest, pirate vessel had none. but pirate vessel also not carrying many conscripts.
asciilifeform: spanish conquerors, pizarro, cortes, et al, had priests on board, exactly like sov submarine had 'polit'. and each Officially sailed in the name of jes^H^H^Hlenin etc. and priest ate and shat and with 0 to show for it. dun mean a thing.
asciilifeform: they believed roughly same thing as such people believe today. that it is possible to do things, and they're worth doing. 'act from principle'(tm)(r)(mp) & so on.
asciilifeform: trinque: the Officially held sov-religion makes approx as much sense to innocent modern ears as, e.g. catholicism. it's imho largely a distraction from the meat.
asciilifeform: usg philosophy, 'why grow cow, when i can burn down neighbour's barn' was already formed. couldn't carry 4evah, tho, so eventually grew cow.
asciilifeform: phunphakt, carrier of sov. prototype of manned moon vehicle -- about 1.5x size of 'apollo' -- exploded on pad. twice (Officially.) and Officially 'for no reason'☟︎
asciilifeform: cuz evidently no one there can design a 1970s-style computer. or even thing about why. why think, why be friends with yer head, when petropayola.
asciilifeform: consider, e.g. the persians. ~gigabux of petroexport, and yet when built fissiles refinery -- it ran on comp from 'siemens' and running winblows 'xp'. why ?☟︎
asciilifeform: on other end of ocean -- entirely possib that rockefeller's petro-era made possible (inevitable?) fdr & co.
asciilifeform: is how norway, qatar, et al, ended up as they are.
asciilifeform: suddenly it 'doesn't matter' that throne is surrounded by sycophants and halfwits, industry run into the ground, etc. 'so long as the pipe keeps gushing'
asciilifeform: there might have been people who survived winning lottery, but afaik no empire ever did. 'easy money' -- ruin.
