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mircea_popescu: "these magical bits were found on '''your''' computer, and as we all know NOBUS coulda put 'em there"
mircea_popescu: why else even have the whole "child pornography" thing.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Oh we lulled about that in May
asciilifeform: 'arrested on charges stemming from the porn in August 2017'
asciilifeform: His personal computer, federal prosecutors alleged, held more than 10,000 images and videos of such material, protected under three layers of passwords.' ☟︎
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: in related lulz, re the puzzler of 'why schulte sat around in usa waiting to be picked up', apparently , per the volkischer beobachter, 'Schulte had long been a suspect of investigators exploring the leak, but before Monday, he had been held on separate child pornography charges. Manhattan U.S. Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman said in a statement that investigators looking into Schulte found the pornography in his residence.
mircea_popescu: i thought received wisdom is "buffer state with prussia"
asciilifeform: ( here's a stalin puzzler : after ww2, he gave the poles, gift-wrapped, silesia -- good chunk of their current-day footprint. )
mircea_popescu: right ; and notice how it worked out the exact same fucking way, poles were out for blood.
a111: Logged on 2018-06-19 16:04 mircea_popescu: and we can keep going, but you get the idea. russians had managed to make themselves as impopular as humanly possible with the ~only martial neighbour it had at the time.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-06-19#1826770 << dun forget the poles also ☝︎
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: both links go to same item ?
asciilifeform: ( even the war with finns, can be framed in this picture, 'let's return what lenin oopsed away'
asciilifeform: they went to retake pieces ceded earlier in brest-litovsk, and overextended.
mircea_popescu: i am satisfied, for my own needs, that the "rulers" involved had no fucking idea what'ds going on, quite literally.
mircea_popescu: all it took was retreating over a year, rather than over three weeks.
asciilifeform: or, prior to this, the adventures of the french
asciilifeform: revolutionaries tend to pick fights above own weight class. ( recall the americans, marching into canada, ending with white house being burned by brits )
mircea_popescu: it's a fine example of "we promoted condolezza the nigger, and now we're fucked".
mircea_popescu: but anyway, i am actually willing to go on the record saying that had the russians either a) retreated more intelligently post revolution, which wasn't entirely unsupported or unsimpathized in romania or b) stayed the fuck out of land they, like anyone else, ultiately DIDNT EVEN WANT jesus christ,
asciilifeform: there's actually a few pieces in the american national gallery in washington, from that particular selloff
asciilifeform: ( rather than during revolution )
mircea_popescu: this all stemmed from their behaviour in ww2, << evidently, i mean ww1.
asciilifeform: good chunk of it ~was~ picked up ( and, mostly, sold for hard currency in the west )
mircea_popescu: and we can keep going, but you get the idea. russians had managed to make themselves as impopular as humanly possible with the ~only martial neighbour it had at the time. ☟︎☟︎
deedbot: Invoiced ben_vulpes 0.40847278 << "wire to the Pizarro DC sent 2018-06-12" ☟︎
mircea_popescu: (which it genuinely was, if anyone knows what the fuck chaos revolutionary years were, it;s a wonder somebody didn't steal the hermitage buildings altogether)
mircea_popescu: now, among the minor factors -- romania, at the time a major european actor economically, stored its treasury in moscow before ww1. and well... it was lost.
jurov: !!invoice ben_vulpes 0.40847278 "wire to the Pizarro DC sent 2018-06-12"
mircea_popescu: anyway, nobody actually wanted that land qua land, nor was it even fucking useful. but, idiots.
asciilifeform: takes 2nd place behind the su conquest of the western ukrs
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah, bits and pieces of what became the ukraine.
mircea_popescu: this, incidentally, was one of the dumbest moves known to european politics.
mircea_popescu: that was one thing ; the other thing was that russia annoyed the shit out of romania by taking some small and inconsequential parcels of land that stephen managed to beat the turks out of repeatedly, a few centuries prior.
mircea_popescu: no, they just disliked the continued existence of russophones.
mircea_popescu: "next fucking time we have a deal, you cover the fucking front, cocksuckers"
mircea_popescu: romanian army was more than willing to exterminate all slavs, period and full stop.
mircea_popescu: hey, the germans want to, who the fuck cares. we go and raze moscow, fujck them and may the word never be heard again.
mircea_popescu: this, in the 1910s, was simply not done. and they shot them like dogs, throughout the 1916s.
asciilifeform: this much is clear. but what was to be had from invading the cynocephali lands.
mircea_popescu: this all stemmed from their behaviour in ww2, when they abandoned the front.
mircea_popescu: the common expression in bucharst was "muscali cu coada", ie, "muscovites with tails", becauyse unlike humans, they still had tails.
mircea_popescu: the universal oppinion of romanian officer corps, which, in romania, a country very german, were more than a third of the whole shebang, was that russians are literally worse than dogs. ☟︎
asciilifeform: was it simply the basic 'us -- them, or they -- us ' ?
mircea_popescu: there's two major factors, and a bunch of minor ones.
asciilifeform: still not entirely clear to me what antonescu had to gain from taking part in 'drang nach osten'(tm)(r). there's no oil in odessa.
mircea_popescu: but they plainly knew they're being facetious cocksuckers.
mircea_popescu: the much-celebrated-by-axehandles, today as in the radio free europe days "historical parties" cocksuckers kept sending letters "pointing out the problems", in the jewfuriating way they go about this, like idiot 15yos going "but dad, if house is foreclosed we'll lose out on our investment in carpeting" sorta bs.
asciilifeform: so, idea is , he didn't want ro to end up a persia ?
mircea_popescu: note that "re-taking romania" figured up there in the plans of hitler in his last fucking week
mircea_popescu: someone was going to work ploiesti ; at the times discussed above (1920s) it was standard oil and some british speculators.
asciilifeform: what's the operative diff b/w him and musso ?
mircea_popescu: it was a very strict "first come first serve", and the germans came first.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform antonescu you mean, the marshall guy ?
mircea_popescu: then he proceeded to "reconstruct" ye olde praetorian guard out of the pressed shitboard of youths from the periphery of rome.
asciilifeform: they had an exact copy of this in ro, also, neh
mircea_popescu: to mussolini's mind, the strange movements of halves of airplanes overhead seemed to promise ~more future~ than the predictable movements of the southern iron guard. germany HAY MAS FUTURO!!11
mircea_popescu: ("the solution is, don't pay them in money, they want to be paid in lottery tickets")
mircea_popescu: anyway, back to the mystery-ii, the only way out i see is exactly as yesterday. that thing discussed on trilema a decade ago : http://trilema.com/2009/romanii-si-munca/#comment-6410
asciilifeform: earlier , lenin also got pretty good mileage from 'the white army wants to sell country' ( invited the intervents. which was a lethal mistake, after that red could 'come and fight the intervents, whites sold country' )
mircea_popescu: so they end up with "but of course inca". sure... except not irl.
a111: Logged on 2018-05-08 18:38 mircea_popescu: and in today's dollop of hysterical lulz : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Lenin manages to go through 10k words without even mentioning the nevzorov sisters, coincidentally the reason the fuckbuddy of some old imperial chick even got to be stalin's successor.
mircea_popescu: but this is why things like http://btcbase.org/log/2018-05-08#1811392 are so ~effectual~. they manage to misrepresent history, and then misinform the judgements of the chitlins ☝︎
mircea_popescu: of course, by then the context had drastically changed, and stalin got a lot of mileage out of "trotsky wants to sell country"
mircea_popescu: this is the deep dispute between trotsky and stalin : the former tried to continue lenin in this exact manner, and it didn't work out for him.
mircea_popescu: on the contrary : lenin ignored systematically largest mass of unwashed, stuck strictly with the cool people he could encounter.
mircea_popescu: i am not persuaded this is true re lenin.
asciilifeform: possibly cargocultist of lenin then ? ( observe, lenin did not stand on , e.g., cossacks, his algo was 'largest mass of unwashed' )
mircea_popescu: he understands what the state is, and for. he understands how the police works, and why. he however thinks going with the plebs in eritrea is a working plan. how the fuck!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this is not true, however. he had an !!up, from cuccia, as discussed yest. and they knew "who he is", so that wasn't the impediment either.
mircea_popescu: (not that i'm proposing the "actually had" people in it had any fucking sense. that they didn't shoot mora the day of his "appointment" speaks volumes to the sort of retarded goatfuckers we're dealing with here.)
asciilifeform: what part of mussolini puzzles mircea_popescu tho? is it the part where he picked the unwashed lusers over sicilians ? as i understand, he couldn't have 'picked' the sicilians, given as he wasn't anyone in their wot. he was of, and for, the unwashed.
mircea_popescu: see, italy in the 30s ACTUALLY HAD people in it. us ~never had, as best as can be discerned, samuel clemens marks down the one or two he found in a 3k mile trip as extreme rarities, in the 1800s.
mircea_popescu: this is meaningless in the us, everyone there's an iliterate loser.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i can't help it, i'm psychologically threatened by ~partially working~ machinery. how the fuck does it juice apples but not oranges, this juicer ?
asciilifeform: 'hitler's only got one ball, mussolini -- none at all'(tm)(r)(amer. marching song of the period)
mircea_popescu: and yes, "i'll take all measures to protect the lordship from criminals". doh. but then "criminals = the cool people ; the lordship = the baaaaaaa crowd" ?! what the fuck is broken in these brains, that they manage to evaluate 1=1 as true but then 1+1=1+1 comes out false ?
mircea_popescu: how the everloving fuck does this happen, then ?
mircea_popescu: this much, he gets, on his own power. and then, on the same "own power" that got this far, turns around and picks... THE WRONG GROUPS.
mircea_popescu: and he understands that police is either there to keep the niggers in line, in which case it is a legitimate organ of the state, or fails in this its only duty, in which case both it and the criminal gang backing it are strictly abominable.
mircea_popescu: now : this fellow understands that the only legitimate reason for having a state in the first place is to protect the priviledge of some against the intolerable pressure of the many.
asciilifeform: but hey, microshit pays him the moolah for Good Reasons, neh.
a111: Logged on 2018-06-18 16:19 mircea_popescu: here's a riddle for the student of history :
mircea_popescu: anyway, to continue the mystery from yesterday ( http://btcbase.org/log/2018-06-18#1826427 ), here's phase 2 : "Vi dichiaro che prenderò tutte le misure necessarie per tutelare i galantuomini dai delitti dei criminali. Non deve essere più tollerato che poche centinaia di malviventi soverchino, immiseriscano, danneggino una popolazione magnifica come la vostra." (il derpo @ agrigento). ☝︎
asciilifeform: ( rfc2440, aka 'openpgp', classically usgological turd, complete with null ciphers etc )
asciilifeform: errything afterward is cherry on the cake.
asciilifeform: gpg bit that apple when it went along with the rfc2440 crapola
mircea_popescu: once they bite the "features" apple, they're lost for humanity.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the root lul, of course, 'pass, the Simple Password Store, is a shell script to use GnuPG for password management. Each password is stored in a separate file, encrypted with one or multiple GnuPG encryption keys.' << didja know this were 'needed'.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile in other phase transitions, https://78.media.tumblr.com/03d101f19282a42a664c501b322c7ef7/tumblr_nmugj04jRq1sh0xa6o1_1280.jpg > https://78.media.tumblr.com/e4390de82af217703afc9b4d2cfd5a4f/tumblr_nmugj04jRq1sh0xa6o3_1280.jpg > https://78.media.tumblr.com/6575219925d01f7d4db8c9ac788a39f1/tumblr_nmugj04jRq1sh0xa6o5_1280.jpg
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo that bit is fucking hysterical.
mircea_popescu: (of course, it was always "a thing" for the confederacy of dunces)
mircea_popescu: "extension scripts", fancy that wonder. koch put ethereum in gpg before ethereum was even "a thing"
asciilifeform: regexp, like 'vise-grip', 'wrong tool for every job'(tm)(r)
mod6: haha, ok. i hear ya on that part.
mod6: how goes? I need some of that gutrot coffee.
deedbot: http://qntra.net/2018/06/us-looks-to-foreign-turboprops-to-solve-close-air-support-dilemma/ << Qntra - US Looks To Foreign Turboprops To Solve Close Air Support Dilemma
a111: Logged on 2018-06-13 01:32 asciilifeform: phf: speaking of which, consider the easiest winner , if the anti-patch condition is absent -- a google shitmonkey who knows the hole already and 'wins' on the monday right prior to patch tuesday.
asciilifeform: and yet meanwhile, in http://btcbase.org/log/2018-06-13#1824742 : https://archive.li/wGKk1 << where dummkopf 'responsibly dislosed' a 0d to yubico, which then went on to: 'reported the issue to Google's Chromium browser project – the core software of Google Chrome – and received a $5,000 bounty in return' ☝︎
asciilifeform: extension scripts allows the attacker arbitrary code execution' etc