asciilifeform: as for the peanut gallery folx, unsurprisingly idjit konsoomer likes to remember 'no jeans' but somehow prefers not to remember the 6 weeks of vacation, rent-free flat, or for that matter the culture of literacy where e.g. publication like 'kvant', with topology, theory of computability, etc. puzzlers , of top quality and for popular! audience☟︎
asciilifeform: and in epoch 3, 4, whole orchestra of kakobreklas killed entire forests to print nonsense re how 'we did it ~in spite~ of the management', aha.☟︎
asciilifeform: asciilifeform's approach to sovology is based on simple fact -- we're speaking of folx who ~did things~. and specifically, they (1) went from agrarian shithole, on the level of korea circa 1900s, to industrial power equal to any in europistan ; repelled invasion of ~whole combined 'civilized' world, then built bomb to drive home the lesson for the unteachable (2) ; took concept of space flight from fiction to fact (also largely 2, th
asciilifeform: re: the memoirs -- ~90% of asciilifeform's bedtime reading for 10+ yrs nao. but found much moar value in the memoirs of ~people who did things, with own hands~, chemists, tank commanders, pilots, etc, than in the 'famous in west' power players, which invariably have the flavour of 'i am kako, once was great but unjustly dethroned, read my butthurts!'
asciilifeform: china -- did not buy. which is no small part of on the map there is still today a 'china', and not 37 bantustans or whatever the reich's replacement project would've consisted of
asciilifeform: ( western reich, lulzily, also bought hook, line, and sinker into sovok's internal mythology of contiguity of 1-4 , a patently ridiculous proposition )
asciilifeform: in each, 'wot' from previous epoch entirely rebuilt, most of the playing characters from prev. epoch -- exit stage.
asciilifeform: on top of this, add the fact that sovok was really 4 separate items, as diff. as e.g. roman 'kings' period vs republic vs empire : 1) lenin epoch 2) stalin 3) hrusch 4) 'stagnation' and wrap-up.☟︎
asciilifeform: good chunks of which, incidentally, the 'western narrative' bought into -- 'hook, line, and sinker', e.g. the Official nato reich history of stalin era takes hrusch's revisionism at 100% face value
asciilifeform: same thing the real estate people do on the konsoomer end
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: iirc e&y is a carrion-eater, comes to finish off dying corps and feast on corpse
asciilifeform: it'd not surprise asciilifeform if mp_en_viaje said that he still owns acres of buenos aires, on off chance that he ever needs to park some nuke waste somewhere
asciilifeform: if re biznis, then how could disagree, own, sure, acres of urk, penguin plantation in antarctica, why not.
asciilifeform: hm i read billymg's q as re where ought he to take up residence.
asciilifeform: could own pasture, but not necessarily have to live in it
asciilifeform: and even for residence where one sits tightly , can think of better landscape than where half dozen sovok-era nuke plants running on square 'general electric' fuel rods hammered into round holes with sledge
asciilifeform: it's a shaky latvia, has erry chance of transition to zimbabwe in near term
asciilifeform: i suspect that 'slip' would suffice for most purposes, and keep the thing simple.
asciilifeform: 'make', www logging, etc. are hell on a box w/out proper clock.
asciilifeform: ( incidentally, in principle you dun need a sim-nic -- can access net over slip..! )
asciilifeform: bvt: re mipsism -- i realized that the emulator will need , at minimum, a realtime clock, to be actually useful for general-purpose linuxism. ( the minimal draft item simulates only two devices aside from cpu/ram -- serial uart, and power/reset switch )
asciilifeform: bvt: the 'how was built' would be moar useful than the bin tar tho.
asciilifeform: bvt: will eventually want the working (non-zcx) mechanism, but this is pretty good start, ty
asciilifeform will dig it up, when gets chance. unless someone has it handy & pastes
asciilifeform: i recall somewhere a discussion of 'voraphiles', where author sorted'em into 2 distinct subspecies, one which wants to be properly eaten & digested, but another, distinct type, which wants to live 'as jonah in whale', as a foetus-like parasite
asciilifeform: iirc there exists a 'fetish' set who dream of... being eaten by cannibals. i never grasped exactly how this worx, psychologically, but entirely possib that 'is proof of my deliciousness!'
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: imho it goes with the 'vhs america'(tm) that these folx moved into, in heads, when moved. and feeding corzine is part and parcel of the 'rent' for living in this fantasy
asciilifeform: ( for readers outside of reich -- '401k' is usa's Official national pyramid )
asciilifeform: and when asciilifeform reminds'em of how they lost most of the pennies they pinched in '90s to jon corzine et al, still dun compute in their crankcases
asciilifeform: asciilifeform's relatives see him as lunatic : 'why didja buy that btc/plane ticket/lispm, you oughta have put in 401k/realestate bezzle/stocks !!'
asciilifeform: iirc mp had a piece re how 'chief erryday biz of socialist state is to dupe subjects into underconsumption'
asciilifeform: reminiscent of tlp's 'the product is the feeling' hypothesis. the orc is not buying 'have money in future', he is buying 'feeling like having money'. so the evaporation turns out is minor detail, he still had 3decade of 'feel'
asciilifeform: i find it interesting, how typical sovok orc is incurable believer in 'skip icecream cone, save the dough', and that it is ~more~ common among the older folx, who in fact watched 1, 2, or even 3 episodes of 100% evaporation of savings during 'currency rebasings' etc
asciilifeform: 'dedicatedly ascetic' is adaptive if there aint much to go around
asciilifeform: physical economy hits wall, and yet some folx still want to 'financier', offer 'jam tomorrow' (despite no supply of jam even today, much less any reason to think will arrive tomorrow) , imho it aint happenstance that good % of konsoomer spare change in '90s ru went to 'mmm' & other pyramids, somehow lotsa folx eager to share in the delusion
asciilifeform: rando gox operator dun have a printing press with which to spackle the hole, is the only, afaik, diff.
asciilifeform: (in so far as can tell with naked eye of what it consists)
asciilifeform: to tie into 'alexander & pirate' thrd, i'm hard pressed to see any diff b/w what this d00d did and what everyday biz at e.g. goldman sachs consists of
asciilifeform: s/burdens where placed/burdens were placed
asciilifeform: s/an in the process/and in the process
asciilifeform: ( i noticed e.g. that old world oak, with the correct!1111 'long' acorn, is not found in new world. and doubt that it is because no one tried to plant.. )
asciilifeform: not long ago went and saw what the 'students' do ~here~, wasn't so diff
asciilifeform: ( unlike e.g. mp_en_viaje , wouldn't notice the broken clubs etc )
asciilifeform: the 'ru-ar' d00d described typical 'month' of endurance of typical ru emigre there. asciilifeform idly wonders how long it'd take him to barf.☝︎
asciilifeform: prolly cheaper (and more interesting) to build dome under ocean, than to terraform derpistan fulla orcs
asciilifeform: rright but that's, what, 1% of what's needed to terraform
asciilifeform: iirc mp_en_viaje showed up in argentinistan with railcar of green, didn't help any moar than in any other sovok
asciilifeform: hrm, could've sworn it was in the l0gz, but cannot nao find
asciilifeform: Jeszcze Polska nie zginela!111(tm)(r)
asciilifeform: the net is ~entirely from duct tape, it's sorta surprising it even worx at all on most days.
asciilifeform: considering that the table per se is sourced via 'kindness of strangers'...
asciilifeform: if it's somewhere other than regional backbone
asciilifeform: seems kinda braindamaged. all router really needs is 'next hop' on ea. side
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: usg ministry of lulz is trying to push usgtronic 'pki' bgp. so, 1st gotta 'make weather', vandalize a bit, drum up interest.
asciilifeform: the oddity in panama was that they allocated neither space nor time for the thing, they set up ad hoc xray an' queue right where the shops are; and the procedure subtracted from the time to next plane
asciilifeform: prolly simple revenge for how folx landing in usa are abused.
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: my last pass through panama was esp. outrageous, they set up an impromptu baggage & pocket search queue ~on arrival from usa~ for no detectable reason
