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a111: Logged on 2018-05-11 17:10 asciilifeform: ( i still have nfi, fwiw, who/where linked
to it,
to which heathens, possibly from mircea_popescu's logs later we will know some of it )
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform re
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-05-11#1812408 the item
the idle dorks "following" "open source" and "technology" "news" on "platforms" entirely miss is just how fucking inconsequential
they are. not
that
this is some kind of surprise, lazy nonthinkers being bombarded with vacuous statements of
their overpowering importance, so
they end up believing
the crap ; completely immune
to
the otherwise obvious and direct
☝︎ mircea_popescu: sure. but, were it
that close, it would not have kept its fucking roof.
mircea_popescu: for
the pattern
there seen
to exist, based on
the
tech of
the
time, it must be windblown, naught else.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, if it were
that close
the concrete wouldn't be standing at all,
though.
mircea_popescu: the rubble is on
the wrong side for
the implicit direction of
the blast by what's left standing.
mircea_popescu: hey, my recipe for apricot jam has half a dozen cracked seeds in
there per jar.
mircea_popescu: sure, but one would propose howsoever flavoured cyanide is nevertheless cyanide, and similarily penicillin, and etcetera. scarcely can see
the point of even discussing
the flavouring.
a111: Logged on 2018-05-11 21:31 mircea_popescu: but
this is a little like saying "kid pretending
to be holding breath is lying". duh. how
the fuck is socialism, or however you call
the attempt
to embody idiocy, supposed
to survive in
the strictly non-socialist reality ?
BingoBoingo: This hanno guy: "this guy has made similar claims in
the past and
they were always wrong. if you want my advice: don't
trust
this unless someone has independently checked it."
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I do remember
that glorious rooftop surgery. With birds
that could be heard by not seen
mircea_popescu: but
this is a little like saying "kid pretending
to be holding breath is lying". duh. how
the fuck is socialism, or however you call
the attempt
to embody idiocy, supposed
to survive in
the strictly non-socialist reality ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the signs are everywhere, you go
to colombia, look
through
the paperwork of
the embassy, it strikes. it's quite universal.
mircea_popescu: this no-left-in-socialism point is particularly visible if you look at
the case of
the republica "socialista" romania. from
the 60s onwards it was run VERY MUCH on capitalist basis, accumulating wealth, if undistributed, and ekeing itself a
tiny colonial empire in
the arab lands etc.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-24 16:11 asciilifeform: kurchatov, supposedly, sat and
thought, and few minutes later answered, 'perhaps from philosophical pov
this'd be consistent. but
then we will have
to forget about obtaining
the bomb.'
mircea_popescu: i guess.
though i suspect it's a sad life
to play
the
transvestite as only avenue
to getting laid.
mircea_popescu: they'd have stuck
to it if it even vaguely promised
to not entirely kill
them. because, substantially,
that's what
the socialism was always about --
the pretense
that
the whore decides when and how
the soldier fucks her.
mircea_popescu: this is entirely not different from both "i know obscenity when i see it" and "hi i named rajshit from injun and can moderate your
tube sir!"
mircea_popescu: so
the soldier's soviet will decide which way
to charge
this evening.
mircea_popescu: the fundamental pretense of
the ~soviet~, in
the original sense of
the
term, is
that a group of imbeciles can nevertheless make decisions on
the basis of
their misapprehension of
the environment.
mircea_popescu: and what was
the whole "worker class" and aparatchick class but illiterates strutting ?
mircea_popescu: i don't
think
there was ever a system "dedicated
to man"
that managed
to get man
to
think,
though. man will not
think, would rather
take rape
than math questions.
ben_vulpes: kindle fulla fifty shades of
the same smut
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, people read in united soviets also, you should see
the
trainfulls of people with crappy pulp in hand.
mircea_popescu: the most visible standardization (the hruscheba) is actually also
the most defensible behaviour in economic
terms (and not so different from us response
to same problem). prefab was
the way post ww2.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes, not really ; in
the early gosplan days
they even had competition, as alf aptly pointed out during some previous discussion.
ben_vulpes: designed by su department of designing
The Right Car, i mean
mircea_popescu: the soviets of russia, much like
the soviets of america, very insistently alfabetized
the herd ; but lacked
the electronic means
to plug
them in, all
they had was electric. and as a result, "people's radio
theatre"
ben_vulpes: perhaps i misconcieve of
the industrial processes, and could benefit from experience, but i labor under
the apprehension
that
there was "teh one su car, designed by su factory" whereas american product is "ten stanford cucks who
think
the exact same way writing
the exact same banking app
that chase will release as a feature in
two years, written by
their peers who
took salaries instead of grahams
mircea_popescu: and couldn't read, count, etc. just,
the mass of
them wasn't anywhere any precious sankt petersburg windowsill flowers ever met.
mircea_popescu: $agent could answer yes/no whether $measure is leninist or bourgeois, appropriate or racisthateful, but only for
the least interesting classes of $measures.
mircea_popescu: they seem indistinguishable
to me, "marxism-leninism" or "awareness, eco-friendliness, blabla" serving as a specific sort of distance-only schelling points -- ie
they only work at a distance.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: hard
to
tell, never got
to experience su glory days
ben_vulpes: grand network of corporations and wall street will ensure
that americans are "stepped down gently" a la
the photosynthesis process, with maximum $anything extracted over
the long
term
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: different mechanism: here everyone "making apps", slicing open appendices are ~exactly
the same in
the head, so everything
they produce converges
to ~the same
thing
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, next
this happens, invite
them here lol.
mircea_popescu: "engineered
the
total immersive soviet citizen experience"
a111: Logged on 2018-05-11 21:01 ben_vulpes:
they get completely mass produced healthcare/parts/food/'mobile experiences' and fuck'em.
ben_vulpes: no money in selling parts/strange
to
the herd.
ben_vulpes: and unless you're an industrial large enough
to warrant snapon deliveries weekly, you better be stocked preemptively.
ben_vulpes: "who would ever buy one of
those without
the power supply for
the snowflake laptop?"
ben_vulpes: lobbes: especially
the bigbox(tm) stores,
they don't sell anything nonstandard.
ben_vulpes: last
time i could be assured of walking out
the door and getting a
tool (not part!)
that i needed was in nyc
lobbes: It
took some explaining
to Best Buy lady on
the phone
that I a) was not looking for laptop power cord and b) I didn't need
the whole power supply, just
the cord