mircea_popescu: there's not going to be anymore "invade", after the tooth were lost in afghanistan, even syria is too much to chew.
BingoBoingo: Noriega wasn't really sitting on much other than CIA friendship before getting stuffed into a hole
BingoBoingo: The problem with Incan topology is how hard it is to see the lost teeth for the people wagging dogs
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a111: Logged on 2019-01-22 07:34 mircea_popescu: the problem is, cartels not particularly impressed with usg these days. all was needed to keep assad in power was russia, but a colombia-venezuela-mexico wondertriangle is a lot easier defended.
a111: Logged on 2019-01-29 03:04 BingoBoingo: The latest noise is stroked out John Bolton doing a press conference while holding a notepad with 5000 troops to Colombia written on it.
https://archive.is/TYi6x a111: Logged on 2019-01-28 17:47 BingoBoingo: Airstrip One probably made some smooth pitch about how doing so was the only demonstration they would accept if Vzla wanted access to their fx markets. But... unlike republican spain was not in the gold extraction business... empire running away and all that, Vzla is.
mircea_popescu: anyway, should be lulzy to see if china moves in to buy the oil.
mircea_popescu: anyway, since there's ~0 results FROM ACTUAL FUCKING VENEZUELA on any kind of google/bing/duckduckgo/whatever the fuck for a search of venezuela, let's link here some actual venues :
mircea_popescu: point in case : Maryhen Jimenez Morales ("is a PhD candidate in politics at University of Oxford.") : " the system of personalised power and governance which the country has experienced for decades did not begin with Hugo Chavez ; The charismatic aristocrat Simon Bolivar ; He was a man in search of glory and a military officer who believed in top-down decision-making. ; The caudillo rule did not disappear with Bolivar's death
mircea_popescu: . His successors, including Jose Antonio Paez, Antonio Guzman Blanco, or Juan Vincente Gomez followed in his footsteps towards personalised power. ; they were more preoccupied with personal aggrandisement than building strong institutions in the the nascent Venezuelan state. ; Personalised power, elitism and authoritarianism continued to dominate the Venezuelan political arena ; His only focus should be on building alliances
mircea_popescu: and public consensus around the idea of restoring broad-based institutional democracy in Venezuela." bla bla bla bla bla in that inept vein untill she falls over.
mircea_popescu: in other words, it's perfectly fucking clear ~what exactly~ the talking cunthead dun like about venezuela, and the world in general.
☟︎ diana_coman: yay, m-r on ffa; now I'll really have to schedule ffa feast during breaks from work, lol
BingoBoingo: Well, that does explain why the CIA picked such a manicured numale in the tradition of Canada's princess, and France's Ms. Blakkked. Ty for feeding the local media outlets.
mircea_popescu: so apparently took >1k pics on latest harem outing. wtf am i gonna do ;/
mircea_popescu: find . -name '*.php' | xargs wc -l or w/e it is you want
mod6: I think something like `grep -v "^$"` will give you all the non-empty lines from a file.
mod6: Just combine that with your find/xargs and you should have it.
BingoBoingo: So 4013 lines of which 1835 are comments and 1047 of which 390 are comments?
BingoBoingo: What lol, biggest possible news of the day.
BingoBoingo: Drama at Duke med school, email sent to students by some apparachick
BingoBoingo: Apparently they want the Chicoms accomodate the white worm desire for an English Single Language bubble
BingoBoingo: Do the Chinese and Indians even want Miami? I suspect they have their own favored cities for capture.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Given Argentina's long sink into irrelevancy, the locals tend to think of Argentina as a diseased extension of Uruguay.
BingoBoingo: A lot of the current Uruguayo malaise is being blamed on Mujica/RaulSendic/Kircher/Macri Kirchner and Macri can flip places, but that's roughly the order of blame assignment
BingoBoingo: Though this week the big fount of discontent is the heatwave and blue freshwater of Montevideo's beaches.
BingoBoingo: (To be clear the blue problem is Cyanobacteria)
BingoBoingo: My chunk of the Rio de la Plata has a problem which is the bane of retention ponds and small creeks back in old country
BingoBoingo was under the impression most cities containing over 250,000 bipeds were majority favela by land area
BingoBoingo: On this side of the river they keep the streets labeled while doing 100% pinched mains current. At least until the police do one of their post-dawn raids on a local "boca de pasta" and the electricity police accompany to "regularize" the pinched mains.
BingoBoingo: Apparently at some point the local socialists called up Rudy Giulianni for advice on countering petty crime. But... the pichis still get their pasta base and the number of rapiñas keep climbing.
☟︎ BingoBoingo: And the kids from Cerro keep coming into Pocitos and Buceo to spray the name of their Barrio on my Rambla
BingoBoingo doubts spray painting "Pocitos" on everything in Cerro would deter them instead of encouraging the behavior. Most of the graffiti from my earliest walks in Montevideo survives, including and especially the low effort tagging.
spyked: apologies for the feedbot join-part spam. the latest outage has helped me discover a subtle bug in pm message delivery; feedbot checks whether a nick is online using the ison irc command, and it didn't handle the corner case when the ison response is empty.
spyked: service should be restored now.
mod6: -19 deg F., tonight -30
mod6: my hands are so numb, can barely even type.