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asciilifeform: yeah yeah eventually the serpent will eat the roots of yggdrasil and all will burn in fire of ragnarok sure.
mircea_popescu: which, from what i've seen, has little hope of survival past the demise of the few old hardasses pushing it like it were their tmsr.
mircea_popescu: anyway. the principal protector of sane alimentation in europe is not the ro orthodox church, but the "Corrupt" and "lazy" french farming lobby.
mircea_popescu: polacca is to this day how you say whore if you're an italian whore who is scared of work and all those who are competent at what they do. which simple means italian.
mircea_popescu: whose the fuck are poles ethnic enemies of ?!?!
asciilifeform: they aren't extraordinary, diana_coman , i lived first 9y of life with'em
diana_coman: plenty; what I was trying to figure out was why do those specific things seem so extraordinary to you as they are not (yet perhaps) extraordinary around Europe I'd say
diana_coman: fwiw raw milk can be had even in the uk and no, it's not terribly expensive/commando mission sort of thing; still, I wouldn't list that as some proof of sanity or anything
asciilifeform: i'ma stick a pin at those coords and actually do it, when i have the coveted pad here.
asciilifeform: no cocacola, no p.t.barnum and his horrors, none of it, just the tall trees .
asciilifeform: the best thing was, as elsewhere, the clean air and absence of screaming idiots and their spawn ( visit washington's zoo )
asciilifeform: the guinea pig was absent, already went to the table i imagine
asciilifeform: there were also randomly chickens and goats loose in the zoo.
mircea_popescu: hey, they were still nailing rebels in the 60s.
asciilifeform: prolly wife of one of them rebels nailed in '49 engraved on the plinths or somesuch
asciilifeform: and some old crone crying on the bench
asciilifeform: there were old d00dz there, playing cards
asciilifeform: and it was in the middle of woods
asciilifeform: i shit thee not
asciilifeform: the animals had more square metrage than asciilifeform has at home
asciilifeform: the pisica salbatica was mega-hit
asciilifeform: i went in the zoo there today btw
mircea_popescu: but this was in the dumbravita forest
mircea_popescu: similarily asked damsel if she'll lay herself in the mud so i don't have to stain myself fucking her.
asciilifeform: sit on the chix
mircea_popescu: but whocares, that's what she's for neh ? to absorb the shocks.
asciilifeform: my understanding is that they were not so hot, no springs yet
mircea_popescu: on the list of "strangest requests ever made", /me once inquired with museum guard in cluj how much to fuck escort in one of those ancient beds.
asciilifeform: and then put in the ЗИЛ fridge in communism museum!1!
asciilifeform: what is called milk in usa, is similar to what comes of washing the milk pails in normal country
asciilifeform: otherwise you get homogenized white colouring instead of milk
asciilifeform: there's only a point to doing so in usa if you can get direct access to a cow
mircea_popescu: can make the woman churn butter by hand.
asciilifeform: holy mother of everliving fuck, not only did my smell and taste senses come back , but raw milk !!
asciilifeform: joiana the cow !!
asciilifeform: i.e. 2x the sturdy sole
asciilifeform: but then noticed that they were ~1990s-grade chinese shoes~
mircea_popescu: point in case : all these were sensibly better in 2007 than they are today ; and better still in 1997.
mircea_popescu: that isn't made. that hasn't been unmade yet, and there's no actual walls.
asciilifeform: they make breathable air and fine cheese and 3% tax and ... etc eh
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so the point would seem to be that no, they don't make anything.
mircea_popescu: in between them, laughable if meanwhile expired idiots a la what's his face, lala andrisan's estwhile admirer.
mircea_popescu: there's all sorts of oligarchs, in the typical russian fashion, of "here's some government money", from the old guard of http://trilema.com/2012/dan-voiculescu-acest-gunoi-abject/ to the newly invented "media personalities" a la sebastian ghita.
asciilifeform: or are the other mp's made of pure energy, and dun interact with material world
mircea_popescu: outside of this guy, and a talented soccer player (adrian mutu) who could have amounted to something but chose hookers and blow instead, there are no actual mp competitors in that country.
a111: Logged on 2017-06-05 16:13 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-06-05#1666045 << the way the lizards expect the shit to work is exactly in the way mp -saves-openbsd worked : as seen moneyz. recall the story of the us embassy spending a whooping 50k to start an "empire" of fake news tv stations etc ?
a111: Logged on 2017-10-25 18:01 asciilifeform: i just opened a window and those folx dun look like they've been collected 100% from
mircea_popescu: anyway, to revisit the matter of http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-25#1728843 : adrian sirbu, possibly the only romanian to have done anything since 1989 (he created the deliberate usg tool Pro Tv in 1995, a media company whose wikipedia page no longer mentions him -- very much a successful equivalent of the failed http://btcbase.org/log/2017-06-05#1666048), has recently been accused of... you'll guess this not ? TERRORISM!
asciilifeform: in fact it is quite illegal in usa to even publicly mention that some people are people, and others not so much.
asciilifeform: and nowhere in usa is there so much as a small town that's 100% people.
asciilifeform: 'detroit' my shiny metal arse. the basic diff is not even the paint on the bricks, but that these people are people.
asciilifeform: there WAS , however, a plaquard somewhere, confessing that all of this is happening on eu grantola.
asciilifeform: several other houses in burlap, being prepped for same treatment
mircea_popescu: whgat's the rush, can continue once you blogpost.
mircea_popescu: take thee to a walk among the ruins of the old russian barracks in the middle of the town, count the rats.
mircea_popescu: the habsburg square is a) never getting fixed b) not upkept for 30 years. what keeps it still standing is its origin ; once that gives out it's gone.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this is like saying "something kept the girl from being raped". yes. the absence of the penis. what else ?
mircea_popescu: the dream of "Everyone a VCR" was finally realised.
asciilifeform: point being, ~something~ kept the cheese from turning to velveeta, the air -- from americanizing into sooty horror, and the hapsburg square, from disneylandizing
mircea_popescu: same place amherst, oh goes on sundays, they raise awareness on facebook and watch netflix.
jhvh1: pete_dushenski: The operation succeeded.
asciilifeform: where was this place on sunday then ? at cinema ?
mircea_popescu: orthodox church rather impopular in timisoara.
asciilifeform: evidently there is something to be said for backbone.
a111: Logged on 2017-10-22 00:37 mod6 raises a glass to the 3rd anniversary of The Bitcoin Foundation
asciilifeform: and if retort 'but you can't confiscate clean air', sure they could, china did
asciilifeform: i dunno if this is because 0.5 autos per capita here instead of 2.5, or because they shoot cornsyropists in the head here, or why, but phakt.
asciilifeform: they have plenty. clean air, for instance. fathom this, mircea_popescu , asciilifeform's sense of smell comes back 2nd day from airplane when he goes here.
mircea_popescu: i agree with you the anyone has serious problems understanding food, architecture, etcetera. but that's about as far as it goes.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the reason is those folks don't have anything anyone wants.
pete_dushenski: "bn" also pop-famous after justin timberlake / mark zuckerberg facebook movie line "a million dollars isn't cool. y'know what's cool ? a billion" and then they all do shots and blow. but this was 2004 or w/e so 10x today and you're there.
mircea_popescu: something to take the sting off my bitcoin buying clinton's jumpsuit.
mircea_popescu: MY BATHROOM COULD BUY THE THRONE OF CHINA!!1
a111: Logged on 2017-10-18 17:34 asciilifeform: 'in the official dachas, amidst the flicker of tv screens and the squal of mosquitoes, the brass agreed that it will be the last generation of brass' or how did limonov put it.
mircea_popescu: besides, gotta keep the brass hopes up. lest they http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-18#1726224
mircea_popescu: there's certainly that much needing washing, why miss the opportunity.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski considering the current bezzle pressure / overwhelming inflation and the very personal-brand-oriented populace, it will probably be 1bn just to be able to say 1bn.
pete_dushenski: speaking of fine artz, wasn't the only privately held da vinci painting about to go up for auction ? 1/15 "legit" works. pre-auction estimate $100mn but i dun see how it doesn't go for twice that.
asciilifeform: i just opened a window and those folx dun look like they've been collected 100% from
a111: Logged on 2017-10-21 23:26 mircea_popescu: and here's some lulz for asciilifeform's private "art ownerhsip" collection : femme nue couchee, a courbet knockoff of the maja desnuda goya painting was looted in 45 by the soviets, who displayed it in the manner of truckers, which is to say on a truck tarpaulin. the item was thought lost, but it surfaced in 2000. the owner (possession is 100% of the law!) was accused of being unfit for ownership, as he happened to be slovak
mircea_popescu: they report it for everyone, citizen and orc alike. just in the case of citizen they report by default ; whereas in the case of orc not.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the discussion was "banks have fulltime politruk to report your every moving penny to guess whom".
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: colour the picture for my enlightenment plox, what does this look like
mircea_popescu: but should locals end up on the receiving payment for renoir, sure as fuck they do.
mircea_popescu: of course they do this to the locals ; it's just that the locals aren't interesting by default, by virtue of being orc monkeys worth $400 with clothes on.
asciilifeform: locals pay 1 tax, the orcistani one
mircea_popescu: how the fuck not ?
asciilifeform: only to the marked wretches with the black b00k.
mircea_popescu: you keep coming to these insane conclusions.
asciilifeform: they dun do this to the locals lol
mircea_popescu: all usg colonies are ~same in this respect. if you're going to stay within the empire, live in rome.
mircea_popescu: for the same money try the same in costa rica roflmao.
asciilifeform: ( exercise for BingoBoingo and other adventurers : go to a europistani bank and try opening account with usa passport, read the resulting document & weep )
asciilifeform: but naturally this doesn't get the prospective escapee out of usg pederasty, for instance
asciilifeform: sooo seems like according to ro ministry of whateverses, the ro equiv. of usa's 'greencard' is given out just-like-that
mircea_popescu: (california beach as in the ny shithole, for the non-natives)
deedbot: http://trilema.com/2017/rocco-and-his-brothers/ << Trilema - Rocco and his brothers
asciilifeform: the imports largely went to seed ( engineering school and other unwomanlies )
mircea_popescu: turns out, rachel's only a total slut in the warsaw ghetto. take her to california beach, she's a total nag.
asciilifeform: fwiw the j00establishment(tm)(r) is still powered by old-style puritanizedj00z
mircea_popescu: iirc it was because they heard rachel's a total slut.
jhvh1: BingoBoingo: The operation succeeded.
asciilifeform: ( they imported'em for some yrs, nobody to this day knows for what )
asciilifeform: aha is in the l0gz
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform they use ukrainian beet sugar instead.
asciilifeform: one thing i haven't found yet, is the gallows where they must be hanging the corn syrop peddlers. because it is absent here 100% , i can taste, smell its absense, and it is orgasmic.
alex__c: at any rate, rent price in Timisoara has been going up in the past 1-2 years
asciilifeform: culture is when i can shit in the bowl franz joseph shat in.
mircea_popescu: naked women in public is the cornerstone of anything i'd call culture.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> to give some colour to the picture, asciilifeform walked on street and on a light pole was commonplace ad for flat for sale, 40kiloeur << What they cost over here.
asciilifeform: to give some colour to the picture, asciilifeform walked on street and on a light pole was commonplace ad for flat for sale, 40kiloeur
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Sure, why not. Passports don't expire for 10 years. Not like there's seekrit transnational marriage police if you aren't Catholic.
asciilifeform: they dun have obummer and his army of pet mexican illegals here, you prolly gotta show passport to get mains current etc
mircea_popescu: as a general rule you don't want personal property registered with the fiatistans.
asciilifeform: actually no, they only have transparent-to-usg mockeries where i'm from
mircea_popescu: they don't have corps where you're from ?
mircea_popescu: the whole system is constructed to catch the poor. if your girls dun need to work, dun need to apply for anything to any govt office, they can stay forever.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform from experience, no. i had girls overstay their tourist visa by years.
alex__c: can't find any further explanation on what investing means, and how to prove it
asciilifeform: me an' the other 400mil usaschwitzers, totally
BingoBoingo: ^ The other catch
asciilifeform: like they used to mexicans in usa
asciilifeform: wouldn't they throw ya out some time before 8yrs
alex__c: + some other assorted requirements
BingoBoingo: Anyways the big difference in how fiat authorities self present is whether they call themselves competent authorities or reasonable authorities
asciilifeform: i did the passport thing in usa and know 'how state worx'
mircea_popescu: as BingoBoingo well points out, THAT IS THE SCAM.
mircea_popescu: the "legal" approach will take longer and require more work, you're just new in this world and don't understand how the state works yet.
asciilifeform: i can already picture it, suppose mircea_popescu ran an auto dealership, someone walks in asks for cheapest engined wheelbarrow , mircea_popescu answers 'over there, is a mine, spend 60 yrs there, you will have enough salt to trade for some iron blanks, and then....'
mircea_popescu: i don't right off recall what the rules for the lazy were. get local lawyer ask him
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: And there's the scam
mircea_popescu: even if you impregnate her out of sheer perversity the result won't cost 100k.
asciilifeform: other than this
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> they're not detectable here << It's just the US conditions you to more overt visual indicators
asciilifeform: there's a doctor to set broken arm, an undertaker to put me in the earth, etc.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well, for instance there's 0 people from timisoara in l1.
asciilifeform: the streets are swept, the german shop is stocked with prime high octane cheeses etc. what else 'use' i need.
mircea_popescu: point is, they're useless, which is what we're discussing when capital goods are to be bought.
asciilifeform: they're not detectable here
mircea_popescu: whether romanians are happy is an open matter. gypsyes are notoriously happy, for what that's worth.
mircea_popescu: there's plenty of vermin.
mircea_popescu: it can't be had. why the fuck do you think it's dead as a going concern ?
mircea_popescu: you don't buy without artillery in the vicinty.
asciilifeform: also what's the brasspoleinbangkok-factor of this place ? ( i.e. say i buy something, will it be full of gypos when i get back to fill it up ? )
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform just have someone take you down "bulevardul 3 august 1919". you will come to a plaza where the tramlines split. facing it, on your right is this block-sized building. the plaza has some items of interest also.
asciilifeform: or are they argentinian-selling.
asciilifeform: they're selling ?!
mircea_popescu: the item has what was clearly an open hall on the ground floor, then drinking rooms above, then actual rooms for sleeping above-er, decorations on the roof (to be seen from distance by travellers) and everything
mircea_popescu: it was one of the largest of its kind, and very emblematic for the period too
mircea_popescu: nah. there's a large square building dominating what's know the "fabric" neighbourhood.
asciilifeform: i saw the turkish turret turned meat processing plant
mircea_popescu: oh btw, did you see the medieval afore-the-walls inn yet ?
mircea_popescu: iirc the one across was originally a mill eventually grain storage ; and this one textile something.
asciilifeform: traditional window panes, suggestive furniture visible through the massive holes in the wall ( didja use'em for bazooka practice or wat ), etc
asciilifeform: and next to it, across the river, another.
mircea_popescu: o noes do you know how to conver this ? ima go ask the romanian signals intelligence brb.
BingoBoingo: In other woodchipper dick slashings: Senator Jeff Flake not seeking reelection in Arizona. Make Great Great Again!
asciilifeform: hey mircea_popescu , what did that massive abandoned factory by the river, make ?
mircea_popescu: jessie_ are you done with teh attention whoring and ready to actually do something useful, or rather are you done with the attention whoring and ready to move on ?
jessie_: this has nothing to do with my nightmare, but actually i have made the kidnapping nightmare exactly after reading this
mircea_popescu: they become wiser.
mircea_popescu: castration-and-rape is probably just nature's way of suggesting you try the female lobe of sexuality on for size.
jessie_: if i do NOT hand out the privkeys, well, i will sacrifice my dick, suicide a couple of days after, but also being acclamated as the "moar deflation guy" on reddit and gain a lot of karma points
jessie_: my thought was: if i give out the bitcoins, they are lost for god and then, in the middle of nowhere, the kidnapper could do some sadic game to get full satisfaction
mircea_popescu: check out the local gay bar and see what comes of it.
mircea_popescu: jessie_ the obvious approach is to see if playing bottom isn't very satisfying. as orson scott card well points out, the only way to survive temptation is to yield to it.
jessie_: and then when the sadic russian picked the chainsaw to cut my dick in a very gory way i woke up
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-25#1728585 << if either of you will be so kind to point out to the schmuck he can make 0.02 each by writing on gf tits, i'll be much obliged.
mircea_popescu: i'm sure it's the magic numbers 4.3.0 and 4.3.18 that are at fault ; naught else.
a111: Logged on 2017-10-25 15:01 jessie_: so, i will keep plain and simple: if I wake up bound with a thick rope on a table, find out that i'm kidnapped, then some angry and sadic russian appears and yells to me "give me the private keys or i'll cut off your dick". What is the most effective exit move aimed to keep both the btc and the possibility to happily ejaculate again?
a111: Logged on 2017-10-25 13:46 phf: the address that they want payment already had two .055 transactions, so quite possibly people are biting https://blockchain.info/address/12SvNEQq1y2gffUpJCGtwgzjjgDrZVor6L drained into https://blockchain.info/address/1HA7Qe2LCq7mb2YVewpM2PCA1dsjWN3MhE
a111: Logged on 2017-10-25 13:46 phf: the address that they want payment already had two .055 transactions, so quite possibly people are biting https://blockchain.info/address/12SvNEQq1y2gffUpJCGtwgzjjgDrZVor6L drained into https://blockchain.info/address/1HA7Qe2LCq7mb2YVewpM2PCA1dsjWN3MhE
asciilifeform: in other noose, asciilifeform's timis photoset is nao toobig for just 1 ps0t, will prolly turn into N-part series
asciilifeform: it mildly annoys asciilifeform that he provided these vermin with a self-setting table cloth for years on end
asciilifeform: ^ another probable phuctor crib
asciilifeform: this is not particularly different scenario from 'gimme the location of artillery battery or will cut off yer nuts' from last century or whenever
asciilifeform: or, alternatively, save the last round in the chamber for yerself
a111: Logged on 2017-10-25 15:01 jessie_: so, i will keep plain and simple: if I wake up bound with a thick rope on a table, find out that i'm kidnapped, then some angry and sadic russian appears and yells to me "give me the private keys or i'll cut off your dick". What is the most effective exit move aimed to keep both the btc and the possibility to happily ejaculate again?
jessie_: so, i will keep plain and simple: if I wake up bound with a thick rope on a table, find out that i'm kidnapped, then some angry and sadic russian appears and yells to me "give me the private keys or i'll cut off your dick". What is the most effective exit move aimed to keep both the btc and the possibility to happily ejaculate again?
phf: the address that they want payment already had two .055 transactions, so quite possibly people are biting https://blockchain.info/address/12SvNEQq1y2gffUpJCGtwgzjjgDrZVor6L drained into https://blockchain.info/address/1HA7Qe2LCq7mb2YVewpM2PCA1dsjWN3MhE
asciilifeform: ( can edit, copy, move, diff, etc remote files over ssh, beats the shit out of trad scp unless you're doing something automated )
a111: Logged on 2017-10-25 02:39 deedbot: http://thewhet.net/2017/10/a-compendium-of-possibly-helpful-stuffs-for-erecting-mircea-popescus-wordpress-with-nearly-free-speech-hosting/ << The Whet - A Compendium of Possibly Helpful Stuffs for Erecting Mircea Popescu's WordPress with Nearly Free Speech Hosting
mircea_popescu: shpx do me the courtesy and stop join/parting.
BingoBoingo: Only thing they do daily, other than abusive attempts at self love
mircea_popescu: lobbes daily is the key of human activity. if you're not doing something daily, you can't properly say you're doing it.
lobbes: <davout> there's this, and also the necessity of learning new things, very often people get stuck playing the same things, which mostly reinforces defects, instead of seeking new and different stuff to work on for a bit << this makes sense. Explains why I notice my improvising getting 'stale' after a few consecutive days of practicing only to be 'revitalized' after a break. Almost helps to clear that mental buffer of 'go-to musical phrases'
a111: Logged on 2017-10-22 01:15 hanbot: i don't know what the actual time threshold is tbh. clearly longer than 15 mins tho.
davout: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-22#1727578 <<< probably depends on which direction their exchange rate is going
BingoBoingo: As we referred to him watching drunk election returns in 2006 (It was college), The Black Deval
davout: there's this, and also the necessity of learning new things, very often people get stuck playing the same things, which mostly reinforces defects, instead of seeking new and different stuff to work on for a bit
lobbes: BingoBoingo aha. Deval the former choco-gubner of taxachusetts. Fits the bill, I can see it
a111: Logged on 2017-10-24 21:29 ben_vulpes: one month on guitar, one on ru is sorta my pattern there
BingoBoingo: And apparently the latest favorite to be 2020's attempt at Hussein Bahamas II is Deval Patrick.
BingoBoingo: And in still other news, SWAT team and feds were in town over what was apparently a very methy stabbing.
BingoBoingo: Cost of language school is to be determined. But it never hurts to meet people outside of work. Compatibility of language school visa and administering an EIRELI to be determined, but it allows presence in the country and less butt probes than business visa from the view so far.
BingoBoingo: In other learnings of the day, apparently "language schools" can qualify persons for student visas in Brazil where 10X hour course translates to X month visa.
BingoBoingo: Can't let the girl smells escape and excite or disgust the menfolk depending on age and condition of girl floor
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Of course too many words. They can't be direct. Violates pantsuit principal of alway covering girl floor with fabric.
mircea_popescu: i suppose its hard for a jew to grok the wordcount point.
mircea_popescu: they may be slow on the uptake, but their owners are not. a franchise is 100% made out of sucking the right cock, and pantsuitism just turned clitty.
mircea_popescu: jew coverage as to how this is concerning but doesn't matter and people still give a shit about them abundent enough ?
BingoBoingo: In other polls, NFL is no longer 'Murica's favorite ball league. Replaced by MLB, which is more multicultural in far less politically convenient way for pantsuit.
deedbot: http://thewhet.net/2017/10/a-compendium-of-possibly-helpful-stuffs-for-erecting-mircea-popescus-wordpress-with-nearly-free-speech-hosting/ << The Whet - A Compendium of Possibly Helpful Stuffs for Erecting Mircea Popescu's WordPress with Nearly Free Speech Hosting
mircea_popescu: hopefully he has younger brothers, i can't imagine what possible use he can still be the usg turkfucker department.
mircea_popescu: lol the promising young turk got his ass pretty well loosened on this one, huh.
shinohai: http://archive.is/HfUof <<< " Emin Gun Sirer, a Cornell University associate professor in the computer science department who is a Tezos technical adviser, said he continues to believe the network is still “technically sound.”
a111: Logged on 2017-10-24 21:47 asciilifeform: i pictured them as ro equiv of ukrs approx
shinohai: Well my values are different than most. Ownership of the box alone justifies trb node, which is worthy of a total of 0,16 BTC
BingoBoingo: Ah, well it's probably time to thik about what you'd make owning the box
mircea_popescu: in short : birthday paradox. there's just not that many sounds, letters, words etcetera for everyone in europe to be entirely special.
mircea_popescu: and if you've ever had your slavegirls make the dough for strudel....
mircea_popescu: ie, it's either work or suffering, truda or struda.
mircea_popescu: the robotzi "sa te ghetzalesc pe limba???" item is a tongue in cheek reference of exactly this. the word doesn't exist, but if you're a civilised romanian which means born in transylvania and aware enough of hungarian to know how they say sperm,
diana_coman: well, it's also urbanism; great-grandmother would have said drum if not ulita
mircea_popescu: which produces some of the best wtf's ever.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the other major item contributing to the humor is that they use the (originally latin, now romanian) mechanism of functional language. so they will take a slavonic root, and derive it in the romanian manner with no shits given
diana_coman: there is also ulicioara though :D
mircea_popescu: well, they heard you're not supposed to say "mare" in the city.
diana_coman: not just "ulita" either
mircea_popescu: but "Strada mare" is not how your great-grandmother would have called ulita mare in the village.
mircea_popescu: diana_coman not the same usage, yes, which makes their usage intensional, ie stylistically relevant, which it's why it's a joke.
diana_coman: mircea_popescu, that's the thing: it IS correct, but ...not the same thing!
asciilifeform: they froze different chunk of protoslavonic
mircea_popescu: diana_coman they preserved something romanian mostly lost
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform they're like present day crocodiles : not a sort of fallen man, but a different evolution of the same ancient parent.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: that describes all of the south slavs
diana_coman: mircea_popescu, you mean they imported it from old church books or what?
mircea_popescu: this is how moldovan philology goes 90% of the time, too : they preserved an old thing, generally older than muscovy, rather than import it.
diana_coman: I had a few colleagues at uni bucharest; re language my observation was that they mixed ro and ru (not words per se but rather languages as a whole) to such degree that result was at worst not-understandable, at best hysterical indeed; sort of saying "ulita" (because of Russian "ulita" obv) to huge boulevard comes to mind but it's not the only thing
mircea_popescu: and generally it was a great place to buy a coupla girls for a dozen lycra stockings, back in the 90s. by now...
mircea_popescu: diana_coman hey, i'm not proposing it's uninhabited or anything. good food, largest old collection of wine in europe (meanwhile im sure looted, but i did eat 1800s wine marmalade in their incredibly huge cellar that takes fucking semaphores is so big)
diana_coman heard they were very, very talented... acrobats! even had huge circus built in USSR times because of that; dunno if that's enough though...
mircea_popescu: just the girls, if that.
mircea_popescu: the official truth is that "Everyone keeps invading", the sad truth is that nobody really wants it.
mircea_popescu: now you can appreciate their drama.
mircea_popescu: the current moldavia was a sort of baltimore 20 years ago.
mircea_popescu: very heavily dependent on russian support to continue existing, and ro sure as fuck doesn't want ANOTHER moldavia on its budget
mircea_popescu: anyway. moldavia doesn't stand a fucking chance, on its own. it's a sort of argentina, no industry whatsoever, no young people left to slave on the farms, it ain't got jack.
mircea_popescu: because if you do that, there sure as fuck won't be any new ones either.
mircea_popescu: not you know, about burning every last paki in the island.
mircea_popescu: uk "extreme right" "fascists" are derping on about... how there shouldn't be... NEW immigrants.
mircea_popescu: THAT is not on any flat surface, because that's the fucking characteristic of these young protesting shitheads : stick to ineffectuality.
asciilifeform: lol they could get into eu if absorbed into ro neh
mircea_popescu: amusingly, the ro govt was very lax with their immigration ; until euros got all pissy about it, so they closed the border. a coupla years later... euros decided everyone must take in random syrians.
asciilifeform: and also the 'don't know history is like children who don't know their parent' thing

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