Comments on: Most wrong and absolutely wrongest http://trilema.com/2014/most-wrong-and-absolutely-wrongest/ Moving targets for a fast crowd. Fri, 15 May 2026 08:36:07 +0000 http://polimedia.us hourly 1 By: Shots from a voyage on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. http://trilema.com/2014/most-wrong-and-absolutely-wrongest/#comment-140475 Shots from a voyage on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. Tue, 07 Jan 2020 12:46:39 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=52271#comment-140475 [...] plaster casts being passed as "statues", the "American" [...] [...] plaster casts being passed as "statues", the "American" [...]

]]> By: So here's a problem for you... on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. http://trilema.com/2014/most-wrong-and-absolutely-wrongest/#comment-139900 So here's a problem for you... on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. Tue, 07 Jan 2020 00:38:24 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=52271#comment-139900 [...] sad or not, it's what it is. So imagine you're captured by a troop of savage, lawless USisans from America. These lurid, immoral rogues give you one coin, and tell you that unless you manage to come up with [...] [...] sad or not, it's what it is. So imagine you're captured by a troop of savage, lawless USisans from America. These lurid, immoral rogues give you one coin, and tell you that unless you manage to come up with [...]

]]> By: Ron Maimon, Luboš Motl and other Internet things I hear of today for the very first time on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. http://trilema.com/2014/most-wrong-and-absolutely-wrongest/#comment-139719 Ron Maimon, Luboš Motl and other Internet things I hear of today for the very first time on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. Tue, 07 Jan 2020 00:25:23 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=52271#comment-139719 [...] upon it, dear aging generation, this is the brave new world. Food is plentiful, so kids don't need to worry about where and how [...] [...] upon it, dear aging generation, this is the brave new world. Food is plentiful, so kids don't need to worry about where and how [...]

]]> By: Mircea Popescu http://trilema.com/2014/most-wrong-and-absolutely-wrongest/#comment-97669 Mircea Popescu Tue, 21 Jan 2014 01:18:18 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=52271#comment-97669 The EU also has the advantage that anywhere between one and fifteen hundred generations have ground the terrain down over the millenia. The EU also has the advantage that anywhere between one and fifteen hundred generations have ground the terrain down over the millenia.

]]> By: BingoBoingo http://trilema.com/2014/most-wrong-and-absolutely-wrongest/#comment-97658 BingoBoingo Mon, 20 Jan 2014 11:21:25 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=52271#comment-97658 Well, a problematic legacy of the Cold War is that much of the United States learned to accept these abstractions as fact. A similar train of though was proposed in WWII when much of Japanese intelligence suggested invading the mainland US would be too costly because of terrain and rates of gun ownership where they similarly treated the various consituent states as Euclidian blocks. Maybe they missed the caveat that killing one hillbilly in West Virginia takes 10 firearms out of circulation. I've heard serious suggestions that the Karst topography that dominates the Ozarks might be more challenging that places acaquaintances have seen in Afghanistan, to the point that Manifest Destiny and smallpox might have actually have been necessary conditions for the US existing as such. The contiguous 48 states may be smaller than the EU, but there is still a clear distinction between productive lands, wastelands, and places people managed to grow drugs in spite of the Meta-NSA. Well, a problematic legacy of the Cold War is that much of the United States learned to accept these abstractions as fact.

A similar train of though was proposed in WWII when much of Japanese intelligence suggested invading the mainland US would be too costly because of terrain and rates of gun ownership where they similarly treated the various consituent states as Euclidian blocks. Maybe they missed the caveat that killing one hillbilly in West Virginia takes 10 firearms out of circulation.

I've heard serious suggestions that the Karst topography that dominates the Ozarks might be more challenging that places acaquaintances have seen in Afghanistan, to the point that Manifest Destiny and smallpox might have actually have been necessary conditions for the US existing as such. The contiguous 48 states may be smaller than the EU, but there is still a clear distinction between productive lands, wastelands, and places people managed to grow drugs in spite of the Meta-NSA.

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