http://trilema.com/2016/cargo-cults-a-case-study/ Moving targets for a fast crowd. Wed, 13 May 2026 22:23:25 +0000 http://polimedia.us hourly 1 http://trilema.com/2016/cargo-cults-a-case-study/#comment-147556 Are you a sovereign citizen ? on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. Wed, 19 Feb 2020 05:07:19 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=67389#comment-147556 [...] ran the stove to heat the house. The rich used illegal electric heaters, items very much like the Argentine nonsense, deeply uneconomical idiocy. The legal obligation on the part of the condo administration to spy [...] [...] ran the stove to heat the house. The rich used illegal electric heaters, items very much like the Argentine nonsense, deeply uneconomical idiocy. The legal obligation on the part of the condo administration to spy [...]

]]> http://trilema.com/2016/cargo-cults-a-case-study/#comment-146904 Sadly Frankfurt's fucked. on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. Wed, 08 Jan 2020 14:34:29 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=67389#comment-146904 [...] Yes, above ye olde Alte Oper, yet this'd then be the emblematic illustration of the Frankfurt left behind, the ruin that behind Frankfurt remains, representationally definitive and descriptively absolute. Observe the clear Argentine influences : 1. the undisturbed pichi encampment to the left, something in itself sufficient to degrade any would-be urban aglomeration to suburban statusii ; 2. the vehicle captive inside a building and finally, for the trifecta of perfection, power grid shenanigans. [...] [...] Yes, above ye olde Alte Oper, yet this'd then be the emblematic illustration of the Frankfurt left behind, the ruin that behind Frankfurt remains, representationally definitive and descriptively absolute. Observe the clear Argentine influences : 1. the undisturbed pichi encampment to the left, something in itself sufficient to degrade any would-be urban aglomeration to suburban statusii ; 2. the vehicle captive inside a building and finally, for the trifecta of perfection, power grid shenanigans. [...]

]]> http://trilema.com/2016/cargo-cults-a-case-study/#comment-146734 My weekend adventure. Including the answer to the Florimund riddle, bears, how Brasov got itself banned (but Romania altogether not just yet), assorted derisions and aspersions as well as no sexually explicit content wharsoever! on Trilema - A blog by Mir Wed, 08 Jan 2020 14:24:41 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=67389#comment-146734 [...] Oh, and they have air conditioning units. The no-part-outside-building kind, do you know those ? The things that work on the principle of the open fridge, "cooling" in a localised sense but warming otherwise ? Dozens of them, everywhere. Fortunately they weren't on in August, making the place somewhat bearable for they coming from the carefully controlled climate of Florimund's innards, for half hour or so at a stretch. I imagine they may come quite handy in the Winter, though, as needlessly complex, elaborate resistive heaters. [...] [...] Oh, and they have air conditioning units. The no-part-outside-building kind, do you know those ? The things that work on the principle of the open fridge, "cooling" in a localised sense but warming otherwise ? Dozens of them, everywhere. Fortunately they weren't on in August, making the place somewhat bearable for they coming from the carefully controlled climate of Florimund's innards, for half hour or so at a stretch. I imagine they may come quite handy in the Winter, though, as needlessly complex, elaborate resistive heaters. [...]

]]> http://trilema.com/2016/cargo-cults-a-case-study/#comment-145859 Re-reading the cargo cults "case study" on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. Wed, 08 Jan 2020 13:31:37 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=67389#comment-145859 [...] just re-read this article from three years ago, "Cargo cults, a case study" and I'm... frankly, I'm appalled, and I suppose as closed to ashamed as I can ever get. It's such [...] [...] just re-read this article from three years ago, "Cargo cults, a case study" and I'm... frankly, I'm appalled, and I suppose as closed to ashamed as I can ever get. It's such [...]

]]> http://trilema.com/2016/cargo-cults-a-case-study/#comment-145824 How the good folk at Kjølberggata 29B, 0653 Oslo, Norway (dba variously as "Central City Apartments", "kampenhotell.no", "REISE BYRÅ BALA SUMAN BALASUNDARAM" etcetera) attempt to scam me went ; what dealing with Oslo police is like as a bonus on the sid Wed, 08 Jan 2020 13:29:55 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=67389#comment-145824 [...] ask the naive investors in Argentina's bond issuance the exact same thing. Because we didn't know who we're dealing with, [...] [...] ask the naive investors in Argentina's bond issuance the exact same thing. Because we didn't know who we're dealing with, [...]

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