http://trilema.com/2020/forum-logs-for-01-sep-2018/ Moving targets for a fast crowd. Fri, 15 May 2026 13:04:34 +0000 http://polimedia.us hourly 1 http://trilema.com/2020/forum-logs-for-01-sep-2018/#comment-160401 Say it like it's 1937 on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. Sat, 20 Feb 2021 14:56:20 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=91687#comment-160401 [...] crimes of lese-imagination. [↩]Free in a sense very much alligned with the "freeing" of, say, Mosul. [↩]"Well" as an epithet, applied to anything, pointedly and by definition implies your [...] [...] crimes of lese-imagination. [↩]Free in a sense very much alligned with the "freeing" of, say, Mosul. [↩]"Well" as an epithet, applied to anything, pointedly and by definition implies your [...]

]]> http://trilema.com/2020/forum-logs-for-01-sep-2018/#comment-159342 I can't remember the last time I talked to a dude... on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. Sat, 30 Jan 2021 15:42:48 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=91687#comment-159342 [...] There is something I want from you, though, and that is : don't put too much stock in that "you" pronoun. Who the fuck knows whom I'm talking to or thinking of when I write "you" on Trilema ? My mental model of the readership "you" is neither particularly stable, nor too frequently reasonableviii, not to mention reliably uninformed by actual dataix. It's just something you say, it doesn't [have to] mean anything. Right ? ———You remember, I'm sure, the Qaboos dude whom "mercenaries" and other "supreme gentlemen" of the early MAGA / 1970s sustained through an insurgency against his father and then through a communist insurgency against himself, pretty much the last time in history US-born & Ioway-corn fed dudes about town actually amounted to anything in practice. They did ok in WW1 (not great, but ok) under the supervision of their own government. Then they did miserably enough in WW2 (about on par with the Italians, dicking back and forth over Sicily pretty much, lawd's mercy) s'as to make sure there ain't ever gonna be another one (because, as every owner knows, you don't send your mutt to competitions it ain't gonna win just to burn the gas on the trip). Then they showed themselves marginal in Rhodesia and actually won something in Oman, under private management (meaning : in greatly reduced numbers, imposed by having to select among the "available resources" consisting of 99.x% pure shit). And then... that was it, if you don't mean "leading the coalition that conquered Mosul", of course, kekekex. [...] [...] There is something I want from you, though, and that is : don't put too much stock in that "you" pronoun. Who the fuck knows whom I'm talking to or thinking of when I write "you" on Trilema ? My mental model of the readership "you" is neither particularly stable, nor too frequently reasonableviii, not to mention reliably uninformed by actual dataix. It's just something you say, it doesn't [have to] mean anything. Right ? ———You remember, I'm sure, the Qaboos dude whom "mercenaries" and other "supreme gentlemen" of the early MAGA / 1970s sustained through an insurgency against his father and then through a communist insurgency against himself, pretty much the last time in history US-born & Ioway-corn fed dudes about town actually amounted to anything in practice. They did ok in WW1 (not great, but ok) under the supervision of their own government. Then they did miserably enough in WW2 (about on par with the Italians, dicking back and forth over Sicily pretty much, lawd's mercy) s'as to make sure there ain't ever gonna be another one (because, as every owner knows, you don't send your mutt to competitions it ain't gonna win just to burn the gas on the trip). Then they showed themselves marginal in Rhodesia and actually won something in Oman, under private management (meaning : in greatly reduced numbers, imposed by having to select among the "available resources" consisting of 99.x% pure shit). And then... that was it, if you don't mean "leading the coalition that conquered Mosul", of course, kekekex. [...]

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