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mircea_popescu: what contemporary servers can do is pretty fucking shocking, for srs.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile in other news, trilema has served 5.5 mn pages... this month.
mircea_popescu: anyway, back to the romans : the whole "dickus maximus" bit in monty python is actually very strict scholarship. to the "rugged men of the fronteer", the speech of proper roman citizen sounded so fucking faggoty you can't imagine.
mircea_popescu: <ICEbЕrg> ПХГМЮБЮИРЕЯЭ ЙРН Б лЯЙ, ОНДЛНЯЙНБЭЕ Х оХРЕПЕ НАХРЮЕР?
mircea_popescu: "retroactively changes the meaning of text". what fucking text ? strings including "emoji" ipso facto carry no meaning.
mircea_popescu: i can't comprehend why anyone'd summon the interest to care. the only correct solution is to insist strict latin set exists throughout, and otherwise they can all get fucked.
mircea_popescu: azn illiteracy is no excuse for doing things wrongly, which is why colonialism and the rape of nanking are more sensible policies than whatever the fuck's going on presently.
mircea_popescu: the ~only~ way to get useful symbolics, which does mean STRICTLY standardized symbols, is to have very few of them.
mircea_popescu: the notion of unicode is fucking stupid in the first place.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo lol imagine, we made a fat loser with no friends hate rabbits.
mircea_popescu: to this day "Exchange" in serbian is menjati, for this reason. two "i".
mircea_popescu: then the barbarians decided to hear distinction between i and j.
mircea_popescu: PeterL no, and leaving the greeks aside : one day some people decided to make an I that looked more like a J. sexier font, stylish, whatnot.
mircea_popescu: and hence numerous examples i'm too much of a business insider to bother fucking listing. who the fuck let these idiots write in the first place, they're an insult to the cattle that had to die for the vellum.
mircea_popescu: PeterL no. the "letters" you currently use are the result of FONT FLUCTUATION in the roman empire.
mircea_popescu: PeterL it's an application of idiotum per idiotius, really.
mircea_popescu: "a font can't change your interpretation of a letter" AHAHAHAHA OH MY FUCKING IEHOVA
mircea_popescu: not VERY flexible, <1/100 or somesuch, but still, can go in directions
mircea_popescu: actually oil drillers use a version of your arm thing.
mircea_popescu: all this shit is made of solid steel mostly because earthmoving is barely a step away from direct abrasion. it's like making tools to push the grinder.
mircea_popescu: for all we know a buldozing naggum is dying right now.
mircea_popescu: that 1% or w/e it shaves off costs over using generics is still many billions.
mircea_popescu: in fact, the heavy machinery industry is today very much a "designer item" sort of thing, pretty much any large mine will order machinery to spec for its own particular use.
mircea_popescu: item such as "articulated bulldozer" which now exists and is factually useful in particular applications, did not exist 50 years ago, mostly because of machining difficulties involved.
mircea_popescu: i dun think so. to wit : every kid has a toy buldozer, which he does improvements to.
mircea_popescu: so in this sense, the solution seems to be quite simply vitriol. dissolve the "acceptance" blanket of idiocy.
mircea_popescu: it's ~like a fungus colony that secretes plastic substrate for itself to live on.
mircea_popescu: this is universally the fucking problem. and it's passively supported by idiots' tendency to build life support systems for themselves, hence the all-pervasive socialism.
mircea_popescu: idiots must be told they're dumb. often. loudly. in no uncertain terms.
mircea_popescu: so she ends up underwriting debt to "pursue" rank nonsense.
mircea_popescu: nobody ever told 20 yo girly, in her 16 or so years of active intellectual life to date, that she's fucking untalented and needs to go do something she can actually do.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: if i start screaming at the idiots they WILL execute their job, and well. but absent my scream, they have no fucking idea they're doing a bad job, even. nobody ever told them so.
mircea_popescu: the reason argentines drive horribly, as well as are incredibly inept economically, and the reason for pretty much all visible misbehaviour is exactly the same : lack of negative reinforcement.
mircea_popescu: the point being that i have wisened to understand the problem. it is a lack of negative reinforcement.
mircea_popescu: alternatively there's some pheromone interaction or something. dunno.
mircea_popescu: yeah, maybe they hunt them, though i've never personally seen it.
mircea_popescu: i also didn't mind them - but it did drive one girl positively crazy. couldn't sleep, eventually had a mild psychotic episode. so i got rid of them.
mircea_popescu: they patrolled all the outside walls constantly. being no damage they could do to rebared concrete... i really didn't see the harm.
mircea_popescu: no they were the black sort interested in bugs and whatnot.
mircea_popescu: well depends. i once had a colony of ants. which i personally liked.
mircea_popescu: the only practical starting point for hygiene in the mind of the golum is through forcing pain until a desired result. that it's unachievable through means available to the golum does not matter one iota.
mircea_popescu: that's the thing. especially to the inferior man, "hygiene" does not exist, as an abstract. it may only exist as "mechanized individual squishing"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes, but hygiene starts as well as exists as a "better squishing". people given the "hey, it'd be elegant to wash" will wash and retain the bugs. people given the "hey, you will be in this dungeon until you squished all the bugs" given "hey, use this, works faster" WILL fucking wash.
mircea_popescu: being "inclusive" is not merely distasteful. it is actually something to carry on your conscience, as a murder, except worse.
mircea_popescu: you're a bad person, there's no two wais about it, kiddy fuckers may be great or horrible. you're horrible, no great.
mircea_popescu: if you participate in "communities" that make this difficult, you are, personally, a bad person. it's not "oh, i'm just trying to on facebook".
mircea_popescu: if you are a guy who was on a list where a maggot tried to get in and you didn't, personally, flame and humiliate that maggot,
mircea_popescu: nevertheless - there must be collective guilt at work here, as a concept, for the opposition. if you are "a computer programmer", and you aren't part of the solution, you ARE part of the problem, ands personally responsible for it.
mircea_popescu: merely opening the matter of should to the maggots is a bad idea.
mircea_popescu: no. a sane examinator always begins by twisting the necks he can, not the necks he "should".
mircea_popescu: even if any single maggot only exerted 1/800 N and as part of squirming in a different direction altogether,
mircea_popescu: i get that it's a diffuse, socialist, retarded sort of forcing where nobody actually does anything that could possibly be upon them. but that dun matter so much, if you end up pushed out of bed by a colony of maggots, THE MAGGOTS DID IT.
mircea_popescu: instead of everyone laughing her into bulimia, and weekly egging and tping the house in which basement she dwells,
mircea_popescu: yes, everybody did. that's the problem. when derp mcherperson wants commit access to vomit her versiuon of invidious gossip therein as "comments" and "sensitivity", PEOPLE FORCE IT
mircea_popescu: she's well equipped for the things she does, invidious gossip, raising children and burning the cabbage. there's really no call for cabbage os and burned "literature".
mircea_popescu: nobody asked you to force the poor thing to art ; much like nobody asked you to force the minimal brain of the huswife into producing political discourse and directing ships on the sea.
mircea_popescu: see, but that's not it. same FUNCTION of organ. that's the issue. the anal ring is made to keep farts in, and ~arguably~ to pleasure a beloved penis now and again. this is very much the same function.
mircea_popescu: one time one person inquired at party "but what's with all the monster cocks"
mircea_popescu: well no, feminist you see. had no use for those e=mc2 shapes that predilect the edge of light over roundnesses much more important ... to "us".
mircea_popescu: speaking of which, i once knew anal sculptor girl. she'd insert condom full of prepared gypsum, shit it back out.
mircea_popescu: as per aristotle, there is no such thing as "no design"