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mircea_popescu: (really, the reason is the reptile brain also has
a say)
ascii_field: ~90%+ wouldn't pull the trigger in ww2,
a few % in vietnam
mircea_popescu: from the actual data i've seen, about
a third of us "forces" are not actually psychologically capable of using their weapons.
ascii_field: but there's
a reason why it was kalash in paris, and not nuke at davos.
assbot: Logged on 20-11-2015 21:54:18; mircea_popescu: but anyway, maybe the answer actually has little to do with
a "west worship" thing, and simply is that the sort of people who have goals and set about to pursue them simply no longer exists. for all i know the problem of mauretania is exactly the problem of missouri : everyone in sight principally desires to sit down in front
a tv.
BingoBoingo: I guess I should figure out
a way to help the imageblind get the joke
BingoBoingo: And I haven't figured out
a way to make it flash between the two
mircea_popescu: for all we know
a & b are ACTUALLY happy doing nothing worth the mention in their london cell.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, maybe the answer actually has little to do with
a "west worship" thing, and simply is that the sort of people who have goals and set about to pursue them simply no longer exists. for all i know the problem of mauretania is exactly the problem of missouri : everyone in sight principally desires to sit down in front
a tv.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: ask me that once i run
a military coup in fucking mauretania
pete_dushenski: ;;later tell gabrielradio fantastique ! i'll take
a look over the weekend and whip it up into
a piece for contravex.
ascii_field: it's
a religion, the worship-the-west thing, and doesn't die easily
ascii_field: y'know, the classical 'london exit' of
a ru oligarch
mircea_popescu: he's more in
a swiss chalet in orclandia than anyone, including Pres. Bahamas, ever has or could have.
mircea_popescu: kidnap the fucking uss cole crew, sell them back for
a suv
a head.
mircea_popescu: i sitll have nfi why all these dubious regimes don't go on
a shoot first policy.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field was having
a private lulz earlier at the "strong condemnation" of the aziz fellow in mauretania.
mircea_popescu: btw, i humbly submit for your consideration that for the future qntra does s/Obama/President <
a href=qntra.net/president-bahamas.jpg>Bahamas</
a>/
BingoBoingo unsure if cat safe space need is worth
a qntra. Maybe some wordsmith can give it an adequate take
BingoBoingo: "If your cat has
a high exposure rate to cucumbers, it's probably not going to turn around and think it was anything other than
a cucumber. We worry about the ones that have never, ever seen
a cucumber before."
BingoBoingo: Sure just put the destination in the autopilot, set
a brick on the prissy pedal and wait for it to come home.
punkman: "In early November,
a customer sitting in the front passenger seat turned to speak with occupants in the rear and the seat belt became disconnected"
mircea_popescu: next time, bust
a cap in cop's ass before gets chance to open mouth.
trinque: lol it's not
a war on cash; he got robbed!
thestringpuller: "this is going to be used for
a crime we need to take this"
gabrielradio: 'Cynics (...) who are especially good at seeing through bullshit pay dearly for their gift. I suspect that being able to see past nuance comes at
a cost. The ability to rapidly reduce complicated moral questions into simple either/or propositions is probably
a function of an absence. To wit: the moral clarity of most cynics is probably
a function of some sort of emotional colorblindness.'
gabrielradio: 'the colorblind can see through many kinds of camouflage. Because they’re not distracted by colors, they can often see the contours of
a thing—it’s outline—with unusual clarity. Even so, despite this upside, being colorblind is, on balance,
a net handicap to the colorblind individual. They’re missing out on
a great deal.'
mircea_popescu: it's just accidentally
a feature of life ever singe octopi came about
a bazillion years ago, with their barely functional eye.
jurov: surely
a task for which nature has not specifically prepared us."
trinque: thestringpuller: reminded me of the rabbi and the ewe too; that was
a good footnote.
BingoBoingo: From the mines: "There's actually only
a finite amount of olive oil in the world. All the natural stuff was used up by the late 1700's. The stuff you're eating now has actually been recycled from obese Greek fishermen. There island of Naxos holds
a festival every year wherein fishermen with
a BMI over 40 are rolled into huge presses called 'Obesitinia' and then slowly crushed, releasing their fragrant oils. "
punkman actually had
a cocker-spaniel named alfie
assbot: Successfully added
a rating of 3 for kakobrekla with note: everything went smooth on bit4x
ascii_field always found this interesting, how you shoot from
a 'barrel' in engl, but from ствол -- 'trunk' (as in tree) in ru
ascii_field: 'In
a terse statement Wednesday, Carnegie Mellon wrote that its Software Engineering Institute hadn’t received any direct payment for its Tor research from the FBI or any other government funder. But it instead implied that the research may have been accessed by law enforcement through the use of
a subpoena. “In the course of its work, the university from time to time is served with subpoenas requesting informat
thestringpuller: <+mircea_popescu> mo money mo problems. << didn't take mp for
a biggie fan
thestringpuller: <+BingoBoingo> thestringpuller: Now'd probably be
a safe time to move to Argentina << I wanted to check out japan first where they adore the negros for some reason or another. Or at least from what I can gather from Kareem Abdul Jabars auto biographical works of living there on stints with Bruce Lee.
phf: well, wealth eliminates problems, higher up the scale you go, less things are problems, with some maximums like the jewish princess, or other stereotypes like
a completely out of teach rich person. my point is there is long tale of sufficiently wealthy people who can hang out with rednecks, and then hop on
a plane to goa for
a month
pete_dushenski: and the jap's parents smile to themselves knowingly as
a result
mircea_popescu: now she's 25 and it takes
a shitload of beatings and tears to achieve the same effect.
mircea_popescu: you haven't just said "by definition" without actually having
a definition in mind have you ? tsk tsk.
mircea_popescu: myeah. i come from
a place where irrigation is measured in added cm. crops requiring 20 or more are seen as uneconomical.
phf: that's just silly, wealthy people by definition have an easy access to
a wider range of experiences. i'm sure there are pathological cases of "mother would be displeased", but in my experience downward mobile ivy have easy time integrating themselves into whatever cultures.
mircea_popescu: check it out, next thing you know "hogwash" is going to turn into the sound of
a cane, and "You, on the other hand, come to my classes fresh from
a culture with different values, one that finds academic ways strange and hard to understand." is going to become "drop the stupid, this isn't the place for it".
shinohai: Very much worth
a view if drug-induced boredom strikes you.
assbot: Logged on 20-11-2015 16:01:25; BingoBoingo: Because why live in
a residence hall called
a "college" with
a surgeon calling himself "master" when you can go to West Fucking Virginia and burn couches?
mircea_popescu: (ftr, me went to
a highschool that had
a spa across the road. summertime, the better tail was across teh street)
mircea_popescu: <BingoBoingo> hotter tail, better parties, and less crushing pressure to be their own grandparents
a few decades too early << the latter. yes. they're regressed to mean and expected to outperform exceptional talent selected by exceptional luck.
pete_dushenski: being an idiot slave to what you perceive is
a worthwhile master can perfectly compensate for the lack of freedom.
pete_dushenski: or because you get to hang out with
a buncha other 20 yo who are also 12 yo boys who think fire is "neat" and "dangerous" ?
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: Because you aren't fucking lighting
a couch on fire UNLESS you are partying hard
assbot: Logged on 20-11-2015 05:41:35; Naphex: mircea_popescu: i haven't disappeared anywhere.. got
a bad case of pneumonia; Working on setting things back on track
BingoBoingo: "West Virginia has become infamous for couch burning. The Morgantown City Council is attempting to put
a stop to it.
A new city ordinance will ban upholstered furniture from being kept outdoors. The city claims there have been more than 3,000 such fires in the last decade."
BingoBoingo: Because why live in
a residence hall called
a "college" with
a surgeon calling himself "master" when you can go to West Fucking Virginia and burn couches?
☟︎ BingoBoingo: hotter tail, better parties, and less crushing pressure to be their own grandparents
a few decades too early
BingoBoingo: And to prove that their use of "summer" as
a verb doesn't make them idiots
mircea_popescu: "This is not about creating an intellectual space! Do you get that ? It’s about creating
a home here!"
pete_dushenski: "They have failed to acknowledge the hurt and pain that such
a large part of our community feel. They have again and again shown that they are committed to an ideal of free speech, not to the Silliman community."
pete_dushenski: "But, in his ten weeks as
a leader of the college, Master Christakis has not fostered this sense of community. He seems to lack the ability, quite frankly, to put aside his opinions long enough to listen to the very real hurt that the community feels. He doesn’t get it. And I don’t want to debate. I want to talk about my pain."
mircea_popescu: some orc screamed at some prof something to the effect of "this is not about intellectual freedom, this is about making
a home, do you get that"
BingoBoingo: thestringpuller: Now'd probably be
a safe time to move to Argentina
BingoBoingo: "for white students of University of Illinois to be able to form
a community and discuss our own issues as well as be able to organize against the terrorism we have been facing from Black Lives Matter activists on campus,"
mircea_popescu: they got an eastern chick in salvari,
a redhead which i dun recall what she was
mircea_popescu: as the wise jew once noted, "there's
a blessing for anything". ie, there's always
a good something to say.
mircea_popescu: no, they give you
a special plate for tears. don't have to cry straight in the cup like fucking savages.
mircea_popescu: ridoinculous. all the tears you can muster and five dollars buys you
a cup of coffee
mircea_popescu: seems everyone's trying to get himself
a spot in the consideration line by the quality and quantity of tears they dispensed, all of
a sudden.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> isn't he
a bootlick of hitler's ? << He seems exceedingly comfortable consorting with confirmed bootlickers
mircea_popescu: almost like some baltic fishermen read
a book of jokes (soory i mean joeks) and went "what the fuck is this platdeustch bs! HERE IS HOW REAL MEN SAY IT!"
assbot: Logged on 20-11-2015 09:19:46; punkman: "Potential for more efficient SPV output creation proofs (used by lightweight clients), as the signatures can be omitted from the transaction data without breaking the Merkle tree structure. Potential for nodes that do not wish to store or verify old transaction signatures, to remove the witness data from disk or not transfer it at all even, reducing blockchain storage/bandwidth amounts by
a large fact