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mircea_popescu: nah this'll have to be independent study, too thick for chat.
mircea_popescu: btw, anyone knows teh sweet lolz of "operation eagle claw" ? "delta force" inaugural mission into comedy golds
mircea_popescu: it's certainly replete with heresy, apostasy an' error from both catholic and orthodox povs.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron reading through that love page you linked, the guy's pretty innovative.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform seriously, "Medea Benjamin is the co-founder of the peace group CODEPINK and the human rights organization Global Exchange. She is the author of eight books, including " bla bla ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: in all fairness the garbage service here is pretty quiet.
mircea_popescu: "we need prayers". you don't need fucking prayers, you need to go the fuck away already.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron what do you mean "jesus is god". when did the entire son of god thing go away ?
mircea_popescu adds line to his absent social media profiles, "i can't be bothered to re-read this, and besides it's running on my piss anyway"
mircea_popescu: that's the important part, fucking urea solution, recast as "your pee!!!". not the rest. that.
mircea_popescu: his outrage of a fucktarded friend is ok tho, what was his name
mircea_popescu: that said, plenty of notable people in history were born out of women that never experienced menarche. it happens.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: follow the logic : women are not allowed productive outlets. therefore, they're either supported or starve. if you don't want her to starve, you'll support her. to support her she has to live in your house, this isn't a dhl land. for a woman to live in your house, she'd better be married to you. therefore...
mircea_popescu: the principal thinker from "their point of view" is the hunter.
mircea_popescu: leaving aside how it doesn't respect ohm's law (as restated for RED lightnings)
mircea_popescu: seriously, olive branch ? by people who never saw an olive tree or what.
mircea_popescu: you prolly shoul scan reserved ranges also, if routable
mircea_popescu: you'd be surprised what a coupla hours' worth of left hand rule can do to many acres worth of tight maze
mircea_popescu: funny, i routinely explore mazes as part of playing online games.
mircea_popescu: alternatively, she should stop whining about being dead.
mircea_popescu: looky, the question is a) entirely unrelated to the discussion and b) not substantially different from "what should the senior washington official stabbed to death have done".
mircea_popescu: anyway. soviet crazies, what can i tell you, and why should i care.
mircea_popescu: so i'm not really the right guy to ask about them things.
mircea_popescu: i give ~no thought to this entire "prevented from doing", much like the typically female "you made me do" dun enter into my thoughts.
mircea_popescu: what i'm discussing is your very bizarre stance whereby "the hero is prevented from saving world by park maid".
mircea_popescu: i am not even discussing the schwartz fellow at all, i dun really know him.
mircea_popescu: the word doesn't exist in english, but it's a "filosofie a ratarii", a fuckup's mindset.
mircea_popescu: and consequently, it becomes less a matter of "how my cryustals grow" and more a mattrer of "let's have coffee and gossip about that asshole who's the reason i can't do all the good things for humanatee".
mircea_popescu: this, obviously, is easy for adolescents to do. but people all ages have or can develop vanity issues.
mircea_popescu: they all without exception stem from inflated vanity, which is to say a contradiction between the individual's own sense of worth and the apparent or discerned valuation by "society", somehow defined.
mircea_popescu: there's more to that "adolescent business fantasy" than just that, money. there's also an "imaginary womenz and sexings" thing ; there's also a "great ideas in my great idea binder" etc.
mircea_popescu: this being the main problem with "idea people", theoretical physicists or otherwise. "oh, i see over the fence" "get lost"
mircea_popescu: no, no. you want to talk about neglected science being both valid and useful, there's only one way to do this : do.
mircea_popescu: none of this is interesting. unless you personally are looking for supercon, for some sort of reason, what diff does it make ?
mircea_popescu: i admit to being a very short physicist, theoretical or otherwise.
mircea_popescu: like say 75 billion kilometers tall. random numbers, right ?
mircea_popescu: eventually this stair that was "accidentally made" by "rocks falling" will show a step that's you know, higher than 6 inches tall.
mircea_popescu: seriously, it "just so happened" that the next thing to discover was within reach ? EVERY time ? get fucked already.
mircea_popescu: (of all the perverse reasons to consider the whole adventure is a set-up, such as, look how convenient that it so happens water is a) universal solvent ; b) very high caloric capacity - life'd be not quite possible without either, nor is there good reason for them to match up, not anymore than for the euler equation at any rate : the science progression is one of the best
mircea_popescu: in point of fact we're flat against a tall stair, and so i don't expect much either way.
mircea_popescu: just like computing in the sense of "ima hack my cpu together out of sawdust" is gone ; physics will require forevermore rather expensive tools.
mircea_popescu: i'm not even the first to observe this, by a good century.
mircea_popescu: but be that as it may - physics as a romantic endeavour is, and has been over.
mircea_popescu: anyway. dunno that the us is a significant actor in physics, or in general any science these days. they withdrew to "engineering" in the 70s, and then moved on to wtf they do now, "Social sciences", gave the engineering to the azns.
mircea_popescu: iirc came up in some discussion re why buffett wants higher taxes
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the conversation flew as "alf: X NONSENSE STATEMENT!!!! PROBLEM ?" "mp: history doth not support" reiteraded numerous times. eventually it tires.
mircea_popescu: 5k, 10k, 15k, 250k and over. o look, there's more in this "250k or over" than in the average 5k increment! could it be because it contains i dunno, 111`864 increments ?
mircea_popescu: i wonder, if they continued with the same increments all the way to 100mn, would it look the same way ?
mircea_popescu: "oh, look how discrepant the data we manipulated to look exactly this way is!"
mircea_popescu: anyway, i kinda tire of this "here's random boyish nonsense i just pulled from ass, plox consider it seriously" affair. we shall resume later!
mircea_popescu: the fact remains de broglie is an instructive example. i'd imagine he'd have said something AT SOME POINT neh ?
mircea_popescu: all the work one could do pen and paper was done by 1925/1930.
mircea_popescu: so then it IS a parochial argument to ignorance, "but mp, i can't see my spleen!"
mircea_popescu: there's plenty of successful cases, not as many as one'd want, i guess, but hey.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform bacon was born rich. no good ? de broglie was actually a duke. etc.
mircea_popescu: trinque the issue that people are miserable at educating their children is not really much of an excuse. stop sucking at it!