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ascii_field: d the detail of our lives is just as sordid and degrading as it could be in prison, let alone in
a bourgeois army.’ Many other things reinforced this impression later; for instance, the boredom and animal hunger of trench life, the squalid intrigues over scraps of food, the mean, nagging quarrels which people exhausted by lack of sleep indulge in.'
ascii_field: made of some kind of polished stone so slippery that it was all you could do to keep on your feet. In addition they were always blocked. Now I have plenty of other disgusting things in my memory, but I believe it was these latrines that first brought home to me the thought, so often to recur: ‘Here we are, soldiers of
a revolutionary army, defending Democracy against Fascism, fighting
a war which is about something, an
thestringpuller: That is,
a soldier's only purpose is to "complete the mission".
thestringpuller: I was under the impression
a soldier is nothing more than
a political tool.
ascii_field: this works because infantry is
a machine (yes) not man. i.e. soldier hasn't the choice of 'i don't feel like it'
mircea_popescu: barbed wire and guns are more of
a sign that things are improving than anything.
ascii_field: thing is,
a situation like this is impossible without barbed wire & guards (in one form or another)
ascii_field: it is another where it is encrusted with so many mines, of such variety, that you can hardly make out what the thing was (
a bridge?
a railroad ? what?)
ascii_field: it is one thing to subtly, secretly sabotage
a thing.
ascii_field: 'Comparing this plot to 10000 4-byte values retrieved from /dev/urandom ( Figure 6 ), gives us
a strong
ascii_field: (lolzy. built-in key generated at factory; other key is entered through
a winblowz proggy!)
mircea_popescu: somehow working together it was 1 minute, i am confident it'd have been half
a fucking hour of my life otherwise.
mircea_popescu: it IS
a search problem. "i want X". "can you put X in X' ?" "no but i can tell it to alf"
ascii_field: when such
a thing exists for
a subject, it is clearly the winner, yes
ascii_field: (the canonical experiment involves
a jar full of coins or the like. but if you were to put the jar behind
a door, then no signal. only noise.)
assbot: Logged on 20-10-2015 16:22:05; mircea_popescu: because why would they ? if they know the topic they don't need to search google, what the fuck is that you know, "i would like to see what the republican party says, i wonder if they have
a website". on the other hand if you don't know it, why would you trust google. "i wonder if thye have
a republican party in bali. o look, republicanpartyinbali.blogspot.com comes up first."
ascii_field: and at any rate this is
a beautiful election. teaches the childrenz how ~actual~ usg works
mircea_popescu: you can't have
a toy election anymore than you can have
a toy pregnancy.
ascii_field: 'Van Haren went on to say that she is considering
a variety of fixes to the problem, including appointing several new positions in order to ensure more minorities are represented without kicking out those who actually won the election.'
ascii_field: no. i do have
a secret pasttime of reading just about anything written by prisoners, in all times and places, with emphasis on modern americans. but i cannot pretend to be an expert.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, it's not hard to meet convicts. there's
a program you can sign up for, host one getting out of prison for
a few months.
mircea_popescu: because why would they ? if they know the topic they don't need to search google, what the fuck is that you know, "i would like to see what the republican party says, i wonder if they have
a website". on the other hand if you don't know it, why would you trust google. "i wonder if thye have
a republican party in bali. o look, republicanpartyinbali.blogspot.com comes up first."
☟︎ mircea_popescu: im sure alf doesn't wanna be an engineer either, he wants to be
a hunter. what of it ?
mircea_popescu: "oh, but women don't wanna be extras in
a man's movie just for being women". tough.
assbot: Logged on 20-10-2015 13:47:06; funkenstein_: there must be something lost in translation. How is some random mentally broken corpsemuncher anything like
a prof. wrestler, or
a real wrestler, or
a gangster, or
a gangster rapper?
mircea_popescu: there is no community with the derps.
a world without them is
a better world, under ANY circumstances.
assbot: On how the factored 4096 RSA keys story was handled, and what it means to you. on Trilema -
A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... (
http://bit.ly/1NlQkIc )
assbot: On how I ended up suing Phoenix NAP, LLC ; on how Ira R. Cadwell's mom Stephanie's going to lose her Chula Vista home ; on how Marcus Bohn is going to catch
a lot of shit for that ; on assorted other drama. on Trilema -
A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... (
http://bit.ly/1NlQkI6 )
mircea_popescu reads tpbit thing, is unimpressed. oh you mean people wanna blather about nothing rather than do work because
a) it's easier and b) they don't wanna do anything anyway, they just wanna appear so and so ? mmmkay.
gribble: Error: "based" is not
a valid command.
mircea_popescu: in fact, it might actually be
a large part of why said kids are broken in the head.
lobbes: so cable company just called me; 'Because you're such
a loyal customer, I'm going to give you this exclusive *unadvertised* offer! For MORE money per month, I can give you faster internet!"
thestringpuller: ;;later tell funkenstein_ I've bought
a lot of Jay-Z albums. The Black Album on vinyl is sick. Jay-Z is good at moving albums tho...
funkenstein_: unless the "at what" is specified, it's just
a phrase used for effect
assbot: Logged on 19-10-2015 20:03:53; Xplosionist: I mean, I'm very glad we have people that do it. Most of whom are actually nice and do
a good job. But, wow, I would never want to deal with as much crap as you have to put up with fore that job.
funkenstein_: anyway "reasonable doubt" - "friend or foe" is worth
a listen :)
funkenstein_: and related later, how many people do you know that paid for
a recording of Jay Z? But oh, I saw 100million written down so, lets just believe that shall we?
funkenstein_: there must be something lost in translation. How is some random mentally broken corpsemuncher anything like
a prof. wrestler, or
a real wrestler, or
a gangster, or
a gangster rapper?
☟︎ funkenstein_: first they came for the derps. but I was not
a derp, so I said nothing.
funkenstein_: likely true, though
a video made by some people you don't know doesn't verify it
punkman: though, it is
a fact that guy on the street does not know what an ounce of gold looks like or what it's worth
funkenstein_: for more on this topic, go watch Remí Gaillard prank videos, and think for
a while about who is really being pranked
BingoBoingo: Kind why qntra works like BitBet as
a truth finding mechanism, also time weighted
mircea_popescu: "Mass murder is the violent expression of being
a pussy. The people killed are almost never the people who actually hurt you-- they are the nameless collateral damage of your fear of confrontation. Every person who Sodini felt hurt him is still alive. Every person he shot was nothing but polite to him, if they had any contact at all. This is almost universally true about mass murderers. In other words, the people w
mircea_popescu: This is how famous people die: they take stimulants to party all night, and sleep very little. Finally, on day 3 they're too wired to fall asleep naturally, so they take
a few extra sedatives (because they feel so wired.) However, the full dose of the pills doesn't happen until after they fall asleep; the sedation is worsened even further by stimulant withdrawal; and, of course, the natural exhaustion that comes with
BingoBoingo: I just gotta say Jay-Z's girl Beyonce better consider
a calorie deficit before she ends up like Kim Karsashian who bloated up.
ben_vulpes: b-
a can't distinguish the jigga man from dre, thestringpuller
BingoBoingo: The point people are chemically engineering themselves routinely to be better at the sport in school is the point where the sport had went beyond what makes sense as
a school sport.
BingoBoingo: Because why put your kids in the position to suffer likely murder to people doping with shit that works when... you can tell them no for at least
a few years.
mircea_popescu: the REASON they said this, and stuck to it, is the correct observation that absent
a very certainl possibility you'll fucking kill her, from which you wilfully abstain, the woman's not even slightly interested.
mircea_popescu: EXACTLY for the reason superman could be
a ball. in 19fucking50.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform explain to me the topology of the wrinkle in 1-dimensional space with
a quantified rule =1.
mircea_popescu: priscilla lane snubs eddie bartlett in the roaring twenties, and this is perceived as
a visceral crime by the audience. why ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this is
a legitimate if complex question. i'll approach it from very, very far away.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform even deeper than that. the guy is so smooth, so flat, there is no possibility for
a woman to get caught in anything.
mircea_popescu: yes, deeply coherent people APPEAR to be narcissists, and then it's easy to mistake THAT as driving the whole show. but it is not. narcissism is merely
a defense mechanism.
mircea_popescu: no see, im starting to understand
a lot of things, or moreover : the tlp wash has put pieces in my head into
a sense.
mircea_popescu: how the fuyck is
a woman supposed to fall in love with cubical fungus ?
mircea_popescu: what the fuck ? WHAT would
a woman fall in love with ? the guy is as vacuous as an ipad. he "does
a good job" programming .net crap and tans.
mircea_popescu: "Imagine after tanning for
a month and lifting weights, he met
a girl at the gym who fell in love with him."
mircea_popescu is finding
a discussion of some 2009 "mass" (really, 4 people at
a gym) shooter on tlp's blog quite informative.
mircea_popescu: what are they gonn
a do, ask the us navy to shoot down the harasser ? :D
mircea_popescu: this is
a different identical fake hood dood isn't it ?
BingoBoingo:
A bit of that.
A bit of fuck reddit censorship.
adlai: now... two bundles, each with
a double divideed. nice :P
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> not to mention that 'decriminalize' is an idiot newspeakism <<
A lot of this. Basically code for enforce with greater arbitratity and seize moar funds.