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mircea_popescu: r
the verbal New Class, downwardly mobile in not just wealth but also societal respect, and desperate
to distinguish itself from
the working class. Since
this vanguard
tends
to be paid not enough
to do
this with classic material means,
they have set up a parallel status hierarchy based on
the
tastes and aspirations of Lloyd Dobler
to ensure
that
they get
to be its kings and, mostly, its queens. Even
the few rich liberals subs
mircea_popescu: "The entire spectrum of
thought of
those who we call liberals, progressives, socialists,
trendoids or Marxists [ie, what we call pantsuit] depending on what is fashionable
today, can be reduced
to and explained as
the simple automata
that
they are. After identifying many genuine problems and solving
them
to
the extent
that
they can be solved, liberalism devolved into naked group identity politics and petty status signaling fo
mircea_popescu: kinda why
the whole "do you have money ? no ?
then shut
the fuck up." works so well socially, personally and in general. because
they... don't. and
they know how
to get it and know
they can't get it. hence "cat-v" etc.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform check
this out, ikka k. apparently also keenly aware
that liberals are generally poor and helpless.
mircea_popescu: for
the first
time in a decade, at
that. BUT I DID IT!
mircea_popescu: i just cut myself a slice of cozonac, and put my own ice in my own fucking cinzano. and
then, when i wanted a refill, I STOOD UP AND GOT IT.
a111: Logged on 2014-11-16 05:31 mircea_popescu:
The brilliant Finnish-Canadian computer science professor / blogger Ilkka Kokkarinen has
taken down his popular blog, presumably
to keep his job after his campus newspaper noticed his heterodox views. His skepticism about
the intellectual consistency of lesbian-feminist
theory and practice would appear
to have been his biggest crime.
mircea_popescu does his usual s%\n\n%\r\r% s%\n% % s%\r\r%\n\n% while muttering underbreath about
the idiocy of fucktards who STILL DON'T UNDERTAND NEWLINE STANDS FOR NEW PARAGRAPH!!11
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu makes no claim
to knowledge re swedes. i just fuck'em is all.
mircea_popescu: who knows, maybe
they come back.
they've been really spotty
throughout history as it is, like
this radio
that keeps going in and out
mircea_popescu: but -- ill grant
this readily -- historical good nutrition makes for
tall, fuckable broads. so it's not all lost,
mircea_popescu: well, fwis
they did without complaint, all
that's left of "the great iroquis" is
the occasional
tall, fuckable redskin chick.
mircea_popescu: consider how
the jew system works : balabusta in
tyhe shop selling
to make money for man
to sit all day around sinagogue and godbureaucrat.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
the gather monkey is
the bureaucrat enabler.
mircea_popescu: large cheap food inputs and low pop growth rate -> surplus
to be "used".
mircea_popescu: you can have it in places where
the women are relatively infertile and
the berry bushes abundant.
mircea_popescu: in
the shape of a (bad) solution
to "here's
the male hut, wut do now"
mircea_popescu: though various failed bioexperiments such as
the pesky northern american
troglodytes -- iroquis et all, seemingly managed
to invent a bureaucracy-without-empire
mircea_popescu: (invention of bureaucracy in europe is no later
than diocletian. possibly caesar.)
mircea_popescu: chinese climbed down from
trees 3.5k-ish yearsd before europe.
mircea_popescu: no, actually --
they invented it late in
the relative game.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform landlockness is a major predictor. notice, koreans less retarded
than chinese.
there's
this sweetspot in
terms of shore/sqacre basis\
mircea_popescu: and it impressed nobody
that "hey, we sum up
to X", because
the X was so un-intensive.
mircea_popescu: there's a very deep reason why
the english landed in china
thought china is fit
to be a sort of wales -- more distant, populated by dumber monkeys (yes
the "gauls" were monkeys -- farming idiots), larger but still, fundamentally fucking wales.
mircea_popescu: perfection, no matter in what problem, is
the only item of interest whatsoever.
mircea_popescu: ie, right back
to
the calorimetry-yer-stove discussion.
mircea_popescu: but
the reason
they are admired, unlike say
the chinese, who were never admired and possibly never will be, is because
they squeezed so very much of
the fucking little
the yhad.\
mircea_popescu: fate of islands,
to suck. japan is basically easter island on steroids.
mircea_popescu: japan is a weird case,
they also failed
to invent -- leather footwear.
mircea_popescu: in exactly
typical socialist fashion,
the fucktards have been selling off
this item not belonging
to
them, "technological progress", repainted as "hey, new iphone came out!! it's cheaper and shittier and works less!!!"
mircea_popescu: night hall inherited from his granpa with modern
teracotta item.
THAT was progress, and
the knights applauded, and felt proud
to fight and die for such a greatly SUPERIOR homeland, as represented by
their lords castle, as communicated
to
them by
their god damned STOVE. and by,
to quote period, "wer kriegt so prompt wie der preusse sein
traktament!"
mircea_popescu: but, it is very important
to revisit and underline ye olde mazarin point ( ie
http://trilema.com/2014/modern-medicine-and-the-benefits-of-democracy/ ) :
there is constant
technological progress, in
the PROPER sense (ie, NOT for plebels, but for lords AND FOR LORDS ONLY) going from 700ad
to 1700ad.
THIS, and
THIS ONLY is what gave "technological progress" its good name -- when
the lord changed ye olde fireplace in
the common k
trinque now emerge --emptytree @world
to see what other mysteries await
trinque: this was not always
true of
the 6.x series; I've done 4.9.4 on it in
the past.
trinque: heh, in other peasant huts, cannot build gcc 4.9.4 from 6.4.0 on gentoo musl, gotta step
to 5.4.0 first.
mircea_popescu: ie, it was strictly a manor house item historically ; and part of
the manorial system in europe.
mircea_popescu: but, also just as important
though not in fact exposed for other reasons : stove IS BUILT IN PLACE.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-17 03:09 mircea_popescu:
turns out
there was a remarkably good solution, and a bunch of notbad ones.
ben_vulpes: so 'in out' means
that data can be read from
the param and will also be written into, whereas 'out' means
that data will only be written
to
the param in
the procedure?
mircea_popescu: aside
the matter
that
the problem hasn't been approached in postmoidernism, i dun see much better solutions available
than historically found.
ben_vulpes: anyways, way
the heck upstack, `FZ_Clear` 'sets a given FZ
to zero' but i only see an outparam; is
this not more of a constructor
than zero-er?
mircea_popescu: turns out
there was a remarkably good solution, and a bunch of notbad ones.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: this is why
this interests me, "make stove, with 1700s
tech, i'll put it in
the calorimeter and measure your %"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and if you do a calorimetry experiment you'll see
the austrian item converts nigh on 8% more
than
the swedish system
ben_vulpes: large
thermal mass, engineering
time spent
to ensure complete combustion, sometimes a long horizontal chimney
too?
mircea_popescu: as it happens a major center was at
tirgu secuiesc in ro. apparently still active,
they fix and rebuild.
mod6: Sorry, was just lookin
through logs. Might have mis-remembered
that.