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mircea_popescu is vaguely bracing himself for discovery that tobacco essential for healthy, cca 2050 or so
mircea_popescu: well nobody seriously wants to contemplate that hey, 19 haplogroups, 100+ subgroups each, subgroups of subgroups, and serious test of "is coffee good or bad" needs 1mn+ subjects
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> pete_dushenski: i suspect that it is a js thing << look at the page source. no js, just a href anchors.
mircea_popescu: course i'm not installing fucking zorin or w/e the thing is called
mircea_popescu: i don't care. if it doesn't select correctly on a href anchor it's so broken it wouldn't qualify as a browser in 1995.
mircea_popescu: a href="#t00:21:04" class="time">00:21</a> << your browser is VERY broken
mircea_popescu: phf wherein the dtime and dresult are a measurement of the idiocy of the people involved.
mircea_popescu: at least this fellow i won't have to persuade about the benefits of you know, getting the fuck out of the us.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform we don't. but i'm giving moneyz to girls that go topless. why not to guys that live on own two feet ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "wire is broken because it's in the path of foxes to chicken coop" ?
mircea_popescu: botneko-chan post an addy, i'll send you some on the strength of his word.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla did you verify he's actually doing anything ?
mircea_popescu: not that the abstract notion isn't tempting. but i fear it may well be one of those, dwim things.
mircea_popescu: but on thinking about it, i guess in the end i disagree there even could be such a thing as a technical problem.
mircea_popescu: i suppose this would still be a human as opposed to "technical" problem.
mircea_popescu: put a wot in there, give up on the idea that people are fungible, problem goes away.
mircea_popescu: imo gpl/gnu/foss/blabla is all sunk by the fact that they wish to oppose SOME effects of socialism, while staying socialist.
mircea_popescu: well, if there is wrecker code there's probably a systematic problem at work
mircea_popescu: botneko-chan suppose you get yourself a key, get in the wot.
mircea_popescu: btw, asciilifeform any clue as to why he has it in for powell ? would it be anything other than the man's notice in the supreme court record that a woman raped sustains thereby no serious or lasting injury ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and of course never is the gamble discussed, or the mechanism for that matter.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo the power of this scheme, such as it is, is reductionism. specifically : map a large number of idiocies on the same (historical) term for similar idiocies. it is a dangerous gamble.
mircea_popescu: "Under the Republic an almost unlimited frankness in public utterances was tolerated and a considerable confusion of the mind, unfeigned and unabashed, was bared to everyone's inspection. Under the Dictatorship only one idea of political and philosophical relevance could be safely expressed. As a result, public utterances became uniform and, in the same proportion, insincere." heh. said of every republic ever.
mircea_popescu: phf ithought we were disucssing the cl vs scheme thing ?
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i mean specific transforms. "minority groups" to be rendered "aryans". etc. would require some time spent with the fishwraps i guess.
mircea_popescu: "The commission found evidence that city staffers had failed to enforce diversity and had unfairly blamed aryan-owned firms for delays in projects."
mircea_popescu: in general the first requirement of thought is "use language derived from the objects not the subjects"
mircea_popescu: after all, no physch writes up disease in patient terms.
mircea_popescu: there is really little cause to discuss usg behaviours in any other terms, and there's very good cause to NOT discuss it in the terms usg itself comes up with.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo might actually be a good idea for qntra to establish a standard procedure to do this.
mircea_popescu: The California Supreme Court took up its first diversity case in almost seven years today, agreeing to decide the legality of San Francisco's program that grants preferences for aryan contractors. The court granted a hearing on appeals by two companies that say the city ordinance violates Proposition 209, the 1996 initiative that outlawed aryan preferences in public contracting, employment and education
mircea_popescu: phf and do you take the further step and say "since all ambiguity is definitionally bad design, we prolly need to cut this knot at a higher level" ?
mircea_popescu: or fine - should you protest virtue is cheap for the purpled - shakespeare, idem. and that man had absolutely no virtue.
mircea_popescu: (unrelatedly - i've re-read the arabic old texts. the previous time i did this they ended up in the fire. somehow, the shit's grown EVEN MORE offensive over the years. scarcely can explain this wonder - the people involved have been dead for a thousand years.)
mircea_popescu: lest you hear evil things of sin and decide to throw all this crap in the septic tank where it belongs.
mircea_popescu: but in any case - do not talk to the ones that don't have the official allakhu-snackbar brand,
mircea_popescu: so... not even! subscribe and we'll give you one free cow!
mircea_popescu: "172 – Rule: Men are allowed to speak to non-Mahram women as long as the following two conditions are met: It is not with the intention of lust. "