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mircea_popescu: "it is forbidden to suggest solutions to the septic problem that involve any manner of removing shit from the stack"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that never was the unclear part. didja have a replacement was the unclear part.
mircea_popescu: totally, thank the people who put the hole in, it's because of their "hard work" that you have a hole to burn.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform should be pretty lulzy to read the "never happened and if it did we did it first nayway" verbiage.
mircea_popescu: see if stackexchange burial team is at battlestations or not.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo incidentally, this should be qntra'd asap.
mircea_popescu: #b-a, the driving force behind internet security phenomena. since 2016.
mircea_popescu: "Last year, The Intercept published documents detailing the NSA's SKYNET programme. According to the documents, SKYNET engages in mass surveillance of Pakistan's mobile phone network, and then uses a machine learning algorithm on the cellular network metadata of 55 million people to try and rate each person's likelihood of being a terrorist." << hey, i'm sure they beat them at go, first!
mircea_popescu: but i am also very curious to hear out disagreement, especially from the esteemed peers living with young children.
mircea_popescu: hey, they swap daughter with neighbour prior to fucking, why not infant prior to eating.
mircea_popescu: there's a section of romania convinced that this romanian dude invented writing and taught the romans to fuck and egyptians to pyramid.
mircea_popescu: there's this general tendency of shitty countries to entertain this dream that they're really cool.
mircea_popescu: i heard horror stories about jews stealing good german women's sexual mojo, also.
mircea_popescu: the telltale, specific nonsense old women come up with, but particularly successfully rooted.
mircea_popescu: the toilet paper nuttery is endemic in central america also. i always ignored it, to no detriment. sort-of wondering whether there's any more substance to this nonsense than any urban legend. to this day for instance south koreans believe magical asphyxiation rays come out of fans left running while people sleep.
mircea_popescu: i'd gladly explain if you used a verb in your questions like sane people.
mircea_popescu: suffice it to be said that if you're looking for a place to live in case of open hostilities with china (not that there's any likelyhood of that), texas way better than chicago or new york.
mircea_popescu: none of this is, of course, ever to be reported in the pravda.
mircea_popescu: the current "we will pay lizardhitler cronies" guy is going to try and renegotiate that thing to add a clause that the base is "not to be used militarily". as if it has any other fucking purpose than ready bombardment of us/canada.
mircea_popescu: in other vaguely lulzy news : previous (socialist) argentine government "signed" a treaty with china, allowing them a fancy new "satellite" base in the far south, right next to the pole.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and i suppose the problem of ages is whether cunt is mp-complete or merely mp-hard ?
mircea_popescu: glasses! let's see if this makes alf say she has an expression! maybe he only digs intellectual chix
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller notreally. it's just a dude that expects computers to be metaphysical objects not made of discrete parts.
mircea_popescu: i went because when we were all together it was pretty cool.
mircea_popescu: i didn't go to school every morning i knew the other kids would show up because "i had theorems to prove"
mircea_popescu: that's the fucking thing there. "some people have no theorems to prove ; most people have no friends that'd know a proof"
mircea_popescu: "making sense quite often" is like the cipher that mostly works lol
mircea_popescu: ask newton if he more enjoyed his time with the euro jet set that recognized the lion by his claw ; or with the domestic merchant class that drove the south sea bubble.
mircea_popescu: jurov "they don't succeed at making money, but that's secondary - they succeed at feeling like a trader".
mircea_popescu: "we don't have iron, so we make swords of the reeds we have" is not sense.
mircea_popescu: the solution to these faux problems is always the same, "don't want very much". which will make random offering perfectly fine.
mircea_popescu: you'll also not have easy, meaningless sex with random women that you enjoy. and you won't be able to eat from garbage cans and always find exactly what you wanted to find in there.
mircea_popescu: would you stop trying to support this insane lifestyle of "i need laptop" ?
mircea_popescu: much like say a social worker would be "oh, this solution doesn't provide work for enough social workers"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no, you know how to solve the problem but don't want to because not enough engineering involved.
mircea_popescu: why is faraday room expensive ? aluminum siding, legitimate industree.