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mircea_popescu: so hu the manatee says : in chinese pigdin, english vocabulary is used to cover chinese grammar. consequently she the cow of a pig, ie a sow, had kittens ie young ones ie pigglets.
mircea_popescu: wow check it out, apparently that's not on the internet ?! OMG THE WHOLE KNOWNOLEDGE OF HU THE MANITEE AT MY FINGERTIPS!!1
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there's a fucking reason "basic money" appears to basic kids. that's why they basically have parents!
mircea_popescu: (ftr, for they innocent of history - the entire cromwell debacle originally started with disputes over whether charles can or can't ask for a few measly thousand pounds in tax)
mircea_popescu: what, does anyone know or does anyone not know that they're currently not getting anything even remotely like a college education, for more money than charles tried to raise but got instead a civil war ?
mircea_popescu: it's god-awful. and they "pretend" to not know in the sense they're too fucking stupid to figure it out.
mircea_popescu: there is "basic roquefort" right here, in the future-usa that is argentina.
mircea_popescu: and they WISH for what they wish to matter above and beyond anything else.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform they do not WISH for there to be a hierarchy.
mircea_popescu: who has persian rugs in the bathroom ? romanians, that's who!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform dude looks so out of place in the desert the only thing that conjures up is "nigga gettin' killed".
mircea_popescu: and looky, they gotta get the shareholders excited. remember how jobs built apple ?
mircea_popescu: ascii_butugychag> you and i can also win against world champion with nine stone handicap, quite possibly. << i have. friendly game tho.
mircea_popescu: so in a quest for obscure nonsense, we encounter an interesting bit of david blight : "One of the ideas the reconciliationist Lost Cause instilled deeply into the national culture is that even when Americans lose, they win. Such was the message, the indomitable spirit, that Margaret Mitchell infused into her character Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind."
mircea_popescu: so how does obama relate to the collapsed urban infrastructure i nthe very fucking capitol ?
mircea_popescu: PeterL anything about the most tediously unfunny cracked article ?
mircea_popescu: yes, but it's necessarily a meaningless test seeing how wikipedia itself is not notable.
mircea_popescu: i'm not even sure if the events or the tardpedia retelling make it.
mircea_popescu: "dear blackmailer - please do! i was dying for attention anyway."
☟︎ mircea_popescu: anyway, this discussion goes splendidly with the article i've been working on, so ...
mircea_popescu: yes, well, in this sense at rest photons are the most valuable thing in the world, seeing how nature doth not shit them out at all.
mircea_popescu: but the deep reason isn't that it doesn't occur to the girls. it does occur. what also occurs is that it doth not, at the time, matter! whether they're maggots or not.
mircea_popescu: anyway - i keep slaves, it affords me deeper knowledge and more experience in less time than any sargent could ever hope for.
mircea_popescu: stop passing by reference and instead pass by value. lest you sit among a pile of knotted pointers wondering where all the value went.
mircea_popescu: that's the problem here. this constant "turns out" device which allows you to pretend metaphysics beats physics and meta-* rules supreme.
mircea_popescu: depends. is it with money you buy it, or with asshole ?
mircea_popescu: all you can tell from aside is what it can't look like.
mircea_popescu: it doesn't altogether seem a stretch, to me, this. but to attack the concept is to attack yourself.
mircea_popescu: but until such a time, i'll extend those dudes trying to do stuff the same slack i extend you, which is : who knows, maybe they are what they wish to be instead of what their environment seems to dictate. and maybe one day.
mircea_popescu: so, how about : you show me you can in fact live like a man, rather than as a welfare child, and then i show you where there are partisans, to believe.
mircea_popescu: and let's stick with the "narrative" bs. whether the us has any sensible life left in it somehwere or not doth make very little difference to me. i'd be quick to believe it makes very little difference to you also, if it weren't for your sad situation of being EX
mircea_popescu: ascii_butugychag> incidentally, ~nobody~ noticed that i used an ancient vdiff that shat out timestamps << no, i noticed, as well as the "false" string.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller if you recall the raging arguments between the hyerophants and the zealots, s-expr was the one faint hope the alphabetic side nailed its hopes on.
mircea_popescu: actually it's the hole through which the day comes in, to stick to estalibhsed metaphora.
mircea_popescu: but this is a very far seeing thing, for now it means ~nothing to bitcoind
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the idea is to replace json with sexpr which means you'll have to have some sort of scheme in there. and once you do, it'll replace the retarded format of coin scripts too, eventually.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and i resent the "narrative" implication, especially seeing how it's your fucking problem.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> but in point of fact there are no partizans in usa. <<< this is factually not so.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: lemme guess, reddit is pompously calling "everyone ignores us" a "civil war" ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> anything involving american 'militia' sums to 0 from start. << they have a word for the dudes knowing the results of experiments aforehand, and that name pointedly isn't scientist.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: curious how this theory of "kill ammon the rest will go home" pans out for them
mircea_popescu: well ignorance is a poor argument, but we know for a fact something like it is at work in perception selection
mircea_popescu: so in a field of 3x3 you won't get equal output from all 9 but usually most of the input from just one