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mircea_popescu: back in the 60s and 70s it was looking like muchly the other way. but today, scientology is
a barely surviving holdout of those olden days of talk psych.
mircea_popescu: the less important is his intellectual contribution - he proved conclusively that
a "field" with "its own terminology" is not for this purely rhetorical reason respectable.
mircea_popescu: as the expression goes, when hiring
a shaman don't hire the "best", hire the cheapest
funkenstein_: offhanded comment here about lacan and alt-physics took me on
a wild goose chase
funkenstein_: scary car crash. i had one in
a dream last night too.
ben_vulpes:
a vile beast is slowing my mental procs down i think
ben_vulpes: ugh i can't tell if this is allergies or
a sickness
mxtm: sorry You need
a better WoT rating for self-up. (level 2 with assbot >0)
williamdunne: Been
a redditard spewing hatred towards you (mircea)
williamdunne: I hate to confess, but
a year ago I would have done that
mircea_popescu: "i am
a guy who walks alone, and gets so excited if anyone mentions him that he even knows this happened".
mxtm: yeah homm unrated me and tim-tams and me trading was
a WHILE ago lol
mircea_popescu: <trinque> that is why I didn't just import the thing blindly; it worked differently than the current iteration << yeah at this point
a note is called for at that <hr />
williamdunne: mircea_popescu, that seems to be
a relatively common theme in many places, in fairness
mircea_popescu: <williamdunne> I will presume you are in the US << he's in portland.
a place so infected with dumb, if you ever run into
a sane woman you gotta marry her.
adlai: you may be glad to hear that decentralization has opened
a theater next to security
williamdunne: Aha, I wrote
a post about that the other day. So fed up of this "Decentralize all the things" meme
mircea_popescu: <williamdunne> I'm in Assbot's WoT, not sure why it didn't work for me << because you typed out the full name like
a noob, and you have
a display that fails to make the diff between capital i and lowcase l. instead of, you know, typiong the first three letters then hitting autocompletion like people who aren't noobs, and thus by noticing that Blo<tab> does nothing figure out the problem.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes " men who button the top button of their shirt when not wearing
a tie." << what's that ? retardaton ? tuxedo ?
trinque: ben_vulpes: the old deeds bundle hashes are
a hash of each deed comma-delimited, then hashed again all together
adlai: ben_vulpes: "it has taken more from me than it gave" is
a valid answer
ben_vulpes: adlai: how do you know it was
a net gift and not theft?
williamdunne: Yep, thats the one I was answering - I wouldn't consider the sovereignty I reside in to be
a part of my identity.
williamdunne: I don't, I just wasn't entirely sure what you were asking me so covered
a couple of interpretations
williamdunne: From the UK, got into bitcoin
a couple of years ago but spent the last having my education from
a number of #b-
a soures
gribble: Error: "getrust" is not
a valid command.
williamdunne: Is the source available for assbot? I'll have
a peek
Adlai: there is
a problem! system be broke.
Adlai uses "they" quite
a bit
ben_vulpes: i'm just going to use it as
a filter, the same way i filter against men who button the top button of their shirt when not wearing
a tie.
Adlai discussed just this very issue over dinner with
a university professor
mircea_popescu: pious fraud. no history was ever told any other way, because the principal driver behind history as
a human behaviour is exactly what Chillum was describing re his involvement in wikipedia.
mats: like lincoln ever gave
a shit about emancipating the negros ... rather than driving them into revolt, resistance, and generally disrupting the southern economy
mircea_popescu: one should still wonder why would record numbers of malingerers seen in
a thorouhgly voluntary force.
mircea_popescu: the fact that the medical science of detecting imaginary maladies never got such
a boost before or since notwithstanding.
mircea_popescu: "even the slave masters themselves agreed slavery is
a bad idea".
decimation: well, the colonies were
a nice place to 'disappear' all kinds of crazies
decimation: "Two were "Negro slaves", but the other eight were white servants, including Thomas Pearce,
a 20-year-old Bristol joiner, and William Webster,
a middle-aged Scottish brick-maker. Whether they were ever found remains
a mystery; almost nothing is known about them but their names. But their irate master was to become very famous indeed, for the man pursuing his absconding servants was called George Washington."
mircea_popescu: the woman's husband wanted to end the fee tail on the woman's dowry estate, and did not wish to entertain her children (which she had with
a guy she actually liked, about her age), and so ... had his friend teh lord of the cinque ports declare them slaves, and they got sent where slaves went in 1500.
mircea_popescu: in fact, even the puritans, even on the mayflower, for all the pretense to contrary, shipped
a total of four children that had been stolen from
a gentry woman in england, against hte mother's wishes. three died the first winter there.
mircea_popescu: either that or perfect the skill, shrug and try to be
a rock or something.
jurov: btw, is there
a trilema piece about how to maintain endless lists of "things that are not to exist" without becoming mad in the process?
mircea_popescu: decimation no. demented is different from mad in that one lacks the intellect whereas the other has
a malfunctioning intellect. the alzhimer patient is demented but not mad.
gribble: wn: demented adj 1: affected with madness or insanity; "
a man who had gone mad" [syn: {brainsick}, {crazy}, {demented}, {disturbed}, {mad}, {sick}, {unbalanced}, {unhinged}]
trinque: so this abjection drive is
a matter of female psychology?
mircea_popescu: "That Lakota men did not like to be called "heart of
a woman" in council meetings is less likely to mean that women were regarded as inferior than that the warrior's role was sharply set off from the woman's role". Check it out, both the Lakota and Hassrick managed to figure it out!
mircea_popescu: just... abjection. it's
a lot more psychologically attractive than most people dare to admit.
mircea_popescu: why us army hasn't been allowed to win
a war since the 60s at least.
decimation: 'the people' desperately want to believe that there is
a secretly competent branch of usg saving them from themselves
mircea_popescu: they were treying to get the russians to rape them and found
a way.
trinque: mircea_popescu: always
a very small number of whichever govt officials compared to the total populatio
mircea_popescu: like
a retarded native american would have taken it to the shaman to be exorcised ?
mircea_popescu: "the other" is
a puny excuse for the ego to escape the superego.
jurov: was happening for
a very loong time in ostblok
mircea_popescu: in fairness, as far as pop music is concerned, not understanding what the lyrics say is
a net plus.
mircea_popescu: hence why "globalisation" is the necessary end game of
a "the many matter"
mircea_popescu: "hi, i am obama and for
a while there I was
a bad meme."
mircea_popescu: i wonder if mr "if you have
a stanford you didn't go to that stanford" / "if you have
a presidency your parents didn't make you in that country" / "if you had an insurance you can no longer have an insurance" even realises what his memory is going to look like
trinque: mircea_popescu: we tell circle to mark
a bit to 0 in their db, and they keep our info for all time
trinque: this morning I got
a bunch of 2fa texts from circle; I wonder if they have an undiagnosed bug leaking customer info
mircea_popescu: amps should be
a restricted fucking export. buncha native retards and their cargo cultishness bejeezuz.
mircea_popescu: and people are like, squaling in delight, there's thunderous applause... "forever young" hasn't got this bad
a mangling since the last tiem
a drunk dude in wichita sung it at
a karaoke
jurov: i have noticed both mircea and alf show irreconcilable hate for certain things, maybe it's
a prereq?
mircea_popescu: trinque this pointedly excludes "creative people", obv. the sad story of WBs animation studio post quimby vs pre is
a fine illustration there.
trinque: subset of "being self-directed at all is
a thing"
trinque: the world's too comfortable; goes back to the thread yesterday about whether being self-taught is
a thing
mircea_popescu: GREAT WOMEN IN HISTOREE.
a confused squaw we now deem important!
mircea_popescu: I just... never looked for
a webhost since at least 2002, been using pretty much the same outfit since.
mircea_popescu: and in other news, jesus CHRIST has the world decayed since I last looked for
a host.
mats: on Windows the common codecs formats means that 99% of users would be running
a 32-bit version of both the video player and the codecs
mats: e.g. they have
a VLC bug that causes it to use terabytes of memory
mircea_popescu: journalist as opposed to indian battery chicken, i guess. "i cluck at the keyboard just like the wetbacks, but in not being
a wetback i get to call myself
a journalist. by trade!"
mircea_popescu: "Harriette Halepis is
a journalist by trade. Her work can be seen in Vegetarian Times, Seacoast Living, Success Magazine, Alive Magazine, and various other online and offline publications."
decimation: so who gave
a fuck about whatever the local soviet declared? folks who wanted to climb the power structure?