mircea_popescu: "Far be it for me to question the veracity of claims made by screenshots of anonymous comments from 4chan, but did anyone bother to stop and ask why a man would be dancing in a room full of people wearing coats?"

mircea_popescu: http://thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=dancing_man << worth a chuckle.

mircea_popescu: anyway, jurov found a guy willing to do the windows stuff, so there's going to be that, too.

mircea_popescu: nobody has so far taken a strong "fuck you, and red hat, and the usg" stance. it is likely they never will,

mircea_popescu: seems gentoo is going to be a major platform for eulora beta / many things we do.

mircea_popescu: it's latest but old. a new one is in the pipe so give it a few.

mircea_popescu: i dunno what value a 3 year old audio testimony produced by a media company with ample access to recordings of the person's voice could be worth in court.

mircea_popescu: "Your LinkedIn account says you’re in Sweden, so perhaps English is not your native language. That’s cool. Spanish was my first language, so I feel you. However, your generalization about women is a reprehensible bromide."

mircea_popescu: that's a mildly interesting problem : calculate the probability of naturally occuring exact geometric shapes of a given metal and mass.

mircea_popescu: generally birds are inefficient because of the 42 degrees problem. but also, polar bears eat a lot more than lions, per body kg.

mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-03-2015#1055504 << not really, no. they had a little less preditors than hippos would if there were no humans. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo lol actually, lemme give you the shortlist : http://trilema.com/grabeste-te-incet http://trilema.com/signore-e-signori-buonanotte http://trilema.com/nesustinabila-negreutate-a-nemortii http://trilema.com/laile-ou-la-cuisse http://trilema.com/2012/la-terra-trema/

mircea_popescu: which is a large part of what's so confounding about yours truly, in those quarters.

mircea_popescu: and in fact it goes as far as to work for a sign. does he look like he's having a good time ? he has no power.

mircea_popescu: the people who try to have a good time are generally 2nd or 3rd echelon,

mircea_popescu: preferably take a girl with you, can prolly get a decent price.

mircea_popescu: "oh, the luxury of paying 48658609485609850 for a condo."

mircea_popescu: the us is a bunch of impoverished derps with airs.

mircea_popescu: this is a very small amount of stalin to not have.

mircea_popescu: they don't have as much of a stalin as a uni professor that goes " all women, stand up and strip naked or go the fuck home".

mircea_popescu: in fact, they don't even have the vague approximation of a stalin where a guy says to his golddigger harpy "if you fuck another black man i'm going tyo hung you both by your toes, and if you struggle i won't let you go", and then does it when she fucks another black guy.

mircea_popescu: they don't have a stalin.

mircea_popescu: they could, if they had a stalin.

mircea_popescu: but i appreciate the opportunity to check this out experimentally - gangrape is fun for a majority of those involved.

mircea_popescu: ascii_field no dude, it's a simple, 5 yo would want to pretend she's a sophisticated college student like her old sister, so she does the best she can.

mircea_popescu: ascii_field it is not a secret to anyone except the completely imbecile "experts" the usg has historically and continues to "use" in it's quest to build itself as a bitcoin power independent from mpex.

mircea_popescu: ascii_field what is "Are ‘we’—the Americans I have lived and studied and worked with for years" and "who once made a living hell out of our fresh, green and naïve college days" iuf not direct translation of "we the workers" ?

mircea_popescu: lol nope. i am aware i sound more and more hruschev-ian, but no, i didn't have a bunch of muscle with clubs interspersed in the general public.

mircea_popescu: "Citizens ask for permission, expats ask for forgiveness" << maybe he should ask for a nailgun. ☟︎

mircea_popescu: brendafdez: the same happens to me with portuguese, which i walways perceive as broken spanish << to me it sounds like a bunch of russians trying to pretend they're speaking latin.

mircea_popescu: but it was a coincidence.

mircea_popescu: she was... a little unraveled.

mircea_popescu: nubbins` i once took a girl out to the very nice theatre in my home town, 1800s baroque building, and we sat in the presidential seats and at some point i started applauding

mircea_popescu: nubbins` clearly if he was applauded by a whole roomfull of people he's not a total failure.

mircea_popescu: some people who don't own a history book gather on a blogspot to emit nonsense.

mircea_popescu: some people who don't own a dictionary got opinions about the usage of words.

mircea_popescu: "in 1972, which culminated in Nixon's historic handshake with Mao Zedong, completing China's civilizational pivot away from the USSR and toward the west. In hindsight, this dramatic opening could only be properly characterized as a swift dagger-in-the-back against the USSR"

mircea_popescu: these were fucking broken, mostly because the "Swiss company" is a bunch of poor ass niggards with delusions of grandeur.

mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski not the point. the point is that if you make a spy node, you have no conceivable reason to make it act outwardly in any way other than a common node.

mircea_popescu: i agree with the chinese. the part where the young girl chooses is utterly burgeois, and the part where a choice is made is definitely reactionary.

mircea_popescu: Urals Mountain-Ash” (Уральская Рябинушка), a Russian folk song in which a young girl meets two nice boys under a mountain-ash tree and must choose between them"

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform : "It so happened that my aunt, then a sensitive and somewhat dreamy young woman, had stubbornly and haplessly clung to certain musical tastes which at that time in China came to be regarded as politically incorrect, being said, in the trendy ideological jargon of that time, to reflect “decadent bourgeois revisionist aesthetics.” To wit, my aunt had kept in her record collection a rendition of “The