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mircea_popescu: there is no bojum, basic or otherwise. theyre's just work to fucking do!
mircea_popescu: webtard forums are chock full of kids that "started their web host" and wanna sell stuff on a shoelace
mircea_popescu: punkman the list is a year old, you've seen all the discussions in the logs with jurov naphex and the coupla people before i forgot ?
mircea_popescu: that's what i do. i'm a business man. i can't actually do anything.
mircea_popescu: yes. da fuck do you care, colocate the boxes and let them ddos until they fall over.
mircea_popescu: guaranteed business, etc, what exactly is going on, raining money where you people live ? obamacare paychecks ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: incredible how THIS MUCH has been a bridge too far for what, years now.
mircea_popescu is kinda curious whether/if someone is finally going to bite the bullet and make themselves useful by making an actual host.
mircea_popescu: all sorts of actual untruths are pushed, all sorts of marginal if inconvenient truths are systematically ignored, what made this particular minor lie so popular with the "educators" ?
mircea_popescu: nobody goes "fluoride, which we add to tap water, is a poison"
mircea_popescu: nobody goes "boys are pretty much immune to vd, it's the girls that get it"
mircea_popescu: nobody goes "you can't catch gonorhea from fucking 10k partners"
mircea_popescu: i mean seriously, advertisement campaigns PRO hiv ? where the fuck is the "stop eating like a pig, it'll kill you and it costs us money" stuff every good socialist country filled the train stations with ?
mircea_popescu: i dunno, someone's catamite must have got hiv early on or something, you'd think it's been kissed by the gods, this disease.
mircea_popescu: b) you don't go around putting up posters saying smoking can't make you stupid.
mircea_popescu: a) you don't go around putting up posters saying obesity "can't" give you tuberculosis.
mircea_popescu: how the fuck do you know it CAN'T ? for one thing, it CAN. for another thing, why the fuck is taxpayer paying for this.
mircea_popescu: punkman i really wish to understand how the fuck this "X can not happen" magic started for hiv, and why it continues.
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: either that or the dc being crazy, or the server having been stolen, or who the fuck even knows.
mircea_popescu: "Individuals born under these circumstances will be so out of touch with reality as to be incapable even of alienation. " ha!
mircea_popescu: ascii_field no because it doesn't matter anyway because reasons.
mircea_popescu: but i'm developing overexposure allergy to this "i don't understand anything so therefore here's my expert opinion on things"
mircea_popescu: "PGP is not as important as people think. As long as both parties use an encrypted email (and connect with a VPN, TOR, TAILS, whatever) you're fine. This is because if they get access to the webmail all information is decrypted either using automatic PGP decryption (eg: Countermail) or locally on their computer (somewhere this information is going to be stored)."
mircea_popescu: jurov the me saying "bitstamp is spamming " / bystander going on about how it's just someone else dialogue has been going on for what, ayear now ? two ?
mircea_popescu: any pimp worth his salt tattoos relevant phone #s in ho's soles. you never know when she goes viral.
mircea_popescu: whenever you peel garments off a bosomy beauty it's 50-50 you'll see some sort of textile pattern embedded in the tender flesh.
mircea_popescu: speaking of buttplug signage, i'm kind-of surprised inside-of-bra advertising hasn't caught off.
mircea_popescu: social media grieving stands with grief about in the same relationship instagram pictures stand with food.
mircea_popescu: which is why the good or bad will of the army of meat carries no particular value one way or the other
mircea_popescu: never thought i'd live to see the day people miss the footnotes.
mircea_popescu: anyway gotta say that was a pretty good blog earlier punkman
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, to support r&d you need a pointedly orthogonal metnality, which is specifically divisive FOR THE MERE REASON OF BEING DIVISIVE, not as a goal-excused means but as a goal in itself ; and certainly a competitive approach.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: another path into this issue would be the concept of "adversarial individuality". hola davout. to support a large empire (large defined in the sense of, stretched at the seams of communication abilities, to the point it struggles to maintain itself, a la romans) you require a certain mentality in the subjects. let's call it, in modern terminology, "inclusive", "cooperative" and whatnot other "good" feelers.
mircea_popescu: there was a high level of pseudointellectual masturbation, sure, much like in today's us. similarly then, mit educated chitlins could not light a lightbulb, but could pseudointelligently discuss "the types" of feminism as if that were a thing, somehow.
mircea_popescu: in any case, there's no "high level of scientific achievement" in china as proposed by that wikipedia. because "social sciences" are not sciences.
mircea_popescu: just like a society that makes "the elimination of all inconvenience, from murder to doctor telling you you're fat" its goal will negessarily get raped.
mircea_popescu: yeah, a society that makes "balance" its goal will necessarily stagnate.
mircea_popescu: and even today, the only reason they're doing anything is because they're trying to copy what they perceive as superior. that's it and that's all, without europe around to direly humiliate them, china would still be pretty satisfiedly pulling carts by hand etc.
mircea_popescu: fuck, even the greeks had the steam engine and used it to make toys and party tricks. exactly like the chinese use of gunpoweder.
mircea_popescu: in particular the chinese had sketches of the helicopter in the roman times, as opposed to da vinci's re-roman times. they had alchemy plain and proper a millenium before the euros. but hey, chinese "gentlemen" are too delicate to touch earths.
mircea_popescu: the chinese, like all of asia, like all of the arab world, like fucking oceania and all the "nation of africa" assorted nobodies were, and have been forever happy to sit around and contemplate the immortality of laziness.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the principal driver of inequality between europe (not "the west", the us is not included in this discussion as it doesn't fucking matter or even exist for most of it) is the stupidity of everyone else.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the guy has a point, and szabo's theory is not merely just silly, it's a sympthom of a larger western pathology (he's basically looking for an excuse, ANY excuse, just as long as it doesn't come to *a better quality of people*, because he's nuts with this racism bullcrap like the rest of the anglos.)
☟︎ mircea_popescu: historical fact afaik. which is how they got to their present kickass position.
mircea_popescu: !v assbot:mircea_popescu.rate.naphex.-1:958c6f38e082e9a15f842d84de6ebdde3ccb9d67e9272b3e1e8f75007262228f
mircea_popescu: "All our servers are running on 100% renewable energy. By choosing green services you can help to prevent the climate change." << speaking of "idiot signal", here's an easy way to lose business : put that on your site.
mircea_popescu: apparently they got confused as to the difference between "datacenter" and "website trying to push a movie someone made in cad3d about a duke nukem modmap."
mircea_popescu: i guess maybe you're right, wannabe-paypal. unless this is this a case of hidden fees
mircea_popescu: that way they can sell "business processing" to merchants.
mircea_popescu: sounds more like the reverse. people wouldn't give out their ccv to random outfit so they "support paypal".
mircea_popescu: they own a chunk of the fed, do nightly settlement or what do you mean "themselves"
mircea_popescu: (obscure bitpay-for-paypal opines on things on matters.)