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mircea_popescu: Life's but
a walking shadow,
a poor player. That struts and frets his hour upon the stage. And then is heard no more: it is
a tale. Told by an idiot, full of sound and
mircea_popescu: he probably got
a little horny for the nude girl at dating age
mircea_popescu: "This, I submit, is on its own sufficient proof that pornography is
a wholesome, socially representative activity, whereas both cinematography and fashion are (by comparison at least) pernicious and very, very false. And that which is false can never be art, irrespective of all pretense to the contrary."
trinque: rather than
a wad of concepts I believed
trinque: as
a sort of direct, sensory thing
mircea_popescu: and i'll take any bet that feudalism as promoted by b-
a will take the piss, vinegar and cockroach guts out of any alternative, startingwith the usg
mircea_popescu:
a system, mind you, that had supported nine centuries of previous monarchs just fine
mircea_popescu: to this day i suspect xiaoping's plan was exactly 1. industrialise through giving away the products to the west. within half
a century you will have the industry and they will have collapsed.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform amusingly, this was
a strongly held byzantine notion, too.
assbot: Logged on 30-01-2015 05:50:13; mircea_popescu: the socialist state does not want
a normally functioning society, but instead this stellar configuration where the state is at the center,
mircea_popescu: exactly antitethical to how wots work, incidentally. because coherence is the only possible attacxk against
a wot.
☟︎ trinque: as I think about it, mostly
a fairy tale that extends the reach of foot-soldiers to nightmares
trinque: this calls into question whether the interaction between sovereign and subject is one of the dispensation of
a (hopefully better) OS, as I stated, or whether he is rather to be
a force of nature which is so, regardless of what winblows they're running
assbot: Logged on 21-01-2015 19:43:16; asciilifeform: chetty: ''Winston made another convulsive movement. This time he did not say anything. O'Brien continued as though answering
a spoken objection: 'For certain purposes, of course, that is not true. When we navigate the ocean, or when we predict an eclipse, we often find it convenient to assume that the earth goes round the sun and that the stars are millions upon millions of kilometres away. But what o
mircea_popescu: right ? whether ou find it or not, it's always there to fuck oyu over the mouth. with
a stick.
trinque: mircea_popescu: you have
a hell of
a way of provoking
a cascade of thought/reflection with
a single question
mircea_popescu:
a woman that remembers her time as queen of sheeba and
a sow that remembers the greatness of mud make just as good mates for
a hog mounting humiliation porn thing.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu centralism would be that eretz israel geese in
a barrel thing again
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> well, first hoover, then fdr << the pissing on veterans is
a universal sport. this is why being
a soldier is dumb, being
a mercenary is better.
trinque: pete_dushenski: I just spent
a long time sitting once upon
a time
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> which is, as good as any,
a demarcation point for the birth of modern usg << more like the birthplace of the central planning element thereof. "we affirm congress has the authority to central plan economic activity"
mircea_popescu: btw : he only ended up in jail because he was
a politician, and poiliticians exclusively are required to DECLARE their fortune.
pete_dushenski: trinque: there was
a moment where I realized my whole model of my life, experience, etc was that,
a model << curious, when ?
trinque: there was
a moment where I realized my whole model of my life, experience, etc was that,
a model
trinque: pete_dushenski: I think we'd agree then. I'm saying the OS that's being distributed is
a mangled hack
pete_dushenski: it's not clear to me that reality is digestible below
a certain level of intelligence
pete_dushenski: whether they pray to the state or science or the church is
a matter of fashion
trinque: pete_dushenski: this form of govt does not broadcast
a coherent model of reality
trinque: this brings to mind again my (hardly novel) thought that the usg is
a shattered sovereign, rather than the absence of one
assbot: Logged on 05-03-2014 02:05:11; asciilifeform: The giving of false testimony -
a crime, seen in Russia as small change - in the U.S. can lead to 26 years of prison. The fact that, in essence, the matter concerned
a young girl who did not wish to admit her love affair with
a married man, interests no one in the U.S. The principle of the machine is: do it [the crime] - receive. [consequences] the machine is merciless and incorruptible.'
assbot: Logged on 05-03-2014 02:05:11; asciilifeform: 'american does not believe the man in the uniform to be
a bandit, with whom one can come to an understanding. he believes him to be
a robot, who must be feared. american law enforcers are able to, by pressing on the keyboard of
a multitude of laws and regulations, 'transmute' the most insignificant peccadillo into
a monstrous deed. FBI did not need to beat up Monica or toss into her purse heroin or am
hanbot: was
a funny case of that in romania. prime minister, very corrupt, "from my auntie!"
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> does he have like
a gpg signed thing from ben_vulpes or something ? << pardon?
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I have no idea for
a better spec.
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: i thought they'd flag your passport if you get IRS audited and charged for evasion? (though I guess this is more
a dice roll if it occurs to an individual)
mircea_popescu: does he have like
a gpg signed thing from ben_vulpes or something ?
cazalla: how long until tax man comes to you and says, i'm
a reasonable guy, i'll accept payment for your taxes in bitcoin?
mircea_popescu: well if it were easy to say it wouldn't make much of
a bet.
the_scourge: ben_vulpes: i like the branch and fork model. and we do need
a non-code collaboration toolset built around that model. and we know that model works for closed communities, dictatorships and everything else
BingoBoingo: thestringpuller: It's true. Mitochondria have their own different DNA from their hosts and their hosts use them as
a dependency
thestringpuller: BingoBoingo: Eh, mitochondria are their own seperate life form. sort of like
a libc
the_scourge: ben_vulpes: dude i was working on it when i still believed in randos.
a long time ago
the_scourge: ben_vulpes: i've been in on his weekly hangouts
a few times, very very cool times
BingoBoingo: Eh, mitochondria are their own seperate life form. sort of like
a libc
ben_vulpes: <the_scourge> mircea_popescu: yah cool, i did read through some logs << some lol. the point is that you've gotta pick up the variety speak, and that comes from reading logs in near-real-time for six months, not "some" or "
a few" or "the ones i found interesting and/or easy"
☟︎ the_scourge: which is why we're going to get 3-parent babies soon. which is bullshit it's just
a mother, father +
a different woman's mitochondira
the_scourge: BingoBoingo: yes, moving to meat was
a benefit in itself
BingoBoingo: the_scourge> when we started cooking our food (cause fire was
a new technology at some point), our intestine shrunk by over 20%, leaving more energy for our brain << More likely shrunk as meat became nutrient fire or not. Most carnivores have short GI tracts because meat digest faster than comlex plant matter. Cell walls are
a bitch to break.
the_scourge: i'm not disagreeing with you. i eat lots of meat. when i lived in
a freer countries, i shot most of what i ate. you're preaching to the choir here but there are huge benefits to some of the more accessible forms of protein
the_scourge: when we started cooking our food (cause fire was
a new technology at some point), our intestine shrunk by over 20%, leaving more energy for our brain
BingoBoingo: Mitochondria is not everything. with steak you pop cellular membrane and start tearing
a part long chains of proteins
the_scourge: and hey i'm of the "catch and eat it raw" line of thought as well, it's just that from
a scientific look, spirulina does require
a lot less investment
the_scourge: basically spirulina, the advantage is you have to break down one cellular wall and you have mitochondria, meat is
a MUCH harder process
BingoBoingo: <the_scourge> spirulina is far better than meat than meat as
a protein source. fake bio knowledge or not, ask you local biochemist what must be done to meat before your body can digest it :D << Also even though "complete" spirulina in low in some more important amino acids
BingoBoingo: <the_scourge> spirulina is far better than meat than meat as
a protein source. fake bio knowledge or not, ask you local biochemist what must be done to meat before your body can digest it :D << Must go in mouth. Even raw I digest fine.
the_scourge: it's part of
a jargon from
a very different community
adlai: unchurched, noun:
a computer which does not use church numerals
the_scourge: as for it being more expensive... what
a retarded thing to say. even for USG