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mircea_popescu: cockroaches are pretty interesting as far as that goes. for instance : did you know that the entire fucking genus, which is immnse, strictly depends on there not being abrasive surfaces ?
mircea_popescu: so improbable in fact it even enticed you into playing your qj straight into my pocket rockets.
mircea_popescu: anyway, that's the cultural antrhopologist standing story an' im sticking by it : speech is interesting because it provides permanence in a very improbable setting.
mircea_popescu is well gratefull to be dead long before he'd reach the end of anything.
mircea_popescu: it'd then be the case that sooner or larter we;'d have to do everything. EVERYTHING.
mircea_popescu: because if it weren't... think for just a minute how horrible life were if in point of fact we were imortal.
mircea_popescu: well... they're colored. you ever seen my pic with the sea slugs ?
mircea_popescu: and i meant indelible not inedible. i blame the keyboard.
mircea_popescu: but some obscure thing about what is interesting or not.
mircea_popescu: that's your inedible point of contact : the same agent that cooed and went heels over head through the use of the same mechanism then taught you how to usew that mechanism.
mircea_popescu: you are familiar with the basics of human sexuate reproduction i expect ?
mircea_popescu: that's how that thing got added in there, outside of that line it's dead.
mircea_popescu: grandfather is only present in the father (and his antecessors) chain.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, the context of your father shares a lot with your own.
mircea_popescu has serious trouble evaluating the gender of people who lived in socio-cultural constructs that share little with his own in any sort of term that's meaningful for common parlance.
mircea_popescu: dude i have no idea, the long dead are a 4th fucking gender.
mircea_popescu: or in other words, the only reason you think they're still men is because their key expired and you don't have to refresh anything.
mircea_popescu: phf i doubt assbot actually updates them. it might also not look at expirations, i dunno how kakobrekla did it, maybe he weighs in.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but they are dubious scientists. if euclid walked over here and got into an argument with me over fucking bannach space algebra, pete_dushenski would prolly be right in his wing with a !rate euclid -1 gramps has nfi where his rope ends.
mircea_popescu: "no but really, it's more about partnership". i'm sure it is. and it gets tested never. "no, like, once someone gets cancer". tyvm, i prefer to create my own problems.
mircea_popescu: but some common ground can be found. "your wife won't do what you tell her to ? what does the possessive denote then ?" for instance. "oh but it hurts. and she finds it disgusting". yeah. that's the fucking point. of course she'll obey an order to eat more chocolate.
mircea_popescu: to some people, the notion that men aged > 50 today as well as their antecessors didn't do x y z thing automatically disqualifies them, as men. to some other, it's just ridoinculous bs.
mircea_popescu: note that you're no more required to be a plumber than i'm required to give a shit about lisp. you get to pick your own spot where your vita brevis makes no difference anyway.
mircea_popescu: how about anal sex. what % of his mates did he bugger ?
mircea_popescu: the thing with science is that there's no science outside of what science you make. there's no wave function in the actual fucking fermion.
mircea_popescu: "oh i tried to look into this whole darwinian stuff. mmmkay..."
mircea_popescu: here's a pro tip : everyone investigating matters out of paradigm decide, with clockwork regularity, that their attempt was a mistake.
mircea_popescu: the same thing you gain from trying to figure anything else out.
mircea_popescu: i don't think you're enough of a pedophile to give a shit about what teenaged women do anyway.
mircea_popescu: phf afaik it never downloads it. if your key expires you're fucked.
mircea_popescu: and entrenching aristocracy means sclerosis and stuff like that, but let's not get too serious.
mircea_popescu: he happens to be exactly right, too. welfare class strictly means entrenching aristocracy, it isn't even a thing on and of itself. just a sympthom of that phenomena.
mircea_popescu: he entrenchment of an aristocracy, can't have one without the other once you get bigger than 20M, ask Bismarck. "Does he write for Time?" No. But keep this in mind every time you hear how great it is Bill Gates is curing malaria after leaving us all with Windows."
mircea_popescu: in media and not understand media? The fact that feminism is in the mainstream means that it doesn't exist, it is no longer real, in the same way that when you hear "gun control debate" it's a lie and "fiscal cliff" is an easy to market, safe distraction from the structural problems that can never be named, here's one: for any heterogeneous population, the expansion of a "welfare class" is logically inseparable from t
mircea_popescu: "For the past two weeks Sandberg was anywhere nothing useful is happening, and I'm going to include Facebook in that. Some cry-baby over at Jezebel was thrilled that Sandberg was featured all week on Access Hollywood, holy Christ, she thought this was a good thing. "Feminism is back in the mainstream in a big way," she wrote, I assume in between quaaludes, "the women's movement is actually moving." How can you work
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: and in other news these monte cristos are fucking exquisite.
mircea_popescu: actually universal agreement being strictly detrimental is a standing rule.
mircea_popescu: the side point being that agreement is neither required nor actually the criteria.
mircea_popescu: just a large-ish body of accepted knowledge which merely appears accepted "by everyone" in the sense that nobody agrees with all of it but nobody has seriously attacked all of it.
mircea_popescu: unlike any decent cult, b-a does not actually have a cannon.
mircea_popescu: you want a washbasin to shit in, plug the bidet and go at it.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: it's not like the distinction is in any way meaningful. it's pure bullshit, which is one of the major reasons the pgp "standard" is so borken. there's no actual enforcing of the notions it then purports to expose to the verbal world.
mircea_popescu: "subkey shenanigans" are EXACTLY what "someone finding a collision for your fp" means.
mircea_popescu: funny how many people discover they really got nothing to say once the gate is there.
mircea_popescu: after which litigation, sex tapes, and finally married an ex nfl quarterback.
mircea_popescu: miss california / miss usa aspirant, asked by that slime perez hilton what she thinks of same sex marriages, didn't have the presence of mind to tell the old fag to stuff it with the bullying, as this is about hot young women not about wrinkly old poofs nobody would fuck with a loaned goat penis,
mircea_popescu: unrelatedly, anyone familiar with the life of this 2010 rapunzel, carrie perjean ?
mircea_popescu: iirc i have a "why you don't want to chain hashes" thing somewhere.
mircea_popescu: can you demonstrate rsa malleability in the sense of, appending "pete_dushenski.rate.punkman.2:" as prefix to cyphertext ?
mircea_popescu: but yes, automated security and suicide share a flavour.
mircea_popescu: kinda why the issuie is an elephant in room : we (i) dun really wanna go into it because it's such a bitch to manage and creeping featuritis 5 ways to sunday
mircea_popescu: no, but if the number reads "4" you don't need to be shown the deed with number 3 to know 4 is a valid number.