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a111: Logged on 2017-05-09 12:42 asciilifeform: but it is still possible
to observe
that it -- preoccupied with plugging whatever escape holes -- is in fact of 'gulag'
type
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-09#1653759 << no, no.
the sad fact of
the matter is
that what people want is without exception stupid and harmful. not even one, both. a functional civilisation provides people with a good story as
to why
they're getting something other
than what
they want. whether what
they actually get happens
to also be a) what
they actually need, as opposed
to $random ; b) actually competitive with
the vario
☝︎ a111: Logged on 2017-05-09 04:53 BingoBoingo: Lizards are vulnerable
to accidental dope OD
too
a111: Logged on 2017-05-09 05:06 mircea_popescu: in any case, a civilisation is not a sort of supermarket leaflet,
to be judged by how well and how
thoroughly it satisfies your perceived needs.
mircea_popescu: in any case, a civilisation is not a sort of supermarket leaflet,
to be judged by how well and how
thoroughly it satisfies your perceived needs.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: but
this promises
to be yet another pandora box. obviously and of course.
mircea_popescu: but
these days, even
the fine motor control of hominid ain't worth jack. and so...
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform actually
the premise for civilisation competing with dope od is finally here. prior
to recently,
the dorks were still needed for muscular power -- first, brute,
then, finely controled by a cns, primitive as it was.
mod6: lol, "nuke
this box 4 me!!1"
BingoBoingo: Anyways how would
the CIA lizards have any money at all without
their
trafficking business
a111: Logged on 2014-06-18 00:36 asciilifeform: interestingly, sometimes
the pharma folks fail:
they spent some years
trying
to cough up a dopamine reuptake inhibitor
that doesn't reduce
to a synthetic cocaine, and, afaik, gave up
jhvh1: shinohai:
The operation succeeded.
BingoBoingo: Alcoholism, Bitcoin, and
the
timeless infant republic saved BingoBoingo from possible Sam-ism
BingoBoingo: WoT coupled with handshakes is all
that remains as opposed
to
the
time where WoT was also coupled with BitBet
BingoBoingo: English has a poverty of conjuctions,
trying
to use an exclusive sort of "and"
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> in other lulz from ye olde heathendom,
https://archive.is/Cvsb7 << Well for quite some
time now
there's been no serious betting venue outside of WoT and handshakes.
shinohai decides
to go
the distance, channel inner Gregor Mendel, and await fruit flies.....
shinohai: Well I left out bananas for a week,
turned brown, got gnats. Now what?
mod6: <+asciilifeform> gentlemen, get yer gnats in working order. will need
them shortly. << cool!
mircea_popescu: in other news, why
the fuck isn't
there a rapper named cashew ?
a111: Logged on 2015-04-07 00:10 mircea_popescu: just like having a car doesn't alow having gasoline. it's
true
that often people who have cars also independently have gasoline, but
the
two are fundamentally unrelated, and
there is such a
thing as
the fool's breakdown, ie, car's outta gas on
the side of hte road.
a111: Logged on 2017-05-08 22:23 ben_vulpes: dang, urbit went straight
to
the browser
mircea_popescu: well,
there's a difference between
typical and common.
tsetse in fact quite
typical.
mircea_popescu: this great dilemma must be integrated,
thought
the hipster doofus, and so urbit or whatever. start-up culture.
mircea_popescu: or else
they gotta go you know, in
the raft, like
that chinless douche / president of nbc with a crush on elaine. which doesn't supply food.
mircea_popescu: see, because currently
the george costanzas of
the world are stuck : either
they go work for nbc, which does pay ok but makes women in bars laugh in
their face shrieking "imagine! he writes sit coms! and he
tried
to USE IT!11"
a111: Logged on 2017-05-08 21:43 ben_vulpes: what are
those again? being
the wholly-owned sillycon valley bitcoin/namespace
table?
mircea_popescu: if what happened in
those heads were modular arithmetic,
they'd even be useful.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform aha, i was
thinking exactly
this, wtf
they managed
to re-bolt central approach into it.
mircea_popescu: "In future, it would be great if I could just accept any old patch, from any urbit down
to
the merest comet, as long as it was sealed by ~zod. In general, I would find it comfortable, knowing
that everything my urbit was running was a collection of patches, each of which had a signature, or a chain of
them, originating in
the urbit claiming authorship of
that patch." << wtf.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform lol wait wut, urbit bolting v
to
the side ?
mircea_popescu: "Thank God for
those strict gun control laws in Chicago, otherwise
the place would look like
Texas." << i lelled.
mircea_popescu: i'd propose anyoen with a degree from
the same place and an ounce of self respect worth would return it, but
then again it's
transparently a ploy by whatever rando nonuniversity's
too-clever-by-half administrator.
mircea_popescu: honestly, i was hoping for something more along
the lines of, "trayvon martin,
the idle hoodlum who
tried
to beat up
the wrong guy and got it as a result has finally received a less idiotic name. he's going
to be exhumed and reburied as
travis martin later
this week"
a111: Logged on 2017-05-08 21:32 asciilifeform: in yet-other, lulzier-yet lulz,
https://archive.is/wRzSJ >> 'Trayvon Martin,
the Florida
teenager whose shooting death by a neighbourhood watch volunteer in 2012 prompted a national debate over racial profiling and civil rights, will be awarded a posthumous university degree in aeronautical science
that reflects
the 17-year-old’s dream of becoming a pilot before he was killed.'
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no, sex means copulation,
the usual reproductive behaviour in sexuate species.
mircea_popescu: they gotta hold
the she-waterbugs in front of a frog
to get
them
to cooperate, yo.
mircea_popescu: "i have nfi what receptive member of a sexuate species would want
to "experience sex" rather
than run as fast as legs would carry in opposite direction."
a111: Logged on 2017-05-08 21:25 asciilifeform: i for one have nfi why anybody at
this point would want
to 'experience american', rather
than run as fast as his legs would carry him, in opposite direction.
mircea_popescu: and
take-out is
this very specific
thing. subway bears
the advertisements
thjat
tell
the story, "rated largest quantity of muza per porcion". muza dude. petrocheese found a new life down
there.
mircea_popescu: you should have seen
the cheap "pizza" places in buenos aires. ~nobody cooks
there because
they're idiots,
they survive on
take-out and barbecue a few
times a year.
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-08#1653599 << happened all
through south america. it's not "considered food" i nthe sense
that "it's expensive", and
they have some vague intuition as
to
the whole "in parismadrid
they go
to mcdo
to experience american -- and SO DO WE111" ; however
they are poor and cheap food is cheap food and
they have local shitholes
that "invented foccacia" sell
them "pizza" or whatever, produced according
t ☝︎ mircea_popescu: there's
this automatic "judge human mass by
the mass" mental process, visible here, visible when new guy was going "oh, capitalism will end because most people are spurious", as fucking if.
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-08#1653594 <<
the problem with
this
theory is
that culture is reposited in
the elite in all cases.
the arab world at
the
time it was saving
the classics from
the idiot hordes of europchristians ALSO mostly made of arablite by mass. if i pile up a bunch of coal over your heirloom diamonds can i
thereby convince you
to
throw out "all
this pointless carbon" ?
☝︎ a111: Logged on 2017-05-08 21:09 phf`: i
think
that
traditionally would be called pogrom, rather
than genocide. problem is
that unlike jews, coptics, parsi, etc. american blacks don't have a culture
to fallback
to, and
their persecution narrative is artificially constructed, so
they just fall back.
there's not going
to be a
tzadik in projects, unmovable, because
torah
told him
to suffer
mircea_popescu: but anyway, physical extermination is rather likely on
the way also, anyway.
mircea_popescu: it is literal genocide, however
that may fit or not fit unexamined notions of mass slaughter = genocide.
the fact
that "african americans" are a sad desert where ella and louis used
to walk is good enough.
a111: Logged on 2017-05-08 20:59 phf`: i
thin genocide in
this case is not
the literal lynching, but rather
the systematic removal of agency under
the guise of help and support, aka "useful idiots"
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-08#1653582 "any of
the following acts committed with
the intent
to destroy a national, ethnical, racial or religious group : causing serious mental harm
to members ; deliberately influencing
the group conditions of life, calculated
to bring about
the group's physical destruction ; forcibly
transferring children from
the group
to another group". standard un definition. entirely fits.
☝︎ ben_vulpes: schmaltzman can't even get
the name right