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mircea_popescu: it is perhaps antiquated by now. but it's what rubens' good looking women were.
mircea_popescu: but can you explain the difference between graph and set ?
mircea_popescu: trinque can you explain the difference between cosmos and universe ?
mircea_popescu: whereas the idea of body as in "body politic" is all but dead in english, today.
mircea_popescu: three fucking words. because one's the mechanical body, and the other the biologic body, and the third the metaphysical body.
mircea_popescu: in romanian : au gasit ~corpul~ [neinsufletit] ; fumatul face rau ~organismului~ ; acesta este ~trupul~ lui hristos.
mircea_popescu: for instance, in english : "they found the body" (ie, corpse) ; "smoking is bad for the body" (ie, mechanism) ; this is the body of christ.
mircea_popescu: and yes this discussion of structure does merely belie much deeper divergence in the actual usage, which i suspect is driven by fundamental divergence in phylosophy.
mircea_popescu: "how representative of this person i consider my experience with them"
mircea_popescu: it is perhaps not an idle topic of inquiry to find how much of the rotten-ness of extant software stack mostly comes from the unfortunate happenstance that it was written by people who spoke english with their women.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field much like the british empire was a pretension, not a reality.
mircea_popescu: english, as spoken by the fucking queen, before they got the current crop of hamburg tavern wenches, was in point of fact an actual language.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field no you can, check it out : man is the wolf of men / man is wolf to men.
mircea_popescu: but the main problem english faces is that it fails to make the complemet distinctions. in romanian : la baieti (to the boys) ; baietilor (to the boys). first tells you where, the 2nd whom.
mircea_popescu: it declines and you're supposed to guess from declension
mircea_popescu: and yes, about half the population doesn't get them right on the first try.
mircea_popescu: "are you a pleb or did your parents have enough spare food in your childhood to have the time to teach you the fucking cases"
mircea_popescu: incidentally the little card trading game illustrated above is the romanian #1 class distinguisher.
mircea_popescu: classic education in russian puts one at no disadvantage.
mircea_popescu: which is why it used to be mandatory for learned gentlemen.
mircea_popescu: pretty much all structure of language at the outset of possibility is in there. once you learn it it's just "fill the colors" for any other.
mircea_popescu: (these three males) + (belonging to that guy) = ai aceluia ; (this single female) + (belonging to that group of females) = a acelora.
mircea_popescu: so you have the seemingly confounding a/al/ai/ale + acesta/acela aceasta/aceea acestia/aceia acestea/acelea. for a grand total of omfg it's romanian - the gathering!
mircea_popescu: like in romanian you can ask "ale cui is pizdele astea ?" (whose are these cunts ?) and the anser come "ale aceluia" (that guy's) or ale aceleia (that gal's) etc.
mircea_popescu: most languages also have a posessive, which in english is conflated in his/hers/theirs.
mircea_popescu: (demonstrative is what got boiled down into this/that/these/those)
mircea_popescu: but just because english makes a mess of vocative case / demonstrative pronoun / possesives etc doesn't mean much.
mircea_popescu: you should see fucking romanian or russian if german is myriad
mircea_popescu: <fluffypony> wow who thought we'd see the day where Apple is pro-privacy and Google takes the opposite side << google just wants their "privacy".
https et all.
mircea_popescu: in fairness, guy didn't come out of nowhere. he was prepping for it longer than it'd have take to do 5 bootcamps.
mircea_popescu: <trinque> lets bolt networking to the sound stack because that'll look sweet on my resume << quite.
mircea_popescu: <punkman> ""According to Karl Marx, 'The philosophers have only << hurrr. nice lol.
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> the other assertions << college is slightly harder because tight packed in sardine can. other girls keep tabs on the hot guys.
mircea_popescu: (french r being very much its own, quite specific thing. like cheese.)
mircea_popescu: rare to find a french girl that says the r fucking proper.
mircea_popescu: why the fuck does googling "ipad dating app" return... "heavy.com". wtf is that even
mircea_popescu: <trinque> "gotta like all my pinterests" << incidentally this is how the "friendzone" happens. if guy confuses the female-group imperative ("gotta be on switch or wtf that ipad dating thing was called") for the female-individual imperative ("gotta carry her bag") the female adds to her observation that "this guy is not matable" the obvious "but exploitable".
mircea_popescu: no need to keep trying to actualise his hopes in speech.
mircea_popescu: he wants to talk about the scam-foundation faux-client, he can say that
mircea_popescu: i dunno why people insist of talking of things using the wrong words.
mircea_popescu: there were > 100 of them running around before you get to hitler.
mircea_popescu: you think, by the way, "oh, weimar republic was weak so strong leader arose in hitler". this is bunk.
mircea_popescu: <trinque> just depends on how willing you are to commit to a final act << this is integral to any possiblity of win, lol.
mircea_popescu: "it is a right of the citizens to do away with the taxman if they don't like what he does"
mircea_popescu: ascii_field the thing that [used to] make the us unique was that unlike any other state before, it had this actually plainly said and plainly recorded :
mircea_popescu: the core of that is RESEVING THE RIGHT TO SHOOT THE TAXMAN.
mircea_popescu: but, importantly, teaching the controversy re the 2nd ammendment in terms of "to own or not to own guns" is nonsense.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field executioner ipso definitio is not an agent.
mircea_popescu: why do people think whosoever they don't grasp is inspired by satan himself ?
mircea_popescu: and this is why "incomprehensible" and "evil" are so deeply entertwined throughout the history of thought.
mircea_popescu: "why can't you be more like plants, said the sheep to the wolf"
mircea_popescu: dominating your environment reduces to ... understanding it.
mircea_popescu: the demand to rationality reduces to "act in a manner i can understand"
mircea_popescu: if the soviets think the germans are being rational and are right, the soviets win. if vice-versa, vice-versa.
mircea_popescu: trinque well think about it. what does "rational" mean ? that YOU can understand it, right ?
mircea_popescu: (and yes this is also why the state urges the individual to "be rational". oooofcourseitwould. the only rational thing to do is to preserve the 5th amendment, which is to say : i reserve the right to unilaterally shoot any and all policemen on my say so. because that's what fucking independence is.)
mircea_popescu: think about it for a second. in any game, the "rational" player is the defeated player. rational in this context merely means "that which has been intellectually dominated by the other side".