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mircea_popescu: IPA notation's not even exact enough to capture how close the two final vowels ACTUALLY are.
mircea_popescu disagrees with punkman over how greek's supposed to be said.
mircea_popescu: ;;google freedom's just another name for nothing left to lose
mircea_popescu: once that absolute last hope is lost, suddenly they're all saints somehow. da fuck.
mircea_popescu: for as long as there's even the faintest hope of maybe one day scamming someone, every last human being is 100% jwz.
mircea_popescu: how this shit works, where truth only ends up spoken by the thoroughly disgraced, is my favourite mystery of nature.
mircea_popescu: this thing is only notable because the guy is exactly correct in what he says. but he's easily the least frequentable name in romanian politics, short of actual mental cases. and this not in a good way - he truly is reprehensible.
mircea_popescu: ческим флагом национального самоопределения." approximately translates to "fuck you nuland".
mircea_popescu: for that matter, "Требование увода советских войск из Грузии и организации референдума "под контролем смешанных комиссий из социалистов и коммунистов" представляет собой одну из самых низкопробных империалистских ловушек под демократи
mircea_popescu: they've heard of one potemkin but not another, they know of this but not that, they're familiar with queens but don't think the brooklyn bridge exists, stuff like that.
mircea_popescu: the very approximative knowledge in humanities of the english speaking folk, at both astroturf and crackpot/armchair general level never ceases to amaze me.
mircea_popescu: btw, i have been wondering since the stuff started : how is it that tatar-bunar's never mentioned re the ukrainian situation ?
mircea_popescu: but hey, the nationalistic ambitions of victoria, regina horsefucker.
mircea_popescu: nonsense, "macaronic" my foot. it's above language not below it.
mircea_popescu: now that's what i call genius. that thing actually fucking rhymes, agapou / go are exactly homophonic.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "Maid of Athens, ere we part, give, oh, give back my heart! Or, since that has left my breast... keep it now, and take the rest! Hear my vow before I go, ζωή μου, σᾶς ἀγαπῶ."
☟︎ mircea_popescu: it's lulzier to propose to people that "lightning could never strike aeroplane - what's to close the circuit ?!?!?!"
mircea_popescu: you know we had a special soldering iron for doing that, at school ?
mircea_popescu: by far. as even one inch off... you lose 97% or so of power
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform in maryland they burn the ants with empathy, no need for technology.
mircea_popescu: how did they hear of crimean potemkin but not of the great red ship ? who knows.
mircea_popescu: i kept thinking salce's "corazzata potemkin" and it just didn't make any sense.
mircea_popescu: i had nfi what the anglos are trying to say by "potemkin", which is a common enough name, among people with an actual culture.
mircea_popescu: in other news... the reddit is mainstream bitcoin now ? in what alt-world ?
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo wait, does that mean idiots trying to make smart people feel bad about being smart ?!
mircea_popescu: all this "blockstream" stuff is so lulzy. random derpy outfit with enough money to cover 18 months' worth of modest burn rate.
mircea_popescu: fun fact, since for some reason i'm doing history now. romania's head rabi (niemirower) died in 1940. he was succeded by one alex safran, who was 29 at that time. and by virtue of being head rabi, the young man also had an ex officio seat in the romanian senate. but for not being yet 40 years of age as the senate required, he asked for, and obtained, a special derrogation from the high chamber of cassation. and was sea
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i don't think any disaster hence has had such a chilling impact on society.
mircea_popescu: which - another thing very little known. that importation was the bane of europe.
mircea_popescu: well at the time being a father was moreover pleasant.
mircea_popescu: mostly, yes. more effectually, it came with the #include that you'll be a father to her kids.
mircea_popescu: (also let me mention here, as this may come as a suprirse to my western friends - that in romanian classical society, as well as for that matter most of eastern europe, as well as for that matter all of europe in an earlier, simpler time - it was the height of poor taste for a woman to refuse sexual congress, and a pointed declaration of personal infirmity. sort-of like saying you can't read without your glasses
mircea_popescu: btw, was it actually named for the lucky strike smoker chick ?
mircea_popescu: which is exactly what's 50% of the conversation in my household for the first x months of the life of a new girl anyway
mircea_popescu: haha not in ada, just, they'll have to publish it and we'll go "omfg you can't be this stupid, redo it" like 50 times.
mircea_popescu: yeah. hey, anyone looking for something to do that'd be useful and also an incredible walk on coals ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform everyone's suggestion seems to be "hey, use perl! bash script! fuck my sister she's a slut anyway!"
mircea_popescu: which is a harder proposition than nobody ever used gpg.
mircea_popescu: for a long list of reasons, some of which can be diddled
mircea_popescu: so basically diff is, much like gpg, not actually usable.
mircea_popescu: doesn't it have a switch to supress timestamps in output ?
mircea_popescu: ironically, it is b-a that has the first and so far only actual application of "blockchain technology"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the timestamps are truly meaningless here.
mircea_popescu: today i learned ass-russian mostly consists of fractions of a Ð. о, м etc
mircea_popescu: 35 yo ex-chief rabbi of romania, son of an orthodox woman.