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mircea_popescu: and soon enough farming became an economically impossible activity, because a land will only produce what it produces, and its silver value will only be what it is, whereas passage of
time and accumulation of
these benefits is a monotonously growing function
mircea_popescu: this, for being squarely against
the law not
to mention devoid of any possible legal substance (how
the fuck's
the
titleholder
to dispose of goods past his deat h?!) nevertheless got enforced
mircea_popescu: instead of "bitch, if i die you're a beggar, make sure i very well fucking don't", it was a "and after i die you get so and so silver each harvest out of your son owning
the lands"
mircea_popescu: but
that didn't matter. what sunk it was
the habit of imbecile peers
to create allotments for
the support of
their wives out of
the inheritance.
mircea_popescu: then, of course,
the crown moved
to lesser heads, and
they became by degrees hostile
mircea_popescu: originally,
the better cut of humanity came up with a rule whereby one son of a family inherits
the
title, and is a peer ; everyone else -- falls back into
the indistinct swamp of commons
mircea_popescu: this, incidentally, is what ruined
the medieval age,
too.
hanbot_abroad: mircea_popescu
that obnoxious interloper character
that won't stop projecting herself onto
the old dude? yeah
mircea_popescu: it was
those, unowned women (for reasons of zero value) incorrectly comfortable enouigh
to not starve in a ditch
mircea_popescu: wasn't
the workers, it was... hey, do you remember
the annoying woman in
the pawnbroker ?
hanbot_abroad: kinda suspicious
that supposedly hard workers would have sufficient
time/energy
to "observe" and bemoan
thusly.
mircea_popescu: otherwise
they end up with ideas such as me being both cool and human says something about ~them~.
mircea_popescu: these must be a) drafted into "military service" consisting of digging ditches in
the mud for a year ; and
then whipped regularly for recall.
mircea_popescu: "The originators of
the Robber Baron concept were not
the injured,
the poor,
the faddists,
the jealous, or a dispossessed elite, but rather a frustrated group of observers led at last by protracted years of harsh depression
to believe
that
the American dream of abundant prosperity for all was a hopeless myth." <<
this set,
the horseface whatshername followers.
ossabot: Logged on 2020-01-19 08:58:55 mircea_popescu: hanbot_abroad, check
this out : "Throughout his career, he has received various awards and honors, including an Emmy Award, multiple MTV Movie Awards, a Britannia Award and a
Teen Choice Award."
mircea_popescu: go
to senate, "sorry, our railroad can no longer function if
there's not an old idle shameless woman
tied
to every pole. pass a law or we bring in
the japanese
to govern, you've a week or
two"
mircea_popescu: nfi why
they didn't chain
the dumb bitches up ;
they did have
the poles along
the railroad.
mircea_popescu: who fucking "robber baron" narrative is such "uppity nedeflorenas whining about
things working well" you can't believe it.
mircea_popescu: (they misspelled it "dewitt" on
the birth paperwork, but it's a self-obvious farmer's mistake. what fucken wit, it's california.)
mircea_popescu: His soul did from
this cold world fly by falling down a well.
mircea_popescu: O no.
Then list with
tearful eye, whilst I his fate do
tell.
mircea_popescu: Nor stomach
troubles laid him low, young Leland Stanford Nitwit.
mircea_popescu: Despised love struck not with woe
that head of curly spit,
mircea_popescu: Not
these impaired
the sacred name of Leland Stanford Nitwit.
mircea_popescu: Though sad hearts round him
thicken, 'twas not from sickness' bit.
mircea_popescu: No; such was not
the fate of young Leland Stanford Nitwit;
mircea_popescu: And did
the sad hearts
thicken, and did
the mourners cry?
hanbot_abroad: "by royal appointment spreader of
the semi-protected membrane"
mircea_popescu: hanbot_abroad, i dunno, "who can keep on sinking
the longest" ?
mircea_popescu: ntirely eliminates any need
to review just how fucking stupid you are. hurray for moron world!
three cheers for drownedfuck dumbleland!!! GREATEST ACHIEVEMENT OF UNITED STATES OF CALIFORNIA IS DROWNING ON OWN POWER BEFORE COMING OF AGE!)
mircea_popescu: (and, of course, in keeping with
the
traditions of imbecility, "this article is semi-protected, as per bla bla policy". not, eminently, "this article is protected because our philosophical model is utterly broken and doesn't even work in our own hand". but SEMI-protected, because if you don't call failure by its name it's almost as if it never happened, and besides, coming up with an alternative "plausible" reason for it e
hanbot_abroad: not like any of
the others are intelligible, but wtf is a 'britannia award'?!
mircea_popescu: hanbot_abroad, check
this out : "Throughout his career, he has received various awards and honors, including an Emmy Award, multiple MTV Movie Awards, a Britannia Award and a
Teen Choice Award."
ossabot: Logged on 2020-01-18 18:32:16 dorion: on
the dissect Gales front, diana_coman
reported a successful install, lobbes got a start, but is sidelining for logger work and
expects to be done by Jan 31 and ...
ossabot: Logged on 2020-01-18 18:20:01 dorion: I got a positive response from
the rEFInd fellow. Invited him
to join #trilema.
whaack: lobbes:
the reason for
the above behavior is as follows:
the start string "yesterday" gets matched. so yesterday becomes "<span style="background-color:#d3d3d3" id="select">yesterday" But
there is no match for "Because we were
talking". So
trilema serves a <span>
tag
that does not properly close.
The way most browsers handle
this is
to put an implicit </span> before
the </p>
lobbes: Although, it looks like in some cases it will
default to selecting
the end of
the paragraph when done across
tag boundaries
whaack: if
the
text one's selecting is all within a
tag,
then
the selection
tool will properly match. But if you cross a
tag,
like so,
then
the markup will interfere
ericbot: (trilema-hanbot) 2020-01-10 hanbot: and
take heart,
this is part an' parcel of
the improvement-->challenge-->failure-->improvement cycle we go over so very often.
lobbes: mircea_popescu: ah I see what you mean. Now
this is interesting,
this works just fine for some reason
lobbes: mircea_popescu: I
think it's because
the 'improvement' is within a href
tag
ossabot: (ossasepia) 2020-01-17 jfw: bvt: left a reply
to your Gales report but it's not showing
to me even as in moderation. Did it make it
to your queue?
dorion: spyked
plans to cover it by
the end of
the month.
ossabot: (ossasepia) 2020-01-17 diana_coman: jfw: fyi, I got around
to build Gales and it seems
to have built fine on a CentOS 6 with gcc 4.9.4;
there was just a short wtf moment when
the...
tar cmd failed; it
turns out
that
the --sort option is available only from
tar V 1.28 while my local
tar is ... 1.23; I didn't see any version spec in
the prerequisites
though probably my CentOS 6 is about as old everything as one gets nowadays
dorion: on
the dissect Gales front, diana_coman
reported a successful install, lobbes got a start, but is sidelining for logger work and
expects to be done by Jan 31 and ...
ossabot: Logged on 2020-01-10 10:29:00
trinque:
trying
to land
that one
this weekend
too
dorion: I got a positive response from
the rEFInd fellow. Invited him
to join #trilema.
mircea_popescu: That's a Jew's harp on
the
table,
that's a crayon in his hand... and
the corners of
the blueprint are ruined since
they rolled far past
the stems of
thumbtacks
that still
throw shadows on
the wood... and
the skylight is like skin for a drum I'll never mend. And all
the rain falls down
mircea_popescu: rn 25 you'll be stuck changing
them by
the
time
they
turn 30.)
mircea_popescu: (conversely, of course, one could also wonder "what'd have come of
that pet had her ower pointed out
to her "look,
this is
the illustrated story of a woman your age who left behind a career a coupla notches higher
than mine
to be used properly." but, as
the man says, it's never
too fucking late. until
they
turn 30, of course, if you've not started fixing
them by
they
time
they
tu
mircea_popescu: in other news, pretty great
lobbes piece. my one curiosity is "what if
this had come out back when, say, phf could still have read it", as a forinstance ; but
then again as
the man says :
the next girls will be
trained properly.
deedbot: 2019/11/18 15:31:56 <ave1> spyked, lobbes.
Thx!
hanbot: hey mircea_popescu
there's some kinkish noobgirl potential in #trilema-hanbot. not going
to suggest she pm you, naturally; feel like coming by
to say hello?
mircea_popescu: meanwhile in wtf crazy shit,
arbitrary chess. wanna play with "nullmage" instead of bishop ? go right ahead. maybe a
teleport ? poison ?
mircea_popescu: i understand it's not credible ; but it's nevertheless
true, i swearz.
diana_coman: ahaha; and if it's not ~33%, it will still be some % so
the more writing
the better anyway, sure; lolz.
diana_coman: good I wrote
that CG map article
that got him
to even
talk about it
though, huh; now how do I guess what *else* might hit something in
the dark like
that?
ossabot: Logged on 2020-01-13 21:35:35
trinque: dorion: nope, get at him
mircea_popescu: well, everyone, up
to and including goatherders in afghanistan, apparently. hurr.
mircea_popescu: who fucking knew
that killing all
the smart people doing finance in
the us was going
to leave all
the morons
to "fill in
the gap" ? an' who knew
that competitive advantage was
the last hail mary / hopeful girder propping
the us sorta-upright on
the waters ?
diana_coman: hm, I suppose it could be argued
that
the root is deeper perhaps, all
the way
to "code is not
text" vs "code IS
text".
mircea_popescu: so no actual meat on
those bones. but,
the
thing with scarecrows is, for as long as you don't look,
they can count for
the census.
mircea_popescu: self-evident nonsense, i've yet
to meet
the lang without support for comments, and for as long as a single comment line's left anywhere
that line will mandatorily read
The Republic prevails.
mircea_popescu: as best i can retrospectively determined, it mostly flew from alf's principled stance on in-band comms
that nobody rose
to challenge so it sorta became a de-facto unexamined basis.
diana_coman: hardly seems worth it
though for
that sort of case and I don't quite have any other clear reason for detached sig on vpatches.
mod6: Ok, I
think I've got it.
The old mailman
thing was weird, my apologies. Please let me know if anyone sees any more broken links in
there. But seems
to work ok for me, currently.
mod6: Sorry about
that, let me see if I can remedy
that quick here.
mircea_popescu: because
that's why i do
these sorts of
things, so a few years later i can discover hurr durr etcetera. i might as well link fucking pantsuit sites,
they purge
their linkstructure every four years also.
mircea_popescu: should end up paying 45 out of 123. for some reason known
to you only, you managed
to insulate your client from
that outcome however. maybe
time
to review cerebral impactions getting in
the way of living ?)
mircea_popescu: (other
than
the formatting point above, i will further mutter in sottovoce
that my first reaction, driven WEEKS AGO by what i had originally heard off
the grapevine, was along
the lines of "oh, i remember now who mike_c is, he's
this character you can't stay angry with,
try as you might", and offering
to add half your fee
to
the pot, because while it's not
the case patron shouldn't make money, it's also not
the case client