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mircea_popescu: eh for chrissakes. you and your wife going on a cruise does not now constitute an "english culture" in oceania.
mircea_popescu: it did ?
mircea_popescu: ;;bc,stats
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes ^
mircea_popescu: !v assbot:mircea_popescu.rate.phf.2:6b5c1f07e27f7b7ae974773e4c050cfce50f47f405a2e9fdf2666a78059e721a
mircea_popescu: !rate phf 2 Actually managed to compile Eulora on OS/X, which is a first.
mircea_popescu: !rated phf
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform http://trilema.com/2011/spargatorii-si-curva/
mircea_popescu: no , no, on trilema.
mircea_popescu: you ever read the story of the whores and the thieves ?
mircea_popescu: fgor the other, because orly, you're gonna ROB ME ?!!?
mircea_popescu: for one thing, because dumbass russian locks, kept no one out.
mircea_popescu: i scarcely bothered.
mircea_popescu: so max social trust = up on the mountain ?
mircea_popescu: unrelatedly, http://36.media.tumblr.com/717f39f2ffb3104818c25cf446c0798e/tumblr_n942laTGgk1qc2yxpo1_1280.jpg
mircea_popescu: older people eventually figure out everyone's an idiot anyway
mircea_popescu: you were twenty then!
mircea_popescu: i walked by at least 1k people today.
mircea_popescu: trinque all of them !?
mircea_popescu: technology's your enemy there, not anything to do with society.
mircea_popescu: because instead of doing anything right, people just slap it together and "we'll do an update later"
mircea_popescu: once software acquired the ability to be "updated online", atomic software versions became less trustworthy.
mircea_popescu: it stands to intuitive reason if you look at it : the more people can talk to more people, the less any individual talk can be trusted, yes ?
mircea_popescu: which means it is being undermined by improved communication.
mircea_popescu: yeah well, here's the thing : the variable you are likely calling this is a direct inverse of graph connectivity.
mircea_popescu: how do you measure "social trust" ? ☟︎
mircea_popescu: reminds me of "romania multilateral dezvoltata"
mircea_popescu: nb.
mircea_popescu: The United MultiSubCultural States of America
mircea_popescu: tho even that may be a stretch
mircea_popescu: the term for this is subculture
mircea_popescu: no wonder the code doesn't work.
mircea_popescu: srsly, painting your nails ? what culture is this ?
mircea_popescu: how exactly is arbitrary activity "culture" now...
mircea_popescu: that the usians can not read and regularly hang themselves in the fancy underwear they bought in paris is not the underwear's fault.
mircea_popescu: except, all that stuff's in french.
mircea_popescu: the original concept is merely commentary, on lengthy extant tradition, and it stands on its own as a perfectly sensible term of art in its field.
mircea_popescu: but go explain to taleb why he should stop wearing the facial hair style he does. because why ? reasons ? he got reasons too.
mircea_popescu: obviously you can't have "multiculturalism" among things that aren't even subcultures, let alone cultures in their own right. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: you're way the fuck better off just letting everybody use their own answers than trying to force some sort of homogenity.
mircea_popescu: trinque and that's what multiculturalism actually is, ftr. given that it is SO COMPLICATED to have a cultural superstructure that allows any semblance of passible solution to that, and given that any sort of formal proof of superiority and inferiority ~AMONG THAT SET~, strictly, strictly among that set is so hopeless,
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla mthreat said it's being moved to another server.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo on the positive side, all good things ever come out of an ill equipped kid stuck in a blender.
mircea_popescu: who was i having this discussion with ?
mircea_popescu: !s not a country
mircea_popescu: i dunno... there really aren't that many blacks.
mircea_popescu: should make for some pretty easy enthusiastic teenage poon, if it ever takes off.
mircea_popescu: "whatever... i slam doors and i kill people! it's my hot country and i do what i want!"
mircea_popescu: christian glam rock bands singin' about how they don't hold doors open at supermarket
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i wonder if this is going to lead to a new musical genre off the old superhero comics tree. just like destitute niggers had their stupid gangsta shit.
mircea_popescu: twist : punkman's half brother has been in prison in congo since feb
mircea_popescu: bride ?
mircea_popescu: true enough that it doesn't seem to last, congo is congo. but... it was a decent trip, for as long as it lasted.
mircea_popescu: the "evil bankers & capitalists"
mircea_popescu: the brief excursion into world relevancy of the shithole in question is wholly owed to hamilton & co.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ironically enough, with a beheaded hamilton the us would still to this day be a sort of congo.
mircea_popescu: hanbot oh right! i knew we had a lol at that thing
mircea_popescu: trinque, abbot, costello &mp
mircea_popescu: that's what i wanna know!
mircea_popescu: (yes, i used to do that, at that age. it was fun, fwiww.)
mircea_popescu: dude's such a public danger, why doesn't he go around at night through the ghetto bumping into derps and immitating anything they say!
mircea_popescu: what's she gonna do, bleed on you ?
mircea_popescu: trinque or an incapacitated woman with children, why not
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so don't hold open the door to THAT OFFICE then!
mircea_popescu: what, he's special or something ? can't fit a shoeshine box in his hands ?
mircea_popescu: if white bitches spent more time learning how to twerk at age 6, perhaps anyone'd give a lot more of a shit about the problems of white trash.
mircea_popescu: yaya
mircea_popescu: it was your state senator, go talk to him.
mircea_popescu: not like black dude cold-called you and persuaded you to be poor, motherfuckar!
mircea_popescu: i suppose these are the same typically retarded usians that go to india and blame the indians for their inability to dowhatever X they wish to do.
mircea_popescu: like, before. and for that matter, know the terrain a lot better.
mircea_popescu: in any case, the blacks WERE THERE
mircea_popescu: THEY are to blame, for having believed bush or whoever the fuck they believed.
mircea_popescu: what i don't understand is why do they take it out on the blacks ffs.
mircea_popescu: anyway, alf's point re the recent poor is well taken
mircea_popescu: they're in kindergarten and they're whacking each other over the head with the cubes.
mircea_popescu: they're in kindergarten, there's no other way to look at it.
mircea_popescu: the fucking problems to have, seriously.
mircea_popescu: i thought us supermarkets all have those sliding autodoors anyway, specifically to deal with the ever growing social awkwardness of usians.
mircea_popescu: lincoln, really, but anyway.
mircea_popescu: whosoever.
mircea_popescu: should have beheaded tsipras when he had the chance.
mircea_popescu: fuck him.
mircea_popescu: asshole comes from a three generations line of jwz "i only wanted to...", and now he doesn't like the just dessers ?
mircea_popescu: not this retarded "blacks made me be stupid and lousy" nonsense
mircea_popescu: he's supposed to go "i'm a fuckwad of a lifeform, and not only i deserve every bit of the shit i get, but if i keep course there's going to be more"
mircea_popescu: FOR HIS SINS
mircea_popescu: hanbot do you recall which article that was ?
mircea_popescu: the issues people have in their own heads, when those heads are squarely devoid of anything worthwhile...
mircea_popescu: there was some random retard of equivalent potency i loled at the expense of on trilema. this one was on a trip about how he "is trying to live to the server's expectations" or some shit in a restaurant.
mircea_popescu: some people are born to die on plastic carpeting under fluorescent lights srsly.
mircea_popescu: what, he's a faitful soldier in the war of whitehood against the evil blacks through not holding the door to some woman ?
mircea_popescu: i dunno dude, seems nuts to me. some derp wishes to justify his being an asshole to some woman on the grounds of wide reaching sociodynamics ?
mircea_popescu: in other news, http://41.media.tumblr.com/2015cd0f31424b30b7022c8ac229cefa/tumblr_n82k4dCqBH1t0jb24o1_1280.jpg
mircea_popescu: i suppose he doesn't know this, but hey, his loss.
mircea_popescu: anyway, petty supermarket hostility bs. guy has better posts imo.
mircea_popescu: wtf's next, we're all equal to the supermarket bozo and #holdhands ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform heh mkay, let's fix stupid by being stupid the other way!!1
mircea_popescu: also exactly what it should be.
mircea_popescu: of course being an employee in a supermarket is being a peasant on a lord's land. that is EXACTLY what it is.