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mircea_popescu: impossible to discern how much is a case of "the missionary used a word to best describe what he saw" and "we have created a structure through normal function". anyway, minor point.
mircea_popescu: ie, is it equivalent to saying "one of the terrorist people" or to "one of the lordship" ?
mircea_popescu never bothered with it, but is this luo people an internal or an external identity ?
mircea_popescu: i do know it is upon the proponent to ~prove~ rather than just assert that the tools we developed to discuss and analyse the "terra irredenta" movements in italy cca 1800 are also applicable or meaningful in black africa.
mircea_popescu: but it may mean the map doesnt work for describing it./
mircea_popescu: decimation gotta bear in mind that "ethnicity" is not a thing, just a word we use for the thing. it's a map. that a map is flat and a place is round does not mean the round place has no geography
mircea_popescu: this isn't a lego car where all the pieces match shinohai
mircea_popescu: for one thing, it's not clear what "ethnicity" without a written culture would be.
mircea_popescu: the french just started using it cca 1800 as if, and nobody really discussed the matter.
mircea_popescu: decimation i am broadly unconvinced the concept of ethnicity makes any sense in africa.
mircea_popescu: i guess she does look distinctive enough, and since presidents are more about looks than actors... myeah ok
mircea_popescu: "asian" is about as descriptive as "the country of earth"./
mircea_popescu: mats i mean i could see it in usage like "e transilvanean de-ai nostri", ie, "he's one of ours". but that's for a minuscule and very culturally coherent ethnic group.
mircea_popescu: i gotta say i absolutely am loving the choices of women to put "in tech" the enema's makin'.
mircea_popescu: she's even better than that fucktardina chick that sunk hp
mircea_popescu: oh nm, 30k of which some actually did 20 euro alrighty.
mircea_popescu: !v assbot:mircea_popescu.rate.shinohai.1:69e4bc8a9153033824d3eb9343ba203c5b7eedd3510b7067e202e06cf4531194
mircea_popescu: ah. just a buncha stupid kids "trying" like the entire world were a kindergarten and "best effort" were a thing and really, we're just playing here.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field what is "the very important business" a reddit chapter seeded and mostly fed by usg's own something awful crew would conceivably be doing iyo ?
mircea_popescu: goies nicely with the discussion of that time when they fucked up deleting a qntra article iirc.
mircea_popescu: i suspek computing is moving towards joint ram/disk anyway.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field in practice this may not be a problem. the gavincoin insanities aside, growing by 300 bytes every ten minutes may well be sustainable indefinitely into the future.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: anyway i'll feel a lot better about this world and my life once this has been actually reviewed by third parties. ie , you.
mircea_popescu: well your last point may well stand on its own. we really know precious little about radio-bio interaction.
mircea_popescu: give it some time, he'll go the way of that cornel west fucktard in due time
mircea_popescu: you're comparing britni with random ho waiting tables.
mircea_popescu: while in fact pulling each other's cock. it's a sickening display.
mircea_popescu: what's worse, look at the people who claimed to be and acted as if they were actually doing useful work
mircea_popescu: ah yeah. that sounds like a properly connected node ove ran actually functioning link for cryssakes.
mircea_popescu: reversion to mean must be the main solace for early onset disability.
mircea_popescu: dude, by now he's not in much worse shape than any other seventy year old, not counting those who already died.
mircea_popescu: phf you know minigame's looking for someone who can compile of apple so ben_vulpes can play.
mircea_popescu: "Through EZ Keys I can also control the mouse in Windows." stephen hawking uses wintel ? sad.