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mircea_popescu: koch is not some coder, he's a sad fuck who lies about where he gets
the code.
mircea_popescu: this is
the entirety of everyone. stallman is not some sort of graybeard, he's a sad fuck who lied about what laptop setup he is using.
mircea_popescu: i had since opportunity
to verify all of
them, and
they are all false. he's as much of a businessman as any random redditard, which specifically includes pirate,
the silk road dork, etcetera.
mircea_popescu: he came
to my country, introduced himself as "an investor", and made some statements.
mircea_popescu: and a very fine point in case here, from my own personal experience, is
that xapo sad faggot, wences casares.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: they "ran some
tests" in
the manner
that gave us "hillary is looking past
trump" and
this was
the result.
mircea_popescu: but
this is, no histrionics, no rhetorics, no exaggeration, my expert, considered and final view on
the matter.
mircea_popescu: and it must have been
the face of
the dice
that fell up.
mircea_popescu: and by
that fashion, little
tidbits of
text were "Scored"
through you know, SCIENTIFIC !!11 process like "ab
testing" (i kid you not,
they all do
the same basic statistics wronglyt inthe same ways)
mircea_popescu: it most patently is not, in contrast
to anything else - which is measurable, but meaninglessly so,
the web is not measurable fucking period.
mircea_popescu: they put out
the goebbelsian lie
that "web is measurable"
mircea_popescu: at some point when
the "web community" faggots were
trying
to get round
two of dotcom bubble inflated with "web 2.0" and similar gimmicks,
mircea_popescu: what, because one set eats at fastfood and other set eats at fastfood
they are now different ? words may be powerful, but
they're not
this fucking powerful already.
mircea_popescu: can you imagine deposed roman emperor moving
to china
to become confucian scholar ?
mircea_popescu: man fired from one can become part of
the other and back and forth forever, "i just work here" etcetera.
there's no substance i can discern
to
the proposed classification whatsoever.
mircea_popescu: different, how ? corporations, both,
trying
to advertise, both, hiring
the same fucking
tv crews, pr agencies, what is
the specific difference ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i am not entirely sure
that ability
to distinguish wasn't more of a symptom of
the cockroach working
than anything else. "i can distinguish
tarantula
that bit me from
tarantula
that did not" is scarcely a quote after linnaeus.
mircea_popescu: if we
took samantha cocks or whatever her name was and made her "a scientist" and
took
the supurating jeoffrey and made him "an engineer",
they'd what ? go right
to it without skipping a beat,
that's what
the "revolving door" even denotes.
mircea_popescu: there has
to be some sort of definite difference in something, legs, mandibula, reproductive organs, something somewhere must allow classification in
the proper sense
to have a classification.
mircea_popescu: i mean
the kitchen cockroach is not kitchen cockroach sp as opposed
to bedroom cockroach just because
that's where
they happened
to be captured.
mircea_popescu: but be
this as it may, i can't distinguish nor am i inclined
to distinguish j supran's pretense
that he engages in "science" from random wanna-be-trilema online publication's pretense
that it describes "the mainstream" from random wonderdiet late night cable sleazemarketer's "salvation cuisine" from any of
the rest of
the gunk.
they are exactly
the same
thing, and
the word
to denote
them exists already. barbar.
mircea_popescu: if nothing else,
the anecdote
that his perception was so flattened
through experience he failed on first pass
to comprehend actual monkeys are not physically barbarians just like all
the others should be dispositive.
mircea_popescu: the question was as
to how many kinds
they met. it is altogether likely alexander is
the one men who met most kinds of barbarians.
mircea_popescu: the etymology of
the very word is instructive. barbarism comes from
the greek hurrdurr, and it literally as well as onomatopoetically denotes
that ...
they do not have a
thing.
mircea_popescu: anyway,
the importance of cutting short
the gypsy's pretense
that he lives in an alt-country ;
the grubfilth's pretense
that he has an alt-hygiene,
the neoprotestant's pretense
that he has an alt-religion (discoivered it himself, he did!) and so on is key. a "vegan" is not someone who "has an alternative cookbook" but an imbecile who doesn't know how and what
to eat. and so on.
mircea_popescu: you understand
this, yes, not anything
that can be said necessarily means something.
mircea_popescu: perhaps "if you had
to" you'd climb
to infinity on
the left rather
than descend
to infinity on
the right. but inasmuch as it's a nonsensical construction,
the counterfactual will stay nonfactual.
mircea_popescu: it's not altogether clear you've
there depicted anymore
than an escherian stairwell.
mircea_popescu: do you have any ?
the planet uranus is also "a fact of life", in some distant sense.
mircea_popescu: chick
that has no fucking idea she should wash isn't part of "the unwashed culture", she's part of nothing.
mircea_popescu: the ~presence~ of artefacts doth make a civilisation ;
the same presence of notions makes a culture.
the absence of objects does not make "the alternative civilisation of africa consisting of not having anything". absence is not a
thing.
mircea_popescu: you can't speak of "the native culture" for exactly
this reason.
the indians have no culture, and inasmuch as
they do not,
they're not people.
mircea_popescu: to understand our anthropology basics : if
the item has mass, it is a proper subject of civilisation ; if
the item doth not have mass, it is a matter of culture.
a111: Logged on 2016-09-08 15:31 mircea_popescu: ie, young brazillian chick WILL have
to have her cooking checked for shit, because apparently wash hands is not universally comprehended in brazil.
mircea_popescu: they're uncivilised louts ;
today as whenever. it is after all a fucking colony, not a real place, neh ?
mircea_popescu: misinformed ninnies may be confused as
to
the exact spelling of "trilema", which is a sad
testament of
the poor quality of public education available
to
them and naught more.
mircea_popescu: but in any case, unless and until you read it in
trilema, it can not be said
to be part of a mainstream of any kind.
a111: Logged on 2016-12-07 15:31 asciilifeform: 'well ~i~! know now
that i'm not an acorn. but do
THE SQUIRRELS know??????'
mircea_popescu: this is no more of a
true statement
than "pin can hold 40 angels but only 3 seraphims"
mircea_popescu: plenty of rank imbeciles died with
the firm conviction
that
they exist ; and all
the better.
mircea_popescu: it exists strictly in
the way "the heavenly legions" existed,
to keep suleyman from constantinople.
mircea_popescu: it can be found
the same place
the "kingom of heavens" can be found.
mircea_popescu: also, "american mainstream" is a fake news construction. it exists in no place, certainly not
the us.
BingoBoingo: Moar posts
than last month, less words. Still recalibrating
to post-Hussein Bahamas lulz
ben_vulpes: not
the pipes necessarily, but
the garden; dog; wife; child; engines of my own...
☟︎ ben_vulpes: asciilifeform:
to entertain your scenario, i go elsewhere because i'd rather watch
the big hydraulics.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: would you rather go watch pipes be dug out of
the ground
than whatever it is you went elsewhere
to do?
ben_vulpes is weak, especially
to joys of flesh and fatherhood
ben_vulpes: raging sea of dopamine at haus is difficult
to carve focus space out of
ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: metaphor is rather
thick, i cannot see
through it
BingoBoingo: Well, imagine you are
the
tender root of a delicious vegetable plant. Would you rather cuddle up
to soft peatmoss extracted from fridgid canada or rough coir
that feels like sack cloth from
tropics
ben_vulpes: talking about driving
to get
the compost.
ben_vulpes: all
things i want more of in my life, just like regular americans
ben_vulpes: move, drive further, waste more
time in cars, depreciate ice assets faster, depreciate spinal column faster
ben_vulpes: digging peat out of
the ground kills me; i grew up running around on 100yr old moss blankets
BingoBoingo: The leftover potting soil includes all sorts of misc
that is cheapest
to get year after
tested on market and
then clearanced out because who wants
to pay $maxint for fucking potting soil
ben_vulpes: getting right with
the dirt spirits,
though
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: has nothing
to do with cost of disposal