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mircea_popescu: <williamdunne> I'm in Assbot's WoT, not sure why it didn't work for me << because you typed out the full name like a noob, and you have a display that fails to make the diff between capital i and lowcase l. instead of, you know, typiong the first three letters then hitting autocompletion like people who aren't noobs, and thus by noticing that Blo<tab> does nothing figure out the problem.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes " men who button the top button of their shirt when not wearing a tie." << what's that ? retardaton ? tuxedo ?
mircea_popescu: pious fraud. no history was ever told any other way, because the principal driver behind history as a human behaviour is exactly what Chillum was describing re his involvement in wikipedia.
mircea_popescu: one should still wonder why would record numbers of malingerers seen in a thorouhgly voluntary force.
mircea_popescu: the fact that the medical science of detecting imaginary maladies never got such a boost before or since notwithstanding.
mircea_popescu: heck, the french conscripts of the french republicalso volunteered
mircea_popescu: "even the slave masters themselves agreed slavery is a bad idea".
mircea_popescu: what if i started an encyclopedia presenting the current state of "web development" as indicative of what computing science is ?
mircea_popescu: that it's badmouthed by the lazy, and that the encyclopedists pushed this angle where the late failure is presented as pars pro toto reporesentative... well.
mircea_popescu: decimation the fact remains that slavery is generally productive, and in some circumstances the only practicable alternative.
mircea_popescu: the woman's husband wanted to end the fee tail on the woman's dowry estate, and did not wish to entertain her children (which she had with a guy she actually liked, about her age), and so ... had his friend teh lord of the cinque ports declare them slaves, and they got sent where slaves went in 1500.
mircea_popescu: in fact, even the puritans, even on the mayflower, for all the pretense to contrary, shipped a total of four children that had been stolen from a gentry woman in england, against hte mother's wishes. three died the first winter there.
mircea_popescu: regularly children as old as 12 are listed as "servants". girls, mostly.
mircea_popescu: it was common practice to pick up children off the street / take the children of people living on the dole and send them over.
mircea_popescu: but the original northern colonists (south didn't exist, like oregon didn't exist during civil war) ran exactly the equivalent of the southern plantation,
mircea_popescu: "welcome, driving class. today, we learn how to accelerate the car. next week, we'll learn steering and braking."
mircea_popescu: either that or perfect the skill, shrug and try to be a rock or something.
mircea_popescu: seeing how stupidity is not self-healing, i don't even need to keep the list per se. just read another sentence later.
mircea_popescu: but the fact remains, i keep reading through, stupid accumulates, eventually overrurns my (short) buffer and i drop it.
mircea_popescu: i couldn't finish hayek because he was stupid. think about that, hayek of all people. if hayek is stupid what chance do we have ?
mircea_popescu: but for the other, how do you maintain the list of endless things that are not letters ?
mircea_popescu: that's teleological in usage. but perhaps there's something long forgotten to the etymology.
mircea_popescu: decimation no. demented is different from mad in that one lacks the intellect whereas the other has a malfunctioning intellect. the alzhimer patient is demented but not mad.
mircea_popescu: sure, the dysfunctional us "dictionaries", really properly wikitionaries have everything equal. (demencia passion locura furia) = (insanity crazyness madness
mircea_popescu: "Aun cuando la historia no tenga leyes el curso de una revolución se prevé fácilmente, porque la estupidez y la demencia sí las tienen."
mircea_popescu: "That Lakota men did not like to be called "heart of a woman" in council meetings is less likely to mean that women were regarded as inferior than that the warrior's role was sharply set off from the woman's role". Check it out, both the Lakota and Hassrick managed to figure it out!
mircea_popescu: just... abjection. it's a lot more psychologically attractive than most people dare to admit.
mircea_popescu: why us army hasn't been allowed to win a war since the 60s at least.
mircea_popescu: the us population fundamentally wishes to be deeply humiliated by the entire world. it's what they're doing over there.
mircea_popescu: they were treying to get the russians to rape them and found a way.
mircea_popescu: no dude. hitler didn't "force germans". buncha bored women wanted it. all of it.
mircea_popescu: no bureaucracy EVER did anything. it has as much agency as rain.
mircea_popescu: the people seek certain forms, and the bureaucracy follows.
mircea_popescu: i said this before, but perhaps not as clearly : no totalitarian state oppressed the people. ever.
mircea_popescu: like the retarded native americans go through the tsa anal gefingerpoken so as to be clarified of their sins ?
mircea_popescu: like a retarded native american would have taken it to the shaman to be exorcised ?
mircea_popescu: does this not suggest that the ACTUAL REASON adults "had to" register their typewriters was because they wanted to have to ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: you had to "register" your typewriter. kids didn't have to register their magnetophone.
mircea_popescu: man's most prized possession. like kalash in pashtunland.
mircea_popescu: hence the automatic "we" every idiot drops to the moment i get my club.
mircea_popescu: "the other" is a puny excuse for the ego to escape the superego.
mircea_popescu: was that not just natural "look to vienna" for the kingdom of bohemia ?
mircea_popescu: in fairness, as far as pop music is concerned, not understanding what the lyrics say is a net plus.
mircea_popescu: decimation i have no idea, maybe it has. if that's the case then your answer is "because THIS stupid generation is different from THAT one."
mircea_popescu: hence why "globalisation" is the necessary end game of a "the many matter"