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mircea_popescu: lol nope. i am aware i sound more and more hruschev-ian, but no, i didn't have a bunch of muscle with clubs interspersed in the general public.
mircea_popescu: "Citizens ask for permission, expats ask for forgiveness" << maybe he should ask for a nailgun.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: brendafdez: the same happens to me with portuguese, which i walways perceive as broken spanish << to me it sounds like a bunch of russians trying to pretend they're speaking latin.
mircea_popescu: Adlai the bit was to my taste, which is why i clapped. my tastes are rather... odd, but i guess it's possibru.
mircea_popescu: so i'm having cognac and chocolate cookies for breakfast at 3pm. this can't be bad for me, can it ?
mircea_popescu: these weren't even 1k, and romanians are very herdy animals, and were more so back then.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` i once took a girl out to the very nice theatre in my home town, 1800s baroque building, and we sat in the presidential seats and at some point i started applauding
mircea_popescu: nubbins` clearly if he was applauded by a whole roomfull of people he's not a total failure.
mircea_popescu: virgins experts in dating, dependent adolescents experts in "making money", otakus writing books on how to meet and influence people, etc etc etc.
mircea_popescu: some people who don't own a history book gather on a blogspot to emit nonsense.
mircea_popescu: some people who don't own a dictionary got opinions about the usage of words.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski no but it is typical of what i'm talking about.
mircea_popescu: motherfucker, these ignorant clods. asciilifeform srsly, cluborlov is this collection of almanach-educated twerps.
mircea_popescu: "in 1972, which culminated in Nixon's historic handshake with Mao Zedong, completing China's civilizational pivot away from the USSR and toward the west. In hindsight, this dramatic opening could only be properly characterized as a swift dagger-in-the-back against the USSR"
mircea_popescu: these were fucking broken, mostly because the "Swiss company" is a bunch of poor ass niggards with delusions of grandeur.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski not the point. the point is that if you make a spy node, you have no conceivable reason to make it act outwardly in any way other than a common node.
mircea_popescu: i agree with the chinese. the part where the young girl chooses is utterly burgeois, and the part where a choice is made is definitely reactionary.
mircea_popescu: Urals Mountain-Ash” (Уральская Рябинушка), a Russian folk song in which a young girl meets two nice boys under a mountain-ash tree and must choose between them"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform : "It so happened that my aunt, then a sensitive and somewhat dreamy young woman, had stubbornly and haplessly clung to certain musical tastes which at that time in China came to be regarded as politically incorrect, being said, in the trendy ideological jargon of that time, to reflect “decadent bourgeois revisionist aesthetics.” To wit, my aunt had kept in her record collection a rendition of “The
mircea_popescu: really there was absolutely no reason (apart from their tim swansonesque contemptuous idiocy) to make the nodes visible.
mircea_popescu: but for one thing it's bullshit and for the other thing, it doesn't really wash.
mircea_popescu: i get it that everyone everywhere, say the derps on argentina, or the derps on the internet exactly alike and exactly for the same reasons identifies as this "workman" bullshit.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ironically enough, i consider myself cultural elites. cause if not that, wtf else.
mircea_popescu: nope. reptiles generally work on the principle of the wound spring in more than one respect.
mircea_popescu: alrighty cuties, i'll be off to go watch 50 shades of gray live.
mircea_popescu: ;;google bigby was a hard cunt, but he wasn;t hard enough he didn't shit it at the thought of 20 years in gaol.
mircea_popescu: nah, irish for chick. like bird, ride is english for same.
mircea_popescu: cazalla try it sometime, drink champagne offa da twists.
mircea_popescu: you don;'t have to watch it, think of it as your retirement.
mircea_popescu: indiancandy1 so are you earning 0.1 btc with your tits that made history yet ?
mircea_popescu: i thought india fucking invented piercing, spread to arabs from there.
mircea_popescu: brendafdez for that matter, you're fluent enough in english, can write news in english too
mircea_popescu: cazalla does she get half share for translation or what ?
mircea_popescu: yeah, brendafdez why not do it directly for qntra ? you got a gpg id now and errything
mircea_popescu: it is a huge language space, even if atm bitcoin poor.
mircea_popescu: Adlai because of the can of worms that "lesser share" opens
mircea_popescu: well if it's english to spanish it's necessarily not word for word, they use different words en castellan
mircea_popescu: it's a news site tho. i dun see it'd damage anything if she translates to spanish, provided something reasonable like say articles are a week old.
mircea_popescu: but this reduction is adequate given what's being contemplated here.